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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mahmoud-abbass-return-to-the-un/2012/09/17/5e36a980-00ee-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_story.html
Dear Editor,
Is it really that "Mr. Abbas has mostly refused negotiations with Israel, citing as a pretext the continued construction in Israel’s West Bank settlements." OR is it that Israel continues to sabotage negotiations by aggressively usurping Palestinian land, freedom and life.
Yes negotiations with Israel are the only realistic path to Palestinian statehood. Negotiations firmly based on full respect for international law and universal basic human rights: Negotiations aimed to empower real justice and peace by creating a fully secular two state solution to once and for ALL end the Israel-Palestine conflict.... Not "negotiations" to provide religious extremists and hate mongers on both sides with even more incentives to become even more extreme thereby giving Israel even more time and excuses to persecute, oppress, impoverish and displace even more Palestinians.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
"The
Muslim extremists stoking the flames of anti-Western violent outrage
are following a well-established pattern of seizing on anything that
confirms their paranoid and chauvinistic narrative of an Islam under
constant attack by the West, and the notion that the American
government, above all, is behind this fictional assault. These
campaigns are not, of course, aimed at their ostensible Western
targets, but are entirely domestic. They are designed to increase the
domestic social and political authority of extremist Islamist movements
and undermine and attack local authorities." Hussein Ibish
Well-established
patterns
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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