My letter to the NYTimes RE Time to Impose a Plan By YONATAN TOUVAL & Solution Without Resolution By ERAN YASHIV

A day after the ceasefire: UNRWA returns to work with Gaza traumatised and in crisis

RE Time to Impose a Plan  By YONATAN TOUVAL &  Solution Without Resolution By ERAN YASHIV

Dear Editor,

I applaud Israelis who are motivated to write heartfelt op-eds insisting on an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but I firmly object to their myopic refusal to respect the Palestinian refugees inalienable legal, moral, and natural right to return to original homes and lands. 

Saying PEACE while advocating the continued violation of basic human rights and international law, and the continued impoverishment and displacement of the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, might convince some clueless Americans to back such plans, but that exact trajectory is what has already been for more than sixty years and is the primary reason that the Israel-Palestine conflict has become so cruel- and so entrenched.

I also firmly object to Islamists and one-staters who misuse the right of return in order to wage war on Israel, and to foolishly promise their naive and gullible followers that Israel should be and will be erased. 

A fully secular two state solution to once and for all end the conflict for everyone's sake is the best way forward.  Universally refugees, regardless of religion, must always be given the choice and the chance to return- but they must not be forced to return... nor should they be forced to remain in aid dependent camps and dire poverty for generations.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES
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The Balfour Declaration of 1917

".... it being clearly understood that nothing
          shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious
          rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."

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

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 Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Empowering Peace & Palestine

The Arab Peace Initiative