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| Martin Luther King Jr |
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-areikat-israeli-palestian-talks-20130219,0,7659433.story
Dear Editor,
Delighted to see Palestine's The American diversity Rubicon is crossedThe quiet tsunami of diversification in American society and power structure might mean that what many think they know about the United States and how it works is, in fact, completely wrong. If so, not only is reconsideration necessary to avoid miscalculation, it's also required in order to follow a damn good example."
While our civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr successfully helped create a more real democracy here in America, Israel choose to go in the exact opposite direction by cruelly persecuting, oppressing and forcibly displacing countless native non-Jewish Palestinians, a nefarious practice that continues to this day.
As America has been steadfastly promoting and investing in true freedom and equality and respect for 'others', Israel has been actively promoting and investing in Jews-preferred narratives, housing and jobs and pursuing a plethora of punitive anti-Palestine policies. That truth is not an excuse or even a reason to call for erasing or destroying Israel, because ending slavery and Jim Crow laws certainly did not destroy America... That truth should simply help more people worldwide understand the crucial importance of promoting and investing in a fully secular two state solution to actually end the Israel-Palestine conflict- for everyone's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
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Beltway Foreign Policy
My Bittersweet Homecoming to Jerusalem by Mayse Jarbawi for MIFTAH
How long can this charade continue to function politically?
Israeli settlers pump sewage into ancient Palestinian village
Economist: An Arab village is asked to bow to the wishes of Israel's Jewish settlers
The American Task Force on Palestine today warmly welcomed reports that following a year of holds and delays, Congress appears to be preparing to release all outstanding US aid, totaling more than $500 million, to the Palestinian Authority.
"I have no memory of a time without struggle" Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "5 Broken Cameras"... "As the world listens, Gibreel, I want to say to you: I am from Palestine. I have lived my whole life under military occupation, and I have no memory of a time without struggle. But you, son, you will know better times. Someday, you will make new, happy memories.... And that will be the true award."
Global hotspots top agenda as UN chief meets with new US Secretary of State: "We all need to make special efforts to forge a two-State solution "
Rising From Ruins: Even as Israel neglects a major archaeological site in the West Bank, it is preventing the Palestinian Authority from tending to it.
Kerry seeks to unblock $700 million in aid for Palestinians
Pope Benedict tells Abbas that hope for Mideast solution is "a fair and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which may be reached only by resuming negotiations between the parties, in good faith and according due respect to the rights of both"
ATFP News [& Commentary] Roundup, February 11, 2013: Pres. Obama's upcoming Middle East trip stirs hopes for peace.
Amidst a brutal war, Syria’s Palestinian community finds itself seeking refuge yet again—this time, in Lebanon’s famous Sabra and Shatila camps.
Number of Palestinian refugee deaths in Syria increasing, UN agency warns
Palestinian family home demolished by Israeli forces in Jerusalem
Letter sent to my elected leaders: Peace and Palestine need to be taken seriously by American leadership now more than ever.
Palestine's Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat: Bias against Palestinians on display at congressional hearing
ATFP Hosts Washington Briefing on Israeli and Palestinian Schoolbooks
Palestine developing school curriculums that teach coexistence, tolerance, justice, and human dignity
Palestinian leadership on Wednesday welcomed US President Barack Obama’s announced plans to visit the region in March.
RAJA SHEHADEH: More Than a Land Grab ...Settlers increasingly impinging on Palestinian lives: Jewish settlers aren't just taking empty space, they're destroying Palestinian property and threatening their lives.
Israel demolishes yet anouther Palestinian home in East Jerusalem
Foriegn Policy: An interview with Palestinian negotiator-in-chief Saeb Erekat
PBS: Mariam Said on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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".... 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 countriesPalestinian Refugees(1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
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 Arab Peace Initiative
"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 Arab Peace Initiative
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.
UN Resolution 194 from 1948 : The refugees wishing to
return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours
should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,
and that compensation should be paid for the property of those
choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property
which, under principles of international law or in equity,
should be made good by the Governments or authorities
responsible.
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