letters 11-10-2006

PalestineRemembered.com

RE: A simple road to Middle East peace

By Zahi Khouri
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061110/news_lz1e10khouri.html

Dear Editor,

Thank you for publishing Zahi Khouri's A simple road to Middle East Peace. What a delight to come across a well informed compassionate voice- a Palestinian voice- in your pages.

But Khouri is much more kind and more patient about Israel right now than I am. Perhaps that comes from the fact he has spent a lifetime knowing that time and time things just go from bad to worse under Israeli rule, and the name of the game is to play up hope and be polite about political Zionism and the so-called Jewish State.

Unlike Khouri, I have no patience left, no sympathy or interest is seeing Israel's immigrant bigots, Jewish Supremacists, generously subsidized settlers and religious zealots armed and empowered with American money and support. I am an American through and through, raised on the inspiring words of Martin Luther King JR and a more real democracy and thus I am utterly disgusted and repulsed by the manipulative war machine that is Israel today. I am fed up with Israeli lies and propaganda and I am firmly object to and denounce Israel and its blatantly racist war on the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land: That place should be Palestine for ALL the people.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Israeli shelling in Gaza brings agony and rage
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2006/11/10/the_agony_of_gaza/

Dear Editor,

Good to see your editorial board turning its eyes towards besieged Gaza where a huge Israeli made economic and humanitarian crisis is intentionally destroying Palestinian families one by one by one- in many many ways.

This latest Israeli "shelling" is one in a long line of more obvious Israeli attacks that have been killing Palestine's children for years... There is nothing "errant" about Israel's intentional persecution, oppression, impoverishment and imprisonment of the Palestinians.

And there is nothing "errant" about Apartheid Israel's blatantly racist laws and walls. Such institutionalized bigotry and brutality is all a very intentional act and insult - and a crime against humanity- that simply should not be ignored or excused.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: French Forces Almost Fired On Israeli Jets & At Mass Burial For Gaza Family, Sadness and Fury,
Israelis Blame Errant Shelling On Radar 'Technical Failure'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901886.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901793.html

Dear Editor,

Thank you for headlining the fact that "French Forces Almost Fired On Israeli Jets: F-15s Dived on Peacekeepers In Lebanon"

Israel constantly talks peace and security while harassing and harming millions maybe even billions of people in multiple ways, making sure countless people are impoverished and very insecure.

Can any one actually still believe Israeli spin any more ! Can any one trust the many professional propagandists and promoters for political Zionism and the misnamed Jewish State's constant war on the world.

The real "technical failure" is that so many of the world's leaders, both political and religious, have idolized, protected and even helped fund modern man made Apartheid Israel instead of condemning its nefarious existence and its ongoing crimes against humanity and the people of Palestine.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Mohamed Khodr's EXCELLENT letter " Israel and the Loss of Palestinian Lives in Gaza"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/opinion/l10israel.html

Dear Editor,

Thank you for publishing Mohamed Khodr's EXCELLENT letter " Israel and the Loss of Palestinian Lives in Gaza". Israeli patterns of bigotry and brutality covered up by plenty of polished spin are clear and we are fools not to notice and condemn the ongoing apartheid and genocidal acts of the misnamed Jewish State.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: TERRORISTS' SECRET WEAPON: US
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11092006/postopinion/letters/terrorists_secret_weapon__us_letters_.htm

Dear Editor,

I vehemently disagree with the letter writer who asserts that in Iraq the terrorists "only hope" comes from antiwar activists here in the Untied States. Mr. Salles is the one helping terrorists by saying utterly ridiculous things like "Democrats literally want to give up because the enemy is fighting back".

I am antiwar because I think armed violence and aggression and the killing of civilians is wrong period. Life is precious and should be preserved. My pleas that we bring our troops home are not because I think terrorists in Iraq will inflict huge harm on US as much as I know our superior weaponry and armies can and will swiftly inflict huge harm on millions of innocent people and countless communities, completely obliterating treasures of every type.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab