Posted on 08/13/2006 11:37:51 AM PDT by lizol
Petition for US Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East
This statement was drafted by US Jews committed to stopping and holding accountable Israel for its destructive policies and practices-most immediately for a halt to the current attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.
We are gathering signatures from Jews committed to this. Our goal is to then publish this statement in the New York Times and other publications.
Please add your name below as an American Jew of conscience - only if you agree with all 5 points. http://www.jewishsolidarity.info/petition.php
As Jews of conscience living in the United States, we are outraged by the violence being perpetrated in our name both as Jews and as US citizens. We, the undersigned, represent Jews across the United States who are choosing to stand in solidarity with the peoples of Gaza and Lebanon.
We are appalled by the blatant self-interest revealed in the US's leveraging of Israel's actions toward a "New Middle East" agenda, which it has advanced in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to serve an increasingly unilateral economic and political program enforced through military aggression. With Israel as its military proxy, this destructive US foreign policy agenda seeks to establish puppet governments across the Middle East, in a grand effort to ensure continued oil supplies to the West at devastating cost to civilian lives and democracy across the Middle East and beyond.
Focusing upon Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, this vision for a "New Middle East" has facilitated hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilian deaths, over a third of whom are children, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani deaths. We Jews of conscience know that no justice, no democracy, and no peace can result from such brutality.
We call upon Jews everywhere to hold the US government accountable for its 58-year role in facilitating and benefiting from Israel's long-standing, military occupation of Palestine, its repeated acts of collective punishment against both the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, and its military dominance over Lebanon and other countries in the region.
We are outraged, but by no means surprised, by Israel's brutality-and consistent support for it by the US government. We are not surprised because Israel was founded through a process of colonization. It is well documented that Israel's founders knew then that their role in this colonizing process would require an ongoing military strategy to continue to "cleanse" the Palestinian population in the name of a "Jewish" state. They also knew that military dominance of neighboring Arab countries would be necessary in the name of Jewish "self- defense." Israel's current attacks on Gaza and Lebanon are consistent with this history and Israel's founding vision.
Over and above its betrayal of Jewish ethical claims to justice, reason, and equity, Israel, the "Jewish" state, has failed to realize its stated goal to provide sanctuary for persecuted Jews. Israel's tactics of fueling hatred and inciting fear, not least where tolerance and co-existence were once longstanding rules, cannot ensure Jewish safety but will endanger the lives of Israeli citizens and residents and of Jews around the globe.
There is no Jewish safety in a country that rehearses the violence and persecution which Ashkenazi Jews experienced for centuries through the annihilation of the Palestinian people and their homeland.
There is no Jewish safety in alignment with the current Christian fundamentalist attack on Islam, used historically not only to justify persecuting Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews but to rain terror upon Arabs and Muslims since the time of the earliest Crusades.
There is no Jewish safety in allowing the history of Jewish persecution to be leveraged in support of US political and economic interests as these entail amassing funding for Israel's military industry.
Finally, there is no Jewish safety, nor Jewish claims to justice, reason, or equity, beyond Jewish commitment to the unconditional safety and liberation of the peoples of Palestine, Lebanon and the other Arab and Muslim countries currently under assault by Israel, the US and its allies.
We, Jews of Conscience, demand that the US government:
1. Require Israel to stop its brutal siege on Gaza and on Lebanon and call for an unconditional cease fire.
2. Require Israel to stop the expansion of the Israeli Wall of Separation, dismantle the completed sections, and completely withdraw from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
3. Support the United Nations resolutions demanding that Israel uphold international law and support the sanctions against Israel necessary to enforce these resolutions.
4. End military and economic aid to Israel.
5. Support reparations for the Palestinian and Lebanese people for the death and destruction they have suffered and for aid toward the rebuilding of their countries.
Weird, very weird.
"There are more things in Heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
They must be Reuters Jews.
Fine I guess. Just cancel Israel. That should work.
I think Israel's days are numbered. I guess that's the point of this international dance.
Islam is predicated on Fascism; Islam is a religious dictatorship, Islam controls economics in Islamic countries, Islam adheres to only Islamic law.
The only control over the Islamic terrorists is the 90% of Muslims who are not terrorists. Muslims must solve this problem.
The solution to the continued assault on the Western World is the threat that if there is another 9/11 in the United States, Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Tehran are history. Brute Force is the only language Terrorists understand, it is an absolute joke and totally illogical to think that negotiation is and option on this war of terror. Who do you negotiate with?
Roosevelt was right.
This has blown my mind more than anything I've read in the past month, and I've read some very scary stuff! I can only surmise that the above Jews must be speaking from a Communist platform against their own who are fighting to survive geographically amid total hostility! For shame!
Read the rest of what is in today's edition. It just seems more absurd. I have a feeling this crisis is coming to a head.
"There is no Jewish safety in alignment with the current Christian fundamentalist attack on Islam, used historically ... to rain terror upon Arabs and Muslims since the time of the earliest Crusades."
The Crusades never took back any more than a tiny sliver of the vast territory taken from Christendom by the Mudslimes, including the Middle East, North Africa, and Anatolia. The Muzzies nearly conquered Europe twice, reaching S. France the first time, and Vienna under the Turks. Had the Crusades been what the Muzzies claim, an attempt to wipe out Islum, we would all be much better off today.
Furthermore, it was not "fundamentalist Christians" who persecuted Jews in Europe and Russia during the Middle Ages and later. It was corrupt state-established monopoly nominally Christian churches. In fact, what is accurately described as fundamentalist Christianity didn't even exist at the time. True fundamentalism was born in America--the friendliest sanctuary for Jews in history, with the exception of Israel itself.
The program outlined by the petition means rapid suicide for Israel.
Dear Wolves,
We promise that we won't cause a ruckus if you just take a few of us at a time, and do it quietly, so that the rest of us don't notice.
Sincerely,
The Sheep
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I guess "Jews for Hitler" was already taken.
Let me predict whose signatures will be on this.
1. Noam Chomsky
2. Adam Shapiro
3. Yisroel Dovid Weiss
4. Barbra Streisand
5. Woody Allen
6. Richard Cohen
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Definition of a Liberal: Someone incapable of taking their own side.
Proven right yet again.
There will always be Quislings, Chamberlains and Cowards. As long as we have a Payola Main Stream Press where neither the Newspapers nor the reporters are required to reveal the sources of their personal or proffesional funding (who bribes them) the tutrh will only emerge on occasion.
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"Furthermore, it was not "fundamentalist Christians" who persecuted Jews in Europe and Russia during the Middle Ages and later. It was corrupt state-established monopoly nominally Christian churches. In fact, what is accurately described as fundamentalist Christianity didn't even exist at the time. True fundamentalism was born in America--the friendliest sanctuary for Jews in history, with the exception of Israel itself."
That is an excellent point. Jews have achieved their highest level of safety in the Diaspora through the merging of strong Gospel believing Christian values placed within the framework of the Classic Liberalism (not neosocialist liberlism of today) of American political economy. The state run church in Europe was an entirely different entity.
I have a strong feeling Jeff Halper would love this turncoat petition of self-destruction.
This is stupid.
Can you please list the names of the lefty trash that signed this so that we can expose each and every one of them for the jerks that they are?
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