[News] Kick Dayton and his mercenaries out of Palestine

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Action alert: Kick Dayton and his mercenaries out of Palestine
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10763.shtml


Press release, US Palestinian Community Network, 10 September 2009

The following statement was released by the US Palestine Community 
Network (Palestinian Popular Conference) on 8 September 2009:

The US Palestinian Community Network is appalled that the government 
of the United States not only continues its unconditional support for 
Israel, but has engaged in establishing Palestinian contra forces in 
the West Bank, aimed at deepening Palestinian internal division and 
engaging in arbitrary arrests and assassinations of political 
activists. We demand an immediate end to all such programs and the 
immediate withdrawal of US Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton and his mercenaries 
from Palestine!

US Lt. General Keith Dayton, the US Security Coordinator for Israel 
and the Palestinian Authority, has overseen the creation of a 
paramilitary force serving the occupation under the title of 
Palestinian Authority "security forces." While Israeli occupation 
soldiers regularly abduct, injure and kill Palestinians, Dayton's 
contras have engaged in a campaign of intimidation against the 
Palestinian populace, including arbitrary arrests, raids on 
charitable institutions and non-governmental organizations, 
assassinations and torture of political opponents of the Palestinian Authority.

Furthermore, the focus on "security" comes at the expense of the 
Palestinian people's real needs. While Palestinians continue to 
organize to resist occupation and strengthen their communities by 
building schools, hospitals and community-centered institutions that 
support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, the US has 
poured money, arms and resources into "security forces" that provide 
no security for Palestinians who face daily threats from settlers and 
occupying forces, but instead act as threats against Palestinians on 
the ground.

The actions of these squads are fully coordinated with the Israeli 
military occupation. They carry out arrests, abductions and raids at 
the direction of Israeli military forces and provide the occupation 
forces with information about the location of Palestinian activists. 
Israeli officials have bragged about the success of these 
paramilitary forces in repressing Palestinian resistance.

In addition, this force is designed to prop up a subservient and 
collaborationist Palestinian authority. The training for these forces 
is provided by a number of repressive Arab regimes, who themselves 
maintain their power due to US funding and support.

These paramilitary squads are not an internal Palestinian question 
alone. As taxpayers and residents of the United States, we demand 
that the US ceases its funding and training of Dayton's mercenaries. 
US involvement in paramilitary death and terror squads is nothing new 
-- from Colombia, to the Philippines, to El Salvador, to Nicaragua, 
to Angola and Mozambique, the US has funded trained and armed 
paramilitary forces to serve US interests and/or support reactionary 
local rulers.

We call upon all Arab American community organizations, anti-war 
coalitions, and progressive institutions to take action to end 
Dayton's contras program in Palestine by:

1. Signing on to this statement! Email your endorsement to stopdayton 
A T palestineconference D O T org.

2. Organizing a visit to your Congressional representative. Deliver 
him or her letter from your community urging that Congress end all 
funding to Dayton's contras program.

3. Issuing a statement from your local community group demanding the 
immediate withdrawal of Dayton and his team from Palestine.



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