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This campaign began with a small group of Nobel laureates, and then continued at the European Parliament with a handful of Members of Parliament from different parties in Brussels, spring 2008. We have always insisted that it be non-partisan, taking into account the narratives of both sides.

To date, we have gathered the trusting support of 629 total signatures, comprised of Members of Parliament (411 from the current mandate and 132 former Members), Nobel Laureates, and Others.

It is only too obvious that both sides feel trapped in a history which leaves them little autonomy to engage in more constructive approaches to a final cease-fire and rational, acceptable sharing of the land. Which is precisely why non-judgemental support from outside is vitally necessary, to stop the bloodshed permanently, and to start really facing each other, for a daring, respectful new lease on life.


 

 OPEN THE DOORS !

 

Israel must end the Gaza blockade, end all killings, and enable Gaza to open to the world, so as to guarantee the possibility of a viable economy, and improve the humanitarian situation.

The Palestinians must end all rocket attacks against Israel and the Israelis.

Human beings are not bargaining chips.

Accordingly : the Palestinians must free Sergeant Gilad Shalit, whom they have held prisoner for five years now. *

The Israelis, who hold some five thousand Palestinian prisoners in their jails, must urgently release a significant group of women prisoners, sick persons, the eldest and longest-serving among them, along with those held under administrative detention and other arbitrary procedures – including all the elected members of Palestinian legislature.

* in italics our two demands that have been satisfied on October 18 & December 18, 2011

 

 

77 Nobel Laureates

 

Peace Nobel Laureates : Bishop Carlos Belo, President Jimmy Carter, the Dalaï Lama, Shirin Ebadi, John Hume, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cora Weiss (UN Representative for ICP), Betty Williams, Jody Williams

 

Chemistry Nobel Laureates : Peter Agre, Paul Berg, Thomas Cech, Martin Chalfie, Elias Corey, Paul Crutzen, Robert Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Manfred Eigen, Richard Ernst, Gerhard Ertl, John Fenn, Herbert Hauptman, Alan Heeger, Dudley Herschbach, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Huber, Sir Aaron Klug, Sir Harold Kroto, Yuan T. Lee, Jean-Marie Lehn, William Lipscomb, John Polanyi, Jens Skou, Sir John Walker

 

Medicine Nobel Laureates : Baruj Benacerraf, Günter Blobel, Baruch Blumberg, Mario Capecchi, Arvid Carlsson, Christian de Duve, Martin Evans, Edmond Fischer, Paul Greengard, Roger Guillemin, Louis Ignarro, François Jacob, Eric Kandel, Erwin Neher, Marshall Nirenberg (deceased 2010), Paul Nurse, Richard Roberts, Jack Szostak, E. Donnall Thomas, Torsten Wiesel, Harald zur Hausen

 

Physics Nobel Laureates : Zhores Alferov, Albert Fert, Donald Glaser, John Hall, Brian Josephson, Leon Lederman, Tony Leggett, Douglas Osheroff, Jack Steinberger, Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Daniel Tsui, Martinus VeltmanLiterature Nobel Laureates : John Coetzee, Dario Fo, Elfriede Jelinek, Toni Morrison, Wole SoyinkaEconomics Nobel Laureates : George Akerlof, Daniel Kahneman, James Mirrlees

 

 

411 Members of European Parliament (+132 Former Members of the EP, listed in italics)

 

France : Damien Abad, François Alfonsi, Kader Arif, Jean-Pierre Audy, Sandrine Bélier, Malika Benarab-Attou, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Jean-Paul Besset, Philippe Boulland, José Bové, Sophie Briard Auconie, Alain Cadec, Pascal Canfin, Françoise Castex, Yves Cochet, Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Co-President, Greens-EFA), Michel Dantin, Joseph Daul (Chair, EPP), Karima Delli, Marielle de Sarnez, Harlem Désir, Christine de Veyrac, Hélène Flautre (Chair, Eu-Turkey), Gaston Franco, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Estelle Grelier, Catherine Grèze, Nathalie Griesbeck, Françoise Grossetête, Sylvie Guillaume, Jacky Hénin, Liêm Hoang Ngoc, Brice Hortefeux, Yannick Jadot, Eva Joly (Chair, Development), Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Alain Lamassoure (Chair, Budgets), Agnès Le Brun, Stéphane Le Foll, Patrick Le Hyaric, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Gilles Pargneaux, Vincent Peillon, Maurice Ponga, Dominique Riquet, Jean Roatta, Michele Rivasi, Robert Rochefort, Tokia Saïfi, Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid, Michèle Striffler, Patrice Tirolien, Catherine Trautmann, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Bernadette Vergnaud, Dominique Vlasto, Henri Weber; Dominique Baudis (former Vice-Chair, Foreign Affairs), Catherine Boursier, Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison, Nicole Fontaine (former President of the EP), Elie Hoarau, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Anne Laperrouze, Alain Lipietz, General Philippe Morillon, Gérard Onesta (former Vice President of the EP), Béatrice Patrie, Martine Roure, Margie Sudre, Francis Wurtz

