THE FREE BETHLEHEM CAMPAIGN
By Guest Post • Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:22 • Category: Action Alert, Culture and Heritage, Palestine, Petitions
Bethlehem is one of the most historically significant towns in Palestine. It is known as the birthplace of King David and of Jesus. And, for generations, it was a lively and bustling town. But, today, Bethlehem resembles an open-air prison, occupied by Israel's military and encircled by Israel's wall. These circumstances have caused Bethlehem's population, particularly its once-virbrant Christian population, to emigrate from the city in dramatic numbers.
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AAPER believes that it is important to educate Americans about the plight of today's Bethlehem. So, during the last two years, AAPER has produced and distributed more than 1,000 brochures and postcards about Bethlehem each year, educating Americans about the situation there and the plight of its Palestinian Christian and Muslim inhabitants. This year, AAPER seeks to expand that work by showing films about Bethlehem in churches, libraries and community centers across the United States.Â
AAPER invites you to join its Third Annual Free Bethlehem Campaign in December by showing a film and distributing informational materials about the situation in Bethlehem in your community. AAPER will provide you with a film as well as high-quality informational materials to distribute. But we need your help
http://www.aaper.org/site/c.quIXL8MPJpE/b.5609625/k.7EF3/The_Free_Bethlehem_Campaign.htm
SIGN THE LETTER TO BETHLEHEM
Dear Friends in Bethlehem,
We write you to let you know that you and your town are in our thoughts during this holiday season.Â
We write you to let you know that Americans across our country and men and women across our world feel pain at your plight, but pride in your perseverance. Â
We know that you have lived under Israeli military occupation for more than 40 years and that your town is now disfigured and encircled by Israel’s massive wall.
We know that the 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. Â
We know that this situation has severely damaged your industries, 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 unacceptable state. Â
We stand with you because the birthplace of Jesus must not be made into a burial place of brotherhood and sisterhood.
We stand with you because the symbol of human coexistence that is Bethlehem must not be transformed into the symbol of inhuman separation that is segregation.
We pledge to make your plight known among our fellow Americans, this holiday season and beyond. Â
We pledge to press our government to adopt a just policy toward Palestine that upholds the highest ideals of our nation –Â 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, in an age of information, the truth cannot be forever hidden from the eyes of men and women of conscience.
We will succeed because, as more such men and women learn of your people’s plight, they will join our movement for your freedom, equality and human rights.
We will succeed because the future belongs not to the physical power of arms, but to the moral power of love, as represented in our noble and righteous movement.
Sincerely,
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please send mo more updates about what happened to Betlehem ..it's my pleasure to know ur situations.
thanks..
joereline