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From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: US Green Party Statement on Middle East
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:59:07 -0500 (CDT)
GREEN PARTY ENDORSES UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION
PROPOSES BASIS FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE
The Association of State Green Parties, USA (ASGP) condemns the
ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis. The ASGP
supports recent UN Security Council Resolution 1322, which deplores
Israeli provocation at Haram Al-Sharif and condemns the excessive
use of force against Palestinians. According to ASGP Steering
Committee Co-Chair Tom Sevigny, The Green Party opposes violence
by either Israelis or Palestinians. However, by supporting this
UN resolution, we acknowledge the greater responsibility of Israel
for the conflict both in this immediate crisis and in Israels
continuing history of non-compliance with international law and UN
resolutions. There can be neither justice nor an enduring peace
for Palestinians or Israelis as long as international law and human
rights are not strictly observed.
In advocating a resolution to the PalestinianIsraeli conflict, the
ASGP reaffirms the Green Partys commitment to non-violence.
According to ASGP Coordinating Committee member Dean Myerson, We
acknowledge that Israels continued military occupation of Gaza,
the West Bank and East Jerusalem constitutes a clear violation of
Palestinian human rights under international law and numerous UN
resolutions. However, we urge Palestinians--especially in response
to provocations like those by Ariel Sharon and Israeli settlers--to
refrain from violence and to protest their injustice by mass
non-violent civil disobedience and non-cooperation, as well as by
empowering leaders who support such non-violent acts of liberation.
In doing so, Palestinians set a moral example and higher standard
than their occupiers, which will engender the respect and unequivocal
support of the international community.
Israels ongoing occupation of Palestinian land embodies a fundamental
challenge to international peace in this era. As ASGP International
Committee member Justine McCabe said, Will the world that witnessed
the last gasps of colonialism, the horror of genocides and atomic
bombs, begin the new millennium by affirming international law
which prohibits the acquisition of territory by force? Or will it
step back into 19th century consciousness where might made right?
Its important to remember that the international interdiction
against acquiring territory by force applies regardless of how a
conflict started or was conducted. It also stipulates that military
occupation is always temporary and never becomes legal through
force or duration. These universal principles concerning belligerent
occupation are also recognized in the UN Charter and are reflected
in UN Security Council Resolutions 237 and 242 which call for
Israeli withdrawal from land seized in 1967 as the basis for a just
peace.
The ASGP also calls attention to the rights of Palestinians to
return to their homes, to reclaim their property and to be compensated
for their losses, rights which are unconditional and guaranteed by
the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN General
Assembly Resolutions 194, reaffirmed every year since 1948.
The ASGP acknowledges the intrinsic limitations of the Oslo peace
process as currently constituted. Given irrefutable guarantees in
international law for Israeli and Palestinian human rights, ASGPs
Tom Sevigny stated, Its significant that the very mechanism for
achieving peace, the Oslo Process, has ignored international law,
which is the only equitable basis for resolving ethnic conflict.
Instead, Oslo has been subject to inherent biases that are antithetical
to international law. It privileges Israeli goals and needs at
the expense of inalienable Palestinian rights to self-determination,
political and economic freedom and return of refugees.
Therefore, the Association of State Green Parties, USA calls on
the US Government to commit to the following propositions, and to
stop all further aid to Israel until it also adheres to them:
*Peace negotiations must be re-established based on equality of
the two parties before international law. Thus, adherence to
international law and the inalienability of the human rights of
Israelis and Palestinians must be the foundation for continuing
peace negotiations.
*Jerusalem must be a shared city, open to all, without exclusive
claims to national sovereignty or religion. A solution for Jerusalems
status must be negotiated that respects the human rights of both
Palestinians and Israelis, as well as the rights of the three
religious communities for whom Jerusalem is sacred. Until such
time, the US embassy should not be moved to Jerusalem.
*Israel must withdraw from all lands acquired since 1967, including
East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank.
*Palestinian refugees inalienable rights to return to their homes
and to receive material compensation for their losses must be
honored.
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