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Hello, I am a lone soldier from the United States serving in the Israeli Army. I am a socialist, I am against the current form of our state. I am also a pacifist. I joined the military to help everyone, as a duty to both jews and Arabs and all who live in our motherland. I am not a combat soldier and refuse to carry a weapon, but still take pride in serving in the army as I seek to defend our country Israel-Palestine. I would like to join the party and know how to vote for you.

I would like to make clear I am not a violent revolutionary. I am a pacifist and against all violence of any kind. I seek not a violent Revolution but a peaceful one. I am strongly against the PFLP, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and consider them terrorists. I am against any Palestinian OR Israeli movement that seeks violence, including those in the army that commit war crimes.

The idea of a “Arabian Commonwealth” is of my vision based on the historical experience of the Middle East since the Nasser Revolution in Egypt which expanded through North Africa to the all Middle East. The second half of the 20th century was characterized by the bureaucratic military regimes that ended with the Arab Spring. The struggle for democracy and modernization led by the intellectuals and youth in the Arab world was a generalized fenomena that brought down all the military regimes while not completing its mission for different reasons and especially the political, organizational and programmatic weakness, indifference in the West and foreign intervention by countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia. Today when Biden is preaching for democracy against autocracy after autocrats took over the global stage and even threatened American democracy itself while intervening on behalf of Trump, on one side and the massive immigration of refugees to Europe that gave way to the rise of rightist nationalist movements we can see the price that the world is paying for its complacence with the brutal suppression of the Arab Spring. In a nutshell, if you look for a perspective of an “Arab Commonwealth” look into the Arab Spring, the harbinger of such new Commonwealth based on common values of Democracy, Equality, Social and Climate Justice.

Dear reader(s),
With great interest I followed your webinar discussion: After the war on Gaza etc. last Saturday. And I was intrigued by the ‘grand desing’ (my words) of Yacov Ben Efrat about the perspective of an Arabian Commonwealth, including (of course) all Jewish people living in this region.
When I say ‘grand desing’ I do not mean to be negative; I should not. After two world wars in Europe also the formation of the EU starting in the fifties was a ‘grand design’. And somehow it still holds.

So my question is: where can I find more information about this idea of an Arabian Commonwealth?
When I used the search function on your website and looked for this Arabian Commonwealth I did not get a hit. So where to find more?

I hope you can refer me to any more elaborated content about this idea.

My best wishes to you all.

I’m not sure if all this is a tragedy or cmeody:Violent crime continues to plague the streets of Israel as a father, 45, and his son, 24, were shot and stabbed in an Acre criminal feud on Wednesday. Both men were taken to a Nahariya hospital in critical condition. Police have launched a manhunt and set up roadblocks in the search for the assailantsshot and stabbed, and both are still alive? What would Al Capone say? Or Abe Reles, for that matter. Roadblocks? Isn’t Israel a tiny country? How far could they have gone? And: if the Mossad is supposed to be one of the best intelligence agencies in the world, these ‘crime families’ shouldn’t be able to sneeze without the walls saying “Gezhunteit”!

There are three agendas for social movement.

1. End the occupation. That is delayed. If anything the overt advocacy for expansion of the far right is slowed, not stopped in any respect. The status quo, changing very slowly will continue, whomever forms the Israeli ruling coalition.

2. Restore/affirm the relationship between Arabs and Jews and Christians and atheists in Israel and in prospective Palestine to the relationship of peers rather than subordinated in any way.

That effort includes political and legal work that results from legislation and administration of legislation, but is more prominently social, in personal acceptance and mutual genuine respect. That work can and should continue determinedly.

3. Restore relative economic equality and participatory and social equity economic structures in Israel and Palestine between all.

That effort is mostly on the ground again, but also includes some legislative institutionalization. Color blind cooperatives in food production and distribution, housing, energy, culture and media, health care, education.

That is a “DO IT” responsibility/opportunity.