“The Greatest Challenge Facing Us”

October 24, 2008

In general, Vartan Oskanian makes a convincing broad view of Armenia’s past, present and future values.  He was Armenia’s foreign minister from 1998 – 2008.  Now, he states:

“Many of our domestic problems are economic. The hopes of Armenia’s aspiring young men and women rest on a fair, open, economic system. This means respecting civil liberties, believing in democracy, actually allowing a rule of law.  Only then, can the individual citizen be unafraid to risk and venture, and only then, will we harness the energy of our society, economically and politically.

“Only then, will it be able to create jobs so that they see their future in Armenia, and they see Armenia’s future in themselves.

“Only then, will we manage to eradicate poverty so that all our people begin to believe that living in a country that is ours is better than living in someone else’s empire.

“Only then, will we succeed in identifying corruption as the evil that limits options, suffocates innovation, restricts enterprise and slams the door of opportunity.

“Only then, will we do away with nepotism so that it is what you know, not who you know that counts.

بسمه تعالي
جناب آقاي بان كي مون
دبيركل محترم سازمان ملل متحد

مايلم توجه آن جناب را به وضعيت جاري در نوار غزه در فلسطين جلب نمايم. اين منطقه طي روزهاي اخير شاهد وقوع حوادث خونبار و جنايات فجيع عليه بشريت و كشته و زخمي شدن صدها فلسطيني بدست نيروهاي اشغالگر صهيونيستي مي‌باشد. رژيم صهيونيستي با سوء استفاده از سكوت دولتها و بي تفاوتي مجامع بين‌المللي در عمل به مسئوليت هاي انساني و قانوني آنها در حفظ امنيت و پاسداري از حقوق ملتها، بدون كوچكترين توجه به تعهدات قانوني، موازين حقوق بشر و معيارهاي شناخته شده بين‌المللي، پس از يك دوره طولاني تجاوز نظامي، ارتكاب جنايات وحشيانه و اعمال محاصره تمام عيار و كاربرد فشارهاي بي وقفه سياسي و اقتصادي عليه مردم مظلوم فلسطين، بويژه ساكنان نواره غزه، نابودي و قتل عام روزانه زنان، كودكان و مردان بي دفاع اين سرزمين را در برابر ديدگان دنياي متمدن، در دستور كار خود قرار داده است.

جناب آقاي دبيركل؛

Sixty years on, the country is facing a choice of two futures: it can be Jewish or democratic -but not both
Michael Petrou | April 23, 2008 |Sixty years on, the country is facing a choice of two futures: it can be Jewish or democratic -but not both
On a clear day, from a hilltop outside Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority’s quasi-autonomous territory in the West Bank and just about dead centre of all the land controlled by Israel, it is possible to look east and see the mountains of Jordan, another country, then turn around and see the smudged skyline of Tel Aviv and, a little farther on, the ocean.
One sweeping glance captures the boundaries of a conflict that has persisted for 60 years and whose foundations haven’t changed. Israel’s earliest advocates understood the challenge their dreamed-of homeland would face years before the Zionist project really got under way. Shortly after Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, published The Jewish State in 1896, two Viennese rabbis decided to travel to the Middle East to explore for themselves Herzl’s idea of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Their visit resulted in a cable home in which the two rabbis wrote: “The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man.”

How much money the American Government has given Israel since 1948 and it gets higher everyday.Now is the time to speak out and demand that money get spent on poor Americans not for the blood of Palestinians!
Now Americans & the world can’t say that they did not know.
Palestine Monitor factsheet US aid to Israel
“Israel has no more loyal friend than the United States. We couldn’t have done it without her” Yitzhak Rabin
US Aid: The Facts

– Israel and the US have a long-established special relationship. The US was the first country to recognise the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
– Israel is considered America’s closest non-NATO ally in the Middle East, a region that is geopolitically crucial to the US.
– The close relationship between the two states is reflected in the volume of aid Israel receives from the US. Since World War II Israel has been the largest overall recipient of US aid: from 1949-2006
Israel received more than $156 billion of direct US aid.