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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>Following Israel’s announcement of two “suspects” in the reported June 12 <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/israel-searches-kidnapped-students-201461315494572856.html">disappearance of the three Israeli students</a>, hundreds of Israeli soldiers are raiding homes in Hebron in a massive assault and illegal collective punishment. See: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/hundreds-soldiers-crackdown.html"><span style='color:#7030A0'>http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/hundreds-soldiers-crackdown.html</span></a></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>What you can do:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>► </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Call the Sacramento Bee</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'> and demand that they report on Palestinians deaths as a result of Israel’s rampage. The June 27 print version of the Bee’s article about Israel naming suspects in kidnapping of teens (text below) says nothing about </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.abna.ir/english/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2014/06/24/618621/story.html"><span style='color:#7030A0'>Israel’s killing and abducting of Palestinians</span></a>. </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Write a letter to the editor </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>countering the June 27 Bee letter: Don’t Expect Israel to negotiate, (text below).<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>► </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Contact Congress, Pres Obama & the State Dept. </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>and demand that the US condemn Israel’s actions and exert pressure to stop their assault on Palestinians. </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tell them you want all U.S. aid to Israel stopped as these latest attacks are a continuation of Israel’s violations of human rights and international law that you do not want supported by our tax dollars. <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>White House: 202-456-1111;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact</span></a><br>State Department:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.state.gov/contact/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>http://www.state.gov/contact/</span></a><br>Congress: 202-224-3121;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.house.gov/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>www.house.gov</span></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>www.senate.gov</span></a><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>(Contact info for local representatives is below.)</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>►</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'> </span></span><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/European_Parliament_United_Nations_Stop_Israeli_collective_punishment_perpetrated_against_the_Palestinians/?tVKiLhb">Sign this petition to the European Parliament, United Nations: Stop Israeli collective punishment perpetrated against the Palestinians</a></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>► </span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Contact your CA State Assembly member</span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'> and tell them you oppose State <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCR121">Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR)<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> 121</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, which gives the Legislature’s support for the memorandum of understanding for strategic partnerships for joint innovation, exchanges, and cooperation between California and Israel. Until Israel respects stops violating international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people, California should NOT be partnering with them. This resolution, which has past the State Senate and is now in Assembly Committee is a follow-up to an <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/historic-agreement-netanyahu.html">agreement signed by Gov. Brown</a> in February this year. <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/">Click for contact info</a> or see below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>► </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sacbds.org/take-action-2/">Share this alert</a></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> with your friends, family and colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>► </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sign petitions for Palestinian rights:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-converted-space><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'> </span></u></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://www.sacbds.org/petitions"><span style='color:#7030A0'>www.sacbds.org/petitions</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>More info:</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://www.abna.ir/english/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2014/06/24/618621/story.html"><span style='color:#7030A0'>Israel resorts to murder, mass terror, and lies against Palestinians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><br><u><a href="https://news.vice.com/article/lets-stop-pretending-israels-crackdown-has-anything-to-do-with-the-missing-teens"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Let’s Stop Pretending Israel’s Crackdown Has Anything To Do With the Missing Teens</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://palsolidarity.org/?email_id=61&user_id=9711&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3BhbHNvbGlkYXJpdHkub3JnLzIwMTQvMDYvcHJlc3N1cmUtb24tZmlyaW5nLXpvbmUtOTE4LXJlc2lkZW50cy1jb250aW51ZXMvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9d3lzaWphJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPVdlZWtseStEaWdlc3Q%3D&controller=stats&action=analyse&wysija-page=1&wysijap=subscriptions"><span style='color:#7030A0'>Pressure on Firing Zone 918 residents continues</span></a></span></u></strong><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/two-palestinians-shot-dead-west-bank-siege-death-toll-rises-five-photos?utm_source=Digest+June+25%2C+2014&utm_campaign=June+25%2C+2014&utm_medium=email"><span style='color:#7030A0'>Two more Palestinians Killed in West Bank Siege</span></a></span></u></strong><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4850389ae3e2d55804103e6af&id=8edd0e8d61&e=c2c4d823b0"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Military operation in Hebron leaves 8-year-old hospitalized</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Background:</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Israel has stepped up its already egregious violations of the human rights of the Palestinians since the alleged disappearance last week of 3 teenage Jewish Israelis who attend school in an illegal Israeli colony inside the West Bank (all Israel’s colonies/settlements in the West Bank are a violation of international law).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>It is not known if these teenagers got lost, ran away, were kidnapped by Israel, Palestinians or someone else, or if this is a hoax.<br><br><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181871#.U6KDPvldXbT">A UN spokesperson has been quoted saying that the UN is unable to verify the three Israeli youth were kidnapped</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“Israel is using this disappearance as an excuse for a new wave of terror across the West Bank,” Joe Catron, with the International Solidarity Movement, told Press TV in <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/06/19/367622/israel-kidnapping-claim-terror-excuse">a Wednesday interview</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.598719">Jewish Israeli journalist Gideon Levy writes: “The abduction of three yeshiva students in the West Bank last Thursday was ordered in advance – by Israel.”