Linking to the Declaration of Conscience of Global Intellectuals and Meeting the Challenges of 2024

24 Dec

Several blog readers have requested information about the link to the Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectual to Stop Genocide in Gaza. Here is the link that can be used to endorse or by anyone in your network to endorse:

https://www.change.org/p/declaration-of-conscience-and-concern-of-global-intellectuals-on-gaza-genocide

Let me take the opportunity at this time of Christmas to wish all a better year in 2024 when glimpses of light penetrate the darks skies above many sites of suffering throughout the world. If ever the combined energies of ethical concern for human wellbeing joined with the ecological imperatives of an enhanced stewardship with the natural habitats of the human species needed the active engagement of persons and movements of good will and spiritual energy it is now. With prayer, witnessing, and sacrifice it remains possible to dream of a humane future, but only if enough of us are awakened from prolonged complacency.

We might start the awakening process by acting on the realization that we are united the world over as indigenous peoples of the earth, and what that means in how we feel, act, and hope.

25 Responses to “Linking to the Declaration of Conscience of Global Intellectuals and Meeting the Challenges of 2024”

  1. Sean Breathnach's avatar
    Sean Breathnach December 24, 2023 at 1:34 pm #

    Thank you Professor Falk, for striving to make this world a better place, through your articles and service in the United Nations, for the less fortunate in our society.

    Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

    “ So this is Christmas
    And what have you done
    Another year over
    And a new one just begun
    And so this is Christmas
    I hope you have fun
    The near and the dear one
    The old and the young

    A very Merry Christmas
    And a happy New Year
    Let’s hope it’s a good one
    Without any fear.”

  2. Jerry Alatalo's avatar
    Jerry Alatalo December 24, 2023 at 1:43 pm #

    Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectual to Stop Genocide in Gaza – signed.

  3. DAVID SINGER's avatar
    DAVID SINGER December 24, 2023 at 5:04 pm #

    Dear Professor Falk

    Still waiting for you to contact me at dsinger2000@gmail.com to discuss the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – which increases in importance as the only solution that can address the future of Gazans – by offering them the opportunity to voluntarily resettle and acquire citizenship in the newly merged entity comprising Jordan and part of the West Bank.

    The United Nations keeps the Gazans penned inside Gaza rather than removing them to safe havens outside Gaza. The 15 members of the Security Council could show some leadership by having their countries start airlifting Gazan women, children the sick and the elderly to their countries. The other 178 UN member states wringing their hands might be shamed into following.

    The Security Council’s resolution 2720 adopted on 22 December is pathetic and only serves to perpetuate the UN ‘s decision to not move Gaza’s population to safe havens outside Gaza.

    Are you aware that the same Security Council has not mentioned the words “Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution” once in the 18 months since its publication on 8 June 2022? The UN is not prepared to consider this solution to replace its own failed 2016 solution contained in Resolution 2334? Don’t you think the UN should do so now – especially after October 7 and the ongoing Israel-Gaza War?

    • Richard Falk's avatar
      Richard Falk December 25, 2023 at 8:14 am #

      I am still trying to find time for a thoughtful response. My initial view is that this plan gives legitimacy to the settler project of
      ethnic cleansing and removes agency from the Palestinians to others in Israel and Saudi Arabia that have their own regional
      agendas. It is my understanding that up until now the Palestinians are rather united in not being coercively resettled elsewhere in the region.

      • Vladimir's avatar
        Vladimir December 25, 2023 at 12:40 pm #

        {My initial view is that this plan gives legitimacy to the settler project of ethnic cleansing and removes agency from the Palestinians to others in Israel and Saudi Arabia that have their own regional agendas.}

        EXCELLENT. This person is delutional Zionist where came to this site January 2023 and gave the same criminal project where he was challeged. He so worried about the FATE of the genocidal zionist tribe that he came with the same criminal project developed by Mohammad Dahlan, a Mossad agent, offered by the zionist illiterate pimp, Trump, and support of the Zionist servant and agent, MBS. Please don’t get innovated in this TREASON. Please view the following link, that shows this zionist was here fighting for the legitimacy of a genocidal FAKE entity installed by the Evil British empire and support of the Zionist Terrorists as a FOOT STEP for the interest of the imperial WEST. They don’t belong to our region. Please consult the links to see that the Arab world HATES the zionist project, ‘the deal of the century’. How come this person comes here again and talk about the same project that Palestinian never accept and as result they have been murdered. Who wants to live with a genocidal mafia tribe?

        Is Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid Poised for Victory or Defeat?

      • Samavat's avatar
        Samavat December 25, 2023 at 5:34 pm #

        With a simple search, you will find that David Singer is a zionist LIAR. He wrote in Sept. 5, 2023 in an Op-ed:

        {King Abdullah and Abbas reject Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. The conflict and carnage will continue unabated until the UN recognizes HKOPS and resolves to attempt to implement it. Op-ed.}
        https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376471

        Then, he knew already that this project has been REJECTED by the parties involved and the Arab world. Why is he pushing for this project where again and you apparently don’t know that he is LYING when he said no one objected to this project. Memri made its own survey where reach the same conclusion with the Arab world.
        Read more by a zionist agent.
        https://www.israelnationalnews.com/author/David_Singer

        https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/370372
        more essays to sell the project by David Singer
        https://www.israelnationalnews.com/author/David_Singer

        If you had these information, then you would have not bought his lies.

      • Samavat's avatar
        Samavat December 25, 2023 at 5:53 pm #

        David Singer LIES when said, no one was against this project. According to his own Op-ED:

        Biden made his position clear on 29 December 2022:
        “And as we have throughout my Administration, the United States will continue to support the two state solution and to oppose policies that endanger its viability or contradict our mutual interests and values.”
        Xi has now joined Biden – according to Chinese state media – stating on 14 June 2023:

        “The fundamental solution to the Palestinian issue lies in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital,”
        Biden and XI have clearly rejected an alternative solution – The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) – which emanated from Saudi Arabia on 8 June 2022.

        So Biden and Xi have REJECT the Hasemite plan, but David Singer lies to you when he said, no opposition to this plan.
        https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374041

    • Vladimir's avatar
      Vladimir December 25, 2023 at 4:01 pm #

      Why are you lying?

      This criminal project has been put to test and was rejected by every single Arab, Palestinian or other Arabs in the region.
      Even Jordan King Abdullah is AGAINST your 1 cent plan that’s why Saudi Arabia tried to topple and kill him to replace him with another, a traitor and Mossad agent, his half-brother, Hamzah, where it was failed.
      Why do you insist on this criminal project? The best solution is that the zionists leave Palestine and go to where they came from, Europe (lived around the black sea) and America. The Ashnazis are neither Semite nor connected to this stolen land.
      This is a colonial Project designed during British evil empire in 1880s to have a feet step in the region, then through divide and rule to steal the human capitals and the natural resources of the region with the help of the western colonial powers where so far has been successful. You are nothing but a
      means to deliver their project killing millions of people, lately thousands of toddlers. Your superiors have given you a free hand who kills with impunity. You have proved you are nothing but assassins, terrorists, blackmailer, propagandists and thieves and your mission is to deliver the stolen land for your superiors, the Western colonial power, where must be destroyed to make you human. When you are given a kick in the ass by your superiors, then you cannot survive even an hour, to be able to suggest more bloodshed.
      How do you dare to come here, after your genocide of toddlers, putting pressure on professor Fink on this delusional plan after you pushed it in November 2023, and January of 2023 as much as I know? This plan has been already rejected even by Mossad servant, Abbas. How come you know nothing about the events in the region. Are you one of those Zionists who lives in an isolated situation in America?

      Your Mossad assassins have done the research, for your illiterate understanding on this case, and found the following:

      {{Angry Responses On Social Media And In Arab Press To Article By Saudi Journalist ‘Ali Al-Shihabi Calling To Resolve Palestinian Problem By Naturalizing Palestinians In Expanded Jordanian Kingdom That Incorporates West Bank And Gaza}}

      https://www.memri.org/reports/angry-responses-social-media-and-arab-press-article-saudi-journalist-ali-al-shihabi-calling
      Now, leave professor Fink alone. He is too shy to tell you to get lost.

