Please sign below to endorse this statement against the negotiations!
Also, click here to read about the September 2 Washington, DC press conference against the negotiations and click here to sign on to the Arabic-language letter against the negotiations.
The US Palestinian Community Network calls upon all organizations, associations, and Palestinian and Arab community groups, as well as solidarity organizations, and individuals, to sign on to the below statement rejecting the resumption of direct negotiations, in the midst of ongoing Israeli structural racism and violence inflicted upon Palestinians, to take place between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu on September 2, 2010:
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, declare our commitment to the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people – one land, one people, one cause. Our people, in the West Bank and Gaza, suffering and steadfast under siege and occupation; our people in Palestine 1948, confronting racism, ethnic cleansing and political repression; and our people in the refugee camps and in diaspora around the world, struggling to return home and liberate their homeland, deserve a leadership that defends their inalienable rights, takes its legitimacy from its popular support, and upholds the liberation of its land and its people as the highest national goal. We deserve a leadership that defends our collective rights. As such, we reject the direct negotiations taking place in Washington, DC on September 2, 2010, which shield Israel as it continues its colonial and apartheid project. Negotiations in these current conditions without necessary pressure and any terms of reference amount to the barter of Palestinian cities as opposed to the defense of collective rights and to that we say: Palestine is not for sale!
These direct negotiations have not served the interests of Palestinians, who, under the conditions of the peace process have been forced into further policing of our own people already suffering under the yoke of occupation, in exchange only for worsening conditions.
Indeed, the past 17 years of the Oslo accords have witnessed the ongoing imprisonment of people of conscience, settlement-expansion, ethnic cleansing and racism against our people, while our national institutions and liberation movement have been systematically dismantled and replaced with an Authority whose primary goal is to respond to the demands of the Occupier in a Quixotic attempt to build a state without sovereignty. The Palestinian Authority should join the mounting voices and the growing movement that condemns Netanyahu’s instransigent rebuff of international law. While the international solidarity movement with Palestine is growing steadily; while reports of the international isolation of Israel, including the rising movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel, multiply daily; while the conscience of the world demands justice, accountability and international prosecution of Israeli war crimes, the Palestinian Authority has chosen instead to provide cover to the Israeli occupation and its intolerable, bitter, racism, abandoning even the pretext of a “settlement freeze,” and going to direct negotiations while the occupier daily commits crimes against the Palestinian people.
Sadly, the Palestinian Authority is itself a creature of such negotiations. The vast majority of the Palestinian people, in Palestine and in exile, demand full recognition of our national rights, particularly the refugees’ right to return to their original homes, lands and properties. When the Palestinian Authority bargains our inalienable rights and puts them on the table to be carved up by the occupier, we must be heard, loudly and clearly, to say that this Authority does not represent Palestinians and will not be allowed to sell our cause and our people in our name.
As Palestinians in the United States, it is also clear that the Obama administration offers nothing new to the Palestinian people. The U.S. administration continues to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan and threaten the region with further war and occupation. It provides aid and has ongoing trade relations with despotic Arab regimes who, with U.S. support, can afford to repress the collective rights of their Arab populations. Additionally, it provides billions of dollars in military and economic aid to Israel on an annual basis, and unlimited political and diplomatic support to the occupier irrespective of its contravention of international law and announced U.S. foreign policy. We are not convinced by U.S. “assurances,” when the actions of the United States government have assured nothing for the Palestinian people to date but ongoing occupation and impunity for Israeli war crimes.
Today, we say – these direct negotiations pose only a threat to our people. As Palestinians in the United States, we find no voice being heard here – not the U.S. administration and not the Palestinian Authority – that represents our people, our rights, our dreams and our cause. These negotiations are a farce and doomed to failure – but worse than that, they are a cover for ongoing crimes. They discard any and all pretense of international legitimacy, relying on the goodwill of the U.S./Israeli alliance, and place our fundamental rights – particularly the right to return – up for sale. We will not allow this to happen. The Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas do not represent us, and these negotiations are illegitimate and unacceptable.
