RE US support for Mahmoud Abbas's UN bid for Palestine could save two-state solution
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/1129/US-support-for-Mahmoud-Abbas-s-UN-bid-for-Palestine-could-save-two-state-solution-video
Dear Editor,
Congratulations to Palestine and to all the countries that affirmed Israel's existence- and the dire need for Palestinian statehood.
"Now, more than ever, it makes no sense for Israel and the West to "punish the PLO" by making it harder for the Palestinian Authority to govern in the West Bank and handing Hamas yet another unearned and undeserved victory" Hussein Ibish
Who voted is not as important as the fact that there was a vote- and because of that vote Palestine, diplomacy and peace won. Now what... Do we spin the news to foolishly empower Hamas and Islamist tyranny, or do we do what we can to help shape a fully secular two state solution to once and for all actually end the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Do we let hate mongers and cynics dominate the conversation- or do we give the children of Palestine and the children of Israel a chance to grow up free and able to help build a just and lasting peace based on full respect for international law and basic human rights.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Now, more than ever....
UN welcomes State of Palestine
Full Official Text of President Mahmoud Abbas' Speech at the UNGA
"64 years is a long time to be denied your own state. No more stalling, no more excuses. Palestinians must live in freedom and dignity – it is time for them to have the recognition they deserve." Desmond Tutu
Rally to support Abbas & the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status
PBS NEWSHOUR: How Will the Palestinian UN Move Impact Prospects for Mideast Peace?
Please VOTE YES for PALESTINE...Please step up and support secular non-violent efforts by Palestine in hopes of ending the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Palestinian Choice—And Ours
Palestinians warn: back UN statehood bid or risk boosting Hamas
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Verbicide: Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti resists the political language of stupidity and hate.
Why Americans Don't Understand Palestine
The Brotherhood’s true colors
Gaza: no lessons learned
The Golden
Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
The Arab Peace Initiative
Palestinian
Refugees(1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and
their right to live in peace free
from religious bigotry and injustice.
"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
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
".... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."
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