Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:07:57 -0700
From: processadvocate@earthlink.net (Gretchen Reinhardt)
Subject: [azpeace] Vigil-Peace in Middle East (Thurs. 12:30 ASU)
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Take a Moment for Peace in the Middle East

Please join us (a small group of concerned students) Thursday afternoon,

April 11 @ 12:30pm, @ the fountain by the Memorial Union on the ASU
Main campus for a non-violent gathering and vigil to support efforts for

peace in Israel and Palestine.

This gathering will coincide with similar peaceful demonstrations in
D.C.,
New York City, and San Francisco Thursday afternoon (see below for more
information on this). We apologize for the last minute notice!

We are holding this event to express solidarity with the Palestinians
and
Israelis working side by side in the peace movement, the Israeli
reservists
who refuse to fight and contribute to the escalating violence, and all
those
working to fight brutality and protect the lives of innocent civilians.
Despite
the size and importance of these individuals and movements, their heroic

efforts are continually marginalized by the media.

We will provide candles. If you can, please bring your posters and signs

of
support (or, of course, your protests regarding current US policy). But
most
importantly, please just come by, we need YOUR support!

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Rubin, lisa.rubin@asu.edu





Information on Thursday's demonstrations elsewhere:
Join TIKKUN COMMUNITY co-chairs Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cornel
West in a demonstration at the State Department in D.C. at 11 a.m.
on Thursday, April 11, or in similar demonstrations in NYC and S.F.
that same day....Some of us may engage in non-violent civil disobedience

(depending on whether it makes sense
given developments till that moment), others will be there to
publicly support our call for an international force to intervene
immediately to separate and protect both sides.

This is the moment to act decisively. If you share our outrage at
the slaughter of innocents on both sides of this struggle in the
Middle East, then join us in putting our bodies on the line for
sanity.

    STOP THE KILLINGS ON BOTH SIDES!

    Yes, we are glad that President Bush is calling for Israeli
troops and tanks to withdraw from Palestinian cities. But as long
as they remain ready to return the moment Bush's attention turns
back to his insane plan for a war against Iraq, Ariel Sharon will
be able to use the pretext of the (inevitable)next strike by Hamas
(which benefits every time their terror is rewarded by a strike by
Israel at Hamas' domestic enemy the Palestinian Authority) to
return to complete the devastation of Palestinian society. Only the
presence of a well-equipped and very large international force,
led by the United States, can actually achieve the goal of creating
safety for the Palestinian people. And only when that safety is
achieved will Arafat be able (or willing) to actually do something
to stop terror, which in the meantime appears to Palestinians to be
the only way they can retain their dignity in the face of humiliation
and powerlessness.

      But separation is not enough--peace requires that the
international community, acting through the UN, impose on both
parties a settlement of the conflict, based on Israeli withdrawal
to the pre-67 borders (with slight emendations to include Jewish
sections of Jerusalem and Gush Etzion), reparations for Palestinian
refugees (and for Jewish refugees from Arab lands), a Truth and
Reconciliation commission, and a new spirit of generosity and
open-hearted repentance from both sides for the evils they have
committed. Both sides are responsbile for the present mess, but
they are unable to settle this without the intervention of outside
international leadership.

      If you can't come to D.C., create some action in your own
community. A march to some nearby federal building, or get a group
of people together to form a local chapter of The Tikkun Community
and call a press conference in support of our demands, or suddenly
appear inside a federal building and get your message known, or do
some other dramatic but totally non-violent and non-property-destructive

action.

One key guideline: make it clear that we are equally outraged at
Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians as by the human
rights violating daily assault on human dignity that is being
carried out by the Israeli army in its current rampage through
Palestinian homes in major cities. Far from providing security for
Israel, Ariel Sharon is guaranteeing the creation of yet new
terrorists. We want to stop the cycle--and to do that, we call upon
the US through the UN to intervene.




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