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Correct me if I'm wrong but did Hamas not claim responsibility for the
bombing?

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

   We received the following from the Israeli Human Rights Organisation B'Tselem
- which we feel is the best summary of what many of us were today involved
with, and we decided it deserves the widest possible distribution.

6 June 2001

Press release

Partners in Crime
Israeli Settlers riot under security force protection

This morning, dozens of Israeli settlers entered two villages in the Nablus
district of the West Bank, both of which are under complete Israeli security
control. An investigation conducted by B'Tselem reveals that settlers entered
the villages of Luban a-Sharqiya and A-Sawiya, the latter under curfew, and
burned agricultural fields, a hothouse, a carpentry and a school. In addition,
the settlers shot at residents of Luban. They also broke windows of houses in
a-Sawiya while the residents were trapped in their homes under curfew. Israeli
security forces present during the entire incident, prevented Palestinians from
defending themselves, prevented fire fighters and ambulances from entering the
villages, and even took part in the violence themselves.

Israel as the occupying power is responsible for the safety and welfare of
Palestinians, and must protect them from settlers. She security forces bear
full responsibility for today's violence, as a result of the following actions
and omissions: Lack of preparedness, while complete ignoring what was likely to
occur;

* Standing idly by while settlers rioted against Palestinians in broad
daylight for several hours;

*  Enforcing the curfew in a-Sawiya against Palestinians only, which prevented
Palestinians from defending themselves and their property;

* Preventing the entrance of firefighters and ambulances in spite of the fires
lit by settlers;

*  Active participation of security forces in acts of violence against
Palestinians.

It is patently obvious that if the situation were reversed, and Palestinians
had rioted in the settlement of Shilo, burned a carpentry, broke windows and
took over the roof of a house, the incident would have ended in an entirely
different manner.

Settler violence against Palestinians of the Occupied Territories is a
wide-spread and on-going phenomenon. Since the beginning of the first
intifada in 1987, 119 Palestinians have been killed by settlers and other
Israelis. Of those killed, twenty-three were minors. In many other
incidents, settlers wounded Palestinians, damaged their property, and
committed various acts of vandalism.

Two months ago, B'Tselem published a report addressing the law-enforcement
failures of Israeli authorities regarding settler violence. In 1994,
B'Tselem published a comprehensive report on the subject. The conclusions of
the two reports, published seven years apart, are identical: Israel's law
enforcement policies regarding settler violence is characterized by tolerance
and turning a blind eye.

*  In many cases, Israeli security forces are present during acts of settler
violence against Palestinians and do nothing to prevent the violence.

*  In many cases, in violation of the law, the Police refuse to
open investigations into acts of settler violence unless the victim files a
complaint. Investigations that are opened are not pursued seriously. As a
result, some two-thirds of investigations are closed.

Israeli officials have leveled stinging criticism against the Police and the
military for their law enforcement failures. Critics have included the 1982
Karp Commission, the Shamgar Commission established following the massacre at
the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Attorney General Eliyakim Rubenstein.

Unfortunately, these repeated criticisms have fallen on deaf ears. The
authorities continue to turn a blind eye to settlers' acts of violence, to
view them as justifiable "letting off steam," and to praise their ostensible
restraint in the face of violence against them. Israeli authorities are thereby
complicitous in the on-going violence and vandalism.

For additional details and to receive B'Tselem's initial investigation:
Lior Yavne, Press Officer, 050-387-230, Pager 03-610-6666 (31146)
lyavne@...


  NB:  corrected site address:
Information about the Friday worldwide action on
http://www.geocities.com/womancoalition/
and not as written in earlier messages of Gush Shalom or
The Coalition of Women for Peace and Justice.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
		  For information about Gush Shalom visit the website:

 			            http://www.gush-shalom.org/
      (including the Boycott List of Products of Settlements)
 			            email: info@...;
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

TERRIBLE  DAYS - Tel-Aviv, June 2.

Was it madness, to hold a vigil on the day after? The terrible blast at the
discoteque was reason for Peace Now to postpone its march, scheduled for
Saturday evening. Not that the message had stopped being relevant (say yes to a
complete settlement freeze; say yes to the ending of violence) but it has long
been a tradition in the peace movement to keep a low profile after a terrorist
attack.
It was Ta'ayush (Arab-Jewish partnership) which decided not to leave the
streets of Tel-Aviv this whole day only to raging and racist rightwingers, but
to mobilize other more radical leftwingers and hold on this very day a vigil in
front of the Ministry of Defence with among others the slogan "The Occupation
Is Killing Us All."
Under the circumstances the more or less 150 activists who attended the vigil -
some coming especially from Jerusalem and even Haifa - were not a bad showing
at all. After all, this was not just a question of making oneself free: there
was reason to worry about confrontations with the right wingers who in the
morning had been howling for blood on this very spot. But at 5 PM the place was
found empty, though a lot of racist posters were still lying scattered on the
ground.
After there passed a cavalcade of rightwing cars - waving national flags -
there came soon a few rightwingers to take position on the opposite side of the
street; a television crew arrived and we chanted slogans for one and a half
hour. "Down with the Occupation! Down with Settlements! End the Occupation - to
End Terrorism!" Some youngsters were very creative and added new ones to the
repertoire: Lo Namit veLo Namut beSherut haGizanut! (We won't kill or get
killed on behalf of racism.)
In the end we dispersed orderly all together, as not to leave a few people
behind alone.

It was just one day after we as part of the Gush Shalom delegation, had
attended the funeral ceremony for Feisal Husseini at the Orient House. Also
there our presence was not unproblematic. The officials of Orient House took
care to direct us to a wing where we, some 40 Israelis together with a similar
number of Palestinians and several foreign journalists were separated from the
very passionate crowd which had gathered within the fences of the Orient
House's garden. From the many militant speeches it was clear that here were all
Palestinian factions together, expressing what was a mixture of mourning and
pain for the Palestinian cause.

We had known Feisal Husseini long before he became such a prominent leader of
his people. Several times in the past we had organized a group visit to the
East Jerusalem Palestinian Headquarters, the Orient House; Feisal Husseini
succeeded to make the beautiful place home to dialogue and manifestations of
peace - and also after he became so prominent he was accessible to his old
friends of the peace movement. The last time we came there with a big group was
in November 2000. Some of us had still met with him a week before his death.
The funeral of Husseini who will be sorely missed not only by Palestinians but
also by Israelis, was attended by Uri Avnery, by  Labor Knesset Member Yossi
Katz and the Arab KM's at full strength, Jerusalem City Councillor Meir
Margalit of Meretz, author Eli Amir and others.

Adam Keller
Beate Zilversmidt

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         pob 2542, Holon 58125, Israel; ph/fx: +972-3-5565804;
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		 Selected articles at the website http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
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1) The False Cease Fire - Gush Shalom warns; Sharansky confirms.

2) B’Tselem report on soldiers' harassment and beating of Palestinians.

3) CO Gabi Wolff was jailed for the third consecutive time

4) Tomorrow, Wednesday: distribution of Yesh Gvul's call to refuse military
occupation service by students in Tel-Aviv University.

5) Friday morning, joint Palestinian-Israeli action at Hares and Dir-Istya to
protest the recently-positioned settler caravans

6) Saturday, June 2, Peace Now calls for a Jerusalem demo demanding to freeze
the settlements as a first step towards dismantling them.

7) Tuesday, June 5 - thirty-fourth anniversary of the occupation - a Hadash
demonstration at 6.30 PM  outside the Defence Ministry in Tel-Aviv.

8) Also Tuesday, June 5, Haifa opponents of the occupation will mark
the anniversary

9) Friday, June 8, Women in Black invites other organizations
(men also welcome) to converge on Jerusalem, with 75 simultaneous
solidarity vigils around the globe.


1) The False Cease Fire - Gush Shalom warns; Sharansky confirms.
Gush Shalom wrote in its ad published in Ha'aretz, May 25:
"The Mitchell commission report is based on a simple formula:
an end to the Palestinian uprising in return for a total freeze
of building activity in the settlements.
Public opinion polls show that the majority of Israelis supports this proposal.
But Sharon and Peres are trying to cheat the whole world. Sharon has declared a
"unilateral cease-fire"' without undertaking to stop the enlargement of the
settlements" (http://www.gush-shalom.org).

Today, only four days later (Ha'aretz, internet edition, Breaking News), came
the confirmation of Housing and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky that he
had given the green light to the construction of some 700 housing units in the
West Bank.

2) B’Tselem report on soldiers' harassment and beating of Palestinians.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem sent out a press release with details
how harassment and beatings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and police rose
dramatically since the eruption of the Palestinian uprising eight months ago
(http:www.btselem.org).

3) CO Gabi Wolff was jailed for the third consecutive time - after rejection of
his requests to be exempted from military service on grounds of conscience. You
can help by writing: Letters of support to: Gabriel Wolff, Military Personal
Number 7158325, Military Prison No. 4, Military postal number 02507, IDF
Israel.
Letters of protest to: Commander of Military Prison No. 4, Military Prison No.
4, Military postal number 02507, IDF Israel. Fax: ++972-3-957-52-76 Minister of
Defence Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,Fax: ++972-3-696-27-57 / ++972-3-691- 69-40 /
++972-3-691-79-15; email sar@... and to the Israeli media: Ma’ariv:
editor@..., Yedioth Aharonoth: Fax: ++972-3-608-25-46 Ha’aretz
(Hebrew): Fax: ++972-3-681-00-12 Ha’aretz (English): letters@...
Jerusalem Post: letters@...

and sign the petition for his release via yossiba42@...

4) Tomorrow, Wednesday: distribution of Yesh Gvul's call to refuse military
occupation service by students in Tel-Aviv University between 10:00-16:30,
at the entrance (Antin Square).

5) Friday morning, joint Palestinian-Israeli action at Hares and Dir-Istya to
protest  the recently-positioned settler caravans. [The organizers Reut-Sadaka
and  International Solidarity speak of a non-violent direct action in
coordination with local residents. When we know what the concrete plans are we
will let  our Israeli addresses know. You may also yourself contact: Liad (03)
681-7312 or Michael (054) 793-837.]

6) Saturday, June 2, Peace Now calls for a Jerusalem demo demanding to freeze
the settlements as a first step towards dismantling them. The intention is to
march from MENORA square at 19:15 to the primeminister’s house, where will be
hold a demonstration at 20:00. Details on buses will be in Ha'aretz, or turn
to:
Noam 02-5660648,  054-218518  jerusalem@... Youval  03-5663291,
054-405157  youval@...

7) Tuesday, June 5 - thirty-fourth anniversary of the occupation - a Hadash
demonstration at 6.30 PM  outside the Defence Ministry in Tel-Aviv. "34 years
passed since the occupation of the Palestinian territories began - and the
Sharon-Peres cabinet tries to turn back the wheel to the most  despicable days
of  'Greater Israel'. They shoot, they bomb, they kill - and  they finance it
by robbing the poorest - cutting the welfare services". Organizer Asher Davidi
told that other organizations are welcome to join the the action. Further
details 03-6835252, info@...

8) Also Tuesday, June 5, Haifa opponents of the occupation will mark the
anniversary - at a protest in Merkaz Ha'Karmel at 7.00 PM - a joint action by
Haifa supporters of the Women in Black, Hadash, Gush Shalom, Yesh Gvul and
Meretz.  Contact: Danny Grimblatt  052-887185.

9) Friday, June 8, Women in Black invites other organizations (men also
welcome) to converge on Jerusalem, with 75 simultaneous solidarity vigils
around the globe. This time, in Jerusalem it will begin not at 1.00 PM but
already at 12, at the usual Kikar Paris. It is going to be big (remember
December?). The idea:  34 Years of Occupation - ENOUGH  !!!
The generals leading the country drove us  to wars of all kinds:
   … Wars against other countries in the region, and wars against the
Palestinian people.
   … War against the children  of the first Intifada, and the
assassination of the leaders of the second Intifada.
   … "Surgical" air strikes and bombing of population centers.
   … Roadblocks, closure, killing, house demolitions and uprooting of
orchards and olive groves.
And this is how they want to achieve peace in the region??
For more details: batshalo@...

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   pob 2542, Holon 58125, Israel; ph/fx: +972-3-5565804;
         Selected articles at the website http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
======================================================

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Daffern <iipsgp@...>
To: otherisr@... <otherisr@...>
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Date: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: [CPIdiscussion] Re: peace petition to sign and circulate please


