Appello degli Ebrei americani al Partito dei Verdi tedeschi

Siamo Ebrei americani profondamente preoccupati per il fatto che la memoria
e la tragedia dell' Olocausto vengono rievocate per giustificare un'
ingiusta campagna di bombardamenti contro la popolazione civile della
Yugoslavia. Molti di noi hanno amici che hanno perduto le proprie famiglie
nell' Olocausto, ed alcuni di noi hanno essi stessi perduto dei parenti.
Siamo profondamente consapevoli della nostra storia e del fatto che la
comunità internazionale debba intervenire qualora si verifichino minacce di
genocidio, al fine di prevenirlo. Tuttavia, chiaramente, non è questo che
si sta verificando in Yugoslavia, oggi. 

Non crediamo che la guerra del nostro governo contro la Yugoslavia sia
motivata da preoccupazioni umanitarie. Ne è prova il rifiuto da parte dello
stesso governo di realizzare un ponte aereo per il trasporto di cibo ad
acqua ai disperati profughi del Kosovo, nonché le somme destinate all'
aiuto ai profughi, irrisorie se paragonate ai miliardi di dollari spesi per
i bombardamenti. L' estrema riluttanza dell' amministrazione Clinton a
perseguire una soluzione negoziata del conflitto segnala, inoltre, che l'
intervento è innanzitutto una questione di potere: mostrare al mondo che
gli Stati Uniti (e la NATO, controllata in gran parte da questi ultimi)
sono gli auto-proclamati sceriffi del mondo, e che si trovano al di sopra
del diritto internazionale e delle Nazioni Unite. Così facendo, stanno
effettuando una guerra contro la popolazione civile, distruggendo l'
economia yugoslava ed uccidendo centinaia di persone innocenti, per
dimostrare e consolidare il proprio potere. 

Molti sostenitori dei bombardamenti hanno proposto analogie con
l'Olocausto, sostenendo che il mondo non può stare a guardare di fronte
alla pulizia etnica in Kosovo. Ma i bombardamenti hanno fortemente
aggravato la situazione degli albanesi kosovari, come è ormai
universalmente riconosciuto. Hanno altresì sgominato il movimento per la
democrazia in Yugoslavia, e stanno destabilizzando i paesi confinanti. 

Vi esortiamo a rigettare le false ed esagerate analogie con l'Olocausto e
con la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, sfruttate per raccogliere consensi in
favore della campagna dei bombardamenti, che intensifica le sofferenze di
tutte le nazionalità in Yugoslavia. Ci appelliamo al Partito dei Verdi
tedeschi affinché si opponga alla guerra, e sostenga una soluzione
negoziata del conflitto. 

(Le organizzazioni sono citate per identificare i firmatari)

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor of Linguistics M.i.t

Edward S. Herman, Prof. Emeritus, Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Robert Weissman, Editor, Multinational Monitor

Michael Albert, Z Magazine/ZNet

Michael Brn, Dept of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark Weisbrot, Research Director, Preamble Center

Dean Baker Senior, Research Fellow, Preamble Center

Robert Naiman, Research Associate, Preamble Center

Mitchel Cohen, Brooklyn Greens, Green Party of NY, Greens / Green Party USA

Michael Ratner, Center for Constituonal Rights

Vivian Stromberg, Executive Director, MADRE

Marcus Raskin Co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies

Saul Landau, Fellow Institute for Policy Studies

Hugh O. LaBounty Chair of Interdisciplinary Applied, Knowledge Calif. State
Polytechnic Univ.

Howard Zinn, Historian

Jeff Cohen, Author, founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)

Rebecca Golden, Director, Ben & Jerry's Foundation

David J Cohen International Representative, United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers of America (UE)

James Weinstein, Editor, In These Times

Seth Ackerman, Media Analyst FAIR

Scott Nova, Director, Citizens Trade Campaign

Jared Bernstein, Economist, Economic Policy Institute, Washington

Ken Silverstein, Journalist

Norman Finkelstein, Hunter College

Joel Beinin, Prof. Middle East History Stanford Univ.

