From: Charles Brucks

Palestinian victims of Israeli terrorism.

Hi: This was sent by a longtime Middle East activist Bill Thomson of the University of Michigan. He said that there is a concerted effort to make one of the first orders of business in the new Congress a resolution supporting israel. Please be in touch with your Congressional representatives to try to head this off. What a ghastly way that would be to start this new Congress. Thanks. Peace. Richard Walton, RI.

In <7.0.1.0.2.20090105134259.02ae21e8@umich.edu>, on 01/05/09 at 01:43 PM,

Bill Thomson said:

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

I have just received the following:

"A concerted effort is under way requesting that members of Congress issue statements supporting Israel's right to "defend its citizens against terrorism" by continuing its military action in Gaza. It is likely that legislation in this vein will emerge shortly after Congress convenes on January 6."

>We may be certain that AIPAC and its allies will be pushing this hard.

Please immediately call your House member and Senators and urge them to oppose this resolution and issue a statement condemning the disproportionate Israeli actions against the citizens of Gaza.

You may contact your Representative and Senators in Congress at 202-224-3121 or find contact info for your Members of Congress at: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/