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Final statement:
Jewish European Peace groups Meeting
"Don't say you didn't know"
Amsterdam, 19th & 20th of September 2002
We, representatives from eighteen Jewish peace
organisations from nine European countries, gathered together at the
conference "Don't say you didn't know" in Amsterdam on the 19 and
20th of September 2002, call upon:
A) the Israeli government to change its current
policy and implement the proposals in the following declaration and
B) all other governments, the United Nations and the European Union
to put pressure on the Israeli government to implement the proposals
in the following declaration:
We believe that the only way out of the current
impasse is through an agreement based on the creation of an
independent and viable Palestinian state and the guarantee of a safe
and secure Israel and Palestine.
This requires:
1. an immediate end of the occupation of the
Occupied Territories: West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem with
recognition of the 4th June 1967 borders;
2. complete withdrawal of all Jewish settlements in all the Occupied
Territories;
3. the recognition of the right of both states to have Jerusalem as
their capital;
4. the recognition by Israel of its part in the creation of the
Palestinian refugee problem. Israel should recognise in principle
the Palestinian right to return as a human right. The practical
solution to the problem will come about by agreement between parties
based on just, fair and practical considerations. It will include
compensation, the return to the territory of the State of Palestine
or of Israel, without endangering Israel's existence. We call upon
the international community, especially Europe, for political and
financial support.
Signatories:
An Other Jewish Voice (The Netherlands)
Union des Progressistes Juifs de Belgique - UPJB (Belgium)
Network of Jews Against Occupation, Rome (Italy)
Group Martin Buber – Jews for Peace (UK)
Friends of the Israeli Palestinian Coalition of Peace
Just Peace (UK)
Jews for Justice for Palestinians (UK)
Jewish Socialist Group (UK)
British Friends of Peace Now
Rabbis for Human Rights (UK)
Jewish Manifesto (Sweden)
The Swedish Jewish Peace Group (Sweden)
Jüdische Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden zwischen Israel und
Palästina (Switzerland)
Union Juive Francaise pour la paix - UJFP (France)
Le Cercle Français de Juive Diasporique de Gauche C– Cercle Gaston
Crémieux (France)
New Outlook (Denmark)
Meretz (UK)
Text in Deutsch
Jüdische Stimme für
gerechten Frieden in Nahost
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