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Col·lectiu
Palestina Resisteix (Garraf) wishes to contribute the
following to the protests against Shlomo Ben Ami’s
attendance to the October Culture Awards ceremony at València
University on October 28th organised by Fundació Ausiàs
March and Editorial 3i4.
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Shlomo
Ben Ami owes his international prestige to his former
position as Israeli Embassador in Madrid, his diplomatic
stature acquired through his term as Minister of Foreign
Affairs and prominent role in the so called “Peace Process”
and his scholarly excellence.
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Once
again though, there is more to the picture than meets the
eyes.
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Ben
Ami has never stopped blaming the fallthrough of the peace
process on the Palestinians who in turn felt abused at the
hollowness of the Israeli promises while assisting at the
building up of twice as much settlements on the West Bank as
facts on the ground.
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Shlomo
Ben Ami is reputed to be a moderate dove as opposed to
hardline hawks such as Sharon or Netanyahu. Now it is time
to wonder seriously if they are not two faces of the same
coin: hawks’ conquests by brute force followed by dovish
diplomacy selling them to the world community.
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In
an interview to Spanish newspapers El Mundo on 10/05/02 he
wished that the Palestinian economy would develop itself.
Meanwhile the Israeli army was engaged in the wholesale
erasing of fields and groves, destroying houses, facilities
and workshops in a clear attempt to turn the Palestinian
towns and cities into impoverished captive markets and
reservations of cheap labour entirely dependent on the
Israeli economy.
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He
also gave greenlight to war criminal Ariel Sharon’s visit
with 1,000 armed men escort to the Al Aqsa mosque compound
on 25/09/’00, a clear deliberate provocation which
triggered the onset of the 2nd Intifadah while he could have
prevented this to happen in his capacity as Minister of
Public Security.
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Palestina
Resisteix! calls upon Acció Cultural del País Valencià
grassroots to reflect upon the following matters:
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What
is the point of having zionism - the ideology behind
the creation and expansion of a Jewish supremacist
state at the expense of the native Arab Palestinian
people - as a guest in a foremost social event of our
Catalan culture? It is not cooperation but
international pressure against Israel that will help
towards a fair settlement. |
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Has
the Acció Cultural leadership informed the local
chapters of such a compromising decision? We now
beseech them to do whatever it is in their power to
get the invitation to Shlomo Ben Ami to be cancelled. |
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The
absolute need for the Catalan citizenry and institutions
to educate themselves on the conflict in Palestine. In
this we contribute our website www.palestinaresisteix.org
and more specifically we suggest the October Awards
organisers and Acció Cultural’s local chapters to
invite us to talk about what we witness during our trips
to Palestine and inform about the roots and present
development of the conflict. |
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