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Occupation magazine - Activism Home page  back Print  Send To friend Italian Jews call: "Let arms be silent, move back to a path of dialogue!" Open letter and appeal published by Repubblica, Espresso, Manifesto and other Italian media on May 15, 2018 by a number of Jewish-Italian intellectuals and political activists Let arms be silent, let the parties move back to a path of dialogue! “Israel today may be a fortress, but it is not yet a home” David Grossman stated in his speech on April 17 that the alternative Memorial day event sponsored by bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families in Tel Aviv. We, the undersigned, who support the right of Israel to exist peacefully as a state within secure, legitimate and recognized borders and equally the right of Palestinians to their own independent state, look with the utmost concern to the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem as decided by the Trump administration. We cannot keep silent in the face of the disproportionate use of force by Israel in Gaza. The use of live ammunition against civilians is admitted only if those civilians take part directly in acts of armed violence, not if they approach or seek to break the border fence with Israel. Non- lethal means do exist to control and disperse mass protests. We condemn the fundamentalist doctrine preached by Hamas which continues to reject Israel’s existence and does not renounce a guerrilla war which exposes Gaza’s residents to Israel’s reprisals. We ask that arms be silent and that avenues be sought now and for the future to attain dialogue, mutual recognition and peace in the region. Roberto Della Seta, David Calef, Anna Foa, Lisa Ginzburg, Wlodek Goldkorn, Giorgio Gomel, Helena Janecezk, Simon Levis Sullam, Laura Mincer, Michele Sarfatti, Roberto Saviano, Susanna Terracina, Alessandro Treves, Gad Lerner, Edith Bruck, Carlo Ginzburg The appeal was endorsed in subsequent days by about 400 people Links to the latest articles in this section Litigation works! Georgia amending and narrowing its anti-BDS law! Should an Australian public health expert accept an Israeli award while Israel denies immunization to Palestinians? The weather forecasts predicted a snowstorm - and the army arrived at Hamsa to confiscate tents