RE LATimes Editorial Israel takes a harder line: Withholding tax revenue and planning for new housing follow the U.N. vote on the status of the Palestinians.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-e1-israeli-settlement-20121204,0,1913186.story
Dear Editor,
Israel has been making these same bad choices no matter what- with both war and with peace they have been misappropriating Palestinian resources as well as investing in Jewish housing projects and land grabbing "security walls" created to harass and impoverish the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine.
The first hard line was and remains an obstinate and myopic refusal to respect the Palestinian refugees' inalienable legal and natural right to return to original homes and lands. That hard line has helped Israel continue to usurp Palestinian land and rights on an individual level as well as a national level for more than six decades.
A fully secular two state solution firmly based on full respect for international law and basic human rights is the best way forward. It was then, and is now the only way to stop cynics and extremists and bigots on both sides from pulling the entire region into even more violence and despair.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
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Culture in the Cross Hairs
"...The
only way to honor our tragic histories is to create a future
for our children free of man-made tragedy. This means making
peace fully, completely and without reservation, between
Israel and Palestine."
Clarifying why Arab and Muslim Americans should be smart rather than stupid
Clarifying why Arab and Muslim Americans should be smart rather than stupid
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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