Dear MoveOn member,

[ [link removed] ]Sign if you agree: President Biden must take urgent action to
de-escalate the situation in Palestine and Israel, and secure an immediate
ceasefire.

In the past week, graphic videos and images of the violence engulfing
Israel and Palestine have circulated around the world, capturing
international attention as the threat of increased military action looms.
The violence has already led to dozens of deaths, including children.

Military action will never bring about a just and peaceful resolution
between Israelis and Palestinians. President Biden must take action to
immediately de-escalate the situation, broker a ceasefire, and call on the
Israeli government to put an immediate stop to the forced evictions and
displacement of Palestinian families. Many more are likely to die if the
situation does not de-escalate immediately.

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President Biden campaigned on advancing human rights and a diplomacy-first
foreign policy to restore America’s leadership around the world. In
addition to brokering a ceasefire, the Biden administration must address
the root causes of this decades-long crisis including calling on the
Israeli government to put an immediate stop to the forced evictions and
displacement of Palestinian families in order to achieve a just solution
grounded in human dignity.

Devastating videos of Israeli forces attacking Muslim Palestinians praying
in Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan began to proliferate on
social media late last week. In one video, Palestinian women in the mosque
are seen screaming and running from stun grenades fired by Israeli
soldiers. This is in one of the holiest places of worship in one of the
holiest months for Muslims around the world. Israeli forces injured
hundreds of Palestinians, including medics treating injuries nearby, and
the Israeli government has used airstrikes, rockets, and rubberized steel
bullets to inflict violence against any resistance from the Palestinians.

These troubling videos followed the decision of the Israeli government to
forcibly evict families from the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah
in East Jerusalem. Although the Israeli Supreme Court stepped in to pause
the evictions, this is part of a larger decades-long pattern of forced
evictions, home demolitions, and displacement of Palestinians.

The violence that started in Jerusalem has continued and spread, leading
to massive unrest in the region and the worst escalation of violence in
seven years between Israel and Palestine. Potential increased military
action will only exacerbate the current situation, already with daily air
strikes by the Israeli military in Gaza, Hamas launching over a thousand
rockets to Southern and Central Israel, and growing violence on the
streets plaguing communities across the region.

[ [link removed] ]Sign now: President Biden must call for a ceasefire, de-escalate the
confrontations in Israel and Palestine, and call on the Israeli government
to put an immediate stop to the forced evictions and displacement of
Palestinian families.

Morally courageous American leaders, including a slew of members of
Congress, have already come out in support of the Palestinian people and
called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the Israeli policies of
occupation and displacement of Palestinian families.

The Biden administration must immediately do the same by leveraging its
longstanding relationship with the Israeli government to call for an
immediate ceasefire. Instead, Biden and top cabinet officials seemingly
offered support to the Israeli government to continue its policies
precipitating the current crisis. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden offered “unwavering support” for Israel’s “right
to defend itself,” and made no mention of Netanyahu’s responsibility in
inflaming and perpetuating violence as a political ploy to distract from
his own diminishing power to govern. The United States even blocked the UN
Security Council’s attempts to reduce tensions between Israel and
Palestinians.

With nearly $4 billion a year in U.S. military aid to Israel, the Biden
administration has a responsibility to hold the Israeli government
accountable. Before more violence ensues, the U.S. government must
denounce the recent violence and call on the Israeli government to stop
forced evictions, mass arrests, and other policies meant to harm and
escalate tensions. We urge the Biden administration to forcefully advocate
for an immediate ceasefire before many more civilians—who will
disproportionately be Palestinian—lose their lives.

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—MoveOn Foreign Policy Team

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