Argus Leader · Sioux Falls, South Dakota · 1 January 2009
CP-2009-001
Stop genocide in Palestine
Mohamed Sharif, Sioux Falls
Transcribed from the clipping
“Once again, the apartheid state of Israel has launched a genocide wave against unarmed civilian Palestinians. The last existing apartheid state is murdering hundreds of children, women and men, and no one cares. This is a result of the blank check that was given Israel by the U.S. government. This genocide must be stopped before it is too late.
All civil people must stand together against this atrocity. Please contact your congressional representative and ask for an immediate stop of the killing and an immediate stop of support to Israel.”
Context added by this archive
A letter from Sioux Falls in 2009. The Argus Leader quoted a Mohamed Sahrif of the same city, director of the Islamic Center, in 2003; the two printings spell the name differently and nothing on either clipping says they are the same man.
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"Stop genocide in Palestine," Argus Leader, 1 January 2009, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-001
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