My letter to the New York Times RE Trapped by Gaza Blockade, Locked in Despair

Palestinian Refugees in 1949

RE: Trapped by Gaza Blockade, Locked in Despair
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/middleeast/14gaza.html?ref=world

Dear Editor,

In my opinion, with the information age connecting and empowering people everywhere, Palestinians actually had a chance to convince the world that Israel has no right to be... BUT that chance has now passed, and is gone for good thanks to Islamists.

As things stand today, The Arab Peace Initiative, endorsing a two state solution based on respecting international law and basic human rights, offers the only real escape from escalating religious tyranny and terror as The Arab Peace Initiative firmly pushes all sides towards sensible secular solutions to end the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

The Arab Peace Initiative

Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a military solution to the conflict will not achieve peace or provide security for the parties, the council:

1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well.

2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:

I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4, 1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon.

II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194.

III- The acceptance of the establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

3. Consequently, the Arab countries affirm the following:

I- Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and enter into a peace agreement with Israel, and provide security for all the states of the region.

II- Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of this comprehensive peace.

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Refugees, Borders & Jerusalem...