The National Lawyers Guild is proud to endorse the Israeli Accountability Campaign. Our hope is to disseminate these materials nationwide and to lay the foundation for a sustainable accountability campaign. During its attack on Lebanon this summer, Israeli Air Forces struck a building in Qana, Lebanon providing shelter to 63 displaced Lebanese civilians. Initial reports stated that 59 civilians had been killed including 37 children. The youngest of the dead was 10 months old, the eldest was 95 years old. This is not the first time Israel has attacked Lebanese civilians in Qana. On April 18, 1996, Israel shelled a UN Compound in Qana providing shelter to approximately 800 civilians. The shelling killed 106 civlians, injured hundreds of others and caused severe destruction in the area. Israel could not have committed these potential war crimes without our U.S. military, economic, and diplomatic support. During Israel's attack on Lebanon from July 12th to August 14th 2006, the U.S expedited arms and fuel shipments to Israel to continue its indiscriminate attack on Lebanese civilians. In 1996, intense US and Israeli political pressure shelved the UN investigation of the Qana massacre that found that although “while the possibility cannot be ruled out completely it is unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors.” Had the Clinton Administration held Israel to account for its war crimes in 1996, presumably, Israel would have exercised greater restraint and respect for international laws of war in its most recent attack on Lebanon. The Israeli Accountability Campaign’s vision is to empower U.S. citizens and taxpayers to hold Israel accountable by challenging U.S. foreign policy towards Israel. In particular, the Israeli Accountability Campaign ("campaign”) seeks to use the pending law suit against Moshe Ya'alon as a tool to educate and mobilize legal and general communities nationally and to demand that the Bush Administration hold Israel accountable for its war crimes past and present. The demands of the campaign are three-fold: 1. The survivors of Qana 1996 be compensated for wrongful death and damage done to their lands and livelihoods; 2. The survivors of Qana 2006 be compensated for wrongful death and damage done to their lands and livelihoods; and 3. Israel finance an international clean up of the cluster bombs. To meet these demands, the campaign suggests holding teach-ins on our campuses and in our communities. Organizing a letter-writing campaigns and coordinating divestment campaigns from US-based corporations profiting from Israeli occupation and aggression and/or a comprehensive divestment campaign from Israel, are other suggestions. To help you organize a teach-in and to take action, they have developed a number of resources for dissemination. For those activists or audience members who would like to be involved into the future as well as for addressing any concerns—they can write to Noura Erakat, National Grassroots Organizer/Legal Advocate at the US Campaign at legal at endtheoccupation.org or (202) 332-0994. They also look forward to getting report backs on how your local Campaign develops. Please send Noura a note about your activities. Lastly, a letter written by Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild, highlights why the Guild’s involvement in such a campaign is critical – the project places “emphasis on using the federal court system to gain redress for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of Israel's aggression.” For more information about the burgeoning campaign and how to get involved, please visit their website http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=165.