<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'm for AWARE supporting this... tho' there seems to be some tricky quid pro quo here --<br>the US'll support the 1967 borders if Palestinians withdraw their request to UN... and I'd hate for us well-meaning groups to do anything the would leave the Palestinians w/ what they currently have, i e nothing. What a nasty, shameful business (guess it's just business as usual...).<div> --Jenifer <br>--- On <b>Mon, 8/1/11, Stuart Levy <i><slevy@ncsa.illinois.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Stuart Levy <slevy@ncsa.illinois.edu><br>Subject: [Peace] AWARE on Palestinian UN membership?<br>To: peace@anti-war.net<br>Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 2:53 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Shall AWARE take a position in support of Palestine<br>becoming a member
of the United Nations?<br><br>The Obama administration opposes this. Also, bills recently passed<br>overwhelmingly in the US House and Senate which will cut US aid<br>to the Palestinians (~$550M of aid for 2011) if they try:<br> <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/15/house_leaders_to_palestine_seek_un_recognition_forget_foreign_aid" target="_blank">http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/15/house_leaders_to_palestine_seek_un_recognition_forget_foreign_aid</a><br><br>AWARE is a member of the national United For Peace and Justice organization,<br>(unitedforpeace.org), which is asking its members to sign a petition, asking<br>the Administration to allow the Palestinians to proceed with their appeal<br>to the UN. Shall AWARE sign it too? (why on earth not?) See below.<br><br>Followups set to peace-discuss...<br><br>----- Forwarded message from UFPJ <<a
ymailto="mailto:info@unitedforpeace.org" href="/mc/compose?to=info@unitedforpeace.org">info@unitedforpeace.org</a>> -----<br><br>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:40:42 -0400 (EDT)<br>From: UFPJ <<a ymailto="mailto:info@unitedforpeace.org" href="/mc/compose?to=info@unitedforpeace.org">info@unitedforpeace.org</a>><br>Subject: TIME SENSITIVE: Palestinians need your solidarity! Sign TODAY!<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu">slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a><br><br><br> [1]United for Peace & Justice <br><br> Dear Stuart,<br><br> The US has a choice in the coming weeks -- stand with the Palestinian<br> people or stand for occupation. Where does your organization stand?<br><br> The
Palestinians are seeking membership to the United Nations as step<br> toward their right to self-determination and freedom. President Obama<br> has promised to "stand up against" this initiative. The US State<br> Department is trying furiously to restart the morally bankrupt "peace<br> process," which perpetually fails because our government acts as<br> "Israel's lawyer," in the words of former negotiator Aaron David<br> Miller.<br><br> By dangling before Palestinians the prospect of renewed, biased, and<br> interminable negotiations in exchange for dropping their UN membership<br> bid, the United States is hoping to avert the embarrassment of vetoing<br> Palestine's application in the Security Council and thereby once again<br> exposing itself as the guarantor of
Israeli military occupation and<br> apartheid.<br><br> We urge all UFPJ Member to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian<br> People by signing on to the US Campaign [2]petition telling the Obama<br> Administration not to block the Palestinian efforts to gain UN<br> membership and additional statehood recognition when the UN meets this<br> fall.<br><br> Your organization will be joining with the US Campaign and other UFPJ<br> member groups such as: CODEPINK--Women for Peace, Fellowship of<br> Reconciliation, and Peace Action, and many others including the<br> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Jews for a Just<br> Peace, American Muslims for Palestine, to name just a few.<br><br> The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in his
Letter from<br> Birmingham Jail that the worst stumbling block to freedom's advance is<br> the person who "believes he can set the timetable for another"<br> person's freedom. Urge the Obama Administration not to set a<br> timetable on another's freedom by vetoing Palestine's UN membership<br> application. [3]Sign the petition TODAY!<br><br> In Struggle<br> United For peace and Justices<br> _________________________________________________________________<br><br> United for Peace & Justice<br><br> You are subscribed to this list as <a ymailto="mailto:slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu">slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>. You can<br>
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