Tuesday, April 29, 2014

[ePalestine] TWIP: Oral History in Action (By Sam Bahour)

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This Week in Palestine

Issue No. 193, May 2014

Oral History in Action

By Sam Bahour


Oral history is much more than words on paper or voices on tape. It is a tool of resistance, an act of remembrance, and a platform to educate. As a foreign visitor to Palestine recently noted to me in a meeting, while unable to remember the exact quote or to whom it is credited: "History is meaningless if it does not inform today."




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PDF: http://www.epalestine.com/Oral-History-In-Action.pdf



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Monday, April 28, 2014

[ePalestine] Daily Beast: Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’

Daily Beast



World News

04.27.14 - By Josh Rogin

Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become 'An Apartheid State'

The secretary of state said that if Israel doesn't make peace soon, it could become 'an apartheid state,' like the old South Africa. Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison.

If there's no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming "an apartheid state," Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday.


READ FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/27/exclusive-kerry-warns-israel-could-become-an-apartheid-state.html

So, what will the US do about it? I hold my breath, NOT.
Sam

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Friday, April 18, 2014

[ePalestine] WSJ: Letters: Palestinians Don't Need Pity, but Full Human Rights








The Wall Street Journal published a pitiful op-ed and I replied with a letter to the editor. They did not chose to print mine, but I place it here, along with the two they did publish today.

Dear editor:

Norman Podhoretz's Pity the Palestinians? Count Me Out (April 9, 2014), left me astounded and dismayed. Why would any mainstream US media still print such a text? Why would Mr. Podhoretz not blush to espouse it?

He says: "I have no sympathy—none—for the Palestinians. Furthermore, I do not believe they deserve any." What educated person would think this statement relevant? Let's be reasonable: Palestinians are not seeking sympathy. We already have enough global sympathy to bottle and export it. What we are struggling and dying for, literally, is our inalienable right to freedom and independence. "The Kurds haven't got theirs" is not a serious argument against our aspirations.

That demonization of Palestinians continues apace is unsurprising, given that Israel, still waiting for Palestinians to turn into Zionists, is increasingly isolated and embattled. Living and working here as a Palestinian American businessperson since 1994 I've watched Israeli policy, time after time, disdain an equitable solution for a side-by-side peace with the people Israel uprooted in 1948 and occupies today with an army.

I, too, am an educated man. Hence I cannot accept as the eternal legacy of Jewish tradition a brutal project of slow-motion ethnic cleansing. In short, the future will prove that when Jews be Jewish their social justice credentials will kick in and not only end the Israeli military occupation, but will also allow for the end to discrimination of non-Jews in Israel, and open the doors of Israel for those Palestinians who were made homeless due to Israel's violent establishment. Then and only then, can Israelis and Palestinians truly expect to live in peace.

Sincerely,
Sam Bahour
Ramallah, Palestine

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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

[ePalestine] Haaretz: A Jewish response to Israeli checkpoints

Haaretz

A Jewish response to Israeli checkpoints

The Israeli army restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement for the sake of security. How can we strike a balance between serving one people’s freedom at the cost of another’s?

By | Apr. 8, 2014

Palestinian workers from Hebron at Tarqumiya Checkpoint

"...I met Sam Bahour last month whilst on an Encounter trip to Bethlehem, where he related his story...."

READ AT: http://bit.ly/1mVjy5D

Be Jewish,
Sam

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[ePalestine] Le Monde diplomatique: If Kerry fails, what then? (By Sam Bahour and Tony Klug)

Le Monde diplomatique

Exclusive 8 April 2014

If Kerry fails, what then?

by Sam Bahour and Tony Klug

Suppose the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, fails to cajole the Israeli and Palestinian leaders into finally ending their conflict. What would happen next?

READ AT: http://bit.ly/If-Kerry-fails

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American business consultant in Ramallah and serves as a policy adviser to Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. Tony Klug is a veteran Middle East analyst and a special advisor to the Oxford Research Group.

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