Bravo Carrol. Tom White

> From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:07:36 -0600
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> Subject: Re: laureates against the war
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> http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/24728.php
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> Delivered by Rabbi Mordechi Weberman Under the auspices of the Palestine
> Right of Return Coalition (Al-Awda NY/NJ), at the march in front of the
> Israeli Consulate, on Friday July 26, 2002
>
> There are those who ask us why we march with the Palestinians. Why do we
> raise the Palestinian flag? Why do we support the Palestinian cause?
>
> "You are Jews!" they tell us. What are you doing?
>
> And our response, which I'd like to share with you this afternoon, is
> very  simple.
>
> IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE WE ARE JEWS THAT WE MARCH WITH THE PALESTINIANS
> AND RAISE THEIR FLAG!
>
> IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE WE ARE JEWS THAT WE DEMAND THAT THE PALESTINIAN
> PEOPLES BE RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES AND PROPERTIES!
>
> Yes, in our Torah we are commanded to be fair. We are called upon to
> pursue justice. And, what could be more unjust then the century old
> attempt of the Zionist movement to invade an other people's land, to
> drive them out and steal their property?
>
> The early Zionists proclaimed that they were a people without a land
> going to a land without a people.
>
> Innocent sounding words.
>
> But utterly and totally untrue.
>
> Palestine was a land with a people. A people that were developing a
> national consciousness.
>
> We have no doubt that would Jewish refugees, have come to Palestine not
> with the intention of dominating, not with the intention of making a
> Jewish state, not with the intention of dispossessing, not with the
> intention of depriving the Palestinians of their basic rights, that they
> would have been welcomed by the Palestinians, with the same hospitality
> that Islamic peoples have shown Jews throughout history. And we would
> have lived  together as Jews and Muslims lived before in Palestine in
> peace and harmony.
>
> To our Islamic and Palestinian friends around the world, please hear
> our  message --
>
> There are Jews around the world who support your cause. And when we
> support your cause we do not mean some partition scheme proposed in 1947
> by a UN that had no right to offer it.
>
> When we say support your cause we do not mean the cut off and cut up
> pieces of the West Bank offered by Barak at Camp David together with
> justice for less than 10 % of the refugees.
>
> We do not mean anything other than returning the entire land, including
> Jerusalem, to Palestinian sovereignty!
>
> At that point justice demands that the Palestinian people should decide
> if and how many Jews should remain in the Land.
>
> This is the only path to true reconciliation.
>
> But we demand yet more. WE demand that in returning the land back to
> its  rightful owners we have not yet done enough. There should be an
> apology to the Palestinian people which is clear and precise. Zionism
> did you wrong. Zionism stole your homes. Zionism stole your land.
>
> By so proclaiming we proclaim before the world that we are the people of
> the Torah, that our faith demands that we be honest and fair and good
> and kind.
>
> We have attended hundreds of pro Palestinian rallies over the years and
> everywhere we go the leaders and audience greet us with the warmth of
> Middle Eastern hospitality. What a lie it is to say that Palestinians in
> particular or Muslims in general hate Jews. You hate injustice. Not
> Jews.
>
> Fear not my fiends. Evil cannot long triumph. The Zionist nightmare is
> at its end. It is exhausted. Its latest brutalities are the death rattle
> of  the terminally ill.
>
> We will yet both live to see the day when Jew and Palestinian will
> embrace in peace under the Palestinian flag in Jerusalem.
>
> And ultimately when mankind's Redeemer will come the sufferings of the
> present will long be forgotten in the blessings of the future.
>
> www.jewishfriendspalestine.org
>
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>
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