[Upd-discuss] Sign petition from: Academics who condemn Israel's aggression against Lebanon and Gaza

[michael.davis@law.csuohio.edu]

That is a disgracefully one-sided petition.

MD

>> petition by academics against Israeli aggression. Please sign and/or
>> forward
>> to other colleagues.
>>
>>   <http://www.petitiononline.com/caracas/>
> (signature No.1829.)	Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza 	PhD candidate, University
> of Sheffield
>
>
>     PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME, academic standing, and INSTITUTIONAL
> AFFILIATION or PROFESSION and LOCATION if unclear. Please consider making
> your email address available to the "petition author" so we can
> collaborate in the future. If you feel your signature was inappropriately
> rejected, please email nyusjp2003@yahoo.com.
>
>     To:  Academics who condemn Israel's aggression against Lebanon and
> Gaza
>
>
>     While the United States government applauds the collective punishment
> of already vulnerable populations, we U.S.-based academics stand together
> to condemn the atrocities being committed by the U.S.-funded and armed
> Israeli military against the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine. Scholars
> based outside of the United States are also welcome to sign this letter as
> an expression of their support.
>
>     The brutal bombing and invasion of Gaza (whose people have never
> escaped the torment of Israeli occupation despite official Israeli
> “withdrawal”) and of Lebanon and are acts of Israeli state terrorism.
> Along with the devastating U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and
> Iraq, and the current U.S.-Israeli threat to Syria and Iran, Israel’s
> escalation indicates another terrifying example of the heightened reliance
> on military force by both these powers in their ongoing struggle for
> hegemony in the Middle East.
>
>     Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Lebanon. Scores are missing.
> Latest reports put the number of refugees at half a million. The attacks
> on Lebanon’s infrastructure – power stations, factories, bridges, and
> ports – will take decades to rebuild. The people of Lebanon are already
> weary from reconstructing their country after years of civil war and the
> last ruinous Israeli invasion in 1982.
>
>     In Gaza the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. Hundreds have
> been killed. Water treatment plants, greenhouses, bridges, and homes have
> been the major targets of Israeli bombs in “Operation Summer Rain,” the
> code name for the latest Israeli military invasion of Gaza that began on
> 27 June 2006.
>
>     There is no military solution to the current crisis. War and
> occupation threaten all life in the region and around the world—and will
> never bring security to anyone. We call for an immediate cease-fire
> against Lebanon, an end to the occupation of Palestine, and the release of
> Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners in Israeli jails.
>
>     Given the vacuum of political leadership from the governments of the
> world in the face of U.S. and Israeli intransigence, we feel it is
> incumbent on ordinary citizens to organize and support peaceful means for
> bringing economic and political pressure on Israel to end its occupation
> of the Palestinian territories. It is urgent that individuals and
> non-governmental groups apply such means until Israel fully complies with
> international law and respects the fundamental human rights of all people.
>
>     While we unequivocally condemn the killing of civilians in Israel, it
> must be recognized that Israel's destructive and expansionist policies are
> primarily to blame for the seemingly perpetual "Middle East crisis.” To
> call Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon simply a “disproportionate
> response” helps justify Israeli war crimes by making Israel the victim and
> obscuring both the short and long-term sources of this catastrophic
> violence.
>
>     Silence is a form of complicity with the war crimes being committed by
> the state of Israel. Business as usual should not continue – in the U.S.
> academy or elsewhere – while people experience the emotional, physical,
> and psychic terror of the Israeli military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon.
>
>
>
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     The Undersigned
> (signature No.1829.)	Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza 	PhD candidate, University
> of Sheffield
>
> --- Maud Stephan  <mstephan@ul.edu.lb> wrote:
>
>> From: "Maud Stephan " <mstephan@ul.edu.lb>
>> To: "Maud Stephan " <mstephan@ul.edu.lb>
>> Subject: FW: petition
>> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:41:28 +0300
>>
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>> petition by academics against Israeli aggression. Please sign and/or
>> forward
>> to other colleagues.
>>
>>   <http://www.petitiononline.com/caracas/>
>> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/caracas/
>>
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>
> --
> Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza, PhD candidate
> Department of Information Studies
> University of Sheffield
> 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP
> UNITED KINGDOM
> zapopanmuela*nospam*gmail.com
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/research/groups/lib/people.html
>
> "Tiranos y autocratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, el
> conocimiento, los libros y los periodicos son un peligro en potencia.
> Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso de rebelión en las cabezas
> de sus súbditos."
> -- Carl Sagan. El mundo y sus demonios: la ciencia como una luz en la
> oscuridad. Barcelona: Planeta, 1997, p. 390.
>
> "Tyrants and autocrats have always understood
> that literacy, learning, books and newspapers
> are potentially dangerous. They can put independent
> and even rebelious ideas to the heads of their subjects."
> -- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
> in the Dark. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362
>
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