RE" Israelis Blame Hamas for Bombing"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192086,00.html
foxnewsonline@foxnews.com
Dear Editor,
Israel has been playing a nefarious game for years- inflicting huge violence on all Palestinians day in and day out with apartheid insults including that monstrous land and rights grabbing wall and punitive checkpoints, curfews, closures and troop maneuvers not just through the streets but actually right into homes where entire Palestinian families are held hostage.
Many Palestinian homes and communities have been destroyed by one very heavily armed Israel because Israel as "The Jewish State" obviously wants the land- but not the people of the land. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military maneuvers , including many young children.... The Palestinians ARE rejecting violence- they are saying NO to Israel ! They are saying NO to the racist injustice of political Zionism, and they are saying NO to the obvious genocide created by "The Jewish State".... they are saying NO to institutionalized bigotry and injustice- and the pervasive ongoing violence and cruelty of Israel as The Jewish State" stealing and destroying Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***********************************************************************
RE: Israel restricts residency for Hamas lawmakers
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/18/israel.bombing/index.html
submitted as a postive comment http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?35
Dear CNN,
Are we supposed to be grateful that after a month of constant IDF bombing raids and commando attacks Israel isn't launching another one? Catch on please, that political Zionism wants to erase all trace of Palestine- and the real children of the land. This latest move restricting residency is just one of many meant to oppress and torment- divide, conquer and destroy Palestinians individually and collectively- in every way possible.
Racist Israel should be revoked- political Zionism should be labeled the genocidal mechanism its been all along, and "The Jewish Sate" should be gently dismantled and disarmed. Palestine should be returned in full.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************
RE: Editorial: Iran's reckless course
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145310632177&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
lettertoed@thestar.ca
Dear Editor,
Recklessly empowering Israel as "The Jewish State" we help encourage extremists world wide. Every Palestinian child cruelly tormented and slaughtered by the racist killing machine called Israel (which has been fully armed with money, weaponry and political support from the West) is a poster for any and every cause. And in all of this the true plight and pain of Palestine's children gets easily lost again and again and again... allowing the injustice to escalate and even more Palestinians are being maimed, wounded and killed by racist Israel, more Palestinian families are ripped into pieces and more Palestinian homes are wrecked and destroyed by Zionist aggression, more land and jobs and rights and freedoms are lost... and more Palestinians mourn and despair because the situation is dire and disastrous.
Israel is already fully armed with nuclear war heads- and a very bad attitude. A combustible combination indeed. We need to stop the arms race in the Middle East and we must start with Israel. Gently dismantle and disarm political Zionism and let Palestine return with justice and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***************************************************************************
RE: Start talking with Hamas
http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1145335791280300.xml&coll=1
eletters@starledger.com
Dear Editor,
Has it occurred to any newspapers in America,so deluged by a plethora of distracting Zionist propaganda, that the Palestinians- men, women and even children, hundreds and hundreds of children- have been killed by Israel. And the persecuted Palestinians are killed no matter what they do or don't do, no matter what they say and don't say. .. A passionate youth who has been traumatized and tormented by "The Jewish State" and this constant Zionist war on his entire world will more than likely answer Israel's violence with his own. And he knows that no matter what group he might join the moment he steps forward to fight for Palestinian rights his days are numbered. Even peaceful protesters and cameramen get killed.
Talking with Hamas is a fine and dandy idea... but how about also LISTENING to ALL of Palestine... to all the many human beings who have being crying out for real justice and peace. Listen to the many Muslims and Christians who know deep in their hearts and souls that they have every right to return to their rightful heritage and original homes and land. Talk to the many lawyers who understand that the right to return is an inalienable right enshrined by international law for all of modern Israel's existence. And talk to the many mothers who want a real future for their children. A world beyond war... Listen to dignity and free Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
************************************************************************
RE: The 'American Inquisition'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-04-17-american-inquisition-edit_x.htm
editor@usatoday.com
Dear Editor,
I was relieved to see "The 'American Inquisition'" . And as the brilliant wits of Monty Python said so wisely in their very pithy way "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!" (http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/spanish.html )
The poisoned thread that runs through so much of our misguided response to 9-11, and our leadership leading us so very far astray from every ideal we are supposed to be fighting to protect, has all to do with our very racist "friend" Israel. That ultimate religious delusion whereby a bunch of beguiled fools, including most of our elected Congress, think the best way to fight anti-Semitism is by investing in political Zionism's demented and heavily armed quest to conquer the Holy Land by aggressively usurping Palestinian land and life... and then demonizing the native non-Jews because they dare object.
Short term it seemed to work, but only because this fiasco of injustice and growing rage has been heavily funded by bigots who like the idea of shipping all Jews abroad for whatever reason. However, long term this new modern man made Israel is doomed just like the old one was. The writing is on the wall- literally- the Palestinians want to return .... http://www.al-awda.org/pdf/flyer.pdf... and they will. Sooner really is better than later.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************************
RE: Haniyeh refuses to stop rocket attacks on Israel
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060417-094713-6731r.htm
http://www.washtimes.com/contact-us/
Dear Editor,
Israel has already been hitting the Palestinians hard on multiple fronts, including with bullets and bombs plus punitive checkpoints and closures that help make it possible for Israel to collectively starve and torture the Palestinians in hopes the Palestinians will then be wiling accept the unacceptable... Fact is this whole idea of "The Jewish State" is nothing but institutionalized bigotry. The Palestinian really do have a right to resist this crime against humanity- and we should too.
