Fw: RE: [UNU-ILF] Protest new Israeli military campaign - April 20 @W hite House

[Elena A. Marchuk]

Sorry folks, to those who are interested in this problem, I did decide to
forward this letter, though hasitated a lot as it is not the list I wish to
discuss this problems, but what to do?
As there are some people who are working and are going to work there, may be
it will be some more thoughts on the problem

the source: my other list of UN University/ Academy of Leadership

best wishes

elena marchuk
novosibirsk

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>
> > Dear Eve,
>
> That's the spirit Eve. Proud of you sister.
>
> We are alumni of the UNITED NATIONS university international leadershiop
programme - and that means we are imbued with the values and vision of that
organisation.  Alas the values and vision and most importantly the authority
of our beloved UN is being utterly trashed be intransigent Israeli's who
flout UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions at will.   Israel
is NOT above the law.
>
> Like broken records they always say 'we are only (killing innocent
Palestinians and ransacking churches, hospitals and any sign of Palestinian
authority that might heal or calm the situation) in retaliation.   An eye
for an eye leaves the while world blind and fighting for peace is like xxxxx
for virginity!   Jerusalem is not THEIR land - they have reduced the 'place
of peace' into a barbwire fortress not presided over by the ethical
fundamentals of humanity's highest hopes but by their ptitful fear, greed
and avarice - goodness knows if the Jews have any claim on moral high ground
they would immediately obey the will of mankind expresse through the
UN -'where their is a will there is a way' the Israeli's despite their
bilious cant that they want to live in harmony are condemned by their
actions - and we are too if we sit on our hands.  Let us raise our coletive
voice for peace - make Jerusalem a city of - the etenral symbol of
atonement, harmony and healing.
>
> In considering the malignancy that is the Middle East (WHERE OIL IS
THICKER THAN BLOOD) Lewis Thomas - the chief of the Sloan Kettering Cancer
Research Institute once wrote that at the heart of cancer treatment is 'the
simple switch at the centre of things' - the will to heal - replace the
addiction to and the blood oust for killing (I mean to say what a wonderful
unifying force is hatred - why can't the Jews be unified on their faith -
not needing to rally their diaspora around holocaust images - because we all
have suffered - and hatred of Yasser.
>
> And all of us who sa the squalor of the refugee camps - next to the lavish
lifestyles of their 'good neighbours' the Jews can we remeber Sadat who said
that Peace = Love times Prosperity.
>
> But maybe Harlan Cleveland was wrong when he sai that this is a 'no one is
in charge' world - perhaps Dwight D Eisenhower was right when he said upon
leaving the White House 'beware the military industrial complex' - the
military industrial complex is loving this war! they have got at least
$US400B extra in their pockets after 11 September - and does the rule of
weaponry reeally solve anything?   Did thesophisticated intelligence prevent
the WTC attack?
>
> Come in John Lennon 'all we are saying is give peace a chance' or as
Yitzhak Rabin said on the White House lawn 'enough bloodshed, enough' -
sorry Yitzhak that doesnot suit the right wing whom Eli Goldschmidt told
UNU/ILA2 in the Labour caucus room 'killed my boss, and now they are the
government' Heaven help us!
>
> Maybe Luis is right - prayer is the only way out?
>
> Pierre
>
>   > Not In Our Name
> >
> > How dare George Bush preach peace to Israel when
> > he's
> > meeting Blair to plan
> > war on Iraq .. and the deaths of thousands more
> > innocent people?
> >
> > By John Pilger
> >
> > President George W. Bush yesterday called on Israel
> > to
> > withdraw from the
> > Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the
> > last week.
> >
> > He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the
> > Palestinians and the rest of
> > the Middle East on the need for restraint and a
> > lasting peace. "The storms
> > of violence cannot go on," said Bush. "Enough is
> > enough."
> >
> > What he neglected to say was that he needs a lull in
> > the present crisis to
> > lay his own war plans; that while he talks of peace
> > in
> > the Middle East, he
> > is secretly planning a massive attack on Iraq.
> >
> > This historic display of hypocrisy by Bush will be
> > on
> > show at his ranch in
> > Texas today, with Tony Blair, his collaborator, in
> > admiring attendance.
> >
> > Yes, enough is enough. It is time Tony Blair came
> > clean with the British
> > people on his part in the coming violence against a
> > nation of innocent
> > people.
> >
> > As the crisis in Israeli-occupied Palestine deepens,
> > Tony Blair will meet
> > George W Bush today to plan an attack on another
> > country, Iraq.
> >
> > Their decision may condemn to death more than 10,000
> > civilians. That is the
> > "medium case scenario" drawn up by the Pentagon. If
> > the Americans implement
> > their current strategy of "total war" and target
> > Iraq's electricity and
> > water, the consequences will be even more horrific.
> >
> > There is no mandate in any United Nations resolution
> > for this invasion. It
> > will be as lawless as Nazi Germany's invasion of
> > Poland, which triggered
> > the Second World War. Indeed, it may well trigger a
> > Third World War,
> > drawing in nations of the region and beyond.
> >
> > As Blair arrives at Bush's Texas ranch the question
> > begs: Why does he
> > condemn Iraq, but is silent on Israel's current
> > bloody
> > and illegal rampage
> > through Palestine? Why has he not demanded that the
> > Israeli Prime Minister
> > Ariel Sharon comply with UN Security Council
> > resolutions, to which Britain
> > is a signatory, and withdraw from the Occupied
> > Territories? Why has Blair
> > said nothing as Sharon has sent tanks and gunships
> > and
> > snipers against
> > civilians - a government targeting innocent people,
> > like the deaf old lady
> > shot by an Israeli sniper as she tried to get to
> > hospital? Why has Blair
> > not called at least for military sanctions against
> > Israel, which has 200
> > nuclear weapons targeted at Arab capitals?
