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

Sun Jul 20 11:18:33 EDT 2014

Here's a reformatted version of yours (1-page). I'll get, what, 150 copies for today?

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.) More than 400 Palestinians have been killed, and two Israelis.

	“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.
	“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.
	“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]

	“...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.
	“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]

	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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On Jul 20, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Stuart Levy <salevy at illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> On 7/20/14 9:59 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> Here's another mashup (so to speak). I think I'm still partial to the original Shlaim version.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>>  “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.
>>  “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.
>>  “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.
>>  “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]
>> 
>>  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>
>> 
>> ###
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.)
>>> 
>>> 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.) More than 300 Palestinians have been killed, and two Israelis.
>>> “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.
>>> “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.
>>> “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.” – from Dennis Kucinich, in Huffington Post:     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/israel-invades-gaza_b_5598535.html
>>> 
>>> “... 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.
>>> “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, 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 Congressional representatives (202-224-3121), or on line at:
>>> 
>>> 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>
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On 7/20/14 9:42 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>>>> 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...]. 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> And I thought it worthwhile to quote a Jewish scholar. 
>>>> 
>>>> Please advise. --CGE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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> 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
>>>>>>> > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:33:00 -0500
>>>>>>> > To: 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> 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
>>>>>>> > > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for July 20 demo - comments welcomed
>>>>>>> > > From: 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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