</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>What is clear is that Israel is routinely abducting Palestinians whom it illegal tortures and imprisons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In the week BEFORE the three Israelis became missing, Israeli forces had abducted at least 28 Palestinians, including four children. Israel currently holds<a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=688"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>5,000</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Palestinians in prison. Many are children, who are often kept in<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/05/palestinian-subjected-confinement.html"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>solitary confinement</span></a>. Approximately 200 Palestinian prisoners have never even been charged with a crime; dozens are on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68143"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>hunger strikes</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>that began almost two months ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/international-media-ignore-israels-abduction-palestinian-teens">The media has ignored Israel’s abduction of Palestinian teens.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Israel’s attacks against Palestinians are <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=705499">a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention</a> prohibiting reprisals against protected persons and their property, as well as collective punishment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Contact info:</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>White House: 202-456-1111;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact"><span style='color:#7030A0'>http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>State Department:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://www.state.gov/contact/"><span style='color:#7030A0'>http://www.state.gov/contact/</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Congress: 202-224-3121;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://www.house.gov/"><span style='color:#7030A0'>www.house.gov</span></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/"><span style='color:#7030A0'>www.senate.gov</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Senator Barbara Boxer: Sacramento<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="tel:%28916%29%20448-2787"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>(916) 448-2787</span></a>; Wash. D.C.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="tel:202-224-3553"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>202-224-3553</span></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm"><span style='color:#7030A0'>https://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Senator Dianne Feinstein: San Francisco <a href="tel:%28415%29%20393-0707"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>(415) 393-0707</span></a> Wash DC <a href="tel:%28202%29%20224-3841"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>(202) 224-3841</span></a>; </span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me"><span style='color:#7030A0'>https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Rep. Doris Matsui Sacramento<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(916) 498-5600; Wash DC (202) 225-7163</span></strong><br></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://matsui.house.gov/email-representative-matsui"><span style='color:#7030A0'>https://matsui.house.gov/email-representative-matsui</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Rep. Ami Bera: Rancho Cordova: (916) 635-0505; Wash. DC (202) 225-5716; </span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://bera.house.gov/contact"><span style='color:#7030A0'>http://bera.house.gov/contact</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Rep. John Garamendi: Davis: 530-753-5301; Wash. DC (202) 225-1880; </span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me"><span style='color:#7030A0'>https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Rep. Tom McClintock: Granite Bay (916) 786-5560; Wash. DC (202) 225-2511; </span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://mcclintockforms.house.gov/forms/contact-form.shtml"><span style='color:#7030A0'>https://mcclintockforms.house.gov/forms/contact-form.shtml</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Rep. Jerry McNerney: Stockton (209) 476-8552; Wash. D.C. (202) 225-1947<br></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="http://mcnerney.house.gov/contact"><span style='color:#7030A0'>http://mcnerney.house.gov/contact</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>California Legislature:<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>To find out your state elected officials: <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/" title="blocked::http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/">http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov</a><br> - Assemblymember Roger Dickinson: 916-319-2007; <a href="mailto:assemblymember.dickinson@assembly.ca.gov" title="blocked::mailto:assemblymember.dickinson@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.dickinson@assembly.ca.gov</a><br> - Assemblymember Ken Cooley: (916) 319-2008; <a href="mailto:assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov" title="blocked::mailto:assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov</a><br> - Assemblymember Richard Pan: (916) 319-2009; <a href="mailto:assemblymember.pan@assembly.ca.gov" title="blocked::mailto:assemblymember.pan@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.pan@assembly.ca.gov</a><br> - Assemblymember Mariko Yamada: (916) 319-2004; <a href="mailto:assemblymember.yamada@assembly.ca.gov" title="blocked::mailto:assemblymember.yamada@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.yamada@assembly.ca.gov</a></span><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sacramento Bee June 27, 2014</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6-27-14, World In Brief, Page A 14:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Israel names suspects in kidnapping of teens<br></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday named two Palestinians it said had kidnapped three Jewish teenagers who disappeared while hitchhiking home from their religious schools in the West Bank two weeks ago.<br> The Shin Bet security agency identified the Palestinians as Marwan Kawasmeh and Amer Abu Eisha, saying they were operatives of the militant Islamist group Hamas in the West Bank city of Hebron. <br> Both have been missing since the night the teenagers vanished, and information on their disappearance was reportedly relayed to the Israelis by the Palestinian security services.<br> Despite widespread searches in the Hebron area by Israeli army forces, there has been no evident progress in finding the teenagers and those believed to have seized them. Nor has there been a credible claim of responsibility by any Palestinian group. While Hamas leaders have welcomed the apparent kidnapping as a means to free Palestinian prisoners in an exchange, they have avoided any declaration of involvement.<br> Along with the searches for the teenagers - Eyal Yifrah, 19, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Gil-Ad Shaer, 16 -Israeli forces have carried out a sweeping crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank, arresting nearly 400 Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6-27-14 Letters to the editor, page A 16:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Don’t expect Israel to negotiate</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> The Middle East Quartet – the United Nations, European Union, Russian and United States – has set the conditions for what Hamas needs to do to be part of an accepted government: Renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to abide by past agreements.<br> The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean has urged Hamas to comply. Hamas refuses. It continues to be a terrorist organization. Within just the last few days, its leaders have said they will continue to try to destroy Israel and never recognize it, despite possibly forming a government with Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Neither Israel nor any other country is expected to negotiate with those who want to murder and destroy its people.<br> We did not negotiate with Germans and Japan in World War II, and we did not negotiate with Osama bin Laden. We should not expect Israel to negotiate with those that want to destroy it.<br> Alan Edelstein, Sacramento<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>