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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> APNDC=peacenow.org@mail.salsalabs.net <APNDC=peacenow.org@mail.salsalabs.net> on behalf of Americans for Peace Now <APNDC@peacenow.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 20, 2016 3:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> karenaram@hotmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Action Alert - Thank Ambassador Shapiro for Speaking the Truth</font>
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<p><img width="166" height="206" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" alt="Ambassador Shapiro" unselectable="on" src="http://peacenow.org/?attachment_id=16589"></p>
<p>Dear,</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=I6VqIJ01xesysKzYB5IoZGW1QXHzFYuo">
speech</a> delivered in at a conference in Tel Aviv on January 18th, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro spoke the truths about Israeli policies and about U.S. concerns for Israel’s future.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has criticized Ambassador Shapiro for his comments. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has demanded that he recant them and apologize. A former aide to Netanyahu went so far as to use an offensive anti-Jewish slur against
the Ambassador.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Click here to thank Ambassador Shapiro for speaking hard truths to the Israeli government and the Israeli people (via Facebook
<a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jl6ZIituAo5UK8y6p%2BdFwGW1QXHzFYuo">
here</a>; via Twitter <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8qdWSP7w9lUoWA2Ep6dPumW1QXHzFYuo">
here</a>).</span></b></p>
<p>Ambassador Shapiro said: <i>“We are concerned and perplexed by Israel’s strategy on settlements. This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly expressed their support for a negotiated two-state solution—a solution that would involve both
mutual recognition and separation….But continued settlement growth raises honest questions about Israel’s long-term intentions.”</i></p>
<p>He also said: <i>“…Israel must develop stronger, more credible responses to questions about the rule of law in the West Bank…too many attacks on Palestinians lack a vigorous investigation or response by Israeli authorities; too much vigilantism goes unchecked;
and at times there seem to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians.”</i></p>
<p>And he said: “<i>Hovering over all of these questions is the larger one about Israel’s political strategy vis-à-vis its conflict with the Palestinians. What is Israel’s plan for resolving the conflict? For remaining a Jewish and democratic state? And if
it judges a political solution to be out of reach for the time being, then what is its plan for managing and stabilizing the conflict in the short and medium term?”</i></p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Click to thank Ambassador Shapiro for acting as a true friend of Israel by speaking these and other hard truths (via
<a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GaehwWMatZTN6DSn700ikmW1QXHzFYuo">
Facebook here</a>; via <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=852UtGYUYPZo%2BnqyxurNkWW1QXHzFYuo">
Twitter here</a>).</span></b></p>
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<p><strong>Sample Facebook and Twitter posts below (copy and paste, or write your own)</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aVyHdUMmJ8jnGwUTJnOEw2W1QXHzFYuo">https://www.facebook.com/AmbassadorDanShapiro</a></p>
<p><strong>Sample posts</strong>:</p>
<p>Thank you @AmbassadorDanShapiro for your January 18th speech. You spoke some hard truths to Israelis and their leaders – about the Israel government’s indefensible settlement policies, its failure to impose the rule of law on Israeli settlers, and its overall
vision for the future. I doing so, you acted as a true friend of Israel.</p>
<p>Thank you @AmbassadorDanShapiro for your speech of January 18. Israel’s future – its security and its character as a Jewish state and a democracy – depends on it ending the occupation and achieving a peace agreement with the Palestinians that creates two
states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and with security. This Israeli government appears to have a very different vision for Israel’s future, prioritizing land over peace, settlements over security, and Greater Israel over Israeli democracy.
I am proud that America’s ambassador to Israel is speaking out and challenging this dangerous approach.</p>
<p>Kudos @AmbassadorDanShapiro for your Jan 18 speech. You spoke the truth about this Israeli government’s pro-settlements, anti-peace policies – truth Israelis and their leaders need to hear. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and as someone who cares
deeply about Israel, I am concerned that Netanyahu is driving Israel off a cliff.</p>
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<p><strong>Sample tweets</strong>:</p>
<p>Kudos to <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wS%2BN0%2FThn9WcdhFwsvOsRmW1QXHzFYuo">
<b>@AmbShapiro</b></a> for speaking truth to power. Friends of Israel cannot stay silent as Bibi undermines any chance for peace, ever.</p>
<p>Thank you <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bOiGHEPp157i98g10pm24jqkwJxKStOq">
<b>@AmbShapiro</b></a> for your speech in Israel this week. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and Bibi is driving Israel off a cliff.</p>
<p>Thx <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JqFr%2FZqGD8LztYon2O7kkGW1QXHzFYuo">
<b>@AmbShapiro</b></a> for your speech in Israel. We must be unafraid to speak out against policies of either side that undermine chances of peace.</p>
<p>Minister Shaked wants <a href="http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7cNldK0IPL5PSqLnHceqlGW1QXHzFYuo">
<b>@AmbShapiro</b></a> to apologize for his speech. If she cares about justice or Israel, she should be THANKING him.</p>
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