Nobel Women Peace Prize Laureates Solidarity with the Palestinian people، and Condemn the massacres in Gaza
The Nobel Women's Initiative calls for an
immediate ceasefire to stop
the
violence in Gaza.
The
"cycles of violence" approach to containing Palestinian anguish
resulting from 50 years of Israeli occupation does not work and will never lead
to sustainable
peace
for Palestin ians and Israelis. Deliberate targeting of
civilian areas by anyone is a violation of international law. Israel's
continuing collective punishment of the Palestinian people because of its
ongoing war of attrition against Hamas is a war crime.
Instead of supplying weapons and other
support to fuel the violence, the international community must work to end it
and to create conditions to lead to sustainable peace. These conditions must
include enforcing the various UN resolutions against Israel's occupation of
Palestinian land
and its ongoing building of settlements
on that land and takeovers of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. As Nelson
Mandela rightly said in 1985, "Only a free man can negotiate: a prisoner
cannot enter into contracts."
Ending the current conflict is critical,
but it is not true "peace." That will not happen as long as Israel
continues to receive open and tacit support for its policies of oppression
against the people of Palestine. Supporting policies of occupation means
supporting the violation of the basic
human rights, human dignity and lack of
freedom of the people of Palestine. Under such conditions, devastating violence
will continue and sustainable peace for both Palestinians and Israelis will
remain a "utopian dream."
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Mairead
Maguire.
Ireland, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
1976
Jody
Williams, United States of America, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
1997
Shirin
Ebadi, Iran, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2003
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Guatemala, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1992
Leymah Gbowee, Liperia, Guatemala, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011
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