[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [fwd] Now is the time for forwarding the "Save Palestine and Israel" call

Wed Apr 9 09:15:57 CDT 2003

FYI from the Israeli peace movement. They are asking us to contact 
our reps in Congress.

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>Subject: [fwd] Now is the time for forwarding the "Save Palestine 
>and Israel" call
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>Now is the time to make opinion makers and political leaders 
>worldwide aware of the following
>call of renowned academics, put to our attention by one of the 
>signatories, the Jerusalem-
>based peace activist Professor Victoria Buch.
>
>--------forwarded message follows---------------
>From:          	Victoria Buch <vvbb54 at yahoo.com>
>
>Save Palestine and Israel
>Urgent Appeal for International Involvement:
>
>http://www.ffipp.org/petition_save_p_i.htm
>
>  Hello everybody,
>
>  While the war in Iraq is taking its toll, and the
>world attention is focused there, the occupation
>machine keeps grinding Palestine relentlessly. Please
>join forces with the above appeal, which was published on the site
>of Faculty for Israel-Palestine Peace, and signed by
>153 Israeli academics, including well-known
>intellectuals in many fields.
>
>  We must stop the ongoing devastation of Palestine,
>which is carried out by Sharon's government under the
>guise of fight against terror. These policies are
>designed to oppress, humiliate, terrorize, and
>expropriate,  and not to prevent terror attacks. A
>clear evidence to this effect has been the gruesome
>regularity of terror attacks on Israelis for the last
>two years. In the long run, Sharon's policies are very
>destructive for Israel as well.
>
>PLEASE COPY THE TEXT BELOW AND SEND IT TO
>POLITICIANS of your choice. Add a sentence
>such as "I should like to join this appeal by Israeli
>academics." US citizens: e-mails to US Congress and
>Senate are especially important (see address info in the
>end of this message).
>
>Best regards, Victoria Buch
>               vvbb54 at yahoo.com
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  URGENT APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT: SAVE
>PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
>
>  The elimination of the Palestinian national presence
>west of the Jordan River is implicit in the long-term
>aims  of the Israeli right wing. A violent,
>apocalyptic driving-out of the entire Palestinian
>population is explicitly advocated by the rightmost
>political circles. What has actually been taking place
>since the beginning of the 35 years of Israeli
>occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but at an
>unprecedented rate for  the last two years, is a
>systematic process of demolition of Palestinian
>private and public property, and mass expropriation of
>Palestinian land on behalf of settlers. The guiding
>principle is the effort to minimize the size of the
>area actually inhabited by Palestinians. At the same
>time, huge-scale harassment has been taking place, by
>means of prolonged curfews, road-blocks, humiliations,
>beatings, military invasions of densely populated
>areas, detentions of thousands without trial under
>sub-humane conditions, obstruction of  access to work,
>medical care, schools and universities, and a host of
>other means. The soldiers were given license to treat
>any  Palestinian as a potential terrorist.  Millions
>of Palestinians have been reduced by Israeli
>government policies to life in fearsome ghettos. Most
>are now subsisting under the poverty line, on savings
>or handouts from humanitarian
>  organizations.
>
>The ever-intensifying oppressive measures are being
>inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli government,
>ostensibly to fight terror. We unequivocally condemn
>terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. There can
>be no justification for acts of violence against any
>unarmed people.However, the Israeli policies are not a
>way to reduce terror; rather, they promote it, as
>evidenced by the dramatic increase in terror acts
>during the last two years. The terror acts are then
>cynically used by Prime Minister Sharon as a pretext
>to inflict more damage and hardships on the
>Palestinians, and to further de-legitimize their
>existence in the occupied territories in the
>perception of the Israelis. THE PALESTINIAN PRESENCE
>STANDS IN THE WAY OF SHARON'S LIFE-LONG VISION OF
>GREATER ISRAEL, WITH SETTLERS SUPPLANTING
>PALESTINIANS. THIS OBJECTIVE IS TRANSPARENT TO ANYBODY
>WHO FOLLOWS WHAT HIS GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY
>DOING, rather than listening to the frequently uttered
>but empty declarations about peace intentions, "once
>the security problems are solved".
>
>The Israeli society pays a high price for the attempts
>of its politicians to extend the Israeli domination,
>and for their addiction to territorial expansion. The
>drive to develop Israel as a modern, productive and
>tolerant society was cruelly truncated. This drive has
