Akiva Orr asked me to circulate this note:
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Yesterday, Nov. 20, 2008, the PLO published in ALL major Israeli daily
newspapers the policy statement of the ARAB LEAGUE of 2003, (signed by
57 Arab or Muslim States) pledging to sign full peace and establish full
normal relations with Israel if It returns to its pre-1967 borders and
lets the Palestinians set up their independent State with East Jerusalem
as its capital.
The publication of this policy statement by the PLO as a full-page
advert in the Israeli daily press is an unprecedented political act of
major importance. Since - like all ads in the daily press - it
constitutes a direct appeal not just to the government, but to every
Israeli citizen.
From now on it is no longer Israel's government which has to respond to
this all-Arab peace move move, but every Israeli citizen.
From now on all Israeli claims that: "There is no partner for peace on
the Palestinian side" or "The Arabs don't want Peace. They only want to
exterminate us" will sound hollow when it comes from anyone who rejected
the Arab League peace offer.
Israeli citizens will vote in January 2009 for a new Knesset.
Their vote will constitute their answer to the Arab League peace offer.
I hope most Israeli voters accept this offer.
In a letter dated 25/11/1929 Albert Einstein wrote Haim Weizman (who
later beceme Israel's first president):
"Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation - and honest
pacts - with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during
our 2000 years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us."
The choice facing the Israeli voters is between peace with the new
Israeli settlers who occupy these conquered territories illegally and
forcibly, or peace with the Palestinians who inhabit and cultivate these
territories for over a thousand years. Israel's future will be
determined by this choice.
Akiva ORR
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