Instead, we call for international support of our people, not a “peace process” that perpetuates our dispossession and displacement and provides cover for the occupier. International isolation of Israel, boycott, divestment and sanctions, international prosecution of Israeli war criminals are necessary, as is clear support for our rights, including the right to resist occupation, the right to self-determination, and the right to return home – the key to our cause. As with all unjust and illegitimate regimes that have acted to liquidate the Palestinian cause, these negotiations and the Authority that comes to them will fail in the face of steadfast commitment to justice. Our voices must be heard now to ensure this is the case.
Organizations
Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation
Associdade Arabe Palestina DF – Brasilia, Brazil
Bahrain Human Rights Society
Barricades, Bruxelles, Belgium
BDSLA for Justice in Palestine
Black Left Unity Network
Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Southern California
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Canada Palestine Association
Canadian Arab Federation
Collectif Judeo-Arabe et Citoyen pour la Paix, Strasbourg
Democratic Labor Party – Bangla Desh
Free Gaza Coalition – Ohio
Friends of Palestine Beal Feirste – Belfast, Ireland
14 Friends of Palestine
Gesellschaft zur Humanitären Unterstützung der Palästinenser e.V. (G.H.U.P. e.V.)
International Action Center – SF
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Jews Against Zionism (UK)
Justice for Palestine – Christchurch, NZ
Justice for Palestinians
Labor for Palestine
LiberateThis.com
Movimento Palestina Para Tudos (MOPAT) – Brasil
Movement for Liberation of Palestine (MLP), France
National Association of Muslim American Women
New York City Labor Against the War
Newton Citizens for Palestine
One Democratic State
Palestine Cultural Association – Krakow, Poland
Palestinian Rights Committee – Albany, NY
Polish – Palestinian Culture Association
Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action (RAPJA)
Shalom Group -London, UK
US Palestinian Community Network
WESPAC Foundation
Individuals
Leila Khaled – Political Bureau member, PFLP, Amman, Jordan
Raja Abdulhaq – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Anisa Abd el Fattah – Washington, DC
Monica Abdelkader- London, ON, Canada
Nicholas Abramson – Shady, NY, USA
Jamal A. M. Abu Alia – Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Anya Achtenberg – Minneapolis, MN, USA
Lina Adwan – Kingston, RI, USA
Qasim Ahmed
John Airs- Liverpool, UK
Tanya Marie Akel – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Neil Akili – London, UK
Itaf Al-Abbadi – Wachtberg, Germany
Zuhair Al-Atwi – Albany, NY, USA
Adnan Al-Aydi – Wroclaw, Poland
Jorge Eduardo Aldao – Ushuaiga, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Zainab Alderazi – Manama, Bahrain
Gail Alfar – Austin, TX, USA
Esaa Alghayeb – Manama, Bahrain
Mohammed Al-Hazmi – Aden, Yemen
Musa Al-Hindi – Omaha, NE, USA
Zahara Ali
Nidal Al-Salah – Bonn, Germany
Mijad Altaher – Amman, Jordan
S. E. Anderson – New York, NY, USA
Faruq Kaase Andzenge – St. Cloud, MN, USA
Nadia Arouri – Vienna, Austria
Yasmeen Ar-Rayani – New York, NY, USA
Filiz Arslan – Honolulu, HI, USA
Akira Asada – Takarazuka, Japan
Ida Audeh – Boulder, CO, USA
Charles Awad – Brandon, MS, USA
Mike Ayyash – Orlando, FL, USA
Sha Azedi – Riverside, CA, USA
Adil Babal – Paris, France
Jesse Bachrach – Oakland, CA, USA
Ron Balestrieri – Rio Oso, CA, USA
Khaled Barakat – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Paul Barbara – London, UK
Robert P. Bard – Easthampton, MA, USA
Wafieh Barghouti – Amman, Jordan
