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How about this version? It just fits on a page at this point, in
mostly 11- and 12-point type. (It would be good to include
Shlaim's final paragraph on what the international community should
aim for, but I couldn't see what more to cut elsewhere.)<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="CENTER"><font size="4"><i><u><b>AWARE
~
The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ 20
July 2014</b></u></i></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:
14pt" size="4"><b>ISRAEL’S
MURDERS IN GAZA - OBAMA’S RESPONSIBILITY, AND OURS</b></font></p>
<p style="font-style: normal"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">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.) More than 300
Palestinians have been killed, and two Israelis.</font></p>
<p style="margin-right: -0.07in">“<font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><i><font size="3"><b>Israel
invades Gaza because it can.</b></font> … Israel has total
military
superiority, an air force which can knock and then bomb, a
navy which
can shell Gazans from miles off shore, an army which can roll
tanks
into Gaza nonstop. Gazans have no army, navy, or air force
with which
to defend. <b>Israel, as any nation, has a right to defend
itself,
but it confuses offense with defense. It is on the offensive
in Gaza.</b></i></font></p>
<p>“<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Israel, with its
overwhelming military strength, is attacking and invading Gaza
in
violation of international and U.S. law. Its construction of
settlements violates the Oslo agreement. Its Central Bank
dries up
the Gaza economy and blocks payments to Gazan civil servants.
Its
total control brings the Palestinians to utter subjection and
total
despair. </i></font>
</p>
<p>“<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Israel will go door to
door in Gaza in the hunt for Hamas, which comprises the
government of
the Palestinians and is therefore a necessary party to any
peace
talks. It is axiomatic that if you kill your partner for
peace, you
will have no partner for peace.” – </i></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">from
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Dennis Kucinich,</b></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight:
normal">
in</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b> </b></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight:
normal">Huffington
Post:</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/israel-invades-gaza_b_5598535.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/israel-invades-gaza_b_5598535.html</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"><br>
“<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">...
<font size="3"><i><b>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.</b></i></font><i>
Israel was consulted before the proposal was announced; Hamas
was
not. </i></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY">“<font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>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. 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.” – </i><span style="font-style: normal"><b>Avi
Shlaim, Oxford University</b></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"> <font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font size="3"><b><br>
Who
is responsible for the Israeli military assault on Gaza?</b></font>
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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"> <font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font size="3"><b>Without
the support - economic, military, political, and diplomatic
- that
the U.S. government provides, Israel’s crimes would not be
possible.</b></font> 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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"> <font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"> <font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>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.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="JUSTIFY"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><b><font style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">It's
time for Americans to say no to the child-killers in the
U.S. and
Israeli governments.</font><br>
<font style="font-size: 4pt" size="1"> </font><br>
Contact the President (202-456-1111) and our Congressional
representatives (202-224-3121), or on line at:<br>
</b></font><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><b>President
Obama - </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><<a
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>><br>
</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Senator
Durbin
- </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><<a
href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm</a>><br>
</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Senator
Kirk
- </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><<a
href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>><br>
</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Representative
Davis
- </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><<a
href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</a>></b></i></font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/20/14 9:42 AM, Carl G. Estabrook
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I could see substituting the first four paragraphs of Kucinich's
piece for Shlaim's [but I want to explain "abbatoir" - more
'academic' than Shlaim's vocabulary...].
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<div>But Shlaim's is better, I think, & provides answers for
the arguments we'll get on the street ("Hamas started it...."].
And I could remove the reference to Oxford.</div>
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<div>And I thought it worthwhile to quote a Jewish scholar. <br>
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<div>Please advise. --CGE</div>
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<div>On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Stuart Levy <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>
<br>
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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cite="mid:DEB6DAA9-31E5-431F-9B57-85AF9FE6ABAC@illinois.edu"
type="cite"> 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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>
wrote:</div>
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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>
><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> Even my wife says it's readable on
the printed page, tho' too long (her usual
comment - she wants concision...)<br>
><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Karen
Aram <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
> > 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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