RE: Peace Without Partners By AMI AYALON, ORNI PETRUSCHKA and GILEAD SHER
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opinion/peace-without-partners.html?_r=1
Dear Editor,
Unilateral actions by Jews-preferred Israel has created the situation that we have today, with Palestinian men, women and children persecuted, oppressed and displaced at every turn: Israel needs to stop violating international law and the Palestinians basic human rights.
A fully secular two state solution is the best way forward. UN Resolution 194 from 1948 makes it completely clear that Palestinian refugees wishing to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest possible date.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
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RE: ‘60 Minutes’ does hatchet job on Israel: CBS piece on Christians’ plight in Middle East — in Israel? by http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/cbs-piece-on-christians-plight-in-middle-east--in-israel/2012/04/23/gIQA9NXocT_blog.html
Dear Editor,
Israel has been doing a hatchet job on Palestinians for decades now- and covering up its crimes with media campaigns and "diplomacy" designed to coerce American taxpayers and charities into funding and exasperating Israel's rampant institutionalized bigotry and ongoing violations of international law and the Palestinians basic human rights... Islamists can not help but look to Israel's current economic success and political power as a role model for how to survive and thrive.
Religion should be a personal private matter, not a state funded preference. A fully secular two state solution to once and for all end the Israel-Palestine conflict with all its many negative ramifications would go a long way towards shaping a just and lasting peace and a better role model for the entire world.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
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Dear CBS
THANK YOU for noticing the plight of the Palestinians- and for refusing to be bullied into complicit silence. I thought your April 22 2012 segment "Christians of the Holy Land... Why are they leaving?" was suburb. It was balanced and fair, and told a very true, very difficult, very tragic story quite well.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
April 22, 2012
Christians of the Holy Land
The exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians could eventually leave holy cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem without a local Christian population. Bob Simon reports.
60 Minutes Overtime: The
last Christian village in the Holy Land
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NOTES
Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest possible date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the governments or authorities responsible; instructs the Conciliation Commission to facilitate the repatriation, resettlement and economic and social rehabilitation of the refugees and the payment of compensation, and to maintain close relations with the Director of the United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees and, through him, with the appropriate organs and agencies of the United Nations.
Demolition watch: The Israeli practice of demolishing homes, basic infrastructure and sources of livelihoods continues to devastate Palestinian families and communities in East Jerusalem and the 60 per cent of the West Bank controlled by Israel, known as Area C.
"No Ordinary Place: Writers and Writing in Occupied Palestine," Rima Najjar Merriman: "Displacement, exile, and alienation from the world, but also endurance, ultimately, are at the heart of the Palestinian story. More than 600,000 Palestinian refugees were refused the right of return to their homeland by the newly established Jewish State of Israel in 1948. There are today an estimated 6 million Palestinian refugees, 1.4 million of whom live in fifty-eight recognized refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Over four hundred Palestinian villages were physically erased, and the Palestinians who did manage to stay in what is now Israel proper (about 1.5 million today) continue to be discriminated against and denied basic rights"...READ MORE
UN: Israel displaced 67 Palestinian refugees over the last week (22/04/2012)
The Arab Peace Initiative requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well...
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
Daoud Kuttab: Prisoners have the right to see parents and read books... but Israel won't let them
Palestinian Refugees (1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
"The traffic jam is a metaphor of our life stymied under Israeli occupation." ...This Week In Palestine
Thank Secretary Clinton for Standing Up for Palestinian Aid... supporting work for peace and justice in the Holy Land.
Aref Assaf: Gov. Chris Christie should not have skipped Palestine on Israel trip
My grandfather’s key By Hani Azzam
The
Kairos Palestine Document: A call to our Palestinian people and to the
Israelis
9.1 This is a call to see the face of God in each one of God’s creatures and overcome the barriers of fear or race in order to establish a constructive dialogue and not remain within the cycle of never-ending manoeuvres that aim to keep the situation as it is. Our appeal is to reach a common vision, built on equality and sharing, not on superiority, negation of the other or aggression, using the pretext of fear and security. We say that love is possible and mutual trust is possible. Thus, peace is possible and definitive reconciliation also. Thus, justice and security will be attained for all.
9.1 This is a call to see the face of God in each one of God’s creatures and overcome the barriers of fear or race in order to establish a constructive dialogue and not remain within the cycle of never-ending manoeuvres that aim to keep the situation as it is. Our appeal is to reach a common vision, built on equality and sharing, not on superiority, negation of the other or aggression, using the pretext of fear and security. We say that love is possible and mutual trust is possible. Thus, peace is possible and definitive reconciliation also. Thus, justice and security will be attained for all.
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