Please Sign & Forward the Card to Bethlehem Today *Merry Christmas-Peace on Earth-Goodwill to ONE and ALL*

Please read, sign & forward the Card to Bethlehem Today-Especially
those of you who have been there and know...

Dear Friends:   Several weeks ago, AAPER distributed a "Card to Bethlehem" to show the people of Bethlehem -- and Palestine -- that many Americans stand with them, and to introduce more Americans to the modern realities of Bethlehem and Palestine.   Thousands of you have signed the Card and we hope that thousands more of you will sign and forward it by midnight on Friday, December 24.   Sign and Forward the Card to Bethlehem today!               ___________________________________________________________________________________________   Dear Friends in Bethlehem,   We write you today from the United States with a message of solidarity. We write you to let you know that you and your town are in our thoughts during this holiday season.  We write you to let you know that Americans across our country feel pain at your plight,  but pride in your perseverance.   We know that you have lived under Israel's military occupation for more than 40 years and that your town is now disfigured by Israel's massive wall surrounding it. We know that that wall has separated Palestinians from Israelis, and Palestinian children from their schools, workers from their jobs, farmers from their fields, elders from their doctors,  and families from their kin.  We know that this situation has severely damaged your economy, particularly your tourist industry, depriving many of your townspeople of incomes and causing many of your  family members, friends and neighbors to leave.   We stand with you because we can no longer silently accept this unaccepable state. We stand with you because we cannot allow the symbol of human coexistence that is Bethlehem to become the symbol of inhuman separation that is segregation. We stand with you because we cannot stand by while the birthplace of Jesus is made  into a burial place of peace.   We pledge to make your plight known among our fellow Americans, this holiday season and beyond.  We pledge to make to make your liberty our labor and your cause our campaign. We pledge to press our government to finally adopt a just policy toward Palestine that upholds the highest ideals of our nation -- that every human being is born equal and is endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.   We will succeed because the truth cannot be forever hidden from the eyes  of people of conscience. We will succeed because, as more Americans learn of your people's plight, they will join our movement for freedom and equality for Palestine. We will succeed because the future belongs not to the physical power of arms, but to the moral power of love, which our noble and righteous movement represents.   And when we do, the promise of Bethlehem will be born anew, both as an earthly town and as a universal symbol of what human beings can achieve when united  in the service of justice.   Sincerely,   Sign the Card Here ________________________________________________________________________________________   The American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (AAPER) is America's Free Palestine Lobby.  Its mission is to (a) educate Americans about  Palestine and (b) help shape an equitable U.S. policy toward Palestine that advances equal rights  in Israel and Palestine, peace in the Middle East, and sustainable security for the United States.   AAPER's website is http://www.americansforpalestine.org.   Keep up with AAPER on Facebook & Twitter