Political ZZionism's quest to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land of its indigenous non-Jewish population become more nasty and brutal by the day. In the last few years thousands of Palestinians have been killed by racist Israel, including 743 children, many of them mere toddlers and babies. Plus many more Palestinian men, women and children have been wounded. All have been traumatized. In addition: A total of 9,400 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian central bureau of statistics. The figure includes 369 Palestinians who were jailed before the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060417/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianprison_060417105854
Many of Israel's Palestinian prisoners are mere children. One is a mere girl of 15 years. Yet another some one's young sister- daughter- niece- friend- shot in the stomach with an explosive bullet by Israeli solders. " The Israeli authorities put the girl in Hasharon Prison after a month in West Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital before she recovered from her injuries. And despite being promised proper medical care from inside the prison, the girl has received none.""
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18122/1/
Racist Israel is wrong- simply and completely wrong, and for every one's sake we should divest emotionally and financially from this fiasco of escalating injustice and violence. Let Palestine return in full, and let peace come back to the Holy Land with full and equal rights for ALL God's children.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***********************************************************************************
RE: Teen suicide bomber kills 9 in Tel Aviv
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604180289apr18,1,2637499.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com
Dear Editor,
Racist Israel has been attacking and killing Palestinian children - countless children, but they aren't even named in our newspapers, much less headlined. Seems to me the only time we notice and try to explain a Palestinian is within the context of Israel's "suffering". Wake up America. Israel as "The Jewish State" is the aggressor and an ugly crime against humanity.
Political Zionism is a monstrous mistake with disastrous consequences for all. Must we really keep up this charade that Israel as "The Jewish Sate" ever was a good idea !
Granted many Americans before the Internet had no clue what was really going on- but now many of us do know... and we know that our newspapers and our politicians and even our religious leaders have failed us miserably as far as keeping us fully informed. More and more Americans know that the Palestinian refugees have every right to return- and we know that instead of respecting this basic human right they are being starved to death and attacked by the war machine of injustice and bigotry created by political Zionism.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*******************************************************************************
RE: The horror of Hamas & Suicide Bombing Stokes Israel-Hamas Tensions
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-israel18apr18,0,6855203.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
The real horror is how obtuse America is about our "friend" racist Israel: The very idea of "The Jewish State" is in fact, when you examine the evidence, morally repellent, and yet time and time again the persecuted and impoverished Palestinians are demonized and belittled because they dare object to this monstrous crime against humanity.
Political Zionism has become a world wide war on Palestine- on innocent and vulnerable men, women and children who have been imprisoned and tormented by "The Jewish State" in an increasingly violent and cruel occupation of Palestine. Every inch of Palestine on both sides of that monstrous land, rights, and resources grabbing Israeli built apartheid wall, is occupied. And every inch of Palestine should be free. Will be free eventually, hopefully before bad goes to worse.
Before bad goes to worse, racist Israel really should be gently and compassionately dismantled and disarmed for every one's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***************************************************************************
RE: Islamic Jihad has brooked no cease-fire & Suicide bomber kills nine at a restaurant in Tel Aviv
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/14364917.htm
Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com
Dear Editor,
People harshly oppressed and vilified will find a way to freedom- it is only a matter of time. We are fools to think that we can bully and starve the Palestinians into accepting the unacceptable. At best we can prolong every one's suffering and pain by pretending that making peace with the institutionalized bigotry and inherent brutality of "The Jewish State" is in any way a reasonable route to take.
Racist Israel wants us to believe that this is about Islam, and we are foolishly falling for this dangerous ruse. Political Zionism is a modern day evil that seeks to divide and conquer any resistance to the idea of modern man made Israel as "the Jewish State". We've ignored peaceful Palestinian protest. We've ignored and even demonized secular Palestinian resistance. We've ignored racist Israel's cruel campaign to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land and so now Islam is rising to free Palestine.
The writing really is on the wall (http://www.al-awda.org/pdf/flyer.pdf) "We want to return to our homeland" . Gentle words really when you think about it- and a very reasonable request. Its a basic human right that has been clearly spelled out by international law for Israel's entire existence. The Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return is the heart and soul of real resistance to racist Israeli crimes against humanity.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
RE: Former Fla. Professor to Be Deported & Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 9 Israelis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701485.html?referrer=email
letters@washpost.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding the swirl of news centered on Palestinians being accused of terrorism "Former Fla. Professor to Be Deported & Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 9 Israelis"... Dr. Sami Al-Arian was hounded, harassed- unfairly accused and detained- legally lynched by a costly court case inspired in a large part by Israeli propaganda, and yet with all the money and man hours devoted to demonizing him our government simply did not have a case. However this misguided, mean spirited quest to vilify and convict this Palestinian refugee did ruin his life in America- all for Israel. Racist Israel.
Political Zionism's quest to destroy the Palestinians has a very long reach, with horrible ramifications for everyone, including US. Ignoring the real story of Palestine, ignoring peaceful Palestinian protest, ignoring racist Israel's many ongoing crimes against humanity, ignoring racist Israeli injustice, ignoring the very real pain and plight of the Palestinians, and then demonizing their righteous indignation leaves us looking like hypocrites and bigots. This is no way to win hearts and minds in the Middle East.
