Daniel Lubetzky

[Ahmad Salameh used to be a student representative of Hamas while at Al Najar University.  During a jail term, he lost his fiance and he started becoming increasingly disenchanted with false promises of glory, eventually turning a new leaf, switching to Bir Zeit University, and joining OneVoice. He was a great activist at OV, until [...]

This was a statement sent by the President’s "Office of Public Liaison" THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                     November 25, 2007 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT I am pleased to welcome Prime Minister Olmert, President Abbas, and representatives of more than forty countries to the United States for the November [...]

[If thinking of using any of the blog entry below, please see important DISCLAIMER at the bottom of this email] Here are stark examples of terrible biased polling.  This poll comes from Dr. Nabil Kukali from PCPO: Up to which extent do you agree to or oppose each of the following items should there be [...]

From the OneVoice Teams: It’s working. The leaders are listening to their peoples’ demand for immediate negotiations towards a two-state-solution: for the first time in over 15 years, the Israeli and Palestinian Heads of State will be joined by the US and 20 Arab nations in a regional summit at Annapolis. Those opposing a two [...]

  I was struck by the following piece of data that Khaled, PeaceWorks Group’s CTO, just shared: 21.4% of international visitors to our site, www.OneMillionVoices.org, sign on to the OneVoice Mandate 18.2% of Israeli visitors sign on to the OV Mandate and… a whopping 38.4% of Palestinian visitors sign on to the OV Mandate!!! The [...]

POTENTIALLY BIG POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT! Leaders listening to and following the will of their people, the OV people!!! Read the article below: it is, to the word, the language we demanded in the OneVoice Mandate that over half a million Palestinian and Israeli citizens have signed up to. It is the same language that many thought [...]

  The following article provides a sobering assessment of the challenges faced at the political level by the Palestinian and Israeli negotiations teams.  It is also instructive for OneVoice, as a microcosm of what is going on among the politicians.  OneVoice aims to represent the will of the people for an end to the conflict [...]

Here is an interesting article from Yonathan Touval regarding Annapolis, juxtaposed to all the sobering reports about the parties’ inability to agree on the guidelines for the forthcoming meeting… Last update – 02:31 16/11/2007 Crafting the invitation to Annapolis By Yonatan Touval Ha’aretz Newspaper As the date for the Annapolis summit nears and doubts increase [...]

What are some of the lessons from the painful postponement of the OneVoice Summit? · to stand strong on our principles, and not let anyone define who we are; · to anticipate threats and challenges and plan better to prevent anyone from derailing non-violent actions that are consistent with the Will of the People; · [...]

You may not see this on TV, but something huge happened in Gaza over the last couple days.  Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across the center of Gaza City to commemorate Yasser Arafat’s passing. AFP/via BBC The rally was organized by the "National Committee", a group of Palestinian civic leaders, primarily from Fatah but [...]