--- On Fri, 30/1/09, Kunal Chattopadhyay <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kunal Chattopadhyay <[email protected]> > Subject: Israel Must Not Win This War > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 30 January, 2009, 8:11 PM > Israel Must Not Win This War > > > > The state of Israel has been waging persistent war on the > Palestinians since > its inception. The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase > of that war. The > goal of this war has never changed. The goal has been to > use overwhelming > military power to eradicate the Palestinians as a political > force, one > capable of resisting Israel's ongoing appropriation of > their land and > resources. > > Israel's war against the Palestinians has turned Gaza > and the West Bank into > a pair of gigantic political prisons. There is nothing > symmetrical about > this war in terms of principles, tactics or consequences. > Israel is > responsible for launching and intensifying it, and for > ending the most > recent lull in hostilities. The argument that Hamas is a > fundamentalist > force, ignores the fact that Hamas was democratically > elected to power in > Palestine, and also that while Hamas has observed the > ceasefire it was > Israel that planned to break it even before it was signed. > > It is not enough then to call for another ceasefire, or for > additional > humanitarian assistance. It is not enough to urge the > renewal of dialogue, > and to acknowledge the concerns and suffering of both > sides. If we believe > in the principle of democratic self-determination, if we > affirm the right to > resist military aggression and colonial occupation, then we > are obliged to > "take sides" - against Israel, and with the > people of Gaza and the West > Bank. > > We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war. > Israel must > accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful > coexistence with > its neighbours, and not upon the criminal use of force. > > We the undersigned believe that Israel should immediately > and > unconditionally end its assault on Gaza, end the occupation > of the West > Bank, and abandon all claims to possess or control > territory beyond its 1967 > borders. We call on the Indian government and the Indian > people to take all > feasible steps to oblige Israel to comply with these > demands, starting with > a thorough programme of boycott and sanctions. We also > emphasize that in > view of the open attacks on UN properties, Israel has gone > beyond a war > against Palestine and it is imperative that the UN does > something more > forceful. > > > > > > Sumit Sarkar , (Retd.) History, Delhi University > > Tanika Sarkar, History, J.N.U. > > Achin Vanaik, Political Science, Delhi University > > Kunal Chattopadhyay, History, Jadavpur University > > Soma Marik, History, RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan > > Nandini Sundar, Sociology, Delhi University > > Aditya Nigam - CSDS, Delhi > > Nivedita Menon - SIS, JNU > > Mukul Dube, free-lance writer, editor, photographer > > Amit Bhattacharyya, History, Jadavpur University > > Bhaskar Gupta, Electronics and Telecommunications, Jadavpur > University > > Anindo Banerjee, Political Science, St. Paul's College, > Calcutta > > Ranjan Chakrabarti, History, Jadavpur University > > Sourin Bhattacharya, (Retd.) Economics, Jadavpur University > > Sujato Bhadra, History, Sibpur Deenabandhu College, Howrah > > Maroona Murmu, History, Jadavpur University > > Sheila Lahiri Choudhury, (Retd) English, Jadavpur > University > > Anuradha Roy, History, Jadavpur University > > Abhijit Gupta, English, Jadavpur University > > Sumanta Banerjee, Journalist Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
