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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2006)	8/8/2002 9:35:44 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (1) of 6945

ISRAEL REFUSES ENTRY TO U.S. CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION NEWS RELEASE FROM AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR JERUSALEM Contact: Josh Ruebner, JPPI, 962-79-664-8145 or Khalid Turaani, AMJ, 962-79-567-4917 (AMMAN, JORDAN, AUGUST 8, 2002) Israel today refused entry to a nine-person U.S. Congressional staff delegation co-sponsored by American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ) and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI). This was to have been the first Jewish-Muslim co-sponsored Congressional delegation to Palestine and Israel. The bi-partisan delegation planned to meet with Israeli and Palestinian peace activists, American and international humanitarian organizations, and U.S. government officials... Congressional staffers requested that the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem intervene on behalf of the delegation. They were informed that the Consulate would intervene for everyone but the two American Muslims on the delegation. Khalid Turaani, Executive Director of AMJ, stated "I am sickened that representatives of my government would condone Israel's blatant ethnic and religious profiling. The State Department consistently has winked at Israel's pattern of discrimination against and intimidation of American Muslims seeking to further peace and to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians suffering under Israel's brutal military occupation."

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