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Hi, I am an American student. I'm looking to find out information about another country. I want to know what life is like there and what kind of things are going on. I would also like to discuss justice and peace.

September 25, 2008 | 9:21 AM Comments  2 comments

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abbyorisha Abigail Ngulube
September 25, 2008 | 10:03 AM
Peace Now Condemns Attempted Murder Attack on its Member
Peace Now Condemns Attempted Murder Attack on its Member
`Those who don't enforce the law on violent settlers in the
territories will find himself with a Jewish terror organization in
the heart of Israel"

Today Israel Prize winner Professor Zeev Sternhell was lightly
wounded by a pipe bomb suspected to have been planted by rightists.

Sternhell is a veteran supporter of Peace Now, most recently
addressing the audience at a an event marking 30 years of Peace Now and only last month attended a Peace Now tour to Hebron that was denied entry by police due to settler violence and threats.

Peace Now activists are not surprised by this new wave of threats and violence, in particular the recent fliers, being distributed among the rightist population, promising a 1million shekel prize to anyone who murders a Peace Now member.

Since the murder of Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig in 1983, Peace Now has been warning the police and the IDF that law enforcement authorities must abandon their lenient policy when it comes to law-breakers from within the settler community and their supporter. It is clear that those who don't enforce the law on violent settlers in the territories will find himself with a Jewish terror organization in the heart of Israel.

Today yet again we see that there are extreme factions amongst the right wing that are willing to use any means to reach their goals.
The settlers that yesterday attacked Palestinians and Israeli
soldiers serving in the West Bank, are those today attacking Israeli
citizens within Israel.
These extremists have already established websites of hate
threatening Peace Now members, and Peace Now demands that the Interior Minister commands the police force to cut this phenomena at its roots, and begin to immediately arrest and punish those who actions pose a serious threat to the very fabric of Israeli democracy.__._,_.___
abbyorisha Abigail Ngulube
September 25, 2008 | 10:36 AM
If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress: On the Passing of Dave Cline

Former Veterans for Peace President, David Cline died on September 15, 2007. This tribute was circulate by Michael McPhearson, Executive Director of Veterans for Peace:

Most of you know that David was a giant in the veterans’ anti-war and peace movements. A national coordinator and long-time member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War as well as former President of Veterans for Peace, David was a crucial part of the explosion in VFP’s growth and led us in our planning and actions as we have resisted the invasion and occupation of Iraq. David was a giant among people who motivated all of us to action by modeling leadership and providing inspiration.

David was my boss, mentor, friend, and I loved him. He recruited me into VFP by simply being the person he was, a veteran working for peace. There are few people outside of my family whose death means such a loss to me personally. There are few in our nation whose loss means so much to our movement.

A quote David loved so much guided his thoughts and actions. He carried it in his wallet so that he could whip it out to motivate us at any time. Of course he also had it memorized.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” –Frederick Douglass

David Cline, we salute you.

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