>
>Sir,
>
>We, the undersigned, urge the various ethnic, religious, political and
>cultural
>groups in Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and throughout
>the Islamic and Middle Eastern world, to work together
>to find a non violent solution to the current unrest in Palestine and
Israel
>based on justice and the common love of peace, humanity and God.
>
>We write as lovers of Palestine, the Holy land and Israel, scattered both
>throughout the world and inside the countries concerned and believe that
>both Israel and Palestine stand for the celebration of cultural and
>spiritual richness and unity-in-diversity. At the crossroads of Europe,
>Africa and Asia, the Holy Land has seen innumerable religious and spiritual
>traditions emerge over the millennia, such as Judaism, Kabbalah,
>Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Bahaism. All of them have stressed the
>importance of peace, justice and non violence. The region stands to gain so
>much from its rich spiritual heritage and from peace through tourism and
>sacred pilgramage.
>
>However, two major national traditions in the region are currently
>tragically locked in mortal combat based on fear, namely the Israeli and
>Palestinian peoples.
>
>1. We support unequivocally the right of the Palestinian peoples to their
>own state, recognized under international law, and with its borders
>guaranteed by internationally binding treaties. We realise however that
>given the tragic history of the persecution of the Israeli people over the
>centuries, particularly in Europe, Israeli defenses and defense mechanisms
>are so well developed that no amount of violence will ever secure for the
>Palestinian people this basic right to statehood.
>
>2. We urge therefore all Palestinians and lovers of Palestine without
>exception,
>of whatever spiritual faith or community, both inside Palestine and
>throughout the
>international Diaspora, to adopt a strategy of nonviolence to secure their
>own statehood, as the only realistic and practical way of achieving
>Palestinian
>political goals. We call therefore for a satyagraha (truth-seeking
>nonviolence campaign) to secure the establishment of an eventual
independent
>Palestinian state, and call on all Palestinians and Israeli's alike to
>renounce absolutely violence as a political tool. We recognise that all
>sides in the conflict have committed tragic errors and blunders and
>cruelties: we urge that this must stop henceforth. It is time for healing,
>for forgiveness, for reconciliation, for grace.
>
>3. In return for a strategy based on nonviolence and truth force, we urge
>the responsible Israeli authorities and Israeli people to return to the
>negotiating table in good faith,
>to cease from all further settlements in disputed territories, to stop
their
>own military
>campaigns against the Palestinians, and to recognise the independence of
>Palestine according to an agreed workable timetable.
>
>4. The exact details of independent statehood for Palestine must be worked
>out in detail as time progresses, and once the climate of violence and fear
>has subsided. It must of course be economically viable, and in return for
>its capital being based in East Jerusalem, we urge that it be officially a
>state without an army, like Costa Rica, dedicated to world peace and
>nonviolence and wisdom, achieved through nonviolence, which will instead
>cultivate spiritual, intellectual and moral authority, and which will
>celebrate the rich legacy of all those who have worked for peace and
justice
>over the millennia.
>
>These 4 points need not been seen as a threat to Israel. True lovers of
>Palestine are also equally true lovers of Israel, since true love is
>indivisible, and also of the international community as a whole, who stand
>to lose so much unless the tragic fighting and conflict in Israel/Palestine
>is not ended forthwith.
>
>We appeal therefore to all people of good will throughout the world as well
>as in Palestine and Israel, to all international and local cultural
figures,
>intellectuals, students, teachers, scientists, businessmen, political and
>religious leaders etc. in favour of these four urgent policy
>recommendations, to sign this petition and add their names to a growing
>chorus of peace, to circulate it as widely as possible through all possible
>media inside and outside the region. and to send their own name and address
>and a letter of support by email or ordinary post to the following address:
>
>Palestinian Nonviolence Statehood Petition, Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, The
>Global Green University, School of Nonviolence, Camlad House, Forden, Near
>Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 8NZ, United Kingdom, email <iipsgp@...>
>Tel. +44 (0)1938 580319. Website: <www.macedonia.co.uk> (peace affairs)
>
>
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
>Abu-Saba Bentley, Mary, Ph. D, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology,
>American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon
>Adelson, Anne Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
>Allison-Kirby, Jenni, UK citizen
>Arellano, Vivianamariela Vela, Lima, Perś
>Armstrong, Anne Grantham, Lincs
>Bailey, Carol, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
>Barr, Mary, Solihill, West Midlands
>Barribal, Mrs E.Jane. M. Duns, Berwickshire
>Bell, Sheila (Mrs.) Hawkshaw, Selkirk
>Bettenbury, Julia, London
>Black, Ginny Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire
>Bluhmm, Matthew, Bredwardine, Herefordshire
>Boag, Dr Andrew, Ipswich, Suffolk,
>Boag, Boag, Ipswich, Suffolk
>Bootle, Margaret, Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
>Brennan, Judith c/o Global Green University
>Brough, Rita Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
>Brough, Don Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
>Burgess, Denise Maidstone Kent ME15 8JJ
>Burley, Ann c/o Global Green University
>Burridge, R. North Yorkshire,
>Burton, Belinda, Nottingham, England
>Case, Candace, Leesville, South Carolina, USA
>Cheesman, Jean Bredwardine, Herefordshire
>Clark, Bill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
>Clark-Lowes, Francis, PhD, c/o University of Sussex
>Cook, Tim, Southampton, Hants
>Cottingham, Bob & Betty London
>Coxon, Michele, Meifod, Powys,
>Craig-Daffern, Sophia, Brighton, Sussex
>Craig Daffern, Helen of Brighton, Sussex
>Craig, Sue of Brighton, Sussex
>Crow, Angela, West Yorkshire
>Daffern, Thomas, Dr. GGU, Camlad House, Forden, Powys, Wales SY21 8NZ
>Dafferm Eileen, of Brighton, Sussex
>Dalton, Hannah, Epsom,
>Dickson, Karen, London
>Donoghue, Mary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
>Drew, Ron, Bewcastle, Carlisle, Cumbria
>Drew, Joyce Bewcastle, Carlisle, Cumbria
>Druliner, Jennifer K. Washington DC. USA
>Edwards, Gareth, Far Place Animal Rescue, County Durham,
>Edwards, Jan, National Animals Sanctuaries Alliance, County Durham.
>Eife, Richard Maidstone Kent
>Emeney, Diana, UK
>Emeney, John UK
>Everett, Bryony, London,
>Everett, David, London,
>Falne, Jennifer, c/o Global Green University
>Feather, Christine, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
>Feather, Dominic, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
>Fuller, Leanne, UK citizen
>Ganesan, D.Raja Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Education,
>University of Madras, Madras 600 005, India
>Gass, Sally, London,
>Gaytor, Marcus, UK
>Gillett, David, Hereford, Herefordshire.
>Good, H. Meldreth.
>Goodwin, J.D., London
>Gower, J. c/o Global Green University
>Gralewski, Richard S. Pres. Jelly Roll Enterprises, P O Box 61056, Santa
>Barbara, Ca. 93160, USA
>Gribbin, Eileen, London,
>Hackett, Paul St Neots, Cambridgeshire
>Halford, Carla, Longnor, Shropshire
>Hall, B.M. c/o Global Green University
>Hanstead, Joe, Birmingham
>Harris, Paul and Carol, Welshpool
>Haston, Dorothy, Shrewsbury,
>Hereward, Felicity
>Holmer, Irene, Shipston on Stour,
>Holt Keene, Miss B. London,
>Hughes, Janet, Churchstoke, Powys Wales,
>Hughes, Denise, Victoria, Australia 3134
>Hughes, Gareth, Victoria, Australia 3134
>Hughes, Liz, Victoria, Australia 3134
>Jenkins, Dave, London.
>Jenkins, Sophie, London.
>Jenkins, Tristan, London.
>Jenkins, Penny, London.
>Jevon, Denis, Oswestry, Shropshire,
>Jevon, Nicky, Oswestry, Shropshire,
>Jevon, Denis
>Jeynes, Diana of Coleford, Forest of Dean
>Johnson, Brigette
>Jones, Philip, Birmingham
>Jones, Shiela, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
>Lewis, John Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
>Kearse, Jolene Hamilton, ON Canada
>Keeler, Mr M.J. Capernwray, Lancashire
>Keeler, Mrs J.S. Capernwray, Lancashire
>Kennedy, Michael, Caer Mote,Bothel,Wigton,Carlisle,Cumbria
>Kennedy, Virgina, c/o Positive News,No 5 Bicton Enterprise Centre, Clun,
>Shropshire, SY7 8NF
>Keys, K.M. Kent
>Kirby, Damian Robert, UK
>Kirby, Jason Paul, UK
>Lark, H.G. Welling
>Latham, A.R. Bradford, West Yorkshire
>Lewis, June Forest of dean, Gloucestershire.
>Lowe, Ros, 21 Mulberry Drive, Moseley, Birmingham
>Lusmore, Valerie Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
>Lusmore, Martin, Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
>Lusmore, Rachael Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
>Lusmore, Paul Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
>Lynn, Sherri Prestbury, Pietermaritzburg 3201, South Africa,
>Lyon, Elizabeth, EAstcombe, Gloucestershire,
>Mackey, A., London.
>Mainwaring, Claire, Swansea Wales
>Mainwaring, A., Plymouth,Devon
>McGuill, Mary, c/o Global Green University
>Miles, Sarah., Chithurst, West Sussex (actress)
>Morris, V.A. C/o Global Green University
>Napper, Mary, Sec. Gen, Global Green University, Wem, Shropshire
>Nicholls, Peter, Visiting Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
>Central Campus, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ,
>England. Tel.: +44-1206-872121 (office) +44-1206-873333 (ex. 3015) (Lab)
Fax
>: +44-1206-872592 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
>Brock University, St.
>Catharines, On. L2S 3A1 Canada.
>Owen, Glyn, Laurels Cottage, Churchstoke, Powys Wales
>Owen, Hughes, Matthew Laurels Cottage, Churchstoke, Powys Wales,
>Papworth, Tracey, UK citizen via
>Parry, Mary, UK
>Paxton, George, Glasgow,
>Porter-Dubois, Amy, UK
>Powles, Heather, Shildon, County Durham 01388 777417
>Queen, Dr. Nat M. University of Birmingham,
>Rattray, Jean, Huntly Aberdeenshire
>Rattray, Linda, The Chequers Pub, Gedney Dyke, Holbeach, Lincs,
>Rattray, Simon, The Chequers Pub, Gedney Dyke, Holbeach, Lincs
>Rehse, Karl, Chiswick, London
>Reid, Angela, Queenford Farm, Dorchester on Thames, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10
>7PH
>Reith, Kenneth of Longlease, Bredwardine, Herefordshire
>Ringrose, Kate, Sydenham, London
>Roe, Jeremy - (co-founder of Foot and Mouth Action)
>Ross, Iain and Joyce 27, Locheport, Isle of North Uist. HS6 5EU
>Rubin, Melissa Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 7C5, Canada
>Russell, Elaiene, Hall Green, Birmingham
>Shimell, Pauline c/o Global Green University
>Shumpert, Alex, Leesville, South Carolina, USA
>Simmons-Lackner, Michaela Tavistock, Devon,
>Simpson, Phyllis, London.
>Simpson, Jill, London.
>Sinagola, Janet, Powys,
>Singh, Rama S., Professor of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton,
>Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
>Smith, Lynda, Bedfordshire
>Smith, Wendy Southsea,
>Smith, G. , Near Horsham, West Sussex
>Smout, Graham, Keighley
>Smyth, Adrianne Stevenage,
>Staunton, Anne, Drumcooley, Edenderry, Co Offaly, Ireland
>Staunton, Laurence, Drumcooley, Edenderry, Co Offaly, Ireland
>Staunton, Susan,, Drumblade, Aberdeenshire AB54 6EN
>Staunton, Noel, Aberdeenshire AB54 6EN
>Staviss, Natalya, Shambhala International Development Office, 1084 Tower
>Rd., Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2Y5 Canada,
>Stearman, Carol, UK
>Stevenson, Krystyna, London, England
>Stork, Lucille, London
>Stratton, Bob
>Swann, Andrew, Birmigham
>Swann, Miss Cheltenham, Glocs.
>Taschereau, Linda USA
>Taylor, Reg. Newtown, Powys, Wales
>Ted from Devon,
>Thompson, Lynne Northumberland
>Thompson, Jean, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
>Thompson, Jim Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
>Tomovska, Prof. Jagotka, Professor of Literature, University of Kumanovo,
>Branko Bogdanski 67,
>3100 Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Tel. 00 389 31 411 558
>Turnbull, Dr Alan - independent aerobiologist associated with GGU, Malvern,
>Worcestershire
>Turner, C.S. c/o Global Green University
>Upton, Jill Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
>Van Der Wal, . Lina, Groningen, Holland
>Richardson, Judith, Dartmouth, N.S, Canada
>Walsh, Jan, London
>Ward, Ann Pershore, Worcestershire
>Warne, S. Plymouth, Devon
>Webb, Anna-Marie Worcester, Worcestershire
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>Wheatcroft, Jenny, Letcombe Regis, Berkshire
>Wheatcroft, Angela, Forres, Scotland
>William, Linda, Amersham, Buckingshamshire,
>Williams, Lucy,, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
>Williams, Jonathan, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
>Williams, Jackie, Amari, London
>Windsor, Patricia Anne, UK
>Wood, Mary, Colwyn Bay, Wales,
>Woods, Elizabeth, UK
>Yeoman, S.S. London
>York, Tony, Near Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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>Mike Doughty, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8BJ
>Melanie Jenkins, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8BJ
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>Kathy Doughty, Brechfa, Carmarthen, SA32 7QW
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>Kathy Jones, Clayton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs
>Sarah Marks, Clayton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs
>Beryl Davies,, Carmarthen
>Gareth Davies, Carmarthen
>Patricia Davies Carmarthen
>Jan Evans,, Carmarthen
>B. Davies, Carmarthen
>Blodwyn Hopkins,, Carmarthen
>Haulwen Jones, Llangain, Carmarthen
>Jane Harris, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire
>Scrivener, Denis, Frinton on Sea, Essex
>Scrivener, June, Frinton on Sea, Essex
>Campbell, Alice, Manchester M9 4DT
>Stone, Rowena, Leintwardine, Herefordshire
>Nixon, Lym, Manchester, M9 4DT
>Kelly, David, Cumbria, Staveley
>Cash, Bob of Basiildon, Essex
>Cash, Annie of Basildon Essex
>Gunnel, Chris of Worcester UK
>Campbell, Charmaine of Worcester, UK
>Vincent, Philip of Worcester, UK
>Bowley, Nathan of Worcester, UK
>Prestwood, David of New Jersey, USA
>Stephenson, Philip of Worcester, UK
>Nicholls, Mark of Coventry
>Fenwick, Suzanne of Guildford, Surrey
>White, Claire of Almondsbury, Bristol
>Ball, Gemma of Worcester, UK
>Taylor, Adele of Worcester UK
>Felgate, Mark of University of the West of England, Bristol
>Hodgetts, Worcester College of Technology
>Binns, Helen of Writtle College, Chelmsford
>Rowan, Anabel, Malvern Link
>Kimberley, Sarah
>Kimberley, Mr
>Chase, Vicky of Quebec, Canada
>Chase, Cindy of Quebec, Canada
>Robertson, Alison, Dover
>Walllace, Nathan of British Columbia, Canada
>Timms, Andy, Great Malvern
>Cooper, Rachel of Worcester, UK
>Cooper, Ruth of Worcester, UK
>Sykes, Robin of Worcester, UK
>Sykes, Sue, of Worcester, UK
>Richard Ceen, c/o Global Green University
>Clark, Sylvie, Coney Island, Essex
>His Holiness Satguru Jagjit Singh Jit, leader of the Namdhari Sikh
Community
>and owner of several farms in India (plus by extension therefore the
>approx.100,000 Namdhari Sikhs worldwide who follow his moral lead)
>Hutton, Joan, Longton, Stoke on Trent
>Hoggard, Mary D. Selkirk, Scotland
>Armstrong, Gareth, London
>Surjit Singh, Jeet, Director, South Asia Cultural Heritage Trust, London
>Prof. Shivaji, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Head of Sahitya
>Dept.Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India
>S. Santokh Singh Namdhari, New Delhi, India
>Kiranjet Kaur, Teacher at Partap Singh Academy, Shri Bhaini
Sahhib,Ludhiana,
>Punjab, India
>Davinder Kaur, Teacher at Partap Singh Academy, Shri Bhaini Sahhib,
>Ludhiana, Punjab, India
>Mohinder Singh Ragi, Musican and cattle owner, Shri Bhaini Sahhib,
Ludhiana,
>Punjab, India
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>Mayer, Helen, London
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>Knowles, Mary Montgomery, Wales
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>Webster, Bob, Montgomery, Powys, Wales
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>Gee, Joyce, Churchstoke, Powys, Wales
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>McCall, Natalie, Edinburgh, Scotland
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>Anteski, Ivitska - Macedonia
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>Barnes, Bruce, Bradford, England, UK
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>Bernasor, Joel A. Brother - Philippines
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>Clouts, Dan - London, UK
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>Deal, Ian - UK
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>Freeman lll, Claude C.
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>Hawk - Devon, England, UK
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>Jorda, Ana - Madrid, Spain
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>Montague, Jeannie Rev. - Arkansas, USA
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>Napper, Mary - Wem, UK
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Sir,

We, the undersigned, urge the various ethnic, religious, political and
cultural
groups in Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and throughout
the Islamic and Middle Eastern world, to work together
to find a non violent solution to the current unrest in Palestine and Israel
based on justice and the common love of peace, humanity and God.

We write as lovers of Palestine, the Holy land and Israel, scattered both
throughout the world and inside the countries concerned and believe that
both Israel and Palestine stand for the celebration of cultural and
spiritual richness and unity-in-diversity. At the crossroads of Europe,
Africa and Asia, the Holy Land has seen innumerable religious and spiritual
traditions emerge over the millennia, such as Judaism, Kabbalah,
Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Bahaism. All of them have stressed the
importance of peace, justice and non violence. The region stands to gain so
much from its rich spiritual heritage and from peace through tourism and
sacred pilgramage.

However, two major national traditions in the region are currently
tragically locked in mortal combat based on fear, namely the Israeli and
Palestinian peoples.

1. We support unequivocally the right of the Palestinian peoples to their
own state, recognized under international law, and with its borders
guaranteed by internationally binding treaties. We realise however that
given the tragic history of the persecution of the Israeli people over the
centuries, particularly in Europe, Israeli defenses and defense mechanisms
are so well developed that no amount of violence will ever secure for the
Palestinian people this basic right to statehood.

2. We urge therefore all Palestinians and lovers of Palestine without
exception,
of whatever spiritual faith or community, both inside Palestine and
throughout the
international Diaspora, to adopt a strategy of nonviolence to secure their
own statehood, as the only realistic and practical way of achieving
Palestinian
political goals. We call therefore for a satyagraha (truth-seeking
nonviolence campaign) to secure the establishment of an eventual independent
Palestinian state, and call on all Palestinians and Israeli's alike to
renounce absolutely violence as a political tool. We recognise that all
sides in the conflict have committed tragic errors and blunders and
cruelties: we urge that this must stop henceforth. It is time for healing,
for forgiveness, for reconciliation, for grace.

3. In return for a strategy based on nonviolence and truth force, we urge
the responsible Israeli authorities and Israeli people to return to the
negotiating table in good faith,
to cease from all further settlements in disputed territories, to stop their
own military
campaigns against the Palestinians, and to recognise the independence of
Palestine according to an agreed workable timetable.

4. The exact details of independent statehood for Palestine must be worked
out in detail as time progresses, and once the climate of violence and fear
has subsided. It must of course be economically viable, and in return for
its capital being based in East Jerusalem, we urge that it be officially a
state without an army, like Costa Rica, dedicated to world peace and
nonviolence and wisdom, achieved through nonviolence, which will instead
cultivate spiritual, intellectual and moral authority, and which will
celebrate the rich legacy of all those who have worked for peace and justice
over the millennia.

These 4 points need not been seen as a threat to Israel. True lovers of
Palestine are also equally true lovers of Israel, since true love is
indivisible, and also of the international community as a whole, who stand
to lose so much unless the tragic fighting and conflict in Israel/Palestine
is not ended forthwith.

We appeal therefore to all people of good will throughout the world as well
as in Palestine and Israel, to all international and local cultural figures,
intellectuals, students, teachers, scientists, businessmen, political and
religious leaders etc. in favour of these four urgent policy
recommendations, to sign this petition and add their names to a growing
chorus of peace, to circulate it as widely as possible through all possible
media inside and outside the region. and to send their own name and address
and a letter of support by email or ordinary post to the following address:

Palestinian Nonviolence Statehood Petition, Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, The
Global Green University, School of Nonviolence, Camlad House, Forden, Near
Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 8NZ, United Kingdom, email <iipsgp@...>
Tel. +44 (0)1938 580319. Website: <www.macedonia.co.uk> (peace affairs)



Yours Sincerely,





Abu-Saba Bentley, Mary, Ph. D, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology,
American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon
Adelson, Anne Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
Allison-Kirby, Jenni, UK citizen
Arellano, Vivianamariela Vela, Lima, Perś
Armstrong, Anne Grantham, Lincs
Bailey, Carol, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Barr, Mary, Solihill, West Midlands
Barribal, Mrs E.Jane. M. Duns, Berwickshire
Bell, Sheila (Mrs.) Hawkshaw, Selkirk
Bettenbury, Julia, London
Black, Ginny Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire
Bluhmm, Matthew, Bredwardine, Herefordshire
Boag, Dr Andrew, Ipswich, Suffolk,
Boag, Boag, Ipswich, Suffolk
Bootle, Margaret, Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
Brennan, Judith c/o Global Green University
Brough, Rita Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Brough, Don Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Burgess, Denise Maidstone Kent ME15 8JJ
Burley, Ann c/o Global Green University
Burridge, R. North Yorkshire,
Burton, Belinda, Nottingham, England
Case, Candace, Leesville, South Carolina, USA
Cheesman, Jean Bredwardine, Herefordshire
Clark, Bill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Clark-Lowes, Francis, PhD, c/o University of Sussex
Cook, Tim, Southampton, Hants
Cottingham, Bob & Betty London
Coxon, Michele, Meifod, Powys,
Craig-Daffern, Sophia, Brighton, Sussex
Craig Daffern, Helen of Brighton, Sussex
Craig, Sue of Brighton, Sussex
Crow, Angela, West Yorkshire
Daffern, Thomas, Dr. GGU, Camlad House, Forden, Powys, Wales SY21 8NZ
Dafferm Eileen, of Brighton, Sussex
Dalton, Hannah, Epsom,
Dickson, Karen, London
Donoghue, Mary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Drew, Ron, Bewcastle, Carlisle, Cumbria
Drew, Joyce Bewcastle, Carlisle, Cumbria
Druliner, Jennifer K. Washington DC. USA
Edwards, Gareth, Far Place Animal Rescue, County Durham,
Edwards, Jan, National Animals Sanctuaries Alliance, County Durham.
Eife, Richard Maidstone Kent
Emeney, Diana, UK
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Everett, Bryony, London,
Everett, David, London,
Falne, Jennifer, c/o Global Green University
Feather, Christine, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
Feather, Dominic, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
Fuller, Leanne, UK citizen
Ganesan, D.Raja Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Education,
University of Madras, Madras 600 005, India
Gass, Sally, London,
Gaytor, Marcus, UK
Gillett, David, Hereford, Herefordshire.
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Hackett, Paul St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Halford, Carla, Longnor, Shropshire
Hall, B.M. c/o Global Green University
Hanstead, Joe, Birmingham
Harris, Paul and Carol, Welshpool
Haston, Dorothy, Shrewsbury,
Hereward, Felicity
Holmer, Irene, Shipston on Stour,
Holt Keene, Miss B. London,
Hughes, Janet, Churchstoke, Powys Wales,
Hughes, Denise, Victoria, Australia 3134
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Jenkins, Tristan, London.
Jenkins, Penny, London.
Jevon, Denis, Oswestry, Shropshire,
Jevon, Nicky, Oswestry, Shropshire,
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Jeynes, Diana of Coleford, Forest of Dean
Johnson, Brigette
Jones, Philip, Birmingham
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Lewis, John Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
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Kirby, Damian Robert, UK
Kirby, Jason Paul, UK
Lark, H.G. Welling
Latham, A.R. Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Lowe, Ros, 21 Mulberry Drive, Moseley, Birmingham
Lusmore, Valerie Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
Lusmore, Martin, Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire
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Lynn, Sherri Prestbury, Pietermaritzburg 3201, South Africa,
Lyon, Elizabeth, EAstcombe, Gloucestershire,
Mackey, A., London.
Mainwaring, Claire, Swansea Wales
Mainwaring, A., Plymouth,Devon
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Morris, V.A. C/o Global Green University
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England. Tel.: +44-1206-872121 (office) +44-1206-873333 (ex. 3015) (Lab) Fax
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Papworth, Tracey, UK citizen via
Parry, Mary, UK
Paxton, George, Glasgow,
Porter-Dubois, Amy, UK
Powles, Heather, Shildon, County Durham 01388 777417
Queen, Dr. Nat M. University of Birmingham,
Rattray, Jean, Huntly Aberdeenshire
Rattray, Linda, The Chequers Pub, Gedney Dyke, Holbeach, Lincs,
Rattray, Simon, The Chequers Pub, Gedney Dyke, Holbeach, Lincs
Rehse, Karl, Chiswick, London
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7PH
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Ringrose, Kate, Sydenham, London
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Rubin, Melissa Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 7C5, Canada
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Shimell, Pauline c/o Global Green University
Shumpert, Alex, Leesville, South Carolina, USA
Simmons-Lackner, Michaela Tavistock, Devon,
Simpson, Phyllis, London.
Simpson, Jill, London.
Sinagola, Janet, Powys,
Singh, Rama S., Professor of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
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Stevenson, Krystyna, London, England
Stork, Lucille, London
Stratton, Bob
Swann, Andrew, Birmigham
Swann, Miss Cheltenham, Glocs.
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Taylor, Reg. Newtown, Powys, Wales
Ted from Devon,
Thompson, Lynne Northumberland
Thompson, Jean, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Thompson, Jim Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Tomovska, Prof. Jagotka, Professor of Literature, University of Kumanovo,
Branko Bogdanski 67,
3100 Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Tel. 00 389 31 411 558
Turnbull, Dr Alan - independent aerobiologist associated with GGU, Malvern,
Worcestershire
Turner, C.S. c/o Global Green University
Upton, Jill Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
Van Der Wal, . Lina, Groningen, Holland
Richardson, Judith, Dartmouth, N.S, Canada
Walsh, Jan, London
Ward, Ann Pershore, Worcestershire
Warne, S. Plymouth, Devon
Webb, Anna-Marie Worcester, Worcestershire
Wharton, Dale Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Wheatcroft, Jenny, Letcombe Regis, Berkshire
Wheatcroft, Angela, Forres, Scotland
William, Linda, Amersham, Buckingshamshire,
Williams, Lucy,, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Williams, Jonathan, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Williams, Jackie, Amari, London
Windsor, Patricia Anne, UK
Wood, Mary, Colwyn Bay, Wales,
Woods, Elizabeth, UK
Yeoman, S.S. London
York, Tony, Near Welshpool, Powys, Wales
York, Mary Near Welshpool, Powys, Wales
Mike Doughty, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8BJ
Melanie Jenkins, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8BJ
Chris Doughty, Brechfa, Carmarthen, SA32 7QW
Kathy Doughty, Brechfa, Carmarthen, SA32 7QW
Jane Doughty, Brechfa, Carmarthen, SA32 7QW
Pam Marks, Clayton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs
Kathy Jones, Clayton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs
Sarah Marks, Clayton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs
Beryl Davies,, Carmarthen
Gareth Davies, Carmarthen
Patricia Davies Carmarthen
Jan Evans,, Carmarthen
B. Davies, Carmarthen
Blodwyn Hopkins,, Carmarthen
Haulwen Jones, Llangain, Carmarthen
Jane Harris, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire
Scrivener, Denis, Frinton on Sea, Essex
Scrivener, June, Frinton on Sea, Essex
Campbell, Alice, Manchester M9 4DT
Stone, Rowena, Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Nixon, Lym, Manchester, M9 4DT
Kelly, David, Cumbria, Staveley
Cash, Bob of Basiildon, Essex
Cash, Annie of Basildon Essex
Gunnel, Chris of Worcester UK
Campbell, Charmaine of Worcester, UK
Vincent, Philip of Worcester, UK
Bowley, Nathan of Worcester, UK
Prestwood, David of New Jersey, USA
Stephenson, Philip of Worcester, UK
Nicholls, Mark of Coventry
Fenwick, Suzanne of Guildford, Surrey
White, Claire of Almondsbury, Bristol
Ball, Gemma of Worcester, UK
Taylor, Adele of Worcester UK
Felgate, Mark of University of the West of England, Bristol
Hodgetts, Worcester College of Technology
Binns, Helen of Writtle College, Chelmsford
Rowan, Anabel, Malvern Link
Kimberley, Sarah
Kimberley, Mr
Chase, Vicky of Quebec, Canada
Chase, Cindy of Quebec, Canada
Robertson, Alison, Dover
Walllace, Nathan of British Columbia, Canada
Timms, Andy, Great Malvern
Cooper, Rachel of Worcester, UK
Cooper, Ruth of Worcester, UK
Sykes, Robin of Worcester, UK
Sykes, Sue, of Worcester, UK
Richard Ceen, c/o Global Green University
Clark, Sylvie, Coney Island, Essex
His Holiness Satguru Jagjit Singh Jit, leader of the Namdhari Sikh Community
and owner of several farms in India (plus by extension therefore the
approx.100,000 Namdhari Sikhs worldwide who follow his moral lead)
Hutton, Joan, Longton, Stoke on Trent
Hoggard, Mary D. Selkirk, Scotland
Armstrong, Gareth, London
Surjit Singh, Jeet, Director, South Asia Cultural Heritage Trust, London
Prof. Shivaji, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Head of Sahitya
Dept.Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India
S. Santokh Singh Namdhari, New Delhi, India
Kiranjet Kaur, Teacher at Partap Singh Academy, Shri Bhaini Sahhib,Ludhiana,
Punjab, India
Davinder Kaur, Teacher at Partap Singh Academy, Shri Bhaini Sahhib,
Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Mohinder Singh Ragi, Musican and cattle owner, Shri Bhaini Sahhib, Ludhiana,
Punjab, India

Mayer, Helen, London

Knowles, Mary Montgomery, Wales

Webster, Bob, Montgomery, Powys, Wales

Gee, Joyce, Churchstoke, Powys, Wales

McCall, Natalie, Edinburgh, Scotland

Anteski, Ivitska - Macedonia

Barnes, Bruce, Bradford, England, UK

Bernasor, Joel A. Brother - Philippines

Borchers, Jennifer - New York, USA

Cameron, James (Parsons) - Somerset, UK

Cedar Carrier - California, USA

Chinmoy, Sri - New York, USA

Clouts, Dan - London, UK

Crowe, John - Wales, UK

Deal, Ian - UK

Freeman lll, Claude C.