Israel as "the Jewish State" has done many very bad deeds. Israel as "the Jewish state" is in fact a very bad idea, a toxic delusion and an increasingly dangerous investment... We ignore that central truth at our own peril.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************************
RE: The Tel Aviv atrocity
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2006/04/18/the_tel_aviv_atrocity
letter@globe.com
Dear Editor,
"Protecting the innocent": How dare we be such hypocrites ! Racist Israel has been imprisoning and then killing innocent and vulnerable Palestinian children for its entire monstrous existence as "The Jewish State"!
Don't you know you can't go back again- you can not erase insults. You can not hide political Zionism's intentional destruction of Palestine and pretend that anything about this situation is fair or just. We the American people should not be making peace with the idea of Israel as "The Jewish State". We should not be making peace with the fact that millions of Palestinian refugees remain trapped by Israeli racism in impoverished camps- and then attacked by Zionist settlers and heavily armed Israeli troops- and then demonized because the Palestinians dare object to Israeli bigotry & brutality.
How many Palestinian homes and communities and workplaces and orchards and olive trees has racist Israel wrecked- how many Palestinian families has it pulled apart with checkpoints and curfews- and killings... 743 Palestinian children killed by Israel's state sponsored terror just in the last few years. Where are the angry editorials on that !
Racist Israel is the atrocity, and it is only growing worse. No one should be making peace with that.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*******************************************************************************
RE: Suicide Bombing in Israel Kills 9; Hamas Approves
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?pagewanted=print
letters@nytimes.com
Dear Editor,
Israel is utterly insane and the sooner we realize that the better off every one will be. Protecting political Zionism by ignoring the many ways that racist Israel has been harassing and harming the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, we only arm injustice and more violence and extremism.
Israel as "The Jewish State" is a failed experiment. Its own murderous terror has tainted any potential it might once have had. The indigenous demonized Palestinians have every right to resist in every way they can. We would too if a bunch of heavily armed Christian Zealots from abroad came and did to US what Zionist immigrants have done to Palestine:
"Since the beginning of this intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have arrested around 4,000 Palestinian children, 400 of whom are still in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The process of arrest and detention of Palestinian children is a process of systematic abuse and mistreatment which flouts international legal standards and denies the basic human rights of detainees first as children and secondly as prisoners." http://www.dci-pal.org/
What would we do if these were our own children being detained and traumatized. And why do we not notice the many Palestinian children killed by Israeli troops. How does one throw off the shackles and chains imposed by the tyranny of institutionalized bigotry and oppression when peaceful protest and the true story of Palestine is by and large ignored.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192086,00.html
foxnewsonline@foxnews.com
Dear Editor,
Israel has been playing a nefarious game for years- inflicting huge violence on all Palestinians day in and day out with apartheid insults including that monstrous land and rights grabbing wall and punitive checkpoints, curfews, closures and troop maneuvers not just through the streets but actually right into homes where entire Palestinian families are held hostage.
Many Palestinian homes and communities have been destroyed by one very heavily armed Israel because Israel as "The Jewish State" obviously wants the land- but not the people of the land. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military maneuvers , including many young children.... The Palestinians ARE rejecting violence- they are saying NO to Israel ! They are saying NO to the racist injustice of political Zionism, and they are saying NO to the obvious genocide created by "The Jewish State".... they are saying NO to institutionalized bigotry and injustice- and the pervasive ongoing violence and cruelty of Israel as The Jewish State" stealing and destroying Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***********************************************************************
RE: Israel restricts residency for Hamas lawmakers
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/18/israel.bombing/index.html
submitted as a postive comment http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?35
Dear CNN,
Are we supposed to be grateful that after a month of constant IDF bombing raids and commando attacks Israel isn't launching another one? Catch on please, that political Zionism wants to erase all trace of Palestine- and the real children of the land. This latest move restricting residency is just one of many meant to oppress and torment- divide, conquer and destroy Palestinians individually and collectively- in every way possible.
Racist Israel should be revoked- political Zionism should be labeled the genocidal mechanism its been all along, and "The Jewish Sate" should be gently dismantled and disarmed. Palestine should be returned in full.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************
RE: Editorial: Iran's reckless course
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145310632177&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
lettertoed@thestar.ca
Dear Editor,
Recklessly empowering Israel as "The Jewish State" we help encourage extremists world wide. Every Palestinian child cruelly tormented and slaughtered by the racist killing machine called Israel (which has been fully armed with money, weaponry and political support from the West) is a poster for any and every cause. And in all of this the true plight and pain of Palestine's children gets easily lost again and again and again... allowing the injustice to escalate and even more Palestinians are being maimed, wounded and killed by racist Israel, more Palestinian families are ripped into pieces and more Palestinian homes are wrecked and destroyed by Zionist aggression, more land and jobs and rights and freedoms are lost... and more Palestinians mourn and despair because the situation is dire and disastrous.
