[Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for July 20 demo - comments welcomed

Sun Jul 20 10:08:51 EDT 2014

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.

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?

On 7/19/14 7:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Give me an edited version. I haven't printed them yet.
>
> On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for July 20 demo - 
>> comments welcomed
>> > From:galliher at illinois.edu <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>
>> > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:33:00 -0500
>> > To:karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>
>> >
>> > Even my wife says it's readable on the printed page, tho' too long 
>> (her usual comment - she wants concision...)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com 
>> <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I had to increase the size of the print to read, but the content 
>> looks comprehensive, good.
>> > >
>> > > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:49:16 -0500
>> > > To:peace-discuss at anti-war.net <mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>> > > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for July 20 demo - comments 
>> welcomed
>> > > From:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net 
>> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> > >
>> > > AWARE ~ The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ 20 
>> July 2014
>> > >
>> > > ISRAEL’S MURDERS IN GAZA - OBAMA’S RESPONSIBILITY, AND OURS
>> > >
>> > > 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.)
>> > >
>> > > “...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.
>> > > “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.
>> > > “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.
>> > > “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.
>> > > “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...
>> > > “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.
>> > > “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.
>> > > “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]
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> > > 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.
>> > > 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.
>> > > 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.
>> > >
>> > > 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:
>> > > President Obama - 
>> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments>
>> > > Senator Durbin - <http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm>
>> > > Senator Kirk - <http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation>
>> > > Representative Davis - 
>> <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me>
>> > > ###
>> > >
>> >
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