AA,
If you care, please take 5 minutes:
1. Draft letter below - copy, modify and fax, email or post it -
please keep it to 5 miles
2. Find your congressman, senator or representative at
www.congress.org
3. Article from New York Times
Assume you were held in traffic for 5 minutes, hope not, use that
time to do this. Next time you complain, shame on you for not taking
the action. Save the copy. Forward to your friends with your own
personal notes...if you wish to send a copy to post on the upcoming
website to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just do it please, so you can say, you care.
Mike Ghouse
World Muslim congress
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1. A draft.
Dear __________________ (congressman, senator or president)
The dangerous people are bent on annihilating each other. We have to
stop this. Justice is the core principle of all religions, including
yours and mine. We have to answer God.
Please push for immediate cease-fire and push to stop supplying
weapons to Israel, let's not be an accessory to murders of human
beings.
Name;
Full address:
email:
Phone Number.
If you wish to add statements from the Holy Bible, Torah, Qur'aan
and Gita all say this truth
- Love your neighbor
- Saving a life is like saving the whole humanity
- Killing a life is like killing the whole humanity
- The whole world is one family.
- ....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/world/middleeast/22military.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin
Weapons
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
WASHINGTON, July 21 The Bush administration is rushing a delivery
of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited
shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against
Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with
relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the
officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments
and others because of the appearance that the United States is
actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be
compared to Iran's efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part
of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that
Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But
Israel's request for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-
guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, and
as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in
Lebanon to strike.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she would head
to Israel on Sunday at the beginning of a round of Middle Eastern
diplomacy. The original plan was to include a stop to Cairo in her
travels, but she did not announce any stops in Arab capitals.
Instead, the meeting of Arab and European envoys planned for Cairo
will take place in Italy, Western diplomats said. While Arab
governments initially criticized Hezbollah for starting the fight
with Israel in Lebanon, discontent is rising in Arab countries over
the number of civilian casualties in Lebanon, and the governments
have become wary of playing host to Ms. Rice until a cease-fire
package is put together.
To hold the meetings in an Arab capital before a diplomatic solution
is reached, said Martin S. Indyk, a former American ambassador to
Israel, "would have identified the Arabs as the primary partner of
the United States in this project at a time where Hezbollah is
accusing the Arab leaders of providing cover for the continuation of
Israel's military operation."
The decision to stay away from Arab countries for now is a markedly
different strategy from the shuttle diplomacy that previous
administrations used to mediate in the Middle East. "I have no
interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel
to the status quo ante," Ms. Rice said Friday. "I could have gotten
on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling around, and it
wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do."
Before Ms. Rice heads to Israel on Sunday, she will join President
Bush at the White House for discussions on the Middle East crisis
with two Saudi envoys, Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, and
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the secretary general of the National
Security Council.
The new American arms shipment to Israel has not been announced
publicly, and the officials who described the administration's
decision to rush the munitions to Israel would discuss it only after
being promised anonymity. The officials included employees of two
government agencies, and one described the shipment as just one
example of a broad array of armaments that the United States has
long provided Israel.
One American official said the shipment should not be compared to
the kind of an "emergency resupply" of dwindling Israeli stockpiles
that was provided during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when an American
military airlift helped Israel recover from early Arab victories.
David Siegel, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington,
said: "We have been using precision-guided munitions in order to
neutralize the military capabilities of Hezbollah and to minimize
harm to civilians. As a rule, however, we do not comment on Israel's
defense acquisitions."
Israel's need for precision munitions is driven in part by its
strategy in Lebanon, which includes destroying hardened underground
bunkers where Hezbollah leaders are said to have taken refuge, as
well as missile sites and other targets that would be hard to hit
without laser and satellite-guided bombs.
Pentagon and military officials declined to describe in detail the
size and contents of the shipment to Israel, and they would not say
whether the munitions were being shipped by cargo aircraft or some
other means. But an arms-sale package approved last year provides
authority for Israel to purchase from the United States as many as
100 GBU-28's, which are 5,000-pound laser-guided bombs intended to
destroy concrete bunkers. The package also provides for selling
satellite-guided munitions.
An announcement in 2005 that Israel was eligible to buy the "bunker
buster" weapons described the GBU-28 as "a special weapon that was
developed for penetrating hardened command centers located deep
underground." The document added, "The Israeli Air Force will use
these GBU-28's on their F-15 aircraft."
American officials said that once a weapons purchase is approved, it
is up to the buyer nation to set up a timetable. But one American
official said normal procedures usually do not include rushing
deliveries within days of a request. That was done because Israel is
a close ally in the midst of hostilities, the official said
Although Israel had some precision guided bombs in its stockpile
when the campaign in Lebanon began, the Israelis may not have taken
delivery of all the weapons they were entitled to under the 2005
sale.
Israel said its air force had dropped 23 tons of explosives
Wednesday night alone in Beirut, in an effort to penetrate what was
believed to be a bunker used by senior Hezbollah officials.
A senior Israeli official said Friday that the attacks to date had
degraded Hezbollah's military strength by roughly half, but that the
campaign could go on for two more weeks or longer. "We will stay
heavily with the air campaign," he said. "There's no time limit. We
will end when we achieve our goals."
The Bush administration announced Thursday a military equipment sale
to Saudi Arabia, worth more than $6 billion, a move that may in part
have been aimed at deflecting inevitable Arab government anger at
the decision to supply Israel with munitions in the event that
effort became public.
On Friday, Bush administration officials laid out their plans for
the diplomatic strategy that Ms. Rice will pursue. In Rome, the
United States will try to hammer out a diplomatic package that will
offer Lebanon incentives under the condition that a United Nations
resolution, which calls for the disarming of Hezbollah, is
implemented.
Diplomats will also try to figure out the details around an eventual
international peacekeeping force, and which countries will
contribute to it. Germany and Russia have both indicated that they
would be willing to contribute forces; Ms. Rice said the United
States was unlikely to.
Implicit in the eventual diplomatic package is a cease-fire. But a
senior American official said it remained unclear whether, under
such a plan, Hezbollah would be asked to retreat from southern
Lebanon and commit to a cease-fire, or whether American diplomats
might depend on Israel's continued bombardment to make Hezbollah's
acquiescence irrelevant.
Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to Washington, said that Israel
would not rule out an international force to police the borders of
Lebanon and Syria and to patrol southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah
has had a stronghold. But he said that Israel was first determined
to take out Hezbollah's command and control centers and weapons
stockpiles.
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom
(i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue
with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy
Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in
His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I
am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if
Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of
camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who
follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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