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Muslims Envisioning Peace, Security, and Nonviolence




What you can do
• Pray to the Creator and the Peacegiver for peace
• Read and learn about the situation
• Speak and act for truth, justice & reconciliation
• Donate online to support the emergency humanitarian efforts of Islamic Relief, Al-Awda
• Join our Peacebuilder delegations to Palestine & Israel
• Contact your elected representatives & the media
• Call the IDF Command in Ramallah
• Join a dialogue group
• Join and support the work of the MPF

News
• Palestine IndyMedia Center
• International Solidarity Movement to Free Palestine
• Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights & the Enviroment
• Electronic Intifada
• Palestine Media Watch
• CommonDreams newswire
• Znet Palestine page
• UN Information System on Palestine
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Israel Insider (Zionist Israeli view)
• Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz

Resources

• Palestinian Center for Rapprochement
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Wi'am, Palestine Center for Conflict Resolution (Bethlehem)
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Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information
• BtSelem
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Gush Shalom
• Addameer, Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
• Al-Awda
• Muslim Public Affairs Council
• Council on American Islamic Relations
• Tikkun
• Even more Palestine/Israel links

Questions? Comments?
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Contact MPFweb editor Mas'ood Cajee at mcajee@hotmail.com


News Sources

Palestine IndyMedia Center
The best on-the-ground coverage of Sharon's War. [April 2, 2002]

Electronic Intifada
A resource for countering myth, spin, and distortion. [April 3, 2002]

Live On-the-ground updates
Our partners with the International Solidarity Movement to Free Palestine report on the situation from Ground Zero. [April 2, 2002]


Background

"From the Shtetl to the Shoah, From the Nakba to the Intifada"
This presentation covers a brief history of Palestine and Israel: 1901-2001. Questions explored: How did the Holy Land change - in less then one hundred years - from being a few quiet Arab "vilayets" of the Ottoman Empire to being a turbulent British colonial outpost and finally a tragedy-riven fulfillment of the Zionist nation-state project as Israel? Can Muslims, Jews, and Christians secure a common future based on justice, equity and harmony in the Holy Land? Using a Powerpoint slide presentation, Mas'ood Cajee scans this century of great pain and hope in the Holy Land. [Microsoft PowerPoint file, 2.6MB, June 27, 2002]


Analysis

"Armed attacks against civilians should be regarded as terrorism"
The Malaysian Prime Minister offered his country's definition of terrorism in the absence of a standard definition for the international community at the Special Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) on Terrorism which began in Kuala Lumpur on April 1. [The Star, Malaysia, April 2, 2002]

Israel's State Terrorism
"What is the difference between State terrorism and individual terrorist acts?" asks Lev Grinberg. " If we understand this difference we'll understand also the evilness of the US policies in the Middle East and the forthcoming disasters." [Tikkun, April 1, 2002]

More War Is Not the Route to Israeli Security
Yossi Beilin, former Israeli Justice minister, explains why Sharon's war policy is wrong. [The New York Times, March 30, 2002]

Israel-Palestine Conflict: Declaration of Conscience
A group of prominent South African Jews, including Nobel Prize for literature winner Nadine Gordimer, have challenged the conscience of South African and world Jewry. [Microsoft Word document, December 7, 2001]

Gaza Diary
New York Times correspondant Chris Hedges account of life in Gaza is shocking and groundbreaking. A must-read. [Harper's Magazine, October, 2001]

The Rhetoric of the Cursed and Cunning Must Stop
Jews and Muslims need spiritual breakthroughs for peace in the Holy Land. [Beliefnet.com, January, 2001]


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