> >
> > Blair's culpable silence is imposed by the most
> > dangerous American
> > administration for a generation. The Bush
> > administration is determined to
> > attack Iraq and take over a country that is the
> > world's second largest
> > source of oil. The aim is to get rid of America's
> > and
> > Britain's old friend,
> > Saddam Hussein, whom they no longer control, and to
> > install another
> > compliant thug in Baghdad.
> >
> > That is why Bush now tells Israel to withdraw from
> > the
> > Palestinian cities
> > it recently occupied while continuing to replenish
> > the
> > Israeli war machine.
> > The Americans want a rampant Israel guarding their
> > flank as they attack
> > Iraq and expand their control across the Middle
> > East,
> > whose oil is now more
> > critical than ever to US military and economic
> > dominance.
> >
> > For almost two months, Downing Street, through the
> > discredited system of
> > unattributable briefings that are secret to the
> > public, have spun two
> > deceptions. The first is that the Prime Minister
> > will
> > play a vital role at
> > today's meeting with Bush on his Texas ranch in
> > "counselling caution." The
> > second is that Blair has a "dossier of detailed
> > evidence" that "proves"
> > that Saddam Hussein has "a nuclear capability" and
> > is
> > "investigating a way
> > to launch unsophisticated nuclear bombs" and is also
> > building chemical and
> > biological weapons.
> >
> > The fiction of Blair as a steadying hand on his
> > Texas
> > buddy is to be read
> > in Blair's unrelenting bellicose statements, and his
> > attempts, against the
> > wishes of his senior military advisers, to send
> > thousands of British troops
> > into the quagmire of Afghanistan, where his
> > "cautionary influence" on Bush
> > saw as many as 5,000 civilians bombed to death while
> > the Taliban and
> > al-Qaeda leaders got away.
> >
> > While remaining silent on Israel, Blair is alone in
> > Europe in his promotion
> > of an attack on Iraq, a nation of 22 million people
> > with whom the British
> > have no quarrel. Mysteriously, the "dossier of
> > proof"
> > of the dangers posed
> > by the Iraqi regime has now been "shelved." This is
> > because no such proof
> > exists and because, suddenly, more than 130 Labour
> > Members of Parliament
> > are in revolt, including Cabinet and former Cabinet
> > members. It must be
> > dawning on many of them that so much of this
> > government's "spin" during the
> > "war on terrorism" has been a farrago of lies and
> > half-truths provided by
> > an American intelligence apparatus seeking to cover
> > its failure to provide
> > warning of the attacks of September 11.
> >
> > Lie Number One is the justification for an attack on
> > Iraq - the threat of
> > its "weapons of mass destruction." Few countries
> > have
> > had 93 per cent of
> > their major weapons capability destroyed. This was
> > reported by Rolf Ekeus,
> > the chairman of the United Nations body authorised
> > to
> > inspect and destroy
> > Iraq's arsenal following the Gulf War in 1991. UN
> > inspectors certified that
> > 817 out of the 819 Iraqi long-range missiles were
> > destroyed. In 1999, a
> > special panel of the Security Council recorded that
> > Iraq's main biological
> > weapons facilities (supplied originally by the US
> > and
> > Britain) "have been
> > destroyed and rendered harmless."
> >
> > As for Saddam Hussein's "nuclear threat," the
> > International Atomic Energy
> > Agency reported that Iraq's nuclear weapons
> > programme
> > had been eliminated
> > "efficiently and effectively". The IAEA inspectors
> > still travel to Iraq and
> > in January reported full Iraqi compliance. Blair and
> > Bush never mention
> > this when they demand that "the weapons inspectors
> > are
> > allowed back". Nor
> > do they remind us that the UN inspectors were never
> > expelled by the Iraqis,
> > but withdrawn only after it was revealed they had
> > been
> > infiltrated by US
> > intelligence.
> >
> > Lie Number Two is the connection between Iraq and
> > the
> > perpetrators of
> > September 11. There was the rumour that Mohammed
> > Atta,
> > one of the September
> > 11 hijackers, had met an Iraqi intelligence official
> > in the Czech Republic
> > last year. The Czech police say he was not even in
> > the
> > country last year.
> > On February 5, a New York Times investigation
> > concluded: "The Central
> > Intelligence Agency has no evidence that Iraq has
> > engaged in terrorist
> > operations against the United States in nearly a
> > decade, and the agency is
> > convinced that Saddam Hussein has not provided
> > chemical or biological
> > weapons to al-Qaeda or related terrorist groups."
> >
> > Lie Number Three is that Saddam Hussein, not the US
> > and Britain, "is
> > blocking humanitarian supplies from reaching the
> > people of Iraq." (Foreign
> > Office minister Peter Hain). The opposite is true.
> > The
> > United States, with
> > British compliance, is currently blocking a record
> > $5billion worth of
> > humanitarian supplies from the people of Iraq. These
> > are shipments already
> > approved by the UN Office of Iraq, which is
> > authorised
> > by the Security
> > Council. They include life-saving drugs,
> > painkillers,
> > vaccines, cancer
> > diagnostic equipment.
> >
> > This wanton denial is rarely reported in Britain.
> > Hundreds of thousands of
> > Iraqis, mostly children, have died as a consequence
> > of
> > an American and
> > British driven embargo on Iraq that resembles a
> > medieval siege. The embargo
> > allows Iraq less than ?100 with which to feed and
> > care
> > for one person for a
> > whole year. This a major factor, says the United
> > Nations' Children's Fund,
> > in the death of more than 600,000 infants.
