Thursday, May 19, 2011

My Letters 5-19-2011 RE The Middle East mess...etc.

Love & Peace
Calligraphy by Fayeq Oweis

LATimes Editorial: The Middle East mess, Though recent events don't bode well for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, we can't give up.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-mideast-20110519,0,1528080.story

Dear Editor,

Past events are what don't bode well for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: Specifically sovereign Israel's bigoted refusal to respect the basic human rights of the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine... Palestinians protesting this past week are not simply protesting Israel's founding- they are protesting the cruel injustice of the ongoing Nakba as Zionists continue to usurp Palestinian land, rights, freedom and peace.

Strong leadership and a willingness to take chances would indeed help create a just and lasting peace- start by refusing to be bullied into endorsing institutionalized bigotry. Fact is a fully secular two state solution based on FULL respect for international law and universal basic human rights would go a long way towards ending the religious extremism and suffering created by the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE Mahmoud Abbas’s formula for war By Jackson Diehl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mahmoud-abbass-formula-for-war/2011/05/18/AFsdUl6G_story.html

Dear Editor,

Dismantling Jim Crow did not destroy America- respecting universal basic human rights, including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return to original homes and lands will not destroy Israel: A fully secular two state solution to once and for all end the Israel/Palestine conflict really is the best way forward- for everyone's sake.

PLO Mission: Refugees and the Right of Return
Palestinian refugees must be given the option to exercise their right of return (as well as receive compensation for their losses arising from their dispossession and displacement) though refugees may prefer other options such as: (i) resettlement in third countries, (ii) resettlement in a newly independent Palestine (even though they originate from that part of Palestine which became Israel) or (iii) normalization of their legal status in the host country where they currently reside. What is important is that individual refugees decide for themselves which option they prefer – a decision must not be imposed upon them. http://www.plomission.us/index.php?page=core-issues-3

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American homemaker & poet


"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt

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