  4. Irene Gendzier's avatar
    Irene Gendzier December 24, 2023 at 7:53 pm #

    What a wonderful statement and how appropriate and inspiring as this year ends and we look forward to engaging in the new year. thank you for sharing and for including me in the work of Global Justice, irene

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    • anon's avatar
      anon December 25, 2023 at 4:09 pm #

      Forgive me for the mistake I made. I meant Professor Richard Falk.

  5. Vladimir's avatar
    Vladimir December 25, 2023 at 12:24 pm #

    {Still waiting for you to contact me at dsinger2000@gmail.com to discuss the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – which increases in importance as …..}{

    Leave Professor Falk out of your FAKE project. What you are talking about was a treason where offered by the zionist pimp, Trump, with Saudis support, they called it “the deal of the century”, only TRAITORS talk about this treason. You still have not gotten it. The Palestinians flushed it down in the toilet by giving their lives. Stop you insult.

    Is Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid Poised for Victory or Defeat?

  6. Samavat's avatar
    Samavat December 25, 2023 at 5:09 pm #

    Professor Richard Falk:
    I am disappointed. David Sanger is here on behalf of a genocidal entity to force you to work for them on their behalf.
    The comment I sent is NOT proivocative but David Sanger is very provocative, coming here after number of tries to force you to work for a zionist project and you are very cooperative. David Sanger’s comments are VERY provocative and insulting. Please read the following to know that Hamas plan was an answer to Israel-saudis plan to SELL Palestinian people to receive concessions. They wanted to eliminate them from their ancestral land to force them to accept a foreign entity who are working for the Western colonial project. If this is not provocative then what is it? David sanger is a zionist agent working on behalf of this project for Israel.
    Please read the following:
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hashemite-kingdom-palestine-saudi-israel-peace-deal-hold-david-singer

    David Sanger:
    {according to US officials – the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the broad contours of a deal for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, U.S. security guarantees and civilian nuclear help.}
    All these tricks, especially by a zionist agent is to force Saudi Arabia, in exchange of selling Palestinians, to normalize relations with Israel. This is PROVOCATIVE to the core. for Palestinians as well as Muslims worldwide.

    {{But the crown prince has told aides that he isn’t ready to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel similar to those with the United Arab Emirates, which signed a deal in 2020, according to Saudi officials.
    The crown prince told his advisers that he was in no rush, especially with the current hard-line coalition government in Israel that opposes creation of an independent Palestinian state, they said.”}}
    The following is an essay by this David Sanger, a zionist agent, is trying to sell this project to NON arabs fools.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356187

    • DAVID SINGER's avatar
      DAVID SINGER December 27, 2023 at 3:40 pm #

      Samavat
      Rather than heaping personal abuse on me – why don’t you tell Professor Falk and myself what you find so objectionable in the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution? Here is the link for you to read the proposal and then raise your objections which I will be more than happy to try and answer.
      https://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2022/06/08/The-Hashemite-Kingdom-of-Palestine

      • Richard Falk's avatar
        Richard Falk December 27, 2023 at 5:26 pm #

        David Singer: I think you should have identified yourself more fully before soliciting my support for this Hashemite Kingdom solution to the Palestine/Israel. From the hard power perspective that you endorse, Israel does not want any outcome that removes the West Bank, and now at least parts of Gaza from their sovereign control. This Jordan plan has been around for a long time, and pushed by advocates of a Greater Israel scenario that definitely incorporates the West Bank in its minimal vision of a territorial solution. I continue to believe that ‘peace’ will achieved by the Palestinians, if at all, through struggle and a rising pressure on Israel as an apartheid state that is now guilty of a genocidal spectacle while the world watches and the US continues to provide diplomatic cover and material asssisstance.
        Perhaps Israel, to disguise their political defeat, will soon widen the Gaza war zone to include Lebanon and Iran with further disastrous consequences for itself and the region. I think it is time that you became a critic instead of an apologist for Israel’s crimes. Richard Falk

  7. dsinger2000's avatar
    dsinger2000 December 27, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

    Dear Professor Falk
    I tried to get you to contact me on my email address to discuss this solution privately – but had no success: https://richardfalk.org/2023/11/21/justifying-genocide-a-shameful-transparent-spectacle/

    May I respectfully answer some of your claims:

    1. You claim: “From the hard power perspective that you endorse, Israel does not want any outcome that removes the West Bank, and now at least parts of Gaza from their sovereign control”.

