From: revans@euclid.ucsd.edu (Ron Evans)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Informed heart
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:02:45 GMT


	I came here to develop what Bruno Bettelheim called the
informed heart--good will, speculative intelligence, and practical
wisdom working in tandem--on Middle East affairs.  Could it be
I've come to the wrong place? :-)  It is hard to believe that some
of us who've been at each other's throats of late once found some
common ground.  I refer to the Proposal for Peace, signed by 36
of us fourteen months ago.  (Those signators who now wish their
names removed should please send me email :-)  This proposal was
written, with the help of many here, by Habeeb Dihu and myself,
a Palestinian and a Jew both sick of the endless cycle of oppression
and random killing.  The last time I heard from Habeeb, he was
going to transfer to Johns Hopkins medical school.  That was a year
ago.  As we approach the season of "Peace on Earth", I thought it
an appropriate time to repost the proposal.
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We support the Middle East peace negotiators in their all-important role, 
and the following proposal is not intended to advise or second-guess them.
Rather, it is intended to suggest one of many possible courses for
compromise and peace.

                   A PROPOSAL FOR PEACE
Israelis, Palestinians and neighboring Arab states will begin
by formally acknowledging each other's legitimate right to coexist
peacefully in respective states.  This entails official revocation
of the contrary passages in the PLO Charter.  Simultaneously, Israel
will revoke laws proclaiming the PLO as a terrorist organization,
and will negotiate with the PLO along with other Arab representatives,
with the goal of complying with UNSC Resolution 242.  An
independent Palestinian state is to be established on all or most
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.  There are to be firm international
guarantees of security through demilitarization and peacekeeping
measures.  At the start of negotiations, the Arab boycott against
Israel will be lifted and Israeli settlement activity in the
occupied territories will cease.  At the conclusion, there should
be cultural exchange and economic development enhanced
by flourishing trade in the spirit of newfound friendship.

The undersigned support the spirit of the proposal for peace.

Anisa Alnoor Aldoubosh              Dr. Barry M. Kingsbury
Mary Appelman                       Hanan Lutfiyya
Rabbi Charles Arian                 Lisa Majaj
Hussein G. Badr                     Brendan McKay
Gordon Banks                        Hans D. Meurer
Todd Bernhard                       Ziad Najem
Steve Berson                        David Marc Nieporent
Seth Bradley                        Eric Perlman
Habeeb Dihu                         Ray Ravelo
Ron Evans                           Brian Ross
Robert Firth                        Joel Sax
Shai Guday                          D.C. Sessions
Barrak Mohammed Hadi                Amos Shapir
Basil Y. Hamdan                     Adam Shostack
Nevo Y Hed                          Ben Singer
Kurt Heycke                         David F. Skoll
Bharathi Jagadeesh                  Pekka Taipale
Sari Khoury                         David Weinstein
-- 
Ron Evans (revans@math.ucsd.edu)