Palestine

Citizen Paul talks to Netanyahu
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The Final Solution for Israel and Palestine can only happen with your help — but you will bring never-ending shame and sorrow to all of the Jewish people throughout the World if you do not act on this plan to demonstrate that Israel is and can act in a Human way toward other human beings.

As the year 2010 begins, one year into the Obama presidency, prospects for a just and sustaining resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians seem more hopeless than ever. This is the harsh reality we all face! But for the Palestinians in the West Bank and especially Gaza, this hopelessness is a slow-motion death sentence – the death of a better future!

When Obama was elected, moderate Israelis and all Palestinians in the occupied territories dared to envision the resumption of serious negotiations leading to a lasting peace, and the most audacious thought imaginable — the establishment of a Palestinian homeland. Obama represented a fresh and vigorous new beginning – a new American president who would champion the Palestinian Cause as a moral imperative.

Obama represented the end of our duplicity and the beginning of our national redemption! His election represented a new beginning for Israel as well!

Obama is discovering that the generation of Israeli leaders now in power – including you, Mr. Netanyahu – lack the spiritual courage to right this historical wrong – to negotiate and conclude an honorable peace settlement with your Semitic Palestinian brothers and sisters, who are Semitic just as you are, Mr. Netanyahu. You lack the moral imagination to step out from behind your insular shield of victimhood and to see clearly and appreciate the legitimate anguish of your perceived enemies, the Palestinian people. You have sacrificed your collective humanity on the altar of entitlement. You have become inhuman and have become a disgrace to noble American Jews like Anna Baltzer who we feature in our book, and to all Americans for whom I speak.

Mr. Netanyahu, this has been your duplicitous history – your government’s history – right up to the present. You offer vague assurances and desires for peace that ring hollow, then crush any hope for optimism by demonstrating just the opposite. Recently you announced that 700 more apartment units would be constructed in east Jerusalem, in the three Jewish enclaves that have been relentlessly strangling the Arab neighborhoods for years.

The Palestinians, as you well know, claim east Jerusalem as their own, and want it for the future capital of an independent Palestine. Israel annexed the entire city following the 1967 bogus war which you started by bombing the Egyptian and Jordanian air forces on the ground when “negotiations” were still going on, in violation of international law — while a woman Mossad agent kept President Lyndon Johnson busy in her own White House bedroom while your secret prewar bombing surprise attack took place. Your successive governments have been developing, stealing and encroaching into Palestinian communities ever since.

This gross disrespect, and the criminal seizure of the property of your fellow Semitic Arab citizens of Jerusalem, represents the perfect metaphor for Israeli aggression throughout the West Bank. It is emblematic of your blind sense of entitlement, and complete void of honor and humanity, Mr. Netanyahu. It represents who you have been, who you are and what you stand for!

But it doesn’t have to be this way in the future, and it doesn’t have to represent your history in Israeli politics. There is another way, and there is another path for you to take as Prime Minister – a path that can bring redemption to your legacy.

With profound hopelessness comes the opportunity for greatness – for you and the state of Israel! You can break all of us out of this cycle of despair and failure. You can provide the Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem and the West Bank with a future. You can save Israel from itself!

The subjugation and domination of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip have always been predicated on the tragically false notion that the security of Israel required it, and that your historic “religion” falsely allowed you to desecrate your humanity … by killing the native population of Palestinians whose land it really belonged to! If you should somehow succeed in this vile inhumane effort, you and Israel and yes – Jews worldwide will be damned forever more. This has been based on the inhumane and irrational notion that the Palestinian people are the natural and inevitable enemies (and inferiors) of Israel — and that you are entitled to forcibly remove them from the West Bank — and destroy them in Gaza because of your “Religion.”

What Religion would approve of that?

This fallacy – this endless tragedy – has corrupted the moral foundation of Jews and Israel worldwide for far too long. It is time for Israel to radically change course. It is time to remove this poison from your society once and for all. It is time for the Palestinians to be accorded the respect and dignity they have so long deserved. It is time for Israel to begin the road to redemption by doing all that is necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state!

You must belatedly accept that all human beings have Equal Rights!”*

As the Prime Minister of Israel, you alone are capable of moving this process forward. We understand that you would come under criticism starting with political fire from your base, the settlement community and the right wing of the Likud (formerly Irgun) Party that put you back into office. You might very well not survive politically, as fragile as your coalition is. A sincere peace and reconciliation effort on your part might quickly collapse and die under an onslaught from the opposition – from your very allies.

But such an effort is the one true hope if the security of Israel is to be achieved — if Israel is to have any respect throughout the world.

Mr. Netanyahu, you can immediately begin this process by removing the inhumane barriers and strangling restrictions that make Gaza a living hell for its impoverished residents. This deplorable situation is reminiscent of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, where Jews were surrounded, terrified and starved by the Nazis.

