Contact your Senator to support HConRes21, which calls on the UN Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide. HConRes 21 has already passed the House of Representatives by 412 to 2 and is now awaiting referral by the Senate Foreign Relations Commmittee to the Senate Floor for a vote.

Action Requested: SPME members should IMMEDIATELY contact (1) members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Chairman: Sen Joseph Biden, Delaware; Minority Senior Member: Senator Richard Lugar Indiana) to immediately refer this resolution to the Senate FloorSenators and (2) the senators from their own respective States and call upon them to vote for this resolution. Our goal is a strongly postive Senate vote by the end of
the week, when the Senate goes to recess, and at the latest, before early September, when the UN General Assembly convenes.

Why SPME must respond: See the following draft letter:

Dear Mr Senator:

I am writing you to respectfully request that you vote to support
HConRes21, which calls on the UN Security Council to charge Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide. HConRes 21
has already passed the House of Representatives by 412 to 2 and is now
awaiting referral by the Senate Foreign Relations Commmittee to the
Senate Floor for a vote

The case for action is:

i. statements to wipe Israel off map are incitement to genocide -a
crime vs humanity according to Art. 2 (4) of the UN Charter, of the
Genocide Convention, and the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court, Articles 6 and 25 (3)(e). Rome Criminal Code

ii. Holocaust denial is part of this incitement

iii. Iranian government’s support of terror and violence against
Israel public against Jewish communities-e.g. Argentina–via
surrogates–.e.g. Hizbulloh and Hamas, two organizations practicing
genocidal terror

iv. Incitement is an early warning sign (EWS) of genocide

v. Security Council Resolution 1674: The responsibility to Protect (RTP)

vi. APplication of the Precautionary Principle to the prevention of
genocide–triggered by the need for action directed against incitement.
vii. Sending a clear and coherent but non-violent message to the world
community and the Iranian public and government that the statements
and policies of President Ahmadinejad place him and his accomplices
personally accountable for crimes against humanity.

viii. The responsibility of bystanders to speak out to prevent
genocide when its early warning signs are present.

The case for urgency is the abundant evidence of Iran’s illegal and
concealed rapid progress in development of nuclear weapons and
development of missile systems to deliver these weapons, and the need
to present a resolution endorsed by both Houses of Congress to
President Bush and to the UN in early September.

Respectfully,

Signature:

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Background references: See www.thomas.loc.gov for draft legislation
and sponsors; SPME petition page contains a previous petition by
SPME. www.jcpa.org has the full legal brief. www.cipaconline.org has
a front page with a basic message and enables automated emailing of a
standard message.

Prepared for SPME by Elihu D Richter MD MPH
Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University-Hadassah Program for Genocide Prevention
Jerusalem Israel POB 12272 tel 972-2-6758147