April 21, 2011
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Finally a Palestinian Solution I can Love
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135539894/israel-says-palestinian-statehood-bid-would-end-talks
Finally a Palestinian solution that I can love. It seems that there is a drive to have Palestine present a proposal to the United Nations in September to be granted Statehood. In order for the UN to approve it, Palestine must shore up its infrastructure like schools, police departments, etc. So this is something I can do to constructively help. For too long I have felt that all those signatures, marches, yelling, etc was not accomplishing what needed to be accomplished. But this is positive energy rather than negative energy. Instead of tearing down Israel, we can build up Palestine. What a concept. I love it.
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I like your positive way of looking at the situation. I find the idea of borders on our pale blue dot kind of silly, we are all people with the same hopes and fears, floating in space and time. May we progress.
@an_OM_aly - Thanks. Like the song “Imagine”. “Imagine there’s no countries/It isn’t hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too/Imagine all the people/Living life in Peace”
PEACE to the Palestinian.
PEACE to the World.
@RestlessButterfly - Thank you my little butterfly. Recognize the picture?
@curiousdwk - Butterfly pic, isn’t it:
@RestlessButterfly - Do you remember that I sent it to you over a year ago?
@curiousdwk - Yes. You sent poem too… beautiful poem. Love them both.
@RestlessButterfly - You do remember. And I am not forgotten. You just made my day.
@curiousdwk - I like the poem very much. In fact I printed and laminated your poem and put it on my office table, read it when I feel down and awful.
@RestlessButterfly - Now you have not only made my day, but you have made my week. Thank you. I feel good because of you.
@curiousdwk - The feeling is mutual.
I pray that this will come through. I pray for peace and liberation for Palestine. No one should have to be chained into such slave like conditions.
I agree They need to prove they can take care of themselves first like my first nations people had to. I don’t get the violence anyway shows your not ready to live.
@Ikwa - It’s quite difficult to “prove” that you are ready to take care of yourself when your oppressor strategically ensures that you have no capability to rise and build yourself.
I hope this pulls through, God willing.
@muhminbillah - UM Ok but Violence is not an answer to opression
@Ikwa - It’s easy to say that sitting in a place where your basic rights aren’t violated. It goes both ways; Israel shouldn’t be acting with violence and neither should Palestinians. Read about Gaza 2008. Look up “Breaking the Silence” or “Rain of Fire.” You’re seeing this entire situation in a black and white picture, when in reality it’s way more complex than that.
@muhminbillah - Ok WHat ever I am a native american Indian and you say that HUH? Explain yourself? We don’t know what it is like to have a people try and supresss your very life to nonexistance?
@muhminbillah - My father had to HIDE from the government not to be stolen from his family forced into education camps where they beat children cu ttheir hair and made them into GOOD citzens. The struggles still continue on Reservations. You just don’t know BECAUSE we have no voice in the world anymore we are consisdered 4th worlders. We survive by being peaceful! We only got rights to vote in 1950! It was the 70′s before we got religious freedom DON”T tell me anything I don’t know!
@Ikwa - Ironically enough, I was actually thinking of Native Americans when I was writing my last comment. Look, I am not here to attack you. I was just simply saying that it’s not fair for you to assume that the Palestinian people have not proven that they can take care of themselves. They just haven’t been given the chance, just like your people weren’t.
And my point is violence is not the vehicle like dr Martin Luther king said! It is with resistance and resilience that you win. If Natives still bombed cities I am sure we would get meet in kind. Learn from others struggles. The African Americans were slaves and won their freedom.
@RestlessButterfly - Amen. =)
I remember watching on TV the Berlin wall being torn down. I hope that in my lifetime, I will get to see the Palestine wall be torn down. Thank you for posting this. =)
@hesacontradiction - I too hope to see that wall torn down. I have a large beautiful poster in my place to that effect.