Gaza represents a grotesque contradiction to the principles that Israel and America stand for in so many other ways. The Gaza Blockade – this horrible blight on Israel’s soul – must end now, and it is within your power, Mr. Netanyahu, to do it!

End this travesty and allow humanitarian and reconstruction aid to pour into that beleaguered area. Your redemption can begin with this single act of political courage – and we will stand with you against the outcry that would surely come from within your own radical party personified by Avigdor Lieberman, your own Foreign Minister — imported from Soviet Moldova! The international community of free nations will stand by you and work with you as well.

Great leaders make courageous decisions that often go against the grain – decisions that shape a better future. You can be such a leader Mr. Prime Minister.

The ultimate security for Israel lies in your resolution of the Palestinian Question.

The renewal and elevation of Israel’s moral standing lies in that resolution as well.

Thank you for heeding what I am saying. I speak for all knowledgeable and responsible American Citizens of all Religions and Ethnicity.

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* Please read our copy of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. This is what we all believe!

Sincerely,

Citizen Paul, President and Founder
Goals for Americans Foundation

AAPAC – All American Political Action Committee^®

WWPAC – Worldwide Political Action Committee^™

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THE NEVER BEFORE CAMPAIGN

We received this video from The Never Before Campaign based in Beirut, Lebanon. Through its videos, it presents an authentic picture of the horrific conditions that Palestinians must endure under Israeli occupation. Its goal is to reach people all over the world who will speak up and take action to bring peace and justice to the Palestinian people.

Watch their movie GAZA LIVES ON below.

See this dynamic series of movies from Beirut Lebanon from The Never Before Campaign.

Gaza Lives On Christmas in the Holy Land – 2009 Israeli Confessions An Idea Whose Time Has Come I Resist

What it’s all about Shameless and Deluded Make the Lie Big I Take Justice into My Own Hands Like Never Before Today I Stand Up

Letter to Congress Members Who Voted to Oppose the UN Report on Gaza

November 13, 2009

Dear Congressman Who Voted to Oppose UN Report on Human Rights Abuse in Gaza:

The House’s vote to oppose unequivocally the Goldstone Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (H.Res. 867) on November 3, 2009, was a travesty.

To vote to call on the President and Secretary of State to oppose any endorsement or further consideration of a report on human rights abuse without even reading the report summary was stupid.  To assume that Israel must be right in every situation without considering the facts is unfair to Gaza, Israel, the United States, and humanity as a whole.  Israel has grown up to be a big bully in the Middle East.  It does not warrant or need America’s unconditional support.  If the United States lets Israel get away with murder another time without any regard for the victims, we will be announcing to the world that America does not care about human rights or humanity.  How shameful!

We at Goals for Americans Foundation are thankful that the resolution is nonbinding, but we are aware that the message the House sent to the rest of the world makes the United States look as bad as Israel.  Please study the report you were so quick to dismiss.  The only fair and intelligent thing to do is to invite Justice Richard Goldstone to the House of Representatives for hearings.  He is a proud, honest, Orthodox Jewish South African.  This should make his report more credible for you.  The report is quite fair.  It criticizes Hamas and other small armed Palestinian militias as well as Israel, but finds that Israel is guilty of more human rights abuse.

Please do the right thing.  Read the report executive summary, criticize what you find wrong with it, but don’t blindly condemn the whole thing.  The American reputation for fairness and belief in and support for human rights is at stake here.  Do you really want to sacrifice that just to support Israel unconditionally?  As one of your own, Congressman Brian Baird (who went to Gaza and Israel right after the war), wrote:

“At the end of the day, this is also about our own domestic security.  If we are seen internationally as condoning violations of human rights and international law, if our money and our weaponry play a leading role in those violations, and if we reflexively obstruct the findings of someone with the credentials, history, and integrity of Justice Goldstone, it can only diminish our international standing and our own security.”

We agree with Congressman Baird and are ashamed that your vote indicates that you don’t!

Sincerely,

President
Goals for Americans Foundation

Click here to view some of this report!

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Thank You Jon Stewart for Hosting a Balanced Discussion on Israel & Palestine

On Thursday, October 29, Jon Stewart hosted two leading peace activists, Jewish American author Anna Baltzer, and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, former Information Minister of Palestinian Unity Government and candidate for Presidency of the Palestine National Authority who finished second to Mahmoud Abbas in the 2005 election. A heckler in the audience tried to derail the discussion but both guests and host showed strength and dignity in bringing their message to light.

Below is a letter written by Anna Baltzer who enlists our help to defy those who want to silence the discussion.  Also see complete extended interview.

Last night Dr. Barghouti and I were on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about Palestine.

