{"id":1045,"date":"2025-02-13T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:11:48","slug":"newsletter-n-122-december-23-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/newsletter-n-122-december-23-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter n\u00b0 122 &#8211; December 23, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/2jDEVJcRqQkLeCP_EwcIw1kXg-8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/2jDEVJcRqQkLeCP_EwcIw1kXg-8@197x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"296\"><\/a><\/figure><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">PEACE LINES<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">MESSAGERIES<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">DE LA PAIX<\/span><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">www.peacelines.org<\/span><\/p><br><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"mailto:peacelines@gmail.com\">peacelines@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><br><\/td><td>&nbsp;<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/caZ4BN-KUESTYT-Q10u1ZzGublU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/caZ4BN-KUESTYT-Q10u1ZzGublU@222x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"296\"><\/a><\/figure><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Newsletter n\u00b0 122<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>December 23, 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/ff9GTA7sKQtLIcR_LVwMaBOlxOw.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/ff9GTA7sKQtLIcR_LVwMaBOlxOw@294x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\"><\/a><\/figure><\/td><td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To all our friends in the Nobel community, worldwide,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">One year ago, on December 21, 2021, our main source of inspiration, as far as non-violent resistance goes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, passed away. Always the first on a Nobel Call for peace and common sense, against terror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Let this not deter us or diminish us. In this hour of horror we remember that the smallest lights shine brighter in the deepest darkness. Let this call be one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>NOBEL CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF HOSTAGES AND FOR A DURABLE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Because we are human beings, and human beings are not bargaining chips,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Because we are horrified by the carnages and pogroms of October 7 in the name of \u00ab&nbsp;armed resistance&nbsp;\u00bb,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We express our ultimate and universal condemnation concerning all acts of bloody savagery allegedly for the sake of a \u00ab&nbsp;war of liberation&nbsp;\u00bb. No political or religous speech, whatsoever, can ever legitimate the massacre of innocents, the murder of a child, the rape of a woman, the kidnapping of elderly people in their home.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages detained in Gaza. Prisoners of war can be exchanged. Abducted civilians are not prisoners of war.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Gaza civilians also are hostages in this horrendous chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For a durable cessation of hostilities, we support a permanent end to all attack tunnels and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/3vawN0t4ZlcpDsKcuGGYaw4tCKw.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/3vawN0t4ZlcpDsKcuGGYaw4tCKw@691x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"209\"><\/a><\/figure><\/td><td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When partisan minds speak of \u00ab&nbsp;resisting occupation with all means and methods&nbsp;\u00bb as a \u00ab&nbsp;sacred right&nbsp;\u00bb*, we strongly object that kidnapping elderly civilians in their home is by no means part of a liberation struggle. Neither is the parading of young women seized as trophies.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Article 25 of Hamas Charter (2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Why we look forward to a <em>total demilitarization<\/em> in Gaza&nbsp;: after a 40-year terror campaign that left over 800 killed, half of them civilians, \u00ab&nbsp;<strong>ETA<\/strong> has decided to declare an end to its historical cycle and its role. ETA has completely dissolved all its structures.&nbsp;\u00bb It abandoned its armed campaign in <strong>2011<\/strong>. Their ultimate statement is that, although \u00ab&nbsp;this decision does not bring an end to the conflict between the Basque homeland and Spain and France&nbsp;\u00bb, the full dissolution was enacted in <strong>2018<\/strong>, and included apologizing to its victims and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00ab&nbsp;Let\u2019s not repeat our mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; Let\u2019s not let our problems fester.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; Doing so would only give rise to new problems.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Likewise, <strong>2007<\/strong> was the end of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning first launched in September <strong>1997<\/strong>. The <strong>IRA<\/strong> then pledged to use \u00ab&nbsp;exclusively peaceful means&nbsp;\u00bb. \u00ab&nbsp;All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms\u2026 to complete the process to verifiably put its arms beyond use in a way which will further enhance public confidence and to conclude this as quickly as possible.&nbsp;\u00bb The IRA conclusion was&nbsp;:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00ab&nbsp;We are conscious that many people suffered in the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is a compelling imperative on all sides to build a just and lasting peace.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is no other way in Gaza and the whole of Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When Hamas won the 2006 elections, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel declared in Davos that Hamas should be accepted, as long as it renounced its goal of destroying Israel. \u00ab&nbsp;Forgiveness will be,&nbsp;\u00bb he added, \u00ab&nbsp;the next step, but first they must renounce the policy and ideology of destroying a neighbor state.&nbsp;\u00bb He concluded with the \u00ab&nbsp;hope the international community will prevail and tell Hamas to change&nbsp;\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We may be another year, or ten years, from a just and lasting peace, but there is no alternative to demilitarization, as it happened in Ireland and the Basque homeland, if we don\u2019t want to witness the horrendous cycle of October 7 and the bombings that ensue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There must be a human way out of this abhorent insanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td><td><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/UYU9gQqmAOSv6YWB1fgyTlpoGLY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekladata.com\/UYU9gQqmAOSv6YWB1fgyTlpoGLY@230x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"290\"><\/a><\/figure><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; PEACE LINESMESSAGERIESDE LA PAIX www.peacelines.org peacelines@gmail.com &nbsp; Newsletter n\u00b0 122 December 23, 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To all our friends in the Nobel community, worldwide, One year ago, on December 21, 2021, our main source of inspiration, as far as non-violent resistance goes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, passed away. 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