The Palestine Solidarity Campaign notes that a government has been elected in Israel which:

• Refuses to acknowledge Palestine’s right to exist
• Proclaims its intention to unilaterally declare borders based on land theft and ethnic cleansing
• Proclaims its intention to maintain an illegal occupation
• Promotes the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine
• Disclaims all responsibility for the historic injustice perpetrated on the Palestinian people when the State of Israel was established
• Steals and annexes large tracts of Palestinian land
• Promotes targeted assassinations
• Destroys Palestinian homes and livelihoods
• Consistently violates international law and ignores UN resolutions

We demand that sanctions be applied by the international community including freezing of all Israel’s assets and a total arms and trade embargo until Israel recognises the right of Palestine to exist and begins to abide by international human rights law including the Geneva Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Only the implementation of all or any of the above sanctions would end Israel’s impunity and demonstrate that the attitude and actions of the Israeli government are deplored by our own government and the international community.

As Gideon Levy pointed out in Ha’aretz (March 26):

"An absolute majority of MKs in the next Knesset do not believe in peace, nor do they even want it - just like their voters - and worse than that, don't regard Palestinians as equal human beings. Racism has never had so many open supporters. It's the real hit of this election campaign."

The new government of Israel has been elected on exactly the same platform as its 17 predecessors since 1948, as exemplified by David Ben Gurion’s statement:

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."

-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX
Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Web: www.palestinecampaign.org