To the Intellectuals of the World .

It can't be said "I have not seen, I have not heard," when the blood of Palestinians covers the streets and the television screens. Mohammed Durra, a child in his father's arms like a frightened dove, did not escape murder in cold-blood. But, there are others, killed away from the camera, who also have names, and mothers and little dreams.

The soil of Palestine is saturated with the blood of its martyrs, and all that it sees in this hot autumn are flowers of blood. But what can the

Palestinian people do except turn towards the struggle for freedom in order to return nature to its place, and to bring back peace from its long exile to the city of peace, Jerusalem, besieged by guns and tanks.

The Israeli occupation has gone on for too long, and the Palestinian people have chosen the path of a peaceful settlement to implement their rights to freedom and to independence in the framework of an independent state, on just over 20% of their historic home land. But the Israeli government is still running away from the demands of peace, resorting to its own reference instead of an international one, aiming to enforce its own racist understanding of peace which is based on a master and slave mentality. How can we, the Palestinian people, accept the blatant violation of our national and human aspirations as well as our rights to the sacred Christian and Moslem sites in Jerusalem?

We call upon you from this tormented land to declare your solidarity with the unarmed Palestinian people as they face the Israeli war machine, as they defend their national and human rights and the rights of their children

to go to school, to go towards the future in peace. The world conscience,busy in creating a syllabus for peace culture, cannot remain neutral in the face of the atrocities and crimes committed against our

I did not know, I did not see, I did not hear. Defending our right to freedom is defending this threatened peace from being yet another fallen martyr. Rescue peace, rescue freedom.