Below are sample letters you can customize and send to candidates, opinion shapers, and public officials to urge them so support the Geneva Accord.

Letter to Anyone Seeking Your Help in the Primary Elections in 2004

 Dear.....

 I have been so very heartened that leading Israelis and Palestinians have negotiated the Geneva Accord, the first specific and detailed model agreement between major figures on both sides. I'm writing to ask you to publicly endorse the Accords and urge the Congress and the President to do the same. Before making a final commitment to any particular candidate this year, I want to know something about where you stand on the Geneva Accords for Middle East Peace. I don't mean some mealy-mouthed boiler plate rhetoric, but a specific response to this plan and a specific plan of what you would do to implement it should you be elected. I want to know, for example, whether you will be supporting a platform plank endorsing the Geneva Accord at the national convention this summer.  Or what other actions you intend to take. Middle East Peace is very important to me--and the Geneva Accord is the first concrete plan that could work. I want to know specifically what your stand is on what you would do to make it the center of American foreign policy in regard to Israel/Palestine?

 Sincerely,.....

Letter to Public Officials and Opinions Shapers

Dear ......

I have been so very heartened that leading Israelis and Palestinians have negotiated the Geneva Accord, the first specific and detailed model agreement between major figures on both sides. I'm writing to ask you to publicly endorse the Accords and urge the Congress and the President to do the same. I'm hoping for strong and unequivocal leadership from you on this issue, which could become a springboard to the region or even to the whole globe. If you'd like to see a full version of the Geneva Accord, you can find it at www.tikkun.org

I'm also sending a Letter to the President that I'd like you to sign and send. Let me know if you do so.

Please let me know exactly what you intend to do to help gain national support for the Geneva Accord.

Best regards,....

To the President--from You But Also Get a Version of This Signed by Your Congressperson:

Dear Mr. President:

We are very heartened that leading Israelis and Palestinians have negotiated the Geneva Accord, the first specific and detailed model agreement between major figures on both sides. We are impressed by the growing number of Israeli security and military professionals of the highest levels criticizing their government's failure to engage in a political process with the Palestinians to bring about an end to the carnage through a fair and viable two-state solution.

We urge your Administration to take strong and decisive action to ensure that this unique opportunity for peace and reconciliation doesn't get lost. Although Secretary of State Powell has already said some positive things about this Accord,and met with the drafters of the Geneva Accord, Prime Minister Sharon still shows no serious willingness to undertake the necessary withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. Nor has the Palestinian Authority endorsed the model agreement. Your Administration's decision to deduct several hundred million dollars from the offer of loan guarantees to Israel has not deterred the Sharon government from its construction of a barrier well inside the West Bank. More than mere symbolic pressure is required.

Mr. President: you are going to have to use the full power and prestige of the U.S. to get Israel and Palestine to reach a final settlement agreement based on the Geneva Accord. We want you to know that should you take decisive steps to place the Geneva Accord at the center of American policy and insist to both sides that they take immediate steps to reach a final settlement based on the principles embodied in this initiative you will have our full backing. Once both sides have agreed on the outcome they are seeking, defined so clearly in the Geneva Accord, your Road Map can be restarted with broad public support among Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans, and we believe you can achieve the vision you have enunciated for Middle East peace.

Sincerely,......