Offer the United Nations a People’s Plan for Peace similar in kind to the one suggested here:

Ben Heine / MWC NEWS

The Hamas Challenge to Israel and the World for Peace in Palestine:

“Step 1. We declare open the gates of Palestine to all governments of good will that they may visit the land we own as mandated by the United Nations and referenced in Resolutions 181 and 242. We open these gates for the next six months in hopes that the people of the world, through their governmental representatives, would come to Palestine to see for themselves the conditions imposed upon us by the occupation, to record what they see via TV cameras and reporters, and spread the truth of the occupation to all the world.

      We make this offer in full understanding of the conditions that incarcerate us behind the illegal Wall of Fear erected by Ariel Sharon and condemned by the International Court of Justice. But the issue is one that the world must confront: does the state of Israel defy the United Nations and its Resolutions and prevent the leaders of the world from visiting a democratically elected government of the people of Palestine or must the state of Israel conform to the desires of that international body, admit delegates from around the world, and comply with UN resolutions?

      We, the people of Palestine, wish the world to see what we see every day: we wish them to travel the back roads of Palestine, to confront the road blocks bulldozed there by the IDF, to wait for hours in the boiling sun at 100s of checkpoints guarded by armed IDF soldiers, to stand like cattle in chained linked fencing to pass to Jerusalem, to stand on a hill side in Jayyous to see the hideous wall slink across our land as it winds its way to encircle and protect the stolen land of the settlers, to see the impoverishment it places on the farmers and families and children that must walk for hours to get to a mosque or a school or a family home when it stands just a hundred yards away, to witness the thousands of homes demolished by the collective punishment policies of the Israeli government, to stand, perhaps, a bystander as the IDF unleashes an F-16 missile into a crowded street to kill, to murder a person that has not been brought to trial, had no attorney present to protect his rights, but judged and executed by the will of one man by the barbarous policy of extrajudicial execution otherwise known as assassination, to walk beneath the canopy of garbage hurled at our people as they make their way to enter the Al-Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron where one must go through a series of Israeli armed gates to pray to our God; let all experience what we experience and make it visible to all the world.    

Step 2. We ask the leaders of all nations of good will to judge Palestine’s situation on the basis of the United Nations Charter, its Conventions against Torture and Genocide, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Having traveled the length and breadth of the West Bank and Gaza, we ask that you return to the United Nations and place your findings before that community of nations to judge whether or not that body should accept the recommendations for peace that we propose.

      We ask that the United Nations present before its assembled body an interim process to oversee the creation of a Palestinian State, the nature of which is presented below for consideration and adoption, yet to be modified or altered in accordance with the experience and investigation that the nation states that visited Palestine might suggest. Peace in Palestine can be a reality within a year should all of good will desire it. This interim period would be under the guidance and control of the Peace Keeping Forces of the United Nations that would replace the forces of Israel on all land belonging to Palestine. 

Step 3. We offer to the nations of the world a government of the Palestinian people that will ensure a period of sustained peace that they may visit our country without fear, assuming that Israel will allow them to enter our prison or face the wrath of the world that must wonder what Israel has to fear should it refuse to open the prison gates. We offer to the governments of the world a visit that will provide as adequate accommodations as we can, with such comfort as is possible in the West Bank and Gaza, but a visit of human comfort and kindness provided by the Palestinian people who will welcome you to their country with open arms. 

Step 4. These provisions will constitute the Palestinian Peace Process:

      A. The proposed state of Palestine will encompass that land proposed by the UN in 1947 in Resolution 181 with all of its natural resources in tact.

      B. The new state of Palestine will recognize the state of Israel as it will exist on the 55% of Palestine proposed for it by the UN in 1947 if the state of Israel recognizes the state of Palestine.

      C. The United Nations will mandate the unalienable “Right of Return” to all Palestinians driven from their homes in 1947/48 and in the 1967 war in accordance with International Law, and/or make arrangements for these people to be compensated for the loss of their homes and the intervening pain and suffering they have endured.

      D. The Wall erected by Ariel Sharon will be torn down and the land restored to its former state and returned to its rightful owners.

      E. The state of Palestine will have no standing army as it is a people of peace, but on condition that Israel will sign the Non-proliferation Agreement and rid itself of its nuclear weapons and conform to all provisions of the United Nations Charter, especially those that require respect for neighboring states.

      We present this plan for peace before the entire world that all may know the Palestinian people are of good heart, good intentions, and seek nothing that is not our due under international law and already determined as such by the United Nations.”

      Should Hamas present such a challenge to Israel and the world, it will be incumbent on all of us here, and all of our associates around the world in every country in the mid-east, in Asia, in Europe, and, yes, in America, to go before their representatives in their respective Parliaments and Congresses, and to their United Nation’s Representatives to accept this challenge to bring peace to the mid-east. Hamas will offer what the United Nations has determined to be just; who can object? Only Israel and the United States.  

      It is the sower of peace and prosperity not the sower of discord and deceit that assures the harvest; it is in trust and tolerance not accusation and anger that accord can be reached; it is in recognition of right and justice for all not fanatical beliefs for those initiated that renders peace possible. That is the choice the Israelis bring to the election booth this month, and their choice will usher in a day of calm for all the world, or a day of chaos.

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