Jane Bark
Rann Bar-On – Durham, NC, USA
Catalina Barratt – Girona, Spain
Jan Bauman – Mill Valley, CA, USA
Jean and Gilberte Baumgarten – Les Beaumettes, France
Micah Bazant – Berkeley, USA
D. Beardman – Pontiac, MI, USA
Mary Beaulieu – Antioch, USA
Rema Bedri – California, USA
Elizabeth Beeching – Vancouver, BC, Canada
John Beeching – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hayet Belaredj – Strasbourg, France
Mustapha Beneicha – Lezoux, France
Andrea Benites-Dumont – Madrid, Spain
Djamal Benmerad – Bruxelles, Belgium
Lynda Benmerad – Bruxelles, Belgium
Amine Benmerad – Bruxelles, Belgium
Sonia Bent – Perpignan, France
Michel Berguerand – Lyon, France
Craig Berman – London, UK
Marcia Bernstein – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sam Bernstein – Seattle, WA, USA
Benhamid Bertiz – Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Bettina Billiau – Ronse, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Palash Biswas – Kolkata, India
Rudolf Bkouche – Lille, France
Faiza Blashak – Elmer, NJ, USA
Diana Block – San Francisco, CA, USA
Gabriel Bollag – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Tara Bonakdar – Saratoga, CA, USA
Pia Borjeson – Sweden
Norma Bostock – Florida, USA
Said Boudissa – Paris, France
Roger Michael Bouey – St. Johns, Canada
Dennis Brasky
Hanna Braun – London, UK
Frank Brennan – Belfast, Antrim
Beth Brenneman – Broadmoor, CA, USA
Haim Bresheeth – London, UK
Lorie Brillinger, RN – Berkeley, USA
Elaine Brower – Staten Island, NY, USA
Don Bryant – North Royalton, OH, USA
Sarie Bryson – Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Matthew Burrows – Liverpool, UK
Seamus Butler – Clonmel, Ireland
Biagio Cacciatore – Novato, CA, USA
Edith Cacciatore – Novato, CA, USA
Jaime Cader – San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Andrea Callegari – Lausanne, Switzerland
Marcia Camargos – Sao Paulo, Brazil
George Cammarota – San Jose, CA, USA
Bruce Campbell – Toronto, Canada
J. Kadir Cannon
Victor M. Carillo – Santa Paula, CA, USA
Vittorio Caroselli – Palermo, Italy
Kathy Casey – New York, NY, USA
Mike Casner – Peterborough, NH, USA
Shelia Cassidy – Riverside, CA, USA
Joe Catron – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Asma Chelbi – Bezons, France
Prof. Kamal Mitra Chenoy – New Delhi, India
Chantal Cheyrouze – Isle sur la sorgue, France
Christine Clark – Greater Manchester, UK
Ana Cleja – France
Arlene Clemesha – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mark Clinton – Holyoke, MA, USA
Marvin Cohen – Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Marie Colin – Pas de Calais, France
Marsha Ruth Collins – Davis, CA, USA
Maguy Confurgues – Bristol, UK
Ricardo Corrales – La Aurora, Ulloa, Heredia, Costa Rica
Anna Maria Costa – Roma, Italy
Raul Cozar – Madrid, Spain
Salvador Cruz – Mexico city, Mexico
Ann Cunningham – Sydney, Australia
Carla Curio – Seattle, WA, USA
Joanne Cvar – Waldport, OR, USA
Nelson Magalhaes da Costa Filho – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Faten Dabis – Chicago, IL, USA
C. E. Dawson – Richmond, CA, USA
Manuel Davila Rodriguez – Barcelona Catalunya, Spain
Miguel de los Santos Maldonado – Mexico city, Mexico
Claudia Decker – Munich, Germany
Jenna Delich – UK
Genevieve Delmas Patterson – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Edibe Demir – Istanbul, Turkey
Mannie De Saxe – Melbourne, Australia
Zachary Dettwyler -Burke, VA, USA
Peter Dillard, MD, MPH – Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
Fabio Dominico – London, UK
Amy Dorris-Peter – Santa Rosa, CA
Samira Doukkali – Brussels, Belgium
Angelo Douvos – San Rafael, CA
Paul Drake – Lake Coleridge, New Zealand
