SALUDOS

[Freddy Balzán <freddyb1506@cantv.net>]

Diputado

EMIL GUEVARA

Parlamento Latinoamericano

Caracas.

 

Apreciado diputado, reciba saludos bolivarianos, me dirijo a usted para informarle que he recibido una comunicación del amigo periodista Michael Operkalsky, que anexo al presente, en la cual me invita y me agradece invitar a todas las instituciones, organizaciones y personalidades de nuestra patria,  a participar en la Conferencia Antimperialista que se efectuará en la ciudad de Calcutta, India, entre el 26 y el 30 de noviembre próximo. Los participantes deberán financiarse sus pasajes de ida y vuelta, pero el comité organizador les garantiza el recibimiento, alojamiento, transporte y comidas durante el evento.Los interesados pueden contactar directamente al citado periodista o a la siguiente dirección: aIaif@cal2.vsnl.net.in

Debo informarle que por compromisos contraidos con anterioridad, no podré asistir  a la misma. Sin más nada que agregar me despido de usted, atentamente.

 

Freddy Balzán

 

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• To: Freddy Balzán <freddyb1506@cantv.net>
• Subject: TOP URGENT: international appeal & Calcutta conference
• Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:06:19 +0100
• >from: "Michael Opperskalski" <michael@opperskalski.org>
• Content-language: de
• Disposition-notification-to: "Michael Opperskalski" <michael@opperskalski.org>
• Importance: High
• Organization: Journalist, Editor & Consultant
• Reply-to: <michael@opperskalski.org>
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Michael Opperskalski

Journalist, Editor & Consultant

Postfach (P.O. Box) 270324 in 50509 KÖLN (Cologne)

FR GERMANY

Tel.: 49-700-17049020 & 49-221-17049020

Fax: 49-221-1703980 & 49-700-17049020

Mobile (Handy): 49-172-8042715 & 49-172-9524587

Mobile(Handy-) Fax: 49-172-9510263

Mail: michael@opperskalski.org & michael.opperskalski@t-online.de

Mobil(e) Mail: mobile-mail@onlinehome.de

 

From: Michael Opperskalski [mailto:michael@opperskalski.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:40 PM
To: 'michael.opperskalski@t-online.de'
Subject: TOP URGENT: international appeal & Calcutta conference
Importance: High

 

Dear friends,

 

please find (also attached in different languages) the international appeal/call to set up “an international citizens’ tribunal on the deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories”. Please distribute it as much as you can, sign it and return it back to me or to the organizers mentioned in the call.

 

Furthermore I am drawing again your attention to the international Conference organized by the “All-India Anti-Imperialist Forum” for the 26^th to the 30^th of November in Calcutta. Please joint immediately. For registering and/or any question please contact soonest directly the organizers: Mr. Manik Mukherjee, “All-India Anti-Imperialist Forum”, Mail: aiaif@cal2.vsnl.net.in.

 

Looking forward to hearing from you SOON!

 

Regards in solidarity

 

 

Michael Opperskalski

Journalist, Editor & Consultant

Postfach (P.O. Box) 270324 in 50509 KÖLN (Cologne)

FR GERMANY

Tel.: 49-700-17049020 & 49-221-17049020

Fax: 49-221-1703980 & 49-700-17049020

Mobile (Handy): 49-172-8042715 & 49-172-9524587

Mobile(Handy-) Fax: 49-172-9510263

Mail: michael@opperskalski.org & michael.opperskalski@t-online.de

Mobil(e) Mail: mobile-mail@onlinehome.de

 

 

Proposal for setting up an international citizens’ tribunal on the deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories

 

                The deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon, as in the occupied Palestinian territories, constitute a violent affront to the universal human conscience.  These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively.   They are different from the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the aggressed.   But feeling is not enough.  The facts must be established.    They must then be assessed in the  light of existing international law.  This should be done with the detachment and rigour of a process that excludes any a priori conclusions, the results of which will convince all people of good will.

 

                The international community is not an autonomous political and juridical body.     It is but a summation of positions adopted by a certain number of governments.   In many situations it has proved incapable of applying existing law by distancing itself from geopolitical or ideological contingencies.    This impunity has covered up the numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity that have been committed since the end of the second world war.

 

                The unilateral attitude of the United States of America, like the double-speak of many European governments, make it necessary for those defending the law to take the place of failed political powers.    The American administration is against any questioning of Israel’s role in acts committed in Lebanon as well as in the occupied Palestinian territories.   Germany, Great Britain, Finland and France refuse to support a request formulated at the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the use by the Israeli armed forces of arms that are prohibited by international law.  The systematic disinformation practised by an overwhelming majority of the media deprives Western public opinion of balanced information.   All this justifies an initiative by the citizens themselves.

 

                This initiative must aim at being of the same high quality as the tribunal initiated by Bertrand Russell during the Vietnam war.  It should be carried out with the same rigour, the same credibility and the same concern to go beyond divisions which have no place when it is a question of the rights of people.   It must bring together highly qualified experts and personalities who are universally recognized for their moral authority.   It must not limit itself up to a restricted circle.  For this reason I believe it should not follow in the footsteps of similar initiatives taken in the past, whatever the quality that such work has achieved in the past.

 

                Such an action cannot be carried out properly in a hurry. It require an the formulation of a comprehensive project, together with a precise timetable, the mobilization of appropriate human and financial resources and an irreproachable moral framework.  These requirements demand an international mobilization to support such an initiative.

 

                For this purpose we propose that a preparatory committee be set up which will carry out as rapidly as possible all the tasks necessary for launching this initiative.  We ask your active participation in creating this preparatory committee.  

 

Coordinateurs:

Raoul Marc JENNAR
chercheur URFIG / Fondation Copernic
consultant de la GUE/NGL au Parlement européen (bureau 4E202)
7, place du Château, F 66500 Mosset
Tél. (PE) : 00 32 2 283 10 43
Tel. : 00 33 468 05 84 25
Port. : 00 33 632 16 65 52
www.urfig.org
raoul.jennar@europarl.europa.eu

 

Leila Ghanem

Rédacteur en Chef de Bada'el

Présidente de l'Association ADEMA

51, avenue Charles Gide, 94270 Le Kremlin Bicêtre

Tel: 00 33 1 46 58 24 04

Port: 00 33 615 26 31 14

thearabecologist@yahoo.fr

lilia.ghanem@wanadoo.fr

 

 

Please sign in :

 

Name/Organisation                      Country               Address/Mail                                   Signature

 

Attachment: appel tribunal - English.rtf
Description: MS-Word document

Attachment: appel tribunal - English.rtf
Description: MS-Word document

Attachment: Appel +1ere liste signataires.doc
Description: MS-Word document

Attachment: Appel EXIGIMOS JUSTICIA[1].doc
Description: MS-Word document

Attachment: Annoucement from International Conference, Calcutta.doc
Description: MS-Word document

Attachment: Calcutta-Arabisch.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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