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Tell Caterpillar Dealers: Stop Sales To Israel

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Progressive Portal and Jewish Voice for Peace
The state of Israel uses Caterpillar equipment to destroy Palestinian homes and uproot trees and orchards, making tens of thousands of Palestinians homeless and destroying the foundation of their agricultural economy. On March 16, 2003, a Caterpillar bulldozer crushed non-violent American peace activist Rachel Corrie to death when she stood between it and a Palestinian home in Gaza. In Rafah in May 2004 alone, Israel bulldozed the homes of thousands of Palestinians.
Tell Caterpillar dealers to stop selling to Israel and to support an investigation into Israel's use of Caterpillar's equipment. Letters go to more than 40 Caterpillar dealers by e-mail.
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Furnishing Caterpillar bulldozers to the Israeli military is bad business. 

The Israeli application of Caterpillar machinery to devastate Palestinians' civilians' houses and orchards is an abuse of equipment as a weapon against civilians. As a Caterpillar dealer, you should be concerned Cat machines are utilized in an inhumane fashion. 

Regarding Israel's razing of Palestinian houses, human rights watchdog Amnesty International calls it "a grave breach of international humanitarian law." Israel's press has reported the number of Palestinian buildings razed by the Israeli military over the past 37 years with the use of Caterpillar bulldozers is 12,000, with only a small percentage of them being for security-related reasons. 

I ask you to share with the company's Board of Directors your understanding that selling to Israel damages the reputation of the corporation by associating it with acts of brutality, destruction, and murder. 

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