Dr. Jack Dresser – Eugene, OR, USA
Chrystelle Durand – Brive, France
Mustafa Dureidi – Munich, Germany
Margrit Dutt – Bern, Switzerland
Janet Eiseley – Berkeley, CA, USA
Sumeyye Ekici – Istanbul, Turkey
Laila El Hafiani – Strasbourg, France
Mahmoud El Lozy – Cairo, Egypt
Manhouli El Mostafa – Lyon, France
Lamia El Moujahid – France
Mohamed El Moustarih – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Sarah Ellis – Biel, Switzerland
Faisal Elkhatib
Abeer El-Turk – Amman, Jordan
Manuel Erickson – Mill Bay, BC, Canada
M Errington
Barbara Evans – Seattle, WA, USA
J. Glenn Evans – Seattle, WA, USA
David R. Evans – Vancouver, WA, USA
Shadi Fadda – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Richard Fairbanks – Torrey, UT, USA
James Faris – Santa Fe, NM, USA
Omar Faris – Krakow, Poland
David Faubion – Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Harry Feldman – Canberra, Australia
Tracy S. Feldman – Stevens Point, WI, USA
Andrew Felluss – New York, NY, USA
Douglas Ferguson
Dr. Antonio Fernandes-Vidal – London, UK
Raya Fidel – Seattle, WA, USA
Gerry Foley
Henry Forester – Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Gaby Forrell – London, UK
Rachid Foukroun – London, UK
Mary Fox – Poughquag, NY, USA
Homer Franck – Newton, MA, USA
Beppe Franzini – Brescia, Italy
Massimo Galimbert – London, UK
Gene Galligan – Minneapolis, MN, USA
Dr. Philip Gasper – Madison, WI, USA
Carol Gay – Brick, NJ, USA
Saida Ghani – Cairo, Egypt
Gisele Ghantous
Grazia Giancaterina – Roma, Italy
Annemie Gildenhuys – Cape Town, South Africa
Daniel Ginsberg-Jaecle – Milwaukee, WI, USA
Youssef Girard – Paris, France
Jean-Marie Glantzlen – Saint-Gobain, France
Tim Goar – Mound, MN, USA
Nathalie Godard – Belgium
Veronica Golos – Taos, NM, USA
Goyo Gonzalez – Navas
Jose Enrique Gonzalez Ruiz – Mexico city, Mexico
Annie Goossens – Brussels, Belgium
Madison Gordon – Wellesley, MA, USA
Mark Gordon
Carrie Gordon – Maplewood, NJ, USA
Kate Gory – Toulouse, France
Yerah Gover – Forest Hills, NY, USA
Rosemary Graf – Cummington, MA, USA
Rodolfo Greco – Milano, Italy
David Green – Champaign, IL, USA
Judy Greenspan – San Francisco, CA, USA
Stephen Craig Gross – San Marcos, TX, USA
Laurent Guignier – Ste. Orens de Gameville, France
Georges Gumpel – Lyon, France
Allen Gunderson – Toronto, ON, Canada
Ahmad Hadi – Boynton Beach, FL
Abeer Haidar – Damascus, Syria
Elisabeth Gisela Halaby
Samia Halaby – New York, NY, USA
Nahida Halaby Gordon – Wooster, OH, USA
Fouad A. Halaby, MD – Auburn, IN, USA
Mohammad Hamad – Cleveland, OH, USA
Ken Hammacott – Aberdare, Wales, UK
Salim Hanid – Slough, Berks, UK
Cliff Hanley – Bristol, UK
Hans Hanselius Sweden
Mark T. Harris – Portland, OR, USA
Shanna Harris – Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Kamal Hassan – Grants Pass, OR, USA
Mustafa Hassan – Cicero, IL, USA
Sabrina Hassan – Grants Pass, OR, USA
William F. Hassell – Hopetoun, Australia
Rosamine Hayeem – Middlesex, UK
Abe Hayeem – London, UK
Armand Heinricher – Breville, France
A. Micah Helfgott – Portland, ME, USA
Karin Helvig – Oslo, Norway
Binyamin Henri – USA
Stefanos Heracleous – Melbourne, Australia
Pablo Heras – Madrid, Spain
Monadel Herzallah – San Francisco, CA, USA
Adele Hetzel – North Royalton, OH, USA
Judy Hill – Nimbin, NSW, Australia
Gregory Hom – San Francisco, CA, USA
Rebecca Hom – USA
Mary Honderich – Geneva, Switzerland
Nora Hoppe – Berlin, Germany
Susannah Horowitz – Bruxelles, Belgium
Sally Howland – Lisle, IL, USA
Berl Jay Hubbell – Fresno, CA, USA
Janet Hudgins – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mahmood Hussain – London, UK
Sumia Ibrahim – Princeton, NJ, USA
Derek Ide – Toledo, OH, USA
Manar Ihmud – Chicago, IL, USA