Stephen Myer Kretzmann, Campaigns Coordinator, Project Underground

Michael Brn, Dept Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Univ.
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joshua Karliner, Transnational Resource & Action Center, San Francisco

Mark Solomon, Prof. Emeritus of History Simmons College, Boston

Peter Dorman Faculty of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA

Don Barry, past Harlan J. Smith Fellow of Astrophysics The University of
Texas at Austin

Michael Eisenscher, Lead Organizer, Project for Labor Renewal, Berkeley, CA

Jacqueline Cabasso, Exec. Director, Western States Legal Foundation

Andrew Lichterman, Attorney, Western States Legal Foundation

Jay Levin, Founder L.A Weekly newspaper

Glenn Rubenstein, Park Slope Greens, Green Party N.Y.

Diane Swords, Jewish Peace Fellowship of Central N.Y.

Alan Stoleroff, Dept. of Sociology, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do
Trabalho e Empresa, Lisbon

Luca Zampieri, Dept Physics, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eli C. Messinger, M.D. New York State Green Party, Associate Clinical Prof.
Psychiatry New York Medical College

Alan Schrift, Prof. Philosophy, Grinnell College

Rochelle Pudlowski Eissenstat, M.D Sinai-Samaritan Medical Center,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics Univ. Massachusetts-Amherst

Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, Vermont

Rich Plevin, Economic Justice Now, Oakland, California

Raven B. Earlygrow, Former Mayor, City of Point Arena, California

Andy Mager, Jewish Peace Fellowship, Syracuse chapter

Saul Bitran, First violinist, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Boca Raton, Florida

Erick Brownstein, Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco, California

Irene Harris, Former Publisher, Nassau Star (Long Beach, New York), Tarzana,
California

Tom Mayer, Prof. Department of Sociology, Univ of Colorado

Paul Worthman, Director of Organizing & Research American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)

Nicole Barchilon Frank Past Board Member & Administrator at Temple Beth El
Eureka, California

Steve Rhodes, Paper Tiger TV, Berkeley, California

Ben Newman, Rabbinical Student Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA

Ann Fox, MSS, LSW Wyncote, PA

Craig Gordon, Social Studies and Media Studies Teacher Oakland Education
Association Site Representative Fremont High School, Oakland, California

David Utzschneider, MD, PhD, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Baltimore,
Maryland

Nancy Rost, Journalist, Madison, Wisconsin

Ken Cornet, Green Party of Connecticut

Philip Y. Blue, Senior Law Librarian New York State Supreme Court New York,
New York

Alexander Blum, M.D. Physician, Glen Ellen, California

Dr. Alfred Bloch, Professor of Political Science and East European History
(Retired) New Paltz, New York

Mahir Saul, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Illinois

Zoltan Grossman, Co-founder, Midwest Treaty Network (a Native American
support group)

Allan Solomonow, Regional Director, Peace Education Program American Friends
Service Committee, San Francisco, California

Randy Baker, Co-Producer, "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom"

Naomi Steinberg, Student Rabbi, B'nai Ha-Aretz (Children of the Earth),
Redway, CA

Julie Light, Editor, Corporate Watch, San Francisco, CA

Richard Schmitt, Dept. of Philosophy, Brown Univ.

Paula Friedman, Editor/Publicist, Richmond, CA

Derek Wright, United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT Local 223, UW-Madison,
Wisconsin

Frances Goldin, Mayer Vishner, Elizabeth Frankenberger The Frances Goldin
Literary Agency, New York

Dr. Phillip Moskoff, D.D.S Grass Valley, California

Bob Auerbach, National Committee, Greens / Green Party USA Jewish Peace
Fellowship Greenback, Maryland

Boris Kogan, Prof. Computer Science, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Roman Mordechai, System Analyst, Parallax Microsystems, Cleveland, Ohio

Bert Garskof, Professor of Psychology, Quinnipiac College Hamden, Connecticut

Jane Angus Writer Henderson, Nevada

Ashley Marcus, Student, Univ. Virginia

Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, Univ. California at Berkeley