Gachev, Georgi - Moscow, Russian Federation

Gongloff, Robert - North Carolina, USA

Harris, Carolyn - Oklahoma, USA

Hawk - Devon, England, UK

Jorda, Ana - Madrid, Spain

Kirby, Richard, Dr. - Seattle, Washington, USA

Knight, Anne, Rev. - California / Oklahoma,. USA and Canada

Litzenberg, John (Graybeard Dances), New Orleans, USA

Logue, Madelon Rose - Los Angeles, California, USA

McCannon, Tricia, Rev. - Georgia, USA

Miaajlovich, Irena - Macedonia

Montague, Jeannie Rev. - Arkansas, USA

Mwalewela, Dativa Lucas - Tanzania, Africa

Napper, Mary - Wem, UK

Netkovska, Gordana - Dubai / Macedonia

Parrish, Rev. Carol - Oklahoma, USA

Pavlova, Irena - Macedonia

Petrakis, Emanuel - Athens, Greece

Philippou, Joy - London, UK

Recher, Billie - Arkansas, USA

Rooke, Sarah - Portsmouth, England

Sadler, Roy - Stourbridge, England, UK

Saiyid, Nisa - London, UK

Sashiva, Glastonbury, England

Shapley, Carlo, Dr. - London, UK

Schelleva, Elizabeth, Prof., Macedonia

Simbeye, Rev. Dr. Reward, Africa

Stanescu, Saviana - Rumania

Stokes, Gary James - Somerset, UK

Stringer, David - UK, Cornwall

Tarrant, Desmond

Vojneska, Gordana - Macedonia

Vonhogen, Merelyn, Rev. - Antilles, Caribbean

Vonhogen, Ronald, Rev. - Antilles, Caribbean

Weisbrot, Bhikshuni - New York, USA

White, Kenneth - France

Whiting, Mark - London, UK

Wilkerson, Suzanne, Rev. - Oklahoma, USA

Wilson, Peggy, Rev. - Oklahoma, USA

Neringa Abrutyte, young Lithuanian poet now living in Greece


Toma Binchev,Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian poet , many published collections
for both adults and children


Milan Orlic, Pancevo, Serbia Writer, poet and philosopher


Katarina Jovcevska, President, The Writers Association, Kumanovo, Macedonia,


John F Deane, Dublin, Ireland


Nurit Zonchi, an Israeli poetess and sage, Tel Aviv, Israel


Ozlem Erturk, Istanbul, Turkey.


Andreas Ehin from Rapla, Estonia, poet interested in matters philospohical
and spiritual


Amir Or, an Israeli poet who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Muniam Alfaker, Iraqui poet living in Denmark


Rene Wadlow, editor and publisher of Transnational Perspectives, living in
Geneva, Switzerland,

Jaishankar Hill, Rotondo, Roma, Italia.poet and Yogi, International Yogic
Fellowship

Rowena Stone, Buddhist, mystic, pagan, "believer in the very small vehicle
of ordinary things"

Dr Maharaj Guru Kumari of Tripuri State, poet and Sanskrit scholar

Padmakara, Buddhist monk and poet, Llangollen, Wales.

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

The email address of Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert is not as we wrote earlier but
should be

eolmert@...

Gush Shalom Infoteam (Beate)



On 23 May 2001, at 16:19, Thomas Daffern <CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


To:              <CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com>
From:            "Thomas Daffern" <iipsgp@...>
Date sent:       Wed, 23 May 2001 16:19:13 +0100
Send reply to:   CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com
Subject:         Re: [CPIdiscussion] Action  Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed
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dear friends

here is a letter petiion we have organised - please sign and forward also to as
many peace education contacts as you have

many thanks

thomas




Sir,

We, the undersigned, urge the various leaders of ethnic, religious,
political and cultural groups in Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and
Jordan and throughout the Islamic and Middle Eastern world, to work together to
find a non violent solution to the current unrest in Palestine and Israel based
on justice and the common love of peace, humanity and God.

We write as lovers of Palestine, the Holy land and Israel, scattered both
throughout the world and inside the countries concerned and believe that
both Israel and Palestine stand for the celebration of cultural and
spiritual richness and unity-in-diversity. At the crossroads of Europe,
Africa and Asia, the Holy Land has seen innumerable religious and spiritual
traditions emerge over the millennia, such as Judaism, Kabbalah, Christianity,
Islam, Sufism, Bahaism. All of them have stressed the importance of peace,
justice and non violence. The region stands to gain so much from its rich
spiritual heritage and from peace through tourism and sacred pilgramage.

However, two major national traditions in the region are currently
tragically locked in mortal combat based on fear, namely the Israeli and
Palestinian peoples.

1. We support unequivocally the right of the Palestinian peoples to their
own state, recognized under international law, and with its borders
guaranteed by internationally binding treaties. We realise however that
given the tragic history of the persecution of the Israeli people over the
centuries, particularly in Europe, Israeli defenses and defense mechanisms
are so well developed that no amount of violence will ever secure for the
Palestinian people this basic right to statehood.

2. We call therefore on all Palestinians without exception, of whatever
spiritual faith or community, both inside Palestine and throughout the
international Diaspora, to adopt a strategy of nonviolence to secure their
own statehood, as the only realistic and practical way of achieving their
own political goals. We call therefore for a satyagraha (truth-seeking
nonviolence campaign) to secure the establishment of an eventual independent
Palestinian state, and call on all Palestinians and Israeli's alike to renounce
absolutely violence as a political tool. We recognise that all sides in the
conflict have committed tragic errors and blunders and cruelties: we urge that
this must stop henceforth. It is time for healing, for forgiveness, for
reconciliation, for grace.

3. In return for a strategy based on nonviolence and truth force, we urge
the responsible Israeli authorities to return to the negotiating table, to
stop their own military campaigns against the Palestinians, and to recognise the
independence of Palestine according to an agreed workable timetable.

4. The exact details of independent statehood for Palestine will be worked
out in detail as time progresses, and once the climate of violence and fear has
subsided. It must of course be economically viable, and in return for its
capital being based in East Jerusalem, we urge that it be officially a state
without an army, like Costa Rica, dedicated to world peace and nonviolence and
wisdom, achieved through nonviolence, which will instead cultivate spiritual,
intellectual and moral authority, and which will celebrate the rich legacy of
all those who have worked for peace and justice over the millennia.

These 4 points need not been seen as a threat to Israel. True lovers of
Palestine are also equally true lovers of Israel, since true love is
indivisible, and also of the international community as a whole, who stand
to lose so much unless the tragic fighting and conflict in Israel/Palestine is
not ended forthwith.

We appeal therefore to all people of good will throughout the world as well as
in Palestine and Israel, to all international and local cultural figures,
intellectuals, students, teachers, scientists, businessmen, political and
religious leaders etc. in favour of these four urgent policy recommendations, to
sign this petition and add their names to a growing chorus of peace, to
circulate it as widely as possible through all possible media inside and outside
the region. and to send their own name and address and a letter of support by
email or ordinary post to the following address:

Palestinian Nonviolence Statehood Petition, Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, The
Global Green University, School of Nonviolence, Camlad House, Forden, Near
Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 8NZ, United Kingdom, email <iipsgp@...> Tel.
+44 (0)1938 580319. Website: <www.macedonia.co.uk> (peace affairs)



Yours Sincerely,










----- Original Message -----
From: <otherisr@...>
To: <alef@...>; <CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com>;
<peace@...>; <tikkun@yahoogroups.com>;
<JewishVoiceforPeace@...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: [CPIdiscussion] Action Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed in
Jerusalem


> GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/
>
> Action  Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed in Jerusalem
>
> Tel-Aviv, May 22, 2001
>
> This morning, bulldozers of the Jerusalem municipality destroyed two
> Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem. According to City Councillor Meir
> Margalit of the Meretz Party who is a long-time campaigner against house
> demolitions, this is the prelude for a massive wave of house demolitions
> planned for next week by the Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.
>
> These so-called "acts of law enforcement" by police and municipal
inspectors
> are, in fact, no less an act of war than the simultaneous bombing raids by
> tanks, helicopter gunships and most recntly, F-16 fighter planes. True,
the
> destroyed homes were built without a permit - for the simple reason that
the
> Jerusalem municipality and the government of Israel already for 34 years
don't
> provide housing and systematically deny permits to Palestinian residents
to
> build on their own land, while actively providing inducements and
subsidies to
> housing projects in the same East Jerusalem intended for the habitation of
> Jewish Israelis. It is a long-standing problem, as old as Israeli rule in East
> Jerusalem.
But
> the fact that house demolitions in Jersualem are renewed precisely at the
> moment, after a prolonged  respite, is  clearly part of the general escalation
> and the offensive against the Palestinians carried out daily on a multitude of
> fronts.
>
> The political and ideological reasoning behind the massive police
protection
> granted to Olmert's demolition crews was laid out quite frankly by Eliyahu
> Swissa, Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, in a speech made to a gathering of
> nationalist-religious settlers at a settlement enclave on East Jerusalem's
> Mount of Olives: "Our ancestors predicted that in the End of Days
Jerusalem
> will expand up to the gates of Damascus. It is up to us to help the
prophecy,
> expand Jerusalem in all directions and especially eastwards. Meanwhile,
there
> are thousands of illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem. This is a serious
problem.
> We in the government will provide the mayor with every assistance in
dealing
> with this threat."
>
> Meanwhile, Mayor Ehud Olmert is keen on maintaining collegial relations
with
> mayors and city councils all over the world, exchanging friendly greetings
and
> "good-will delegations" and trying to build up a reputation as a
"comptent,
> hard-working mayor".
> Therefore,  we ask you this time not only to once more write yourself but
where
> possible also to approach municipal leaders in your own community. Protest
> messages from town councillors and mayors, past or present,  identifying
as
> such and reminding Olmert that there are certain basic rules of behaviour
in
> this professional forum, could well have effect on the mayor of Jerusalem.
>
> Messages to  Mayor Ehud Olmert can be sent by fax (preferably):
+972-2-6296014
> / 6296004 or email: eolmert@...;
>
> Please send copies to:
>
> Adam Keller <info@...>
> Meir Margalit <mrmeir@...>
> Jeff Halper <icahd@...>
>
> You can use the following text or make your own.
>
> To
> Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem
>
> Dear Sir
>
> In these days of great concern for the hostilities in your region it was
> another shock to hear of  the Jerusalem municipality's demolition of two
> Palestinian homes, May 22. Many Palestinian houses being  illegal in East
> Jerusalem as in other areas occupied in 1967 is  the predictable outcome
of a
> decades-long policy of not providing  proper housing to the Palestinian
> population under your authority while also denying the inhabitants permits
to
> build for themselves. I call upon you to refrain from any further
destruction
> of Palestinian houses, and specifically to drop the plans for further
> demolitions next week.
> Such destruction, questionable under all circumstances, would be an act of
> outright irresponsibility at a time of escalating violence and mounting
tension
> between Israelis and Palestinians, whose mayor you claim to be.
>
> =================================================================
>          Sign the "Our Jerusalem, Capital of Two States" petition
>             full text in Hebrew, Arabic and English at
>                http://www.gush-shalom.org/jerusalem
>
> Sign also the petition to implore the President of the United
> States to withhold moving the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/LVLKY325/petition.html
>
> If you want to support our activities you can send a check (or cash,
> wrapped well in an extra piece of paper) to: Gush Shalom pob 3322,
> Tel-Aviv 61033, Israel In order to make from abroad a tax-deductible
> donation you must do it via a recognized charity organization in your
> country. NB: designate it for Gush Shalom, Israel!
>
> The following charities enable you to donate to Gush Shalom:
> - New Israel Fund (US and UK - see http://www.nif.org/giving/index.html); -
> SIVMO (The Netherlands - see http://www.xs4all.nl/~sivmo/)
>
> (PLEASE MAIL THAT YOU DID IT TO:
> info@... - and also inform us of fitting charities in your
country
> not appearing here).
>
> If you do (not) want our action alerts and updates (un)subscribe to:
> <info@...>
> =================================================================
>
>
>
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dear friends

here is a letter petiion we have organised - please sign and forward also to
as many peace education contacts as you have

many thanks

thomas




Sir,

We, the undersigned, urge the various leaders of ethnic, religious,
political and cultural groups in Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and
Jordan and throughout the Islamic and Middle Eastern world, to work together
to find a non violent solution to the current unrest in Palestine and Israel
based on justice and the common love of peace, humanity and God.

We write as lovers of Palestine, the Holy land and Israel, scattered both
throughout the world and inside the countries concerned and believe that
both Israel and Palestine stand for the celebration of cultural and
spiritual richness and unity-in-diversity. At the crossroads of Europe,
Africa and Asia, the Holy Land has seen innumerable religious and spiritual
traditions emerge over the millennia, such as Judaism, Kabbalah,
Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Bahaism. All of them have stressed the
importance of peace, justice and non violence. The region stands to gain so
much from its rich spiritual heritage and from peace through tourism and
sacred pilgramage.

However, two major national traditions in the region are currently
tragically locked in mortal combat based on fear, namely the Israeli and
Palestinian peoples.

1. We support unequivocally the right of the Palestinian peoples to their
own state, recognized under international law, and with its borders
guaranteed by internationally binding treaties. We realise however that
given the tragic history of the persecution of the Israeli people over the
centuries, particularly in Europe, Israeli defenses and defense mechanisms
are so well developed that no amount of violence will ever secure for the
Palestinian people this basic right to statehood.

2. We call therefore on all Palestinians without exception, of whatever
spiritual faith or community, both inside Palestine and throughout the
international Diaspora, to adopt a strategy of nonviolence to secure their
own statehood, as the only realistic and practical way of achieving their
own political goals. We call therefore for a satyagraha (truth-seeking
nonviolence campaign) to secure the establishment of an eventual independent
Palestinian state, and call on all Palestinians and Israeli's alike to
renounce absolutely violence as a political tool. We recognise that all
sides in the conflict have committed tragic errors and blunders and
cruelties: we urge that this must stop henceforth. It is time for healing,
for forgiveness, for reconciliation, for grace.

3. In return for a strategy based on nonviolence and truth force, we urge
the responsible Israeli authorities to return to the negotiating table, to
stop their own military campaigns against the Palestinians, and to recognise
the independence of Palestine according to an agreed workable timetable.

4. The exact details of independent statehood for Palestine will be worked
out in detail as time progresses, and once the climate of violence and fear
has subsided. It must of course be economically viable, and in return for
its capital being based in East Jerusalem, we urge that it be officially a
state without an army, like Costa Rica, dedicated to world peace and
nonviolence and wisdom, achieved through nonviolence, which will instead
cultivate spiritual, intellectual and moral authority, and which will
celebrate the rich legacy of all those who have worked for peace and justice
over the millennia.

These 4 points need not been seen as a threat to Israel. True lovers of
Palestine are also equally true lovers of Israel, since true love is
indivisible, and also of the international community as a whole, who stand
to lose so much unless the tragic fighting and conflict in Israel/Palestine
is not ended forthwith.

We appeal therefore to all people of good will throughout the world as well
as in Palestine and Israel, to all international and local cultural figures,
intellectuals, students, teachers, scientists, businessmen, political and
religious leaders etc. in favour of these four urgent policy
recommendations, to sign this petition and add their names to a growing
chorus of peace, to circulate it as widely as possible through all possible
media inside and outside the region. and to send their own name and address
and a letter of support by email or ordinary post to the following address:

Palestinian Nonviolence Statehood Petition, Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, The
Global Green University, School of Nonviolence, Camlad House, Forden, Near
Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 8NZ, United Kingdom, email <iipsgp@...>
Tel. +44 (0)1938 580319. Website: <www.macedonia.co.uk> (peace affairs)



Yours Sincerely,










----- Original Message -----
From: <otherisr@...>
To: <alef@...>; <CPIdiscussion@yahoogroups.com>;
<peace@...>; <tikkun@yahoogroups.com>;
<JewishVoiceforPeace@...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: [CPIdiscussion] Action Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed in
Jerusalem


> GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/
>
> Action  Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed in Jerusalem
>
> Tel-Aviv, May 22, 2001
>
> This morning, bulldozers of the Jerusalem municipality destroyed two
> Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem. According to City Councillor Meir
> Margalit of the Meretz Party who is a long-time campaigner against house
> demolitions, this is the prelude for a massive wave of house demolitions
> planned for next week by the Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.
>
> These so-called "acts of law enforcement" by police and municipal
inspectors
> are, in fact, no less an act of war than the simultaneous bombing raids by
> tanks, helicopter gunships and most recntly, F-16 fighter planes. True,
the
> destroyed homes were built without a permit - for the simple reason that
the
> Jerusalem municipality and the government of Israel already for 34 years
don't
> provide housing and systematically deny permits to Palestinian residents
to
> build on their own land, while actively providing inducements and
subsidies to
> housing projects in the same East Jerusalem intended for the habitation of
> Jewish Israelis.
> It is a long-standing problem, as old as Israeli rule in East Jerusalem.
But
> the fact that house demolitions in Jersualem are renewed precisely at the
> moment, after a prolonged  respite, is  clearly part of the general
> escalation and the offensive against the Palestinians carried out daily on
> a multitude of fronts.
>
> The political and ideological reasoning behind the massive police
protection
> granted to Olmert's demolition crews was laid out quite frankly by Eliyahu
> Swissa, Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, in a speech made to a gathering of
> nationalist-religious settlers at a settlement enclave on East Jerusalem's
> Mount of Olives: "Our ancestors predicted that in the End of Days
Jerusalem
> will expand up to the gates of Damascus. It is up to us to help the
prophecy,
> expand Jerusalem in all directions and especially eastwards. Meanwhile,
there
> are thousands of illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem. This is a serious
problem.
> We in the government will provide the mayor with every assistance in
dealing
> with this threat."
>
> Meanwhile, Mayor Ehud Olmert is keen on maintaining collegial relations
with
> mayors and city councils all over the world, exchanging friendly greetings
and
> "good-will delegations" and trying to build up a reputation as a
"comptent,
> hard-working mayor".
> Therefore,  we ask you this time not only to once more write yourself but
where
> possible also to approach municipal leaders in your own community. Protest
> messages from town councillors and mayors, past or present,  identifying
as
> such and reminding Olmert that there are certain basic rules of behaviour
in
> this professional forum, could well have effect on the mayor of Jerusalem.
>
> Messages to  Mayor Ehud Olmert can be sent by fax (preferably):
+972-2-6296014
> / 6296004 or email: eolmert@...;
>
> Please send copies to:
>
> Adam Keller <info@...>
> Meir Margalit <mrmeir@...>
> Jeff Halper <icahd@...>
>
> You can use the following text or make your own.
>
> To
> Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem
>
> Dear Sir
>
> In these days of great concern for the hostilities in your region it was
> another shock to hear of  the Jerusalem municipality's demolition of two
> Palestinian homes, May 22. Many Palestinian houses being  illegal in East
> Jerusalem as in other areas occupied in 1967 is  the predictable outcome
of a
> decades-long policy of not providing  proper housing to the Palestinian
> population under your authority while also denying the inhabitants permits
to
> build for themselves. I call upon you to refrain from any further
destruction
> of Palestinian houses, and specifically to drop the plans for further
> demolitions next week.
> Such destruction, questionable under all circumstances, would be an act of
> outright irresponsibility at a time of escalating violence and mounting
tension
> between Israelis and Palestinians, whose mayor you claim to be.
>
> =================================================================
>          Sign the "Our Jerusalem, Capital of Two States" petition
>             full text in Hebrew, Arabic and English at
>                http://www.gush-shalom.org/jerusalem
>
> Sign also the petition to implore the President of the United
> States to withhold moving the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/LVLKY325/petition.html
>
> If you want to support our activities you can send a check (or cash,
> wrapped well in an extra piece of paper) to: Gush Shalom pob 3322,
> Tel-Aviv 61033, Israel In order to make from abroad a tax-deductible
> donation you must do it via a recognized charity organization in your
> country. NB: designate it for Gush Shalom, Israel!
>
> The following charities enable you to donate to Gush Shalom:
> - New Israel Fund (US and UK - see http://www.nif.org/giving/index.html);
> - SIVMO (The Netherlands - see http://www.xs4all.nl/~sivmo/)
>
> (PLEASE MAIL THAT YOU DID IT TO:
> info@... - and also inform us of fitting charities in your
country
> not appearing here).
>
> If you do (not) want our action alerts and updates (un)subscribe to:
> <info@...>
> =================================================================
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> CPIdiscussion-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>
>

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

Action  Alert: Palestinian Homes Destroyed in Jerusalem

Tel-Aviv, May 22, 2001

This morning, bulldozers of the Jerusalem municipality destroyed two
Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem. According to City Councillor Meir
Margalit of the Meretz Party who is a long-time campaigner against house
demolitions, this is the prelude for a massive wave of house demolitions
planned for next week by the Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.

