[Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE on Palestinian UN membership?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes.

On 8/1/11 2:53 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> Shall AWARE take a position in support of Palestine
> becoming a member of the United Nations?
>
> The Obama administration opposes this.  Also, bills recently passed
> overwhelmingly in the US House and Senate which will cut US aid
> to the Palestinians (~$550M of aid for 2011) if they try:
>    http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/15/house_leaders_to_palestine_seek_un_recognition_forget_foreign_aid
>
> AWARE is a member of the national United For Peace and Justice organization,
> (unitedforpeace.org), which is asking its members to sign a petition, asking
> the Administration to allow the Palestinians to proceed with their appeal
> to the UN.  Shall AWARE sign it too?   (why on earth not?)   See below.
>
> Followups set to peace-discuss...
>
> ----- Forwarded message from UFPJ<info at unitedforpeace.org>  -----
>
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:40:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: UFPJ<info at unitedforpeace.org>
> Subject: TIME SENSITIVE: Palestinians need your solidarity! Sign TODAY!
> To: slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>
>
>                                             [1]United for Peace&  Justice
>
>     Dear Stuart,
>
>     The US has a choice in the coming weeks -- stand with the Palestinian
>     people or stand for occupation.  Where does your organization stand?
>
>     The Palestinians are seeking membership to the United Nations as step
>     toward their right to self-determination and freedom. President Obama
>     has promised to "stand up against" this initiative. The US State
>     Department is trying furiously to restart the morally bankrupt "peace
>     process," which perpetually fails because our government acts as
>     "Israel's lawyer," in the words of former negotiator Aaron David
>     Miller.
>
>     By dangling before Palestinians the prospect of renewed, biased, and
>     interminable negotiations in exchange for dropping their UN membership
>     bid, the United States is hoping to avert the embarrassment of vetoing
>     Palestine's application in the Security Council and thereby once again
>     exposing itself as the guarantor of Israeli military occupation and
>     apartheid.
>
>     We urge all UFPJ Member to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian
>     People by signing on to the US Campaign [2]petition telling the Obama
>     Administration not to block the Palestinian efforts to gain UN
>     membership and additional statehood recognition when the UN meets this
>     fall.
>
>     Your organization will be joining with the US Campaign and other UFPJ
>     member groups such as: CODEPINK--Women for Peace, Fellowship of
>     Reconciliation, and Peace Action, and many others including the
>     American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Jews for a Just
>     Peace, American Muslims for Palestine, to name just a few.
>
>     The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in his Letter from
>     Birmingham Jail that the worst stumbling block to freedom's advance is
>     the person who "believes he can set the timetable for another"
>     person's freedom. Urge the Obama Administration not to set a
>     timetable on another's freedom by vetoing Palestine's UN membership
>     application. [3]Sign the petition TODAY!
>
>     In Struggle
>     United For peace and Justices
>       _________________________________________________________________
>
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> References
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>     1. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=A%2BpKB57DMPYBL8GkZ%2FbXceFBOKKOAmA%2B
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>     4. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2Bf5UtPst2lf%2FOA7TvXtDeFBOKKOAmA%2B
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