No, Mr.

Netanyahu
you do not speak for
American Jews

Every poll indicates that a majority of American Jews (and most non-Jews) support President Obamas
attempt to negotiate a settlement that would prohibit Iranian development of nuclear weapons rather than the
Netanyahu approach of undermining those negotiations.
Every poll indicates that a majority of American Jews oppose the expansion of West Bank settlements that
Netanyahu favors, and support the creation of an independent Palestinian state living in peace with Israel.

And
The American People
Do Not Want a
War with Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahus attempt to shape American foreign policy toward Iran is
unwelcome. A poll in February showed 62% of Americans opposed the way that the Republican leadership had invited Netanyahu to speak. Choosing to make his American visit a
few days ahead of Israeli elections lead some to suspect that his visit is a tactic to help build
support for his political party. Misleadingly, much of the media quotes American Jewish
leaders who support Netanyahubut those leaders are not elected by American Jews and
the media should be quoting leaders who represent the majority sentiments of American
Jews who have long been committed to peace and to reconciliation with the Palestinian
people. While many of us hope to see the people of Iran nonviolently overthrow the tyrannical rule of human-rights-violating mullahs, we know that war with Iran will only strengthen
the hold of the Islamic fundamentalists and decrease the security of Americans and of Jews
around the world. So we oppose the efforts of some in Congress and the Netanyahu faction
in Israel who together seek to derail negotiations with Iran.
We who sign this ad (the full list can be read atwww.tikkun.org/Iranad) are American Jews
and our non-Jewish allies who oppose any attempt to drag the American people into another war. We remember the way that the Bush Administration lied us into a war with Iraq by
providing false information about a non-existent threat of Iraqi nuclear weapons. We do not
need a repeat of that scenario as militarists in Israel and the U.S. once again use the fear of
non-existent nuclear weapons to manipulate us into another war! It is not in the interests of
the U.S., Israel or the people of the world!

The U.S. spent over a trillion dollars on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outcome
was to produce the Islamic State armed with weapons brought to the region by the U.aS.
The Strategy of Domination used by the U.S. and Israel as the path to homeland security
has not worked, and in fact, using force, violence, wars, bombings, torture, and coercion
has been tried for the past five thousand years and it has not produced a world of peace or
security. It is time to switch to a Strategy of Generosity. That same trillion dollars could have
been used to create a Global Marshall Plan that could have wiped out global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education and inadequate health carethereby demonstrating
to the world a U.S. caring for the well-being of others.
The fundamentalists and haters would have a much harder time recruiting to struggles
against the West if we were known to the world (and Israel were known to the Palestinian
people) through our generosity rather than through our military and economic power to
dominate and advance the interests of our own corporations at the expense of everyone
else. The realists scoff at such thinkingyet their strategies have continually failed for
thousands of years. Its time to give generosity and caring for others a chance, not only because it is in our self-interest, but also because overcoming the capitalist ethos of materialism, selfishness, looking out for number one, and winning through intimidation has created
distortions in our own society that are as destructive to us and our families as is the globalization of these values destructive to the lives of people around the world. It is time for what
Jews call tikkunhealing and transformationnot for more wars and domination.

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