{"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":"","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":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_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}]}}