Dear Friends,

On August 19th California's Gambling Control Commission will vote on the casino license application of Irving Moskowitz, the leading funder of militant Israeli settlers. This is a critical moment in our Coalition's six-year campaign to stop Moskowitz and we are appealing to you to take a moment to write to the Commissioners.

We, along with other opponents of the license, have given the Commission extensive written and oral testimony - a wealth of reasons for denying the license. But the commission has never denied a casino license application. So your letters, emails and faxes encouraging the Commissioners to "do the right thing" can make a huge difference.

We have included in this message a model letter that you can email, fax or "snail mail" as is, or edit to express your own comments. We've followed that with the Commissioners' contact information in easy to click or paste formats. The Background column on the right contains links to detailed information about Moskowitz's support for violence-prone settler causes and the damage he has done to Hawaiian Gardens, where he operates both a bingo and the casino for which he seeks a license.

Note: Because of the way the gambling code is written, the Commissioners are likely to give more weight to Moskowitz's behavior in Hawaiian Gardens than in the Middle East, so our model letter begins with Hawaiian Gardens, then proceeds to Moskowitz's use of gambling profits from Hawaiian Gardens to fight Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Please copy the following text and paste it into your outgoing email or your letterhead, modify it if you'd like, and sign your name. Addressing information follows the model letter text.