> >
> > I have seen the appalling state of the children of
> > Iraq. I have sat next to
> > an Iraqi doctor in a modern hospital while she has
> > turned away parents with
> > children suffering from cancers that are part of
> > what
> > they call a
> > "Hiroshima epidemic" - caused, according to several
> > studies, by the
> > depleted uranium that was used by the US and Britain
> > in the Gulf War and is
> > now carried in the dust of the desert. Not only is
> > Iraq denied equipment to
> > clean up its contaminated battlefields, but also
> > cancer drugs and hospital
> > equipment.
> >
> > I showed a list of barred drugs given to me by Iraqi
> > doctors to Professor
> > Karol Sikora, who as chief of the cancer programme
> > of
> > the World Health
> > Organisation, wrote in the British Medical Journal:
> > "Requested radiotherapy
> > equipment, chemotherapy drugs and analgesics are
> > consistently blocked by
> > United States and British advisers (to the UN
> > Sanctions Committee). There
> > seems to be a rather ludicrous notion that such
> > agents
> > could be converted
> > into chemical and other weapons." He told me:
> > "Nearly
> > all these drugs are
> > available in every British hospital. It seems crazy
> > they couldn't have
> > morphine. When I was in Iraq, in one hospital they
> > had
> > a little bottle of
> > aspirin pills to go around 200 patients in pain." No
> > one doubts that if the
> > murderous Saddam Hussein saw advantage in
> > deliberately
> > denying his people
> > humanitarian supplies, he would do so; but the UN,
> > from the Secretary
> > General himself, has said that, while the regime
> > could
> > do more, it has not
> > withheld supplies.
> >
> > Denis Halliday, the assistant Secretary General of
> > the
> > United Nations,
> > resigned in protest at the embargo which he
> > described
> > as "genocidal".
> > Halliday was responsible for the UN's humanitarian
> > programme in Iraq. His
> > successor, Hans Von Sponeck, also resigned in
> > disgust.
> > Last November, they
> > wrote: "The death of 5-6,000 children a month is
> > mostly due to contaminated
> > water, lack of medicines and malnutrition. The US
> > and
> > UK governments'
> > delayed clearance of equipment and materials is
> > responsible for this
> > tragedy, not Baghdad."
> >
> > Those who speak these facts are abused by Blair
> > ministers as apologists for
> > Saddam Hussein - so embroiled is the government with
> > the Bush
> > administration's exploitation of America's own
> > tragedy
> > on September 11.
> > This has prevented public discussion of the crime of
> > an embargo that has
> > hurt only the most vulnerable Iraqis and which is to
> > be compounded by the
> > crime of attacking the stricken nation. Unknown to
> > most of the British
> > public, RAF and American aircraft have been bombing
> > Iraq, week after week,
> > for more than two years. The cost to the British
> > taxpayer is ?800million a
> > year. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US
> > and
> > Britain faced a
> > "dilemma" because "few targets remain". "We're down
> > to
> > the last outhouse,"
> > said a Pentagon official.
> >
> > IN any attack on Iraq, Saddam Hussein's escape route
> > is virtually assured -
> > just as Osama bin Laden's was. The US and Britain
> > have
> > no wish to free the
> > Iraqi people from a tyranny the CIA once described
> > as
> > its "greatest
> > triumph". The last thing they want is a separate
> > Kurdish state and another
> > allied to the Shi'ite majority in neighbouring Iran.
> > They want another
> > Saddam Hussein: one who will do as he is told.
> >
> > On March 13, the Foreign Office entertained
> > Brigadier-General Najib Salihi,
> > a former commander of Saddam Hussein's Republican
> > Guard and chief of the
> > dreaded military intelligence who took part in the
> > invasion of Kuwait in
> > 1990. Now funded by the CIA, the general "denies any
> > war crimes". Not that
> > he would ever face arrest in the West. At the
> > Foreign
> > Office, he is known
> > as a "rapidly rising star". He is their man, and
> > Washington's man.
> >
> > The British soldiers who take part in an invasion
> > have
> > every right to know
> > the dirty secrets that will underpin their action,
> > and
> > extend the suffering
> > of a people held hostage to a dictatorship and to
> > international power games
> > over which they have no control. Two weeks ago, the
> > Americans made clear
> > they were prepared to use "low yield" nuclear
> > weapons,
> > a threat echoed here
> > by Defence Secretary Geoffrey Hoon.
> >
> > When will Europe stand up? If the leaders of the
> > European Union fall
> > silent, too, in the face of such danger, what is
> > Europe for? In this
> > country, there is an honourable rallying cry: Not In
> > Our Name. Bush and
> > Blair must be restrained from killing large numbers
> > of
> > innocents in our
> > name - a view, according to the polls, shared by a
> > majority of the British
> > people. An arms and military equipment embargo must
> > be
> > enforced throughout
> > the region, from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to Ariel
> > Sharon's Israel. Above all,
> > the siege of both the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples
> > must end now.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > UK Warns Saddam of Nuclear Retaliation
> >
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.23D.Nuclear.Retaliation.htm
> >
> > <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <>
> >
> > 3.
> >
> > CHENEY SAYS U.S. WILL ATTACK IRAQ "FOR ISRAEL'S
> > SAKE"
> >
> > [IAP News - 20 March 2002] - US vice-President Dick
> > Cheney reportedly told
> > Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the U.S.
> > was
> > planning to attack
> > Iraq 'first and foremost for Israel's sake.'
