Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:28:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeffrey Sacks <jas80-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: Statement by Middle East scholars ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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