<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Here's a reformatted version of yours (1-page). I'll get, what, 150 copies for today?<div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><i>AWARE ~ The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ 20 July 2014</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><i></i></b></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;"><b>ISRAEL’S MURDERS IN GAZA - OBAMA’S RESPONSIBILITY, AND OURS</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px; min-height: 11px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;">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 400 Palestinians have been killed, and two Israelis.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i>“Israel invades Gaza because it can … 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. Israel, as any nation, has a right to defend itself, but it confuses offense with defense. It is on the offensive in Gaza.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“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></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“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.” [Dennis Kucinich]</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"><i></i><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“...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.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“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.” [Avi Shlaim]</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>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.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;"><b>It's time for Americans to say no to the child-killers in the U.S. and Israeli governments. Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121), by phone or online:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>President Obama - <i><<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>><br>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator Durbin - <i><<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm</a>><br>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator Kirk - <i><<a href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>><br>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Representative Davis -<i> <</i></b><a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me"><b><i>https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</i></b></a><b><i>></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;"><b><i></i></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;"><i>###</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px; min-height: 11px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 20, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:salevy@illinois.edu">salevy@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hmm. I agree with you, your original with Shlaim is better than
this with only Kucinich's comments. But I also agree with Karen
and Leigh that the original was longer than ideal - and it would
need fairly small print to fit on one side of a page, though it
could certainly be two-sided. I'll look again to see if anything
can be cut and still have the rest work well.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/20/14 9:59 AM, Carl G. Estabrook
via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:710C904D-EF1F-4D71-A199-CA5D76CE6C5C@illinois.edu" type="cite">
Here's another mashup (so to speak). I think I'm still partial to
the original Shlaim version.
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><i>AWARE ~ The
Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ 20
July 2014</i></b></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px;
min-height: 15px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;"><b>ISRAEL’S
MURDERS IN GAZA - OBAMA’S RESPONSIBILITY, AND OURS</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;
min-height: 11px;"><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;">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.)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;
min-height: 12px;"><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Israel
invades Gaza because it can. Gazans, in the face of an
invasion, have no ability to strike back, while Israel
strikes forward. 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. Israel, as any nation, has a
right to defend itself, but it confuses offense with
defense. It is on the offensive in Gaza.</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“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></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Israel
can kill, injure, and humiliate Palestinians at will, with
impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and
strengthens Hamas' hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances.
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></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“There
will be no peace, for now, as Gaza is turned into an
abattoir [a slaughterhouse], to collectively punish Gazans
for supporting Hamas. Israel, in its attempt to divide Hamas
from the Gazans, will actually multiply Hamas' strength in
Gaza and elsewhere. Israel may indeed find and kill Hamas
officials. But it is not the current individuals who make up
Hamas who constitute Israel's deep dilemma, which threatens
its long term security. It is Israel's policies which gave
rise to Hamas and which, if left unaltered, will spawn
increased resistance no matter how many members of Hamas
Israel is successful in apprehending or killing...” [Dennis
Kucinich]</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;
min-height: 12px;"><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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. </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;
min-height: 12px;"><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;"><b>It's
time for Americans to say no to the child-killers in the
U.S. and Israeli governments. </b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;"><b>Contact
the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in
Congress (202-224-3121), by phone or online:</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>President
Obama - <i><<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>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator
Durbin - <i><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm</a>><br>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator
Kirk - <i><<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>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Representative
Davis -<i> <</i></b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me"><b><i>https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</i></b></a><b><i>></i></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px;
min-height: 12px;"><br>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;"><i>###</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;
min-height: 11px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 10px;
min-height: 11px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;
min-height: 11px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;
min-height: 11px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b></div>
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<div>On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:52 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" style="font-family:
TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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>
<br><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="margin-bottom: 0.08in; 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-bottom: 0.08in; margin-right: -0.07in;">“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><font size="3"><b>Israel
invades Gaza because it can.</b></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>… 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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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 style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;">“<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 style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;">“<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.” –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Dennis Kucinich,</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b> </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Huffington Post:</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" 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">...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.” –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><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>
<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 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b><<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>
</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Senator Durbin -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b><<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b><<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>
</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Representative Davis -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b><<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:3A78D903-2648-40E9-8851-A2B042C15D7C@illinois.edu" type="cite">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>
<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>>
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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. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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
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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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