Scharmel Roussel, executive director of the Arkansas Interfaith Power and Light program as well as an environmentalist and animal lover, received the Peace Activist of the Year award Saturday from the Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice during the group s annual meeting in Little Rock.
The Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justices annual membership meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. on February 10th at Unitarian Universalist Church, 1818 Reservoir Road, in Little Rock.
skaultd peace partner of ours s is what should fill the vacuum inside gaza. on the other hand, we also have to recognize that there aren t people lining up to take on this role. people talk about saudi, emirati or egyptian initiative but i don t see any of them asking to take the refugees in to their countries let alone come and take over the gaza strip. so i think that we re left with really only one viable option and that is some role for the palestinian authority, but it is highly politically volatile if i can call it that because the right wing elements of netanyahu s coalition are against seeing them empowered, maybe out of fear that this could lead to pressure on israel to actually engage in a larger diplomatic negotiation with them about the larger conflict that we have also in the west bank. u.s. secretary of state is in the region, this is his fourth trip since the hamas terror