International Conference for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

To:  U. S. Congress

President Bush has called for a Middle East Peace Conference to discuss peace between Israel and Palestine; however he intends to invite only moderates to participate. This will not work for a just and lasting peace. The petition below indicates “all affected parties” which includes radicals, reactionaries, progressives, liberals, fundamentalists, and orthodox participants. They all need to sit down and negotiate, via diplomacy to resolve this 59 year old dilemma.
Please take the time to consider this petition; if your moral value system leads you to agree with the petition, please sign it and get your friends and family to sign on also.
This Petition was developed and ratified after significant debate by 30 faith based, peace and justice organizations.
Thanks Peace Shalom Salaam


Petition for an International Conference for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, hereby petition the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to pass a binding and concurrent resolution as follows:

WHEREAS all people have the inherent and legal right to live and raise their children with respect, dignity, self-determination, and security, and

WHEREAS the Israeli and Palestinian people have been living in the midst of conflict and war, which has brought dispossession, death, misery, insecurity, and fear to the people of the region, and

WHEREAS the human and material costs of this conflict have been borne by the peoples of the region and the international community, including the United States of America, and

WHEREAS this conflict has increased the dangers of other regional conflicts and of wider confrontation within the international community, including the United States of America, and

WHEREAS the United States of America has exercised substantial power and influence in the region for many years, and

WHEREAS the people of the United States of America call upon their government to use that power and influence to promote peace, justice, and reconciliation in the region,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Congress of the United States of America directs the Executive to take immediate and effective action to convene an international Middle East peace conference including all affected parties, to address, negotiate, and resolve the issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with international law. This conference shall be carried out in a manner that recognizes the dignity and rights of all peoples of the region, enabling them to have self-determination, security, and the opportunity for meaningful economic development, thereby creating the conditions for a just peace.




MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONGRESS

Organizations that have ratified the Petition for an International Conference for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Americans for A Palestinian State
American Muslim Voice
Arab-Jewish Dialogue Group -South Bay
Bay Area Women in Black
*Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Berkeley Women in Black
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Buena Vista United Methodist Church
Code Pink
Code Pink of Hayward
East Bay Department of Peace Campaign
East Bay Friends of Sabeel North America
East Bay Peace Action
Ecumenical Peace Institute
Fr. Bill O’Donnell Social Justice Committee of St. Joseph the Worker Church
Gray Panthers
Green Party of Alameda County
Green Party of El Cerrito
Jewish Voice for Peace
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Middle East Peace Committee of Kehilla Community Synagogue
Montclair Presbyterian Church
Muslim Community Association Santa Clara
Northern California Committee of Correspondence
Peace and Freedom Party
*Progressive Democrats East Bay
San Francisco Presbytery Peacemaking Taskforce
South Alameda County Peace and Justice Coalition
Vukani Mawethu
Wellstone Democratic Club


• Co-sponsor

Ratified Petition (as of 8/10/07)

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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