Dennis Fischman, Former President, Temple B'nai Brith, Somerville, Massachusetts

Ruslan Karapatnitski, President, RIK Enterprises, Inc., Phoenix, AZ

Ross Bauer, Dept. Music, Univ. of California, Davis

Cory Campbell, Undergraduate, Reed College

Aletha Stahl, Dept. of Languages and Literatures, Earlham College, Richmond, IN

David Applefield, Association Frank, Paris

Professor Douglas Allen, Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Maine,
Education Coordinator, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine

Bruce Shapiro, Columnist, The Nation

Rebecca Welty, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California
at San Diego

Paul Phillips, Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba and University
of Ljubljana, Canada and Slovenia

Ryan Titchenell, City Councilman, Trinidad, California

Samuel Farber, Prof. Political Science, Brooklyn College

Kristin Weeks, Student, University of Virginia

Scott Rubel, Facilities department, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, California

Harvey Karp, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine

Phyllis Olin, President of the Board, Western States Legal Foundation

Dr. Justin K. Schwartz, Attorney, Chicago, Illinois

Devva Kasnitz, PhD Research Director, Research and Training Center on
Independent Living and Disability Policy World Institute on Disability,
Oakland, CA

Paula Gutlove and Gordon Thompson, Institute for Resource and Security
Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts

John Burdick, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University

Zeljko Boskovic, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut

Jorge Liderman, Professor of Music, UC Berkeley

Sergei Babko, Senior Process Engineer, MSE TA,Inc., Butte, Montana

Olga Babko, Graduate Student, Rutgers University

Mira Cantrell, MD UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

Jennifer Malvin, Piano Teacher, Los Angeles, CA

Alan Shapiro, Frankfurt, Germany

Fred Shapiro, Associate Director, Yale University Law School Library

Bernie Tuchman, Dept. of Environmental Protection, New York, N.Y.

Judith Ward, Professor of History, New York, N.Y.

Marc Silver, Prof. of Linguistics, Univ. of Modena, Italy

Don Obers, Social Worker, Patchogue, New York

David Comeaux, Green Party of New York, Rochester, NY

William Muraskin, Prof. Urban Studies, Queens College, City Univ. of New York

Dr. Ilan Kogus, Senior Associate, The Adizes Institute for Organizational
Transformation, Santa Barbara, California

Albina Leibman-Klix Ph.D., student in Comparative Literature and Philosophy,
Binghamton Univ., New York

Jodie Evans Director, We The People, Oakland California

Albert Febbo, Artist, Las Vegas, Nevada

David Atias, Genesee Valley/Rochester Greens, Green Party of New York State

Diana F. Cramer, Librarian, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY

Laura A. Zimmerman, Student, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA

Morten Krogh, Student, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ

Douglas Mattern, President, Association of World Citizens, San Francisco, CA

Seth Kulick, Graduate Student, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Naomi Smith, Ellen Meltzer, Miriam Chesman, New York City, New York

Shirley Cohen and Bernie Levin, San Jose, California

Richard and Carol Weinstock, Ventura, CA

Ben Markeson Orlando Coalition to Stop the War; Socialist Party Usa.,
Orlando, Florida

Andrew Schneider, Wanaque, NJ

Herbert Brun, Emeritus Prof. of Music, Univ. of Illinois

Mark Epstein, Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages, College of New Jersey

Josh Raufman President, Middlebury College Chapter of Hillel; Member,
Democratic Socialists of America

Simona Sharoni, Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University

Dr. Benjamin Robinson, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Area One Program,German
Studies, Stanford University

Rabbi David Osachy, Philadelphia, PA

E.M. Daniel, Research Assistant/Graduate Student: San Francisco State University

Michael Mandel, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Karen Golden Mandel Lawyer, Toronto, Canada

Jack Kurzweil Electrical Engineering Department San, Jose State University

Mark Jacobs, Director of WESPAC (Westchester People's Action Coalition), New
York


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