Defend The Palestinian People! No U.S. Aid To Israel 

The US and turmoil in the Middle East: Update on Palestine, Iraq, Syria Thursday, August 7, 7:00 pm Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park, off Brattle St Raed Jarrar, policy impact coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, was in Jerusalem July 10-17 as Israel launched the attack on Gaza. Raed will report on his experiences and also analyze the current situation in Iraq. The presentation will describe overarching US policy in the Middle East including Syria and Egypt, and how the peace movement can take action. Jarrar was born and educated in Baghdad and currently lives in Washington D.C. He has been a leading commentator on the US in Iraq since the invasion of 2003. Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace Vigil for Peace in Israel-Palestine Wednesday, August 6, 5:30 pm Park Street Station, Boston Immediately Following Boston Remembers Hiroshima & Nagasaki Sponsored by Boston Workmen's Circle • More Info Congress, Stop Arming Israel! Israel has created a massive humanitarian disaster in Gaza. 1380 Palestinians have been killed and thousands more injured. According to the UN, three-quarters of the dead are civilians, including hundreds of children and women. Hundreds of thousands have been made homeless. Israel has destroyed Gaza’s only power plant, potable water is largely unavailable and food is scarce. The US provides over 20% of Israel's military budget, and is resupplying Israel even as these atrocities go on. Call your member of Congress today (202) 224-3121 and ask that the U.S. stop supplying Israel with weapons! Our Congress has unanimously passed resolutions blaming only the victims and calling the firing of comparatively crude mortars and rockets from Gaza “an unprovoked attack” on Israel. This ignores decades of Israeli Occupation and a brutal 8-year Israeli siege of Gaza that has left 1.8 million Palestinians penned up and blockaded in an area smaller than Greater Boston, with no place to run, no place to hide from high-tech Israeli bombs. Call your Representative - and Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren - to say that this is unacceptable! Israel must be held accountable and our government should stop supplying the $ billions, the planes and the bombs it is using to destroy Gaza. Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121  (Find your Representative here) Tell Senators Markey and Warren you are angry at their support for the "US-Israel Strategic Partnership Act", which they announced this week.  For peace and justice, Jeff Klein Palestine/Israel Working Group Join Massachusetts Peace Action - or renew your membership today!   Dues are $40/year for an individual, $65 for a family, or $10 for student/unemployed/low income.  Members vote for leadership and endorsements, receive newsletters and discounts on event admissions.  Donate now and you will be a member in good standing through December 2014! Your financial support makes this work possible! Massachusetts Peace Action, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 617-354-2169  • info@masspeaceaction.org • Follow us on Facebook or Twitter Click here to unsubscribe