I recall reading some quotes from him somewhere recently and detected a bit of a right-ward shift. Does anyone know what he is thinking/doing these days?
Cliff
At 10:39 AM 9/25/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Aren't they a bit late???
>Is it better late than never?
>EGADS What do they think has been going on?
>
>marta
>
>Subject: [Actionla] Urgent warning: The Israeli government may
>be contemplating crimes
> against humanity.
>Sender: actionla-admin at regenerationtv.net
>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:13:10 -0700
>Urgent warning: The Israeli government may be contemplating crimes
>against humanity.
>
>
>We, members of Israeli academe, are horrified by US buildup of
>aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's
>enthusiastic support for it.
>
>We are deeply worried by indications that the "fog of war" could be
>exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against
>the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing.
>
>The Israeli ruling coalition includes parties that promote "transfer"
>of the Palestinian population as a solution to what they call "the
>demographic problem". Politicians are regularly quoted in the media as
>suggesting forcible expulsion, most recently MKs Michael Kleiner and
>Benny Elon, as reported on Yediot Ahronot website on September 19,
>2002. In a recent interview in Ha'aretz, Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon
>described the Palestinians as a "cancerous manifestation" and equated
>the military actions in the Occupied Territories with "chemotherapy",
>suggesting that more radical "treatment" may be necessary. Prime
>Minister Sharon has backed this "assessment of reality". Escalating
>racist demagoguery concerning the Palestinian citizens of Israel may
>indicate the scope of the crimes that are possibly being contemplated.
>
>We call upon the International Community to pay close attention to
>events that unfold within Israel and in the Occupied Territories, to
>make it absolutely clear that crimes against humanity will not be
>tolerated, and to take concrete measures to prevent such crimes from
>taking place.
>
>Signatories, as of the 23 Sept 2002, morning:
>
>Prof. Zach Adam, Rehovot
>Prof. Colman Altman, Haifa
>Dr. Janina Altman, Haifa
>Tammy Amiel-Houser, Tel Aviv
>Chaya Amir, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Shmuel Amir, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Daniel Amit, Jerusalem/Rome
>Yali Amit, Chicago
>Dr. Meir Amor, Montreal, Canada
>Dr. Yonathan (Jon) Anson, Beer Sheva
>Prof. Shalom Baer, Jerusalem
>Dan Bar-On, Beer Sheva
>Dr. Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Jerusalem
>Prof. Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv
>Avi Berg, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Hod Hasharon
>Prof. Anat Bilezki, Tel Aviv
>Uri Bitan, Haifa
>Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley
>Prof. Victoria Buch, Jerusalem
>Smadar Carmon, Toronto
>Dr. Nicole Cohen-Addad, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Uri Davis, Sakhnin
>Athena Elizabeth DeRasmo, Haifa
>Prof. Aharon Eviatar, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Ovadia Ezra. Tel Aviv
>Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Jerusalem
>Pnina Firestone, Jerusalem
>Elizabeth Freund, Jerusalem
>Gadi Geiger, Cambridge, MA, USA
>Dr. Amira Gelblum, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Anat Goldrat-First, Netanya
>Dr. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Neve Gordon, Beer Sheva
>Dr. Yerah Gover, New York
>Prof. Charles W. Greenbaum, Jerusalem
>Dr. Lev Grinberg, Beer Sheva
>Ran HaCohen, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem, Jerusalem
>Dr. Sara Helman, Beer Sheva
>Prof. Hanna Herzog, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Ze'ev Herzog, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Hannan Hever, Jerusalem
>Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Jerusalem
>Shirly Houser, Tel Aviv
>Tal Itzhaki, Haifa
>Prof. Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv
>Andrea Jacobs, Austin, Texas
>Dr. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Haifa
>Aya Kaniuk, Jerusalem
>Prof. Jacob Katriel, Haifa
>Prof. Tamar Katriel, Haifa
>Prof. Baruch Kimmerling, Jerusalem
>Dr. Haggai Kupermintz, Boulder, Colorado
>Dr. Ron Kuzar, Haifa
>Dr. Ariela Lazar, Evanston
>Prof. Micah Leshem, Haifa
>Erez Levkovitz, Jerusalem
>Prof. Rene Levy, Lausanne
>Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Ruchama Marton, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jerusalem
>Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Jerusalem
>Menucha Moravitz, Ramat-Gan
>Regev Nathansohn, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Avraham Oz, Haifa
>Dr. Ilan Pappe, Haifa
>Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
>Shakhar Rahav, Berkeley
>Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Beer Sheva
>Prof. Zvi Razi, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Fanny-Michaela Reisin, Berlin
>Prof. Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Henry Rosenfeld, Haifa
>Dr. Maya Rosenfeld, Jerusalem
>Ouzi Rotem, Philadelphia
>Dr. Hannah Safran, Haifa
>Tami Sarfatti, UCLA
>Dr. Nita Schechet, Jerusalem
>Hillel Schocken, Tel Aviv
>Ruben Seroussi, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Erella Shadmi,Beit Berl
>Prof. Nomi Shir, Beer Sheva
>Dr. Miriam Shlesinger, Tel Aviv
>Aharon Shabtai, Tel Aviv
>Orly Soker, Sapir-Jerusalem
>Nurit Steinfeld, Jerusalem
>Roman Vater, Tel Aviv
>Dr. Roy Wagner, Tel-Aviv
>Dr. Michael Yogev, Haifa
>Kim Yuval, Tel Aviv
>Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, Jerusalem
>Michal Zweig, Herzelia
>--
>
>--
>Marta Russell
>Los Angeles, CA
>http://www.disweb.org
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