Friday, January 5, 2024

My letter to USA Today 1-5-2024 RE 50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

 RE 50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

I very much enjoyed reading about Anan Ameri and Dick Soble's 50 year long respectful relationship in Violet Ikonomova's  1-5-2024 article "50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict"

This long lasting friendship and dialogue between a Jewish American and a Palestinian American has been facilitated by a common language and America's current legal framework of full and equal rights for all people, regardless of supposed race or religion.

76 years ago, following the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."

60 years ago America's Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of our collective civil rights movement.

Forging peace, specifically a just and lasting peace for as many people as possible, regardless of supposed race or religion, is both a noble and a necessary goal, for everyone's sake:  Religion should be a personal, private choice, not a state funded project.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab
American Homemaker & Poet
 
 NOTES

50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict USA Today 1-5-2023

My letter to the New Yorker RE Mosab Abu Toha's A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza

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Almost all the universities in Gaza destroyed or damaged. A huge amount of students and academic staff killed.

Mosab Abu Toha · Heartbreaking to learn that Ammar Ghraiba, a young motion graphic designer and an aspiring filmmaker, got killed today. Our journalists, poets, and filmmakers are killed. But the story, the poem, and the film continue.

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