> >
> > According to Israeli sources quoted by Israeli
> > state-run radio Wednesday,
> > Cheney asked Sharon to 'tone down' the confrontation
> > with the Palestinians
> > so as not to disrupt or disturb American plans
> > vis-a-vis Iraq.
> >
> > The sources quoted Cheney as saying that he expected
> > President Bush to
> > decide to attack Iraq in spite of widespread
> > opposition in the Arab world.
> >
> > Sharon said publicly Tuesday that Israel would bless
> > wholeheartedly any
> > American attack on Iraq, telling Cheney that the US
> > 'can always count on
> > us.'
> >
> > Israeli press reported this week that Sharon was
> > hoping that a decisive
> > American onslaught against Iraq would demoralize the
> > Palestinians and force
> > them to concede defeat and put an end to the
> > intifada.
> >
> > However, Cheney and Sharon reportedly agreed to keep
> > coordination and
> > cooperation on Iraq behind the curtain in order not
> > to
> > embarrass
> > pro-American puppet Arab regimes.
> >
> > CLIP
> >
> > <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <>
> >
> > 4.
> >
> > PEACE AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: A CALL TO ACTION
> >
> > by U.S. Rep Dennis Kucinich
> >
> > ". . . Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a
> > newer world,"
> >
> > - Alfred Lord Tennyson
> >
> > If you believe that humanity has a higher destiny,
> > if
> > you believe we can
> > evolve, and become better than we are; if you
> > believe
> > we can overcome the
> > scourge of war and someday fulfill the dream of
> > harmony and peace earth,
> > let us begin the conversation today. Let us exchange
> > our ideas. Let us plan
> > together, act together and create peace together.
> > This
> > is a call for common
> > sense, for peaceful, non-violent citizen action to
> > protect our precious
> > world from widening war and from stumbling into a
> > nuclear catastrophe.
> >
> > The climate for conflict has intensified, with the
> > struggle between
> > Pakistan and India, the China-Taiwan tug of war, and
> > the increased
> > bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians.
> > United
> > States' troop
> > deployments in the Philippines, Yemen, Georgia,
> > Columbia and Indonesia
> > create new possibilities for expanded war. An
> > invasion
> > of Iraq is planned.
> > The recent disclosure that Russia, China, Iraq,
> > Iran,
> > Syria, North Korea,
> > and Libya are considered by the United States as
> > possible targets for
> > nuclear attack catalyzes potential conflicts
> > everywhere.
> >
> > These crucial political decisions promoting
> > increased
> > military actions,
> > plus a new nuclear first-use policy, are occurring
> > without the consent of
> > the American people, without public debate, without
> > public hearings,
> > without public votes. The President is taking
> > Congress's approval of
> > responding to the Sept. 11 terrorists as a license
> > to
> > flirt with nuclear
> > war.
> >
> > "Politics ought to stay out of fighting a war," the
> > President has been
> > quoted as saying on March 13th 2002. Yet Article 1,
> > Section 8 of the United
> > States Constitution explicitly requires that
> > Congress
> > take responsibility
> > when it comes to declaring war. This President is
> > very
> > popular, according
> > to the polls. But polls are not a substitute for
> > democratic process.
> > Attributing a negative connotation here to politics
> > or
> > dismissing
> > constitutionally mandated congressional oversight
> > belies reality: Spending
> > $400 billion a year for defense is a political
> > decision. Committing troops
> > abroad is a political decision. War is a political
> > decision. When men and
> > women die on the battlefield that is the result of a
> > political decision.
> > The use of nuclear weapons, which can end the lives
> > of
> > millions, is a
> > profound political decision. In a monarchy there
> > need
> > be no political
> > decisions. In a democracy, all decisions are
> > political, in that the derive
> > from the consent of the governed.
> >
> > In a democracy, budgetary, military and national
> > objectives must be
> > subordinate to the political process. Before we
> > celebrate an imperial
> > presidency, let it be said that the lack of free and
> > open political
> > process, the lack of free and open political debate,
> > and the lack of free
> > and open political dissent can be fatal in a
> > democracy.
> >
> > We have reached a moment in our country's history
> > where it is urgent that
> > people everywhere speak out as president of his or
> > her
> > own life, to protect
> > the peace of the nation and world within and
> > without.
> > We should speak out
> > and caution leaders who generate fear through talk
> > of
> > the endless war or
> > the final conflict. We should appeal to our leaders
> > to
> > consider that their
> > own bellicose thoughts, words and deeds are
> > reshaping
> > consciousness and can
> > have an adverse effect on our nation. Because when
> > one
> > person thinks:
> > fight! he or she finds a fight. One faction thinks:
> > war! and starts a war.
> > One nation thinks: nuclear! and approaches the
> > abyss.
> > And what of one
> > nation which thinks peace, and seeks peace?
> >
> > Neither individuals nor nations exist in a vacuum,
> > which is why we have a
> > serious responsibility for each other in this world.
> > It is also urgent that
> > we find those places of war in our own lives, and
> > begin healing the world
> > through healing ourselves. Each of us is a citizen
> > of
> > a common planet,
> > bound to a common destiny. So connected are we, that
> > each of us has the
> > power to be the eyes of the world, the voice of the
> > world, the conscience
> > of the world, or the end of the world. And as each
> > one
> > of us chooses, so
> > becomes the world.
> >
> > Each of us is architect of this world. Our thoughts,
> > the concepts. Our
> > words, the designs. Our deeds, the bricks and mortar
> > of our daily lives.
> > Which is why we should always take care to regard
> > the
> > power of our thoughts
> > and words, and the commands they send into action
> > through time and space.
> >
> > Some of our leaders have been thinking and talking
> > about nuclear war. In
> > the past week there has been much news about a
> > planning document which
> > describes how and when America might wage nuclear
> > war.
