{"article":{"id":170045,"heading":"Israel, Lebanon, Palestinian Conflict","author":"Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD","created":"2006-07-23 14:14:20","modified":"2006-07-23 14:14:20","last_modified":"Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:14:20","article":"
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\r\nHere\r\nis what I firmly believe concerning the best way to deal with Israel,\r\nfor the sake of the Palestinians, Lebanese, the Israeli people, and all\r\nthe rest of us living in this increasingly ugly world:
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\r\nThere needs to be public\r\neducation campaigning<\/span> conducted in Israel<\/span>,
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\r\n(1) door-to-door<\/span>\r\nwith leaflets\/talking (which personalizes) and
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\r\n(2) special efforts made in Israeli\r\nuniversities<\/span>. Educating and politically\r\nactivating university students<\/span><\/span> is extremely\r\nimportant.
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\r\nIt would be best if Palestinians cooperated with sympathetic\r\nIsraelis and Israeli Arabs to do the job.
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\r\nOffhand, there are 3 things I would have the Palestinians\/Israeli\r\nsympathetisers emphasise to the Israeli Public:
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\r\n1. \r\nThat a free and independent and liveable Palestine is not a threat to\r\nIsrael. Indeed, it would enhance Israeli security and\r\nprosperity.
\r\n(This needs to be spelled out with facts & reasoned argument.)
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\r\n2. Israeli violent actions smear & taint\r\nthe Jewish heritage, and damage the soul of Israel.
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\r\n3. \r\nPerhaps quote appropriate passages from, or make references to the Old\r\nTestament. (One might presume this will fall on deaf ears\r\nUNLESS (1)\r\nand (2) are effectively written.)
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\r\nAn astonishingly close historical analogy exists between the evolution\r\nof Israel<\/span>\r\nand that of Classical\r\nAthens<\/span>\r\n--- freedom-fighting against the odds, the establishment of democracy,\r\nthe great years of achievement and high hopes, the corruption by money\r\nand power, and aggressive military repression of freedom-fighters from\r\nother states (although still maintaining a domestic democracy -- the problem is the\r\ncorrosion of moral fibre and intellectual acuity due to power and money<\/span>).
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\r\nShould anyone find interest (and lessons) in the above, he or she might\r\nwish to glance at a particular book, \"Socrates,\r\nthe Martyred Messiah: An Essential History of Classical Athens\"<\/span>,\r\nby Myron Stagman. See www.MyronStagman.com
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