The show was overwhelmed with angry emails and phone calls prior to the appearance, and up until the last minute it seemed like they might cancel. During the taping the show had its only heckler in 11 years. The entire staff were very nervous and may come to regret the monumental decision (and not make it again) as they will surely be inundated now that the show has aired.

That is why it is CRUCIAL that the show receive letters of support from anyone who appreciated the interview.

PLEASE take a moment to give a quick thank you to the Daily Show. I’m sure they will likely be affected by numbers rather than length, so it’s OK to make it short, but spread the word to others! Be sure to put “Thank you” in the subject, and maybe Dr. Barghouti & my names. Fill out the form here:  http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml (make sure to choose The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as your topic).

I believe the interview wouldn’t have happened 3 years ago. Times are changing. Keep on keepin’ on…

Anna

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This terrible situation occurred at Baghdad’s major university!!

Here’s the news article:

Iraqi Campus Is Under Gang’s Sway

This article appeared in the October 20, 2009 edition of the New York Times
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and RIYADH MOHAMMED

BAGHDAD — Mustansiriya University, one of Iraq’s most prestigious universities, was temporarily closed this month by the prime minister in an effort to rid it of a shadowy student gang accused of murdering, torturing and raping fellow students, and killing professors and administrators.

The decision to close the 24,000-student university in northeast Baghdad was made last week after members of the group, the Students League, beat and pistol-whipped Abdullah al-Bayati, 63, an education professor, on campus. The professor and his wife, who also teaches there, have been publicly critical of the group.

To offer incontrovertible evidence to skeptics about the dangers of teaching at Mustansiriya University, Professor Bayati decided to make a point: He went to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s office wearing his bloodied clothes and with untreated gashes on his face and head.

The next day, the prime minister, once a student at Mustansiriya, ordered the university closed one week.

During Iraq’s war, universities like Mustansiriya have not been spared. Since 2007, bombings at the institution have killed or maimed more than 335 students and staff members. Dozens of students and professors have been killed, and a 12-foot-high blast wall has been built around Mustansiriya.

Although Baghdad and most other areas of the country are now generally free of the armed militias that caused much of the violence during Iraq’s sectarian warfare, Mustansiriya seems a remnant of that chaos. It is under the sway of an armed group of violent Shiite students in engineering, literature, law and other disciplines; faculty members; and campus security guards.

Abed Thiab al-Ajili, Iraq’s minister of higher education, and administrators and professors at the university said in interviews that it was commonly believed that violence continued there because of ties between some of the officials in Mr. Maliki’s Shiite party, Dawa, and the Students League through university administrators who shielded the group from prosecution.

“Political parties are causing some of the problems,” said Dr. Ajili, who added that the prime minister had personally interfered with the internal politics of the university in the past. “I’m facing a difficult task dealing with these problems with the parties, but I am fighting.”

Ali al-Mousawi, an adviser to Mr. Maliki, denied any ties between the prime minister, who leads the Dawa Party, and the Students League. He said that before Dr. Bayati arrived bloodied last week, there had been insufficient cause to disband the Students League.

“There were suspicions about many student groups, but there was no proof until the case of Dr. Bayati,” he said. “It was a confirmed incident with evidence, so the prime minister made the decision.”

But professors and administrators at the school solemnly give the names of colleagues and students who were threatened by the group before being found dead: Jasim al-Fahaidawi, a professor of Arabic literature, shot dead at the university’s entrance in 2005; Najeb al-Salihi, a psychology professor, kidnapped in 2006 near the campus and found in the morgue three weeks later, shot to death; and Jasim Fiadh al-Shammari, a psychology professor fatally shot near the university, also in 2006.

The Students League, they said, controls campus activities and security, as well as aspects of grading, admissions and even which courses professors teach.

“They have spread an atmosphere of terror at the university,” said one professor, who, like most of the current and former administrators, professors, students and education officials who were interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

The Students League has also asserted control by sharing money with some school administrators through bid-rigging of campus contracts and various other illegal means, said a university administrator whom the group had threatened to kill.

Most of the Shiite-led political parties now dominant in Iraq, including the Dawa Party, once had armed militias. Most of the armed groups have now been formally disbanded.

Mr. Maliki has won a reputation for confronting militias, for example, when he ordered government forces in 2008 to take on the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Sadrists, a Shiite group allied with him at the time.

But the prime minister waited to intercede at Mustansiriya University until Oct. 14, the day after he was met at his office by the bloodied Professor Bayati.

Ali al-Dabbagh, Mr. Maliki’s spokesman, said in a statement last week that the college was closed “due to the riotous activity of some gangs and undisciplined people in the university.” The Students League was not mentioned.

The directive included an order to suspend political activity there and to ban all student groups.

