Friend --
The chorus of powerful voices speaking out against unilateral annexation keeps getting louder and louder -- including in the US Senate and on the campaign trail.
Last month, 19 senators signed on to a powerful letter led by Sens. Chris Murphy, Tim Kaine and Chris Van Hollen, cautioning that annexation “would mark a dramatic reversal of decades of shared understandings between the United States, Israel, the Palestinians and the international community, and would have a clear impact on both Israel’s future and our vital bilateral and bipartisan relationship.”
And they’ve been joined by nine other senators and eight candidates for Senate who have now issued their own strong statements and letters opposing annexation and the damage it would do to Israeli and US interests, along with the stability of the entire region. That makes a total of 28 senators and 8 Senate candidates who have gone on the record so far.
Thanks in part to your advocacy efforts, more and more lawmakers have publicly spoken out against this threat -- giving even more weight to the overwhelming consensus of opposition to annexation we’ve already seen from American and Israeli security officials, communal leaders and foreign policy experts.
Most prominently, Vice President Joe Biden has warned against the disastrous ramifications of annexation: “Israel needs to stop the threat of annexation and stop settlement activity, because it will choke off any hope for peace.” He noted that the US “cannot fully safeguard Israelis without peace.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has echoed the same concern: “Unilateral annexation puts the future at risk and undermines US national security interests and decades of bipartisan policy.”
Together, we are helping to make sure that responsible leaders like these push back decisively against the extreme agenda of Trump and Netanyahu -- and to amplify their message when they do.
So much is at stake right now: Israel’s security and democracy, Palestinian rights and aspirations, the future of the US-Israel relationship.
I’m proud of the powerful anti-annexation movement we’ve helped grow together over the past few weeks. And with less than a month left until the Israeli government can move forward with a vote to commence unilateral annexation, we can’t stop now.
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Thank you for being part of this effort,
Dylan Williams
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs
