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Four VeteransForPeace brothers have put together a resolution calling for a single state solution (Warfield/Dresser Resolution for Israel/Palestine Peace) which we are hoping to pass at the next VFP National Conference later this year. If successful, this would be a big political blow to the (Zionist) Empire. But we desperately need your help.
We've already received criticism that the four of us white boys who put this together are "too white" to be speaking on behalf of Palestinians. We have also been told that since the Palestinians "are not demanding a single state solution themselves" that we should just leave matters alone. We don't believe either of these. But it will be up to our Arab, Muslim and Palestinian brothers and sisters to prove it that we are right. Without your support, this effort will likely collapse. With your support, the membership of VeteransForPeace may very well be convinced to pass this resolution.
Please sign the petition and leave your comments/opinions, and encourage all of your friends to do so as well by forwarding this message and link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Warfield-DresserResolution
Very Sincerely,
Gordon Sturrock (petition admin and signer)
For your convenience, here is the full text of the resolution, link to sign it is above:
March 29, 2009
Warfield/Dresser Resolution for Israel/Palestinian Peace
Since 1907 the peoples of the world have created a body of international law to prevent the armed violence of war. These are enshrined in key international covenants such as the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which have established by consensus the laws of mankind. To maintain its integrity of purpose and secure its objective of world peace, VFP must demand adherence by all nations to these international laws and their enforcement by the international community, in particular by the United States which we represent as citizens, and by any nation supported by the United States.
Israel has remained in continuous defiance of these laws throughout its 61 years of existence. The 1948 Palestinian refugees' right of return, a fundamental right declared in Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and confirmed for these refugees in UN Resolution 194 has never been honored despite Israel's pledge to do so as a condition of its 1949 admission to the United Nations. The illegality of land acquisition through force was again disregarded by Israel in 1967, followed by relentless transfer of the Israeli population into occupied Palestinian land in violation of the 4th Geneva Convention, which also requires an occupying power to protect, not displace and abuse, a population under occupation.. Forty-two years of repressive military occupation have continuously violated the Palestinians’ right of self-determination as declared for all people in Chapter 1, Article I, Paragraph 2 of the United Nations Charter to which Israel is a signatory, Articles 13 and 15 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first article in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1976, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1514 of 1960. The long series of Israeli violations has resulted in passage of some 100 UN resolutions of censure and condemnation as well as 42 Security Council resolutions against Israel vetoed by the US, with the US on each occasion casting the only vote in support of Israel. Israel far surpasses the record of international illegality of any other nation. Under this same body of international law, explicit in Chapter 7, Article 51 of the United Nations Charter affirming the “inherent right of individual and collective self-defense,” Palestinians have the right to defensively employ armed force against Israel's invasion and occupation which is itself illegal under the United Nations Charter, Chapter 1, Article 2, Paragraphs 3 and 4. Palestinian resistance violates international law only when civilians are targeted, which is difficult to avoid when they lack air defenses against Israeli military aircraft and an air force or precision artillery to target IDF installations.
This is not a matter of civil disputes to be litigated or negotiated, which has been used as a dilatory tactic for decades while Israel has continued to gobble up Palestinian land. This is a matter of criminal violations to be enforced. It is time for Veterans For Peace to take a clear, unequivocal stand in support of all international laws enacted to ensure peace.
Therefore, be it resolved that Veterans For Peace shall call for:
1) a "one-state solution" in all of historic Palestine where Jews and other religions (including the non-religious) have equal rights, as opposed to the current "two-state" proposal, which would preserve the present apartheid system within Israel and permit Israel to evict indigenous citizens from their own lands, keeping all the best olive groves and orchards, beachfront properties, and other desirable real estate and turning their non-Jewish citizens into more refugees without legal rights, even the right to life should they resist.
2) a national boycott of all Israeli products as well as products of companies such as Caterpillar and Motorola that provide equipment for the occupation, including active support of existing boycott programs (e.g. www.BDSmovement..net)
3) a divestment campaign to impose economic sanctions upon Israel (as was done with South Africa) to coerce it to amend its ways. (Note: economic coercion against the rich and powerful is not the same as coercion by the rich and powerful against the poor and weak, as inflicted by Israel upon the helpless population of Gaza.) Again, see www.BDSmovement.net.
4) an immediate end to all military assistance by the U.S. f or Israel.
