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Written by Adrienne Weller Adrienne Weller
Published: 03 July 2008 03 July 2008

I moved to Seattle from Portland a few years ago, but still keep in touch with Vancouver-Portland area publications and read Celia Hassan’s June 6 Young Voices opinion, “Detention offers student new outlook on Israel.”

Since I am a Jewish-American I am extremely frustrated and angry about the media distortion of Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinians and the way it has ignored the U.S. role in funding and supporting these crimes. It undermines and negates everything that the U.S. and Israel claim to be about.

I am happy to see honest, educational reporting in a local paper. We must fight for Palestinian rights until they and the Jewish inhabitants can live together as equals in a single state.


Policy discriminates

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Written by Diane Adkin Diane Adkin
Published: 03 July 2008 03 July 2008
Policy discriminates

I agree with Celia Hassan’s Young Voices on June 23, “Detention offers student new outlook on Israel.” Israel has no right to violate the human rights of the Palestinians, living under their complete control. It certainly does not have the right to trample American citizens’ rights. This policy has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with keeping families apart so they have to leave their homes.

I have been to Hassan’s great-grandmother’s house in Ramallah. I was there in 2006, when Hassan’s great-aunt Mona, 62, also an American citizen, tried to visit Ramallah, her birthplace. She was held in detention at Ben Gurion airport for 10 days. She had been “back and forth too much,” and was told to “stay in America.” Her aging mother? “Take her with you when you go.” She got a Tel Aviv lawyer for $4,000, paid $4,000 in “bail,” and was allowed in for two weeks.

Israel’s policy of refusing Palestinian Americans entry and encouraging Palestinian residents to leave, while allowing unlimited Israeli immigration into the Palestinian West Bank, is aimed at changing the demographics of the occupied territory. This is against international law. It is racial discrimination, and it must stop.

There's much to learn from Palestinians

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Written by BOB ROSSI AND MARGARET STEPHENS, The Statesman Journal BOB ROSSI AND MARGARET STEPHENS, The Statesman Journal
Published: 10 January 2003 10 January 2003
We spent December in Palestine as Christian pilgrims and visited Jerusalem, Taybeh and Bethlehem. Palestinians gave us a lesson in patience and generosity of spirit which we hope will remain with us.

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No Christmas in Bethlehem

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Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
Published: 22 December 2002 22 December 2002

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Opposed to more funding to Israel

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Written by Louis Farshee Louis Farshee
Published: 11 December 2002 11 December 2002

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