Statement of the Atlantic Life Community at the Israeli Embassy
Washington
D.C., August 6, 2001
We are Jews and Christians and people of faith dedicated to making peace at
no cost to human lives. We reject the killing the Israeli state calls for
in the name of God. We deplore the displacement of peoples, the demolition
of homes and the bulldozing of farms. Violence never ever ends violence -
it simply builds the foundation for a cycle of revenge, hatred and
continued killing. The only way to peace and justice is through peaceful
means and just measures.
We want an end to the occupation, an end to an arms build-up that threatens
nuclear annihilation. No more holocausts, no more genocide.
We come from a people who have experienced discrimination, racism,
oppression, pogroms, unjust seizures, expulsions, diaspora and the Nazi
attempts at the final solution. We have special noses to smell the stench
of current Israeli government policies, eyes to see the horrors, and ears
to hear the oppressed cry out...
We are the people whose holiness code commands us to love the sojourner,
for we were sojourners in the land of Egypt...
We call upon the Israeli government to halt the occupation. We denounce
the threat of a nuclear holocaust by a nuclear global gas oven. We hold up
and honor Mordechai Vanunu as a true prophet of Israel."
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