The USA and Israel Fall Elections: Getting Out the Vote and Facing Challenges
Standing Together leadership considers the most significant objective to be “getting out the vote in Palestinian sectors.”
Standing Together leadership considers the most significant objective to be “getting out the vote in Palestinian sectors.”
With a call to recognize a “shared humanity” as a basis for moving forward, Green repeated the oft-stated phrase: “No one is going anywhere.” Which led back to Lander’s question, “What kind of relationship do we want to be in with each other?”
Clearly, it will be the people who can hold two narratives simultaneously that will lead the fight for change in the “Holy Land.”
A long-time fixture in New York politics and former President of the human rights organization, American Jewish World Service, Ruth Messinger, told me, “I’m here because Torah states we can’t stand idly by. Starvation is not an appropriate weapon of war.”
The concept that Palestinian Hamze Awawde has been putting forth regarding the previous eleven-plus months of destruction and despair is succinct:
“There is no violent solution.”
“Say it loud. Say it clear. Bibi is not welcome here.”
“They are running out of time. Netanyahu must resign.”
With Jewish extremists trying to present Palestinian citizens of Israel as a fifth column, Standing Together is focusing on the de-escalation of those inflammatory messages, reframing the dialogue with their code words: “We’re in this together.”