RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: More than 1056 Saudi nationals belonging to all scholls of thought including religious scholars, intellectuals, clerics, journalists, artists and thinkers have handed over a letter to US consulate demanding from the United States to immediately stop aggression in Lebanon.

Text of the letter is as follows:

In the name of Allah, the compassionating, the compassionate.

Mr. George W. Bush, President of the United States of America

In the era of dialogue among civilizations when the whole world is looking for stability and world peace, it came as a shock to the people of the world to see the repeated positions of your government on the Israeli ongoing barbaric and unjustified attacks on the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

Israel keeps on targeting the unarmed civilians, women, children and the infirm through continuous, systematized and destructive campaigns intended to destroy the infrastructure in the cities, villages and secured towns of Lebanon and Palestine; the most recent was Qana the 2nd where the victims were mostly women and children. We do not know when they will end these crimes.

The positions of your country came very contradictory with your efforts to improve its image in the world when you rejected the cease-fire draft resolution of the United Nations in the first days of the aggression. Then, Secretary of State Ms. Condoleezza Rice persisted in rejecting the discussion or approval of the cease-fire in Rome Conference.

We are also shocked by your continuous justification of the everyday Israeli crimes in Lebanon and your constant attempts to give Tel Aviv an opportunity after another by the direct military and political support to complete the task that Israel has not achieved and will not be able to achieve as announced by the military analysts in Israel and the U.S.A.

Mr. Bush
Your negative positions in the United Nations and your persistence to stand against the resolution of the cease-fire make us hold you responsible for the continuous destruction and killing in Lebanon and Palestine, thus compensating Lebanon and the victims financially and morally is your responsibility. We call on you to work hard for an immediate cease-fire.

Scholars and intellectuals from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia