Friday, November 30, 2012

My letter to CSM RE US support for Mahmoud Abbas's UN bid for Palestine could save two-state solution


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


"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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