Israel is already fully armed with nuclear war heads- and a very bad attitude. A combustible combination indeed. We need to stop the arms race in the Middle East and we must start with Israel. Gently dismantle and disarm political Zionism and let Palestine return with justice and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***************************************************************************
RE: Start talking with Hamas
http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1145335791280300.xml&coll=1
eletters@starledger.com
Dear Editor,
Has it occurred to any newspapers in America,so deluged by a plethora of distracting Zionist propaganda, that the Palestinians- men, women and even children, hundreds and hundreds of children- have been killed by Israel. And the persecuted Palestinians are killed no matter what they do or don't do, no matter what they say and don't say. .. A passionate youth who has been traumatized and tormented by "The Jewish State" and this constant Zionist war on his entire world will more than likely answer Israel's violence with his own. And he knows that no matter what group he might join the moment he steps forward to fight for Palestinian rights his days are numbered. Even peaceful protesters and cameramen get killed.
Talking with Hamas is a fine and dandy idea... but how about also LISTENING to ALL of Palestine... to all the many human beings who have being crying out for real justice and peace. Listen to the many Muslims and Christians who know deep in their hearts and souls that they have every right to return to their rightful heritage and original homes and land. Talk to the many lawyers who understand that the right to return is an inalienable right enshrined by international law for all of modern Israel's existence. And talk to the many mothers who want a real future for their children. A world beyond war... Listen to dignity and free Palestine.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
************************************************************************
RE: The 'American Inquisition'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-04-17-american-inquisition-edit_x.htm
editor@usatoday.com
Dear Editor,
I was relieved to see "The 'American Inquisition'" . And as the brilliant wits of Monty Python said so wisely in their very pithy way "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!" (http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/spanish.html )
The poisoned thread that runs through so much of our misguided response to 9-11, and our leadership leading us so very far astray from every ideal we are supposed to be fighting to protect, has all to do with our very racist "friend" Israel. That ultimate religious delusion whereby a bunch of beguiled fools, including most of our elected Congress, think the best way to fight anti-Semitism is by investing in political Zionism's demented and heavily armed quest to conquer the Holy Land by aggressively usurping Palestinian land and life... and then demonizing the native non-Jews because they dare object.
Short term it seemed to work, but only because this fiasco of injustice and growing rage has been heavily funded by bigots who like the idea of shipping all Jews abroad for whatever reason. However, long term this new modern man made Israel is doomed just like the old one was. The writing is on the wall- literally- the Palestinians want to return .... http://www.al-awda.org/pdf/flyer.pdf... and they will. Sooner really is better than later.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************************
RE: Haniyeh refuses to stop rocket attacks on Israel
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060417-094713-6731r.htm
http://www.washtimes.com/contact-us/
Dear Editor,
Israel has already been hitting the Palestinians hard on multiple fronts, including with bullets and bombs plus punitive checkpoints and closures that help make it possible for Israel to collectively starve and torture the Palestinians in hopes the Palestinians will then be wiling accept the unacceptable... Fact is this whole idea of "The Jewish State" is nothing but institutionalized bigotry. The Palestinian really do have a right to resist this crime against humanity- and we should too.
Political ZZionism's quest to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land of its indigenous non-Jewish population become more nasty and brutal by the day. In the last few years thousands of Palestinians have been killed by racist Israel, including 743 children, many of them mere toddlers and babies. Plus many more Palestinian men, women and children have been wounded. All have been traumatized. In addition: A total of 9,400 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian central bureau of statistics. The figure includes 369 Palestinians who were jailed before the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060417/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianprison_060417105854
Many of Israel's Palestinian prisoners are mere children. One is a mere girl of 15 years. Yet another some one's young sister- daughter- niece- friend- shot in the stomach with an explosive bullet by Israeli solders. " The Israeli authorities put the girl in Hasharon Prison after a month in West Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital before she recovered from her injuries. And despite being promised proper medical care from inside the prison, the girl has received none.""
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18122/1/
Racist Israel is wrong- simply and completely wrong, and for every one's sake we should divest emotionally and financially from this fiasco of escalating injustice and violence. Let Palestine return in full, and let peace come back to the Holy Land with full and equal rights for ALL God's children.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***********************************************************************************
RE: Teen suicide bomber kills 9 in Tel Aviv
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604180289apr18,1,2637499.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com
Dear Editor,
Racist Israel has been attacking and killing Palestinian children - countless children, but they aren't even named in our newspapers, much less headlined. Seems to me the only time we notice and try to explain a Palestinian is within the context of Israel's "suffering". Wake up America. Israel as "The Jewish State" is the aggressor and an ugly crime against humanity.
Political Zionism is a monstrous mistake with disastrous consequences for all. Must we really keep up this charade that Israel as "The Jewish Sate" ever was a good idea !
Granted many Americans before the Internet had no clue what was really going on- but now many of us do know... and we know that our newspapers and our politicians and even our religious leaders have failed us miserably as far as keeping us fully informed. More and more Americans know that the Palestinian refugees have every right to return- and we know that instead of respecting this basic human right they are being starved to death and attacked by the war machine of injustice and bigotry created by political Zionism.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*******************************************************************************
RE: The horror of Hamas & Suicide Bombing Stokes Israel-Hamas Tensions
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-israel18apr18,0,6855203.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
The real horror is how obtuse America is about our "friend" racist Israel: The very idea of "The Jewish State" is in fact, when you examine the evidence, morally repellent, and yet time and time again the persecuted and impoverished Palestinians are demonized and belittled because they dare object to this monstrous crime against humanity.
