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[Morton K. Brussel]

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> From: Tel Rumeida Project <telrumeidaproject at yahoo.com>
> Date: July 29, 2005 12:32:51 PM CDT
> To: telrumeidaproject at yahoo.com
> Subject: New Project in Palestine
>
>
>
> I am a 23 year-old American woman who recently returned from a five- 
> month stay in the West Bank and am returning to co-found a project  
> in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Our website is http:// 
> www.telrumeidaproject.org, where you can link to our project  
> proposal, articles, and photos from Tel Rumeida.
>
> Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood widely acknowledged  
> as housing the most violent and extremist faction of the Israeli  
> settler movement. Palestinian families who live directly next to  
> these settlers are often virtual prisoners in their homes, subject  
> to the settlers’ violent attacks and destruction of property.
>
> The Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeida go to incredible lengths  
> to protect themselves. Very few residents leave their homes on  
> Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath and the settlers’ most violent day.  
> Many families refuse to send their daughters to Qurtaba school,  
> sending them to schools in other parts of Hebron. One family has  
> built an iron cage outside the entire front of their home,  
> protecting them from the settlers who live directly across the  
> street, while still others have completely abandoned their homes  
> and moved from Tel Rumeida.
>
> The Tel Rumeida Project is a new project that will begin in earnest  
> in August 2005. The Tel Rumeida Project is composed of independent  
> international volunteers. Volunteers for the Tel Rumeida Project  
> will assertively advocate for the Palestinian families of Tel  
> Rumeida using many strategies including solidarity activities,  
> extensive documentation, direct confrontation, filing criminal  
> cases, media attention, and accompaniment.
>
> Volunteers will document the illegal activities of Tel Rumeida  
> settlers, soldiers, and police, using video, film, and testimonies  
> and will distribute this documentation freely. Volunteers will  
> directly confront settlers, soldiers, and police when they are  
> involved in violence against Palestinians and will file complaints  
> or, when possible, criminal cases against them.
>
> Along with direct confrontation, volunteers will use their  
> connections to the media, other international, Israeli, and  
> Palestinian organizations, and their Consulates, to pressure the  
> Israeli government into controlling illegal settler, soldier, and  
> police activities against the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida.
>
> We have established a strong coalition of Israeli, international,  
> and Palestinian organizations and individuals who have committed to  
> working for the Palestinians of Tel Rumeida. We have spent a lot of  
> time getting to know the Palestinian families living in Tel Rumeida  
> and made the joint decision to begin an international presence in  
> the neighborhood.
>
> The project will be comprised of self-funded independent  
> internationals. We are speaking to private individuals who might  
> interested in helping us fund the project. If you would like to  
> fund the project or know individuals who would be interested,  
> please contact telrumeidaproject at yahoo.com
>
> We are committed to advocating for the Palestinians living in Tel  
> Rumeida and would like to build a strong base of organizations that  
> receive our information. I would like to add you to our contact  
> list. If you do not want to receive this information, please let me  
> know.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Chelli
>
>
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