Word: gaza
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Question 5 calls for the U.S. Representative from this didstrict to vote "in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress to stop all expenditure of U.S. funds for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," and demands that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights...
Likud rejected an international conference and vowed not to yield any of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, pledgingto build more Jewish settlements instead. Shamiralso said his party would take new and toughermeasures to put down the Palestinian uprising inthe occupied lands, now 11 months...
However, for more than 20 years now, the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have lived under Israeli occupation. They are denied the right to vote, yet must pay taxes to their occupiers. They are subject to beatings, torture and arrests without charge. Their property has been confiscated...
Question 5, the Cambridge-Somerville referendum, is a product of this changing attitude in America. It calls for an end to Israel's human rights violations, stopping "all expenditure of U.S. taxpayers' money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with peace for all states in the region including Israel. Question 5 is a product of the realization that the national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians must be met before there is ever to be peace in the Middle East...
...that goal. America must refuse to pay for an occupation which not only frustrates hopes of Palestinian nationalism, but also erodes Israeli democracy and encourages the growth of racism. For as long as Israel continues to deny fundamental rights to the non-Jewish population of the West Bank and Gaza, Americans cannot in good conscience claim that Israel is a democracy. Nor can we sit silently and continue to financially enable the human rights violations that America has so proudly attempted to eradicate the world over. This is the reasoning and the motivation behind Question...