Political Zionism has become a world wide war on Palestine- on innocent and vulnerable men, women and children who have been imprisoned and tormented by "The Jewish State" in an increasingly violent and cruel occupation of Palestine. Every inch of Palestine on both sides of that monstrous land, rights, and resources grabbing Israeli built apartheid wall, is occupied. And every inch of Palestine should be free. Will be free eventually, hopefully before bad goes to worse.
Before bad goes to worse, racist Israel really should be gently and compassionately dismantled and disarmed for every one's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
***************************************************************************
RE: Islamic Jihad has brooked no cease-fire & Suicide bomber kills nine at a restaurant in Tel Aviv
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/14364917.htm
Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com
Dear Editor,
People harshly oppressed and vilified will find a way to freedom- it is only a matter of time. We are fools to think that we can bully and starve the Palestinians into accepting the unacceptable. At best we can prolong every one's suffering and pain by pretending that making peace with the institutionalized bigotry and inherent brutality of "The Jewish State" is in any way a reasonable route to take.
Racist Israel wants us to believe that this is about Islam, and we are foolishly falling for this dangerous ruse. Political Zionism is a modern day evil that seeks to divide and conquer any resistance to the idea of modern man made Israel as "the Jewish State". We've ignored peaceful Palestinian protest. We've ignored and even demonized secular Palestinian resistance. We've ignored racist Israel's cruel campaign to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land and so now Islam is rising to free Palestine.
The writing really is on the wall (http://www.al-awda.org/pdf/flyer.pdf) "We want to return to our homeland" . Gentle words really when you think about it- and a very reasonable request. Its a basic human right that has been clearly spelled out by international law for Israel's entire existence. The Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return is the heart and soul of real resistance to racist Israeli crimes against humanity.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
RE: Former Fla. Professor to Be Deported & Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 9 Israelis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701485.html?referrer=email
letters@washpost.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding the swirl of news centered on Palestinians being accused of terrorism "Former Fla. Professor to Be Deported & Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 9 Israelis"... Dr. Sami Al-Arian was hounded, harassed- unfairly accused and detained- legally lynched by a costly court case inspired in a large part by Israeli propaganda, and yet with all the money and man hours devoted to demonizing him our government simply did not have a case. However this misguided, mean spirited quest to vilify and convict this Palestinian refugee did ruin his life in America- all for Israel. Racist Israel.
Political Zionism's quest to destroy the Palestinians has a very long reach, with horrible ramifications for everyone, including US. Ignoring the real story of Palestine, ignoring peaceful Palestinian protest, ignoring racist Israel's many ongoing crimes against humanity, ignoring racist Israeli injustice, ignoring the very real pain and plight of the Palestinians, and then demonizing their righteous indignation leaves us looking like hypocrites and bigots. This is no way to win hearts and minds in the Middle East.
Israel as "the Jewish State" has done many very bad deeds. Israel as "the Jewish state" is in fact a very bad idea, a toxic delusion and an increasingly dangerous investment... We ignore that central truth at our own peril.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************************
RE: The Tel Aviv atrocity
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2006/04/18/the_tel_aviv_atrocity
letter@globe.com
Dear Editor,
"Protecting the innocent": How dare we be such hypocrites ! Racist Israel has been imprisoning and then killing innocent and vulnerable Palestinian children for its entire monstrous existence as "The Jewish State"!
Don't you know you can't go back again- you can not erase insults. You can not hide political Zionism's intentional destruction of Palestine and pretend that anything about this situation is fair or just. We the American people should not be making peace with the idea of Israel as "The Jewish State". We should not be making peace with the fact that millions of Palestinian refugees remain trapped by Israeli racism in impoverished camps- and then attacked by Zionist settlers and heavily armed Israeli troops- and then demonized because the Palestinians dare object to Israeli bigotry & brutality.
How many Palestinian homes and communities and workplaces and orchards and olive trees has racist Israel wrecked- how many Palestinian families has it pulled apart with checkpoints and curfews- and killings... 743 Palestinian children killed by Israel's state sponsored terror just in the last few years. Where are the angry editorials on that !
Racist Israel is the atrocity, and it is only growing worse. No one should be making peace with that.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*******************************************************************************
RE: Suicide Bombing in Israel Kills 9; Hamas Approves
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?pagewanted=print
letters@nytimes.com
Dear Editor,
Israel is utterly insane and the sooner we realize that the better off every one will be. Protecting political Zionism by ignoring the many ways that racist Israel has been harassing and harming the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, we only arm injustice and more violence and extremism.
