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The Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31.
As an organisation that was founded in Germany we consider it as our responsibility however to remind of the Holocaust originating in Germany and, with the dreadful collaboration of other European personalities, militias and even governments, resulting in the genocide of six million European Jews. Israelis continuously fear for their safety and for the existence of their state. The state of Israel is volatile. Israel is surrounded by Arab states which are in most cases heavily armed and do not accept the existence of the State of Israel in the Middle East. These states have tolerated and partly supported the suppression of ethnic and religious minorities in their countries as well as genocides by other Arab states like Sudan against the Southern Sudanese. In the past decades Society for Threatened Peoples has, for instance, worked intensively for equal rights for Kurdish and Christian minorities in Syria, Iran and Iraq. The genocide in South Sudan, where luckily some progress is to be seen, was the focus of our work for a long time. But we miss the Arab world’s voice against the continuous genocide in Darfur. This and regular gestures of menace against the State of Israel lead to the requirement of international protection for Israel and the need for the recognition of the State of Israel by the government of Palestine.
After years of violence and suffering the overwhelming majority of Israelis and Palestinians only has one wish: peace. The UN Human Rights Council can do a lot to support those responsible on both sides in finding ways of solving the conflict and bringing about a peaceful solution. Society for Threatened Peoples’ demands repeat the suggestions formulated by Jewish intellectuals in Germany.
Society for Threatened Peoples calls on the Human Rights Council to:
- Listen, support and strengthen the numerous voices calling for reconciliation and peace on both sides of the conflict. Their demands are exemplarily documented in the “Geneva Agreement”.
- Urge the Government of Israel to finally take serious steps in direction of the establishment of a Palestinian state in the borders of 1967 with full sovereignty.
- Initiate a process leading to the international protection of the State of Israel by UN and NATO.
- Initiate a discussion about a possible EU-membership of Israel.
- Urge the Government of Palestine to fully recognize the rightful existence of the State of Israel.
- Urge interlocutors in the Arab world to accept the State of Israel and stop supporting Palestinian terror against Israel.
- Condemn human rights violations as well as discrimination and apartheid by the Israeli government and administration against Palestinians and Beduins.