Document: Peace Now Raising Money To Protect Monitors From Palestinian
Attacks
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From: Americans for Peace Now apndc@peacenow.org
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: Peace Now Settlement Monitors Need Your Protection

Dror Etkes.
Age 34 . . . Married . . . Father of two.
Risks his life daily to monitor settlement expansion.
You can provide an armored car to make it safer for him to work.

Americans for Peace Now is launching a six-week campaign to raise $100,000
to provide an armored vehicle for Peace Now's Settlements Watch Team, and
its head Dror Etkes, to use as they go about their important, but dangerous,
mission.
Click here to help provide Dror and the Settlements Watch Team access to an
armored car.

Despite the ongoing attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and despite
threats against him from militant settlers, Dror leaves the safety of his
home each day and ventures into the West Bank with just a bulletproof vest,
which provides only partial protection.

Once there, he conducts vital on-the-ground research, identifying new
outposts and documenting the expansion of existing settlements.

Without the ongoing efforts of Dror and the Settlements Watch Team, very few
people would be aware of the explosion of settlement building that's taken
place since Ariel Sharon first became prime minister.

The Israeli public relies on Peace Now to find out if Sharon is really
taking down the outposts. And Peace Now relies on Dror to travel to parts of
the West Bank where settlers have already been slain in ambushes and
drive-by shootings by Palestinians, where far right-wing settlers have
threatened him, where most Israelis would never dream of going without the
protection of a tank.

And despite the risks, he reports back to Peace Now and the world about what
is taking place.

We think that he shouldn't have to place his life in danger in order to find
out what is happening in the territories.
That's where you come in. Your contribution of $50, $100, $250, or $1,000 at
this time can help make it possible to for us to meet our goal of raising
$100,000 to provide an armored vehicle for Dror and the Peace Now
Settlements Watch Team.
Please be generous. Click here to help provide Dror and the Settlements
Watch Team access to an armored car.