You will find on this page our past campaigns concerning the Middle-East :
Communiqué calling
for the release of Dr Al
Shaer After the sweep of some thirty elected members of the Palestinian government and legislature in the West Bank by Israeli troops – among them the Minister of Education, Dr Nasreddin Al Shaer – as a « response » to the constant firing of kassams from Gaza, we ask for the immediate release of those detained. Such moves can only make things worse, and fuel the atrociously vain, deadly spiral of aggression and retaliation. (...) | Communiqué calling
for the release of the Palestinian Congressmen Alan Johnston freed ! Free Nasser Al Shaer and the 45 Palestinian Congressmen ! After the liberation of Alan Johnston, detained four months in Gaza by a Jihadist movement, we can all perceive the deeply subhuman, intolerable nature of this conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. At the hinge of the three continents, (...) |
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Nobel Call
against terror and for Common Sense
(2005, signed by 69 Nobel Laureates and 97 Members of European Parliament) BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, BECAUSE WE ARE HORRIFIED BY THIS ENDLESS WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE IN THE NAME OF NATION OR RELIGION - THE DEATHCOUNTS GROWING FROM 400 IN 2001 TO MORE THAN 4000 NOW, BECAUSE WE REFUSE THE LOGICS OF BLOOD PACTS AND ANY TERROR, (...) |
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The Peace through
Justice Call
(2001, signed by Israelian and Palestinian organisations, 18 Nobel Laureates and 7 members of the European Parliament) More than ten thousand wounded, in four months, close to four hundred killed (11% of them Israelis). Holy places desecrated. House demolitions and tree uprootings by decree. Lynchings, pogroms, shootings, bombs and bombings, the norm... Blind hate and separatism fueled by the blood-smeared logics of talion and armed force. (...) |
Rocks against bullets, firebombs against tanks,
and then bullets against rockets : |