Poland : Piotr Borys, Arkadiusz Tomasz Bratkowski, Jerzy Buzek (former President of the EP), Tadeusz Cymański, Ryszard Czarnecki, Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg (Quaestor), Adam Gierek, Marek Józef Gróbarczyk, Małgorzata Handzlik, Danuta Hübner (Chair, Regional Development),  Danuta Jazłowiecka, Sidonia Jedrzejewska, Filip Kaczmarek, Jarosław Kalinowski, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Jan Kozlowski, Jacek Kurski, Bogusław Liberadzki, Krzysztof Lisek, Elżbieta Łukacijewska, Bogdan Marcinkiewicz, Jan Olbrycht, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak, Jacek Protasiewicz (Vice President of the EP ; Chair, Belarus), Joanna Senyszyn, Joanna Skrzydlewska, Róza Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Rafał Trzaskowski, Jarosław Wałęsa, Jacek Włosowicz, Janusz Wojciechowski, Janusz Wladyslaw Zemke, Artur Zasada, Zbigniew Ziobro, Tadeusz Zwiefka; Urszula Krupa, Wieslaw Kuc, Leopold Rutowicz

UK : Sir Robert Atkins, Catherine Bearder, Phil Bennion, Sharon Bowles (Chair, Economic Affairs), Michael Cashman (Chair, South Africa), Trevor Colman, Chris Davies, Bairbre de Brún, Andrew Duff, Jill Evans, Julie Girling, Fiona Hall, Malcolm Harbour (Chair, Consumer Protection), Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Sajjad Karim, Jean Lambert (Chair, South Asia), George Lyon, David Martin, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Edward McMillan-Scott (Vice President of the EP), Claude Moraes, Bill Newton Dunn (Quaestor), Brian Simpson (Chair, Transport & Tourism), Alyn Smith, Catherine Stihler, Keith Taylor, Rebecca Taylor, Derek Vaughan, Graham Watson (Chair, India), Glenis Willmott; Christopher Beazley, John Bowis, Caroline Lucas, Elizabeth Lynne, John Purvis, Diana Wallis (former Vice President of the EP)

Germany : Jan Albrecht, Alexander Alvaro (Vice President of the EP), Lothar Bisky (Chair, Left), Franziska Katharina Brantner, Reinhard Hans Bütikofer, Michael Cramer, Christian Ehler (Chair, US), Cornelia Ernst, Evelyne Gebhardt, Sven Giegold, Gerald Häfner, Thomas Händel, Rebecca Harms (Co-President, Greens-EFA), Ska Keller, Wolf Klinz, Jürgen Klute, Jo Leinen, Barbara Lochbihler (Chair, Human Rights), Sabine Lösing, Gesine Meissner, Norbert Neuser, Hans-Gert Pöttering (former President of the EP, 2007-2009), Heide Rühle, Helmut Scholz, Werner Schulz, Renate Sommer, Alexandra Thein, Kerstin Westphal, Sabine Wils, Joachim Zeller, Gabriele Zimmer; Angelika Beer, Hiltrud Breyer, André Brie, Milan Horácek, Gisela Kallenbach, Helmut Markov, Cem Özdemir, Tobias Pflüger, Horst Posdorf, Frithjof Schmidt, Feleknas Uca, Sahra Wagenknecht

