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>CANADIANS, ARABS, AND JEWS FOR A JUST PEACE
>is pleased to invite you to:
>
>TOWARDS A JUST AND VIABLE PEACE? A VIEW FROM THE GROUND
>
>Presented by: Jeff Halper and Salim Shawamreh
>Moderated by: Dr. John Savage (former Premier of Nova Scotia)
>
>Thursday Jan 25th. 7:30 PM
>Room 105 Weldon Law School Building
>Dalhousie University.
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>Detailed Info:
>
>Israeli Jeff Halper and Palestinian Salim Shawamreh will be speaking
>together at the Weldon Law Building (room 105), Dalhousie University at
>7:30pm on Thursday, January 25th, 2001. What's behind the current
>Palestinian uprising? Are Palestinians really not sincere partners for
>peace, as Israel has charged? Or, as the Palestinians counter, is the
>source of the unrest actually Israels attempt to impose a peace settlement
>that would leave them with nothing but a disconnected collection of
>enclaves effectively under Israeli military control? Are the two sides
>really too far apart, or can Israelis and Palestinians work together to
>make peace?
>
>Jeff Halper is a leading Israeli anthropologist at Ben Gurion University
>and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
>(ICAHD). Salim Shawamreh is a Palestinian whose house has been demolished
>twice by the Israeli authorities; he is still unable, for political
>reasons, to inhabit his rebuilt home. Together, the two evaluate the peace
>process from a perspective largely hidden from public view that of Israeli
>policies on the ground.
>
>>From the ground, Shawamreh and Halper argue, what emerges is a picture of
>a peace process that never really was: ongoing house demolition, land
>confiscation, and settlement expansion; establishment of a system of
>bypass roads that slashes the West Bank into a welter of isolated towns
>and villages; and the maintenance of road blocks and travel restrictions
>that strangle Palestinian economic life.
>
>Salim and Jeff see house demolition and related policies as being part of
>a dynamic working to foreclose on the possibility of a real and lasting
>peace in the area. They are not interested merely in criticizing
>oppressive policies, however. Their compelling presentation demonstrates
>how Israelis and Palestinians, working together, can bring an end to those
>policies and build a just, viable and lasting peace for both peoples. As
>Betty Peterson of the Committee of Canadians, Arabs, and Jews for a Just
>Peace states: At this critical time of confrontation in Israel-Palestine
>we want to emphasize that there are people on both sides working across
>borders to promote peace and justice. Without justice these is no peace.
>
>The event is sponsored by the Halifax Committee of Canadians, Arabs and
>Jews for a Just Peace, as well as a coalition of community and church
>groups as part of the Halper-Shawamreh North-American tour.
>
>For more information contact: Betty Peterson at 454-8664 or Dr. Ismail
>Zayid at 429-9100.
>
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6136 university ave
halifax, ns
b3h 4j2
902-494-6662
nspirg@is2.dal.ca
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