Rockets Don’t Work, Only Words Bring Peace

” A Pale Green Mermaid Blog “

 

The recent rocket attack on Israel makes me wonder who is making that choice?  When there is some kind of progress in the Israeli Palestinian peace process an act of violence tends to happen, but this only brings headlines about violence, it distracts from deepening the discussions between the two parties.

Violence is a last resort, it comes when a person thinks, his WORDS are not being heard.

Words such as what Palestinian President Abbas has been using convincingly in the past weeks that have brought movement in what was a stalled process.

So let’s see… I’m thinking of a petition sent to the United Nations  that requests Israel return to the pre-1967 borders, as the United Nations resolution 242 has asked, signed by every Palestinian in Palestine!

You who are in the Middle East, know better than I, what petitions or other statements of purpose would resonate.  Imagine if one was sent, to the UN, every week  for a month!

Words have a power untold.

 

” Think Different. “

” If you only listen to the naysayers you will never succeed. “

- Steve Jobs

 

Speak your words - sit back and watch the events unfold.

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Americans For Peace Now

www.peacenow.org

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Below from www.procon.org

Does the 1967 UN Resolution require Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders?

PRO (yes)

Noam Chomsky, PhD, Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a July 27, 2000 ZNet editorial titled “‘Peace Process’ Prospects,” wrote: “To review the essentials briefly, in November 1967, under U.S. initiative, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 242 on ‘land for peace.’ As explicitly understood by the US and the other signatories, UN 242 called for a full peace settlement on the pre-June 1967 borders with at most minor and mutual adjustments, offering nothing to the Palestinians. When President Sadat of Egypt accepted the official US position in February 1971, Washington revised UN 242 to mean partial Israeli withdrawal, as the US and Israel would determine. That unilateral revision is what is now called ‘land for peace,’ a reflection of US power in the domain of doctrine and ideology.” July 27, 2000 – Noam Chomsky, PhD

CON (no)

Dore Gold, PhD, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1999), in a 2003 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs commentary titled “Defensible borders for Israel,” wrote: “According to Resolution 242, Israel was specifically required to withdraw only from ‘territories’ (and not ‘all’ the territories) to ‘secure and recognized boundaries’ that were to be different from the vulnerable earlier lines from which it had been attacked.” 2003 – Dore Gold, PhD