Italy : Sonia Alfano, Pino Arlacchi, Francesca Balzani, Luigi Berlinguer, Rita Borsellino, Salvatore Caronna, Sergio Cofferati, Silvia Costa, Rosario Crocetta, Francesco De Angelis, Paolo De Castro (Chair, Agriculture and Rural Development), Luigi Ciriaco De Mita (former Prime Minister), Leonardo Domenici, Carlo Fidanza, Lorenzo Fontana, Roberto Gualtieri, Vincenzo Iovine, Erminia Mazzoni (Chair, Petitions), Guido Milana, Claudio Morganti, Pier Antonio Panzeri (Chair, Maghreb), Mario Pirillo, Vittorio Prodi, Niccolò Rinaldi, Oreste Rossi, Giancarlo Scotta’, Debora Serracchiani, Gianluca Susta, Patrizia Toia, Gianni Vattimo, Andrea Zanoni; Vittorio Agnoletto, Giuletto Chiesa, Fabio Ciani, Luigi Cocilovo (former Vice President of the EP), Luigi de Magistris,Monica Frassoni, Donata Gottardi, Umberto Guidoni, Sepp Kusstatscher, Luisa Morgantini (former Vice President of the EP), Pasqualina Napoletano

Belgium : Ivo Belet, Frieda Brepoels, Frédéric Daerden, Jean-Luc Dehaene (former Prime Minister), Véronique De Keyser, Philippe De Backer, Anne Delvaux, Isabelle Durant (Vice President of the EP), Saïd El Khadraoui, Derk Jan Eppink, Mathieu Grosch, Philippe Lamberts, Louis Michel, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Bart Staes, Marc Tarabella, Marianne Thyssen, Kathleen Van Brempt, Guy Verhofstadt (Chair, Liberals; former Prime Minister); Philippe Busquin, Giovanna Corda, Gérard Deprez, Mia de Vits (former Quaestor), Alain Hutchinson, Pierre Jonckheer, Dirk Sterckx, Johan Van Hecke, Anne Van Lancker

Spain : Ines Ayala Sender, Maria Badia i Cutchet, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Santiago Fisas Ayxela, Iratxe Garcia Pérez, Eider Gardiazabal Rubia, Maria Irigoyen Pérez, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (Vice President of the EP), Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer, Ana Miranda, Maria Muñiz de Urquiza (Chair, EU-Chile), Raimon Obiols, Andres Perelló Rodriguez, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells; Barbara Dührkop, Josep Borrell Fontelles, Juan Fraile Cantón, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Martí Grau i Segú, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, David Hammerstein, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Oriol Junqueras Vies, Íñigo Méndez De Vigo

Romania : Elena Oana Antonescu, George Becali, Victor Boştinaru, Cristian Silviu Busoi, Ioan Enciu, Monica Luisa Macovei, Ramona Nicole Manescu, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Csaba Sógor, Theodor Stolojan, Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, László Tőkés (former Vice President of the EP), Traian Ungureanu, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Renate Weber, Iuliu Winkler; Gabriela Cretu, Magor Imre Csibi

Ireland : Liam Aylward, Nessa Childers, Emer Costello (Chair, Palestinian Legislative Council), Brian Crowley, Pat the Cope Gallagher (Chair, SINEEA), Marian Harkin, Jim Higgins (Quaestor), Séan Kelly, Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell, Paul Murphy, Phil Prendergast; Colm Burke, Proinsias de Rossa, Avril Doyle, Joe Higgins, Alan Kelly, Mary Lou McDonald, Sean O Neachtain, Eoin Ryan, Kathy Sinnott

Portugal : Luís Paulo Alves, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Carlos Coelho, António Correia de Campos, Mário David (Chair, Mashreq), Edite Estrela, José Manuel Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, Ana Maria Gomes, Marisa Matias, Vital Moreira (Chair, International Trade), Rui Tavares; Maria da Assunção Esteves, Armando França, Jamila Madeira, Miguel Portas

Netherlands : Thijs Berman (Chair, Afghanistan), Emine Bozkurt (Chair, Central America), Wim van de Camp, Marije Cornelissen, Bas Eickhout, Cornelis de Jong, Esther de Lange, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Judith Merkies, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Judith Sargentini; Dorette Corbey, Jan Cremers, Elly de Groen, Lily Jacobs, Joost Lagendijk, Jules Maaten, Erik Meijer, Jan Marinus Wiersma

Austria : Heinz Becker, Martin Ehrenhauser, Othmar Karas (Vice President of the EP), Karin Kadenbach, Eva Lichtenberger, Ulrike Lunacek, Hans-Peter Martin, Evelyn Regner, Ewald Stadler, Hannes Swoboda, Josef Weidenholzer, Angelika Werthmann; Harald Ettl, Karin Resetarits