Jamal Ismail – Islamabad, Pakistan
Osama Issa
Mary Izett – Lafayette, CA, USA
Malak Jadallah – Brooklyn, OH, USA
S. Jahangeer – Fairfax, VA, USA
Linda Jansen – Seattle, WA, USA
Doha Ahmad Jaser – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jake Javanshir – Toronto, ON, Canada
Jane Jewell – Marin, CA, USA
Mary Johnson – Mount Kisco, NY, USA
Ralph and Ruth Johnson – Frederica, DE, USA
Evan Jones – Sydney, Australia
Peggy Kacerek – Bedford, OH, USA
James Kaiser – Sarasota, FL, USA
Isam Kamel – Berlin, Germany
Sami Kanafani
Hasan Karajah – Ramallah, Palestine
Najwa Karam – Brummana, Lebanon
Claudia Karas – Frankfurt, Germany
Rosie Karkari – Toronto, ON, Canada
Charlotte Kates – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Elinore Kaufman – Boston, MA, USA
Audeh Kawas – Amman, Jordan
Nazik Kazimi – Newton, MA, USA
Reem Kelani – London, UK
Laura Kelly – Dover, DE, USA
Michael Kelly – Dover, DE, USA
Dean Kendall – Leesport, USA
Sara Kershnar – Berkeley, USA
Kazim Keskin – Vienna, Austria
Nada Khader – White Plains, NY, USA
Wajida Khairy – Amman, Jordan
Jamal Kharbush – Madison, WI, USA
Jameel Khartabeel – Palestine
Leyla Khoury – Ramallah, Palestine
Karen King – London, ON, Canada
Marilyn King
Laurence Kirby – Woodstock, NY, USA
Robert Kirkconnell – Crestline, CA, USA
Darius Klein – Seatle, WA, USA
Annette Klepzig – Wilhelmsfeld, Germany
Peter Klosterman – Piedmont, USA
Janet Kobren – Oakland, CA, USA
Yael Korin – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Harris Kornstein – San Francisco, CA, USA
Robert Kosuth – Duluth, MN, USA
David Kreiss-Tomkins – Sitka, AK, USA
Eileen Kuch – Hyattsville, MD, USA
Brother Warren Kundis – Mililani, HI, USA
Larry La Caille – Seattle, WA, USA
Bassam Lababidi – San Marcos, TX, USA
James Lafferty – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Larry Lambert – Palm Springs, CA, USA
Eric Lamy – Le Mans, France
Tony Lane – London, UK
Benjamin Langhorne – Chesterfield, UK
Micheline Lapeyre – Breville, France
Sid’Ahmed Laribi – Ingre, France
Paul Larudee – El Cerrito, CA, USA
Yusuf L’Bedri – California, USA
Darrell Legge – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
David Letwin – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Michael Letwin – New York, NY, USA
Mariah Leung – Eugene, OR, USA
Philippe Lewandowski – Strasbourg, France
Samantha Liapes – San Francisco, CA, USA
Daniella Liebling – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Camelia Liss – Strasbourg, France
Tony Litwinko – Glendale, CA, USA
Cecile Lobreau – Nantes, France
Peter Loeb – Boston, MA
Antony Loewenstein – Sydney, Australia
Heidi Loh – NJ, USA
Peggy Love – Rock Island, WA, USA
Patsy Lowe – California, USA
Judith Lutfy – Aiea, HI, USA
Ramsis G. Lutfy – Aiea, HI, USA
Denise Lytle – Fords, NJ, USA
Padraic Mac Coitir – Belfast, Ireland
Diana Macasa – San Francisco, CA, USA
Susan Mackie – Wallington, UK
Nada Maher – Amman, Jordan
Dr. T. Mahmoodullah – Dubai, UAE
Samia Mahmoud – Amman, Jordan
Soraia Makhamra – Brazil/Palestine
Adam Makrout – Paris, France
Jamal Malhas – Dubai, UAE
Ali Mallah – Toronto, Canada
Marie Manaranche – Paris, France
Josina Manu – Minneapolis, MN, USA
David Marchesi – Bournemouth, UK
Mark Marone – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Ian Marsh – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Hernan Martinez Ledesma – Rosario, Argentina
Alexandra Martinovic – Varazdin, Croatia
Marwan Marwan – Port Moody, BC, Canada
Tariq Marzbaan – Berlin, Germany
Susan Massad – Framingham, MA, USA
Dr. Mary Mathai – Switzerland
Sophie Mayer – London, UK
Michael Mazur – Canada
Paul McDermott – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Finbar McGabhan – Claire, Ireland
