In an open letter to US President Joe Biden, 680 prominent personalities and organizations from 75 countries called on America’s leaders to work to help end the domination and institutional oppression practiced by Israel on the Palestinian people, and to protect their basic human rights, noting that the time is now It is time for the United States to break the political status quo in the Middle East.
According to the letter , published by the French website Mediapart, the members of the Global Alliance of Civil Society, business leaders, artists, religious and political leaders and Nobel Prize laureates, the undersigned, call on US leaders to act to help end the Israeli domination and institutional oppression of the Palestinian people; Because a lasting and just peace for all people will remain elusive if American policy remains the status quo without justice and accountability.
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The letter warned that the Israeli police and settlers continue to practice violence against Palestinians despite the official ceasefire, by forcible expulsion and violent actions against peaceful demonstrators and worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, stressing that these policies undermine the social fabric and prevent any progress towards a just and peaceful democratic future. It led to the recent displacement of 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza, affected by a humanitarian crisis caused by 14 years of siege.
The United States, the letter says, must address the underlying causes of the violence, which successive administrations have condoned, and therefore the current administration must exercise coordinated diplomatic pressure to help end discrimination and systematic repression, and to ensure accountability for Israeli authorities that violate Palestinian rights.
The letter concluded that the resolute implementation of a foreign policy centered around rights is the only way to make Israeli leaders realize that violations of international law will not go unanswered; Which means that it is time to set a new standard for US foreign policy that guarantees justice and paves the way for lasting peace, says the letter to Biden.
the undersigned
As an example of the signatories to this letter we find personalities such as; Former Ireland President Mary Robinson, who also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002, former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, who served as the UN Special Envoy for Syria from 2012 to 2014, and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Prize winner For peace in 2011, the French diplomat specializing in defense issues and international relations Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the French-Israeli politician Abraham Burg, who fought for the separation of religious institutions from the State of Israel, in addition to Marwan Muasher, Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister, and South African director Kumi Naidoo. Former International Executive of Greenpeace International and former Secretary General of Amnesty International.
The list of signatories also includes the head of the Israeli Middle East Project, Daniel Levy, the British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, the French former president of Doctors Without Borders Ronnie Bruman, as well as Noam Chomsky, the American linguist and thinker known for his commitment and his socialist and libertarian leanings, and the British Dr. Sila Elworthy, founder of Oxford research group Peace Direct, Business Plan for Peace, which has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In addition to personalities, we find several organizations such as the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, the Campaign Against Arms (CAAT), which was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2021, and The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions in Germany and Finland, the International Alliance for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms in France, the International Federation for Rights and Development in Belgium, the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights and the Movement for a Just Peace in Canada, and others.