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...model for Arabs to follow is Peace Now, an organization founded by Israeli reserve officers in 1978. With branches in the U.S., Canada and Europe, it is the foremost Jewish peace organization. It organized massive protests throughout the 1980s and 1990s that influenced Israel??s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Even Israel??s Labor party under former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak eventually adopted many of its views. In response to the current conflict, Peace Now advocates a withdrawal from the occupied territories, a two-state solution and an end to violence...
...Jordan Times. In the article, Gaili advocates the nonviolent protest methods employed so successfully by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. “Some Palestinians have tried to show the moral supremacy of their cause by responding in-kind to Israeli terror and targeting civilians inside Israel??s borders,” Gaili writes. “Such attacks must be condemned on political, moral, religious and utilitarian grounds...
...Staff argues that Israel should have held out for a better deal, even though Israel??s own justification for surrounding Arafat’s headquarters was the presence of the terrorists inside. The Palestinians refused to turn the six men over to the Israelis, and the Israelis refused to leave them in Palestinian hands. In a stalemate in which neither side could offer a deal without seeming to concede to the other, intervention from the U.S. and Britain allowed progress to be made without either side losing face. The Staff has consistently called in the past for more...
...such an important task? And if the fact that Israel is the target of the inquiry particularly troubles the Staff, why should Israel be evaluated by a different organization than other nations? The United Nations is imperfect, as are all institutions, but creating an ad hoc commission packed with Israel??s allies would hardly allow a legitimate investigation...
Hours before Annan’s speech began, dozens of student members of Jews for Conservative Politics and the Institute of Politics protested what they called the U.N.’s “anti-Israel?? bias, holding placards that read, “Kofi: Stop forcing national suicide on Israel?? and “If Zionism equals racism, what’s the equivalent of terrorism...