Bill McGrath – Northfield, MN, USA
Colin McKean – Liverpool, UK
Wayne McLachlan – Christchurch, New Zealand
Mary McSherry – Dublin, Ireland
Gil Medovoy – Davis, CA, USA
Mohamed Selim Mekhloufi – France
Steven Anthony Mesa – Arizona, USA
Nadia Messaouda – Brive la Gaillarde, France
D.E. Meyer – Paris, France
John Mifsud – Oakland, CA, USA
Ali Mili – Phillipsburg, NJ, USA
Jonathan Mitchell
Cheikh Rouhou Mohamed – Ribes, France
Devra Morice – New York, NY, USA
Ahmed Morsy – Cairo, Egypt
Naji Muhammad
Walter Muller – Auckland, NZ
Sherri Munnerlyn – Beebe, AR, USA
Bahieh Ead Musa – Falls Church, VA, USA
Dr. Izzedin Musa – Wachtberg, Germany
Haret Musa – Wachtberg, Germany
Sarah Musa – Wachtberg, Germany
Dominique Muselet – Paris, France
Mary Mutch – LaCrosse, WI, USA
Marina Muzinic
Phoebe Myhill – Alexandria, VA, USA
Ezzaier Nadhem – Tunisia
Mozafar Najafzadeh – Winnipeg, MN, Canada
Susan Nathan – author, critic
Salim Nazzal – Oslo, Norway
Paul Neeld – Wolverhampton, UK
Karin Nemri – Bloomfield, CT, USA
Bruce Neuburger – San Francisco, CA, USA
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain – Gaillimh, Eirinn, Ireland
Yahya Nicotera
Henry Noble – Seattle, WA, USA
Judy Ochoa – Orange, CA, USA
Henry Ode – California, USA
Frank O’Gorman – West Hartford, CT, USA
Amanda Oren – Fairport, NY, USA
Tony Orengo – France
Martin O’Shea – UK
Azzdine Oumouhand – Bruxelles, Belgium
Nadia Ouriagli – Pointe-Claire, Canada
Danielle Paron – Ferney-Voltaire, France
Matthew Partridge – Hervey Bay, Australia
Chandra Paul – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tia Pearson – USA
Mireille Peromet – Brussels, Belgium
Marcus Phelpan – Sydney, Australia
Caroline Picker – Greenfield, MA, USA
Florence Piette – Liege, Belgium
Daniel Pines – Rochester, NY, USA
Catherine Podojil – Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
Therese Poliquin – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jean Paul Pommier – Challans, France
Gerardo Prieto Edeso – Torre de la Horada, Spain
Nuria Pubill – Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain
Robert Pulie
Ian C. Purdie – Sydney, Australia
Mohsen Qawasmi – Jerusalem, Palestine
Paul Quelennec – Saint-Lezer, France
Basem Ra’ad – Toronto, Canada
Xavier Rabilloud – France
Aisha Mohammed Rafeeq
Ivar Raginski – Dublin, Ireland
Nawal Dahi Raheb – Damascus, Syria
Khaled Al Raheb – Damascus, Syria
Lama Rahman – Toronto, ON, Canada
Veronica Ramadan – Forest Hills, NY, USA
Jilnar Ramahi – Amman, Jordan
Michael Ramsay – Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Laurie Ray – Leeds, England
Lena Rehberger – Grebenhain, Germany
Dick Reilly – Chicago, IL, USA
Oscar Revilla – Alguacil Spain
Kenneth Ring – Kentfield, CA,
Carlos Rios – Pontevedra, Galiza
William Roberts – Redwood City, CA, USA
Elizabeth Roberts – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Eleanor Roffman – Boston, MA, USA
Richard Rogers – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clifton Ross – Richmond, CA, USA
Manae Ross – San Francisco, CA, USA
Martha Roth – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stuart Round – London, UK
Gerard Rozeck – Basel, Switzerland
Fehr Rudolph – Provence, France
Rahmatoola Rujeedawa – Pickering, ON, Canada
Edwin Rutledge – Munich, Germany
Fadi Saba – San Jose, CA, USA
Lana Sadeq – Paris, France
Gustavo Saez – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rama Safi – Amman, Jordan
Ahmed Sakkal
David Salcido – Arizona, USA
Iqbal Salem – Jordan
Adrienne Salmonson – Staten Island, NY, USA
Anne Salomon – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
David-Israel Sandler – Seattle, WA, USA
Renee M. Sansur – Ramallah, Palestine
