Gus Dur Tak Bisa Hadiri Undangan Pemerintah Israel
*Jakarta, gusdur.net* Presiden Israel Shimon Peres mengundang mantan Presiden KH Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) dalam perayaan 60 tahun Negara Israel di Yerusalem. Dalam suratnya, Peres mengundang Gus Dur sebagai tamu khusus dan narasumber dalam konferensi yang diselenggarakan Kantor Presiden Israel bertajuk *Facing Tomorrow*. Konferensi ini digelar di Yerusalem dari 13-15 Mei 2008. "Saya tidak ragu bahwa Anda adalah orang yang memiliki visi. Kami sangat menanti partisipasi Anda dalam konferensi ini," kata Simon Peres dalam surat resminya kepada Gus Dur pertanggal 6 Januari 2008. Menurut Peres beberapa tokoh dunia sudah menyatakan kesediaannya akan hadir. Seperti diberitakan *Associated Press* tokoh-tokoh yang dijadwalkan hadir adalah, Presiden AS, George W.Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev dan raja media, Rupert Murdoch. Termasuk diplomat AS kawakan Henry Kissinger, peraih Nobel, Elie Wiesel, mantan Presiden Cekoslovakia Vaclev Havel, Profesor Harvard Alan Dershowitz, pendiri Google Sergey Brinn, pendiri Facebook Markus Zuckerman, pimpinan Tata Group India Ratan Tata. Jutawan AS Sheldon Adelson. Gus Dur adalah satu-satunya undangan dari negara yang tidak memiliki hubungan diplomatik dengan Israel. Namun Gus Dur tidak bisa memenuhi undangan Presiden Israel tersebut. Alasannya karena pada 4 Mei 2008, ia harus bertolak ke Amerika Serikat. Dijadwalkan, Gus Dur akan menghadiri upacara penyerahan penghargaan dari salah satu organisasi non pemerintah di Negri Paman Sam itu. (GF) http://www.gusdur.net/indonesia/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2807&Itemid=1 On 4/10/08, Satrio Arismunandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sesudah menyingkirkan keponakannya sendiri, Muhaimin, dari posisi > pimpinan PKB, > Gus Dur sudah siap bikin kejutan /heboh baru...... > > =========================================== > > President Shimon Peres to bring in top world personalities for > Israel's 60th anniversary > > By STEVEN GUTKIN Associated Press Writer > > JERUSALEM, April 9 (AP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres is > bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate > the Jewish state's 60th birthday. > President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail > Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch are among those expected to attend > a May conference focusing on Jewish and Israeli contributions to > humanity. > "We are going to have probably 10 presidents from different > countries, six former presidents, ministers, prime ministers, > scientists, philosophers, artists," Peres said Wednesday in an > interview with The Associated Press. > The conference is expected to be one of the highlights of weeks > of celebrations marking Israel's 60th, including concerts, > Holocaust remembrance events, a workshop promoting Arab-Israeli > coexistence and a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) trans-Israel > bicycle trail. > The May 13-15 conference will open with a tribute to Israel's > staunchest ally, the United States. It will be attended by Bush > and feature Streisand singing the Hebrew prayer Avinu Malkeinu > -- Our Father Our King -- which Peres described as "unbelievably > beautiful." > "After 60 years we want to stand up and say 'thank you > America,'" Peres said. > Peres said the subjects of the conference are "as varied as one > can think of ... from arts and science and philosophy and > medicine and ecology." > He said most of the of the conference's 2,000 participants will > be Jewish, but that it's open to people of all faiths. > The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, > Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former Czech President Vaclev Havel, > Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, Google founder Sergey Brinn, > Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman, Ratan Tata, chairman of India's > Tata group, U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson, and Abdurrahman > Wahid, former president of Indonesia, a country with no > diplomatic relations with Israel. > Israel declared statehood in 1948 in the wake of the Nazi > genocide of six million Jews. The date is marked in Israel > according to the Hebrew calendar and falls this year on May 8. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
