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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/preserving-the-two-state-solution/2013/01/04/c155b58e-569c-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html
& In the Gaza Strip, children bear psychological scars of conflict with Israel http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-the-gaza-strip-children-bear-psychological-scars-of-conflict-with-israel/2013/01/03/28617be0-5365-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html
Dear Editor,
As things are I think it is obvious that the plight of Palestinians and the angst of Israelis is bound to get exponentially worse, burgeoning onto a one state war scenario much more crazy and cruel and unstoppable than what is going on in Syria right now.
Thus it is good to see an intelligent and well argued op-ed asking Obama to preserve the two-state solution and a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It is also good to see that the Washington Post has not forgotten Gaza, and the terrible suffering there.
Ziad Asali of the America Task Force on Palestine wisely points that "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."
There are clearly many different motivations and excellent reasons (on all sides) to support diplomatic efforts to stop the Israel-Palestine conflict with a fair and just negotiated settlement firmly rooted in international law and fully respecting basic human rights- for everyone's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
1) If Palestinians don't work to create their state, they will never have one
2) Peace depends on reasonable people on both sides
compromising in order to reach an agreement based on the creation of a
Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Few places in the region contain a population so traumatized, a youth so obsessed with conflict...
ATFP's Ziad Asali & Ghaith Al-Omari: Salam Fayyad's bold effort to build Palestinian institutions could soon collapse -- unless Israel and the United States spring to action.
The
Arab Peace Initiative
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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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