> > The Nuclear Posture
> > Review recently released to the media by the
> > government:
> >
> > 1. Assumes that the United States has the right to
> > launch a pre-emptive
> > nuclear strike.
> > 2. Equates nuclear weapons with conventional
> > weapons.
> > 3. Attempts to minimize the consequences of the use
> > of
> > nuclear weapons.
> > 4. Promotes nuclear response to a chemical or
> > biological attack.
> >
> > Some dismiss this review as routine government
> > planning. But it becomes
> > ominous when taken in the context of a war on
> > terrorism which keeps
> > expanding its boundaries, rhetorically and
> > literally.
> > The President equates
> > the "war on terrorism" with World War II. He
> > expresses
> > a desire to have the
> > nuclear option "on the table." He unilaterally
> > withdraws from the ABM
> > treaty. He seeks $8.9 billion to fund deployment of
> > a
> > missile shield. He
> > institutes, without congressional knowledge, a
> > shadow
> > government in a
> > bunker outside our nation's Capitol. He tries to
> > pass
> > off as arms
> > reduction, the storage of, instead of the
> > elimination
> > of, nuclear weapons.
> >
> > Two generations ago we lived with nuclear
> > nightmares.
> > We feared and hated
> > the Russians who feared and hated us. We feared and
> > hated the "godless,
> > atheistic" communists. In our schools, we dutifully
> > put our head between
> > our legs and practiced duck-and-cover drills. In our
> > nightmares, we saw the
> > long, slow arc of a Soviet missile flash into our
> > very
> > neighborhood. We got
> > down on our knees and prayed for peace. We surveyed,
> > wide eyed, pictures of
> > the destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We
> > supported the elimination of
> > all nuclear weapons. We knew that if you "nuked"
> > others you "nuked"
> > yourself.
> >
> > The splitting of the atom for destructive purposes
> > admits a split
> > consciousness, the compartmentalized thinking of Us
> > vs. Them, the
> > dichotomized thinking, which spawns polarity and
> > leads
> > to war. The proposed
> > use of nuclear weapons, pollutes the psyche with the
> > arrogance of infinite
> > power. It creates delusions of domination of matter
> > and space. It is
> > dehumanizing through its calculations of mass
> > casualties. We must overcome
> > doomthinkers and sayers who invite a world
> > descending,
> > disintegrating into
> > a nuclear disaster. With a world at risk, we must
> > find
> > the bombs in our own
> > lives and disarm them. We must listen to that quiet
> > inner voice which
> > counsels that the survival of all is achieved
> > through
> > the unity of all.
> >
> > We must overcome our fear of each other, by seeking
> > out the humanity within
> > each of us. The human heart contains every
> > possibility
> > of race, creed,
> > language, religion, and politics. We are one in our
> > commonalities. Must we
> > always fear our differences? We can overcome our
> > fears
> > by not feeding our
> > fears with more war and nuclear confrontations. We
> > must ask our leaders to
> > unify us in courage.
> >
> > We need to create a new, clear vision of a world as
> > one. A new, clear
> > vision of people working out their differences
> > peacefully. A new, clear
> > vision with the teaching of nonviolence, nonviolent
> > intervention, and
> > mediation. A new, clear vision where people can live
> > in harmony within
> > their families, their communities and within
> > themselves. A new clear vision
> > of peaceful coexistence in a world of tolerance.
> >
> > At this moment peril we must move away from fear's
> > paralysis. This is a
> > call to action: to replace expanded war with
> > expanded
> > peace. This is a call
> > for action to place the very survival of this planet
> > on the agenda of all
> > people, everywhere. As citizens of a common planet,
> > we
> > have an obligation
> > to ourselves and our posterity. We must demand that
> > our nation and all
> > nations put down the nuclear sword. We must demand
> > that our nation and all
> > nations:
> >
> > Abide by the principles of the nuclear
> > Non-Proliferation Treaty. Stop the
> > development of new nuclear weapons. Take all nuclear
> > weapons systems off
> > alert. Persist towards total, worldwide elimination
> > of
> > all nuclear weapons.
> >
> > Our nation must: Revive the Anti Ballistic Missile
> > treaty. Sign and enforce
> > the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Abandon plans to
> > build a so-called
> > missile shield. Prohibit the introduction of weapons
> > into outer space.
> >
> > We are in a climate where people expect debate
> > within
> > our two party system
> > to produce policy alternatives. However both major
> > political parties have
> > fallen short. People who ask "Where is the
> > Democratic
> > Party?" and expect to
> > hear debate may be disappointed. When peace is not
> > on
> > the agenda of our
> > political parties or our governments then it must be
> > the work and the duty
> > of each citizen of the world. This is the time to
> > organize for peace. This
> > is the time for new thinking. This is the time to
> > conceive of peace as not
> > simply being the absence of violence, but the active
> > presence of the
> > capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.
> > This is the time to
> > conceive of peace as respect, trust, and integrity.
> > This is the time to tap
> > the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform
> > consciousness which
> > compels violence at a personal, group, national or
> > international levels.
> > This is the time to develop a new compassion for
> > others and ourselves.
> >
> > When terrorists threaten our security, we must
> > enforce
> > the law and bring
> > terrorists to justice within our system of
> > constitutional justice, without
> > undermining the very civil liberties which permits
> > our
> > democracy to
> > breathe. Our own instinct for life, which inspires
> > our
> > breath and informs
> > our pulse, excites our capacity to reason. Which is
> > why we must pay
> > attention when we sense a threat to survival.
