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Ben Smith's BUZZFEED....THE FIGHT FOR PALESTINE: Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish were best friends and their generation’s brightest lights.
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RE: Few Israelis, Palestinians see two-state solution as feasible. What’s the alternative? A new Zogby poll reveals widespread disillusionment with the Oslo Accords. Here’s a look at some other potential scenarios being discussed.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/Olive-Press/2014/0122/Few-Israelis-Palestinians-see-two-state-solution-as-feasible.-What-s-the-alternative
Dear Editor,
"What is the alternative to a two state solution?" is a very good question. One could toss out all the many UN Resolutions regarding Israel and Palestine and there would still be a sovereign Israel with an established infrastructure and many engaged loyal citizens with good jobs and security... and there would still be a huge ongoing Palestine refugee crisis with no security or peace for the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land.
Minus efforts to build a Palestinian state by insisting on FULL respect for international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a negotiated end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the conflict will continue to be whatever anybody wants it to be, with religious extremists and bigots on both sides gaining the most ground. Ivy tower scholars and rabble rousing one state activists might be able to earn a relatively comfortable living for themselves, but they will not be able to provide jobs or passports and a brighter future for stateless Palestinians- and continued funding for UNWRA. What is bad now, has the potential to become much much worse.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
MIFTAH: Anti- corruption youth strategy; young Palestinians put a corruption-free society as their priority "...This is their future, they say, because in the end, it is the youth that seeks a society free of corruption that will offer them the opportunity to obtain the right job and the right social status based on their own merits, not on grounds of nepotism and favoritism."
ATFP Briefing: Richard Wright, the Director of the UNRWA New York Representative Office will join Andrew Tabler from WINEP and ATFP's Hussein Ibish to discuss the dire situation of those Palestine Refugees trapped inside Yarmouk, including updates on recent interventions by UNRWA 1-22-2014
Retweeted by Miriam Awadallah
Tala Haikal Dr Zogby of AAIUSA: Myths That Are Impediments to Peace
The Elders’ vision: a world free from war and poverty
"According to your own ability and personality, do not be afraid to experiment with new and creative techniques for achieving reconciliation and social change"
Palestine for a New Beginning by Zahi Khouri
This Week in Palestine Artist of the Month: Storyteller Denise Asaad In Her Own Words
Murdering Palestinians by starvation in Syria... much crueler and more arbitrary than anything imposed on Gaza by either Israel or Egypt.
Aid Convoy Unable to Reach Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria ... 41 Palestinian refugees have died of food and medicine shortages in the camp.
An Excellent letter in the Guardian: Ariel Sharon's motto could have been 'there's no such thing as a Palestinian'
Analysis: Why Palestinian leadership is right to engage in peace talks
Ziad Asali of ATFP: Why Palestinians are puzzled by the 'Jewish state' demand... Netanyahu's demand for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state bizarrely inserts Palestinians into the 'Who is a Jew' debate
Jerusalem... the respective capitals of Israel and Palestine
Hussein Ibish: Time for honesty about dialogue with Israel
Palestine
is abundant in energy, skills, passion, and determination.
Only when our belief in citizen solutions is reignited and
our respect for one another is re-established can we
officially witness the transformation we want as a society."
Muna
Dajani
& Sami Backleh:This
Week in Palestine
Arts & Culture: Organizers Prepare Palestinian Museum For 2015 Opening... Biggest of Its Kind, Privately-Sponsored Institution Will Have Satellite Locations Around the Globe
The monster that won't die: Al-Qaeda is making yet another appalling comeback "There have always been differences within al-Qaeda, those who have either successfully seized or been granted permission to use the name as a kind of franchise, and other salafi-jihadi or "takfiri" groups. But while the parent organization based in Pakistan and Afghanistan seems to be increasingly irrelevant, the political ideology and program of mass murder that are now synonymous with al-Qaeda seem at least as robust as ever, if not more so. It is the monster that, for the past decade, simply will not die."
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you
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
The Arab Peace Initiative
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