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August 17, 2010Contact: newseditor@wrmea.com Jonathan Tasini, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 15th Congressional District in New York, asking for campaign contributions
The Washington Report received a call from an Arab-American supporter who is helping Jonathan Tasini, a Democrat run for Congress from New York City. “Do you rent/share your subscriber list?” our friend asked. “No, we don’t,” we told him, “but we do forward ‘Action Alerts’ to our e-mail list. We also cannot endorse candidates, but we can forward information about them.”
From Jonathan Tasini:Who will stand up to AIPAC and the Israel Lobby in Congress?
I will.
My name is Jonathan Tasini.
And I’m running for Congress against the AIPAC-controlled Charles Rangel in New York City.
Think of it.
A true advocate for peace defeating an AIPAC mouthpiece.
In New York City.
And I can win this race.
I’m in a tight five-way race for the nomination.
I’m in walking distance to the vast majority of my constituents in upper Manhattan.
The Democratic primary is less than a month away (Sept. 14, 2010).
And the winner of the primary is the next member of Congress from the 15th District.
So, want to send an AIPAC fighter to Congress?
I’m your man.
This won’t be a promise I’m just making today.
I’ve called for the end of the blockade against Gaza.
And I’ve been a consistent voice for peace for many years.
With 1,000 people donating $100 each to the Tasini for Congress Campaign, I can win this thing.
So, please, donate now whatever you can.
And if you donate $100 or more now, I will send you a copy of a remarkable book, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman.
This is perhaps the best book written about Palestine.
It’s a biography of the Palestinian poet Taha Mohammed Ali.
It’s the first and only biography of a Palestinian writer in any language.
(I didn’t believe it either until I checked it out myself.)
But it’s more than a biography.
It’s a history of the transformation of Palestine. From a country of peaceful poets, good food, and family village life before 1948. Into an American suburb after 1948.
It’s an eye-opener.
And, for $100 or more, I will send a copy of this remarkable book.
So donate now -- whatever you can.
And help put a peace advocate in Congress.
Thank you for your generous contribution.
For peace and justice in Palestine.
Jonathan Tasini
P.S. Remember, if donate $100 or more now -- we’ll ship to you My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman. Thank you. This offer ends on midnight Friday August 27, 2010.
P.P.S. The title of the book comes from one of Taha’s remarkable poems.
It translates from the Arabic something like this:
Lovers of hunting
And beginners seeking your prey
Don’t aim your rifles at my happiness
Which isn’t worth the price of the bullet
(you’d waste on it.)
What seems to you
so nimble and fine
like a fawn
that flees
every which way
like a partridge.
isn’t happiness.
Trust me:
my happiness
bears no relation to happiness.
Additional information from the Washington Report:
Jonathan Tasini’s father was born in Palestine and fought in the Israeli underground, the Haganah. Born in Houston, Jonathan lived in Israel for seven years, during which time he was involved, as a teen-ager and young man, in the fledgling peace movement. “Jonathan unequivocally supports the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, consequently ending Israeli occupation of these areas because such a solution is the only way to ensure Israeli security. The current situation in Gaza is intolerable and unconscionable.” Read more at:
http://www.jonathantasini.com/content/even-hand-middle-east
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the face of allegations of corruption, has a career total of only $24,000 of pro-Israel PAC contributions and has taken no money from the lobby this election cycle. He is not a member of theWashington Report’s 2010 “Hall of Fame” or “Hall of Shame” (see Sept./Oct. 2010 Washington Report, p. 32).
###The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, PO Box 53062, Washington DC 20009. Phone: (202) 939-6050, Fax: (202) 265-4574, Toll Free: (800) 368-5788, www.wrmea.com Published by the American Educational Trust, a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states. Material from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs may be printed with out charge with attribution to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
August 17, 2010Contact: newseditor@wrmea.com Jonathan Tasini, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 15th Congressional District in New York, asking for campaign contributions
The Washington Report received a call from an Arab-American supporter who is helping Jonathan Tasini, a Democrat run for Congress from New York City. “Do you rent/share your subscriber list?” our friend asked. “No, we don’t,” we told him, “but we do forward ‘Action Alerts’ to our e-mail list. We also cannot endorse candidates, but we can forward information about them.”
From Jonathan Tasini:Who will stand up to AIPAC and the Israel Lobby in Congress?
I will.
My name is Jonathan Tasini.
And I’m running for Congress against the AIPAC-controlled Charles Rangel in New York City.
Think of it.
A true advocate for peace defeating an AIPAC mouthpiece.
In New York City.
And I can win this race.
I’m in a tight five-way race for the nomination.
I’m in walking distance to the vast majority of my constituents in upper Manhattan.
The Democratic primary is less than a month away (Sept. 14, 2010).
And the winner of the primary is the next member of Congress from the 15th District.
So, want to send an AIPAC fighter to Congress?
I’m your man.
This won’t be a promise I’m just making today.
I’ve called for the end of the blockade against Gaza.
And I’ve been a consistent voice for peace for many years.
With 1,000 people donating $100 each to the Tasini for Congress Campaign, I can win this thing.
So, please, donate now whatever you can.
And if you donate $100 or more now, I will send you a copy of a remarkable book, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman.
This is perhaps the best book written about Palestine.
It’s a biography of the Palestinian poet Taha Mohammed Ali.
It’s the first and only biography of a Palestinian writer in any language.
(I didn’t believe it either until I checked it out myself.)
But it’s more than a biography.
It’s a history of the transformation of Palestine. From a country of peaceful poets, good food, and family village life before 1948. Into an American suburb after 1948.
It’s an eye-opener.
And, for $100 or more, I will send a copy of this remarkable book.
So donate now -- whatever you can.
And help put a peace advocate in Congress.
Thank you for your generous contribution.
For peace and justice in Palestine.
Jonathan Tasini
P.S. Remember, if donate $100 or more now -- we’ll ship to you My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman. Thank you. This offer ends on midnight Friday August 27, 2010.
P.P.S. The title of the book comes from one of Taha’s remarkable poems.
It translates from the Arabic something like this:
Lovers of hunting
And beginners seeking your prey
Don’t aim your rifles at my happiness
Which isn’t worth the price of the bullet
(you’d waste on it.)
What seems to you
so nimble and fine
like a fawn
that flees
every which way
like a partridge.
isn’t happiness.
Trust me:
my happiness
bears no relation to happiness.
Additional information from the Washington Report:
Jonathan Tasini’s father was born in Palestine and fought in the Israeli underground, the Haganah. Born in Houston, Jonathan lived in Israel for seven years, during which time he was involved, as a teen-ager and young man, in the fledgling peace movement. “Jonathan unequivocally supports the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, consequently ending Israeli occupation of these areas because such a solution is the only way to ensure Israeli security. The current situation in Gaza is intolerable and unconscionable.” Read more at:
http://www.jonathantasini.com/content/even-hand-middle-east
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the face of allegations of corruption, has a career total of only $24,000 of pro-Israel PAC contributions and has taken no money from the lobby this election cycle. He is not a member of theWashington Report’s 2010 “Hall of Fame” or “Hall of Shame” (see Sept./Oct. 2010 Washington Report, p. 32).
###The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, PO Box 53062, Washington DC 20009. Phone: (202) 939-6050, Fax: (202) 265-4574, Toll Free: (800) 368-5788, www.wrmea.com Published by the American Educational Trust, a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states. Material from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs may be printed with out charge with attribution to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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