> [Editor's note: Visit http://CFL-online.org/contact_gov.htm for quick
access to the senators' homepages.]
>
>
> We each need to write or email our senators and counter this. Please
> forward this to EVERYBODY you know who supports jutice for the
> Palestinians and ask them to write these senators.
>
> 52 Senators to George W. Bush on PLO Chairman Arafat
> March 22, 2002
>
> The Honorable George W. Bush
> President of the United States
> The White House
> 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
> Washington, D.C. 20500-0003
>
> Dear Mr. President:
>
> We write to express our profound concern and dismay at the news of
> yet another suicide bombing in Jerusalem -- killing three and
> wounding more than 50 -- even as General Zinni is on the ground in
> the region trying to bring both parties together for cease-fire
> negotiations.
>
> Chairman Arafat made a commitment at Oslo to settle all differences
> between Palestinians and Israelis peacefully and to renounce the use
> of terrorism and other acts of violence. Yet even today the Al Aqsa
> Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Mr. Arafat's own Fatah
> movement, are engaged in acts of violence and terrorism.
>
> It is especially disappointing to us that this bombing -- the second
> in two days -- comes just at a time that Vice President Cheney had
> offered to meet with Mr. Arafat and that General Zinni had returned
> to the region to seek to bring both sides together to implement the
> Tenet Plan. Yet there is no evidence, on the ground, that Mr. Arafat
> is willing to do what is necessary to help bring peace to Israel and
> his people. Mr. Arafat must live up to his pledge at Oslo and
> demonstrate that he is a genuine partner for peace.
>
> We strongly believe that Chairman Arafat must take decisive and
> concerted action to rein in the terrorists and put and end to their
> brutal campaign -- and must demonstrate, on the ground, that he is
> willing to take the steps necessary to bring the violence to an end.
> Until Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority demonstrate a
> commitment, in word and deed, to control the violence and do
> everything they can to stop it, we believe that Israel, a democratic
> state and a staunch friend and ally of the United States, is strongly
> within its rights to take necessary and appropriate measures to
> assure the security of its people.
>
> Until Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority demonstrate their
> commitment to end the violence we would urge that the Vice President
> reconsider his offer to meet with Mr. Arafat. And although we believe
> that it is critical that General Zinni remain in the region, we hope
> that he makes clear that the United States will not deal with those
> who do not live up to their commitments.
>
> We look forward to your thoughts on this matter, and to working with
> you on this critical issue.
>
> With warmest personal regards.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dianne Feinstein
> Tom Daschle
> Joseph Lieberman
> Jon Kyl
> Ron Wyden
> Mitch McConnell
> Bob Graham
> Ben Nighthorse Campbell
> Kay Bailey Hutchison
> Jesse Helms
> Kent Conrad
> Richard Durbin
> Jon Corzine
> Jim Jeffords
> Harry Reid
> John D. Rockefeller IV
> Christopher Dodd
> Arlen Specter
> Fritz Hollings
> Daniel Inouye
> John Warner
> Paul Wellstone
> Hillary Clinton
> James Inhofe
> Richard Shelby
> Herb Kohl
> Robert Torricelli
> Carl Levin
> John Kerry
> Chuck Schumer
> Russell Feingold
> Evan Bayh
> John Edwards
> Orrin Hatch
> Tim Hutchinson
> Mike Crapo
> Christopher Bond
> Bob Smith
> Mary Landrieu
> Charles Grassley
> Bill Nelson
> Jim Bunning
> Tim Johnson
> Blanche Lincoln
> Susan Collins
> John Breaux
> Robert Bennet
> Max Cleland
> Wayne Allard
> Barbara Mikulski
> George Allen
> Frank Murkowski
>
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