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From: סמירה
To: תום הקר גרמניה
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:00 AM
Subject: העברה: statement - Nazareth Dear
friend
Statement of the
Arab Cultural Association
No
individual , organiztion , or other body, regardless of their interest,
political positions or location can remain silent on what has
happened, is happning or will happen to the palestinian
people.
Thus, the
Arab Cultural Association (ACA), established as a response to efforts to
exterminate a peoples memory, demands and dreams, feels obliged to release
this announcment to all bodies and media outlets that cooperate with or have any
connection to us.
It is our
duty towards the truth to tell it as it is,as its historical background is not
respected, and since the images broadcast in the US and through media giants are
balanced through the theories of Israeli security . on this basis the killing of
an innocent 12-year-old boy is converted into someone that threatens Israeli
security.
The ACA
realizes that in the past ten days we have lived through our frustration with
the situation here, the denial of our identity,and the fear existence . If we
have managed to live through the past ten days, the lessons and feelings will
remain . The Jerusalem Intifada has proved that the cause of the
palestinian national minority is not a matter of rights and duties but a matter
of identity and
a people's
existence.
The poor,
the unemployed, and the citizens of a democratic state should not be dealt with
using bullets . Only the enemies of a state are dealt with in this
way.
And without
exaggeration, the police and army of this state, with the approval of the
Internal Security Minister - the enlightened prof. Ben-Ami- attacked the the
plasetinian citizens of the state, of whom 90% voted for his govermment , with
open fire. The mini-war launched turned into a massacre when it was faced with
an unarmed population. Therefore, in order to not repeat the present
realities there are lessons that must be learned
.
1- Everyone
must understand that before being citizens of the state we are a national
minority .
2-
Citizenship has certian requirements that this state dose not
recognize.
Thus, the
state with its institution, policies and symbols dose not recognize us as
citizens and dose not treat us on that basis .We are the orphans of history and are excluded
from geography. Through the state's eyes we are only individuals that time has
forgotten to destroy. As we have grown our burden has increased to the point
that the state decided to teach usa lesson that we should not and will not forget.
3- we have not learned the state lesson
because it is ignorant to historical information , racist and endlessly
repeating that the only language understood by Arabs is the "language of force".
Then this author discovered that there are people who still believe and that the
lesson must be addressed to him in order to let him know that the people can
only bear the oppression to a certain limit before they are forced to speak
their mind .
4- Regarding international
opinion,especially Westren, they must not remain silent on the oppression and
neglect faced by the Palestinian minority and their treatment as absentees, even
though our absence is dominant in our present .
5- the state with its
institutions , policies and symbols must redefine its relationship with the
Palestinians first as a national minority and then as citizens of state. To make
this possible the state of Israel must redefine that nature of its
democracy.
6- Palestinian NGOs that
work to empower the Palestinian people and enhance their feeling of belonging
and pride must work towards the redefinition of Israeli democracy and democratic
institutions within Palestinian society. We must work to intensify the efforts
of coordination between us the strengthening of our international networks
.
We do not want the
massacre to be repeated and in order to guarantee this we must come to the
realization that this massacre will start a new era.
- for some pictures look ==
http:\\www.fasl-almaqal.com
number 209 6/10/00 - 210
13/10/00
Samira Khnanh - ACA
Nazareth
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