These so-called “acts of law enforcement” by police and municipal inspectors
are, in fact, no less an act of war than the simultaneous bombing raids by
tanks, helicopter gunships and most recntly, F-16 fighter planes. True, the
destroyed homes were built without a permit - for the simple reason that the
Jerusalem municipality and the government of Israel already for 34 years don't
provide housing and systematically deny permits to Palestinian residents to
build on their own land, while actively providing inducements and subsidies to
housing projects in the same East Jerusalem intended for the habitation of
Jewish Israelis.
It is a long-standing problem, as old as Israeli rule in East Jerusalem. But
the fact that house demolitions in Jersualem are renewed precisely at the
moment, after a prolonged  respite, is  clearly part of the general
escalation and the offensive against the Palestinians carried out daily on
a multitude of fronts.

The political and ideological reasoning behind the massive police protection
granted to Olmert’s demolition crews was laid out quite frankly by Eliyahu
Swissa, Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, in a speech made to a gathering of
nationalist-religious settlers at a settlement enclave on East Jerusalem’s
Mount of Olives: “Our ancestors predicted that in the End of Days Jerusalem
will expand up to the gates of Damascus. It is up to us to help the prophecy,
expand Jerusalem in all directions and especially eastwards. Meanwhile, there
are thousands of illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem. This is a serious problem.
We in the government will provide the mayor with every assistance in dealing
with this threat.”

Meanwhile, Mayor Ehud Olmert is keen on maintaining collegial relations with
mayors and city councils all over the world, exchanging friendly greetings and
“good-will delegations” and trying to build up a reputation as a “comptent,
hard-working mayor”.
Therefore,  we ask you this time not only to once more write yourself but where
possible also to approach municipal leaders in your own community. Protest
messages from town councillors and mayors, past or present,  identifying as
such and reminding Olmert that there are certain basic rules of behaviour in
this professional forum, could well have effect on the mayor of Jerusalem.

Messages to  Mayor Ehud Olmert can be sent by fax (preferably): +972-2-6296014
/ 6296004 or email: eolmert@...;

Please send copies to:

Adam Keller <info@...>
Meir Margalit <mrmeir@...>
Jeff Halper <icahd@...>

You can use the following text or make your own.

To
Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem

Dear Sir

In these days of great concern for the hostilities in your region it was
another shock to hear of  the Jerusalem municipality's demolition of two
Palestinian homes, May 22. Many Palestinian houses being  illegal in East
Jerusalem as in other areas occupied in 1967 is  the predictable outcome  of a
decades-long policy of not providing  proper housing to the Palestinian
population under your authority while also denying the inhabitants permits  to
build for themselves. I call upon you to refrain from any further destruction
of Palestinian houses, and specifically to drop the plans for further
demolitions next week.
Such destruction, questionable under all circumstances, would be an act of
outright irresponsibility at a time of escalating violence and mounting tension
between Israelis and Palestinians, whose mayor you claim to be.

=================================================================
          Sign the "Our Jerusalem, Capital of Two States" petition
             full text in Hebrew, Arabic and English at
                http://www.gush-shalom.org/jerusalem

Sign also the petition to implore the President of the United
States to withhold moving the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem:
http://www.petitiononline.com/LVLKY325/petition.html

If you want to support our activities you can send a check (or cash,
wrapped well in an extra piece of paper) to: Gush Shalom pob 3322,
Tel-Aviv 61033, Israel In order to make from abroad a tax-deductible
donation you must do it via a recognized charity organization in your
country. NB: designate it for Gush Shalom, Israel!

The following charities enable you to donate to Gush Shalom:
- New Israel Fund (US and UK - see http://www.nif.org/giving/index.html);
- SIVMO (The Netherlands - see http://www.xs4all.nl/~sivmo/)

(PLEASE MAIL THAT YOU DID IT TO:
info@... - and also inform us of fitting charities in your country
not appearing here).

If you do (not) want our action alerts and updates (un)subscribe to:
<info@...>
=================================================================

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

Press Release: 21/5/2001

=====================================================
Joint Israeli-Palestinian Press Conference in Jerusalem: joint statement
=====================================================

Gush Shalom, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue
and Democracy- MIFTAH, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and LAW
held a joint Palestinian-Israeli press conference on Monday, May 21st, 2001, at
10:00 at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem.

This press conference was held at the wake of Israel's attack on targets
in the heavily populated cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem, and Gaza on
Friday May 18th, 2001, using US-supplied F16 fighter aircrafts.

Following is the joint statement issued at the conference:

A JUST PEACE: THE ONLY WAY OUT
A JOINT PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Israel's use on Friday of F-16 warplanes for the first time since the 1967
War against targets in the heavily populated cities of Ramallah, Nablus,
Tulkarem, and Gaza signals a dangerous escalation of the conflict to which
the world cannot be indifferent. Israel's massive attacks on Friday and
Saturday represent a concerted attempt to break Palestinian resistance to
an unjust and imposed "peace," to use its powerful military arsenal to
browbeat the Palestinians into submission, and specifically to cause the
collapse of the Palestinian Authority. Behind the rhetoric of
self-defense, of blaming the Palestinians for the violence, lies an
absolute refusal to abandon its occupation, and in particular its steadily
expanding settlements. While we deplore the loss of innocent life in the
attack on the Netanya shopping center, an act immediately condemned by the
Palestinian Authority as well, this is no way justifies the Israel
government's attempt to cast its military campaign against the Palestinian
people as mere "reaction." There is no symmetry here, no proportional or
sensible link. The Israeli government presents its actions as
"self-defense," as though there were no occupation.

Seven months of attacks with Apache helicopters, tanks, missiles and
troops culminated (but did not end) in Friday's attacks on Palestinian
cities with US-supplied F-16 warplanes. Add to this the destruction of
hundreds of homes over the past seven months, the uprooting of thousands
of fruit trees and the clearing of hundreds of acres of farm land, the
wholesale attacks on the Palestinian infrastructure and the killing of
more than 500 civilians, many of them children, and the claim of mere
"reaction" collapses. So, too, does the illusion of symmetry.

Israeli policy, initiated by Ehud Barak and escalated by Ariel Sharon,
highlights the futility of trying to impose an inadequate solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict by force. There is only one way out: through
a just peace based on an end to the Israeli Occupation, the emergence of a
viable and truly sovereign Palestinian state and the resolution of the
refugee issue in accordance with UN Resolution 194. Despite the current
polarization of our peoples, we believe that the overwhelming majorities
in both our societies desire a genuine peace.

We, representatives of Palestinian and Israeli human rights and peace
organizations, call on the international community:

·         To end the Israeli government's escalation of military force
against the Palestinian people, to lift the multiple siege on Palestinian
towns and villages, to put an end to Israel's policy of political
assassinations, extra judicial killings and abduction of targeted
Palestinian political figures and activists, to stop the destruction of
human lives, to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and to stop the
uprooting of trees and confiscation of land.

·         To take immediate and concrete steps in providing international
protection to the Palestinian people;

·         To oppose Israeli attempts to strengthen its Occupation,
including settlement activities, as called for by the Egyptian-Jordanian
initiative and the Mitchell Commission;

·         To hold Israel accountable according to the principles of
international humanitarian law and UN Resolutions; and

·         To ensure that any peace settlement be based on a complete
Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, including east
Jerusalem, and conformity with United Nations Resolutions 242, 338 and
194, and the 'land-for-peace' equation, formally adopted in Washington DC
in 1993.

Only a just peace will free both our peoples from the tragic loss of life
this weekend has brought us.

[signed]
Palestinian & Israeli organizations

Hanan Ashrawi, MIFTAH
Uri Avneri, Gush Shalom
Khader Sheqirat, LAW
Leah Tsemel, Attorney
Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions


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Press Release 18.5.2001- Tel-Aviv

TO STOP THE BLOODSHED WE MUST END THE OCCUPATION

The disgusting and terrible cycle of bloodshed, the endless sequence of
retaliation upon retaliation  and revenge upon revenge, cannot be ended
without ending the occupation - says Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, in a
press release sent simultaneously to the Israeli, the Palestinian and the
international press.

Today the inhabitants of Netanya are paying the price of ongoing occupation,
the price of maintaining and extending settlments in occupied territory, a
heavy and painful price.

In the elections, just a few months ago, Ariel Sharon promised his voters to
make peace. A peace by force, peace of occupation, peace with settlements
and without concessions. It did not take long for this promise to become
exposed as fraud. Quite evidently, Sharon and his cabinet have no
real solutions to offer, nothing but the ever-mounting use of force which
characterized Ariel Sharon's entire military and political career since the
1950's, and which already had disastrous consequences in the past.

Following this morning's horrendous suicide bombing, in which six Israeli
civilians got  killed, Sharon with his Laborite allies Peres and Ben-Eliezer
resorted to a not less horrendous state exhibition of brute force - the first-
ever use of Israeli Air Force fighter planes (American-made F-16) against
Palestinian cities.

The F-16 is an enormously powerful weapon, especially in comparison with the
Palestinians' puny arsenal - but with little accuracy. As the military
commentator on the Israeli TV (Channel-I) remarked tonight, most of the twelve
Palestinians so far known to have been killed tonight were simple low-paid
prison guards at the Nablus prison, which was heavily bombed. That bombing was
apparently ordered with the aim of killing a Hamas leader reportedly
incarcerated in that prison, which the inaccurate overkill failed to achieve
and which is in any case a highly questionable approach (to say the least).

There is no reason whatsoever to assume that use of such methods would in any
way prevent further suicide attacks. On the contrary, historical precedent -
Israel's own and that of other countries - as well a simple common sense would
suggest that it can only lead to further inflammation of an already highly-
charged atmosphere.

Had the Sharon-Peres Government seriously desired to put an end to violence
and break the cycle of bloodshed, an excellent diplomatic means was at hand in
the past weeks - the Mitchell Report, the result of months of intensive work
by a  respectable international panel headed by a well-known former US
senator. The Mitchell recommendations would require the Palestinian
Authority to declare and effectively enforce a cease fire, while the Government
of Israel would accept and implement a reciprocal obligation to put a complete
halt to the extention of settlements in the Occupied Territories. The
Palestinians expressed complete agreement to the deal; Sharon and his fellows
are opposed.

The linkage between cessation of violence and cessation of settlement is an
obvious and indispensable one. Settlement creation and extention is itself an
extremely violent process, involving military bureaucrats arbitarily declaring
a certain parcel of Palestinian land to be "state land";  large military forces
enforcing the decree, fencing off the land and excluding the former owners;
and finally a group of settlers, composed of Jews only, coming to take up
possession and set up an armed  community in the enclave behind the barbed
wires. In some places this process is accompanied by protests of the
dispossessed, put down by force; in other places, the anger and frustration
generated burst out in other, seemingly unconnected places.

There can be no "end to violence" while such settlement practices continue; the
fact that Oslo  contained no provision to stop them was a major reason why - in
spite of high expectations - the process deteriorated into the present gloomy
situation. However, for Sharon to agree to a total settlement freeze seems out
of the question. He was, more than any other Israeli politician, intimately
involved over decades in the creation and extention of settlements. The
settlers are the core of his political power base. Therefore, Sharon sent
Peres, to try and water down the Mitchell Report, and get settlement extention
legitimized under the old guise of "natural growth" (it had served to double
the settler population from 100,000 to 200,000 in just seven years, 1993-2000,
which is a phenomenal  "natural growth" indeed).

The escalation which the last week, and especially the last twenty-four hours
produced may have finally derailed the entire diplomatic initiative centered on
the Mitchell Report. And in any case, there is little reason to assume the
Sharon-Peres Government is willing or able to take the steps needed  for a
cease-fire - much less for a lasting peace. Eventually this government's lack
of any solution to cardinal problems will lead to its collapse. But for the
time being, Israelis and more so Palestinians pay with their lives.

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Your are absolutely correct to point out the genetic links that cross
all boundaries. In fact, I would consider dividing the world, (if I ever
felt the driving need to do so, which I don't) according to ear wax.
Crumbly vs waxy.

Biological explanations of race are so easily dispelled, its a wonder
that University's are still funding research into the question. However,
doing away with the biological explanations does not end the race
question because it is a socially constructed concept that is believed.
And how do we know that this mere construction is meaningful? Because
the consequences are real.

Shifting the gaze away from race (as my professor George Dei often put
it) will not change the 'meanings' associated with race. What I learned
in my grad. class on anti-racism education this year, is that we need to
keep the gaze on race and disassociate it from its traditional negative
connotations. Another point that I found quite enlightening is that
claims of racism need to come from the point of view of the victim.
Imposing one set of knowledge on another (i.e. claiming that the
'others' knowledge is based on myths) will not lead to conflict
transformation. It never has and when it is attempted, the results are
never long lasting. As peace builders, we need to recognise and create
space for divergent views. That is not to say that all views are equally
and morally valid, it simply means that our starting point must be more
inclusive. To do this, we need to become better listeners and work with
existing beliefs. In conflict, all sides have a vision of social justice
that they are working towards...thats what makes conflict so ironic.

Melissa

Yes you help us tpo get rid of 'race' beliefs by pointing out the common
origins of jewish and Palestinian settlers, Serbs and Muslems in Bosnia etc.
This helps to dispel the false histories that have been written to build up
myths of so-called race differences.

But we need to show people that the history a bit further back negates the
idea of race altogether.   For example, if you read Steve Jones' book 'In
the Blood' you find a renouned geneticist showing that most Europeans are
genetically descended from Abraham.   The best evidence is that the entire
world population is veru closely related genetically and derives from one
small groups emerging from Africa, extending primarily along the sea coast
eastward into Asia. including Australia, then the Asia population spreading
westward again across Europe and across the Bering strait down through the
Americas.   Europeans are about one-third Afican and one-third Asian
genetically.

Of course people can easily identify typical Asians, Africans, Europeans etc
by appearance to race descriptions seem so obvious how can they be wrong?
The answer is that these differences are due to a very small number of genes
and have no signifcance apart from minor adaptation to climate - there are
far more gene differnces that are not visible such as the well-known blood
groups.   Blood groups also reflect ancient historical movements of people
and would be just as meaningful or meaningless and such things as skin
colour - so try dividing the worl population into the A blood group race, B
blood Group race and O blodd groups race for example.   Then significand
proportions of Europeans and Africans would be included with some Asians and
other Asians would be included with Europeans or Africans etc.   You can
divide people into so-called races on hundreds, perhaps thousands of trivial
gene differences reflecting a huge degree of mixing and movement in past
history.

And the 'chosen people'  what a myth and so typical or every group that ever
was.   Let us try to help jewish and Palestinian people to understand their
common genetic origins so that the common humanity can shine out.   What
have they to lose except for delusions?   The white South Africans thought
their supremacy would make them rich and powerful but in fact it entrapped
them in a violent unwinnable confrontation.  When freed of the delusion
those with humanity found relief in being able to share a common equality
with those they had oppressed and feared.

Thanks for your interesting e-mail and attached article - Morris Bradley

The debate about racism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as in
the last discussions in this listserve, has a paradox in it.  The
history of the region, or at least a history of the region, argues
that the present peoples classified as Palestinians are historically
Jews who converted to Islam.  I have pasted in below a history of
racism prepared by Israel Shamir last month.

The Bosnian civil war had a similar paradoxical racism.  The Serbs
conceived that the Islamic population of Bosnia were the descendents
of settlers planted there by the Ottoman Empire.  However, history
has argued that those Bosnia Moslems were local people, mostly Serbs,
who had converted because there was a tax advantage and because Islam
was seen as a cosmopolitan religion.  See this website for some
history: http://www.conknet.com/~t_osgood/bosnia.html

Thus in some ways, the war in Bosnia and the war in Israel-Palestine
may be civil wars fought between peoples who are racially identical
but who's different religions lead them to conceive themselves to be
different classes of humans.

-----cut here for Shamir's history of racism--------

Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Subject: Mamilla Pool - Israel Shamir

April 2001

Mamilla Pool

There is nothing more dangerous than the feeling of self-
righteousness and perpetual victimhood reinforced by a one-
sided historical narrative.