> >
> > That is why we must speak out now to protect this
> > nation, all nations, and
> > the entire planet and: Challenge those who believe
> > that war is inevitable.
> > Challenge those who believe in a nuclear right.
> > Challenge those who would
> > build new nuclear weapons. Challenge those who seek
> > nuclear re-armament.
> > Challenge those who seek nuclear escalation.
> > Challenge
> > those who would make
> > of any nation a nuclear target. Challenge those who
> > would threaten to use
> > nuclear weapons against civilian populations.
> > Challenge those who would
> > break nuclear treaties. Challenge those who think
> > and
> > think about nuclear
> > weapons, to think about peace.
> >
> > It is practical to work for peace. I speak of peace
> > and diplomacy not just
> > for the sake of peace itself. But, for practical
> > reasons, we must work for
> > peace as a means of achieving permanent security. It
> > is similarly practical
> > to work for total nuclear disarmament, particularly
> > when nuclear arms do
> > not even come close to addressing the real security
> > problems which confront
> > our nation, witness the events of September 11,
> > 2001.
> >
> > We can make war archaic. Skeptics may dismiss the
> > possibility that a nation
> > which spends $400 billion a year for military
> > purposes
> > can somehow convert
> > swords into plowshares. Yet the very founding and
> > the
> > history of this
> > country demonstrates the creative possibilities of
> > America. We are a nation
> > which is known for realizing impossible dreams. Ours
> > is a nation which in
> > its second century abolished slavery, which many at
> > the time considered
> > impossible. Ours is a nation where women won the
> > right
> > to vote, which many
> > at the time considered impossible. Ours is a nation
> > which institutionalized
> > the civil rights movement, which many at the time
> > considered impossible. If
> > we have the courage to claim peace, with the
> > passion,
> > the emotion and the
> > integrity with which we have claimed independence,
> > freedom and, equality we
> > can become that nation which makes non-violence an
> > organizing principle in
> > our society, and in doing so change the world.
> >
> > That is the purpose of HR 2459. It is a bill to
> > create
> > a Department of
> > Peace. It envisions new structures to help create
> > peace in our homes, in
> > our families, in our schools, in our neighborhoods,
> > in
> > our cities, and in
> > our nation. It aspires to create conditions for
> > peace
> > within and to create
> > conditions for peace worldwide. It considers the
> > conditions which cause
> > people to become the terrorists of the future,
> > issues
> > of poverty, scarcity
> > and exploitation. It is practical to make outer
> > space
> > safe from weapons, so
> > that humanity can continue to pursue a destiny among
> > the stars. HR 3616
> > seeks to ban weapons in space, to keep the stars a
> > place of dreams, of new
> > possibilities, of transcendence.
> >
> > We can achieve this practical vision of peace, if we
> > are ready to work for
> > it. People worldwide need to meet with likeminded
> > people, to talk about
> > peace and nuclear disarmament, now. People worldwide
> > need to gather in
> > peace, now. People worldwide need to march and to
> > pray
> > for peace, now.
> > People worldwide need to be connecting with each
> > other
> > on the web, for
> > peace, now. We are in a new era of electronic
> > democracy, where the world
> > wide web, numerous web sites and bulletin boards
> > enable new organizations,
> > exercising freedom of speech, freedom of assembly,
> > freedom of association,
> > to spring into being instantly.
> > Thespiritoffreedom.com
> > is such a web site.
> > It is dedicated to becoming an electronic forum for
> > peace, for
> > sustainability, for renewal and for revitalization.
> > It
> > is a forum which
> > strives for the restoration of a sense of community
> > through the empowerment
> > of self, through commitment of self to the lives of
> > others, to the life of
> > the community, to the life of the nation, to the
> > life
> > of the world.
> >
> > Where war making is profoundly uncreative in its
> > destruction, peacemaking
> > can be deeply creative. We need to communicate with
> > each other the ways in
> > which we work in our communities to make this a more
> > peaceful world. I
> > welcome your ideas at dkucinich at aol.com or at
> > http://www.thespiritoffreedom.com. We can share our
> > thoughts and discuss
> > ways in which we have brought or will bring them
> > into
> > action.
> >
> > Now is the time to think, to take action and use our
> > talents and abilities
> > to create peace: in our families. in our block
> > clubs.
> > in our neighborhoods.
> > in our places of worship. in our schools and
> > universities. in our labor
> > halls. in our parent-teacher organizations.
> >
> > Now is the time to think, speak, write, organize and
> > take action to create
> > peace as a social imperative, as an economic
> > imperative, and as a political
> > imperative. Now is the time to think, speak, write,
> > organize, march, rally,
> > hold vigils and take other nonviolent action to
> > create
> > peace in our cities,
> > in our nation and in the world. And as the hymn
> > says,
> > "Let there be peace
> > on earth and let it begin with me."
> >
> > This is the work of the human family, of people all
> > over the world
> > demanding that governments and non-governmental
> > actors
> > alike put down their
> > nuclear weapons. This is the work of the human
> > family,
> > responding in this
> > moment of crisis to protect our nation, this planet
> > and all life within it.
> > We can achieve both nuclear disarmament and peace.
> > As
> > we understand that
> > all people of the world are interconnected, we can
> > achieve both nuclear
> > disarmament and peace. We can accomplish this
> > through
> > upholding an holistic
> > vision where the claims of all living beings to the
> > right of survival are
> > recognized. We can achieve both nuclear disarmament
> > and peace through being
> > a living testament to a Human Rights Covenant where
> > each person on this
> > planet is entitled to a life where he or she may
> > consciously evolve in
> > mind, body and spirit.
