>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) > >APPEAL AND CALL TO ACTION > > STOP ISRAELI SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE > > > The International Center for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) strongly >condemns the >slaughter of Arab Palestinian people by Israeli occupation forces and the >bombing of Palestinian houses, towns and cities. Already 60 Palestinians >have been killed, including children, and at least 1800 have been injured, >many so seriously they will probably not survive. > We express our outrage over these massacres and blame the Israeli >government, the extremists and anti-peace forces, instigated by Sharon at >the Dome of the Rock, for this violence. > We demand that the U.S. government and the United Nations Security >Council >take immediate action to bring an end to this Israeli brutality in the >Palestinian occupied territories where the people are justifiably angered >and are defending their inalienable rights, there land, and their holy >sites. The Israeli government must be compelled to implement its signed >agreements and U.N. Security Council resolutions Nos. 242, 338, and 194, as >well as to respect the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their >homeland, and other decisions arrived at concerning the rights of the >Palestinian people. International laws pertaining to human rights and for >the prosecution of war crimes must fully be upheld . > The duplicitous games being played by the Israeli government and >various >political parties, despite surface differences, are clearly aimed at >forestalling a just peace and at denying the rights of the Palestinian >people to return to their homeland, to self-determination and establishment >of their national independent state on national Palestinian soil with >Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the complete withdrawal from all Arab >occupied territories, including the Golan Heights of Syria. > We particularly call attention to the way in which U.S. government >spokespeople and the U.S. media is characterizing the horrific killings of >Palestinians as people "caught in cross-fire," and deaths as a result of >"clashes" which totally ignores the overwhelming Israeli military force >being unleashed, including the use of heavier and more powerful weapons than >those used against Palestinians even during the Intifada. Such portrayals >are the height of hypocrisy when compared to the way in which these same >forces whipped up demonization and hysteria, for example, to bomb, and >otherwise blatantly intervene in Yugoslavia, based on trumped up atrocity >stories. > This ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people threatens to >explode >into a much wider war in the Middle East thus threatening regional and world >peace. This danger is all the more fearsome since Israel is already >deploying, with U.S. military assistance, a theater missile defense system >which violates the ABM treaty. > The ICPJ sends its full solidarity and support to the Palestinian >people in >their legitimate struggle for their national rights and we express our >deepest outrage and condolences over those who have been killed in the >recent days. > We call on peace and justice activists everywhere to take action to >protest >Israeli aggression in the strongest possible terms and to support the >inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