I found it interesting to hear Obama’s speech to the Arab countries last week with all his references to human rights, dignity, civil rights, the oppressed, etc. etc. and how much could have been applied to the Palestinians, but how little of what was said actually did apply to the Palestinians. At least he emphasized that Israel needs to try for peace so maybe there will be some hope. There will be no hope until the US insists that Israel gets in line.
@curiousdwk -
I wish there was something to be said for President Obama. I have been listening to a lot of opinions lately. One man I work with from Sudan said that the Middle East is realizing that it wasn’t the US that was oppressing them, that it was their own leaders. Some hate Americans because of the way we handled the bin Laden situation, which I’ve had to tell a friend in the Philippines to let us deal with that. Now I will apologize for this next comment because some people are just not as open minded as I am, but all the people back home hate Obama, they think he stole the idea of communism and won’t vote for him again because he is Muslim and not American, even though he said his religion was Christianity and has a birth certificate, but it doesn’t matter because he supports the terrorists. Some people are very narrow minded and it has wedged conflict in our friendships because I voted for him and have Muslim friends. I get the feeling that people overseas don’t like him because he’s not doing enough for the Palestine cause, but I can see why because it seems the majority of Americans think he’s picking the Islam side over our national security and our friendship with Israel. My mother, raised very Christian, says that the world will come to an end if Israel is defeated because of the promised land to the Jews (and she’s the very liberal side).
I think we can’t even take care of our own people, what right do we have to tell other’s how to live….and my only issue with Obama is that he supports Nuclear Energy, which I’m protesting in my state due to fear of consequences in the stupidity of the human race and paranoia which could lead to weapons of mass destruction. I like the European incinerator plant idea better…and I’m recruiting others in my fight. With this many opinions out there, I can see where Obama is having a tough time. On the humanitarian side of me….no one deserves to live in conditions like these people do. It’s only teaching the children in Palestine to hate and it breaks my heart to see the children suffer. If you have any ideas in how to make this world a little better, I’m defiantly all ears! (sorry this is a long comment. I have a habit of talking too much! I also didn’t study politics in college, but I do listen to other’s opinions to get an idea of what people are really thinking.) =) This opinion in no way is meant to be offensive, especially since you don’t know me, but Zakiah recommended me to you. I love her poetry! It really shows God’s grace!
@hesacontradiction - You’re right about Zahiah’s poetry showing the grace of a god.
As for suggestion – no one suggestion. For myself I have found it helps for me not to consider myself an American but rather as a Global Citizen. So for any issue like health care, Palestine, evironmentalis, Sustainability, etc. I think the first thing to do is to look at it from the rest of the world. How do they address it? What good things have they done? What problems have they encountered? Re health care, why is the US the same as some third world countries when it comes to infant mortality? (Worse in our cities.) Why are we so low in maternal health compared to all the other industrialized countries?
As for Palestine, the best thing you and I (and our politicians, including Obama) could do would be to help Palestine in their bid for Statehood from the United Nations this Fall. We should be helping them, not hindering them in this quest. This allows Palestine to become independent without fighting Israel and even without blaming Israel or other political problems.
@curiousdwk - You know….I’ve never looked at it that way before….that’s great! I think you are right with Palestine biding for Statehood from the United Nations…that would be the only way certain people would accept them. Unfortunatly, I remember that I didn’t even know Gaza was under a blockade until the flotilla incident. It’s funny how the world is so biased in parts. As far as the healthcare in the US- I just got a call from my daughters school saying that she needed to have a doctor’s excuse from PE the rest of the year if I didn’t want her to participate. She ripped half of her toe nail off this weekend and I used to be a nurse, so we cleaned it up and taped it and there isn’t anything to do but keep cutting it down as it grows out, but I wouldn’t advise running or doing sports, so I feel extremly lucky that we have health insurance, but I couldn’t help thinking how our premiums go up because every parent has to take their child to a doctor for a stubbed toe. If you don’t have an excuse, they threaten child neglect and turn you into child protection services. Talk about hands tied.
It was great talking with you and I’m glad for your explanations. I look forward to reading more from you. =)