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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-furious-with-abbas-for-giving-up-refugees-right-to-return-8277833.html
Dear Sir,
I firmly believe that a fully secular two state solution to once and for all end the Israel-Palestine conflict and the very real plight of the Palestinians is the best way forward... and within that framework full respect for every refugee's right to return is crucially important.
I think it is wrong to use the right of return as a weapon of war. The right of return should be- must be an instrument of peace and justice: The right to return is a very civilized and compassionate universal basic human right- and so is the right to leave. If Palestine's President Abbas said he planned to return to live in Safed, the hill town in the northern region of Galilee, where he was born in 1935, he'd be applying for Israeli citizenship rather than building a Palestinian state.
Palestine's President Abbas has the right to return and he has the right to resettle elsewhere and he has the right to think for himself and come to his own conclusions about what kind of future he wants to build, and where he wants to invest his time and talents. I think he sets a good example by investing in Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
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Maen Rashid Areikat: Israeli settlements are no ‘secondary issue’
Churches for Middle East Peace: Beginning of Harvest Season in Palestine Brings Violence
UN envoy alarmed by reports of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian farmers
ATFP's Hussein Ibish: Where Settler Terrorism Comes From
''The Life of a Palestinian''
Muslims who would restrict speech to "protect Islam" have no greater allies than Jews who would do so to "protect Israel."
King Abdullah II of Jordan: The reason behind Tehran’s nuclear programme is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of
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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
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unto you
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