Posted by Tony from ? (167.88.192.30) on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 11:03AM :
In Reply to: "Israeli government may be..." posted by Lilly from ? (160.129.27.22) on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 10:40AM :
Have you heard of any Israelie protesting anywhere against Isralie government?
: Urgent warning: The Israeli government may be contemplating crimes
: against humanity.
:
: We, members of Israeli academe, are horrified by US buildup of
: aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's
: enthusiastic support for it.
: We are deeply worried by indications that the "fog of war" could be
: exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against
: the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing.
: The Israeli ruling coalition includes parties that promote "transfer"
: of the Palestinian population as a solution to what they call "the
: demographic problem". Politicians are regularly quoted in the media as
: suggesting forcible expulsion, most recently MKs Michael Kleiner and
: Benny Elon, as reported on Yediot Ahronot website on September 19,
: 2002. In a recent interview in Ha'aretz, Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon
: described the Palestinians as a "cancerous manifestation" and equated
: the military actions in the Occupied Territories with "chemotherapy",
: suggesting that more radical "treatment" may be necessary. Prime
: Minister Sharon has backed this "assessment of reality". Escalating
: racist demagoguery concerning the Palestinian citizens of Israel may
: indicate the scope of the crimes that are possibly being contemplated.
: We call upon the International Community to pay close attention to
: events that unfold within Israel and in the Occupied Territories, to
: make it absolutely clear that crimes against humanity will not be
: tolerated, and to take concrete measures to prevent such crimes from
: taking place.
: Signatories, as of the 23 Sept 2002, morning:
: Prof. Zach Adam, Rehovot
: Prof. Colman Altman, Haifa
: Dr. Janina Altman, Haifa
: Tammy Amiel-Houser, Tel Aviv
: Chaya Amir, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Shmuel Amir, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Daniel Amit, Jerusalem/Rome
: Yali Amit, Chicago
: Dr. Meir Amor, Montreal, Canada
: Dr. Yonathan (Jon) Anson, Beer Sheva
: Prof. Shalom Baer, Jerusalem
: Dan Bar-On, Beer Sheva
: Dr. Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Jerusalem
: Prof. Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv
: Avi Berg, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Hod Hasharon
: Prof. Anat Bilezki, Tel Aviv
: Uri Bitan, Haifa
: Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley
: Prof. Victoria Buch, Jerusalem
: Smadar Carmon, Toronto
: Dr. Nicole Cohen-Addad, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Uri Davis, Sakhnin
: Athena Elizabeth DeRasmo, Haifa
: Prof. Aharon Eviatar, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Ovadia Ezra. Tel Aviv
: Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Jerusalem
: Pnina Firestone, Jerusalem
: Elizabeth Freund, Jerusalem
: Gadi Geiger, Cambridge, MA, USA
: Dr. Amira Gelblum, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Anat Goldrat-First, Netanya
: Dr. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Neve Gordon, Beer Sheva
: Dr. Yerah Gover, New York
: Prof. Charles W. Greenbaum, Jerusalem
: Dr. Lev Grinberg, Beer Sheva
: Ran HaCohen, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem, Jerusalem
: Dr. Sara Helman, Beer Sheva
: Prof. Hanna Herzog, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Ze'ev Herzog, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Hannan Hever, Jerusalem
: Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Jerusalem
: Shirly Houser, Tel Aviv
: Tal Itzhaki, Haifa
: Prof. Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv
: Andrea Jacobs, Austin, Texas
: Dr. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Haifa
: Aya Kaniuk, Jerusalem
: Prof. Jacob Katriel, Haifa
: Prof. Tamar Katriel, Haifa
: Prof. Baruch Kimmerling, Jerusalem
: Dr. Haggai Kupermintz, Boulder, Colorado
: Dr. Ron Kuzar, Haifa
: Dr. Ariela Lazar, Evanston
: Prof. Micah Leshem, Haifa
: Erez Levkovitz, Jerusalem
: Prof. Rene Levy, Lausanne
: Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Ruchama Marton, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jerusalem
: Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Jerusalem
: Menucha Moravitz, Ramat-Gan
: Regev Nathansohn, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Avraham Oz, Haifa
: Dr. Ilan Pappe, Haifa
: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
: Shakhar Rahav, Berkeley
: Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Beer Sheva
: Prof. Zvi Razi, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Fanny-Michaela Reisin, Berlin
: Prof. Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Henry Rosenfeld, Haifa
: Dr. Maya Rosenfeld, Jerusalem
: Ouzi Rotem, Philadelphia
: Dr. Hannah Safran, Haifa
: Tami Sarfatti, UCLA
: Dr. Nita Schechet, Jerusalem
: Hillel Schocken, Tel Aviv
: Ruben Seroussi, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Erella Shadmi,Beit Berl
: Prof. Nomi Shir, Beer Sheva
: Dr. Miriam Shlesinger, Tel Aviv
: Aharon Shabtai, Tel Aviv
: Orly Soker, Sapir-Jerusalem
: Nurit Steinfeld, Jerusalem
: Roman Vater, Tel Aviv
: Dr. Roy Wagner, Tel-Aviv
: Dr. Michael Yogev, Haifa
: Kim Yuval, Tel Aviv
: Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, Jerusalem
: Michal Zweig, Herzelia
-- Tony
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