By Israel Shamir

Things move really fast nowadays. Just yesterday we hardly
dared to call the Israeli policy of official discrimination against
Palestinians by the harsh word 'apartheid'. Today, as Sharon's
tanks and missiles pound defenceless cities and villages, the word
barely suffices. It has become an unjustified insult to the white
supremacists of South Africa. They, after all, did not use gunships
and tanks against the natives, they did not lay siege to Soweto.
They did not deny the humanity of their kaffirs. The Jewish
supremacists made it one better. They have returned us, as if by
magic wand, to the world of Joshua and Saul.
As the search for the right word continues, the courageous
Robert Fisk proposes calling the events in Palestine a 'civil war'. If
this is civil war, the slaughter of a lamb is a bullfight. The
disparity
of forces is too just too large. No, Virginia, it is not 'civil war',
it is
creeping genocide.
This is the point in our saga, where the good Jewish guy is
supposed to take out his hanky and exclaim: "how could we, eternal
victims of persecutions, commit such crimes!" Well, do not hold
your breath waiting for this line. It happened before and it can
happen again.
Jews are not more bloodthirsty than the rest of mankind. But the
mad idea of being the Chosen ones, the idea of supremacy,
whether of race or religion, is the moving force behind genocides. If
you believe God chose your people to rule the world, if you think
others but subhuman, you will be punished by the same God
whose name you took in vain. Instead of a gentle frog, he would
turn you into a murderous maniac.
When the Japanese got a whiff of this malady in 1930s, they
raped Nanking and ate the liver of their prisoners. Germans,
obsessed by the Aryan superiority complex, filled Baby Yar with
corpses. As thoughtful readers of Joshua and Judges, the father-
pilgrim founders of the United States tried on the 'Chosen' crown
and succeeded in nearly exterminating the Native American
peoples.
The Jews are no exception. Outside of Jerusalem's Jaffa gate
(Bab al-Halil), there was once a small neighbourhood called
Mamilla, destroyed by real estate developers just a few years ago.
In its place they created a monstrous 'village' for the super-rich,
abutting the plush Hilton Hotel. A bit further away, there is the old
Mamilla cemetery of the Arab nobles and the Mamilla Pool, a water
reservoir dug by Pontius Pilate. During the development works, the
workers came across a burial cave holding hundreds of sculls and
bones. It was adorned by a cross and a legend: 'God alone knows
their names'. The Biblical Archaeology Review, published by the
Jewish American Herschel Shanks, printed a long feature[i] by the
Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich on this discovery.
The dead were laid to their eternal rest in AD 614, the most
dreadful year in the history of Palestine until the 20th century. The
Scottish scholar, Adam Smith, wrote in his Historical Geography of
Palestine: until now, the terrible devastation of 614 is visible in
the
land, it could not be healed.
By 614, Palestine was a part of the Roman successor state, the
Byzantine Empire. It was a prosperous, predominantly Christian
land of well developed agriculture, of harnessed water systems,
and carefully laid terraces. Pilgrims came in flocks to the Holy
places, and the Constantine-built edifices of Holy Sepulchre and of
the Ascension on the Mount of Olives were among the manmade
wonders of the world. The Judean wilderness was enlivened by
eighty monasteries, where precious manuscripts were collected
and prayers offered. Fathers of the church, St Jerome of Bethlehem
and Origenes of Caesarea, were still a living memory.
There was also a small wealthy Jewish community living in their
midst, mainly in Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Their
scholars had just completed their version of the Talmud, the
codification of their faith, Rabbinic Judaism; but for instruction
they
deferred to the prevailing Jewish community in Persian Babylonia.
In 614, local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian
coreligionists and assisted the Persians in their conquest of the
Holy Land. In the aftermath of the Persian victory, Jews perpetrated
a massive holocaust of the Gentiles of Palestine. They burned the
churches and the monasteries, killed monks and priests, burned
books. The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, the
Ascension on Mount of Olives, St Steven opposite Damascus Gate
and the Hagia Sion on Mt Zion, are just at the top of the list of
perished edifices. Indeed, very few churches survived the
onslaught. The Great Laura of St Sabas, tucked away in the
bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by its remote
location and steep crags. The Church of Nativity miraculously
survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the Persians
balked. They perceived the Magi mosaic above the lintel as the
portrait of Persian kings.
This devastation was not the worst crime. When Jerusalem
surrendered to the Persians, thousands of local Christians became
prisoners of war, and were herded to the Mamilla Pool area. The
Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich writes: 'They were probably sold
to the highest bidder. According to some sources, the Christian
captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and were then slain
on the spot'. An eyewitness, Strategius of St Sabas, was more
vivid: 'Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the Persian
soldiers for good money, and slaughtered them with great joy at
Mamilla Pool, and it ran with blood'. Jews massacred 60,000
Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem alone. The earth's population
was probably about 50 million then, 100 times smaller than today. A
few days later, the Persian military understood the magnitude of the
massacre and stopped the Jews.
To his credit, the Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich does not try
to shift the blame for the massacres onto the Persians, as it is
usually done nowadays. He admits that 'the Persian Empire was
not based on religious principles and was indeed inclined to
religious tolerance'. This good man is clearly unsuitable to write for
the New York Times. That paper's correspondent in Israel, Deborah
Sonntag, would have no trouble describing the massacre as
'retaliatory strike by the Jews who suffered under Christian rule'.
The holocaust of the Christian Palestinians in year 614 is well
documented and you will find it described in older books, for
instance in the three volumes of Runciman's History of The
Crusades. It has been censored out of modern guides and history
books. It is a pity, as without this knowledge one cannot understand
the provisions of the treaty between the Jerusalemites and Caliph
Omar ibn Khattab, concluded in year 638. In the Sulh al Quds, as
this treaty of capitulation is called, Patriarch Sofronius demanded,
and the powerful Arab ruler agreed to protect the people of
Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.
After the Arab conquest, a majority of Palestinian Jews
accepted the message of the Messenger, as did the majority of
Palestinian Christians, albeit for somewhat different reasons. For
local Christians, Islam was a sort of Nestorian Christianity, but
without icons, without Constantinople's interference and without
Greeks. (The Greek domination of the Palestinian church remains a
problem for the local Christians to this very day.)
For ordinary local Jews, Islam was the return to the faith of
Abraham and Moses, as they could not follow the intricacies of the
new Babylonian faith anyway. The majority of them became
Muslims and blended into Palestinian population. The
accommodation of Jews to Islam did not stop in the 7th century.  A
thousand years later, in the 17th century, the greatest spiritual
leaders of the new-founded Sephardi Jewish community of
Palestine, Sabbatai Zevi and Nathan of Gaza, the successors to
the glorious Spanish mystic tradition of Ari the Saint of Safed, also
embraced 'the law of mercy', as they called Islam. Their
descendants, the comrades of Ataturk, saved Turkey from the
onslaught of the European troops during WWI.
Modern Jews do not have to feel guilty for the misdeeds of Jews
long gone. No son is responsible for the sins of his father. Israel
could have turned this mass grave with its Byzantine chapel and
mosaics into a small and meaningful memorial, reminding its
citizens of a horrible page in the history of the land and of the
dangers of genocidal supremacy. Instead, the Israeli authorities
preferred to demolish the tomb and create an underground parking
lot in its place. It did not cause a murmur.
The Israeli guardians of the Jewish conscience, Amos Oz and
others, have objected to the destruction of the ancient remains. No,
not of the tomb at Mamilla. They ran a petition against the keepers
of the Haram a-Sharif mosque complex for digging a ten-inch
trench to lay a new pipe. It did not matter to them that, in an op-ed
in Haaretz, the leading Israeli archaeologist of the area denied all
relevance of the mosque works to science. They still described it as
'a barbaric act of Muslims aimed at the obliteration of the Jewish
heritage of Jerusalem'. Among the signatories, I found, to my
amazement and sorrow the name of Ronny Reich. One thinks, he
might tell them who obliterated the vestiges of the Jewish heritage
at Mamilla Pool.
Why do I find it necessary to tell the story of the Mamilla
bloodbath? Because there is nothing more dangerous than the
feeling of self-righteousness and perpetual victimhood reinforced by
a one-sided historical narrative. Here again, the Jews are not
unique. Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun[ii] wrote about Armenians
inflamed by the story of their holocaust. They massacred thousands
of their peaceful Azeri neighbours in the 1990s, and caused the
uprooting of 800,000 native non-Armenians. 'It's time to recognize
all world's horrors', Margolis concludes.
Censored history creates a distorted picture of reality.
Recognition of past is a necessary step on the way to sanity. The
Germans and the Japanese have recognized the crimes of their
fathers, have came to grips with their moral failings and have
emerged as humbler, less boastful folks, akin to the rest of human
race. We Jews have so far failed to exorcise the haughty spirit of
the Chosenness, and found ourselves in a dire predicament.
That is why the idea of supremacy is still with us, still calling for
genocide. In 1982, Amos Oz[iii] met an Israeli, who shared with the
writer his dream of becoming a Jewish Hitler to the Palestinians.
Slowly this dream is becoming a reality.
The Haaretz published an ad on its front page[iv], a fatwa,
signed by a group of Rabbis. The Rabbis proclaimed the
theological identification of Ishmael, i.e. the Arabs, with the
Amalek.
'Amalek' is mentioned in the Bible as the name of a tribe that
caused trouble for the Children of Israel. In this story, the God of
Israel commands His people to exterminate the Amalek tribe
completely, including its livestock. King Saul botched the job: he
exterminated them all right, but failed to kill nubile unwed maidens.
This 'failure' cost him  his crown. The obligation to exterminate the
people of Amalek is still counted among the tenets of the Jewish
faith, though for centuries nobody made the identification of a living
nation with the accursed tribe.
There was one exclusion showing how dangerous the ruling is.
At the end of WWII, some Jews, including the late Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, identified the Germans with Amalek. Indeed, a
Jewish religious socialist and a fighter against Nazis, Abba Kovner,
hatched in 1945 a plot to poison the water supply system of
German cities and to kill 'six million Germans'. He obtained poison
from the future President of Israel, Efraim Katzir. Katzir supposedly
thought Kovner intends to poison 'only' a few thousands of German
POW's. The plan mercifully flopped when Kovner was stopped by
British officials in a European port. This story was published last
year in Israel in a biography of Kovner written by Prof Dina Porat,
head of Anti-Semitism Research Centre at Tel Aviv university[v].
In plain English, the Rabbis' fatwa means: our religious duty is
to kill all Arabs, including women and babies and their livestock; to
the last cat. The liberal Haaretz, whose editor and owner are
sufficiently versed to understand the fatwa, did not hesitate to place
the ad.
Some Palestinian activists recently criticized me for associating
with the marginal Russian weekly Zavtra and for quoting the
American weekly Spotlight. I wonder why they have not condemned
me for writing in Haaretz? Zavtra and Spotlight have never
published a call to genocide, after all.
It would be unfair to single out Haaretz. Another prominent
Jewish newspaper, The Washington Post, published an equally
passionate call to genocide by Charles Krauthammer[vi]. This adept
of king Saul cannot rely upon his audience's knowledge of the
Bible, so he refers to General Powell's slaughter of routed Iraqi
troops at the end of the Gulf war. He quotes Colin Powell saying of
the Iraqi army, "First we're going to cut it off, then we're going to
kill
it." For Krauthammer, with his carefully chosen quotes, multitudes
of slain Arabs do not qualify for human pronoun 'them'. They are an
'it'. In the last stage of the war in the Gulf, immense numbers of
retreating and disarmed Iraqis were slaughtered in cold blood by
the US Air Force, their bodies buried by bulldozers in the desert
sand in huge and nameless mass graves. The numbers of victims
of this hecatomb are estimated from one hundred thousand to half
a million. God alone knows their names.
Krauthammer wants to repeat this feat in Palestine. 'It' is already
cut off, divided by the Israeli army into seventy pieces. Now it is
ready for the great kill. 'Kill it!', he calls with great passion. He
must
be worried that the Persians will again stop the bloodbath before
the Mamilla Pool fills up. His worries are our hopes.

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[i] BAR, 1996, v 22 No 2
[ii] 22.04.2001
[iii] Here and there in the Land of Israel, Amos Oz
[iv] 21 November, 2000
[v] Haaretz, 28 April 2001
[vi] Washington Post, 20 Apr 2001

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I do understand the point that Melissa Abramovitz made about my contribution
and that Noemi Gal-Or supported.

I agree that there may be a danger of distortion and disbelief if the Nazi
example is equated to the Israeli one in terms of how much violence has been
done.   I did not intended to make the comparison in terms of a
straight-forward comparison of the amount of violence, though we must
recognise that the kind of violence used against Palestinians has had its
own very destructive effects, particularly at the psychological level and
there may be less excuse for allowing this in the twenty-first century
compared with the world culture of the 1930s and 1940s.    What I wanted to
convey was that in terms of racism, to set up the state of Israel with a
constitution and practices that are based on unequal treatment of two groups
of people, is applying the same racist principle that resulted in apartheid
in South Africa and the horrors the Nazis committed in many countries and
against many racially targetted groups of people.

Do you agree with my proposition that fundamentally we have to address the
basis on which the state of Israel has been constructed?  That real peace
requires equality of treatment under the constitution and in all of the
practices within a state?    Many people do live in countries where this
principle is accepted even though they retain their beliefs in race
categories.   We have enough examples of countries which have managed a
degree of tolerance by providing everyone with equal rights irrespective of
so-called racial origin.   Would Israel have needed so many wars and
defended borders if there had been a genuine amalgamation of incoming people
and indigenous people on equal terms and yes, part of the barrier to that
process was the racist beliefs of Palestinians and many, many others.

However, I am concerned that this tolerance is very fragile while such a
large proportion of the world's population still believe in race categories
so it is important to challenge ideas of race.   If our children began to
understand how little genetic differences derive from differences in our
histories and how much of our genetics reflects how very interwoven are our
histories, than they might begin to see each other as people not races.

Melissa mentions argument that beliefs in race categories may be entirely
due to social constructs but that seems to me to be only part of the story
because people also construct their ideas of race from their perceptions of
physical characteristics that do indeed reflect a divergent genetic
history - though much less than people think.   So the task I believe is
provide an accurate but also convincing account of why these obvious
physical characteristics do not provide a basis for race categories - shall
we discuss this?

Fully concur with Melissa.

Noemi

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Melissa Abramovitz wrote:

> Dr. Bradley wrote:
>
> The project of creating a state based on racist criteria is
> fundamentally flawed
> and no different from the mentality and ambitions of the Nazis etc.
>
> I must take issue with the seemingly trendy use of the term Nazi when
> referring to Israel. I'm sure that no one here needs a history lesson in
> what many consider a watershed event that marked the past century. Nor
> will I blather on about how race can be argued as a socially constructed
> category (though happy to get into that discussion if anyone is
> interested).
>
> What I would like to comment on is the danger in turning Nazism into a
> metaphor for racism. Racism is insidiously unjust and all to commonly
> found in even the most 'democratic' of society's. And I would not
> disagree that the structural inequalities in Israel could be argued on
> racist grounds. However, to single out any state as employing the
> techniques of Nazi Germany is to reduce that period in history to a mere
> example of organized racism and to dishonour the memory of ten million
> dead.
>
> The clearest example that I can offer that distinguishes Israeli policy
> from those of nazism is the mere existence of a group like Gush Shalom.
> In Israel, as in all democratic society's, opposition is legal and
> allowed to flourish. The numerous peace organizations in Israel attest
> to this. In Nazi Germany on the other hand, all groups that fell outside
> of Hitler's sphere of influence were declared illegal and its members
> hunted down and murdered.
>
> If there is any moral justification for Israeli attacks on refugee
> camps, or Palestinian terrorist bombings within Israel (and I understand
> that few of those are reported as well), I cannot say. As a person
> committed to the principles of peace, I find this question deeply
> perplexing and my time spent volunteering for peace organizations in
> Israel and Palestine only deepened my awareness of the complexity of
> this question.
>
> However, my knowledge of this conflict and others does not lead me to
> equate it with Nazism. Furthermore, I find it deeply disturbing that in
> spite of the many examples of atrocity that have occurred since the time
> of the Holocaust (i.e. the ethnic cleansing carried out in Rwanda and
> the former Yugoslavia easily come to mind), only Israel is accused of
> emulating the 'mentality and ambitions' of the Nazis. Meaning can be
> inferred from this that may be misunderstood and underestimated by those
> that view Nazism as a metaphor. Lets not fall into that trap. It's
> simplistic, dangerous and contributes to a re-writing of history.
>
> Melissa
>
>
>

_____________________________________________________________________________
Noemi Gal-Or, Ph.D., LL.B. (member of the B.C. Bar)
Political Science Department
  & Ombudsperson for the Kwantlen Faculty Association
Kwantlen University College
12666-72nd Ave.
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The project of creating a state based on racist criteria is fundamentally flawed
and no different from the mentality and ambitions of the Nazis etc.

I must take issue with the seemingly trendy use of the term Nazi when referring to Israel. I'm sure that no one here needs a history lesson in what many consider a watershed event that marked the past century. Nor will I blather on about how race can be argued as a socially constructed category (though happy to get into that discussion if anyone is interested).

What I would like to comment on is the danger in turning Nazism into a metaphor for racism. Racism is insidiously unjust and all to commonly found in even the most 'democratic' of society's. And I would not disagree that the structural inequalities in Israel could be argued on racist grounds. However, to single out any state as employing the techniques of Nazi Germany is to reduce that period in history to a mere example of organized racism and to dishonour the memory of ten million dead.

The clearest example that I can offer that distinguishes Israeli policy from those of nazism is the mere existence of a group like Gush Shalom. In Israel, as in all democratic society's, opposition is legal and allowed to flourish. The numerous peace organizations in Israel attest to this. In Nazi Germany on the other hand, all groups that fell outside of Hitler's sphere of influence were declared illegal and its members hunted down and murdered.

If there is any moral justification for Israeli attacks on refugee camps, or Palestinian terrorist bombings within Israel (and I understand that few of those are reported as well), I cannot say. As a person committed to the principles of peace, I find this question deeply perplexing and my time spent volunteering for peace organizations in Israel and Palestine only deepened my awareness of the complexity of this question.

However, my knowledge of this conflict and others does not lead me to equate it with Nazism. Furthermore, I find it deeply disturbing that in spite of the many examples of atrocity that have occurred since the time of the Holocaust (i.e. the ethnic cleansing carried out in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia easily come to mind), only Israel is accused of emulating the 'mentality and ambitions' of the Nazis. Meaning can be inferred from this that may be misunderstood and underestimated by those that view Nazism as a metaphor. Lets not fall into that trap. It's simplistic, dangerous and contributes to a re-writing of history.

Melissa
 
 

Gush Shalom

Thank you for your news of the Appeal from the 350 intellectuals.

It is very encouraging to read such a brave and honest declaration when the
media, even in Europe, tends to relay the version of events promoted by the
Israeli government, and local jewish groups innthis country seem to be, at
best, silent.

I agree that an international peace keeping force - ideally the UN - should
be deployed but I am very glad to see that the appeal recognises that the
Palestinians cannot be expected to abandon violent protest unless there is
some chance of them getting some measure of justice by nonviolent means.

My own view is that the core problem between Israel and its neighbours is
the constitution of the state of Israel which does not give people such as
Palesinians equal rights with those it categorises as Israelis - this is
fundamentally a racist distinction, no different from apartheid.  The
project of creating a state based on racist criteria is fundamentally flawed
and no different from the mentality and ambitions of the Nazis etc.   Please
don't think that I am singling out Israeli people for having this racist
perception - it is everywhere - though unfortunately jewish history has
probably given the idea of the 'chosen people' more force than in other
groups.   Almost everyone I know in Britain assumes that race is a
meaningful way of distinguishing groups of people - though many are liberal
and want equal treatment.

If you would like to follow up this question, I would be happy to try to
explain the way that modern genetic information offers a better account of
human differences than race ideas - which we badly need to put into the
past.

regards,   Dr Morris Bradley 22 Lynedoch Place Edinburgh EH3 7PY
(44)1312252639
e-mail  morris.bradley@...

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

Press release, May 6, 2001
===============================================
350 Israeli Intellectuals Call For International Protection Force
===============================================
An international protection force is something Gush Shalom has been calling for
some time. Today's raid into Beit Jalla was an escalation of this war of
attrition. Meanwhile a group of professors collected signatures of 350 Israelis
- prominent or just concerned individuals on the following text which we
forward.

------- Forwarded message follows -------

Dear friends and concerned citizens,

The enclosed petition, signed by nearly 350 Israeli intellectuals, academics
and concerned citizens, calls for an immediate deployment of an international
peace keeping force in the occupied territories in order to restore elementary
safety and living conditions to the battered civilian Palestinian population in
the region.

We believe that under present conditions a temporary international intervention
may be the only practical means now available to end the daily killing,
wounding, and suffering of civilians, including children and old people, and to
facilitate the resumption of talks.

We ask you to join our effort to enlist the support of world public opinion and
governments for the immediate deployment of such an international force, by
organizing and sending your own petitions or using other means available to you
to help check the deteriorating situation and stop the bloodshed.

Yaron Ezrahi: mshruth@...
Ruth HaCohen : mshruth@...
Hannan Hever: hever26@...
Anat Matar: matar@...
Adi Ophir: adiophir@...


THE APPEAL

Israeli Citizens Appeal for International Intervention
in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

We, citizens of Israel, are extremely concerned about the rapid deterioration
of the condition of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We
consider the Jewish settlements in the territories occupied by Israel since
1967 to be an ongoing act of aggression against the Palestinian people. Massive
construction of new Jewish settlements and expansion of existing ones have
continued relentlessly even after the signing of the Oslo agreements, more than
seven years ago. This is but one major element of the burden of the Israeli
occupation, which has become unbearable for Palestinians living in the West
Bank and Gaza. While we totally condemn acts of terror against civilians, we
regard the Palestinian revolt against colonial occupation as legitimate.
Despite the fact that many innocent Israelis have been victims of this revolt
we understand that there can be no moral and military symmetries between
occupiers and occupied. The occupation itself is morally and politically wrong;
the excessive force Israel uses in order to impose its rule against growing
Palestinian resistance is totally unacceptable.

The Israeli army has used lethal weapons against non-armed demonstrators
killing over four hundreds Palestinians since October 2000, among them about
seventy youth under sixteen, and wounding thousands more. In response to
Palestinian attacks Israel has been retaliating by bombing and shelling targets
in Palestinians cities. Israeli control of all major roads in and around the
West Bank has fractured the Palestinian territory, cutting it up it into a
series of isolated ghettos. This is severely crippling Palestinian economic
activity, pushing ever larger portions of the Palestinian population beneath
the poverty line to the point where in some areas there are already signs of
famine. Israeli operations are disrupting Palestinian emergency medical
services, transportation, and education. Palestinian civilians are not only
abused and mistreated by members of the Israeli military, but are further
exposed to daily harassment and aggression by Jewish settlers. The mental harm
caused by years of terrorization, anxiety, loss, humiliation and mourning is
inexpressible.

Israel acts as a sovereign that has relinquished all legal and moral
responsibilities to protect the Palestinian population under its jurisdiction.
We acknowledge the complexity of a situation in which it is often difficult to
distinguish between legitimate acts of Palestinian resistance and unacceptable
acts of Palestinian terror and between legitimate defensive Israeli policy and
acts of State terror. But the complexity of this situation can neither diminish
our responsibility nor silence our voice. It is our moral obligation as Israeli
citizens to express our solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom,
and to do everything possible to protect the Palestinian population living in
the occupied territories. We urge our fellow citizens, and friends and
colleagues worldwide to join us in speaking up against the continued occupation
and oppression of the Palestinians. Specifically, we call for an immediate
international intervention to stop the killing and wounding of human beings who
are exercising their elementary right to claim political freedom. We call upon
you to urge your governments to go beyond hesitant condemnations of Israeli
policies and initiate an international peace force that would help protect the
Palestinians from the aggression of the Israeli government and facilitate the
resumption of serious negotiations between the parties to the conflict.


