[Peace] Fwd: [JPN] NY Times: Jewish Voices Against the Occupation

[David Green]

--- Jewish Peace News <shlensky at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
wrote:
> To: jewishpeacenews at yahoogroups.com
> From: Jewish Peace News
> <shlensky at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:17:05 -0800
> Subject: [JPN] NY Times: Jewish Voices Against the
> Occupation
> 
> 
> 
> [A group calling itself Jewish Voices Against the
> Occupation (JVAO) 
> sponsored a paid ad on the Op. Ed. page of the New
> York Times today, 
> March 17, 2002. The text of the ad appears below.
> The ad, which cost 
> $42,279, was paid for by 638 contributors, 506 of
> them authorized 
> JVAO to list their names in JVAO's website
> www.jvao.org. Based in 
> California, JVAO was founded by four people, two men
> and two women. 
> Two of them are American born, the third is an
> Israeli who fought in 
> two wars (including the '67 war), the fourth is a
> French Jew who 
> survived the Nazi genocide.  Declaring on their
> website that "the 
> extensive opposition within the Jewish community to
> Israel's 34-year 
> long occupation of Palestine needs to be voiced
> boldly and loudly", 
> the group's ad calls for the immediate deployment of
> an international 
> peace-keeping force in the occupied territories and
> the suspension of 
> military aid to Israel until the end of occupation. 
> Expressing 
> longer term political objectives, JVAO also calls
> for an end to the 
> Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip
> and East 
> Jerusalem; a complete evacuation of all the
> settlements and a return 
> to the pre-1967 borders.  --Ami Kronfeld]
> 
> 
> Jewish Voices Against Israel's Occupation of
> Palestinian Territories
>
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> 
> The occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and
> East Jerusalem is killing
> Palestinians and Israelis alike and destroying
> Israel from within. There can
> be no peace or security for either until Israel
> completely evacuates its
> settlements in Palestinian territories, ends its
> military occupation, and
> returns to its pre-1967 borders.
> 
> As Jews, we call upon Israel:
> 
> * to agree to the immediate establishment of an
> international peacekeeping
> force in the occupied territories to protect
> civilians from violence by the
> Israeli military and settlers.
> 
> * to cease building or expanding settlements as a
> first step toward their
> complete evacuation.
> 
> 
> As Jews and U.S. taxpayers, we call upon the U.S.
> Government:
> 
> * to suspend military aid to Israel, which is used
> to maintain the
> occupation, until Israel withdraws completely from
> the occupied territories.
> 
> * to reduce economic aid to Israel by the amount
> spent on maintaining the
> settlements until all are evacuated.
> to redirect this reduction of economic aid toward
> reconstructing the
> devastated infrastructure of Palestine.
> 
> We urge Israel to acknowledge that it bears
> significant historical
> responsibility for the dispossession of the
> Palestinian people, and to work
> toward a just solution to the plight of Palestinian
> refugees.
> 
> Finally, deeply distressed over the lives lost in
> desperate attacks by
> Palestinians, we call upon the Palestinian Authority
> to make every effort to
> curtail acts of violence against civilians in
> Israel.
> 
> Israel's security policies harm all the peoples of
> the Middle East and make
> Israel less secure, not more.
> 
> THE SETTLEMENTS
> MUST GO.
> ----------------
> 
> THE OCCUPATION
> MUST END.
> ----------------
> 
> THERE CAN BE NO PEACE
> WITHOUT JUSTICE.
> 
> This ad, paid for by more than 600 contributors, is
> the beginning of an
> ongoing campaign. Join our efforts. Visit our
> website www.jvao.org or write
> us.
> 
> This is an abridged version of a more comprehensive
> statement written by
> Jewish Voices Against the Occupation (JVAO). The
> full text and its signers
> can be seen on www.jvao.org or received from JVAO,
> P.O. Box 11606, Berkeley,
> CA 94712.
> 
> 


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