RE We the Palestinians by Maen Rashid Areikat & Omar Elba, Dean Obeidallah, Negin Farsad, Maysoon Zayid Fighting Islamophobia with jokes (& Religious limits on women roil Israel )Dear Editor,
A new year is in sight, beginning with a much more positive and productive start in seeing Maen Rashid Areikat's marvelous We the Palestinians as well as the brilliant comedians Omar Elba, Dean Obeidallah, Negin Farsad, Maysoon Zayid Fighting Islamophobia with jokes headlined in the Washington Post.
I hope this helpful trend continues with more and more people willing to use compassion, good humor, good intentions and intelligent tactics to challenge and disarm misinformation and negative stereotypes. Diplomacy can and should win the day, with more and more people worldwide figuring out the vital importance of curbing bigotry and actually ending the Israel/Palestine conflict for everyone's sake.
Focusing in on actively empowering peace with a fully secular two state solution in line with international law and based on full respect for The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights really is the best way forward.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
"You have two peoples with real legitimacy in this land... and both must recognize it. The zero-sum game has gone on for too long." Forsan Hussein Worldview: A linkage of faiths at YMCA in Jerusalem "Sherman claims that Palestinian refugees “are denied citizenship of the countries in which they have lived for decades.” This is often the case, but the greatest offender is Israel. The largest group of refugees includes the stateless people living under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Worse still, Israel has made all the Palestinians of the occupied territories, not just refugees, stateless by simultaneously denying them citizenship and independence..." Hussein Ibish: Sorry, but Palestinians won’t be bribed
"Late Saturday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting of Christian leaders that he is committed to reaching peace with Israel...."I hope they will come back to their senses and understand that we are seekers of peace, not seekers of war or terrorism," said Abbas, a Muslim like most Palestinians. "The mosque, church and synagogue stand side by side in this Holy Land." " The mosque, church and synagogue stand side by side in this Holy Land.
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Growing Gardens for Palestine
"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
Growing Gardens for Palestine
"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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