From Israeli Citizens to Stevie Wonder - Please Reconsider the FIDF Concert!

As an anti-apartheid activist in the several decades ago, you championed a cause which is, in fact, our cause nowadays. As Jewish Israelis, we are privileged citizens in a country which is
ethnocratic to its core. Millions of human beings, Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank, are living under a violent, military occupation
enforced by the Israeli army (IDF). The occupation is so discriminatory
that even these Palestinians may be stopped, arrested and abused if
they board a bus from  the occupied West Bank to Tel Aviv, simply for
exercising their right to free travel -- as happened to the Palestinian Freedom Riders exactly one year ago. (Israel arrests "Freedom Riders" challenging apartheid road system  www.electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arrests-freedom-riders-challenging-apartheid-road-system/10595 ).

Israeli governments have created an apartheid and occupation state.  A great deal of Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies are enforced by its so-called “Israel Defense Forces”, the IDF. Veterans of the IDF, combat soldiers who had enlisted in the IDF in good faith,
as law-abiding citizens, have testified time and again about military
acts of torture, abuse, even murder, which they had witnessed. This
regards not just the West Bank, but also the besieged Gaza Strip, whose
inhabitants have been subjected to mass killing, indiscriminate
bombing, mass demolition of houses and  the denial of medical care, all
enforced by the IDF. We are writing this letter as the inhabitants of Gaza are still reeling from an appalling Israeli onslaught, which killed scores of children and infants.
( Initial Findings: 40 of the Palestinians killed by the Israeli military up to the night of 19 Nov. were civilians, among them 19 minors -  www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20121120_gaza_fatalities ).