RE: Terrorism & Security Israeli efforts to defuse 'Land Day' tensions fail as clashes erupt at checkpoint
Dear Editor,
Sad to see that the story about Palestine's Land Day was filed under "Terrorism and Security", and that it was framed to diminish Palestine rather than to sincerely help America better understand the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the very real plight of the Palestinians: Israel refuses to respect the native non-Jewish Palestinians' basic human rights- including but not limited to every refugee's inalienable right to return to original homes and lands.
Israel's institutionalized bigotry and flagrant violations of international law sabotage peace and justice at every turn- please do not help make a bad situation worse.
"This [Israeli] occupation humiliates us, destroys our economy, causes demographic changes and deprives millions of the freedom of movement and their right to decent lives, in addition to the confiscation of land... These are the main ways Christians are persecuted in Palestine." Faysal Hijazeen
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Almost everything in the conflict that has lasted for over half a century is related to the land; Palestinians forced from their homes, unable to return, their houses demolished, fields of olive trees being destroyed by settlers, checkpoints and roadblocks keeping families apart and above all, the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Commemorating Land Day by MIFTAH's Julie Holm
"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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Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank
The
Arab Peace Initiative requests Israel to reconsider its policies and
declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well
Palestinian Refugees (1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Palestinian Refugees (1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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