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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeffrey Sacks <jas80-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Statement by Middle East scholars




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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002
From: Joel Beinin <beinin-AT-stanford.edu>
To: Arabic-Info-AT-Dartmouth.EDU
Subject: Statement by Middle East scholars

Dear friends and colleagues,

About two months ago a conference was held in Istanbul sponsored by
Ben-Gurion and Bogazici universities. Most of the participants signed
the statement reproduced below protesting Israel's recent actions in
the occupied territories. We are now intending to publish it in the
English edition of the Israeli daily Ha`aretz, which has a circulation
of about 100,000 and is read by both Israelis and Palestinians

Publishing this as an ad will cost about $2,100.00-$2,250.00. Signatories
are being asked to contribute to the cost of publication. The cost will
depend on the total number of signatories. Right now it will come to about
$45 per person, but that will decrease the more signers we get. Please
consider signing on to this.

If you are willing to add your name to the statement, please contact
Prof. Gershoni, of Tel Aviv University <gershon-AT-post.tau.ac.il>. He
will also be able to tell you the appropriate amount to contribute
and how to do so.

Sincerely,

Joel Beinin
Professor of Middle East History
Department of History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2024

President, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2001-02

Tel: 650-723-4956
Fax: 650-725-0597
beinin-AT-stanford.edu


We the undersigned, scholars of the Middle East, strongly condemn the
continued Israeli presence in the areas of the Palestinian Authority and
the brutal oppression of the civilian population there. We are appalled
by the systematic and comprehensive abuses of human and civil rights and
horrified by the destruction of the civil infrastructure of the West Bank
by the Israeli army during and after its April 2002 operation.

We call upon the international community to fulfill its obligations to
compel Israel to abide by the United Nations Charter, the 4th Geneva
Accord, and other relevant international law and to dismantle its illegal
settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The right of the
Palestinian and Israeli civilian populations to pursue their normal lives,
free of threat, is sacrosanct and must be upheld by all parties to the
conflict. Moreover, we fear that continued Israeli settlement activity and
denial of Palestinian statehood may ultimately lead to the ethnic cleansing
of the Palestinians.

The government of the United States has declared as its policy the
establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. UN
General Assembly Resolution 194 and UN Security Council resolutions 242,
338 and 1397 were taken with the utmost regard for the rights of the
Palestinians wherever they are and the security and welfare of the people
of Israel. An independent Palestinian state with its capital in East
Jerusalem, alongside the state of Israel, and a fair solution to the
refugee problem are the only means for bringing about a comprehensive peace.

To implement this vision, we call upon the United States to employ all
means at its disposal, including suspension of aid to ensure that Israel
ceases its destructive military operations, extra-judicial killings, and
abuses of human rights.


Lila Abu-Lughod         	Columbia University
Butrus Abu Maneh        	Haifa University
Colman Altman           	The Technion, Haifa
Aysegul Altinay         	Sabani University
Yossi Amitai            	Ben Gurion University
Walter Armbrust         	University of Oxford
Joel Beinin,                    Stanford University
Halil Berktay                   Sabani University
Hulya Canbakal                  Sabani University
Julia Clancy-Smith              University of Arizona
William Cleveland               Simon Fraser University
Juan R. I. Cole                 University of Michigan
Kenneth M. Cuno         	University of Illinois
Carol Delaney                   Stanford University
Hakan Erdem                     Bogazii University
Israel Gershoni                 Tel Aviv University
Avner Giladi                    Haifa University
Ellis Goldberg          	University of Washington
Joel Gordon                     University of Arkansas
Aydan GClerce           	Bogazii University
Ran HaCohen                     Tel Aviv University
Wael Hallaq                     McGill University
Barbara Harlow          	University of Texas
Jane Hathaway           	Ohio State University
Jacob Katriel                   The Technion, Haifa
Ilan Kaufman                    Tel Aviv University
Eberhard Kienle         	University of London
Daphan Lavit                    Ben Gurion University
Joyce Livingstone               Haifa University
Zachary Lockman         	New York University
Hubert Marshall         	Stanford University
Afsaneh Najmabadi               Harvard University
AAevket Pamuk			Bogazii University
Ilan Pappe                      University of Haifa
Leslie Peirce                   University of California, Berkeley
Gabi Piterberg                  University of California, Los Angeles
Marsha Pripstein Posusney       Bryant College
Eve M. Troutt Powell            University of Georgia
Dani Rabinowitz         	Tel Aviv University
Haggai Ram                      Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Andre Raymond           	University of Provence
Yezid Sayigh                    Cambridge University
Tal Shuval                      Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Charles D. Smith                University of Arizona
Ted Swedenburg          	University of Arkansas
Michel Tuchscherer              Universite de Provence
Stefanos Yerasimos              University of Paris
Yuval Yonai                     Haifa University
Sami Zubaida                    University of London



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