[Peace-discuss] Amnesty vs. AIPAC: Senate to Consider AIPAC Resolution Endorsing War in Gaza

[Robert Naiman]

I've been working on this issue, off and on, since 1983.

And my experience has been:

1) there are too few Americans willing to speak out
2) in the set of too few Americans who are willing to speak out, there
are too many who are naysayers for any concrete action to do anything
about it.

It's not always obvious which of the two is the greater obstacle to progress.

Yesterday I sent out an alert seeking 20 people to call Rep. Johnson's
office. There are hundreds of people on this list. Five people wrote
me to say that they'd called.

I think of my Palestinian friends in the West Bank and Gaza, and I
imagine looking them in the eye and trying to explain to them that I
could only get five people to call our Congressman.

It's not a happy thought.

I am so tired of the naysaying. Sometimes I think the naysayers are a
bigger threat to the Palestinians than the liberal Zionists. At least
some of the liberal Zionists are willing to take productive action.
Some of the naysayers, not content to fail to take productive action
themselves, discourage others from doing so.


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I only have one Senator; the other one was able to enter national govt. by playing the Israel card against Paul Findlay, a lonely critic. AIPAC can do him absolutely no harm, but he doesn't know or care.
>
> DG
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> To: peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:42:39 AM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Amnesty vs. AIPAC: Senate to Consider AIPAC Resolution Endorsing War in Gaza
>
> The Senate could consider as early as today a resolution promoted by
> AIPAC intended to effectively endorse the continuation of the Israeli
> military assault in Gaza. (You can find the text of the draft
> resolution on AIPAC's web page.)
>
> In particular, the resolution does not call for an "immediate
> ceasefire," but for a "durable and sustainable ceasefire," which is
> the Bush Administration's code for continuing the war - the excuse the
> Administration has given for why the war must go on. Nor does the
> resolution call for ending the blockade on Gaza, even though the
> blockade is also an act of war.
>
> Call your Senators now. Urge them to insist that any resolution passed
> by the Senate call for an immediate ceasefire and for lifting the
> blockade on Gaza.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/amnesty-vs-aipac-senate-t_b_156256.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/8/113023/2811
>
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38786
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> Call Congress: Immediate Cease-fire, Lift the Blockade on Gaza
> http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/callgazaceasefire.html
>
> Write Bush, Obama, Congress to Support an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
> and Lift the Blockade
> http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/gazaceasefireobama.html
> http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/gazaceasefirebushcongress.html
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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

Call Congress: Immediate Cease-fire, Lift the Blockade on Gaza
http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/callgazaceasefire.html

Write Bush, Obama, Congress to Support an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
and Lift the Blockade
http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/gazaceasefireobama.html
http://justforeignpolicy.org/involved/gazaceasefirebushcongress.html