Giovanni Santalena – Helsinki, Finland
Ruth Saralegui-Le Gall – Porto Alegre, Brazil
Jean-Pierre Sarkis – Austin, TX, USA
Raymond Sasso – San Francisco, CA, USA
Frances Scarrott – Maastricht, Netherlands
Carol Scheller – Geneva, Switzerland
Guenter Schenk – Strasbourg, France
Ludwig Schonenbach – Bremen, Germany
Yossi Schwartz – Haifa, Occupied Palestine
Evalyn F. Segal, PhD – Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Youcef Seghier – Blida, Algeria
Carole Seligman – San Francisco, CA, USA
Khalil Shaheen – Ramallah, Palestine
Noa Shaindlinger – Toronto, ON, Canada
Bushra Shamma – USA
Afaf Shasha – Nicosia, Cyprus
Ayala Shani
Terry Shepard – Boise, ID, USA
Ehab Shqair – Daly City, CA, USA
Rich Siegel – Teaneck, NJ, USA
Jerry Silberman – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Drew Silver – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Nadia Sindi – Eugene, OR, USA
Mohammad Basir-ul Haq Sinha – Dhaka, Bangla Desh
Maria Slutzki-Gonzalez – California, USA
Courtney Smith – Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ben Snyder – Austin, TX, USA
Jean Snyder – Greenbelt, MD, USA
Roselle Solomon – Geneva, Switzerland
Maryloo Souied – Northampton, UK
Anne Spagnoli – Lausanne, Switzerland
Tom Sposato – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Piere Stambul – Marseille, France
Paul Stein – NY, USA
Marsha Steinberg – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Elisabeth Sterken – Toronto, Canada
Francesco Stevanato – Milano, Italy
Robert H. Stiver – Pearl City, HI, USA
Constance St. Jean – Riverside, CA, USA
Susan Stout – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Graham Sudgen – Edinburgh, Scotland
Jane Sun
Ellyn Sutton – Spokane, WA, USA
Raoul R. Swart
Jerilyn Tabor – New York, NY, USA
Kareem Talhouni – Massachussetts, USA
Dr. Nabeel H. Tammam – Manama, Bahrain
Nicole Tanneau – France
Bill Templer – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Evlalia Theodoropoulou
Sunera Thobani – Vancouver, BC, Canada
Doug Thomas – Auckland, NZ
Brenna Thomas – Plainfield, IL, USA
Ethel Tobach – New York, NY
Rose Trejo – Chicago, IL, USA
Roger Tucker – Erongaricuaro, Mexico
Angelo Tumino – Pisa, Italy
Allen Vail – Eugene, OR, USA
Paloma Valverde – Madrid, Spain
Jean-Louis Van Landeghem – France
Luis Vega – New York, NY, USA
Claudine Vergniol-Orengo – Mazamet, France
Karin Verlinde – Breda, Netherlands
Hetty Verlinde – Netherlands
Benjamin Wade – Saratoga, CA, USA
Erin Wade – Seattle, WA, USA
Darlene Wallach – San Jose, CA, USA
Dahlia Wasfi, MD – Wilmington, DE, USA
Ellen Schwarz Wasfi – Dover, DE, USA
Dr. Ludwig Watzal – Bonn, Germany
Teresa Webb – London, UK
Kathryn Weber – Montgomery Center, VT, USA
Judith Weisman – Toronto, Canada
Judith Weisman – Toronto, ON, Canada
Laura Westwood – Worcestershire, England
Den Mark Wichar – Vancouver, WA, USA
Patrick Williamson – Easton, PA, USA
Sherry Wolf – Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sarah Wolf – Astoria, NY, USA
Roberta Wombacher – San Anselmo, CA, USA
Abbas I. Yaacoubi – Houston, TX, USA
Jim Yarbrough – USA
Nassar Yaqin – Beit Dokko, Palestine
Erin Yarrobino – Ozone Park, NY, USA
Mira Yaseen – Greencastle, IN, USA
Yousef Yassir – Chandler, AZ, USA
Terry Yoder – Indianapolis, IN, USA
Ben Young – London, UK
Carl Zaisser – Vienna, Austria
Lily Zanrosso- Melbourne, Australia
Ismail Zayid – Canada
Catherine Zeitz- Massachussetts, USA
Mohammed Zmaimita – Casablanca, Morocco
Maryam Zohny – New York, NY, USA
Agneta Zuppinger – Lausanne, Switzerland
Tara Zurheide
Frieda Zwanikken – Den Haag, Holland
Larry Zweig – Fuerth, Germany
Excellent statement. Thank you, USPCN. We are very pleased to sign on.
