RE: Israel and the Apartheid Slanderhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/israel-and-the-apartheid-slander.html?_r=1&ref=global
Dear Editor,
Judge Goldstone objects to what he calls "Apartheid Slander"... so what exactly are we to call what Israel has been doing to the persecuted, impoverished and displaced people of historic Palestine as the largest, long running refugee crisis in the world today continues on unchecked with Israel freely demolishing Palestinian homes and usurping Palestinian land?
What exactly should we call Israel's willingness to generously subsidize Jewish "religious scholars" or Israel's extensive investments in Jews-preferred institutions, neighborhoods and policies ?
And how exactly should we refer to Israel's sovereign tendency to empower religious extremism on both sides of the conflict?
I am all for promoting peace and a more civilized dialog- I am all for stopping the hate mongering and the bigotry and the violence on every side. I am also all for a two state solution to once and for all end the Israel/Palestine conflict.... but it has to be a fully secular two state solution. Citizens should not be forced to endure religious tyranny of any type.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
America homemaker & poet
NOTES
The battle of Bet Shemesh Ultra-orthodox Haredi Jews gather at the gates of a local girls school, screaming abuse: " Since the state-funded religious-nationalist school of Orot Girls opened in new premises in September, groups of extreme Haredi men regularly gather at the gates, screaming "whore" and "slut" at the girls and their mothers."
Hamas Celebrates Prisoner Exchange: "Abbas had been riding a wave of popular support following his speech at the United Nations last month in which he called for Palestinian membership at the UN. But Ibish says the Palestinian president is the short-term loser here, and that was precisely the intention of both Hamas and the Israeli government in finally striking a deal."In Newsweek Magazine: Moshe Dayan's Widow Ruth: Zionist Dream Has Run Its Course
Weighing the Price of Resistance By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH
United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights: NGO News
Palestine's Salam Fayyad: "We have been trying to do the very best we can."
In Detroit, ambassador makes case for Palestinian nation
David Hale: Hamas could be swept out of power if the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority is able to show "tangible" results from peace negotiations
Yesterday's overwhelming vote by UNESCO to recognize Palestine as a full member was far more than a symbolic diplomatic defeat for the United States...
Don’t demolish my future! UNNWRA: Demolitions and the threat of displacement are ruining people’s lives in the West Bank.
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
Mahmoud Abbas speech at the UN - The full official text
The Arab Peace Initiative requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well...
Help Build A Golden Rule Peace for the Holy Land
Visit Palestine, it Makes a World of Difference By Julie Holm for MIFTAH
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