[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] EJJP Statement on the Eve of 9 November - Final Version

[yvonne simmons]

--- Lieve Snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
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> From: "Lieve Snellings" <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:15:58 +0100
> Subject: [womeninblack] EJJP Statement on the Eve of
> 9 November - Final
> 	Version
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Paula Abrams-Hourani  -   European Jews for a
> Just Peace
> 
> Dear, 
> 
> This is FINAL!!! Henri Wajnblum's signature
> (Belgium) was added.  We wrote and distributed the
> first version before the massacre in Beit Hanoun. 
> This is the final English version.  We have made it
> stronger.   I hope you do not mind sending it out to
> your recipients once more.  Sorry to bother you.
> 
> best wishes,
> Paula 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> European Jews for a Just Peace
> 
> EU must take strong and impartial steps against the
> humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza 
> 
>  
> 
> Over the last few months the actions of the Israeli
> army have culminated in an unbearable level of
> suppression and persecution of the Palestinian
> population in the Gaza Strip. Operations, cynically
> named in the summer months "Operation Summer Rain"
> and now, bearing the title "Operation Autumn
> Clouds", have brought death to hundreds of
> Palestinians, not to mention those wounded and
> maimed, some for life.   Only this morning massacres
> on 19 Palestinians have been committed by the
> Israeli army in the Northern Gaza Strip - women and
> children have been the major victims of these
> unspeakable actions. 
> 
>  
> 
> Does this all take place in the name of security?
> The incursions in Gaza by the Israeli army cannot be
> justified by using as an excuse the launching of
> Qassem rockets or the taking as hostage by
> Palestinian militants of the Israeli soldier Gilad
> Shalit. Indeed, the arbitrary and immeasurable
> violence of the Israeli army has probably endangered
> his life.  The use of the new, illegal and lethal
> weapon called DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) has
> no justification whatsoever. 
> 
>  
> 
> It is obvious that the constant attacks, both
> physically and psychologically, have no other reason
> than to sow fear, demonstrate strength and attempt
> to break the will of the Palestinian people and its
> legitimate resistance to occupation! Hamas has not
> called for revenge attacks, but has requested
> international intervention. How many more must die
> before the international community assumes its
> responsibilities?  
> 
>  
> 
> According to the United Nations Charter Israel,  as
> any other member of the international community,
> must be judged, made accountable and deterred from
> imposing undeclared wars, from the killing of
> civilians, the devastation of nature, and the 
> destruction of the industry and infrastructure of
> its neighbours.
> 
>  
> 
> As European citizens we are not willing to be silent
> about crimes being committed against a captive,
> occupied people, who are the victims of the events
> of European history.  
> 
>  
> 
> As Jews we will not make the same mistake which we
> have often blamed others for, silence about crimes
> against humanity.  On the eve of 9 November, the
> monstrous November Pogrom of 1938, we state loudly
> and clearly that the State of Israel, with these
> acts, is desecrating the name and reputation of Jews
> everywhere.    
> 
>  
> 
> It is essential that strong, decisive and impartial
> steps finally be taken by the European Union to
> compel Israel to adhere to international law.  It is
> obvious and long overdue that the countries of
> Europe should break off friendly relations and trade
> ties with Israel as long as it does not adhere to
> basic human rights and continues its war crimes.  
> 
>  
> 
> We demand that the European Union dissociates itself
> from U.S. policy in the Middle East and conducts an
> independent policy of peace according to the
> European Convention on Human Rights.
> 
>  
> 
> We demand a debate of this topic in the EU
> Parliament as well as in the national parliaments of
> its members.
> 
>  
> 
> We demand that the European Union makes clear to the
> Government of Israel that the Union will not finance
> or support Israel until it reaches a fair peace
> agreement with the Palestinian people, in the
> interest of all participants and peace in the world.
> 
>  
> 
> We demand protection for the Palestinian people by
> means of deployment of international peacekeepers 
> in Gaza and the West Bank.
> 
>  
> 
> November 8th 2006
> 
> EJJP Executive Committee
> 
>       Dror Feiler (Chair)                  Sweden
> 
>       Dan Judelson (Secretary)      Great Britain
> 
>       Paula Abrams-Hourani          Austria
> 
>       Paola Canarutto                       Italy
>      Liliane Cordova Kaczerginski        France
> 
>       Fanny-Michaela Reisin                   
> Germany
> 
>       Henri Wajnblum                           
> Belgium
>      
> 
>  
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