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Friend --

With only 50 days until the inauguration, both Trump and Netanyahu are
racing forward with a spate of final actions designed to strengthen the
settlement movement and undermine the prospects for a just and lasting
peace:

* The Israeli government moved closer to building Givat Hamatos, a
hugely-controversial illegal settlement intended to cut off
Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem from the West Bank;
* During the first-ever visit to a West Bank settlement by a Secretary
of State, Mike Pompeo announced that settlement products must now be
labeled "Made in Israel," another step in the administration’s erasure
of the Green Line and legitimization of creeping annexation;
* Pompeo also announced new guidance that could lead to major human
rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
outrageously being labeled antisemitic for documenting activities in
the occupied territory.

These actions can all be blocked or reversed. It’s too late to stop other
outrageous steps -- like the recent near-total demolition of Homsa
al-Baqia, a Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley -- but a number of
slated demolitions across the West Bank can and must be prevented.

That’s why we need your help this Giving Tuesday. We need to be ready to
begin the fight on day one to reverse these policies and usher in a new
era of US engagement with Israel and the Palestinians.

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Friend, it’s more important than ever to have a strong
pro-Israel, pro-peace movement with the ear of Congress and the White
House.

The Biden administration will enter office with a huge array of urgent
priorities -- foreign and domestic. We need to make sure that the above
actions are reversed swiftly, and that the US makes its firm opposition to
creeping annexation absolutely clear.

Our success in reversing these policies is essential, but of course not
sufficient. Our goal is not a return to the pre-Trump status quo --
"status quo" being a poor label for a state of affairs marked by regular
violence and terror, dispossession, settlement expansion and declining
hope.

Our goal is a just and viable peace that ends the occupation and secures
Israel’s future as a truly democratic homeland for the Jewish people.
Getting there will require focused and sustained movement-building,
advocacy and engagement. And it will require a new approach to US global
leadership grounded in a commitment to diplomacy, human rights, democracy
and peace.

[ [link removed] ]J Street is ready to help lead the way. Can we count on your continued
support?

Thank you for standing with us this Giving Tuesday,

Jeremy Ben-Ami
President, J Street


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leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



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