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As of Friday morning, more than 360,000 petitions have been
sent!
Please
add your voice to the thousands who are demanding: Stop the massacre
in Gaza!
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the Petition Online Now - http://www.iacenter.org/gazapetition
Join the ONLINE PETITION initiated by Ramsey
Clark - sign on and send the message to
President Bush, President-Elect Obama, VP Cheney, VP-Elect Biden,
Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of State designate Clinton,
Congressional leaders, the U.N. Secretary General, Security Council, the
Israeli President, Prime Minister and cabinet, and members of the world
media appealing for Israel to Immediately Cease Its Murderous Bombing,
Siege and Threatened Invasion of Palestinian Gaza
Urgent Appeal for
Israel to Immediately Cease Its
Murderous Bombing, Siege and Threatened Invasion of Palestinian
Gaza!
To: President George W. Bush,
President-Elect Barack Obama, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice,
Secretary of State Designate Hillary Clinton, Vice President Richard
Cheney, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Congressional leaders, U.N.
Secretary General Ban, U.N. General Assembly President
d'Escoto-Brockmann, members of the U.N. Security Council, U.N. member
states, the President, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Opposition leader of
Israel, and Major media representatives:
For 60 years,
Israel has persecuted the
Palestinian people with impunity in defiance of United Nations General
Assembly and United Nations Security Council Resolutions, orders of the
International Court of Justice, International Law and fundamental human
rights.
Throughout the years, Israel has proclaimed itself
the victim as it grew richer, more powerful and more violent,
while
Palestinians
were abused, impoverished, divided and demeaned.
A consistent
tactic of Israel through all the years
has been to divide Palestinians against their most effective
organizations. Through most of the recent years Israel has attacked Fatah. Now
it is Hamas that Israel attacks. But there is
only one Palestinian people and there can be only one
Palestinian State. This has been the
guiding principle of the PLO. Israel's policy has always
been to destroy the possibility of a Palestinian State. Its criminal assault
on Hamas is in truth Israel's continuing assault on
the possibility of a Palestinian State: divide and
conquer.
Now in the waning days of the disastrous Bush
Administration, the government of Israel with its Prime Minister under
criminal indictment, is testing whether world opinion will permit it to
escalate its isolation and impoverishment of Palestine and selective and
systematic assassination of Palestinian leadership in Gaza to a
genocidal, indiscriminate assault and invasion of Palestinian Gaza,
knowing full well its acts will inflame passions throughout the Middle
East and Arab and Muslim worlds risking conflict of disastrous magnitude
in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, even between India
and Pakistan.
Beyond crushing Gaza's capacity to resist and
imposing its final solution on Palestinians, Israel is seeking
confrontation that will lead to war with the U.S., the European Union,
and NATO fighting for Israel against Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan and
Afghanistan to impair their ability to prevent expansion of Israel's
domination of the region while the "only one President at a time" the
U.S. has, George W. Bush, will support Israel, finding all fault with
Gaza.
In these dangerous and difficult days and hours the
undersigned call upon the United Nations, the United States, the
European Union, NATO members, and European countries independently, the
governments of Asia, foremost China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, the
nations of Africa, and the Americas to demand an immediate ceasefire
throughout Israel and Palestine and the assurance of peace. All borders
to Gaza, Israel, Egypt and the
Mediterranean Sea, must be opened for
humanitarian relief and a complete arms and trade embargo on
Israel until it fully complies
with all the requirements of permanent peace.
We call upon all
the people, the ultimate power in every nation when organized and
energized, to take to the streets where they live and demand that their
governments do all in their power to cause Israel to stop its war of
aggression against Palestine and for all parties to pursue peace and for
Israel, the U.S. and other nations who have provided material support
for Israel's aggression to be held accountable for the deaths, injuries
and damage Israel has inflicted.
We call upon governments and
humanitarian agencies to provide all needed emergency relief to
Palestine - medical care, food,
humanitarian supplies, shelter; and on all the media that truly seeks
peace, justice and respect for the equal dignity of every child, woman
and man on earth to headline the demand that Israel stop its aggression
immediately. All parties must engage in continuous negotiation with all
Palestinians until a one state solution is agreed or the state of
Palestine as mandated not later
than October 1948 in UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947) is
created, fully implemented, and Palestine
thrives.
Sincerely,
Initiated and signed
by
Ramsey
Clark, winner, 2008 U.N.Human Rights Award and
Founder, International Action Center
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