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Saturday, April 13, 2002
From an Israeli Jew to All Jews: Speak out against Israel!
From an Israeli Jew to All Jews: Speak out against Israel! : sf-imc: "From an Israeli Jew to All Jews: Speak out against Israel! by repost Wednesday October 22, 2003 at 03:57 PM
Nothing short of sanctions (against Israel)will do. | JEWS! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! | By Uri Davis | Received April 13, 2002
I write as an individual citizen of the State of Israel; Chair of AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel; and expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Witnessing on TV news bulletins the Israeli armour roll into Ramallah and other cities in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and shocked by the intensifying war crimes and state terrorism perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people allegedly in response to Palestinian individual and/or militia acts of terrorism; and dismayed by the invasion of the Israeli tanks into the Headquarters of President Yasser Arafat in Ramallah - I am motivated to write and urge fellow members of my tribe, men and women, people of Jewish background committed to the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to intensify their action to stop the atrocities caused by the Israeli occupation and perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army.
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I therefore raise my voice as loud as I am able to and shout: NOT IN MY NAME! Not in my name as an individual person. Not in my name as a citizen. Not in my name as a Jew. As an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I am acutely aware that the Palestinian people, expelled and ethnically cleansed from their homeland under the cover of the 1948 war, resisting for nearly forty years the Israeli occupation of 1967, and struggling for their survival in the ugly shadow of the Sharon Government, are now threatened with the horrific dangers of additional massacres and renewed ethnic cleansing.
From an Israeli Jew to All Jews: Speak out against Israel! : sf-imc: "From an Israeli Jew to All Jews: Speak out against Israel! by repost Wednesday October 22, 2003 at 03:57 PM
Nothing short of sanctions (against Israel)will do. | JEWS! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! | By Uri Davis | Received April 13, 2002
I write as an individual citizen of the State of Israel; Chair of AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel; and expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Witnessing on TV news bulletins the Israeli armour roll into Ramallah and other cities in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and shocked by the intensifying war crimes and state terrorism perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people allegedly in response to Palestinian individual and/or militia acts of terrorism; and dismayed by the invasion of the Israeli tanks into the Headquarters of President Yasser Arafat in Ramallah - I am motivated to write and urge fellow members of my tribe, men and women, people of Jewish background committed to the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to intensify their action to stop the atrocities caused by the Israeli occupation and perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army.
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I therefore raise my voice as loud as I am able to and shout: NOT IN MY NAME! Not in my name as an individual person. Not in my name as a citizen. Not in my name as a Jew. As an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I am acutely aware that the Palestinian people, expelled and ethnically cleansed from their homeland under the cover of the 1948 war, resisting for nearly forty years the Israeli occupation of 1967, and struggling for their survival in the ugly shadow of the Sharon Government, are now threatened with the horrific dangers of additional massacres and renewed ethnic cleansing.