Israel as "The Jewish State" is a failed experiment. Its own murderous terror has tainted any potential it might once have had. The indigenous demonized Palestinians have every right to resist in every way they can. We would too if a bunch of heavily armed Christian Zealots from abroad came and did to US what Zionist immigrants have done to Palestine:
"Since the beginning of this intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have arrested around 4,000 Palestinian children, 400 of whom are still in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The process of arrest and detention of Palestinian children is a process of systematic abuse and mistreatment which flouts international legal standards and denies the basic human rights of detainees first as children and secondly as prisoners." http://www.dci-pal.org/
What would we do if these were our own children being detained and traumatized. And why do we not notice the many Palestinian children killed by Israeli troops. How does one throw off the shackles and chains imposed by the tyranny of institutionalized bigotry and oppression when peaceful protest and the true story of Palestine is by and large ignored.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
******************************************************************************************
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p07s01-wome.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=CFF0C5E4&url=/2006/0418/p07s01-wome.html
Dear Editor,
That monstrous Israeli built wall has nothing to do with seeking peace for any one any where. Israel as "The Jewish State" has spent the past 58 sovereign years cruelly- and intentionally- displacing and dispossessing the native non-Jewish Palestinians. Israel has been pushing Palestinian families and communities into poverty and despair- on both sides of that awful wall, and then demonizing them because they dare object to blatant injustice. The path and the purpose of that nasty wall is merely a natural part of political Zionism's ongoing apartheid and world wide war on Palestine... and we are idiots to being aiding and abetting this crime against humanity.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**************************************************************************
RE: By their words Hamas has to be judged on what it says and does about terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2138694,00.html
letters@thetimes.co.uk
Dear Sir,
By their words indeed ! What about racist Israel which has some non-stop loud actions including sonic booms and bombing raids and snipper attacks engineered to terrorize all the many Palestinian men, women and children trapped in the open aired prisons, both Gaza and the West Bank. Israel only kills a few Palestinians at a time so as not to be too obvious that this really is genocide. What about the many ways that racist Israel makes it obvious that Zionist thieves and thugs will continue to steal Palestinian land and life and then vilify the Palestinians because they dare object. By their words indeed. For years and years and years, every one ignores the Palestinians, ignores their words, ignores their perspective, ignores their basic human rights, ignores international law- ignores the plight of millions of displaced refugees, ignores their pain and suffering, ignores their children killed in cold blood, ignores everything, until some poor desperate soul carries out a suicide bombing. What about Israel's own many crimes against humanity !
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************
RE: Hamas's weasel words bode ill for peace & Israel on knife edge after suicide bombing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/18/dl1801.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/04/18/ixopinion.html
dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
Dear Editor,
Regarding " Hamas's weasel words bode ill for peace"... Hamas has merely been resistance to the blatant injustice of and by "The Jewish State". Resistance is a right any oppressed group of people have no matter what tyrants and fools try to tell us about terrorism.
What is really wicked are all the many weasel words by a certain nation that decided to endorse political ZZionism in the first place. At least Balfour had the grace to mention the fact that "it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Glancing at the fact that millions of Palestinian refugees starve and suffer in refugee camps because "The Jewish State" refuses to respect their legal right to return I'd say the Zionist immigrants stealing and destroying Palestine never have paid much attention to that very crucial point !
And the evil momentum of political Zionism just keeps on getting more and more monstrous: Racist Israel's state sponsored terror just in the past few weeks has killed at least 26 Palestinians, including at least 5 young children -- and injured 161 Palestinian men, women and children.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************
RE: Hamas calls again for unity government & TV images skewing Americans' view of peaceful Islam, Muslim leaders say & Campaigning from the pulpit: Why not?
editor@usatoday.com
Dear Editor,
I do not think it helps matters anywhere that many misguided Zionists wanting to shore up support for the idea of arming "The Jewish State" we call Israel, have been manipulating the conversation by pushing to define moderate Muslim by using approval of Israel's existence as the rule of thumb for what is considered reasonable.
Wake up America- This is not a reasonable situation and political Zionism is not a reasonable ideology. Israeli made concrete walls of hate simply are not reasonable, nor is political Zionism's world wide war on the people of Palestine.
Rule of thumb for what is reasonable should be who is willing to respect our the real heritage of humankind! Who is willing to help build a decent future for all God's children .... Who is willing to respect Palestinian voices... Who is willing to enthusiastically empower fair and just laws including international law and the Universal Declaration of Human rights- and U.N Resolution 194 from 1948, the Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return to live in peace.
Rule of thumb for reasonable must be real justice and a lasting peace based on full funding and support for the Palestinians inalienable, legal, ethical, and moral right of return.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**************************************************************************************
RE: Actions speak louder than religion (great letter by Thalassa Ali) & Pope Benedict offers first Easter view , Paschal prayer alludes to nuclear weapons, and speaks of Iraq
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/04/17/actions_speak_louder_than_religion/
letter@globe.com
Dear Editor,
With Papal authority formally endorsing the idea of institutionalized bigotry by way of affirming Israel's "right" to exist as, one must presume, The Jewish State which has been waging a blatantly racist world wide war on the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, it is a great relief to at least see one humble letter empowering human decency and dignity. Thank you for publishing "Actions speak louder than religion" the great letter by Thalassa Ali.
Gently endorsing Israeli racism and apartheid is not real gentleness, nor is it in any way kind or compassionate. It is only PR by fools beguiled by political Zionism, fools using public pulpits to accidentally advocate continued the oppression, brutality, injustice and state sponsored terror dictated by the demographic demands of sustaining Israel in any way as "The Jewish State": Polite spin covering up a very rude crime against humanity.
For all humankind's sake we need to free our thoughts, open hearts and minds with more honest & compassionate prayers for Palestine- fully free the everyone from the ugly prison that racist Israel has made.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
RE: Jerusalem, Now
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/16jerusalem.html
letters@nytimes.com
Dear Editor,
I very much enjoyed your multimedia slide show slide show "Jerusalem, Now", but feel the text of the touristy article failed to fully explore the headlined topic. Israeli tourism (& immigration) is such a tease, come play biblical figure, while we play God with Palestinian land and life.
