Vredesduif met olijftak in snavel.

Erkenning Palestijnse staat

14-10-2014 363 vooraanstaande Israëliërs ondertekenden een brief aan de leden van het Britse parlement waarin zij hen opriepen om voor de erkenning van een Palestijnse staat te stemmen. Initiatiefnemers waren een voormalige directeur-generaal van het Israëlische ministerie van buitenlandse zaken en mensen van de vredesorganisaties Peace Now en Breaking the Silence.

 

The letter was handed on October 13 to representatives of the British MP's supporting the motion, due to be voted. The Israeli letter was initiated by Dr. Alon Liel, former Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry; Prof. Amiram Goldblum, a founder of the Peace Now movement; and Yehuda Shaul of "Breaking the Silence".

 

The letter reads: "We, Israelis who worry and care for the well-being of the state of Israel, believe that the long-term existence and security of Israel depends on the long-term existence and security of a Palestinian state. For this reason we, the undersigned, urge members of the UK Parliament to vote in favor of the motion to be debated on Monday 13th October 2014, calling on the British Government to recognize the State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel ".

 

Signatories include:

Nobel Prize Laureate (Economics) Daniel Kahneman

Six Laureates of the Israel Prize - Professors Alice Levy, David Har'el, Shimon Sandbank, Yehoshua Kolodny, Yona Rosenfeld and Yoram Bilu;

Two former ministers - Ran Cohen and Yossi Sarid, as well as four former Knesset Members - Uri Avnery, Yael Dayan, Mossi Raz and Naomi Chazan;

Former Ambassador and Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Dr. Alon Liel, as well as former Ambassador Ilan Baruch;

Gen. (ret.) Emanuel Shaked, former of the Paratooper Corps;

Former Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair;

Four writers - Yehoshua Sobol, Yehudit Kafri, Savyon Liebrecht and Amos Mokadi;

Professor Rafi Walden, Deputy Ditector of the Shiba Hospital and Chair of "Physicians for Human Rights"

Yuval Rahamim, Co-Chair of "Bereaved Families for Palestinian-Israeli Peace" and the group's founder Yitzhak Frankenthal;

As well as many residents of Gaza border communities and other peace and social rights activists.

14-10-2014