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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><p><a href="http://december18th.org/">Guardate i visi</a> di questi giovani e coraggiosi ragazzi israeliani. </p><p><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn">Howard Zinn</a> ci invia questa lettera e ci chiede di sottoscrivere la lettera al ministro israeliano:</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Dear friend,</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">I've been thinking a lot about courage.<br>
<br>Right now, while I'm snug and fed this Thanksgiving holiday in the comfort of my home, halfway around the world a group of teenagers is sitting in a jail cell today, demonstrating the very definition of courage and sacrifice. It's frustrating. Humbling. <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5UCfGcLPjruBdik7GPmuSmWdGyyUdjzV" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><u><span style="font-weight: bold; ">And I'm damn glad to have the chance to do something big about it</span></u></b>.</span></a> </span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br>
<br></span></font></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">See that fresh-faced, bold young woman on the right? Her name is </span></font><i><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; ">Raz Bar-David Varon</span></font></i><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">. She's an 18-year-old Israeli who just graduated from 12<sup>th</sup> grade. And as I write this, she's sitting in jail in Tel Aviv because she refuses to join the Israeli army.</span></font></p>
<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">In my day we called them the "refuseniks" and here in the U.S. they're "conscientious objectors." In Israel, they're still in high school and they are the Shministim. Get used to that word because I'm going to ask you to know it, to say it, to use it. You see, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zyjiHsztmC6gU9%2BRCH0jeGWdGyyUdjzV" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><u><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Raz Bar-David Varon and another dozen or so Shministim have asked Jewish Voice for Peace for our help and this is one request we can't refuse.</span></u></b></span></a></span></font></p>
<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The Shministim - all about ages 17, 18, 19 and in the 12<sup>th</sup> grade - are taking a stand. They believe in a better, more peaceful future for themselves and for Israelis <i>and</i> Palestinians, and they are refusing to join the Israeli army. They're in jail, holding strong against immense pressure from family, friends and the Israeli government. <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=exZZHf%2FVZWAE62KBgGW5RGWdGyyUdjzV" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><u><span style="font-weight: bold; ">They need our support and they need it today.</span></u></b></span><b><u><span style="font-weight: bold; "></span></u></b></a></span></font></p>
<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">They have asked people like us to let the Israeli government know we are watching, and that we support their courage. They're hoping to receive hundreds of thousands of postcards to be delivered to the Israeli Minister of Defense on December 18<sup>th</sup>, when they will hold a huge rally and press conference. They're hoping to stand strong on the steps of this majestic building - and on the steps of history - representing not only the thousands of refusers who came before them, not only the many young people to whom they are an example of a better world, but also to represent <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">us</span></i></b>. They have asked you, me, and every person who strives for peace to be on those steps with them, on that day. <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">I will be there</span></b>. See:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br>Will you join me? It's simple. <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3qGrzSf0ua7UNo%2BCwYMFKGWdGyyUdjzV" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Sign a letter now</span></b></a><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></b> And don't stop there - ask your loved ones to join you. During this week of giving thanks, signing a letter is the least we can do to give thanks for the courageous among us.</span></font></p>
<span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Raz is a Shministit. Raz is Courage. And with our support of her today, you and I are Shministim too.</span></font></span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span></font><p>
</p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Thank you - and go <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Jn1Z4lK2dlgQqLDZ74lt%2B2WdGyyUdjzV" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">sign that letter</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">.</span></span></b></font></p>
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<p></p><p>Howard Zinn </p></span><div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; font: normal normal normal small/normal arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; font: normal normal normal small/normal arial; ">
<br></div><br>-- <br>Palestina News - voce di ISM (International Solidarity Movement) Italia <a href="http://www.ism-italia.it">http://www.ism-italia.it</a></div></span><br>