The best way to dislocate the American people from their pro-Israeli bias (largely created, fed and nurtured by the Main Stream Media) is to publicise as much as possible the murderous, treacherous Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in the ‘Six-Day War’ of 1967, and the treasonous, contemptible campaign by US Congressmen/women and Senators, and successive US Administrations, to fail to hold a proper public enquiry into the incident, and indeed to bend over backwards to support a gross cover-up.
Indeed, the survivors, even before they got to Malta, were threatened by Admiral Isaac Kidd that if they so much as talked to their family about the attack, they would be court marshalled, imprisonned ‘or worse’.
Excellent sources of information about the attack can be found in James Ennes’ ‘Assault on the Liberty’, Phil Tourney’s ‘What I Saw That Day’, Peter Hounam’s ‘Operation Cyanide’, and in the two videos, ‘Loss of Liberty’ and ‘Dead in the Water’.
President Abbas has no mandate from the Palestinian people, whereas Mr Netanyahu speaks for probably 80%+ of the Israeli Jews in offering more of the same to “negotiate”. No Israeli government has ever genuinely entered “negotiations” with the resolve to offer any concessions to the Palestinian people , since the ultimate aim is to perpetuate and extend the Jewish State. Like it or not, on their own record and not-always-stated intent, Israelis want separate development (otherwise known as apartheid)and the “bantustanisation” this implies; oh, and the expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs from the current state of Israel ( ref: Avigdor Lieberman)Hardly a whisper of these home truths reaches the US public, and settlement expansion and vexatious , debilitating occupation continue – essentially because this situation suits Israeli politicians very well.It is, of course, notorious that the Abbas administration has acted as Israel’s policeman in the West Bank in its attempts to destroy Hamas there; “security” spending in the PA areas no doubt helps the various personnel who are employed through it, but is a sort of dirty way of earning a living, not unlike the Stasi repressors in the East German state.
Negotiations without recognition of international law, of previous UN-General Assembly resolutions on Isreal/Palestine, on Jerusalem, are useless. Furthermore: without consideration of one of the player, winner in democratic elections, the Hamas-party, but with a palestinian president out of service, with a financially well backed PM, “airborne” from WMF but without any other legimitation, necessarily will fail. These negotions, borne under harsh US-pressure on the Palestinian side, cannot lead to a sustainable just peace. First of all US president Obama should have to fulfill his promises to the electors: to give up the longtime usual one-sidedness of US politics towards Israel in Palestine (sic!).
حتى لو تخلى العالم كله عنك يافلسطين و حتى لو تخلى عنك الفلسطينين سنكون دائما على الموعد يوم التحرير و الانتصار ، فلسطين لنا عربية ابيه ، و كلنا عائدون
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One thing that I feel is vital, but not mentioned in this action is that this is also in FULL SOLIDARITY with Jewish people in Israel & out. The modern Nationalist Zionist ideology is poison for Jewish tradition. It is the greatest danger to the future of Judaism today. So signing this statement, and supporting similar actions is showing solidarity with all people(s) in the area.
For Jews right now, that is exactly what we should be doing over the next 4-weeks of holidays.