With millions of Palestinian refugees refused basic rights, freedoms and security anywhere, racist Israel advertises itself as a fun place to visit. Once upon a time Southern plantations were fun too as long as you were the valued guest on the veranda, oblivious to the slave quarters and the suffering conveniently tucked out of view.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************
RE: Benedict Urges Peace in His First Easter Address
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pope17apr17,1,370548.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
I am convinced that the Pope, like many other fools in power including our own President, is making a huge mistake in reaffirming racist Israel's right to exist.
"Since the beginning of this intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have arrested around 4,000 Palestinian children, 400 of whom are still in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The process of arrest and detention of Palestinian children is a process of systematic abuse and mistreatment which flouts international legal standards and denies the basic human rights of detainees first as children and secondly as prisoners." http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=484&CategoryId=1
Had Israel emerged in 1948 fully committed to real democracy and real freedom with dignity, security and respect for all people, including the Palestinians, odds are Israel could very well have become a Jewish State with Palestinian support. Considering the world wide funding for Israel, generously bribing indigenous Arab citizens and existing Palestinian communities to thrive alongside the shrines to the many victims of the Nazi Holocaust certainly would have been much more effective path to prosperity than the course Israel chose. 58 years of insulting and intentionally impoverishing the natives of the land, bulldozing their homes, usurping their land, oppressing them, demonizing them and denying them their basic human rights... it all adds up: Israel as is is wrong- in a very evil way.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************************
RE: Hammering Hamas
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.hamas17apr17,0,5897161.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines
letters@baltsun.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "Hammering Hamas"... honestly the end game should be end of Israel as we know it. The should be no such thing as "The Jewish State". That nasty wall in the West bank should be dismantled and racist Israel should be disarmed in every way.
Religion can be used for good or evil. Martin Luther King Jr.'s firm convictions about freedom and equality were empowered by his religious background. King helped open hearts and minds and make a more real American democracy with full and equal rights for all. In sharp contrast Israel as "The Jewish State" has been doing the opposite. It has created a situation where all Palestinians are political prisoners of one kind or another. It has imposed segregation. And it has bombed Palestinian refugee camps.
Racist Israel is a monstrous crime against humanity. Islam should not be the only voice willing to speak out for real justice and a lasting peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
RE: Attack tests Israeli response to Hamas
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p07s01-wome.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=CFF0C5E4&url=/2006/0418/p07s01-wome.html
Dear Editor,
That monstrous Israeli built wall has nothing to do with seeking peace for any one any where. Israel as "The Jewish State" has spent the past 58 sovereign years cruelly- and intentionally- displacing and dispossessing the native non-Jewish Palestinians. Israel has been pushing Palestinian families and communities into poverty and despair- on both sides of that awful wall, and then demonizing them because they dare object to blatant injustice. The path and the purpose of that nasty wall is merely a natural part of political Zionism's ongoing apartheid and world wide war on Palestine... and we are idiots to being aiding and abetting this crime against humanity.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**************************************************************************
RE: By their words Hamas has to be judged on what it says and does about terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2138694,00.html
letters@thetimes.co.uk
Dear Sir,
By their words indeed ! What about racist Israel which has some non-stop loud actions including sonic booms and bombing raids and snipper attacks engineered to terrorize all the many Palestinian men, women and children trapped in the open aired prisons, both Gaza and the West Bank. Israel only kills a few Palestinians at a time so as not to be too obvious that this really is genocide. What about the many ways that racist Israel makes it obvious that Zionist thieves and thugs will continue to steal Palestinian land and life and then vilify the Palestinians because they dare object. By their words indeed. For years and years and years, every one ignores the Palestinians, ignores their words, ignores their perspective, ignores their basic human rights, ignores international law- ignores the plight of millions of displaced refugees, ignores their pain and suffering, ignores their children killed in cold blood, ignores everything, until some poor desperate soul carries out a suicide bombing. What about Israel's own many crimes against humanity !
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**********************************************************************
RE: Hamas's weasel words bode ill for peace & Israel on knife edge after suicide bombing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/18/dl1801.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/04/18/ixopinion.html
dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
Dear Editor,
Regarding " Hamas's weasel words bode ill for peace"... Hamas has merely been resistance to the blatant injustice of and by "The Jewish State". Resistance is a right any oppressed group of people have no matter what tyrants and fools try to tell us about terrorism.
What is really wicked are all the many weasel words by a certain nation that decided to endorse political ZZionism in the first place. At least Balfour had the grace to mention the fact that "it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Glancing at the fact that millions of Palestinian refugees starve and suffer in refugee camps because "The Jewish State" refuses to respect their legal right to return I'd say the Zionist immigrants stealing and destroying Palestine never have paid much attention to that very crucial point !
And the evil momentum of political Zionism just keeps on getting more and more monstrous: Racist Israel's state sponsored terror just in the past few weeks has killed at least 26 Palestinians, including at least 5 young children -- and injured 161 Palestinian men, women and children.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************
RE: Hamas calls again for unity government & TV images skewing Americans' view of peaceful Islam, Muslim leaders say & Campaigning from the pulpit: Why not?
editor@usatoday.com
Dear Editor,
I do not think it helps matters anywhere that many misguided Zionists wanting to shore up support for the idea of arming "The Jewish State" we call Israel, have been manipulating the conversation by pushing to define moderate Muslim by using approval of Israel's existence as the rule of thumb for what is considered reasonable.
