NO EXPULSION ADVOCATE AS US AMBASSADOR

From Women in Green:

Dear Friends,

Women in Green call upon all to read David Bedein's letter below and then bombard Bibi Netanyahu's office with faxes and phone calls of protest against Michael Oren's possible appointment.

Every letter, every phone call and every fax make a difference.

Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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From David Bedein:

Bibi has announced that he will be making policy in the next ten days, towards his May 18 visit in the white house, which is a way of saying that he waits for pressure from all sides.

That means that there are 10 days to work hard.

Bibi LISTENS to feedback.

Opening trial baloon: Michael Oren, who served as a proud soldier during the expulsions four years ago and has promoted the expulsion policy ever since Summer 2005.

Apparently, a PR firm pushingis pushing this expulsions advocate as the next ambassador to the USA, as are some people connected to Bibi.

Not all of of Bibi's advisors favor appointing an expulsion advocate into such a key policy poisition.

Now for today's opportunity to make waves. Michael is being honored tonight by CAMERA in New York. He appears there with Sen. Joe Lieberman, one of Arik's key supporters in Congress for the expulsion plan.

Today is the day for letters to Bibi, with copies to friend in the USA, asking Bibi NOT to appoint an expulsion advocate.

Tel of PM office switchboard remains:
972-2- 6705555

Best fax:

972-2 563 2580

The following article speaks for itself.

Brachot

Dsb

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Netanyahu's candidate for U.S. envoy backs one-sided pullout
By Barak Ravid Haaretz Last update - 06:01 24/04/2009
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080695.html

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's candidate for Israeli ambassador to Washington, Dr. Michael Oren, supports a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and an evacuation of most of the settlements.

Oren, a visiting Georgetown University professor, said in a lecture there last month, "The only alternative for Israel to save itself as a Jewish state is by unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank and evacuating most of the settlements."

Oren, a Middle East expert and senior researcher at Jerusalem's Shalem Center, gave a 90-minute lecture entitled "The Gaza Crisis from an Historical and Personal Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Answering questions from attendees, Oren voiced his opinions about possible solutions to the conflict and the policy Israel should take. He emphasized
that he does not represent the majority of Israelis.

"I may be the last of the standing unilateralists," he said. "The only thing that can save Israel as a Jewish state is by unilaterally withdrawing our settlements from the West Bank," and waiting for a new Palestinian leadership.

Oren said he does not believe that a solution to the conflict could be achieved at this stage. Instead we should find ways to "better manage the conflict, to relieve tensions and ameliorate the conditions under which people live to ensure against future flare ups."

"Peace as a solution is not a question of next week but a generational issue," he said. "One of the lessons that the failed Oslo process has taught us is that peace must be built from the bottom up. We cannot impose peace from the top down, it doesn't percolate from the top down."

Establishing a Palestinian state would require the evacuation of tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank and from holy cities like Hebron, Oren said.

To take such a traumatic step most Israelis must be convinced that they would be getting "absolute peace" and the "end of the conflict," he said.

Oren said he supported the disengagement from the Gaza Strip. After they started firing Qassam rockets from Gaza, he said Natan Sharansky asked him if the disengagement wasn't a mistake.

Oren said he replied that it had not been. The mistake was Israel's failure to react to the Qassam fire, which sent a message of weakness to the entire Middle East.


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