Objectives

Preamble

  • The US is the only catalyst for enforcing and implementing a Two-State solution for the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
  • Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians without the leverage of the US in particular, and the Quartet in general, is like a poker game between one with a sum of five dollars to gamble with and another with one million dollars to play with.
  • The US government will not implement the Two-State solution unless it has the backing of the American Public.
  • That sector of the American public that would back up the implementation must act as a Proactive Public American Constituency that is adequately educated, well-informed, and well organized and can actively participate in the American democratic process through casting election votes, campaign finance, and actively and continually holding the elected representatives responsible and accountable, first and foremost, for standing up to the best interests of the US.

Based on the above Preamble, the objectives of APPAF are:

  • To pin down the official US position for two-state solution as resolved by the US and Quartet and accepted by the Palestinians and Arab Countries
  • To move the two-state resolution towards the stage of real implementation
  • To continually support a Palestinian state on equal footage with that of the State of Israel.

Recently, the negative impact on the US of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been summarized in the media by the following statement:

    • It isolates the US from major global markets, forcing it to embark on aggressive measures to secure markets rather than peaceful accommodation;
    • It thereby diverts the American economy into non-productive production (tanks not roads), making it dependent upon deficit spending which only increases dependency upon foreign financing while diverting resources into the military rather than into education, health and investment;
    • Support for the Israeli military costs US taxpayers more than $3 billion annually at a time of deepening recession and crumbling national infrastructure; 
    • It leads to an American involvement in the world that is mainly military, thus begetting hostility and resistance which produce the threats to security Americans so greatly fear; and
    •  It ends up threatening American civil liberties by encouraging such legislation as the Patriot Act and by introducing Israeli “counterinsurgency” tactics and weaponry developed in the West Bank and Gaza into American police forces.