>been evident in periods of hopeful peace negotiations
>with neighboring Arab states, and with Palestnians.
>Fatalistic resignation to the vicious circle of fear,
>oppression, violence and counter-violence is depriving
>the whole society of positive energy, forward looking
>projects  and hope. The drain on the state resources
>by the war effort and the expansion of the settlements
>and the concurrent loss of investment result in large
>scale unemployment and economic recession. Large
>sectors of the Israeli society are denied access to a
>decent standard of living, to decent education, and to
>productive integration into modern technological and
>cultural world. Instead, backward-looking
>ultra-nationalistic ideologies are taking firm hold on
>the social and political scene. Young Israeli soldiers
>sent to implement the brutal occupation measures are
>likely to be morally scarred for life.
>
>  The ongoing devastation of Palestine must be stopped,
>for the sake of both Palestine and Israel.
>
>  Prof. Zach Adam, Prof. Colman Altman,	Dr. Janina
>Altman, Dr. Issam Aburiya, Dr. Amotz Agnon, Dr. Shmuel
>Amir, Prof Daniel Amit, Prof. Zalman Amit, Dr. Yossi
>Amitay, Prof. Michael Ardon, Dr. Judith Avrahami,
>Prof. (Emeritus) Shalom Baer, Dr. Outi Bat-El, Prof.
>Maya Bar-Hillel, Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal, Prof Ron
>Barkai, Dr. Anat Barnea , Prof. Matania Ben-Arzi, Ofra
>Ben-Arzi, M.A., Dr. Shmuel Ben-Dor, Prof. Ziva
>Ben-Porat, Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Prof. Anat Biletzki,
>Dr. Jose Brunner, Dr. Ido Bruno, Prof. Victoria Buch,
>Prof. Ruth Butler, Raz Chen-Morris, Dr. Eliot Cohen,
>Dr. Raya Cohen, Dr. Veronica Cohen, Dr. Leo Corry,
>Dr. Michael Dahan, Prof. David Degani, Prof. Sidra
>DeKoven Ezrahi, Dr. David De-Vries, Athena Elizabeth
>DeRasmo, Prof. Tommy Dreyfus, Dr. Otniel E. Dror, Dr.
>Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Dr.
>Elizabeth Freund,Prof. Gideon Freudenthal,
>  Dr. Iris Fry , Prof. Michael Fry , Michal Gal, Prof.
>Chaim Gans, Dr. Ido Geiger, Prof. Avner Giladi, Prof.
>Rachel Giora, Dr. Snait Gissis, Prof. Eli Glasner,
>Dr. Daphna Golan, Prof. Oded Goldreich, Dr. Ofra
>Goldstein-Gidoni, Dr. Neve Gordon, Prof. Lev Grinberg
>, Prof. Yossi Guttman, Dr. Ruth HaCohen, Prof. Uri
>Hadar, Dr. Jeff Halper, Yuval Halperin, Shoshana
>Halper, M.A., Prof Don Handelman, Prof. Galit
>Hasan-Rokem, Prof. Avram Heffner,	Dr. Sara Helman, Dr.
>Yitzhak Hen,
>  Prof. Hanna Herzog, Prof. Ze'ev Herzog , Prof. Hannan
>Hever, Prof. Peter Hillman, Uri Horesh, Prof. Ehud
>Hrushovski,	Tal Itzhaki, Prof. Eva Jablonka,
>  Dr. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Prof. Naftali Kaminski,
>MD, Prof. Jacob Katriel, Prof. Tamar Katriel,
>  Dr. Shoshana Keiny, Prof. Baruch Kimmerling,	Judy
>Kupferman, Dr. Orna Kupferman, Prof. Raz Kupferman,
>Dr. Ron Kuzar,	Dr. Idan Landau, Prof. Hubert Law-Yone,
>  Daphna Levit, Joyce Livingstone, MS,
>Prof. Ram Loevy , Dr. Orly Lubin, Haim Luski, Prof.
>Ruth Manor,	Prof Uri Maor,	Dr. Anat Matar, Dr. Nina
>Mayorek, Dr. Sara Meilijson , Prof. Isaac Meilijson,
>Prof. Amnon  Meisels, Prof. Ben Tzion Munitz, Dr.
>Doron Narkiss, Prof. (Emeritus) Gad Nathan, Dr. Isaac
>(Yanni) Nevo, Prof. Ami Oren, Prof. Avraham Oz, Ronie
>Parciack, Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan,
>  Prof. Yoav Peled, Dr. Kobi Peter, Dr. Yuri Pines, Dr.
>Uri Ram , Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Dr. Ofra Rechter,
>Prof. Ya'acov Ritov, Dr. Daniel Rohrlich, Prof Freddie
>Rokem, Dr. Dana Ron, Dr. Moshe Ron,
>Prof. Tova Rosen, Dr. Maya Rosenfeld, Dr. Zeev Rotem,
>  Dr. Amalia Sa'ar, Dr. Ilan Saban, Prof. Benny Shanon,
>Dr. Nita Schehet, Dr. Christoph Schmidt, Prof. Avraham
>Schweiger, Dr. Gideon Shelach,	Ricki Shiv, Prof. Moshe
>Shokeid, Prof. Idan Segev, Prof. Leon Sheleff, Rinah
>Sheleff, M.A., Prof. Nomi Shir, Prof. David Shulman,
>Prof. Anna Sfard, Marcos Wasem, Dr. Amiel Vardi, Dr.
>Vered Vinitzky, Renata Wolfson, M.A.,
>  Smadar Tabenkin-Ezer, M.A., Dr. Zvi Tauber,
>Dr. Dudy Tzfati, Rakefet Zalashik,
>  Dr. Niza Yanay, Dr. Michael Yogev, Prof. Joseph
>Zeira,	Dr. Moshe Zuckermann, Prof. Moshe Zimmermann
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>To make this message effective, please send a copy of
>the appeal to politicians and media you feel close to.
>Also you could take inspiration from internet sites:
>
>Israeli embassies
>http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel1.htm
>
>US Congress:
>http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?
>command=congdir US Senate
>http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
>
>Contact information for European Governments
>http://europa.eu.int/abc/governments/index_en.html
>
>Permanent Missions to the United Nations
>http://www.un.int/missions/webs.html
>Many of e-mail addresses of UN missions are formatted
>as follows: <france at un.int>, <germany at un.int>,
><india at un.int>, <ireland at un.int>, <italy at un.int>,
><uk at un.int> etc
>
>
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