[Peace] Re: US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Immediate Gaza Truce

[Alfred Kagan]

Thanks Belden.

On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:20 am, Belden Fields wrote:

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>> From: moderator at PORTSIDE.ORG
>> Date: January 15, 2009 8:01:50 PM CST
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>> Subject: US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Immediate Gaza Truce
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>> US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Immediate Gaza Truce
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>> By Natasha Mozgavaya and Haaretz Staff
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>> January 15, 2009 by Haaretz (Israel)
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>> http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055463.html
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>> A group of rabbis and other religious leaders bought
>> advertising space in the New York Times this week to
>> call for U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to push for
>> an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
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>> The ad, placed by the Network of Spiritual Progressives
>> and claiming to represent more than 2,800 other
>> religious, cultural and community leaders, urges Obama
>> to convene an international Middle East peace
>> conference to "facilitate a lasting and just settlement
>> for all parties."
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>> Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, who
>> convened the group, said the group had to buy the
>> advertising space because the national newspapers would
>> not make room for their perspective.
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>> "They feel that AIPAC's choice is overwhelming, and
>> there's no space left for empathy or objective coverage
>> - the media, according to the group, simply ignored the
>> voice of the Jewish opposition to war in Gaza," Rabbi
>> Lerner said.
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>> Eleven prominent British Jews, including Baroness Julia
>> Neuberger, published a letter in The Observer newspaper
>> last weekend expressing their "horror" at the Gaza
>> conflict and calling on Israel to stop its military
>> campaign.
>>
>> Israel has been waging an offensive against Hamas in
>> the Gaza Strip since December 27. The operation,
>> launched in order to halt cross-border rocket fire, has
>> come under heavy criticism for the high number of
>> civilian casualties.
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Al Kagan
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