To Mr. Koffi Anan,
We the undersigned, Israeli citizens, demand an urgent meeting of the UN
Security Council
to discuss the deteriorating situation in the occupied territories. Recent
and current US
policies in the region prove that the US is unable to act as a sole and
fair broker in the
Middle East conflict. Therefore, we call upon the UN Security Council to
take a mandatory
decision to deploy immediately emergency intervention forces to stop the
bloodshed and
the widening circle of violence and revenge.
We believe that without a decisive, immediate and impartial international
intervention,
the circle of violence will expand and endanger the whole area. There is a
palpable danger
of massacres of hundreds of innocent people. The goal of the intervention
of international
forces must be to impose an immediate cease-fire, and to separate Israeli
and Palestinian
forces.
We are aware that no intervention can be effective without a clear
political plan for
action. We suggest that such a plan should be shaped according to the
following path:
- Israeli forces will withdraw from areas A and B and adjacent areas,
that
will be
occupied by the UN intervention forces. The Israeli withdrawal must be
total, including
the dismantlement of the Jewish settlements in the vicinities of areas A
and B. The
redeployment must create a territorial continuity of liberated
Palestinian
areas that
will be empty of IDF and Jewish settlers.
- The Palestinian Authorities will declare a comprehensive cease-fire.
- The international forces will be deployed aiming to separate between
the
IDF and the
Palestinian civilian population, thus protecting them and preventing
further hostilities
and futile bloodshed.
- An international Conference will be convened by the UN in order to
discuss the
implementation of the relevant UN resolutions, including the withdrawal of
the Israeli
forces to the 4th of June 1967 borders, the management of the Holy places,
the just
solution of the refugees question and the establishment of a fully
independent Palestinian
State with it's capital in East Jerusalem.
We urge you to intervene immediately; every hour more and more innocent
people are
dying!
Signatures:
Lev Grinberg - Jerusalem
Yehudith Harel - Ramat Ha Sharon
Anat Bilecki - Jaffa
Danny Rabinowitz - Tel Aviv
Hatem Knaaneh - Shfa'amer
Aharon Eviatar - Hofit
Nitzan Rabinowitz - Ramat Hasharon
Ron Kuzar - Jerusalem
Gihad Bishara - Nazarreth
Adi Ophir - Tel Aviv
Orli Lubin - Tel Aviv
Anat Matar - Ramat HaSharon
Idith Zertal - Tel Aviv
Baruch Kimmerling - Jerusalem
Oren Yiftachel - Beer Sheva
Sarit Helman - Beer Sheva
Zalman Amit - Tel Aviv
Daphna Levit - Tel Aviv
Menucha Morawitz, Ramat gan
Micha Kovler, Tel Aviv
Noga Ariel, Tel aviv
Batia Seroussi, Tel Aviv,
Ruben Seroussi, Tel Aviv
Alan Traister
Ronny Talmor, Bazra
Nir Eyal , Oxford, UK
Ouzi Dekel, Paris
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv
Carmi Lecker, Jerusalem
Lynn Schler, Tel Aviv
Greg Kopels, Tel Aviv
Yonatan Amitay, Toronto, CA
Reuven Choshen, Tl Aviv
Naama Carmi, Maagan Michael
Lea Tsemel, Jerusalem
Michael Warschawski, Jerusalem
Mary Schweitzer, Kfar Saba
Yifat Solel, Tel Aviv
Ariella Friedman, Ramat Hasharon
Uri Avnery, Tel-Aviv
Rachel Avnery, Tel Aviv
Adam Keller, Holon
Beate Zilversmidt, Holon