Friday, September 21, 2012

My letter to the Guardian RE Palestinians need a one-state solution


RE: Palestinians need a one-state solution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/20/one-state-solution-palestinians-israel

Dear Sir,

Palestinians need a solution- a solution that will actually end the Israel-Palestine conflict for everyone's sake.

The one-state solution agenda is geared to convince insiders and outsiders to sabotage support for a sovereign Palestinian state:  Both Israel and Palestine have dedicated one-state activists focused in on divesting from peace, boycotting negotiations, demonizing the 'other', perpetuating hate campaigns, exasperating religious extremism, and lambasting diplomatic efforts to free Palestine.

As Hussein Ibish of The American Task Force on Palestine wisely points out in exploring What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda: "I am not an optimist who thinks it will be easy or inevitable to end the occupation and secure peace between Israel and Palestine, and I have no illusions about the difficulties and the considerable prospects for failure. However, I also have no illusions about the alternative, which is not a single, democratic state for all the Arabs and Jews between the river and the sea, or, for that matter, a nonviolent, Gandhian campaign of civil disobedience. The practical alternative is continued conflict, violence and occupation in an increasingly religious context that intensifies the process of turning a conflict that is difficult to resolve into one that is completely impervious to any solution. Neither Palestinians nor Israelis, nor their friends in the United States and around the world, can afford to believe that the other side is going to be vanquished, capitulate or simply abandon its national agenda and interests."

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American homemaker& poet
 
NOTES
Unclench your fist- live by the Golden Rule

 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

"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

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