Mission Statement

December 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum

Mission Statement

The Forum’s activity is based upon the understanding that the future of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples is interdependent, and therefore requires cooperation to preserve existing ties and develop future channels of communication.

The Forum supports its members in their quests to end the occupation and encourage a just mutually agreed-upon resolution to the conflict. The Forum is convinced that only through politics and diplomacy, and not through violence and force, can a peaceful and just solution be achieved. The following parameters are paramount:

1. Full respect and implementation for international law which, through the resolutions of the United Nations, has allowed for the birth of the State of Israel and called for the establishment of the State of Palestine;
2. Respect for and implementation of the peace accords signed since 1993 which permitted the creation of the Palestinian Authority;
3. Support for the “Two States for Two Peoples” solution with the creation of an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian State based on the boundaries preceding the 1967 war – including East Jerusalem, an end to all forms of violence, and security for all*;
4. A balanced and mutually agreed-upon solution to the Palestinian Refugee problem.

The Forum urges the international community and its institutions to actively pursue, together with the Palestinian and Israeli constituencies, the above-mentioned objectives, in an effort to ensure the dignity, liberty and security of both nations.