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Thank you, Carl!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/20/14 10:18 AM, Carl G. Estabrook
via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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Here's a reformatted version of yours (1-page). I'll get, what,
150 copies for today?
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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>
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<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;"><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>
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<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>
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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;"><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 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>
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min-height: 12px;"><br>
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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 10:08 AM, Stuart Levy <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:salevy@illinois.edu">salevy@illinois.edu</a>>
wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>
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font-size: 11px;"><i>###</i></div>
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font-size: 10px; min-height: 11px;"><br>
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font-size: 10px; min-height: 11px;"><br>
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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>
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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="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>
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class="webkit-block-placeholder">
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<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>
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<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...].
<div><br>
</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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>And I thought it worthwhile to quote a
Jewish scholar. <br>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Please advise. --CGE</div>
<div><br>
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<div><br>
<div>
<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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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>
<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>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On
7/19/14 7:47 PM, Carl G.
Estabrook via Peace-discuss
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
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>
<br>
<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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