As a new round of violence kicks off in Israel-Palestine and more children are killed, its not enough just to call for another ceasefire. Its time to take definitive non-violent action to end this decades long nightmare. Our governments have failed -- while they have talked peace and passed UN resolutions, they and our companies have continued to aid, trade and invest in the violence. The only way to stop this hellish cycle of Israel confiscating Palestinian lands, daily collective punishment of innocent Palestinian families, Hamas firing rockets, and Israel bombing Gaza is to make the economic cost of this conflict too high to bear. We know it works -- when EU countries issued guidelines not to fund the illegal Israeli settlements it caused an earthquake in the cabinet, and when citizens successfully persuaded a Dutch pension fund, PGGM, to withdraw, it created a political storm. This may not feel like a direct way to stop the current killing, but history tells us that raising the financial cost of oppression can pave a path to peace. Click to call on Finance Minister Siv Jensen to pull Norway’s investments out of 3 Israeli banks that finance illegal settlements -- If we all take smart action now and turn up the heat, they could withdraw, the Israeli economy will take a hit, and we can turn the calculation of the extremists politically profiting from this hell upside down: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_scnd/?bEluIab&v=42666
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:20:46 +0000
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