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Dear Friend of EMET,

On this day in the Hebrew calendar, of Tisha B ‘Av 2020, Jewish people the world over mourn the destruction of our First and Second Temples. This tragic day marked the beginning of our 2,000 years of exile and a long period where the Jewish people remained stateless and without sovereignty, a standing army to defend ourselves and self-rule. We had been left open to the anti-Semitic passions and vicissitudes of the day, leading to demonization, victimization and years upon years of dhimmitude, inquisitions, pogroms, and culminating in the gas chambers and ovens of Auschwitz.

Once we finally gained sovereignty in 1948, Israel became “the Jew among nations,” and has always been subjected to an egregious double standard not used for any other nation in the world.

Israel and the Jewish people have many enemies. Israel needs clear, decisive and defensible borders, like any other nation, to be able to guard them from any current or potential threat, now or in the future.

In the spirit of Tisha b’Av, today would be the perfect day to sign our petition. Because without mourning and memory of what we have been through, there would be no collective thread to sustain us, and to give us hope for a more secure future.

If you have not already signed our petition, which says that it is up to the modern, revitalized democratically-elected state of Israel to be able to determine what is in their own best national security interests, please consider signing it today. And if you have signed it, please share it as far and as wide as you possibly can. We have already reached over 1,000 signatures. We need as many as we can get before we send it to our members of Congress.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

And for those of you who are fasting, we wish you an easy and a meaningful fast,

Thanks so much for your time and support.

Warmest regards,

Sarah Stern
President and Founder of EMET
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We ask that you support the following premises of the Peace to Prosperity plan as bi-partisan American policy and priority. These premises represent a new hope for peace and should not be rejected on the basis of partisan politics.

* Prioritize Palestinian political reform and new leadership.
* Let the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim world know that American support for Israel is not going anywhere and neither is Israel as a Jewish state.
* Assert that the Palestinians do not have a veto power over the cooperation of Israel and the Arab states, which is in their mutual interest. Peace with the larger Arab world can happen without them.
* Tell the Palestinians that they do not have a satisfactory alternative to making true peace if they wish to promote the well-being of their people.
* Solidify support for Israel as a democratic ally that contributes greatly to the security of the US and the Free World and to the scientific, intellectual, and economic progress of the Family of Nations.
* Allow Israel to proceed with applying its civil law to areas that are crucial to its security and that of the region. Let the Palestinians know that the US will not stand in the way of secure borders for Israel or its self-defense.
* Every state is entitled to secure and defensible geographic boundaries in order to protect their people from threats of terrorism and war. Israel is a very small state surrounded by potential adversaries in a very volatile part of the world.
* It is ultimately up to the democratically elected government of the state of Israel to be able to determine what sort of borders it needs to be able to defend itself, by itself.


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