Caterpillar Company to condemn the illegal use of bulldozers
by the Israeli Army, IDF

To Mr. Mr Benjamin Cordani
ATTN Head spokesman of Caterpillar & Media Rep. For Social Responsibility
Peoria, Illinois


17.01.2002
Dear Mr Benjamin Cordani

As Caterpillar's Media Rep. For Social Responsibility I ask your attention for
the following.

The whole world was shocked a few days ago by the Israeli army's massive
house demolition campaign in the Rafah Refugee Camp in the occupied
Gaza Strip, robbing 700 Palestinians, young and old, men, women and
children of all they had. This action was not the first time that that the Israeli
army destroys the homes of occupied Palestinians. Such acts are a
manifest violation of the Geneva Conventions

It is important that a company such as Caterpillar would publicly condemn
this illegal use made of its products. After all, Caterpillar is a company which
recognizes its social responsibility and condemnation is the least you can
do. It would of course make sense to go a bit further and have such a
condemnation imply a stop on further sales of bulldozers and the immediate
refusal to supply spare parts to the customer who made the abusive use of
the Caterpillar product.

I hope that you agree that it is in the interest of Caterpillar to take this initiative
before the origin of the bulldozers used in the widely-condemned house
demolitions becomes a media issue.

Sincerely

Samuel Althof
Speeker of One Voice for Peace and
Aktion Kinder des Holocaust, AKdH

Aktion Kinder des Holocaust, AKdH
Samuel Althof, Sprecher
Postfach
CH-4142 Münchenstein
Switzerland

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