    This is certainly incorrect in relation to the West Bank. This solution if implemented would see sovereignty in some part of the West Bank and its Arab population living there acquiring citizenship in the newly merged territorial entity.

    It seems to me you have misread or misunderstood the Saudi solution – since it clearly states: “This proposed enlarged kingdom would include present-day Jordan, Gaza, and the West Bank (areas populated by Palestinians attached in a contiguous manner and physically connected to Jordan, i.e., not broken up into islands).”

    Implementing the Saudi solution would require Israel to forego some part of the West Bank from its sovereign control.

    2. You state: “This Jordan plan has been around for a long time, and pushed by advocates of a Greater Israel scenario that definitely incorporates the West Bank in its minimal vision of a territorial solution.”

    This Saudi plan has only been around since 8 June 2022. Contrary to what you claim – this solution requires Israel to divide sovereignty of the West Bank with the newly-merged entity. (See 1 above)

    3. You state: “I continue to believe that ‘peace’ will achieved by the Palestinians, if at all, through struggle and a rising pressure on Israel as an apartheid state that is now guilty of a genocidal spectacle while the world watches and the US continues to provide diplomatic cover and material asssisstance. (sic)”

    This is a very depressing scenario you predict – when negotiations for the implementation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution could bring positive results within possibly six months. Of course they may well fail. But should they not be attempted?

    Hasn’t there been enough Arab and Jewish blood shed in the last 100 years?

    Just in case you do not have the link to the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – here it is: https://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2022/06/08/The-Hashemite-Kingdom-of-Palestine

    Had this solution been considered by the UN at any time prior to October 7 – the horrific events of that day and the ensuing Israel-Gaza war may not have happened. It has become even more pressing to consider this solution to avoid what you fear may happen:
    “Perhaps Israel, to disguise their political defeat, will soon widen the Gaza war zone to include Lebanon and Iran with further disastrous consequences for itself and the region.”

    If you want to try and stop your prediction happening then I respectfully suggest you make contact with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and tell him the UN needs to consider this Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution to replace UNSCR 2334 (2016) and call for Israel and Jordan to negotiate to implement it. I have been urging Guterres to do so unsuccessfully for the last 18 months. My requests have never even been acknowledged. Perhaps he might listen to you.

    • dsinger2000's avatar
      dsinger2000 December 31, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

      Professor Falk

      Do you intend to reply to this comment?

      • Richard Falk's avatar
        Richard Falk January 1, 2024 at 11:13 am #

        Yes, I will as soon as possible.

  8. Kata and Daniel Fisher's avatar
    Kata and Daniel Fisher December 27, 2023 at 10:30 pm #

    Dear Professor Falk,

    Mr Garbor Mate may be able to explain this better than you can because it may not be about criticism or apologetics but therapy that everyone involved needs. Also, there is a need to preserve the Traditional and Contemporary Jewish position/view on the situation in the Holy Land. How to go forward.

    Disrupting the lives of the population in the Holy Land is unforgiving, but no one understands how this can stop or wisdom on how to better the situation in the Holy Land.

    You and David are not much different; you just never met, and you do not know that David is extraordinarily elderly.

    I think that if you and David, and a few others who are present, start brainstorming on all options and case scenarios (from the point of view) of many different disciplines — you may get an outline for content that may lead to just about a few items toward some worthwhile solutions.

    Contemporarily, the population does not understand Zionism. It has the power to spiritually excommunicate and lead entire contemporary populations/peoples into actual existence of a frozen state of rebellion of existence in hell. It is a problem – but resolving the problems of it, Zionism — will not be Zionism, at all. You do have to go all the way through it / deal with it, and/or go around it.

    Real difficulty is cult, what it is and how it acts — and not the human person who is stuck in it and with it, and/or has its mind pulled down by the cult / doctrine/s that are in satanic seals (a frozen state of existence).

    We as humans are gravely deceived not understanding what irrevocable diabolical curse is, and doctrines of it. Unless one is not exorcist-priest (real one, and not fake one) – he should not find himself in such environment, at all.

    I do hope that everyone that is here is a rational and good-willing human. But what is good-will? One may be confused about that, as well. This is actual reality now-days.

    K.F.

    • dsinger2000's avatar
      dsinger2000 December 31, 2023 at 3:40 pm #

      Professor Falk
      Do you intend to publish my reply to this comment by Kata and Daniel Fisher?

  9. Kata and Daniel Fisher's avatar
    Kata and Daniel Fisher December 27, 2023 at 11:55 pm #

    Dear Professor Falk,

    Look at this and what this is all about. There is no doubt that Israelis got themselves into deep problems (and Americans along with them are in deep problems, just as well), and neither of them can they work through them, and cannot resolve them, or dissolve them.

    Maybe, he should bring the international community to Gaza, so that rebuilding in Gaza can start taking place, and they all can start having and start creating some common humanity in good-will among themselves.

    I never heard such thing as re-educating the entire population in the region. Even if that would be legal to do such thing — just how, and what about would they be re-educating population about? How to have respect for a person and it purpose in its environment — be the human environment, or not human/inhumane environment.

    Abuse of the Ancient and Apostolic Church Order will give an observable fact how Americans and their cults and sects of their American religion have no respect for a human person just by the acts of those grave abuses of the Ancient and Apostolic Order — they are all in cults, and sects and doctrines of that. That alone is creating inhumane chaos among them, and world-wide.

    They should all start reeducating themselves and their private citizens, and their private half-citizens, about all that.

    I doubt that population of Gaza would imminently be stateless population in the world, as soon as they would leave the territory of the Holy Land. I do not know — but would that not cause for some major problems for Arabic population/people tribes of the Holy Land, and the Israelis and Americans will be responsible for all of that, which actually is also a crime/s against human continuity in Holy Land.

    K.F.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-idf-member-calls-for-change-in-israel-s-strategy/vi-AA1m80kl?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b7536b81f5204cfbbecd8cc91087f1ae&ei=20

  10. Jacob Serruya W.'s avatar
    Jacob Serruya W. December 29, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

    Unable to access the page.
    Several attempts.

  11. Vladimir's avatar
    Vladimir December 29, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

    Lowkey exposes the ties of Piers Morgan, Ben Shapiro and other commentators to the Israeli military industrial complex

    • Kata Fisher's avatar
      Kata Fisher December 30, 2023 at 9:36 am #

      And Piers uses incredible number of psychological tricks, which cause brake of/to the move of the “of the Spirit Substance” — which do not help to the flow of the humane flow of the conversations/dialogue and solving of the human problems. It would defeat the purpose.

      The humane flow of the conversations:

  12. SARI's avatar
    SARI December 31, 2023 at 10:47 am #

    Down with the Maifia tribe, death to Neocon War machine.
    The roots of Palestine genocide is in “Israel Project” shaped by the Evil British Empire and their accomplices. the Zionist tribe in 1017. Read the following:

    Why the War Party Needed To Demonize Iran

    When the 77-Years War ended in 1991, the Shiite theocracy ensconced in Tehran was an unfortunate albatross on the Persian people. But it was no threat to America’s homeland safety and security, either.

    The very idea that Tehran is an expansionist power bent on exporting terrorism to the rest of the world is a giant fiction and tissue of lies invented by the Washington War Party and its Bibi Netanyahu branch in order to win political support for their confrontationist policies.
    https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2023/11/26/reflections-on-another-truce-why-there-is-still-no-peace-on-earth/

    Indeed, the three-decades-long demonization of Iran has served one overarching purpose. Namely, it has enabled both branches of the War Party to conjure up a fearsome enemy. In turn, this threat is used to justify aggressive policies that call for a constant state of military mobilization and maintenance of a vast armada of expeditionary forces – forces which bleed that nation’s fiscal resources but do nothing at all for the security and safety of the American homeland.

    https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2023/12/28/no-peace-on-earth-blame-woodrow-wilson/

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