OneVoice activists have launched complementary campaigns in Israel and Palestine, asking their leaders, “What about the Arab Peace Initiative?”

Exactly 10 years ago, the 22 Arab League member states came together in Beirut to propose a historic peace plan to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arab Peace Initiative (API) offered a comprehensive resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the normalization of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The initiative represented an abrupt about-face, from the League's refusal to engage with Israel to the potential for a new era of regional stability and cooperation. While not an end-point for negotiations, the document sets a positive new starting point.

The response? Nothing! The API has largely been ignored. The offer, however, is still on the table, and now, OneVoice youth activists are coming together to draw public attention – and political leaders – toward this historic opportunity.


OneVoice Israel's Campaign

From Haifa to Sderot, students across OVI's eight university chapters are igniting conversations about the Arab Peace Initiative. Their new Facebook application engages people to post comments about the API directly on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Wall. Next month, OVI will mobilize people in the heart of Tel Aviv, bringing prominent public figures to make soap-box speeches while a giant ice cube containing the API text slowly melts away. Youth activists will then deliver their message loudly in the Knesset, working with the growing Two-State Solution Caucus to demand a government response to the initiative.

OneVoice Palestine's Campaign

This week, from a village near Jenin that borders on the 1967 line, 57 OVP youth activists wearing the flags of countries supporting the API will release into Israel hundreds of helium balloons with the peace plan attached. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the event, co-sponsored by Jenin’s governor and the municipality. From tree plantings in Hebron and Bethlehem and distribution of flyers and bumper stickers across the West Bank, to an online campaign with banners on top local news sites – OVP is creating momentum to put the Arab Peace Initiative back on the agenda.


ACT NOW

America is the third party in this conflict. American action or inaction has a tremendous impact. Members of Congress who take the lead on foreign affairs and the Middle East have the power and responsibility to enable a two-state solution and a return to negotiations. We need to remind them of the historic opportunity presented by the Arab Peace Initiative.

Bombard their Facebook Walls and Twitter accounts! Send them one or more of the following messages:

The #API has been waiting for 10 years – the time is now. Join @OneVoice. #EndtheConflict

Israelis & Palestinians r still fighting 4 the #2statesolution. What have u done 2 help? Join @OneVoice & support the #API 2 end the conflict

10 years on still no response 2 the #API. Join #Israelis #Palestinians & your constituents in supporting the #2statesolution. Join @OneVoice

#API still waits. #Israelis and #Palestinians still wait. #Americans still wait. Two states now. Support @OneVoice

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OneVoice is an international grassroots movement that aims to amplify the voice of Israeli and Palestinian moderates, empowering them to seize back the agenda for conflict resolution and demand that their leaders achieve a two-state solution.