Friday, September 23, 2011

LETTER TO NY TIMES

From: lajewsforpeaceletters@googlegroups.com [mailto:lajewsforpeaceletters@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pat & Jeff Warner
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The following articles, columns, and/or editorials are published in today’s LA Times (print edition) or NY Times (web edition). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.

LA Times: nothing today:

NY Times: seven items today:

--- Harsh Words From Turkey About Israel, and From Iran About United States http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/world/middleeast/irans-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-rails-against-the-west-in-united-nations-speech.html Reports Turkey PM said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a “bleeding wound” that the international community can no longer accept, accused Israel of thwarting all attempts to solve the problem. From nuclear weapons to control of the occupied territories to humanitarian aid, he said, Israel has contradicted the wishes and norms of the rest of the world. He noted that ““If you want to send a box of tomatoes to Palestine, this is subject to approval from Israel, and I don’t think that is humanitarian.”

--- The Arab Spring Finds Itself Upstaged by a New Season http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/world/middleeast/israeli-palestinian-dispute-upstages-arab-spring-at-united-nations.html Reports celebration of the Arab spring is overshadowed by the Palestinian bid for U.N. membership.

---for tomorrows print edition Palestinians Rally in West Bank for Abbas Speech; Clashes Reported http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/middleeast/palestinians-rally-in-west-bank-for-abbas-speech-clashes-reported.html Reports thousands rally. There was no violence. Israel army had a heavy presence in West bank.

--- for tomorrows print edition Amid Statehood Bid, Tensions Simmer in West Bank http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/middleeast/west-bank-tensions-simmer-amid-palestinian-united-nations-statehood-bid.html Background report about settler violence against Palestinians and that settlers are newly armed by the Israeli army.

--- NY Times editorial The Palestinians’ Bid http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/the-palestinians-bid-for-statehood.html Says President Obama was right to stand with Israel. Now he has to push for a bold and fair deal. Says, “The United States and its partners should put a map and a deal on the table, with a timeline for concluding negotiations and a formal United Nations statehood vote. The proposal must be bold and fair and backed by the Security Council and the Arab League. And they need to help sell it to the Israeli and Palestinian people — not just politicians. There is still some time left to avoid a complete diplomatic train wreck. But not a lot of time.”

--- repeat from yesterday Congressman Keith Ellison Op-Ed Support the Palestinian Bid for Statehood http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/opinion/sunday/support-the-palestinian-bid-for-statehood.html Says the United States should support the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood at the United Nations. The Palestinian people deserve a state now. Says he is reminded of what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: “The time is always right to do what’s right.” Says the Palestinian bid, “is an opportunity, not a threat. We should seize it now.”

--- Four letters http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/a-mideast-moment-at-the-united-nations.html respond to Olmert’s Op-Ed yesterday. 1^st asks why the Palestinians turned down offers in 2000 and 2008, and why they would make a deal now? 2nd backs Olmert’s call for reciprocal recognition that represents the enlightened sensibility. 3rd blames election of Hamas that he calls terrorists, 4th says the presence of the settlements demonstrates that Israel is insincere about peace.

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best jeff

Jeff Warner

LA Jews for Peacewww.LAJewsforPeace.org

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LETTER TO NY TIMES

RE: "The Palestinians’ Bid" Sept. 17 Op-Ed (for NY Times)

The Times is correct when it says that President Obama must now push for a bold and fair deal. But the Times is wrong to praise Obama’s Wednesday speech at the U.N. that was so biased that only Israeli and Jewish American hard liners could love it, which they did. Obama's failure to mention the 1967 boundaries, settlements, Jerusalem, or refugees

shows a President who has lost touch the role the United States should play and lacks the political courage to stand up to the Israel lobby. The Israelis and Palestinians lack political courage, but apparently so does Obama. His lecturing about the need for political will among the Israelis and Palestinians rings empty. He should lead by example, but fails to do so. Pathetic!

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Friday, September 23, 2011

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