ebrei contro l'occupazione

Ms. Catherine Ashton,
High representative for Foreign Affairs
and Security Policy of the European Union,
200 Rue de la Loi
1049 Brussels.

Amsterdam, February 3th 2010,

Dear Ms. Ashton,

On behalf of “European Jews for a Just Peace” (EJJP) I send you this letter to congratulate you on your appointment as High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union in December 2009. We sincerely wish you all the success in your new position, which will play such a central role in the EU’s efforts to achieve global peace and prosperity and respect for human rights.

EJJP is an organization of eleven Jewish European peace groups working in ten European countries against the occupation of Palestine and for a peaceful and durable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its principles are stated in the annex to this letter. A list of its members is also included as well as the EJJP resolution of June 2007.

The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to weigh very negatively on relations between so many countries and cultures. Palestinians live under harsh military occupation, on only 22 % of the land which was originally theirs. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said this is the most urgent problem for the world to solve and that, if it remains unresolved, no other issues - from the war on terror to nuclear disarmament - will ever be resolved. About the West’s responsibility he says: “(It) feels a deep, deep shame for what it did - or didn't do - during the Holocaust…(and)…ought to feel that shame, but …the penalty…has been paid not by the West, but by the Palestinians.”

6 février 2010

« Plus aucun soutien à l’occupation israélienne ! »

C’est l’appel des Juifs européens pour une paix juste (EJJP), qui se réunissaient en congrès le week-end dernier à Paris. Samedi soir, en présence de l’ambassadeur Stephane Hessel et d’Omar Soumi, de Génération Palestine, ils ont lancé l’idée d’un « réseau non seulement européen mais mondial » pour exiger d’Israël l’application du droit international à l’égard des Palestiniens, et de l’Europe qu’elle mette fin à toute complicité avec la colonisation et le blocus.