RE: Israel’s Top Court vs. Outposts
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/opinion/israels-top-court-vs-outposts.html
Dear Editor,
In a blink, as a fully sovereign nation Israel could have and should have long ago stopped usurping Palestinian land and rights. One court decision to dismantle one small rogue settlement in the illegally occupied territories, while still heavily subsiding and guarding many others, is not exactly inspiring proof of good intentions- or justice.
March 30th marks Land Day for Palestine. In Arabic "Youm al-Ard". Thirty-six years ago, in March 1976, Israel confiscated 5,500 acres of Palestinian-owned land in the Galilee. Palestinians protested. Israel's response was fierce and six unarmed Palestinians, three men and three women, were killed by Israeli forces.... "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 Julie Holm for MIFTAH
Israel plans on barring a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for an upcoming investigation of Jewish settlements, and Israel continues to bar countless Palestinians from returning to their homes and lands- in addition to revoking residency rights, pushing more and more Palestinian men, women and children into forced exile every day. This situation is absolutely insane- and cruel... and totally uncivilized.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Commemorating Land Day by MIFTAH's Julie Holm
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"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
"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
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