RE: Palestine’s right to exist By Richard Sudanhttp://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/26/palestine%E2%80%99s-right-to-exist/
Dear Editor,
Richard Sudan is both wise and brave to refuse to be bullied into silence and complicity regarding Palestine and Israel's ongoing crimes against the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land. However I think one needs to be equally honest and equally critical of Islamists and militants who make matters worse.
Hard to do that though with so many Zionists so eager and so able to derail the conversation before any progress can be made. The Israeli blockade's tentacles really do reach everywhere.... and Palestinians are not the only ones who risk losing their jobs and livelihoods due to Israel.
This week, here in the USA Sunni Khalid, managing news editor at WYPR-FM, has been dropped by the public radio station after more than nine years on the job there for posting his opinion on a friend's face book page: "I, for one, have had enough of this pandering before the Israeli regime," he wrote. "The war-mongering toward Iran has, once again, distracted the world from Israel's brutal military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights."
A fully secular two state solution really is the best way forward. Religion should be a personal private matter, not a state subsidized project.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
"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
The Arab Peace Initiative requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well
Israeli Settlers taking over Palestinian springs: UN report "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
Israeli textbooks foster hate, says author
Israel 'turning blind eye' to West Bank settlers' attacks on Palestinians
Few Palestinian youths, or their lawyers, believe they will receive a fair trial.
Palestine’s Economy is in Trouble, But Why?
Excellent letter by Jesse Larner on the NYTimes/IHT website regarding Israel & democracy
Engaging youth: Palestine refugees in a changing Middle East
Palestinian National Authority... Equitable Development: Moving Forward Despite the Occupation
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The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Growing Gardens for Palestine
a personal blog
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Growing Gardens for Palestine
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