> >
> > Nuclear disarmament and peace are the signposts
> > toward
> > the uplit path of an
> > even brighter human condition wherein we can through
> > our conscious efforts
> > evolve and reestablish the context of our existence
> > from peril to peace,
> > from revolution to evolution. Think peace. Speak
> > peace. Act peace. Peace.
> >
> > Email responses to info at thespiritoffreedom.com or
> > Dkucinich at aol.com
> >
> > ---
> >
> > See also:
> >
> > MILITARY SPENDING CLOCK - HOW MUCH IS WASTED!
> > http://www.cdi.org/msc/clock.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Message: 20
> > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 02:38:58 +0200
> > From: "Mario Profaca"
> > Subject: FW: Out of all Arab countries: Iraq Stops
> > Oil Exports to Support Palestinians
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arjan El Fassed [mailto:arjan at lawsociety.org]
> > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:00 PM
> > To: Al-Awda-News at yahogroups.com
> > Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Out of all Arab countries:
> > Iraq Stops Oil Exports to Support Palestinians
> >
> > Iraq Stops Oil Exports to Support Palestinians
> > By Hassan Hafidh (Reuters, April 08, 2002 10:54 AM
> > ET)
> >
> > BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein of Iraq
> > Monday announced an
> > immediate month-long suspension of Iraqi oil exports
> > in protest of U.S.
> > support for Israel's incursion into Palestinian
> > areas
> > of the West Bank.
> >
> > Saddam said the decision, halting nearly two million
> > barrels a day or some
> > four percent of international oil supplies, had been
> > taken by the
> > Revolutionary Command Council at a meeting in
> > Baghdad
> > Monday morning.
> >
> > In a speech broadcast over Iraqi media, the Iraqi
> > leader said: "The Iraqi
> > leadership declared the complete stoppage of oil
> > exports starting from this
> > afternoon April 8 for a period of 30 days when we
> > will
> > further decide
> > policy, or until the Zionist entity's armed forces
> > have unconditionally
> > withdrawn from the Palestinian territories."
> >
> > The stoppage helped propel oil prices sharply
> > higher,
> > adding $1.26 to
> > benchmark Brent, taking it to $27.14 a barrel, near
> > a
> > six-month high.
> >
> > Iraq's decision came as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
> > Sharon vowed to press
> > ahead with a 10-day-old military offensive, in
> > direct
> > defiance of demands
> > from its ally the United States for a withdrawal.
> >
> > Saddam said: "The decision is basically taken
> > against
> > the Zionist entity,
> > and the American aggressive policy and not against
> > anyone else. It is not
> > meant to harm anyone but those who have decided to
> > harm the Arab nation,
> > including the Palestinian people."
> >
> > Baghdad is under threat from a military attack from
> > the United States which
> > wants to oust Saddam in its campaign against
> > countries
> > it identifies as a
> > threat to its security.
> >
> > Saddam is resisting pressure from the U.S. and
> > Britain
> > to permit the return
> > of United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq to
> > investigate its capacity to
> > produce weapons of mass destruction. Iraq remains
> > under United Nations
> > sanctions for failing to eliminate those weapons
> > nearly 12 years after
> > Saddam ordered his forces to invade Kuwait in August
> > 1990.
> >
> > The Bush administration said Sunday it was not yet
> > planning a military
> > campaign against Iraq but that the use of force
> > remained an option.
> >
> > President Bush, after a meeting with British Prime
> > Minister Tony Blair in
> > Texas, said "all options were on the table" to
> > neutralize the threat posed
> > by Iraq.
> >
> > IRAN, LIBYA
> >
> > There was no immediate response to the Iraqi move on
> > oil supplies from two
> > other Muslim oil producing nations, Iran and Libya.
> > Both have said they
> > would embargo deliveries but only if the ban found
> > support from all Arab
> > producers.
> >
> > Such a move would appear highly unlikely because big
> > producers Saudi Arabia
> > and Kuwait have already rejected a repeat of the
> > 1973
> > Arab oil embargo that
> > quadrupled oil prices, triggering a severe economic
> > recession in the West.
> >
> > Iraqi officials said their suspension would be
> > lifted
> > once the Iraqi
> > leadership was satisfied that Israel had withdrawn
> > from the West Bank.
> >
> > Iraq exports oil under a humanitarian exchange with
> > the United Nations,
> > permitted as an exception to 1990 Gulf War
> > sanctions.
> >
> > Despite its hard-line on Iraq, the U.S. is easily
> > the
> > world's biggest
> > consumer of Iraqi crude, taking more than half of
> > Baghdad's oil and
> > depending on Iraqi supplies for about nine percent
> > of
> > its huge imports.
> >
> > Iraqi Oil Minister Amir Muhammed Rasheed confirmed
> > the
> > suspension of exports
> > had been implemented at 1000 GMT from both its
> > export
> > points on the Gulf and
> > through Turkey. Turkish pipeline company Botas said
> > it
> > had yet to be
> > notified.
> >
> > About a third of Iraq's crude exports are piped
> > north
> > through Turkey to the
> > Mediterranean port of Ceyhan with the rest shipped
> > from Iraq's Gulf port of
> > Mina al-Bakr.
> >
> > OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez said he would
> > consult with cartel
> > ministers to see whether they saw the need to
> > release
> > extra supplies to fill
> > the gap left by Iraq.
> >
> > But one senior OPEC delegate said the suspension was
> > "not such a big deal"
> > and that there was no prospect of the emergency
> > meeting that would be needed
> > for ministers to decide to raise output
> > From: Eve Thompson <thompson at caresa.co.za>
> > Date: 2002/04/10 Wed AM 03:47:19 GMT+12:00
> > To: "'UNU-ILF at yahoogroups.com'" <UNU-ILF at yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: RE: [UNU-ILF] Protest new Israeli military campaign - April 20
@W
> > hite House
> >
> > Hi Farrukh:
> >
> > It looks like I'll be in Washington at that time and will definitely
> > participate in this protest.  This outrage has to stop!!!
