Kuusitoista israelilaista akateemikkoa, entistä virkamiestä ja muuta julkisuuden henkilöä tukee kansanedustajamme Veronika Honkasalon lakialoitetta siirtokunnissa tuotettujen tuotteiden maahantuontikiellosta.
Israelilaiset lähettivät eduskunnalle kirjeen, jossa he ilmaisevat tukensa Honkasalon aloitteelle.
”Siirtokunnat ovat suurin este konfliktin rauhanomaiselle ratkaisulle”
– Länsirannan ja Itä-Jerusalemin de facto liittäminen Israeliin, siirtokuntien laajentaminen palestiinalaisten pakkosiirroilla ja talojen tuhoamisella ja se hallintotapa, jota Israelin valtio harjoittaa miehitetyillä palestiinalaisalueilla tekevät tästä lakialoitteesta tarpeellisen ja ajankohtaisen, israelilaiset kirjoittavat.
– Israelin siirtokuntia miehitetyillä alueilla ei tule legitimisoida osaksi Israelia. Siirtokunnat ovat suurin este konfliktin rauhanomaiselle ratkaisulle.
– Israelin huolestuneina kansalaisina, jotka eivät ole kadottaneet näköpiiristään mahdollisuutta lopettaa konflikti ja siirtyä kahden valtion rauhanomaiseen rinnakkaiseloon, kannustamme eduskuntaa tukemaan tätä lakialoitetta, israelilaiset kirjoittavat.
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Israelilaisten akateemikkojen, entisten virkamiesten, journalistien ja muiden julkisuuden henkilöiden kirje eduskunnalle kokonaisuudessaan:
Jerusalem
January 2022
Dear Member of Parliament,
As Israeli citizens committed to the future of our country, we are writing to express
our support and gratitude for the Occupied Territories Bill in Finland. The unabated
de facto annexation conducted by Israel in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the
increasing settlement expansion intertwined with house demolitions and forced
evictions of Palestinians, and the regime Israel imposes in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories (OPT) make this bill yet more necessary and timely. We hope that this
initiative will echo in other European Union member states.
Israeli settlements in the occupied territories must not be legitimised as part of Israel
and are one of the main obstacles to a peaceful solution to the conflict. Israel’s
ongoing rule of the OPT stands in stark contradiction to the guiding principles of the
European Union and its handling of the world order: the sanctity of human rights and
the validity of the rule of international law. It defies all relevant UN Security Council
resolutions, including UNSCR 2334 of December 2016, which inter alia “calls upon
all states….to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State
of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.” We believe it is crucial for the
international community to emphasize its support for upholding the rule of
international law and the defense of human rights in the OPT.
As concerned citizens of Israel who have not lost sight of the possibility of
transforming Israel’s conflict with our Palestinian neighbors into peaceful coexistence
within a two-state reality leading to reconciliation, we urge the Finnish Parliament to
support this legislation in the spirit of President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Martti Ahtisaari and in light of UNSCR 2334, by differentiating between legitimate
Finnish trade with Israel and Finnish business transactions with illegal settlements in
the West Bank and East Jerusalem. A vote for this bill is a vote for peace.
Signed,
1. Prof. Elie Barnavi, Former Israeli ambassador to France
2. Ilan Baruch , Former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and
Zimbabwe
3. Michael Ben-Yair , Former Attorney General of Israel; former acting Supreme Court
Judge
4. Prof. Yoram Bilu, Israel Prize recipient (2013)
5. Avraham Burg , Former Speaker of Knesset and Head of the Jewish Agency
6. Prof. Naomi Chazan , Former Member and Deputy Speaker of Knesset; former
President of the New Israel Fund
7. Prof. Itzhak Galnoor , Former Head of the Israeli Civil Service Commission
8. Prof. Moty Heiblum, EMET Prize recipient (2014); member of the Israel Academy of
Science and Humanities
9. Dr. Ilana Hammerman, Israeli writer and translator
10. Prof. Eva Illouz, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University Jerusalem; former
president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
11. Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny, Israel Prize recipient (2010)
12. Prof. Miki Kratsman, EMET Prize Laureate (2011)
13. Alex Libak, Photojournalist; Israel Prize recipient (2005)
14. Dr. Alon Liel , Former Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former
Ambassador to South Africa, and Turkey
15. Prof. Kobi Metzer , Former President of the Open University of Israel
16. Prof. David Shulman , Israel Prize recipient (2016); EMET Prize recipient (2010);
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences