OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: celebrities Israeli intellectual and artist have come in for the creation of a Palestinian State on the basis of the 1967 line West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
The 47 signatories of the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian honor include 17 recipients.
Among them, civil rights pioneer Shulamit Aloni, the actress Hannah Marom and the Holocaust are historian Yehuda Bauer.
You plan to sign the petition where Israel on 14 May 1948 was declared Thursday in a symbolic ceremony at the building.
The petition is determined as Palestinian officials say they are increasingly the United Nations to seek recognition for a State within the limits which was before the start of the war in 1967.
"Here we are, welcome the expected announcement of an independent Palestinian State next to Israel, while according to the limits of our independence, the 1949 Armistice," the petition reads.
The truce marked the end of the first Israeli Arab war, which led to the birth of the Israeli State borders, have changed not up to the war in 1967.
The petition warns that the only way the provisions of the UN resolution, which meet pass partition a year, before Israel declared the independence and the creation of a democratic Jewish nation and a democratic Arab nation demanded is to end Israeli occupation.
"The complete end to the occupation is an essential condition for the liberation of the two peoples" reads the petition.
The Israeli Government opposes the unilateral initiative.
Separately, he said Palestinian President Wednesday he opposed peace efforts another armed uprising against Israel, even if advised in the ground to a halt this year.
Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Tunisia that he an agreement negotiated peace with Israel in September the United States supported target remains committed to.
But fall into the ground to a halt with lectures for months, he repeated his plan to seek UN endorsement of Palestinian independence in the absence of a business.
At a press conference before she said after France Abbas, that the Palestinians would unilaterally declare a State.
"We want to this which come in accordance with the Israelis, and within the United Nations," said the Palestinian leader.
Abbas said that whatever happens, violence is not possible. "I will not accept a third military uprising," he said pointing out that the last uprising armed against Israel "was devastating for us."
Around 6,000 Palestinians, together with more than 1,000 Israelis, killed in years fighting, which broke out in September 2000.
The Palestinian economy also heavily damaged the fighting.
Abbas said that he supported yet "resistance" - or demonstrations - against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. "We have the resistance," he said. "But to say that you want to keep a weapon or pistol to fight, then I'm sorry, I is not allowed, as long as I am the President."
Abbas calls for the international community, in particular Washington, under pressure from Israel start, negotiations, saying that "if Israel shows a serious willingness to negotiate, for our part we want to reach a solution."
He said that, while in Paris, he French President Nicolas Sarkozy the peace process by the "Quartet"--the EU, the United States, give the U.N.and in Russia new impetus.
Abbas headed to Paris Wednesday to advise and support of European Heads of State and Government on the possible establishment of a Palestinian State this year.
"We are friends, so that he speak frankly with us and with us can be open," said Abbas by President Nicolas Sarkozy, he is expected to meet on Thursday.
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