5) implementation of the right of return for all UN-registered Palestinian refugees per UN Resolution 194 in 1948, to which Israel agreed as a condition of its 1949 admission to the United Nations, with establishment of a commission to adjudicate property disputes, to be fully funded with freed-up military assistance dollars.
6) cessation of all US diplomatic protection of Israel from the judgments and sanctions of international legislative and judicial bodies.
7) suspension of all foreign aid to Israel contingent upon Israel's full compliance with international law and UN resolutions.
8) reimbursement by Israel to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the full costs of its 60 years of care for the Palestinian refugees it has illegally prevented from returning.
Signed,
Winston Warfield
VfP, Chapter 9, Boston (Smedley Butler Brigade), past president
U.S. Army (RA18951984)
Hq. Co., 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (Mech.)
I Corps, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, 1968-1969
Jack Dresser, Ph.D.
Former Chief Psychologist, Madigan General Hospital, US Army
Veterans for Peace
Co-founder, the Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Gordon Sturrock
Founder Squadron13.com, co-founder VeteransAgainstTorture.com
member VeteransForPeace & VVAW
Bill Perry
VFP, DAV, VVAW, VFW, VVA
Delaware Valley Veterans For America, co-founder VeteransAgainstTorture.com
Squadron13 Aviation Museum
& Flights of Thought on War and Politics - http://www.squadron13.com
founder- Veterans Against Torture
http://www.VeteransAgainstTorture.com
Four VeteransForPeace brothers have put together a resolution calling for a single state solution (Warfield/Dresser Resolution for Israel/Palestine Peace) which we are hoping to pass at the next VFP National Conference later this year. If successful, this would be a big political blow to the (Zionist) Empire. But we desperately need your help.
We've already received criticism that the four of us white boys who put this together are "too white" to be speaking on behalf of Palestinians. We have also been told that since the Palestinians "are not demanding a single state solution themselves" that we should just leave matters alone. We don't believe either of these. But it will be up to our Arab, Muslim and Palestinian brothers and sisters to prove it that we are right. Without your support, this effort will likely collapse. With your support, the membership of VeteransForPeace may very well be convinced to pass this resolution.
Please sign the petition and leave your comments/opinions, and encourage all of your friends to do so as well by forwarding this message and link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.
Very Sincerely,
Gordon Sturrock (petition admin and signer)
For your convenience, here is the full text of the resolution, link to sign it is above:
March 29, 2009
Warfield/Dresser Resolution for Israel/Palestinian Peace
Since 1907 the peoples of the world have created a body of international law to prevent the armed violence of war. These are enshrined in key international covenants such as the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which have established by consensus the laws of mankind. To maintain its integrity of purpose and secure its objective of world peace, VFP must demand adherence by all nations to these international laws and their enforcement by the international community, in particular by the United States which we represent as citizens, and by any nation supported by the United States.
Israel has remained in continuous defiance of these laws throughout its 61 years of existence. The 1948 Palestinian refugees' right of return, a fundamental right declared in Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and confirmed for these refugees in UN Resolution 194 has never been honored despite Israel's pledge to do so as a condition of its 1949 admission to the United Nations. The illegality of land acquisition through force was again disregarded by Israel in 1967, followed by relentless transfer of the Israeli population into occupied Palestinian land in violation of the 4th Geneva Convention, which also requires an occupying power to protect, not displace and abuse, a population under occupation.. Forty-two years of repressive military occupation have continuously violated the Palestinians’ right of self-determination as declared for all people in Chapter 1, Article I, Paragraph 2 of the United Nations Charter to which Israel is a signatory, Articles 13 and 15 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first article in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1976, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1514 of 1960. The long series of Israeli violations has resulted in passage of some 100 UN resolutions of censure and condemnation as well as 42 Security Council resolutions against Israel vetoed by the US, with the US on each occasion casting the only vote in support of Israel. Israel far surpasses the record of international illegality of any other nation. Under this same body of international law, explicit in Chapter 7, Article 51 of the United Nations Charter affirming the “inherent right of individual and collective self-defense,” Palestinians have the right to defensively employ armed force against Israel's invasion and occupation which is itself illegal under the United Nations Charter, Chapter 1, Article 2, Paragraphs 3 and 4. Palestinian resistance violates international law only when civilians are targeted, which is difficult to avoid when they lack air defenses against Israeli military aircraft and an air force or precision artillery to target IDF installations.