A second government statement announced that Baghdad Operations Command, a military entity that reports directly to the prime minister’s office, would begin providing campus security in concert with the university’s security staff, though it intended to stay outside the campus gates.

Before its temporary closing, the university had deteriorated into disorder. Two men claimed to be chancellor: one appointed by the minister of higher education, a second by the deans of Mustansiriya’s colleges. The men had offices in different buildings.

And the Students League acted with near impunity, according to people on campus. In a video shot with a cellphone, league members are shown marching through campus wearing black masks and waving bright yellow flags. Students they believed to be Sunni or Kurdish were harassed and sometimes never seen again, according to current and former students. They are widely feared, even by Shiite students.

A few weeks before Professor Bayati was beaten, his wife, Sana’a al-Tamimi, 58, who teaches educational psychology, publicly denounced the Students League, saying it had come to control the university through violence. She also spoke about the murders and assaults of professors, saying the group had committed “acts of terror.”

Afterward, she said, Students League members came to her campus office and threatened to kill her. They left only after several male professors intervened and pushed a large refrigerator in front of her office door.

Professor Tamimi said that in 2008, shortly after she was named an assistant dean, Students League members came to her office, threatened her and told her to quit. She resigned after just 20 days.

A school administrator said that when a new university chancellor was named this year, the Students League arrived at his office with knives and told him to step down. The chancellor quit a few weeks later, said the administrator, who said he had witnessed the confrontation.

The same administrator, who has received a death threat from the Students League, said the group killed a fellow professor two years ago because he had refused to give in to their demands.

“He was killed at the front gates of the university,” the administrator said.

Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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The Chaotic History of the Middle East

After you watch the following animation, you will see that Iraq never was a country until it was cobbled together by Europeans (as were the other Middle Eastern countries) in 1920 after World War I. The history of the Middle East includes conquest after conquest as different dictatorships took over the rule of Middle Eastern countries. Just to name a few, the conquering Empires include the Kingdom of Egypt in 3000 BC, the Persian Empire in 336 BC, the Roman Empire in 565 AD, the Crusades in 1187 AD, the Mongolian Empire in 1700 AD, the Ottoman Empire in 1912, and the European Colonialism that made the geographical mistakes in 1920. Now, in 2009, the United States and its allies are in their 6th year of war to force a multi-faceted set of Middle Eastern cultures into one country with Western ideals. It is as absurd as if some Middle Eastern government came over to North America and demanded that Canada, Mexico, and the United States become one big country just to simplify the drawing of maps.

We wish to thank Maps of War for their wonderful animation on the constantly changing empires of the Middle East.

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SAVING ISRAEL FROM ITSELF:
Revelations from My Trip to the Middle East

An Introduction by Citizen Paul

Welcome to Goals for Americans – Dedicated to new ideas and real accomplishments!

In this case, we show how to SAVE ISRAEL from ITSELF!

Come and meet some great Israeli Veterans – Dedicated to helping the PALESTINIANS!

…and get the true story of what is happening in the heart of the Middle East.

Please read my complete report published on this website.
You’ll be amazed at what is revealed.

PALESTINE AT THE U.N. TODAY

By Citizen Paul

Oct. 23, 2008 — Today at the United Nations in New York, Professor Richard Falk, the newly appointed Special Rapporteur on Israeli Actions in the Palestinian Territories, presents his first report to the U.N. General Assembly Third Committee.

Overall Falk’s conclusions mirror my own. Click here to read Falk’s complete report; and pay special attention to his “Recommendations” on the last page.

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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! The Single Most Important Hour About the Middle East Imbroglio

Americans are demanding answers to this question from Washington policy-makers about the endangered economy.

The same demand should be made from the same policy-makers about what has happened in the critical Middle East region.

Robert Fisk is in fact asking this question and answering it.

View video and read more…

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THE IRON WALL DOCUMENTARY
Learn the Ramifications of Israel’s Divisive Wall

THE IRON WALL documentary vividly exposes the real policies of Israel. Despite the misleading and deceptive rhetoric, the real Israeli goal is to make an independent Palestinian State impossible and to dominate the Middle East region by force.

Watch video here by special GFA arrangement with Producers. CLICK ARROW BELOW TO WATCH:

Read about the film and/or order DVD here.

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Welcome to PalestinianVictory. We are with you all the way.

We will help you find a total comfortable solution so that you can live in peace and harmony.

Citizen Paul just recently returned from Israel and Palestine, plus 3 other countries in the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon and Syria).

Citizen Paul and all the people in his foundation our putting together a complete and wonderful final solution to the nagging and much-delayed 2-STATE Solution.

First, come with us as we travel through the most important cities in Palestine and Israel. Now… Take a look at the cover of our new publication: A Goal for Americans, Saving Israel and a plan to save Palestine as well.

Stay with us, we will share the contents of this publication as each page is completed.