Our family is friendly with a family of Iraqi refugees, member of the Yazidi sect from Sinjar, northern Iraq. They are safe here, but their home town, their friends and families, have fled to the barren mountains, surrounded by murderous ISIS forces, with no food or water. The fate of these people, many of whom have already perished, can only be mitigated by a huge international aid effort. Amnesty International and three dozen charities and faith groups have called on the US Government to cooperate more with the local Kurds to rescue these people. The Kurds supported our government in our "War on Terror" and against Sadaam. We cannot abandon them. For details see the reports in the NY Times and from Kurdish media in Erbil: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/isis-forces-in-iraq.html http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan

My petition is about saving Yazidis from ISIS genocide.

We watch in horror as children are bombed by weapons that could have been manufactured right next door. We abhor the violence but do we check to see if our funds are coming from such evil deeds? We need to put names to the vendors of death and persuade them to seek better investments.

Because it is the right thing to do. Because the Israel/US relationship is SICK! Nothing good ever came out of it and we use the $3.5 billion/year given to Israel to improve the lives of EVERYONE in the US!

As a decorated combat veteran and a U.S. citizen I am outraged that our tax dollars are being spent for what are clearly acts of genocide against the Palestinian people.

I'm sick that my government, against all civilized norms, compels its citizens to participate in war crimes and crimes against humanity. No longer in my name. No longer with my taxes.

I am disgusted by the civilian death and destruction in Gaza caused by Israel firing our weapons into the most densely inhabited place on Earth, and the world's inability to stop it.

I've been very upset by the continued killing of civilians, women, and children in Palestine. The same national issues and military reactions have re-occurred over many decades between Palestine and Israel without any substantial improvement. The United States has repeatedly attempted holding peace negotiations for the same amount of time, and this has also not helped the situation. This arrangement has not worked and is not working. Something different needs to be attempted.

Our country's support of Israel through genocidal campaigns in Gaza has severly damaged the U.S.'s reputation and stature as a fair leader of nations. It is time to rectify this matter, restore Gaza's dignity and security for civilians and divert U.S. support away from Israel's military and, instead, into basic reparations for Gaza's infrastructure -- hospitals, power plants, water, etc. to restore the pre-conditions for future peaceful coexistence between adversaries..

Whatever the tactical outcome and rationale of this conflict, the one certainty is that innocent civilians are being slaughtered wholesale, and the prospect of any real peace becomes more distant as a possibility.

THE UNKEPT PROMISE THE STORY: Landmark lawsuits were filed on April 24, 2014 against all nine nuclear weapon states in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and, on the same day, against the United States in U.S. Federal District Court. At the heart of the lawsuits is this: holding these nations accountable for their breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), specifically Article VI of the treaty. At no time ever before in U.S. history has the United States been sued in U.S. court for breach of an international treaty. A BRIEF HISTORY: The NPT was opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. Article VI obligates signatories to pursue negotiations in good faith for an end to the nuclear arms race at an early date and for nuclear disarmament. The NPT nuclear weapon states (U.S., UK, Russia, France and China) are in violation of their treaty obligations by continuing to modernize their nuclear forces and by failing to negotiate in good faith for nuclear disarmament (44 years since entry into force of the treaty does not meet the definition of at an early date). For the same reasons, the four nuclear weapon states not party to the NPT (Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea) are in violation of customary international law. THE LAWSUIT: The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has filed these lawsuits in the ICJ and in U.S. court. RMI is a small island nation in the Pacific whose people have suffered greatly at the hands of U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. Their filings are a bold form of peaceful, non-violent action aimed at making substantial changes to the status quo on an issue that threatens the security and future of all generations.

The U.S. House and Senate just voted UNANIMOUSLY to support Israel's attack on a hostage people confined in an occupation prison, who have nowhere to run or take refuge -- in violation of international law. Every LIBERAL Democrat LIED by voting for the resolution to condemn Hamas' "UNPROVOKED" rocket fire on Israel . Why lie? Because, to attack an occupied people without provocation is a WAR CRIME. But, in the weeks before Hamas began its rocket fire, Israel had been invading and destroying homes and wounding and arresting hundreds of people in the West Bank under the pretense they were looking for three kidnapped teenagers when they knew full well the teenagers were already dead and that Hamas was not involved. If there are any people in this country who believe that is wrong, they have NOT A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE VOICE IN GOVERNMENT. Therefore, we present this petition to the President and Congress of the United States to make it known that they do not represent us with their vote to endorse Israel's illegal siege and prosecution of war on the occupied people of Gaza.