Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:19:46 -0400 From: carol@carolmoore.net (Carol Moore) Subject: [libs4peace] Jewish Manifesto: Sharon is Israel's Worst Enemy
There are many righteous Jews disgusted by what the Israelis are doing under Sharon. This is just one group that has been circulating a statement. 15,000 protested in Israel on Saturday.
schminkle2@aol.com wrote:
> The following is a petition that is to be presented to world leaders,
> including the EU and UN, and other major governmental and international
> bodies. It will appear in a Stockholm newspaper later this week. We are
> looking for Jewish signatories from all over the world. If you wish to add
> your name, please send an e-mail to ken.schubert@e-posten.net indicating
> that you wish to sign. Please include your name, occupation and country.
>
> ==============================================================
>
> Jewish Manifesto: Sharon is Israels Worst Enemy
>
> Many of us who have initiated and signed this manifesto lost family members
> during the Second World War. They died in concentration camps or perished in
> the mass graves of Eastern Europe. Often they had to dig their own graves
> before being catapulted into them. Others of us are survivors of Nazi
> persecution.
>
> We totally repudiate Ariel Sharons claim to speak in the name of world
> Jewry. He certainly does not speak in ours.
>
> Israels declaration of war on the Palestinians could easily escalate into a
> major regional conflict. Israel has nuclear weapons, and there is little
> doubt that Sharon is fully prepared to use them. In our view, he and his
> policies have almost single-handedly brought the Middle East to the point
> where disaster could strike at any moment. Sharon is the biggest threat to
> the Israeli people and to Jews around the world.
>
> The Saudi proposal adopted by the Arab League handed Sharon a unique
> historic opportunity to make peace. His only response was ruthless violence.
>
> Sharon is incapable of concluding agreements or forging compromises. A
> peaceful solution is impossible as long as he remains in power. He has never
> in his career done anything but resort to the toughest conceivable military
> measures. The Israeli resistance and peace movements deserve all the support
> we can give them.
>
> As far back as 1952, Sharon commanded the infamous special operation Unit
> 101, whose task was to carry out reprisals on the Palestinian and Arab side
> of the armistice lines. During the next couple of years, he was responsibe
> for two attacks on Palestinian villages that left almost 100 civilians dead.
> Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett condemned the atrocities.
>
> In 1982, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon fashioned Operation Peace in
> Galilee otherwise known as Israels invasion of Lebanon. This time the
> toll was 20,000 killed and more than 100,000 homeless. Better than 80% of
> the victims were civilians, and at least 6,000 children were orphaned.
>
> An International Commission of Inquiry set up by Nobel Peace Prizewinner
> Sen MacBride determined that the Israelis had been in violation of
> international law during the Lebanese war. An Israeli government commission
> headed by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan concluded that Sharon had
> not done enough to stop the massacre of 800 unarmed civilians at the Sabra
> and Shatila refugee camps.
>
> In less than two years, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has managed to torpedo
> the agreements that took Israel and the Palestinians many years of patient
> accommodation to achieve.
>
> Sharon contends that Israel is above the Geneva Conventions and
> international law. That puts him in the company of the worlds cruelest and
> most despicable dictators. On Sharons orders, ambulances and hospitals are
> ambushed, doctors are shot, and pregnant women are left to die or give birth
> at Israeli checkpoints.
>
> Our alternative to Sharon is the Jewish tradition of humanism and faith in
> the future. When challenged by a stranger to sum up the Jewish religion
> while he hopped on one fot, the great Rabbi Hillel replied simply, That
> which you find hateful to yourself, do not do unto others. That is all of
> the law. The rest is merely commentary.
>
> We demand that Israel immediately and unconditionally withdraw from the
> Occupied Territories, that an international peacekeeping force be sent to
> the region, that Israel comply with international law, and that Israel
> declare at once its willingness to negotiate peace on the basis of all U.N.
> resolutions.
>
> Henry Ascher, physician (Sweden)
> Channa Bankier, artist (Sweden)
> Adrienne Levy Berg, physiotherapist (Sweden)
> Nina Bergman, district medical officer (Sweden)
> Set Bornstein (Sweden)
> Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics (United States)
> Ilan Cohen, certified engineer (Sweden)
> Anja Emsheimer, teacher (Sweden)
> Peter Emsheimer, PhD (Sweden)
> Dror Feiler, musician (Sweden)
> Lennart Grosin, associate professor of education (Sweden)
> Hertha Fischer, county commissioner (Sweden)
> David Gutman, sociologist (Sweden)
> David Henley, senior physician, associate professor (Sweden)
> Dan Israel, publisher (Sweden)
> Erland Josephson, actor (Sweden)
> Anja Karlsson, student (Sweden)
> Katarina Katz, economist (Sweden)
> Olle Katz, teacher (Sweden)
> Ronit Koerner, Waldorf school teacher (Sweden)
> John Lapidus, freelance author (Sweden)
> Judit Lukcs, journalist (Sweden)
> Joanna Dubinska Malmberg, occupational therapist (Sweden)
> Rafael Najdorf, male nurse (Norway)
> Mitchell Plitnick, writer, actvist (United States)
> Georg Riedel, musician (Sweden)
> Cynthia Roth, poet (United States)
> Ken Schubert, authorized public translator (Sweden and the United States)
> Jakub Srebro, certified engineer (Sweden)
> Julianna Srebro, psychologist (Sweden)
> Annika Thor, author (Sweden)
> Gbor Tiroler, instructor in rehabilitation, public health expert (Sweden)
> Zoltan Tiroler, research engineer (Sweden)
> Maj Wechselman, filmmaker (Sweden)
> Vera Ascher nner, librarian (Sweden)
>
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