Dear Miftah,Good to see attention given to "Palestinian Prisoners: Stripped of Due Process " but what a shame the article veered off into an aggressive endorsement of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement. Boycott campaigners seek to convince people to focus as much attention and support as possible on the boycott campaign, and dedicated to their work they are very much immersed in it. Meanwhile, here in America, popular investment news programs broadcast this morning a glowing report with Dan Senor, co-author of the recent book "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle."
Might not hurt to wonder if perhaps the boycott campaign so far has mainly helped convince Zionists that they need to seriously promote Israel- and Israeli business.
If Miftah's media aim is only reaching out to a pro-Palestinian audience then it makes sense to use the prisoner issue as a way to try to build up more Palestinian support for the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign... but if your potential audience is all over the map, and you dare hope to convince a wider audience to care about Palestine then perhaps it would make more sense to publish op-eds that make it a priority to support a two state solution at this point in time. A relatively new book on that topic well worth exploring and seriously thinking about is What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? by ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish. Dr. Ibish adeptly and quite logically explains in some detail "Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal"
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
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