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The Other Israel briefing
May 4, 2001

*A bad wind is blowing - Gush Shalom ad warns of dangerous developments*
- Friday, May 4: Yesh Gvul launches new leaflet
- Saturday, May 5: a Dialogue Meeting of Israelis and Palestinians
- Sunday, May 6, Peace Now protest, demanding settlement freeze
- Tuesday, May 8, hearing on the Akaba clinic
- Saturday, May 12, another Ta'ayush food convoy, sponsored by many
- Tuesday, May 15, meeting of women participating in Machsom Watch
* Several more initiatives: Accompanying Palestinians who complain to police
about settler harassment; Setting up a vigil in Ra'anana; Replacing a smashed
video camera; Petitions for International Protection Force.
* Interview with an officer & facts on the ground
												 *
A Bad Wind Is Blowing
Shimon Peres looks more and more pathetic in his role as Sharon's dovish fig
leaf; the PM's declared determination to continue the relentless "natural"
expansion of Israeli settlements on confiscated Palestinian land has
effectively nullified Peres' diplomatic initiatives and rendered hopeless all
the efforts to achieve a cease fire, with increased casualties on both sides.

After an Ofra settler was shot dead in a Palestinian ambush the PM decided to
convene his cabinet right there in that West Bank settlement, a stronghold of
the extreme right; meanwhile at Rafah in the Gaza Strip the army undertook
"operational engineering activities" - an Orwellian reference to the
destruction of 18 Palestinian dwellings, the killing of a youth who tried to
defend his home and the wounding of 14 other Palestinians, several of them
children.
For their part, the settlers are encouraged to raise the cry of "traitor" and
make virtually open death threats against anyone  who still dares to speak of
peace or meet with Palestinians, such as ex-ministers Yossi Beilin and Yossi
Sarid.

Gush Shalom's May 4 ad in Ha'aretz warns of dangerous developments:

- Pinhas Wallerstein, a settler leader, said that peace activists are
   “traitors”. That is incitement to murder. (Wallerstein - the man who
    shot a Palestinian boy in the back, killing him “in self-defense”.)

- First there was made a hit-list of Palestinian activists, the “foreign
   enemy”. Now another hit-list is being drawn up, the “inner enemy”.

- MP Benny Eilon, a member of the government coalition, expressed on
   live TV his hope that all Arabs will be kicked out of the country. Uzi
   Landau, a member of the cabinet, demands the destruction of the
   leadership of the Palestinian people. Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister,
   has promised to give “a free hand” to every officer of the occupation
   army.

A BAD WIND IS BLOWING, THE WIND OF APPROACHING DISASTER
                 www.gush-shalom.org, info@...

Following is a list of initiatives and activities by various groups confronting
this government - for your attention and, if possible, participation.
																	 *
- Yesh Gvul launches its new leaflet today, Friday May 4, 2001.  Volunteers
meet at the Binyanei Ha'uma convention centre in Jerusalem at 8:30 a.m.
From there, teams will set out to hand leaflets ("Hey soldier, where are you
headed ? The settlers' war is not our war !")  to soldiers on their way to and
from the Occupied Territories.  Similar actions are planned at the same time
in Tel Aviv and Beersheba (details: 02-6250271, (yesh_gvul@...).

Since the onset of the current intifada, well over a hundred soldiers -
conscripts or reservists - are known to have refused to take part in the
campaign of repression. At the moment, three of them are behind bars:
Conscientious Objector Gabby Wolf, undergoing a second consecutive term
at Military Prison 6 (Atlit); fellow CO Ido Harari at Military Prison 4
(Tzrifin); and reservist Hedai Levi, whose objection to service in the Occupied
Territories brought him, too, to Prison 4 - where Harari met him and reported
to the outside the act of refusal Levi originally undertook all on his own.

Visiting family members report the prisoners to be in good spirits, thankful
for the ongoing solidarity campaign. You can write to Ido Harari, Military
ID 5127501, Prison 4, military post 02507, IDF, Israel; Hedai Levi, Military
ID 4635770 (same address); and Gabriel Wolf, Military ID 7158325, Prison 6,
Military Post 03734. Further info: Sergeiy Sandler, new profile movement,
sergeiy@...
														 *
- On the morning of Saturday, May 5, a dialogue meeting of Israelis and
Palestinians will take place at the West Bank town of Bidia, in full
coordination with the local Palestinian authrorites, to discuss the present
mess and the possible ways out. Palestinian activists and public figures,
representing a wide spectrum of political organizations and all commtted to
peace and coexistence, are due to attend. The Israelis are also invited by the
Mayor of Bidia to visit the town's once-bustling marketplace, nowadays closed
and deserted.

The action was initiated by veteran Kafar Sava peace activist Ya'akov Manor, in
cooperation with Amana Awaza of Arab Women for Peace at Tira, and the
rendezvous was fixed for 10.00 AM at the Egged Station on Weitzmann St., Kfar
Sava. If enough Tel-Avivians expess interest in joining, a rendezvous in Tel-
Aviv can be added - phone to Ya'akov Manor, 050-733276, 09-7670801, 09-7678457.
																 *
- On Sunday, May 6, at 9.00 AM, Peace Now - joined by the Meretz Youth - will
demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's Office during the cabinet meeting,
demanding an immediate freezing of all settelment activities. This because it
is a primary and indispensable step in actually implementing the
Egyptian-Jordanian cease fire plan (which the government claims to have
adopted).
Details: Youval Tamari, <youval@...> 03-5663291, 054-405157;
											 *
- The case of the clinic of Akaba Village is this week due again at the
military appeals committee in the West Bank Military Headquarters in Beit El.
As you may remember from a few months ago, the inhabitants of this tiny
village, in the Tubas District of the West Bank, had built for themselves a
modest clinic. The Israeli military government's "civil adminstration" - which
in theory should have itself built this clinic - issued instead a demolition
order for the "illegal structure".

Towards the hearing, due on the morning of Tuesday, May 8, it would be
worthwhile to contact Shlomo Politis, legal adviser to the Civil
Administration, by fax 972 (0)2 9977326 or phone  02-9977071, 050-511782.

The villagers are represented by Adv. Neta Amar of ACRI (02-6521218,
acri@... and Adv. Musa Shakarne of LAW- Al Kanun (02-5833430).

For possible transportation to be present during the proceedings contact:
Susi Mordechay <susim@...>, PHR-Israel <phr@...>.
														 *
- On Saturday, May 12, a Peace and Solidarity Convoy will, for the fourth
consecutive time, set out from Israel to bring basic foodstuffs to West Bank
villages under siege. It is jointly sponsored by Ta'ayush (Jewish-Arab
Partnership), Gush Shalom, Women for a Just Peace, and ICAHD.
Rendezvous:  9.30 AM, Northern Railway Station, Tel-Aviv; 10.30 AM - The Gas
Station, Kafr Kasem entrance .

The previous convoy, on April 21, had been greatly harassed by police and army.
At Yassuf Village, a military unit tried to forcibly prevent activists from
unloading their cargo of flour, rice, oil, sugar and canned food. Together with
the Yassuf villagers, the Israelis did succeed in unloading the truck - but the
convoy was prevented from proceeding to the next village by the police
arresting  eight activists and keeping them in detention deep into the night.

The May 12 convoy is aimed at delivering the supplies which were left
undelivered then, plus as many more foodstuffs as can be collected in the
coming week. Also, at showing the military authorities that - far from being
intimidated - there will be many more participants this time and stopping them
will be more difficult.

Donations for food: In Israel - Ta'ayush, account 396608, Bank HaPoalim, Ramat
Aviv Branch (606); from overseas - Bank Hapoalim, Swift code POALILITA (Ramat
Aviv branch), 12-606-396608; or checks to Dr. Gadi Algazi, History Dept., Tel-
Aviv University, 69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel; <algazi@...>; ph: 052-
740100 (Alon) 058-262646 (Tali).
																		 *
- MachsomWatch - women observers at military checkpoints, monitoring the
soldiers' behaviour to passing Palestinians - now has a team of some 30 women.
Observations are conducted almost every day, sometimes twice daily, either
early morning (6:30 - 8:30) or afternoon (4:00 - 6:00) at the Bethlehem, Ar-Ram
and Abu Dis Checkpoints between Jerusalem and the West Bank. Activists
defintely feel that their ongoing presence these last two months definitely
moderates the behavior of soldiers and police. Women interested in learning
more are invited to join the next meeting on Tuesday, May 15, 7.30 PM (call
02-6718349 for address) or write to Yehudit Keshet <<y_k1@...>.
												 *
- Bat Shalom, in cooperation with the Palestinian Human Rights
Monitoring Group (PHRMG), is seeking volunteers willing to accompany
Palestinians who have experienced violence from Israeli settlers to
nearby police stations.  Because their complaints are routinely
ignored or dismissed, Palestinians are often reluctant to contact the
Israeli authorities to register an official complaint.  In order to
encourage Palestinians to come forth with their complaints, and to
pressure Israeli authorities to intervene in cases of settler
violence, PHRMG is establishing a 24 hour toll-free Settler Watch
Hotline, and Bat Shalom is recruiting a women's corps that will be available to
accompany Palestinians to the relevant police station - often itself located
inside a settlement. Contact: 02-5632622; batshalo@....
								 *
- A group of four youths would like  to start a weekly action at Ra'anana
Junction under such slogans as "Down with the occupation", "Occupation kills",
"Closure is Terror" and the like.
Anybody in that part of the country intersted in joining the initiative should
contact Roy Golan <roy_golan@...>, 09-7655282.

- Activists Neta Golan and Tzap Ryter of "International Solidarity" are
maintining a constant presence in the village of Hares, which is targeted by
constant settler violence. During two consecutive nights this week there were
particulaly massive and vicious settler attacks (not reported in the media). In
the course of the second one, Ryter was assaulted, her arm twisted and the
group's video camera smashed by the settlers. The very belatedly arriving
police detained both Ryter and three of the settlers and kept them several
hours; she noticed that during their detention the settlers were allowed to
carry their automatic weapons, within the police station...
Gila Svirsky of the Women's Coalition has undertaken efforts to get the group
a new video camera, with which to go on documenting events in Hares and
elswhere in the West Bank. Anyone willing to lend or give their own camera,
or  give donations for buying a new one (it costs about $900) should contact
Gila (02-672-5293, gsvirsky@...).
Full account of the Hares events from neta_golan@yahoogroups.com

- Two petitions, started independently of each other, collect signatures for a
call to send an International Force to protect the Palestinian population in
the Occupied  Territories. One text, intended primarily for publication abroad,
is available  from Yaron Ezrahi: mshruth@... or  Hannan Hever
hever26@.... The other, to be published as an ad in Ha'aretz (for
which signatories are expected to contribute) can be gotten by fax from
Andre  Dreznin, 03-5224629. For their part, Americans can also sign Global
Exchange's  letter to Secretary of State Powell, on the same issue, at
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/palestine/action041201.html

- The last item today is not a call for action, merely a provision of
information which should have made headlines - and did not.
In the weekend addition of Yediot Aharonot (Friday, April
27), senior correspondent and commentator Nahum Barnea published an
extensive  article on the situation at Rachel's Tomb, the Israeli armed
enclave in the middle of Palestinian Bethlehem. In it was hidden a quote from
an unnamed Israeli officer: "I don't give my soldiers an order not to
shoot at innocents; that is like giving orders not to shoot at all." Barnea
made no effort to emphasize this chilling remark, which did not even rate a
subtitle in the pages-long article, nor was their a follow-up by journalists or
politicians seeking a sensation.
The sequel, two days later, did not get even that much of an exposure. Except
for a brief mention by KM Ahmed Tibi during a furious a TV debate, Israelis
remained completely  ignorant of it.
For the following paragraph from The Palestine Monitor we are indebted to
Patricia Smith <patricia@...>.

Imad Qaraqui, 31, his pregnant wife, their 5 year-old son Haitham
and their cousin Ziyad Qaraqui, 27, were travelling home past the
Palestinian Security checkpoint when Israeli forces stationed 100 meters
away at Rachel’s tomb opened fire on the car. Imad was hit in the face
and chest, and was killed instantly. His son Haitham was shot in the eye,
Ziyad was hit in the chest and shoulder. Five-year-old Haitham has lost
his eye and is being treated at St. John’s Ophthalmic Hospital in
Jerusalem.
Maybe one should make a habit of occasionally looking at The Palestine Monitor
website (http://www.palestinemonitor.org) so as to get a glimpse of news which
didn't make it.

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>Columbine survivor offers his hand
>
>Paralyzed 19-year-old helps effort to raise supplies for schools in war-torn
>East Timor
>
>By John C. Ensslin, News Staff Writer
>
>East Timor may seem a long way from Columbine High School.
>But the two do have something in common: the experience of violence,
>destruction and redemption.
>
>And Richard Castaldo.
>
>For the past year, the 19-year-old Columbine survivor has lent his name and
>presence to an effort to resupply classrooms that have been ravaged by
>warfare.
>The connection between the two places -- one scarred by war and the other by
>America's deadliest school shooting -- does not seem so far-fetched to
>Castaldo.
>
>"I think there's definitely some relation," said Castaldo, who was left
>paralyzed in the April 20, 1999, rampage. "What happened there is probably
>worse than what happened here. Both were done out of evil, though."
>
>Two years before the Columbine shootings Castaldo had volunteered with the
>Denver-based PeaceJam Foundation. The nonprofit group has brought a group of
>Nobel peace prize winners together with groups of children to share lessons
>of peace and nonviolence.
>
>Through PeaceJam, Castaldo met the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
>And in the days after the Columbine shootings, while Castaldo was
>recuperating at Swedish Medical Center, Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta of
>East Timor paid him a bedside visit.
>
>Castaldo was so medicated at the time that he does not remember much of
>Ramos-Horta.
>
>However, the pain and destruction of East Timor's struggle did leave an
>impression on Castaldo.
>
>So when Peacejam teamed up with an Internet portal site called Community.com
>to raise school supplies for the war-torn country, Castaldo agreed to help
>serve as spokesman.
>
>The result of that effort is 6.5 tons of school supplies. The donations came
>from across America, said Mary Wald, CEO of Community.com.
>
>A chiropractor in Colorado shipped office supplies. A family in Oregon
>assembled a large donation. School children in Napa, Calif., held a talent
>show and used the proceeds to buy Portuguese-language textbooks.
>Wald credits Castaldo with helping to publicize the drive.
>
>"I think he's been a real strong example, and he's also shown that one
person
>can make a big difference," she said.
>
>Castaldo said he did not mind using his own personal misfortune to ease
>someone else's.
>
>"It's just a positive thing to turn a bad experience into something that can
>be used for good," he said.
>
>April 21, 2001 
>
>

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MULTIETHNIC CHILDREN AND YOUTH PEACE CENTERS (MCYPC); KOSOVSKA
MITROVICA/MITROVICE; KOSOVO/A

"Where Volunteers Can Grow, And Children Can Be Children"

http://MCYPCMitrovice.freehosting.net

Mitrovice, Kosovo/a....almost the last place in the region that appears
regularly on the news. Because of the news, our first association with the
town would be - tension? Violence? Ethnic hatred? What comes to our minds
when we hear the name Mitrovice?

When I went to that place in October, as an OSCE supervisor for the
elections, I didn't know what to expect. Even being to and working for
Kosovo/a before, I had no knowledge of Mitrovice except from the media
coverage. "Tough assignment", my fellow supervisors would say. Was it really
tough?

Kosovo/a has changed so much over these past months after the war !!! The
town of Peje is just not the same, for example. Signs of rebirth and renewal
bring so much hope to our hearts. When you enter the city of Mitrovice, you
see rebuilding everywhere all the same. Yet...there's a special feeling in
that place. Tension is present, you can almost touch it. Maybe it is heavily
visible presence of KFOR forces. Maybe it's the bridge, the famous bridge of
Mitrovice that became the symbol of painful divisions - and even more
painful decisions that the people of Mitrovice have been forced, are forced
to make...When we think of Mitrovice, do we think of its people? Of the
children and youth of that miserable city where your former neighbor and
friend could have become your enemy in a matter of days?

I have met wonderful young people in Mitrovice. Agim, a returnee from
Germany...Florent, Arta and Alma, people whose insight and life-born wisdom
has changed my perspective forever... We spent hours and hours talking about
their lives before the conflict and the ones they live now. We spent hours
and hours working together. We spent hours and hours walking throughout the
town of Mitrovice. We saw the children and teens just hanging around on
streets. Florent and Arta told me that there used to be very active cultural
life for children and youth in Mitrovice. It's not anymore. There's nowhere
they can go. And this is how the idea of MCYPC was born....

[for information about the background of the project, please visit
http://MCYPCMitrovice.freehosting.net]

What is our plan?

Small steps bring us hope. After so much pain, so many harmful memories, it
is impossible to change everything at once. But we have to take these small
steps towards the bigger goal. One step at a time.

Our first step was to develop a plan. Maybe it was the most important step
of all. Thank you, all of you supporting us throughout that phase for your
interest, understanding, encouraging words...it is also thanks to you that
we are where we are now, and we can move forward.

Our plan...We are working to establish centers for education, recreation and
art for the children and youth of Mitrovice, age 6 to 18. Children and young
people are the hope and the future for Mitrovice. We want to teach them
Peace. We want to teach them by example, and the example is Love. If we can
break the spiral of violence by teaching children how to solve conflicts
peacefully, we will make first steps towards the future of Peace. If we can
teach them to value peace, understanding, tolerance and cooperation over
tension and violence, we'll make peace in Mitrovice blossom again !!!! Baby
steps, maybe. But one has to start somewhere....

We believe that through the children and young people, we can reach out to
the community of Mitrovice. "Our" children will be the Messengers of Peace
and Joy.

Our long-term plan (http://MCYPCMitrovice.feehosting.net/projects.html) is:

To establish the first Center in the South part of Mitrovice, get it to
fully operational stage and train local coordinators (in a year time), than
turn it to the local management team.

At the same time, start in the North of Mitrovice to establish a sister
Center there, and
work with various ethnic communities living there in separate enclaves. We
want to help them take these borders down. Help them overcome fear. At the
end of the
first year, we would like to turn also the North Center to local management
team
there.

During the second year, we plan to support both Centers and to begin
intensive dialog between the two sister centers. The third year of the
project will be focused on expansion of activities but
first of all, on ongoing exchange programs between South and North Peace
Centers. This way, we hope we'll be able to begin constructive, lasting
dialog between divided communities of Mitrovice.

We have begun to put this plan into reality by exchanging ideas, asking for
new ones, learning what is needed and what the possibilities are...I would
like to thank Balkan Sunflowers here (www.balkansunflowers.org) for an
amazing, life learning experience of being their US and International
Coordinator. The Mitrovice project wouldn't have come thus far without that
experience.

I would also like to thank SCI-IVS (Service Civil International -
International Voluntary Service) USA
branch (www.sci-ivs.org)  for recognizing the project as a partner and
giving it so much support...Thanks to SCI suggestions as well as to the
wonderful work of Florent from Mitrovice, we have taken second important
step in our journey to Peace - we have decided to create local NGO. We have
named it MULTIETHNIC CHILDREN AND YOUTH PEACE CENTERS (MCYPC); KOSOVSKA
MITROVICA/MITROVICE; KOSOVO/A. Why we did it? The quote from ancient China
is the best explanation: "Go to people, live with them, love them, learn
from them. Start with what they know, build with what they have, and work
with the best leaders, so when the work is done, people can say, 'We did
this ourselves.' "
(Lao Tzu, 700 BC)
At present, we are in the process of registering this new NGO with UNMiK
administration. Once this process is completed, we can move on to the actual
work...I cannot wait. :-)

We plan our activities in very broad range. We will teach foreign languages:
English, Spanish, German and French. We will teach computer skills. We will
teach about environment protection. We will conduct photo, video and theatre
projects. We will have art workshops for the children. We will use informal
education as a tool for bringing the message of Peace and understanding to
the hearts and minds of "our" children. We will bring in international
volunteers from all over the world together with our local friends, to make
all of this happen, and blossom beautifully. We will promote positive social
changes through voluntary work, multinational cooperation, social services
of and for the youth...

Now, we are just at the very early stage of our project. This is why I am
writing this message to you, dear friends. We need your help. The children
and young people of Mitrovice need your help - to make the project the
biggest sunshine in Mitrovice.

You may ask - What can one person like myself do?

A lot! Imagine what could happen if everybody asking this question joined
together on the same team. Now is your chance to find out. In cooperation
with NetAid On-line Volunteers, the team is now forming! By joining our team
you
will be working in partnership with other MCYPC supporters of various ethnic
backgrounds to effect positive change in hearts of children and youth
of the divided region of Mitrovice.

