http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0113/Israel-overrides-court-removes-Palestinian-protest-settlement
Dear Editor,
World War II with all it many horrors inspired world leaders to carefully think about and endorse a carefully worded Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If newly founded Israel had used respect for basic human rights as its guidepost things would be very very different in the Middle East today, with positive ramifications for everyone- regardless of supposed race or religion.
The very real plight and suffering of the persecuted, impoverished and displaced native non-Jewish Palestinians is a crisis that has been growing worse not for merely months or years, but for decades. And yet the besieged and oppressed Palestinians persist in believing in peace and justice.... Bravo to all the valiant and noble Palestinians who dreamed up the Bab Al-Shams village, and then set about creating a real village of tents on Palestinian land in hopes of stopping Israel from investing in and building yet another Jews-only housing project.
& Bravo to the American newspapers, including the CSM, who noticed and published some news of this telling incident. Even if the tents and Palestinian flags are torn down by Israeli forces the world has a plethora of photos and stories- just as the world has a plethora of photos as well as many facts and stories about the hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel through out the years.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Israelis Evict Palestinians
"We know the [Israeli] army follow us on Twitter and Facebook, so we made out we were holding a protest somewhere else."
State of Palestine
Financial Crisis in the West Bank
Bab al-Shams Village... We, the sons and daughters of Palestine
Palestinians Set Up Tents Where Israel Plans Homes
Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes- and peace
Israel uses the crisis in Syria to try to coerce Abbas into relinquishing Palestinian refugee rights
Snow covers the Dome of the Rock in the Old City
Walls and winter rains afflict Palestinian towns
Excellent letter in the Guardian by Keith Lichman RE Israel's drift
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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 countriesPalestinian Refugees(1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
".... 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 Golden
Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
"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
Empowering
Peace & Palestine
"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."
"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."
Palestinian refugees must be given the
option to exercise their right of return (as well as receive
compensation for their losses arising from their dispossession
and displacement) though refugees may prefer other options
such as: (i) resettlement in third countries, (ii)
resettlement in a newly independent Palestine (even though
they originate from that part of Palestine which became
Israel) or (iii) normalization of their legal status in the
host country where they currently reside. What is important
is that individual refugees decide for themselves which option
they prefer – a decision must not be imposed upon them.
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