This is not a matter of civil disputes to be litigated or negotiated, which has been used as a dilatory tactic for decades while Israel has continued to gobble up Palestinian land. This is a matter of criminal violations to be enforced. It is time for Veterans For Peace to take a clear, unequivocal stand in support of all international laws enacted to ensure peace.
Therefore, be it resolved that Veterans For Peace shall call for:
1) a "one-state solution" in all of historic Palestine where Jews and other religions (including the non-religious) have equal rights, as opposed to the current "two-state" proposal, which would preserve the present apartheid system within Israel and permit Israel to evict indigenous citizens from their own lands, keeping all the best olive groves and orchards, beachfront properties, and other desirable real estate and turning their non-Jewish citizens into more refugees without legal rights, even the right to life should they resist.
2) a national boycott of all Israeli products as well as products of companies such as Caterpillar and Motorola that provide equipment for the occupation, including active support of existing boycott programs (e.g. www.BDSmovement..net)
3) a divestment campaign to impose economic sanctions upon Israel (as was done with South Africa) to coerce it to amend its ways. (Note: economic coercion against the rich and powerful is not the same as coercion by the rich and powerful against the poor and weak, as inflicted by Israel upon the helpless population of Gaza.) Again, see www.BDSmovement.net.
4) an immediate end to all military assistance by the U.S. f or Israel.
5) implementation of the right of return for all UN-registered Palestinian refugees per UN Resolution 194 in 1948, to which Israel agreed as a condition of its 1949 admission to the United Nations, with establishment of a commission to adjudicate property disputes, to be fully funded with freed-up military assistance dollars.
6) cessation of all US diplomatic protection of Israel from the judgments and sanctions of international legislative and judicial bodies.
7) suspension of all foreign aid to Israel contingent upon Israel's full compliance with international law and UN resolutions.
8) reimbursement by Israel to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the full costs of its 60 years of care for the Palestinian refugees it has illegally prevented from returning.
Signed,
Winston Warfield
VfP, Chapter 9, Boston (Smedley Butler Brigade), past president
U.S. Army (RA18951984)
Hq. Co., 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (Mech.)
I Corps, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, 1968-1969
Jack Dresser, Ph.D.
Former Chief Psychologist, Madigan General Hospital, US Army
Veterans for Peace
Co-founder, the Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Gordon Sturrock
Founder Squadron13.com, co-founder VeteransAgainstTorture.com
member VeteransForPeace & VVAW
Bill Perry
VFP, DAV, VVAW, VFW, VVA
Delaware Valley Veterans For America, co-founder VeteransAgainstTorture.com
Squadron13 Aviation Museum
& Flights of Thought on War and Politics - http://www.squadron13.com
founder- Veterans Against Torture
http://www.
Seems to me, chances of a 2-state solution are fast waning & considering:
Dr. Erakat’s (PLO) response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Knesset Speech
“Israel’s settlement activities, its continued construction of the Wall, and its regime of checkpoints, roadblocks and other restrictions on Palestinian movement, have all turned Palestinian towns and cities into prisons, crippling Palestinian life and strangling the Palestinian economy.” “We had hoped to hear from Benjamin Netanyahu a commitment to the two-state solution, to negotiations on all core issues without exception, including Jerusalem, to stopping all settlement activities including natural growth, and to lifting the siege on Gaza as well as all restrictions on Palestinian movement in line with Israel’s obligations, and consistent with international law.” “Netanyahu had an opportunity to set the stage for meaningful negotiations to end the conflict and to show that he is a real partner for peace. He missed that opportunity.”
http://www.nad-plo.org/inner.php?view=news-updates_310309
“Israel’s settlement activities, its continued construction of the Wall, and its regime of checkpoints, roadblocks and other restrictions on Palestinian movement, have all turned Palestinian towns and cities into prisons, crippling Palestinian life and strangling the Palestinian economy.” “We had hoped to hear from Benjamin Netanyahu a commitment to the two-state solution, to negotiations on all core issues without exception, including Jerusalem, to stopping all settlement activities including natural growth, and to lifting the siege on Gaza as well as all restrictions on Palestinian movement in line with Israel’s obligations, and consistent with international law.” “Netanyahu had an opportunity to set the stage for meaningful negotiations to end the conflict and to show that he is a real partner for peace. He missed that opportunity.”
http://www.nad-plo.org/inner.
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