MCYPC offers you various opportunities to make  a difference. Here are just
some of the many ways in which you can join MCYPC.
(http://MCYPCMitrovice.freehosting.net/help.html)

Become a partner to MCYPC project. Together we are stronger. We might have
similar goals - please tell us about that. We will find out how to cooperate
for the greatest success of the project.

Help us spread the word. Request more information from us. Promote MCYPC
project amongst your relatives, friends, community members, co-workers.
Write an article. Post an information on your website. Put a link to our
website - and let us post a link to yours in exchange. Print out T-shirts
with our logo. Buy some from us. Cut and paste this message, and send it to
as many friends as you can think of (use BCC field for their addresses !!!
:-) All of this - and maybe more - will help us spread the news about the
project, and bring in more people and ideas.

Share your talents, skills, and ideas with us. Please visit our website
(http://MCYPCMitrovice.freehosting.net) and ask questions, and tell us about
your vision. We welcome all comments.

Volunteer at MCYPC. Please contact us to find out more.

MCYPC is a membership organization. We welcome everybody to join MCYPC as a
member.

Make a donation to help MCYPC help children and youth of Mitrovice. Contact
us to find out how to do it in the easiest way. In the US, your
contributions will be tax-deductible.

Donate the things that are needed to start the work of the centers:
computers, mobile phones, art supplies, language books, equipment for photo
and video projects, office supplies.....

But above all, support us with your interest and positive energy.

We, from the countries that have not experienced any recent war, we are the
lucky ones. We have never been threatened to the very roots of our being.
We have been given the treasure of Life In Peace and we have to, we simply
have to share it. Giving up our easy, convenient ways of daily routine.
Giving them up to a greater cause - to raise one smile in huge and immobile
eyes of a Kosovar child. Or maybe even a couple of children....

  Our hands can be open. Our hearts can be open. Our Mind can be the
Messenger of Joy and Life and Peace. If this is not worth the try, what is?

Thank you.

Katarzyna (Kate) Wargan

Director, "FOCUS" - Funding And Organizing Campaigns US
Service Civil International - International Voluntary Service

3701 16th Street NW # 500
Washington, DC 20010
USA
Tel: +1-202-726-3317


E-mail: focus@...
or: MCYPC_Mitrovice@...

http://MCYPCMitrovice.freehosting.net
http://www.sci-ivs.org

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good
people to do nothing. The only thing necessary for the triumph of good
is for enough good people to do a little extra."

Dr. Mae-Wan HO speaks at US National Academy of Science

  ISIS in US National Academy of Science


  Dr. Mae-Wan Ho was invited to the Workshop on Agriculture and the
  Developing World of the US National Academies' Standing Committee on
  Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment, Washington DC, 16
  April 2001. Below is the paper she gave.

  Taking Science Seriously in the GM Debate

  Science in crisis

  If there is one thing that distinguishes the Third World from the
  industrialised countries, it is that they take science a lot more
  seriously than we do in the GM debate.

  I was researcher and university lecturer of genetics throughout the
  mid-1970s to the early1980s when new discoveries on the fluid genome made
  headlines every week. Researchers back then were building a new paradigm,
  dispelling once and for all the notion that a gene is constant and
  independent of context. The thought that a gene could be patented as an
  invention probably never crossed their mind. And if it did, they would
  have dismissed it as a joke. Craig Venter of Celera may have only just
  discovered that genetic determinism cannot deliver the goods after he's
  sequenced the human genome. But many of us knew that genetic determinism
  had died with the revelations of the fluid genome, if not before [1]. And
  now, almost two decades later, science is in crisis in more ways than one.

  The paradigm change that should have occurred, did not. On the contrary,
  the scientific establishment remained strongly wedded to genetic
  determinism, which has misguided genetic engineering, making even the most
  unethical applications appear compelling, such as therapeutic  human
  cloning, for one [2]. Bioethics became a contradiction in terms as rampant
  commercialisation of science took hold.

  Since the 1980s, preoccupation with patenting and start-up companies has
  compromised the quality of molecular genetics research, stifling basic
  science and innovation, and failing to serve the public good. Worse still,
  many scientists are consciously or unconsciously ignoring scientific
  evidence of the hazards. I got involved in the genetic engineering debate
  in 1994, to try to inform our policymakers and the public, and to start
  debate and discussion from within the scientific community.

  For the past seven years, I have had to follow developments in genetic
  engineering science much more carefully and extensively than many of the
  practitioners, only to find that all my fears concerning the problems and
  dangers of genetic engineering are being confirmed. I shall highlight some
  of these before going to discuss what needs to be done.

  Genetic engineering superviruses

  The top news in the Jan. 13 issue of the New Scientist [3] was on a deadly
  virus created accidentally by researchers in Canberra Australia, who were
  trying to genetic engineer a contraceptive vaccine for mice [4]. They
  spliced a gene for the protein interleukin-4 (IL-4) into a relatively
  harmless mousepox virus in the hope that IL-4 would boost the immune
  system. When they injected the recombinant virus into mice belonging to a
  strain genetically resistant to mouse-pox virus, all the mice died. IL-4
  suppressed both natural killer cells and cytotoxic lymphocytes responses
  to viral infection. The recombinant virus also killed 50% of the
  genetically resistant mice that were immunized against mouse-pox virus.

  That is not all. The IL-4 gene, spliced into the vaccinia virus, was found
  to delay clearance of the virus from experimental animals, and to
  undermine the animals  anti-viral defence [5,6]. Vaccinia and mouse-pox
  both belong to the family that contains the human smallpox virus, raising
  the spectre of biological warfare. But the far greater danger lies in the
  unintentional creation of deadly pathogens in the course of apparently
  innocent genetic engineering experiments.  Some scientists are already
  creating viruses deliberately in their laboratories, just to show it could
  be done, or in the course of cloning existing viruses [7].  And dangerous
  recombinant viruses and bacteria may also be inadvertently created in
  making vaccines against AIDS, as Yugoslav virologist Veljkovic has been
  warning since 1990 [8].

  The New Scientist editorial [9] accompanying the report remarked that five
  years ago, when biomedical researchers were asked if genetic engineering
  could create "a virus or bacteria more virulent than nature s worst",
  they replied it would be "difficult if not impossible".

  Some of us have been warning of accidents  such as this for at least the
  past six years. The basic tools of genetic engineering are bacteria,
  viruses and other genetic parasites that cause diseases and spread drug
  and antibiotic resistance. All that fall into the hands of genetic
  engineers are exploited.  Genes from dangerous agents, including
  antibiotic resistance genes, are profusely mixed and matched, or
  recombined. As every geneticist should know, recombination of genetic
  material is one of the main routes to creating new strains of bacteria and
  viruses, some of which may be pathogens. (The other route is mutation.)
  Moreover, the predominant orientation of genetic engineering in the past
  two decades has been to design artificial GM constructs and vectors that
  cross species barriers and invade genomes, both of which will enhance
  horizontal gene transfer and further increase the chance for
  recombination.

  We published a detailed review on the possible links between genetic
  engineering and the recent resurgence of drug and antibiotic resistant
  infectious diseases in 1998 [10]. We were by no means the first. Those who
  pioneered genetic engineering declared a moratorium in Asilomar in the
  mid- 1970s precisely because they were concerned about this dire
  possibility. Unfortunately, overwhelming pressures for commercial
  exploitation cut the moratorium short. The scientists set up guidelines,
  based largely on assumptions that have all fallen by the wayside as the
  result of new scientific findings.  The two most important findings are
  the persistence of nucleic acids in all environments including the gut of
  animals, and the ease with which nucleic acids can get into all cells,
  especially those of human beings, as shown in so-called gene therapy
  research [11].

  Instead of tightening the guidelines, our regulators have relaxed them.
  Transgenic wastes are being recycled as food, feed, fertilizer and
  landfills under the current EC Directive on Contained Use [12], and I
  would not be surprised if this applies also in the US. There is a lesson
  to be learned >from the 650 or more adverse reactions associated with gene
  therapy trials, including several deaths. The same kinds of constructs are
  made, whether it is to genetic engineer human beings or plants and
  animals, and the same crude first generation technology is used.

  The instability of transgenic lines

  The instability of transgenic lines has been well known since 1994,
  particularly in connection with gene silencing. This not only affects
  agronomic performance, but also safety. We have drawn attention to the
  structural instability of GM constructs in general, which may enhance
  horizontal gene transfer and recombination, especially because the
  cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter, present in practically all
  GM crops already commercialized or undergoing field trials, actually has a
  recombination hotspot. We raised our concerns in a series of scientific
  papers [13 -16].

  In the course of debating with plant molecular geneticists in UK's top
  research institute, the John Innes Centre (JIC), we discovered that the
  CaMV 35S promoter is active, not only in all plants, bacteria, algae and
  yeast, but also in animal and human cells [17,18]. None of our critics was
  aware that the promoter is active in human cells, including a molecular
  geneticist on the UK Agriculture & Environmental Biotechnology Commission
  set up to oversee our farmscale field trials [19].

  This year, researchers in JIC admitted in their annual report that GM
  crops are unstable and prone to recombination. But when we pointed this
  out [20], they issued a strong denial, and accused us of ignoring one of
  their papers where they claim to have demonstrated that transgenic rice
  lines are stable. I have since reviewed that paper in detail [21] and
  concluded, "A generous interpretation of the data presented would suggest
  that 7 out of 40 (18%)  transgenic rice lines may be stable to the R3
  generation." In other words, at least 82% of the lines are unstable. That
  paper is not at all exceptional in making claims in the abstract, and
  often in the title, which are not supported by the evidence presented
  [22]. No reply has come from the JIC since. My colleague, Prof. Joe
  Cummins has summarised more up-to-date literature showing that all GM
  crops may be unstable [23].

  Roundup Ready soya has consistently performed less well than non GM soya
  over the years, and this year's seeds are experiencing problems in
  germination, according to a report from the University of Missouri [24].

  Terminator crops at large

  Last December, I was asked to act as expert witness in defence of citizens
  who have taken civil action against GM crops which they strongly believe
  to be a threat to health and biodiversity. Among the crops were GM oilseed
  rape varieties used to produce F1 hybrids belonging to AgrEvo UK (now
  Aventis). At the time, I was also preparing a joint submission, with two
  other scientists, to the consultation document, "Guidance on Best Practice
  in the Design of GM Crops"  put out by the UK Government s Advisory
  Committee for Release to the Environment (ACRE). One of the main enabling
  technologies  for best practice  suggested in the document is precisely
  Agrevo's seed/pollen sterility system, for it prevents GM gene flow.

  It soon dawned on us that the GM oilseed rape lines undergoing field
  trials in the UK are engineered with terminator technology  - so named
  by critics because it renders harvested seeds sterile - for no other
  reason than to enforce corporate patents on GM seeds. Not only that,
  according to AgrEvo s application, similar crops produced by the company
  Plant Genetic Systems (PGS), a subsidiary of AgrEvo, have been undergoing
  field-trials in Europe since the beginning of 1990.

  In the US, similar male sterile lines engineered with the terminator-gene
  , barnase have been tested at least as early as 1992. There have been 115
  field trials, the vast majority done without risk assessment, as the first
  environmental assessment came up with FONSI  - Finding of No Significant
  Impact. Crops modified for male sterility include rapeseed, corn, tobacco,
  cotton. Brassica oleracea, potato, poplar, chicory, petunia and lettuce.
  The USDA commercial release data include 4 crops with barnase: a corn and
  a canola by AgrEvo, a chicory by Bejo, and another corn by Plant Genetic
  Systems.

  Separately, the other genetic component in terminator crops, site-specific
  recombinase, has also been engineered into corn and papaya, and there have
  been 14 field trials between 1994 and 1998, with no environmental impact
  assessment at all.

  There are more than 150 US patents listing barnase or site-specific
  recombination or both, the oldest, on site-specific recombinase, going
  back to 1987.

  The first terminator patents that came to public attention were those
  jointly owned by US Department of Agriculture and Delta and Pine Land
  Company, which Monsanto had intended to acquire. The novelty in those
  patents is the proposal to combine the terminator-gene system with the
  site-specific recombinase system, giving the company complete control over
  the hybrids as well as proprietary chemicals that control gene expression.

  As a result of universal condemnation and rejection, Monsanto had
  announced it will not commercialise terminator crops, to everyone s
  relief. Research and development, however, have continued unabated.
  Everyone has assumed such crops only exist in theory, when they have been
  out there for more than 10 years.

  It is no coincidence that simultaneous consultation went on in the United
  States on the USDA-Delta and Pine terminator patents. The USDA has since
  committed itself to commercial development of the technology, and, like
  the UK ACRE, also argued in its favour because it could prevent GM gene
  flow. But it cannot [24], because male sterile lines will be pollinated by
  non GM crops, and there is no way to prevent horizontal gene transfer.

  On the contrary, the increased complication of the constructs may enhance
  horizontal gene transfer and recombination. The genes and gene products
  themselves are also known to be harmful. The terminator-gene barnase kills
  cells by breaking down RNA, an intermediate in the expression of all
  genes. The recombinase, in theory, breaks and rejoins DNA at specific
  sites, but is far from accurate and can scramble genomes. A male
  transgenic mouse engineered with only one copy of Cre recombinase was 100%
  sterile, because the recombinase enzyme managed to scramble the genomes of
  both daughter spermatids when they are still connected by a cytoplasmic
  bridge [25]. The mouse genome does not even have the lox sites recognized
  by the Cre recombinase.

  Terminator insects give wings to genome invaders

  The US Department of Agriculture has approved field release of GM pink
  bollworms this summer, made with a mobile genetic element, piggyBac,
  already known to jump many species. The element was first discovered in
  cell cultures of the cabbage looper, where it caused high mutations of the
  baculovirus infecting the cells, by jumping into the viral genome. In
  experiments in silkworms, researchers already found evidence that the
  inserts were unstable, and had a tendency to move again from one
  generation to the next [26].

  "These artificial transposons are already aggressive genome invaders, and
  putting them into insects is to give them wings, as well as sharp
  mouthparts for efficient delivery to all plants and animals... The
  predictable result is rampant horizontal gene transfer and recombination
  across species barriers. The unpredictable unknown is what kinds of new
  deadly viruses might be generated, and how many new cases of insertion
  mutagenesis and carcinogenesis they may bring &" [27].

  "Food biotech is dead"

  I have presented only a small fraction of the scientific findings
  indicating problems and dangers specific to genetic engineering, which
  both the practitioners and regulators are ignoring or dismissing. These
  and other concerns have persuaded more than 410 scientists from 55
  countries around the world to sign an Open Letter to all Governments
  demanding a moratorium on environmental releases of GMOs because they are
  unsafe, and a ban on patenting life-forms and living processes because
  those patents are unethical. They also demand support for non-corporate,
  sustainable, organic agricultural methods that can truly bring food
  security and health for all (www.i-sis.org).

  Since we launched the Open Letter two years ago, the terms of the GM
  debate have shifted. It is no longer a moratorium that is needed. GMOs, as
  currently made, are unsafe and unsustainable, as well as immoral. We must
  abandon GM crops and all other attempts to genetic engineer plants,
  animals and human beings with a technology that is widely acknowledged to
  be unreliable, uncontrollable and unpredictable.

  Even the corporations are coming around to the view that "Food biotech is
  dead" [28]. One by one, Aventis, Monsanto and Syngenta have announced they
  will concentrate on genomics and marker assisted conventional breeding.
  Though meanwhile, they are still forcing the world, especially the Third
  World to accept GM crops.

  But the whole world is in revolt. The governments of Thailand and Sri
  Lanka, among others, have banned GM crops and GM imports. In Indonesia,
  armed guards had to be sent to protect Monsanto's shipment of cotton
  seeds, which have already been shown not to perform as well as the
  indigenous non GM variety [29]. In the Philippines, mass demonstrations
  are taking place against GMOs and the International Rice Research
  Institute (IRRI) by MASIPAG (Farmer Scientist Partnership for Development)
  and other ngos. They condemn IRRI for restructuring sound traditional
  practices over the past 40 years to make farmers dependent on chemical
  inputs produced by corporations, the same corporations that are now
  forcing GMOs on farmers with the help of IRRI [30]. People are demanding
  farmer's rights over the genetic resources in the collection and genebanks
  of IRRI and they renounce any form of IPR. Those sentiments are widely
  shared, not just all over the Third World, but in Europe and the United
  States.

  The organic revolution

  Europe is fed up with the intensive corporate agriculture that has brought
  BSE and the food and mouth epidemic now threatening to get out of control,
  and is going organic in earnest. The annual growth rate in organic
  agriculture in Europe from 1989 to 1999 averaged 25%, which, extrapolated
  forward, would lead to 10% of Western European agriculture being organic
  by 2005, and 30% by 2010 [31]. The same is happening in the rest of the
  world. As scientists, we must take all evidence seriously.

  Organic and sustainable agricultural practices and technologies are
  succeeding, documented in study after study, despite the appalling lack of
  research funding compared to the hundreds millions that have gone into
  biotech.  At least 3% of the arable land, some 28.9m hectares in Africa,
  Asia and Latin America are already farmed sustainably, with impressive
  gains in crop yield as well as social, economic and health benefits [32].
  Organic farming is also working well in the United States and Europe, with
  yields matching and even surpassing agrochemical agriculture. Organic
  farms are good for wild-life, supporting many more species of plants,
  songbirds butterflies spiders, earthworms [33]. We need organic farming
  for the world to feed itself and for the planet to regenerate and thrive.

  Sustainable agriculture is also important for alleviating, if not
  reversing global warming. A new report shows that sustainable agriculture
  can contribute significantly, not only to reducing consumption of fossil
  fuel, but increasing sequestration of carbon in the soil [34].

  Sustainable agriculture is predicated on a holistic, ecological
  perspective anathema to reductionist mechanistic science. Mechanistic
  science has been thoroughly discredited in the course of the 20th century.
  Mechanical physics went first of all with relativity and quantum physics.
  Biology was the last to go with the new genetics.

  The new genetics is radically ecological, organic and holistic.  That is
  why genetic engineering, at least in its current form, can never succeed.
  It is based on misconceptions that organisms are machines, and on a denial
  of the complexity and flexibility of the organic whole.

  The challenge for western scientists is to develop a holistic science to
  help revitalise all kinds of non-corporate sustainable agriculture and
  holistic medicine that can truly bring food security and health to the
  world.



  Visit ISIS website <http://www.i-sis.org>www.i-sis.org for complete list
  of references.


  The Institute of Science in Society www.isis.org
  Londonia House, 24 Old Gloucester  Street London, WC1N 3A1 UK

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Floyd W. Rudmin

Institute of Psychology
University of Tromsų
Tromsų, Norway, N-9037

Tel: +47 77 64 59 53
Email: FRudmin@...
FAX: +47 77 64 52 91

Following is a speech
delivered by David Grant the Training and Education Coordinator of
the International Fellowship of Reconciliation - IFOR.  This was at a
workshop organized by Vrouwen voor Vrede (Women
for Peace) at Utrecht, The Netherlands on March 29, 2001.
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The title of my speech is "We Are in the 'Decade' Now: What Can We Do About
It?"

