Ask Ambassador Prosor to improve: Public letter to Israel's new Ambassador, Ron Prosor

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Ask Ambassador Prosor to improve:

Public letter to Israel's new Ambassador, Ron Prosor

 

 

Dear Mr. Prosor,

 

In your recent address to the UN Security Council, you lavishly praised the Palestinian state notion, as though the UN Security Council were a body in dire need of pro-Palestinian encouragement. You said:

 

"Let there be no doubt: Israel wants ... a Palestinian state.

Let me repeat that. Israel wants ... a Palestinian state. 

[W]e seek two states for two peoples...

The question is not whether we can accept a Palestinian state - we can." 

http://israel-un.mfa.gov.il/statements-at-the-united-nations/security-council/391-security-council-qsituation-in-the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-

 

 

In solemn contrast, Yitzhak Rabin's firmly stated legacy was:  No to the notion of a Palestinian state.

The  tragic assassination  of Rabin, one of Israel's most revered Prime Ministers and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, will be commemorated this Friday. 

 

To the Israeli Knesset, Rabin spoke of: "a Palestinian entity ... which is less than a state".  http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1995/10/PM+Rabin+in+Knesset-+Ratification+of+Interim+Agree.htm 

To Time Magazine, Rabin said: I oppose the creation of a Palestinian state.   http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979266,00.html

 

It is not your job, Mr. Prosor, to advocate for establishment of another Palestinian state. As Tony Blair, fomer British Premier, has put it, "Israel cannot live with a Gaza-type mess on the West Bank. It cannot live with Hamas and their rockets a few miles from Ben Gurion airport." http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/speeches/entry/building-foundations-on-the-ground-key-to-successful-middle-east-negotiatio/

 

Here is a lovely example, by Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon,  a former ambassador, of how to conduct excellent hasbara --

without resorting to endorsement of Palestinian state:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704103104574623662661962226.html

 

Mr. Prosor, I would be most appreciative if on the eve of Rabin's tragic assassination, you  follow Prime Minister Rabin's lead and Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's good example in the article above, and resolve to conduct hasbara without gushing about Palestinian state.

 

Sincerely, (your name)

 

 

Add your voice to the voices of others: send this letter to Ambassador Prosor. You can simply forward this email to the email addresses of Israel's  Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman  sar@mfa.gov.il and/or of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: dayalon@knesset.gov.il. These elected officials will be pleased to convey the email to Ambassador Prosor.

 

Or, click the following link  http://israel-un.mfa.gov.il/contact-us  and copy in the letter above (or a letter of your own!).  That would then go directly to Mr. Prosor.

 

Thanks for helping Israel.

 

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