RE: Seven Lean Years of Peacemaking by Daniel Levy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/seven-lean-years-of-peacemaking.html?_r=1&ref=global
Dear Editor,
Demographics are a research tool, a simple tally momentarily totaling up various groupings of people revealing the inherent diversity of every human community. Tragically, in Israel demographics have been misused and abused to fuel paranoid fantasies, creating cruel policies shaping institutionalized bigotry, injustice, home demolitions and an ongoing refugee crisis as well as religious extremism as more and more Palestinians are pushed into poverty, forced exile and despair.
Israel has not been seeking peace with Palestine- not in the last seven years, and not for many decades. What we have right now, with Israeli investors and tax payers (here and there) funding jobs, housing, positive PR and favors for Jewish citizens while impoverishing, disenfranchising, displacing, demonzing, and destroying native non-Jewish men, women and children already is the one-state "solution".
Universal rights, democracy and freedom are best served by a fully secular two state solution to once and for all end the Israel-Palestine conflict for everyone's sake, regardless of anyone's supposed race or religion.... One sovereign secular Israel living in peace alongside and with one sovereign secular Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
In a joint declaration, the conference of religious leaders stated:
“While state systems may be different, equal citizenship, the rule of
law and protection of freedoms are the basis of a strong and vibrant
civil society.” Hard
lessons in liberty for the Middle EastTariq Alhomayed says it is political buffoonery for Arabs to allow Hamas and Hezbollah to thrive while the PA is on the brink of bankruptcy.
For Palestinian Kids in Hebron, Little Joy on Back-to-School Day
Phil Primack: On a trip to the West Bank, a vision of potential for peace... how agreement on water can lead to at least a trickle of hope in a region long parched for it.
My letter to Obama: Ending the Israel-Palestine conflict
Analysts say crime rates to rise amid economic hardship
Ibish: States define themselves without demanding a recognition of their “character” from their neighbors as a condition for peaceful relations
Hanan Ashrawi: Israel's Cynical Definition of 'Refugee'
Is peace a “vital” American interest?
No Wall Against Identity Warfare
9-4-2012: Israeli vandals attack West Bank monastery
Political Realities
Israel's Ongoing Policy of Destroying Homes & Displacing Palestinians
The Truth is Stranger than Fiction in Palestine
Breaking the Silence: More than 30 former Israeli soldiers have disclosed their experiences of the treatment of Palestinian children during military operations and arrests, pointing to a pattern of abuse.
Ending the Israel-Palestine conflict: "It is the view of the United Nations that there is a responsibility not only on the parties themselves but on all member states to consider their action and their language in light of the goal,"
We Palestinian are locked in a fierce struggle for our independence....to make the matter straight and simple this is not a clash of religions...
Violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property, mosques and farmland had increased by 150% over the past year.
"If you have to modify it, it isn't really a democracy."
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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
"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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