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I've been trying to shorten Avi Shlaim's piece, which is possible
but maybe not the best way to do it - he says very good things, but
the language is pretty academic and liable to put people off from
quick reading. <br>
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I'm trying now to make a mashup of Dennis Kucinich's piece from
HuffPo, and Avi Shlaim's description of what a cease fire should be
which I think is especially clear, and your text bringing
responsibility back to US.... will broadcast when there is something
concrete... OK?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/19/14 7:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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Give me an edited version. I haven't printed them yet.
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<div>On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Karen Aram <<a
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<div dir="ltr">I have to agree with her, when it comes to
flyers, being concise as opposed to comprehensive is
better, because most people won't read it if its too
long. It's not something they paid for, its free, thus
they are tempted to just disguard if it looks like work.<br>
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<div>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for
July 20 demo - comments welcomed<br>
> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a><br>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:33:00 -0500<br>
> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br>
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> Even my wife says it's readable on the printed
page, tho' too long (her usual comment - she wants
concision...)<br>
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> On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Karen Aram <<a
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href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> > I had to increase the size of the print to
read, but the content looks comprehensive, good.<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:49:16 -0500<br>
> > To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a><br>
> > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for
July 20 demo - comments welcomed<br>
> > From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > AWARE ~ The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of
Champaign-Urbana ~ 20 July 2014<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > ISRAEL’S MURDERS IN GAZA - OBAMA’S
RESPONSIBILITY, AND OURS<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > After two weeks of airstrikes the Israeli
army (IDF) has invaded Gaza, the 140-square mile
territory - with 1.8 million people - that it
surrounds and controls. (Hamas is the party that won a
free election in the territories occupied by Israel in
2006.)<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > “...This is the third major Israeli
offensive against Hamas and the people of Gaza in the
last six years. Refusing to accept international
legality as the basis for resolving its dispute with
the Palestinians, Israel's right-wing government is
ever ready to resort to military force.<br>
> > “With a degree of cynicism that is difficult
to comprehend and impossible to condone, Israel's
leaders describe their periodic incursions into Gaza
as ‘mowing the lawn’. Now, once again, and with
characteristic callousness, they have unleashed the
full force of the IDF against Gaza's captive
population.<br>
> > “The death toll in the current round of
hostilities is a grim reflection of the asymmetry of
power between the fourth strongest army in the world
and a virtually defenceless civilian population. In
the first ten days of aerial bombardment, the ‘score’
was 260 Palestinian dead, mostly civilians, and one
Israeli.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > “By launching a ground offensive on July 17,
Israel sharply escalated the death toll to over 300;
destroyed many more houses, hospitals, and water
plants; and displaced some 50,000 people out of their
homes. ‘Operation Protective Edge’ has thus turned the
densely populated Palestinian enclave on the eastern
shore of the Mediterranean into a living hell.<br>
> > “Both sides claim to be responding to
aggression by the other side. The stated aim of
Israel's incursion into the strip is to put an end to
the firing of rockets by Hamas militants on Israeli
civilians. Hamas, the Islamic party that rules Gaza,
claims it is engaged in legitimate resistance to
Israel's military occupation and that the rockets
fired by its military wing were a response to the
violent IDF crackdown on the West Bank following the
abduction and murder of three Israeli youths. The
chain of action and reaction is endless. But the
underlying cause of the violence is the Israeli
colonialism ... for the last seven years the entire
population of Gaza, mostly refugees from previous
Arab-Israeli wars, has been subjected to an illegal,
inhumane, and unrelenting siege...<br>
> > “What is needed now is an immediate
ceasefire. The Egyptian ceasefire proposal of July 15
met Israel's needs but utterly failed to meet the
needs of the people of Gaza. Israel was consulted
before the proposal was announced; Hamas was not.
Hamas found out about the one-sided proposal from the
media, not through diplomatic channels.<br>
> > “The proposal involved a return to the
status quo with calm for Israelis but with the people
of Gaza continuing to live under a crippling siege.
Not unreasonably, Hamas demands an end to Israeli
aggression, the easing of the blockade by Israel and
Egypt, and the release of recently rearrested
prisoners. It refuses to return to the status quo ante
because it is intolerable.<br>
> > “Beyond a ceasefire to end the current round
of fighting, the international community will need to
tackle the much tougher task of persuading Israel to
abide by the laws of war, respect UN resolutions, end
the odious occupation, and recognise the natural right
of the Palestinians to live on their land in freedom
and dignity.” [Avi Shlaim, Oxford University]<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > Who is responsible for the Israeli military
assault on Gaza? Many can be blamed for Israel’s
committing what the Nuremberg Tribunal called “the
supreme international crime - launching aggressive
war” - but the final responsibility lies with the
President of the United States.<br>
> > Without the support - economic, military,
political, and diplomatic - that the U.S. government
provides, Israel’s crimes would not be possible. But
the U.S. does not provide this support because of
undue influence from the government of Israel or the
Israel lobby. The U.S. government supports Israel -
and its oppression of Palestinians - because Israel is
America’s “stationary aircraft carrier” in the
Mideast.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > Most Americans think of U.S. war in the
Mideast as beginning after 9/11/2001, with the
American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in
fact our government has been killing people in the
Mideast since the Second World War to secure control
of what the U.S. State Department called then “the
world’s greatest material prize,” Mideast gas and oil.
The U.S. government demands not just access to Mideast
energy resources but control of them, because a
strangle-hold over world energy flows gives the U.S.
the advantage over its economic rivals in Europe and
Asia, notably Germany and China.<br>
> > President Obama fails to stop Israel’s
ongoing murders in Gaza - as he could, with a word -
because it’s been the policy of all U.S.
administrations for two generations to allow the
Israelis to continue their oppression of the
Palestinians so long as Israel supports and
participates in the crimes of its U.S. master.<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > It's time for Americans to say no to the
child-killers in the U.S. and Israeli governments.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our
representatives in Congress (202-224-3121), by phone
or online:<br>
> > President Obama - <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>><br>
> > Senator Durbin - <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm</a>><br>
> > Senator Kirk - <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>><br>
> > Representative Davis - <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</a>><br>
> > ###<br>
> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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