JCC First Intifada- Palestine Liberation Organization
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Delegates,
Welcome to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Your dais is immensely excited for what it firmly believes will be one of the most fast-paced and energetic committees in GSMUN’s history and, I hope, one of its most enjoyable. In order to ensure that your experience is of the highest quality, it is of the utmost importance that you be comfortable with this committee and its proceedings. To that end, here are some introductions:
John Metz, your chair, is a junior at Maggie Walker entering his third year with GSMUN, in which he chaired the Afghan National Assembly last year and vice-chaired the Yom Kippur War joint crisis committee the year before. John is especially interested in current events and history in general, and, as his prior experience suggests, in the Middle East in particular. In addition to Model UN, John is actively involved in (the much maligned) Model Congress and History Bowl, writes for the school’s polemical journal, the Bandersnatch, and serves as Class Secretary. He enjoys long walks in the moonlight, copious amounts of red meat, and esoteric nineteenth-century German philosophy. John can hardly contain the excitement he feels imagining all of your smiling young faces as you contrive increasingly perverse plots to discredit or defeat the state of Israel come March.
Oliver, your vice chair, is also a junior at Maggie Walker. He is beginning his second crazy year of generally unexpected hijinks working with GSMUN, and is about to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the first time he attended GSMUN as a delegate. An aficionado of Asian history and politics, Oliver has a soft spot for the unique and volatile situations the Middle East routinely seems to find itself thrust into, and he expects this committee to uphold such a reputation. Outside of GSMUN, Oliver particularly enjoys his time in the Future Problem Solvers Club, and his hobbies include playing the piano, reading unhealthily large novels, and taking long walks along moonlit beaches (Not really; he hates the beach.) As the months until GSMUN fly by, Oliver can only grow more and more excited for the spectacle of Israel’s possible implosion during this year’s GSMUN.
With that in order, it’s high time that we get down to business. GSMUN offers a unique opportunity to excel, and we pride ourselves on the high quality of our conference and of our delegates’ experiences. In order to ensure that your experience is as memorable as possible, I ask, first, that each delegate write a short position paper detailing his or her representative’s positions on the issues at hand – instructions for position papers can be found on our website. This is to be emailed to the dais before the conference or turned in physically at the first committee session. Without a position paper you cannot be considered for awards. I would like to remind you that plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in disciplinary actions by the Secretariat. More importantly, I ask that you come to committee prepared and without trepidation, even if this is your first experience with Model UN. The most important thing is that you try your hardest to focus on the quality of your ideas above all else. With that in mind, I look forward to seeing you in March, and hope to make your experience a memorable one.
John Metz, your chair, is a junior at Maggie Walker entering his third year with GSMUN, in which he chaired the Afghan National Assembly last year and vice-chaired the Yom Kippur War joint crisis committee the year before. John is especially interested in current events and history in general, and, as his prior experience suggests, in the Middle East in particular. In addition to Model UN, John is actively involved in (the much maligned) Model Congress and History Bowl, writes for the school’s polemical journal, the Bandersnatch, and serves as Class Secretary. He enjoys long walks in the moonlight, copious amounts of red meat, and esoteric nineteenth-century German philosophy. John can hardly contain the excitement he feels imagining all of your smiling young faces as you contrive increasingly perverse plots to discredit or defeat the state of Israel come March.
Oliver, your vice chair, is also a junior at Maggie Walker. He is beginning his second crazy year of generally unexpected hijinks working with GSMUN, and is about to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the first time he attended GSMUN as a delegate. An aficionado of Asian history and politics, Oliver has a soft spot for the unique and volatile situations the Middle East routinely seems to find itself thrust into, and he expects this committee to uphold such a reputation. Outside of GSMUN, Oliver particularly enjoys his time in the Future Problem Solvers Club, and his hobbies include playing the piano, reading unhealthily large novels, and taking long walks along moonlit beaches (Not really; he hates the beach.) As the months until GSMUN fly by, Oliver can only grow more and more excited for the spectacle of Israel’s possible implosion during this year’s GSMUN.
With that in order, it’s high time that we get down to business. GSMUN offers a unique opportunity to excel, and we pride ourselves on the high quality of our conference and of our delegates’ experiences. In order to ensure that your experience is as memorable as possible, I ask, first, that each delegate write a short position paper detailing his or her representative’s positions on the issues at hand – instructions for position papers can be found on our website. This is to be emailed to the dais before the conference or turned in physically at the first committee session. Without a position paper you cannot be considered for awards. I would like to remind you that plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in disciplinary actions by the Secretariat. More importantly, I ask that you come to committee prepared and without trepidation, even if this is your first experience with Model UN. The most important thing is that you try your hardest to focus on the quality of your ideas above all else. With that in mind, I look forward to seeing you in March, and hope to make your experience a memorable one.
Chairs
John Metz
John Metz, your chair, is a junior at Maggie Walker entering his third year with GSMUN, where he chaired the Afghan National Assembly last year and vice-chaired the Yom Kippur War joint crisis committee the year before. John is especially interested in current events and history in general, and, as his prior experience suggests, in the Middle East in particular. In addition to Model UN, John is actively involved in (the much maligned) Model Congress and History Bowl, writes for the school’s polemical journal, and serves as Class Secretary. He enjoys long walks in the moonlight, copious amounts of red meat, and esoteric nineteenth-century German philosophy. John can hardly contain the excitement he feels imagining all of your smiling young faces as you contrive increasingly perverse plots to discredit or defeat the state of Israel come March.