الرجاء إرسال تواقيعكم ضد زيارة شارون الى الامم المتحدة


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نص البيان باللغة الانجليزية وتقرير صحفي باللغة العربية /مرفق


August 23, 2005
For Immediate Release

ACTION: OPPOSE SHARON'S ADDRESS TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY!
DEMAND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UN RESOLUTION 194!
DEMAND THE RIGHT TO RETURN OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO THEIR HOMELAND!

Between September 12 and 15, 2005 war criminal Ariel Sharon will address the
U.N. General Assembly's sixtieth regular session. September 15 marks the
twenty-third anniversary of the deliberate and systematic massacre of more
than 2000 Arab civilians, mostly Palestinian and Lebanese, in the Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps. Then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the chief
architect of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, was found by an Israeli
commission of inquiry to have been personally responsible for the massacre.

On September 10, 2005 the statement below calling for the boycott of
Sharon's upcoming address, as well as the implementation of UNGA Resolution
194, will be sent to members of the General Assembly and other relevant
parties. Our goal is to show a broad international consensus in support of
Palestinian national rights.

The victims of Sabra and Shatila -- those who perished, as well as those who
continue to be saddled with the memories and horrors of the massacre on a
daily basis, would never forgive us if we were not to do our utmost against
Sharon's visit to the UN.

Please join in this important campaign.

We encourage institutional, organizational and individual endorsements.

We also request that you circulate this statement as widely as possible.

Please email your endorsements to: opposesharon@yahoo.com
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WE, the undersigned, DEMAND that Ariel Sharon not be permitted to address
the sixtieth regular session of the General Assembly. Sharon's refusal to
abide by international law, particularly as it pertains to the right of
return for Palestinian refugees, is matched only by his long career as a war
criminal:

* In 1952 Ariel Sharon was appointed commander of special 101 Commando
Unit which carried out raids on West Bank village of Qibya in which 69
civilians were murdered, many of them women and children.

* The massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps occurred between
September 16 and 18, 1982, after the Israeli invading army, then occupying
Beirut and under Sharon's overall command as Israel's Defense Minister,
permitted members of the Phalange and local allied militias into the camps.
The over 2000 civilian victims of the massacre included infants, children,
women, and elderly.

* In February 1983, a three-member official Israeli commission of
inquiry charged with investigating the events, known as the Kahan
Commission, named former Defense Minister Sharon as one of the individuals
who "bears personal responsibility" for the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

* The Al-Aqsa Intifada started after Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque
and Noble Sanctuary in Jerusalem under heavy Israeli military and police
guard. The visit was a calculated step that sparked the expected resistance
from the oppressed Palestinian people.

Ariel Sharon continues his utter disregard for international law. His
refusal to abide by scores of United Nations' resolutions addressing the
Arab-Israeli conflict is legendary. Only recently, Sharon reiterated his
rejection of the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their
original homes and lands. Such outright disregard for the will of the
international community constitutes a grave violation of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, the European, the American and the African
Conventions on Human Rights, and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

It also reflects Sharon's refusal to implement UN resolution 194, which has
been reaffirmed practically every year since 1948. Generally, the same
position has been affirmed by the Treaty-Based UN Committees, the regional
conventions on human rights and practically all human rights NGOs.

We find it peculiar that the General Assembly would permit a war criminal
like Ariel Sharon to address it, especially considering his explicit
loathing of the UN and the collective will of the vast majority of its
member states.

We also DEMAND that the General Assembly embark on enforcing its resolution
No. 194. The right of the Palestinian refugees and uprooted to return to
their homeland is a historical right that is guaranteed by international
law. It is an individual and collective right which cannot be relegated,
diminished, reduced or forfeited by any representation on behalf of the
Palestinian people in any agreement or treaty. As such, the Right of Return
is not substituted or affected in any way by the establishment of a
Palestinian state in any form. According to international law, agreements
that purport to trade away the right of refugees to return to their homes,
or any other inalienable right, are illegal.

The right of refugees to return has been exercised, with the support of the
international community, in Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor, Rwanda, Guatemala
and many other places. Yet, it continues to be ignored and neglected in
Palestine. This selective enforcement of international law and UN
resolutions serves to undermine rather than strengthen efforts to build a
peaceful and just world.
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Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest
network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We
are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3)
organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United
States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are
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مؤسسات فلسطينية وعربية تدعو لرفض ومقاطعة زيارة شارون الى الامم المتحدة.
تحالف حق العودة الى فلسطين يدعو الجالية العربية لرفض واستنكار الزيارة وتسيير المظاهرات الاحتجاجية



وكالات انباء - عرب 48

أعلنت بعض المؤسسات الفلسطينية والعربية في الولايات المتحدة وعددا من منظمات التضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني عن بدئ الحملة الدولية لرفض ومقاطعة زيارة رئيس الوزراء الاسرائيلي أرئيل شارون للجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة بمدينة نيويورك في منتصف شهر سيبتمبر القادم، حيث من المتوقع أن يلقي شارون خطابه يوم 15 سيبتمبر وذلك بمناسبة إنعقاد الدورة الستين للجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة وبحضور العشرات من زعماء وقادة الدول المشاركة.

كما أصدر تحالف حق لعودة الى فلسطين بيانا صحفيا دعى فيه الجالية الفلسطينية والعربية وكل قوى السلام والتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني الى الاحتجاج ورفض زيارة شارون وتنظيم المظاهرات والندوات الشعبية ضد الزيارة المشؤومة ، وإعتبر التحالف بأن " حضور شارون الى الامم المتحدة ، وقبل أيام قليلة فقط من ذكرى مجازر صبرا وشاتيلا إنما تشكل سابقة خطيرة وتحايلا على القانون الدولي ومقررات الشرعية الدولية".

وطالب تحالف العودة الى المبادرة لجمع الالاف التواقيع التي سوف ترسل الى السيد كوفي عنان ألامين العام للامم المتحدة والسيد عمرو موسى ألامين العام لجامعة الدول العربية وتطالب بوقف الزيارة ومقاطعتها بسبب الرفض الاسرائيلي المستمر لقرارات الجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة وفي مقدمتها القرار 194 الذي ينص على حق عودة اللاجئين الفلسطينين الى وطنهم وديارهم. (البيان بالانجليزي)

وفي مقابلة خاصة مع عرب 48 ، حذرّ الناشط الفلسطيني موسى الهندي عضو الهيئة التنسيقية في تحالف حق العودة بأن " زيارة شارون للامم المتحدة تأتي بعد ما يسمى " بالانسحاب " الاسرائيلي من غزة وشمال الضفة الغربية ، وهي محاولة أسرائيلية - أمريكية مكشوفة تهدف الى استثمار وتسويق خطة شارون للفصل العنصري ، أي تكريساً لنظام العبودية والاستيطان والاحتلال الصهيوني ولكن هذه المرة بمباركة دولية ورسمية!"

ودعى الهندي الدول المشاركة " خاصة الدول العربية والاسلامية والدول الصديقة الى مقاطعة خطاب شارون والعمل على " تحويل المناسبة الى محاكمة علنية للكيان الصهيوني ومجرم الحرب المعروف الجنرال الصهيوني شارون " وأضاف الهندي " ان الموقف الفلسطيني الرسمي ، والموقف العربي اللامسؤول هو الذي يسمح لمثل هذه الاختراقات الصهيونية المعادية" مطالبا السلطة الفلسطينية بموقف علني وواضح إزاء زيارة شارون للامم المتحدة.