[ppi] [ppiindia] Petition for US Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East

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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9&section=0&article=86059&d=13&m=8&y=2006

            Sunday, 13, August, 2006 (19, Rajab, 1427)


                  Petition for US Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab 
Peoples of the Middle East
                 
                    
                  This statement was drafted by US Jews committed to stopping 
and holding accountable Israel for its destructive policies and practices-most 
immediately for a halt to the current attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. 

                  We are gathering signatures from Jews committed to this. Our 
goal is to then publish this statement in the New York Times and other 
publications. 

                  Please add your name below as an American Jew of conscience - 
only if you agree with all 5 points. 
http://www.jewishsolidarity.info/petition.php



                  As Jews of conscience living in the United States, we are 
outraged by the violence being perpetrated in our name both as Jews and as US 
citizens. We, the undersigned, represent Jews across the United States who are 
choosing to stand in solidarity with the peoples of Gaza and Lebanon. 

                  We are appalled by the blatant self-interest revealed in the 
US's leveraging of Israel's actions toward a "New Middle East" agenda, which it 
has advanced in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to serve an increasingly 
unilateral economic and political program enforced through military aggression. 
With Israel as its military proxy, this destructive US foreign policy agenda 
seeks to establish puppet governments across the Middle East, in a grand effort 
to ensure continued oil supplies to the West at devastating cost to civilian 
lives and democracy across the Middle East and beyond. 

                  Focusing upon Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza as well as 
Iraq and Afghanistan, this vision for a "New Middle East" has facilitated 
hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilian deaths, over a third of whom are 
children, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani deaths. We Jews of 
conscience know that no justice, no democracy, and no peace can result from 
such brutality. 

                  We call upon Jews everywhere to hold the US government 
accountable for its 58-year role in facilitating and benefiting from Israel's 
long-standing, military occupation of Palestine, its repeated acts of 
collective punishment against both the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, and 
its military dominance over Lebanon and other countries in the region. 

                  We are outraged, but by no means surprised, by Israel's 
brutality-and consistent support for it by the US government. We are not 
surprised because Israel was founded through a process of colonization. It is 
well documented that Israel's founders knew then that their role in this 
colonizing process would require an ongoing military strategy to continue to 
"cleanse" the Palestinian population in the name of a "Jewish" state. They also 
knew that military dominance of neighboring Arab countries would be necessary 
in the name of Jewish "self- defense." Israel's current attacks on Gaza and 
Lebanon are consistent with this history and Israel's founding vision. 

                  Over and above its betrayal of Jewish ethical claims to 
justice, reason, and equity, Israel, the "Jewish" state, has failed to realize 
its stated goal to provide sanctuary for persecuted Jews. Israel's tactics of 
fueling hatred and inciting fear, not least where tolerance and co-existence 
were once longstanding rules, cannot ensure Jewish safety but will endanger the 
lives of Israeli citizens and residents and of Jews around the globe. 

                  There is no Jewish safety in a country that rehearses the 
violence and persecution which Ashkenazi Jews experienced for centuries through 
the annihilation of the Palestinian people and their homeland. 

                  There is no Jewish safety in alignment with the current 
Christian fundamentalist attack on Islam, used historically not only to justify 
persecuting Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews but to rain terror upon Arabs and 
Muslims since the time of the earliest Crusades. 

                  There is no Jewish safety in allowing the history of Jewish 
persecution to be leveraged in support of US political and economic interests 
as these entail amassing funding for Israel's military industry. 

                  Finally, there is no Jewish safety, nor Jewish claims to 
justice, reason, or equity, beyond Jewish commitment to the unconditional 
safety and liberation of the peoples of Palestine, Lebanon and the other Arab 
and Muslim countries currently under assault by Israel, the US and its allies. 

                  We, Jews of Conscience, demand that the US government: 

                  1. Require Israel to stop its brutal siege on Gaza and on 
Lebanon and call for an unconditional cease fire. 

                  2. Require Israel to stop the expansion of the Israeli Wall 
of Separation, dismantle the completed sections, and completely withdraw from 
Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. 

                  3. Support the United Nations resolutions demanding that 
Israel uphold international law and support the sanctions against Israel 
necessary to enforce these resolutions. 

                  4. End military and economic aid to Israel. 

                  5. Support reparations for the Palestinian and Lebanese 
people for the death and destruction they have suffered and for aid toward the 
rebuilding of their countries. 
                 
           
     


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