Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:08:09 +0800
Subject: Re: PIN 34: After the Sharm al-Shaykh Summit: An Armed and


   Dear Marwan, and others concerned with what is happening in Israel/Palestine,
      you might be interested in the below which is in circulation,
Jon

> NOT IN OUR NAME 
> 
> We are Jews and we have come here to say to the 
> State of Israel and the world: 
> 
> NOT IN OUR NAME! 
> 
> NOT IN OUR NAME the live ammunition, the killing of 
> children, the raging mobs your police permit to 
> terrorize Arab communities within your borders, NOT 
> IN OUR NAME the use of torture as an instrument of 
> state policy, the taking of hostages as an 
> instrument of state policy, the breaking of bones as 
> a sanctioned state policy, the cutting down of olive 
> trees, the dynamiting of homes, the collective 
> punishment of villages, NOT IN OUR NAME the 
> massacres, NOT IN OUR NAME the occupation, NOT IN 
> OUR NAME the state sanctioned  provocations of Ariel 
> Sharon, NOT IN OUR NAME, the weapons of mass 
> destruction , and above all, NOT IN OUR NAME the use 
> of the Holocaust as camouflage and propaganda. 
> Israel is not the victim of the Palestinians. We say 
> to Israel: You defile the memory of the countless 
> victims of anti-Semitism when you invoke the history 
> of anti-Semitism to avert the condemnation of the 
> world for your aggressions, when the groans of our 
> people become the marshal music of armies of 
> occupation. The memory of Jewish suffering should 
> always link us tenderly to the plight of the 
> oppressed. That is what we mean by "Never Again!" 
> That is why we reject the sinister "even handedness" 
> that blames both sides and that equates the force of 
> those who attempt to lift the boot of the occupier 
off their neck, with the force of those who grind the 
> boot into the neck. 
> 
> That is why we say to Israel: 
> 
> Stop the Killings. 
> 
> End the Occupation. 


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Dr Jon Stratton, Professor of Cultural Studies,
The School of Communication and Cultural Studies,
Curtin University of Technology,
GPO Box U1987,
Perth 6845,
Western Australia.

tel. Int+61-(0)8-9266-7291



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