Greece : Kriton Arsenis, Nikolaos Chountis, Spyros Danellis, Dimitrios Droutsas, Maria Eleni Koppa, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (former Vice President of the EP), Chrysoula Paliadeli, Anni Podimata (Vice President of the EP), Sylvana Rapti, Giorgos Stavrakakis, Ioannis Tsoukalas; Costas Botopoulos, Giorgios Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Stavros Lambrinidis (former Vice President of the EP), Antonios Trakatellis, Michail Tremopoulos, Nikolaos Vakalis, Ioannis Varvitsiotis

Sweden : Amelia Andersdotter, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Göran Färm, Mikael Gustafsson (Chair, Women’s Rights & Gender Equality), Anna Hedh, Isabella Lövin, Olle Ludvigsson, Jens Nilsson, Carl Schlyter, Marita Ulvskog, Åsa Westlund; Jan Andersson, Hélène Goudin, Jens Holm, Maria Robsahm, Inger Segelström, Eva-Britt Svensson, Anders Wijkman

Lithuania : Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Zigmantas Balčytis, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Leonidas Donskis, Juozas Imbrasas, Vytautas Landsbergis, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Rolandas Paksas, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Algirdas Saudargas, Viktor Uspaskich; Arunas Degutis, Jolanta Dickuté, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Gintaras Didžiokas, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Aloyzas Sakalas

Slovakia : Edit Bauer, Monika Flašíková Benová, Sergej Kozlík, Eduard Kukan (Chair; Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo), Vladimír Maňka, Miroslav Mikolášik, Katarína Neveďalová, Jaroslav Paška, Monika Smolkova, Peter Šťastný, Boris Zala; Árpád Duka-Zólyomi

Bulgarie : Slavi Binev, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Ivaïlo Kalfin, Metin Kazak (Vice-Président, Droits de l’Homme), Evgeni Kirilov, Andrey Kovatchev, Svetoslav Hristov Malinov, Nadezhda Neynsky, Dimitar Stoyanov, Kristian Vigenin (Président, Euronest); Mariela Velichkova Baeva

Hungary : Zoltán Bagó, Lajos Bokros, Kinga Gál, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Edit Herczog, Lívia Járóka, Ádám Kósa, György Schöpflin, László Surján (Vice President of the EP), Csaba Sándor Tabajdi; Magda Kósáné Kovács, Pál Schmitt (President of Hungary, former Vice President of the EP)

Czech Republic : Jan Březina, Richard Falbr, Jaromír Kohlícek, Jirí Maštálka (Quaestor), Pavel Poc, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimir Remek, Libor Rouček, Oldřich Vlasák (Vice President of the EP); Vera Flasarová, Daniel Strož, Tomas Zatloukal, Jaroslav Zverina

Slovenia : Tanja Fajon, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Jelko Kacin, Mojca Kleva, Alojz Peterle, Ivo Vajgl, Milan Zver; Mihael Brejc, Mojca Drcar Murko

Denmark : Margrete Auken, Ole Christensen, Dan Jørgensen, Christel Schaldemose, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Britta Thomsen, Emilie Turunen; Johannes Lebech

Cyprus : Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Ioannis Kasoulides, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Eleni Theocharous, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (Vice-Chair, Palestinian Legislative Council); Adamos Adamou, Panayiotis Demetriou, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis

Luxembourg : Georges Bach, Frank Engel, Robert Goebbels, Charles Goerens, Astrid Lulling (Quaestor), Claude Turmes; Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

Estonia : Tunne Kelam, Kristiina Ojuland, Siiri Oviir, Ivari Padar, Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Indrek Tarand; Toomas Savi

Latvia : Sandra Kalniete, Krišjānis Kariņš, Alfreds Rubiks, Kārlis Šadurskis, Inese Vaidere, Tatjana Zdanoka; Guntars Krasts (former Prime Minister)

Malta : John Attard-Montalto, Simon Busuttil, David Casa, Joseph Cuschieri, Louis Grech, Edward Scicluna

Finland : Tarja Cronberg (Chair, Iran), Satu Hassi, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Sirpa Pietikaïnen, Mitro Repo; Heidi Hautala (former Chair, Human Rights), Piia-Noora Kauppi, Reino Paasilinna

Others Noëlle Châtelet, Yasmina Khadra, Franca Rame, Noam Chomsky, Martin Gray (survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), David Grossman, Stéphane Hessel (Co-Author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948), Amos Oz, Michel Rocard (former Prime Minister), Hanna Siniora