> >
> > eve
> >
> > Eve Thompson
> > Southern and West Africa Regional
> >   Management Unit, CARE USA
> > First Floor, No 1 8th Avenue
> > South Building
> > Rivonia, 2196, SOUTH AFRICA
> > +27-11-234-1221 (t)
> > +27-11-234-1107 (f)
> > +27-83-651-4590 (cell)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Farrukh Sohail Goindi [SMTP:dmocrat at brain.net.pk]
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:12 AM
> > > To: UNU-ILF at yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [UNU-ILF] Protest new Israeli military campaign - April 20
> > > @White House
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From
> > >
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 6:06 AM
> > > Subject: [ANSWER]: Protest new Israeli military campaign - April 20
@White
> > > House
> > >
> > >
> > > > International A.N.S.W.E.R.
> > > > Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
> > > > Web: http://www.internationalanswer.org
> > > >
> > > > PRESS RELEASE
> > > > March 29, 2002
> > > >
> > > > SHARON ANSWERS ARAB SUMMIT PROPOSAL WITH ALL-OUT WAR
> > > > AGAINST PALESTINIANS
> > > >
> > > > ANTI-WAR COALITION CONDEMNS "U.S.-ISRAELI WAR," CALLS FOR
> > > > MASS PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AT WHITE HOUSE IN WASHINGTON &
> > > > IN SAN FRANCISCO ON APRIL 20
> > > >
> > > > Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave his answer to the
> > > > Arab League's peace proposal today: a massive assault on
> > > > Palestinian cities, towns and refugee camps in the West
> > > > Bank and Gaza. The compound of Palestinian Authority
> > > > President Yassir Arafat in Ramallah has been invaded and
> > > > largely destroyed. Many Palestinians have been killed,
> > > > wounded and rounded-up. Israel has called up 20,000
> > > > reservists in preparation for even wider attacks.
> > > >
> > > > "This latest assault is part of a clear pattern of
> > > > behavior on Sharon's part," said Richard Becker, Western
> > > > Region Co-Director of the International Action Center and
> > > > a member of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. - Act Now to
> > > > Stop War and End Racism national steering committee.
> > > > A.N.S.W.E.R. is organizing major anti-war demonstrations
> > > > in Washington DC and San Francisco on April 20, 2002.
> > > >
> > > > "These attacks on civilian areas are being carried out
> > > > with U.S. weaponry -- F-16s, Apache helicopters, armored
> > > > personnel carriers and much more," said Becker. "The U.S.
> > > > has supplied more high-tech weaponry to Israel than to any
> > > > other country. What we are witnessing today is, from any
> > > > objective point of view, a joint U.S-Israeli war against
> > > > the Palestinian people," Becker continued.
> > > >
> > > > "While the Bush administration and the big media here
> > > > regularly blame the Palestinians for the failure of
> > > > negotiations to move forward, the reality is that the
> > > > Sharon regime has responded to every initiative with
> > > > extremely provocative actions," Becker stated. "Back in
> > > > November, Secretary of State Powell's announcement that
> > > > Gen. Zinni was being sent as a U.S. envoy to the Middle
> > > > East was followed three days later by the assassination of
> > > > a top leader of the Hamas organization and the killing of
> > > > five young boys from the same family in Gaza.
> > > >
> > > > "In late February, Sharon responded to the Saudi plan put
> > > > forward by Crown Prince Abdullah by launching an offensive
> > > > unprecedented since the 1967 war on refugee camps and
> > > > cities across the West Bank and Gaza. More than 200
> > > > Palestinians were killed in a two-week period and
> > > > thousands more seriously wounded and made homeless -- the
> > > > overwhelming majority of the casualties being civilians,"
> > > > said Becker.
> > > >
> > > > "But the corporate media considers Israeli casualties far
> > > > more significant that those on the Palestinian side,
> > > > despite the fact that the latter has suffered four times
> > > > the deaths -- more than 1,300 killed -- and more than six
> > > > times the number of wounded as have the Israelis," said
> > > > Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil
> > > > Justice Legal Defense and Education Fund and the
> > > > A.N.S.W.E.R. national steering committee.
> > > >
> > > > "The bottom line is this: Sharon is part of the leadership
> > > > grouping in Israel which has resisted, since the
> > > > establishment of their state, giving up one square foot of
> > > > historic Palestine," stated Verheyden-Hilliard. For 50
> > > > years they have worked tirelessly, with the support of
> > > > U.S. leaders and media, to make it appear that it is the
> > > > Palestinians and Arabs who are responsible for the
> > > > on-going hostilities.
> > > >
> > > > "The reality of the situation is that there will be no
> > > > peace in the Middle East until there is real justice and
> > > > self-determination for the Palestinians,"
> > > > Verheyden-Hilliard concluded.
> > > >
> > > > The International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition is calling on
> > > > people from across the country to join our mass anti-war
> > > > and anti-racist protests in Washington, DC and San
> > > > Francisco on April 20 to demand an end to U.S. support for
> > > > Israel's occupation and justice for the Palestinian
> > > > people.
> > > >
> > > > International A.N.S.W.E.R.
> > > > Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
> > > > 39 W. 14th St. Room 206 New York, NY 10011
> > > > 212-633-6646 - fax: 212-633-2889
> > >
> > > > Web: http://www.internationalanswer.org
> > > >
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