{"id":3806,"date":"2015-11-09T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:56:09","slug":"epalestine-act-now-support-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/11\/epalestine-act-now-support-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT NOW &#8211; Support Palestinians&#8217; economic steadfastness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/a4vpe-logo-LIVE-740243-1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/a4vpe-logo-LIVE-740243-1.png\" class=\"wp-image-3807\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>\u200b<br \/>\n\u200bACT NOW &#8211; Support Palestinians&#8217; economic steadfastness<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While   President Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu  at   the White House today, there is no need to hold your breath for results,   rather, there is a need to act. One way to make your actions heard is   to support Palestinians&#8217; economic steadfastness by helping us link   Palestinian businesses to American businesses by <a href=\"https:\/\/avpe.networkforgood.com\/projects\/4238-sow-seeds-of-hope-and-create-economic-activity-by-funding-links-between-americans-and-palestinians-2015-june-avpe-social-fundraising-campaign\">making a U.S. tax-deductible donation<\/a> and   sending this request to your friends. We all have a role to play to end   this occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short (less than 4 min) video   that was made last week when the AVPE Board met in Ramallah, despite the   current volatile situation on the ground:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class=\"YOUTUBE-iframe-video\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/OLbGEOTTcNc\/0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OLbGEOTTcNc?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here is my part of the campaign, help me reach my goal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"httpss:\/\/avpe.givecorps.com\/projects\/4257-sow-seeds-of-hope-and-create-economic-activity-by-funding-links-between-americans-and-palestinians-sam-bahour-s-avpe-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/avpe.givecorps.com\/projects\/4257-sow-seeds-of-hope-and-create-economic-activity-by-funding-links-between-americans-and-palestinians-sam-bahour-s-avpe-fundraiser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the dozens who have already stepped up to the plate to be counted!<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b \u200bACT NOW &#8211; Support Palestinians&#8217; economic steadfastness While President Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House today, there is no need to hold your breath for results, rather, there is a need to act. One way to make your actions heard is to support Palestinians&#8217; economic steadfastness by helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1118,327,368,369,259,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-americans-for-a-vibrant-palestinian-economy-a4vpe","tag-avpe","tag-economic-resistance","tag-economic-steadfastness","tag-economy-of-occupation","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9523,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/9523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}