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Jews for a just Peace: What We Stand For
Jews for a Just Peace is an organization of Vancouver Jews whose purpose is to build support in our community for a fair and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recognizing the inequality in the power of the two parties, we believe such a solution will be found through co-operation and dialogue, not through violence and intransigence. We are allied with similar Jewish, Palestinian and other groups, both within and outside Israel and the occupied territories, working in solidarity toward peace.
We believe in the right of Israel to live in peace and security. We also believe in the right of the Palestinian people to live in peace and security, and to establish a viable independent state in the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip should they so wish. We believe that Israel, and any future Palestinian state, should be democracies with equal rights for all their citizens regardless of ethnicity. This does not preclude the possible eventual establishment of one democratic bi-national state, with equal rights for both peoples.
We support the principles of human rights and self determination. We oppose all violence against civilians, whether perpetrated by the state or by other civilians. We oppose all racism and ethnic hatred, whether directed against Jews, Arabs or any other group.
We believe that the most urgent problem at present is the Israeli occupation and the refusal of the Israeli government to recognize the right of the Palestinians to self-determination, in all its forms, under their own leadership. Occupation is violence. The occupation must end before there can be hope for a true and lasting, just peace.
Israel's security is not served by injustice against Palestinians. We oppose the presence and expansion of Israeli settlements on occupied territory; the expropriation of Palestinian lands, demolition of houses and destruction of farms and orchards; the diversion of water to Israeli settlements and away from Palestinian communities; the building of bypass roads which carve the territories into isolated fragments; the imposition of crippling closures and curfews; military attacks against civilian populations; and all associated human and civil rights violations. We do not believe that such actions, in contravention of the 1949 Geneva Convention accords to which Israel was signatory, serve genuine security needs. Rather they help to entrench a rigid matrix of control and domination that makes peace impossible for the entire region.
We call for an end to Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; for the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem; and for an end to all military, economic and associated support for the settlements. We call on both Israeli and Palestinian authorities, with the support of the international community, to protect and preserve the holy sites of all faiths and peoples in the area and to guarantee free, safe access to them. We call on Israel to acknowledge its culpability in the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands and to work in good faith toward a fair resolution to the refugee problem.
There is no such thing as a benign occupation. We support the views of such Israelis as the late Yeshayahu Leibovitz, who wrote: "We must free ourselves from the curse of dominating another people."
Jews for a just Peace: What We Stand For
Jews for a Just Peace is an organization of Vancouver Jews whose purpose is to build support in our community for a fair and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recognizing the inequality in the power of the two parties, we believe such a solution will be found through co-operation and dialogue, not through violence and intransigence. We are allied with similar Jewish, Palestinian and other groups, both within and outside Israel and the occupied territories, working in solidarity toward peace.
We believe in the right of Israel to live in peace and security. We also believe in the right of the Palestinian people to live in peace and security, and to establish a viable independent state in the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip should they so wish. We believe that Israel, and any future Palestinian state, should be democracies with equal rights for all their citizens regardless of ethnicity. This does not preclude the possible eventual establishment of one democratic bi-national state, with equal rights for both peoples.
We support the principles of human rights and self determination. We oppose all violence against civilians, whether perpetrated by the state or by other civilians. We oppose all racism and ethnic hatred, whether directed against Jews, Arabs or any other group.
We believe that the most urgent problem at present is the Israeli occupation and the refusal of the Israeli government to recognize the right of the Palestinians to self-determination, in all its forms, under their own leadership. Occupation is violence. The occupation must end before there can be hope for a true and lasting, just peace.
Israel's security is not served by injustice against Palestinians. We oppose the presence and expansion of Israeli settlements on occupied territory; the expropriation of Palestinian lands, demolition of houses and destruction of farms and orchards; the diversion of water to Israeli settlements and away from Palestinian communities; the building of bypass roads which carve the territories into isolated fragments; the imposition of crippling closures and curfews; military attacks against civilian populations; and all associated human and civil rights violations. We do not believe that such actions, in contravention of the 1949 Geneva Convention accords to which Israel was signatory, serve genuine security needs. Rather they help to entrench a rigid matrix of control and domination that makes peace impossible for the entire region.
We call for an end to Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; for the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem; and for an end to all military, economic and associated support for the settlements. We call on both Israeli and Palestinian authorities, with the support of the international community, to protect and preserve the holy sites of all faiths and peoples in the area and to guarantee free, safe access to them. We call on Israel to acknowledge its culpability in the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands and to work in good faith toward a fair resolution to the refugee problem.
There is no such thing as a benign occupation. We support the views of such Israelis as the late Yeshayahu Leibovitz, who wrote: "We must free ourselves from the curse of dominating another people."
