{"id":4493,"date":"2009-01-16T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:06:54","slug":"epalestine-ceasefirenoworg-action-laert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2009\/01\/epalestine-ceasefirenoworg-action-laert\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] CEASEFIRENOW.ORG (ACTION ALERT) + Linking names to the numbers + Israeli voice from Sderot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/ceasefirenow.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"318\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/CF-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4494\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  Dear friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  1.  <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/ceasefirenow.org\/\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;\" >  <strong>CEASEFIRENOW.ORG<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/span><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  : Please act on this now. Personally, I&#8217;m not holding my breath, but  we must make it clear to Obama that Israel is bound to get exactly what it planned for in  Gaza (and afar)&#8211;a new equation with the Palestinians.  With many more Palestinians without  hope and with the historic injustice created in 1948 still being an open wound, the U.S. must  act now&#8211;a good start would be for the U.S. to STOP supplying weapons to Israel!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  2.  A look into the U.S. role to date:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  >  <strong>An inside story of how the US magnified Palestinian suffering<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  Christian Science Monitor<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  By Norman H. Olsen and Matthew N. Olsen<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0112\/p09s01-coop.htm\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;\" >  <u>http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0112\/p09s01-coop.htm<\/u>  <\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  3.  In your activities, please give these   <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/01\/200911591418168902.html\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;\" >  <u>Child victims of Gaza<\/u>  <\/span> <\/a> <\/span><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >   (best viewed with Explorer)  proper respect by reading out their names and ages or placing them on place cards.  Sadly,  we do not have their pictures. They were stripped of a proper burial and mourning period.  Let&#8217;s not forget them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  4.  Lastly, an Israeli voice from Sderot:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  >  <strong>War Diary from Sderot<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  By Nomika Zion<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nomika-zion\/war-diary-from-sderot_b_157497.html\"> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;\" >  <u>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nomika-zion\/war-diary-from-sderot_b_157497.html<\/u>  <\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  Strength to the living dead in Gaza,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  Sam<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  Everything about this list:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  >  epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, 1. CEASEFIRENOW.ORG : Please act on this now. Personally, I&#8217;m not holding my breath, but we must make it clear to Obama that Israel is bound to get exactly what it planned for in Gaza (and afar)&#8211;a new equation with the Palestinians. With many more Palestinians without hope and with the historic injustice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4494,"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":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"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\/4493","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=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}