KK-Forum,
se Phyllis Bennis nedenfor:
' "The UN is the
right venue for resolving the Mideast crisis -- it always has been. It is
an international crisis that must be resolved by international law and the
international community. The U.S. should step back and let the UN do its
job...." '
Noe for Jagland og co i Sikkerhetsrådet
Knut Rognes
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:31:56 -0700
From: Institute for Public Accuracy <instpa@pacbell.net>
Subject: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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October 11, 2000
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
ALLEGRA PACHECO, pacheco@radcliffe.edu,
http://www.nigelparry.com/september2000
An Israeli Jewish human rights lawyer who represents Palestinians in the
West Bank, Pacheco is now a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe.
She wrote in The New York Times last week: "Since 1994, Palestinians have
seen the influx of 50,000 new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and Gaza,
the paving of more than 400 kilometers of roads on confiscated land,
demolition of more than 800 Palestinian homes, a threefold increase in
unemployment ...the arrest of 13,000 Palestinians, and complete curtailment
of freedom of movement." Yesterday she said: "In almost every city and town in
Israel, large Jewish mobs, chanting 'death to the Arabs,' have attacked
Palestinian citizens. The Israeli government has yet to crack down --
effectively giving a green light. The international community should send
protection for them -- they are no less deserving than the Albanians in
Kosovo."
SIMONA SHARONI, sharonis@evergreen.edu,
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/copred
Executive director of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and
Development, Sharoni has written extensively about Middle East politics and
conflict resolution. An Israeli Jew living in the U.S., Sharoni said:
"During the
intifadah, it took Jews awhile to be horrified as to what was happening in
their name. How can Barak set ultimatums to the Palestinians to stop the
violence when his military is carrying out most of it? The Oslo process
was unjust and problematic to begin with -- the situation calls for a totally
different framework designed to address the core issues of the conflict:
refugees, Jerusalem, borders and settlements."
PHYLLIS BENNIS, pbennis@compuserve.com,
http://www.ips-dc.org/newinternat.htm
Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of "Calling the Shots:
How Washington Dominates Today's UN," Bennis said: "The UN is the
right venue for resolving the Mideast crisis -- it always has been. It is
an international crisis that must be resolved by international law and the
international community. The U.S. should step back and let the UN do its
job.... The U.S. decision to abstain from a consensus of the rest of the
world sharply demonstrates the isolation of U.S. policy in the Mideast."
BARBARA LUBIN, meca@mecaforpeace.org, http://www.mecaforpeace.org
Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Lubin, who will be going to
Israel and Palestine on Friday with money for medicine for Makassed Hospital
in Jerusalem, said: "Until there is a just resolution for both peoples,
there will be bloodshed, so for us this is expected. Palestinians should
have their own state, no more of these bantustans with zone 'A,' zone
'B,' zone 'C.' Sharon's visit to the mosque was a political move, part of
his battle with Netanyahu and the latest chapter in his bloody record."
ALI ABUNIMAH, ali@abunimah.org, http://www.abunimah.org
Vice president of the Arab-American Action Network, Abunimah said:
"For the first time in decades Palestinians in the occupied territories,
Palestinians in Israel and Palestinian refugees (especially in Lebanon) are
all protesting simultaneously. This shows that this is about basic
injustice, not about Yasir Arafat giving an order."
FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@law.uiuc.edu, http://www.rightofreturn.org
Boyle is professor of law at the University of Illinois and former legal
advisor to the Palestinian delegation from 1991 to 1993.
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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