The Decade includes the years 2001 through 2010, declared by the
United Nations to be for a "Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children
of the World". We are also in the New Millennium, at least for the majority
of the world who use the Gregorian calendar. It is a time of high
expectations and, despite the predominance of secularism, it is also a time
of spiritual awakening. Let me say, however, that I am not a True Believer
in any kind of Millennial Paradigm Shift. Playing off of a dictum by T.S.
Eliot, I would say: "Decades come and go and people speak of Michelangelo".
I was involved in the establishment of this Decade, but I know that the
United Nations can make all the declarations it wants but nothing will
change without a fundamental shift in the political, cultural and spiritual
will of large numbers of people. "Decades come and go". In the middle of
the push to have the UN declare this Decade, I was in London attending a
conference opening the Oxfam "Cut Conflict Campaign". Near where I stayed
was a small park with a statue of Gandhi in the middle. Nearby was a young
tree, about twenty years old, with a plaque beneath it saying: "Planted in
commemoration of the United Nations Year for Peace". My first thought was a
crestfallen one: "Oh, I didn't know there had already been a
declaration...and, unh, what happened back then as a result?" Years come and
go and people are still speaking of Michelangelo! So, all right, I am not a
True Believer, but I am a Dreamer. That's appropriate to me, culturally, as
a North American: full of big ideas and naive enough to believe we can make
peace and nonviolence a reality. This brings up a series of interesting
questions which I would like to pose to you. I'd like to take a reading of
your opinions relating to the subject of war and peace. I am going to ask
some questions and I would like you to give your opinion by either remaining
seated or by standing up. First a couple of examples to get you in the swing
of it: "Are you male? If so, stand up." Good. You can sit down. You might
think that is a simple yes-or-no question, but I have read that some
psychologists identify five different biological sex identities. That's not
our subject but I mention it because, if we are talking about a culture of
peace and nonviolence, the need to go beyond dualistic thinking is a crucial
keystone. So, let's try another more obviously complicated question. This
time you can choose an in-between place. You can give a range of opinions.
At one extreme, you can stand up on your tiptoes and stretch both hands as
high as you can. At the other extreme, you can remain seated, immobile,
sitting on your hands. And if you feel somewhere in between, you can signify
that by taking a position anywhere between those two extremes. The question
is: "Are you young or old? The younger you are, the more you should stand
up; the older you are, the more you should sit down." OK, take your
position. Notice where your neighbors place themselves. OK, you can sit
down. We come quickly to gradations and nuance. I am sure some of you asked
yourselves: "Young in body? Young in mind? Young in spirit?" The question
itself was open to interpretation. Let us recognize that this is always so,
even though we often forget it ... especially during times of strife and
struggle we forget about wide ranges of interpretation. All right, now you
understand how this sit-down-or-stand-up opinion poll works. Now I will ask
a few questions directly to the point regarding aculture of peace and
nonviolence. If you agree with the statement fully, stand up with your hands
in the air. If you disagree with this statement completely, remain seated.
And if you are neither in full agreement or disagreement, take an
appropriate position in-between. The statement is: "Human nature is
fundamentally benevolent." Take your position. Will the person standing with
hands in the air, please explain why you take that position? Will the person
sitting down, with their hands underneath, please explain why you take that
position? Will a person taking a middle position, please explain why you
take that position? Thank you. Please all be seated. The next question is
close to the previous one, but not the same. Again, if you agree, stand. If
you disagree, sit. Or take a position in-between. The statement is: "Humans
are biologically prone to competition." Will the person standing with hands
in the air, please explain why you take that position? Will the person
sitting down, with their hands underneath, please explain why you take that
position? Will a person taking a middle position, please explain why you take
that position? Thank you. Please all be seated. OK, one more question. If
you agree, stand. If you disagree, sit. Or be in-between. The statement is:
"Conflict is desirable." Will the person standing with hands in the air,
please explain why you take that position? Will the person sitting down,
with their hands underneath, please explain why you take that position? Will
a person taking a middle position, please explain why you take that
position? Thank you. Please all be seated. All right, now we all have a
better idea of "where we stand" on some fundamental perspectives regarding
human nature. These ideas will certainly influence how we variously respond
to questions and demands raised by a "Decade for a Culture of Peace and
Nonviolence for the Children of the World".  I'd like to now move into the
specifics of the Decade. First an overview of how the Decade came to be.
Then something about where it stands now. And finally some thoughts about
where it might be going. In early 1996 I visited UNESCO's Culture of Peace
Program office in Paris. One of the first remarks from the program officer
was to acknowledge the long and honorable history of the International
Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) -- for which I then worked. Later I
learned that the program officer, David Adams was the major organizer behind
the Seville Statement.In the late 1980's Adams organized a conference of
psychologists and social scientists which determined that there is no
scientific evidence to support the belief that humans are biologically
inclined toward warfare. Out of that meeting in Paris came the request for
IFOR to provide an official representative to UNESCO, someone in the region
able to contribute to small advisory meetings with the Culture of Peace
Program. We chose Pierre Marchand to be that representative.Twenty years
earlier, with the support of IFOR among others, Pierre had founded Partage,
an organization for the welfare of children worldwide. In the twenty years
since its founding Partage has grown to be a major French charitable
organization. Pierre is a visionary and an activist. He had latched on to an
idea presented at the 1992 IFOR Council that the UN should declare a Year
for Nonviolence. He took this idea to his spiritual teacher, the Vietnamese
Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, who recommended the Year be "for the children of
the world" since children represented the future and would be the ones to
implement a new culture. Pierre also got in contact with IFOR member and
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire from Northern Ireland. They developed
an "Appeal from the Nobel Peace Laureates", asking that the UN declare a
whole decade, not just a year. With the help of a sizeable anonymous
donation and using his logistic base at Partage, Pierre then was able to
travel widely to seek the support  of every living Nobel Peace Laureate. He
succeeded in this, the first time that all Nobel Peace Laureates had signed
a common document. He also had quite some adventures along the way. To reach
Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in Burma, he had to bluff his way by a
cordon of soldiers. When he got to Mother Theresa in Calcutta he was told
that she signed no appeals, that she was sick and was receiving no visitors.
But the nun learned of his mission, the nun took the appeal in and Mother
Theresa signed it. After the signatures were collected, UN Ambassadors had
to be lobbied. A leader among them was the Ambassador from Bangladesh.
Behind closed doors there were, of course, major battles about wording. Most
important to us was the inclusion of the word "nonviolence" in the text. As
you are aware, the term "peace" has been mis-used to support
militarism,Especially through the slogan: "Peace Through Strength". But
"nonviolence" is much more difficult to misuse. Thanks to the tenacity of
David Adams and of Pierre Marchand, the term "nonviolence" stayed in. Pierre
was also insistent upon the title including "for the children of the world".
For me and many others, this made for a title too long and unwieldy.And
furthermore it seems to me impossible for children to learn nonviolence if
their elders are practicing the opposite. Pierre, however, made the point
that it was only because the decade was "for the children of the world" that
he could get the ambassadors to include the word "nonviolence". This is one
of those points that makes me smirk cynically and deletes me from the ranks
of the True Believers. In other words, it might be said, "nonviolence" is
only acceptable if it is for children! All right, that is not the intended
meaning, but these kinds of diplomatic games had to be played. At the same
time as this push was being made for the UN General Assembly to declare the
Decade, the Culture of Peace Program at UNESCO had independently declared
the year 2000 as a "Year for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence". A central
part of this effort was the writing of "Manifesto 2000". Eventually this
UNESCO "Year" and the UN "Decade" were merged. Because this "Manifesto 2000"
has become the introductory document for this culture of peace and
nonviolence, I want to read it in its entirety. It is a pledge which UNESCO
had hoped would be signed by 100 million people in the year 2000. I looked
at their website and found that they reached 75% of their goal:
74,635,783...which is a bit more than 1% of humanity. As I read the
Manifesto, please consider two things: first, whether or not you yourself
could sign it, if you have not already; and second, listen for points which
are open to conflicting interpretations. "Because the year 2000 must be a
new beginning, an opportunity to transform -- all together -- the culture of
war and violence into a culture of peace and nonviolence. Because this
transformation demands the participation of each and every one of us, and
must offer young people and future generations the values that can inspire
them to share a world based on justice, solidarity, liberty, dignity,
harmony and prosperity for all. Because the culture of peace can underpin
sustainable development, environmental protection and the well-being of each
person. Because I am aware of my share of responsibility for the future of
humanity, in particular to the children of today and tomorrow ... I pledge
in my daily life, in my family, my work, my community, my country and
my region, to: 1.) Respect all life. Respect the life and dignity of each
human being without discrimination or prejudice. 2.) Reject violence.
Practice active non-violence, rejecting violence in all its forms: physical,
sexual, psychological, economical and social, in particular towards the most
deprived and vulnerable, such as children and adolescents. 3.) Share with
others. Share my time and material resources in a spirit of generosity to
put an end to exclusion, injustice and political and economic oppression. 4.)
Listen to understand. Defend freedom of expression and cultural diversity,
giving preference always to dialogue and listening without engaging in
fanaticism, defamation and the rejection of others. 5.) Preserve the planet.
Promote consumer behavior that is responsible and development practices that
respect all forms of life and preserve the balance of nature on the planet.
6.) Rediscover solidarity. Contribute to the development of my community,
with the full participation of women and respect for democratic principles,
in order to create together new forms of solidarity." That is the pledge in
its entirety. The short Version, to repeat and simplify is: 1.) Respect all
Life; 2.) Reject violence; 3.) Share with others; 4.) Listen to understand;
5.) Preserve the planet; 6.) Rediscover solidarity. In the UN General
Assembly's resolution declaring the Decade eight specific areas of action
were named: education; sustainable economic and social development; human
rights; gender equality; democratic participation; understanding, tolerance
and solidarity; participatory communication and the free flow of information
and knowledge; and international peace and security. Now the question is:
"How useful is all of this?" My answer is: "It is yet to be seen". During my
university years in the early 70's I remember taking a brand new
interdisciplinary seminar based on a document which none of us peace
activists had heard of. The document was called the "Universal Declaration
of Human Rights". It was already 25 years old. I remember the scepticism we
had about that mere "declaration". But now, especially thanks to Amnesty
International, it has become a widely recognised standard of measure. I
hope, however, that it does not take 50 years for the "Decade" to reach such
recognition. The task now, of course, is implementation. During the past
year, some organizations have made the "Decade" central to their working
policy. The Nobel Peace Laureates Appeal Committee has presented a plan for
every municipality, worldwide, to institute peace education programs in all
schools by the year 2010.Most UNESCO and UN activities are directed towards
Educational institutions. In some countries, including the Netherlands,
there are "Platforms" formed to support and coordinate the "Decade". Some
activities are local, such as addressing domestic violence, street
criminality, pestering in schools and attacks against minorities. Other
activities are national or international, such as those addressing the arms
trade, traffic in humans or nuclear disarmament. Consideration is being
given to hold another global conference like the Earth Summit in Rio or the
Women's Summit in Beijing. Through such awareness-raising events, the issues
of the environment and of women's rights were firmly brought to global
consciousness.The issue of active non-violence could provide an even more
fundamental support to both of those issues, as well as to all issues of
social injustice, even the most difficult: economic justice. Manifesto point
number 3: "Share with others". Another initiative in relation to the Decade
is the attempt to establish a Nonviolent Peace Force. Although peacekeeping
is defined by some as a military function, Gandhi proposed to accomplish
peacekeeping via nonviolent means. There are several "versions" of This
Nonviolent Peace Force which are being talked about. At the most extreme
pacifist end of the spectrum is Gandhi's idea that satyagrahis -- "those
working through the power of truth" -- would insert themselves between
battling armies, offering themselves up as martyrs, and thus bringing such
moral indignation upon the contending parties that they would, eventually,
stop killing each other...and the satyagrahis that stood between them. It is
important to remember that Gandhi always maintained that India could very
well have gained its independence by violent revolutionary force, but that
the cost in bloodshed would have been much, much higher than it was using
active nonviolence. He makes the same argument for an unarmed peace force.
And he himself practiced it, especially in his walk in old age between and
among the battling Hindus and Muslims immediately after independence. And,
as you know, he himself paid the price, as a satyagrahi martyr. Martin
Luther King and the present chair of the U.S. Fellowship of Reconciliation,
James Lawson, also made plans for a standing nonviolent "peace army"
(Gandhi's Hindu term was "Shanti Sena"). They planned for 10,000 trained,
unarmed "peace soldiers". Since then, the vision for what these "soldiers"
would do has broadened beyond merely standing between combatants.Such a
"peace force" would be trained to actively intervene through dialogue,
modelling behaviors, the cultural arts, conflict management skills,
multi-track diplomacy, anti-violence media campaigns and so on. The
organization Search for Common Ground, for instance, has developed what it
calls a "toolbox" with "seventeen conflict resolution strategies that
work".I can even envision a commercially-viable "Shanti Sena" able to put
today's arms salesmen and mercenaries out of business! I have gone to enough
international conferences in the past few years to know that there is a
groundswell of interest in unarmed means of preventing and intervening --
and even in settling -- violent conflict. The OSCE Verifier Mission to Kosovo
was, in my opinion, an experimental prototype of what a large-scale
nonviolent intervention might be. Although that effort was judged as
ineffective, I have heard from those who were there that that judgement is
far from fully accurate. Another "big idea" which also has the appeal of
being visible and specific is "zones of peace". President Arias of Costa
Rica has worked towards establishing all of Central America as a "zone of
peace". His country has for long taken the lead by governing itself for
decades now without an army. Another proposal is to create a similar zone of
peace through Central Europe. Of course "zones of peace" could also be much
more local. When I was at UNESCO headquarters I heard the story of a French
Minister who had telephoned the Culture of Peace office, urgently requesting
immediate delivery of some books the office had published. The Minister
dispatched police to pick up the books. But the police were refused entry to
the UNESCO building because it is a zone of peace. No arms are allowed
inside. A building can be declared a zone of peace as well. As one who holds
a passport from the U.S. of A. I feel obliged to point out that the U.S.
government claims a moral superiority for itself to the point of holding the
world hostage to its huge stockpile of nuclear weapons. Given such documents
as the World Court's ruling on nuclear weapons, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and now the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for
the Children of the World...and for all living beings, of course...I see no
reason why we are not all engaged in some kind of Plowshares action, or at
least engaged in an embargo similar to the one inflicted upon Iraq for its
puny attempt to create a few of its own weapons of mass destruction. Having
made this comparison -- which I realize is flawed, but useful nonetheless --
I ask you to recall the questions I asked at the beginning. Fundamental
questions about your standing in regards violence and nonviolence. I also
asked you to consider the contradictions in the Manifesto. Where does love
for one's self and one's fellow citizen fit when one lives in a system of
oppression? Where are the lines drawn for solidarity when there are many
sides, all with perpetrators and victims? How responsible can one be for
deeds committed in one's name or by one's ancestors or by one's culture? I
have talked long enough. But there is one thing I want to show you. One of
the problems encountered by Peace Brigades International (PBI) in its
nonviolent accompaniment of people threatened with death is that PBI has
relied upon the presence of white-skinned -- and thus "high-status" -- good
willing internationals willing to risk their lives for what they believe
in.Often this reliance upon white-skinned individuals has been demanded by
the people whom PBI has accompanied. But a Nonviolent Peace Force must be
multi-colored. The "status" of its members must come from the moral
authority it will carry as third-party neutrals willing to sacrifice, in the
same way as a military soldier is willing to risk  his life for love of
family and country, but without willing to kill others who are loved by
their family and country. What is needed to make it easier to forget about
the ethnic background of a member of the Nonviolent Peace Force is, simply,
a uniform. Here is a prototype. {put on Nonviolent Peace Force robe} "No
army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come". -Victor
Hugo(1802 - 1885)


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Floyd W. Rudmin

Institute of Psychology
University of Tromsų
Tromsų, Norway, N-9037

Tel: +47 77 64 59 53
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>a student may not be qualified. If students are  substantial collaborators on
>the project, we expect to review each one's c.v.  and list of publications,
>as with other professional collaborators. Student  assistants must be paid
>only for the work they do, and at reasonable rates  for junior researchers.
>We do not contribute to tuition remission or other  university fees related
>to their status as students. Please do not try to  hide tuition remission
>costs under the category of "benefits." Fees for  "consultants" are generally
>not allowed: if the principal investigator cannot  do the work without expert
>advice, then we consider that she may not be the  right person for the
>project.
>
>Our grants are not for team projects or  for institutional programs. Contrary
>to what some applicants appear to think,  when the c.v.'s of ten people
>appear in the personnel section of the  application, we regard the project as
>work done by committee and  automatically downgrade our expectations for its
>effectiveness. Such projects  are rarely funded.
>
>Salaries:
>
>In most cases a grant from us is not  enough fully to replace an average
>university professor's salary in the U.S.  We generally do not fund projects
>that take up an investigator's full-time  effort. Except in cases of extended
>fieldwork, archival research away from  home, sustained writing projects, or
>other intensive work, most projects  proposed to us do not appear to involve
>a full-time commitment, and even then  our grants are usually not large
>enough to replace a full salary. It is  allowable to ask for supplementation
>to a sabbatical half-pay, up to what we  allow. However, as we evaluate your
>proposal we will consider whether the  work really does need your full time.
>The grant will not be made if we  consider that the project you describe to
>us can be done with sabbatical  leave or other support you already have.
>
>Applicants without a salaried  job are instructed to request a salary
>commensurate with local rates for a  person with comparable qualifications:
>avoid overestimating your value, refer  to levels of compensation that are
>appropriate in your geographical area, and  ask for support only for the
>amount of your time the project will  require.
>
>Part-time Salaries:
>
>University professors are expected to  do a certain amount of research
>already compensated by the salary they  receive for their principal
>employment. Requests for 2%, 5%, or even 10% of a  researcher's time appear
>to add nothing to the active scholarly engagement  available for a project
>and often add up to large sums. Any project that  budgets 10% or less of the
>applicant's time will not be a priority for the  foundation. As well, our
>grants are not made to top up full salaries received  for full-time
>employment, even if you might otherwise be using your free time  for other
>activities. This includes requests for summer salaries (see below.)  A salary
>is only justified if paid work will be given up to free time for  the
>specific research project proposed to us. In these cases, we need to  know
>your base salary, the duties you are expected to fulfill, what you will  give
>up in duties and salary to conduct the research proposed, and how  that
>relates to the salary requested from us.
>
>Summer  Salaries:
>
>While on occasion a summer salary is necessary to the conduct  of a research
>project, in general, requests for summer salaries are not a  priority for the
>foundation, since we consider that most university  professors are expected
>to conduct research during the time they do not teach  but continue drawing a
>salary in the summer. We do not intend for our grants  to add to your regular
>salary. If you request summer salary, please explain  why the project cannot
>be conducted without such compensation. And unless you  are doing something
>for which you should be paid, don't ask for a summer  salary. Supervising a
>student assistant (who is really doing all the work) is  not justification
>for expecting a salary supplement in the summer. In any  event, don't ask for
>more than two-ninths (2/9) of your nine-month base  salary, even if you plan
>to work on the project for three summer months, and  keep to a ceiling of
>$10,000 no matter what your base salary. If you are paid  more than $100,000
>for the nine-month school year, don't ask us for any  supplement. If your
>fringe benefits are paid by your employer throughout the  summer whether or
>not you have acquired a supplement, don't ask for fringe  benefits. We do not
>intend for our grants to reduce the university's regular  costs of employing
>you.
>
>Double Dipping:
>
>This foundation is not  an appropriate source of support for applicants who
>must maintain a home  residence during extensive periods of field research or
>for any other reason  require full salary as well as full per diem living
>expenses over most of the  period of the grant. Salary should not be
>requested during fieldwork if  fieldwork comprises more than 25% of the grant
>period and per diem expenses  are also being requested.
>
>Equipment and Supplies:
>
>Ask only for  equipment and supplies needed for this research project. While
>not all  requests are as clearly fictional as the recent application with a
>budget  line of $1000 for "pens, pencils, etc.," we do not consider general
>office  supplies to be essential to a research project. Nor do we want to buy
>you a  personal computer or any other equipment unless it is necessary to
the
>project and unavailable otherwise. Note that the resale value of  any
>equipment that initially costs more than $1000 must be returned to  the
>foundation at the end of the grant period. Calculate the costs of  this
>particular project: if the phone bill is to be paid, tell us what  the
>telephone will be used for in connection with this particular research  and
>how you arrived at the total requested. Likewise, costs for  postage,
>copying, supplies, travel. Rather than asking for $2000 for "trip  to
>England," tell us what the anticipated airfare, lodging, transportation,  and
>other essential costs will be, and ask for their sum. A reference  to
>"computer time" in a previous budget memo has elicited requests  for
>thousands of dollars for such an item from applicants who have not, when  we
>asked, been able to describe what it means. Budget items  for
>"miscellaneous," "unanticipated costs," "inflation," etc. are not  allowed.
>
>Real Secretarial Help:
>
>It is appropriate to ask for  secretarial help if a clerical assistant has
>tasks to do that are  specifically related to the research project proposed.
>If so, describe that  work and include a c.v. for the person to be employed.
>General office  support, calculated as a percentage of a secretary's regular
>salary, is not  an allowable budget item.
>
>In conclusion, please remember that these  restrictions exist in order to
>maximize the number of projects that can be  supported. When you strip your
>request of $1000 in unnecessary supplies, that  $1000 can be offered to
>someone else for expenses essential to their  research. If you are not
>working at least 40 hours a week, nine months of the  year on a project, it
>is unfair to request a full salary. If your research  assistants are paid a
>large salary for a small amount of work to help them  with living expenses
>while in school, your charitable contribution to their  welfare is a loss to
>a student doing real work on another research project.  And if you submit a
>budget that contradicts any of these carefully described  guidelines, we will
>have reason to think of you as a careless reader and  thoughtless applicant.
>This will inevitably be reflected in our estimation of  the potential of your
>scholarship.
>
>Further Information
>
>Requests  for further information should be directed to The Harry Frank
>Guggenheim  Foundation, 527 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, or by
>telephone to  (212) 644-4907, or fax to (212) 644-5110. To discuss an
>application in  detail, call or write to our program officers. More
>information is also  available on our website http://www.hfg.org.
>
>
>

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Floyd W. Rudmin

Institute of Psychology
University of Tromsų
Tromsų, Norway, N-9037

Tel: +47 77 64 59 53
Email: FRudmin@...
FAX: +47 77 64 52 91