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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-palestine-romney-doesnt-know/2012/08/09/5de0bcdc-e235-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_story.html
Dear Editor,
Delighted to see "The Palestine Romney doesn’t know" by in the Washington Post, providing a revealing glimpse of Palestine's rich heritage, dignity and potential- as well as calmly explaining an utterly outrageous and cruel man made situation so that more Americans might better understand the very real plight and suffering of the Palestinians.
Politicians, religious leaders, pundits and propagandists worldwide who use the Israel-Palestine conflict to raise rage and funds only make matters worse and the conflict more entrenched by empowering various hate mongering extremists, bigots, militants, terrorists and criminals preying on both sides.
Religion should be a personal private matter, not a state funded project. Tax payers here and there should not be forced to subsidize religious 'scholars' and schemes.
Israel and Palestine as two fully sovereign secular Golden Rule nation-states living side by side in peace to once and for all end the Israel-Palestine conflict give both Israelis and Palestinians, individually and collectively, a chance to build a promising future for all their children (individually and collectively), generating good role models and positive ramifications for all their neighbors... Full respect for international law and universal basic human rights can and will help make that happen.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Karima Aboud the First Photographer in Palestine
Another Look at Palestinian Culture:"Palestinians deserve the opportunity they've been denied for so long, to build their own state and develop their culture in independence and freedom"
PBS Convenes Nat’l Dialogue on Arab Americans... & Shadid Remembered at Book Awards
International Day of Peace... Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day: September 21, annually
Dr. Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister: Inscribing Bethlehem on the World Heritage List... This Week in Palestine
Talal Siam- Palestinian Calligrapher... in This Week in Palestine
Abbas says going to UN even if it conflicts with others' interests
When Israeli bulldozers arrived to demolish her home, 14-year-old Palestine refugee Salha Hamadin called on her pet Hantush to take her somewhere far away until they finished.
Violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property, mosques and farmland had increased by 150% over the past year.
Palestinian officials point out that US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is undermining peace... "What this man [Mitt Romney] is doing here is just promoting extremism, violence and hatred"
'Separate and Unequal' is Unacceptable to Palestinians
"If you have to modify it, it isn't really a democracy."
Romney Versus the World Bank
World Bank says Palestinian economy unsustainable noting that "Israeli restrictions remain the biggest impediment to investing, creating high uncertainty and risk"
Do you support as a solution to this conflict the emergence of a fully sovereign state of Palestine on the territory occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem? Yes or no?
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The Office of
International Religious Freedom (
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/
) Given the U.S. commitment to
religious freedom, and to the international covenants that guarantee it
as the inalienable right of every human being, the United States seeks
to:
Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countries
Refugees and the Right of Return: "Palestinian refugees must be given the option to exercise their right of return (as well as receive compensation for their losses arising from their dispossession and displacement) though refugees may prefer other options such as: (i) resettlement in third countries, (ii) resettlement in a newly independent Palestine (even though they originate from that part of Palestine which became Israel) or (iii) normalization of their legal status in the host country where they currently reside. What is important is that individual refugees decide for themselves which option they prefer - a decision must not be imposed upon them."
"It is in Israel's vital interest to come to a
complete resolution
of
the conflict between it and the Palestinian people sooner rather than
later, relieving the weight of this tragic conflict from both of our
peoples' shoulders. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to the world." Maen
Rashid
Areikat: The
Time for a Palestinian State Is Now
"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 Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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