These folks are available for interviews. =============================== >Institute for Public Accuracy >915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 >(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org >___________________________________________________ > > October 11, 2000 > Israeli-Palestinian Conflict > >ALLEGRA PACHECO, <pacheco@radcliffe.edu>, >http://www.nigelparry.com/september2000 >An Israeli Jewish human rights lawyer who represents Palestinians in the >West Bank, Pacheco is now a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. >She wrote in The New York Times last week: "Since 1994, Palestinians have >seen the influx of 50,000 new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and Gaza, >the paving of more than 400 kilometers of roads on confiscated land, >demolition of more than 800 Palestinian homes, a threefold increase in >unemployment ...the arrest of 13,000 Palestinians, and complete curtailment >of freedom of movement." Yesterday she said: "In almost every city and town in >Israel, large Jewish mobs, chanting 'death to the Arabs,' have attacked >Palestinian citizens. The Israeli government has yet to crack down -- >effectively giving a green light. The international community should send >protection for them -- they are no less deserving than the Albanians in >Kosovo." > >SIMONA SHARONI, <sharonis@evergreen.edu>, >http://www.evergreen.edu/user/copred >Executive director of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and >Development, Sharoni has written extensively about Middle East politics and >conflict resolution. An Israeli Jew living in the U.S., Sharoni said: >"During the >intifadah, it took Jews awhile to be horrified as to what was happening in >their name. How can Barak set ultimatums to the Palestinians to stop the >violence when his military is carrying out most of it? The Oslo process >was unjust and problematic to begin with -- the situation calls for a totally >different framework designed to address the core issues of the conflict: >refugees, Jerusalem, borders and settlements." > >PHYLLIS BENNIS, <pbennis@compuserve.com>, >http://www.ips-dc.org/newinternat.htm >Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of "Calling the Shots: >How Washington Dominates Today's UN," Bennis said: "The UN is the >right venue for resolving the Mideast crisis -- it always has been. It is >an international crisis that must be resolved by international law and the >international community. The U.S. should step back and let the UN do its >job.... The U.S. decision to abstain from a consensus of the rest of the >world sharply demonstrates the isolation of U.S. policy in the Mideast." > >BARBARA LUBIN, <meca@mecaforpeace.org>, http://www.mecaforpeace.org >Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Lubin, who will be going to >Israel and Palestine on Friday with money for medicine for Makassed Hospital >in Jerusalem, said: "Until there is a just resolution for both peoples, >there will be bloodshed, so for us this is expected. Palestinians should >have their own state, no more of these bantustans with zone 'A,' zone >'B,' zone 'C.' Sharon's visit to the mosque was a political move, part of >his battle with Netanyahu and the latest chapter in his bloody record." > >ALI ABUNIMAH, <ali@abunimah.org>, http://www.abunimah.org >Vice president of the Arab-American Action Network, Abunimah said: >"For the first time in decades Palestinians in the occupied territories, >Palestinians in Israel and Palestinian refugees (especially in Lebanon) are >all protesting simultaneously. This shows that this is about basic >injustice, not about Yasir Arafat giving an order." > >FRANCIS BOYLE, <fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>, http://www.rightofreturn.org >Boyle is professor of law at the University of Illinois and former legal >advisor to the Palestinian delegation from 1991 to 1993. > >For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: >Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 > > > > > >
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