Wake up America- This is not a reasonable situation and political Zionism is not a reasonable ideology. Israeli made concrete walls of hate simply are not reasonable, nor is political Zionism's world wide war on the people of Palestine.
Rule of thumb for what is reasonable should be who is willing to respect our the real heritage of humankind! Who is willing to help build a decent future for all God's children .... Who is willing to respect Palestinian voices... Who is willing to enthusiastically empower fair and just laws including international law and the Universal Declaration of Human rights- and U.N Resolution 194 from 1948, the Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return to live in peace.
Rule of thumb for reasonable must be real justice and a lasting peace based on full funding and support for the Palestinians inalienable, legal, ethical, and moral right of return.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
**************************************************************************************
RE: Actions speak louder than religion (great letter by Thalassa Ali) & Pope Benedict offers first Easter view , Paschal prayer alludes to nuclear weapons, and speaks of Iraq
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/04/17/actions_speak_louder_than_religion/
letter@globe.com
Dear Editor,
With Papal authority formally endorsing the idea of institutionalized bigotry by way of affirming Israel's "right" to exist as, one must presume, The Jewish State which has been waging a blatantly racist world wide war on the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, it is a great relief to at least see one humble letter empowering human decency and dignity. Thank you for publishing "Actions speak louder than religion" the great letter by Thalassa Ali.
Gently endorsing Israeli racism and apartheid is not real gentleness, nor is it in any way kind or compassionate. It is only PR by fools beguiled by political Zionism, fools using public pulpits to accidentally advocate continued the oppression, brutality, injustice and state sponsored terror dictated by the demographic demands of sustaining Israel in any way as "The Jewish State": Polite spin covering up a very rude crime against humanity.
For all humankind's sake we need to free our thoughts, open hearts and minds with more honest & compassionate prayers for Palestine- fully free the everyone from the ugly prison that racist Israel has made.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************************
RE: Jerusalem, Now
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/16jerusalem.html
letters@nytimes.com
Dear Editor,
I very much enjoyed your multimedia slide show slide show "Jerusalem, Now", but feel the text of the touristy article failed to fully explore the headlined topic. Israeli tourism (& immigration) is such a tease, come play biblical figure, while we play God with Palestinian land and life.
With millions of Palestinian refugees refused basic rights, freedoms and security anywhere, racist Israel advertises itself as a fun place to visit. Once upon a time Southern plantations were fun too as long as you were the valued guest on the veranda, oblivious to the slave quarters and the suffering conveniently tucked out of view.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*********************************************************************
RE: Benedict Urges Peace in His First Easter Address
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pope17apr17,1,370548.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
I am convinced that the Pope, like many other fools in power including our own President, is making a huge mistake in reaffirming racist Israel's right to exist.
"Since the beginning of this intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have arrested around 4,000 Palestinian children, 400 of whom are still in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The process of arrest and detention of Palestinian children is a process of systematic abuse and mistreatment which flouts international legal standards and denies the basic human rights of detainees first as children and secondly as prisoners." http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=484&CategoryId=1
Had Israel emerged in 1948 fully committed to real democracy and real freedom with dignity, security and respect for all people, including the Palestinians, odds are Israel could very well have become a Jewish State with Palestinian support. Considering the world wide funding for Israel, generously bribing indigenous Arab citizens and existing Palestinian communities to thrive alongside the shrines to the many victims of the Nazi Holocaust certainly would have been much more effective path to prosperity than the course Israel chose. 58 years of insulting and intentionally impoverishing the natives of the land, bulldozing their homes, usurping their land, oppressing them, demonizing them and denying them their basic human rights... it all adds up: Israel as is is wrong- in a very evil way.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
*************************************************************************************
RE: Hammering Hamas
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.hamas17apr17,0,5897161.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines
letters@baltsun.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "Hammering Hamas"... honestly the end game should be end of Israel as we know it. The should be no such thing as "The Jewish State". That nasty wall in the West bank should be dismantled and racist Israel should be disarmed in every way.
Religion can be used for good or evil. Martin Luther King Jr.'s firm convictions about freedom and equality were empowered by his religious background. King helped open hearts and minds and make a more real American democracy with full and equal rights for all. In sharp contrast Israel as "The Jewish State" has been doing the opposite. It has created a situation where all Palestinians are political prisoners of one kind or another. It has imposed segregation. And it has bombed Palestinian refugee camps.
Racist Israel is a monstrous crime against humanity. Islam should not be the only voice willing to speak out for real justice and a lasting peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
********************************************************************************************
**********************************************************************************
RE: "Hamas choice" letter by LORD TURNBERG
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2137336,00.html
letters@thetimes.co.uk
Dear Sir,
It is such a shame to still see so many fools like Lord Turnberg, so willing to wallow in toxic Zionist propaganda as if any peace will ever be had by stepping into the swill of institutionalized bigotry, injustice and state sponsored terror that is Israel, aiding and abetting that very racist nation in demonizing and destroying the indigenous Palestinian people.
I think Hamas has every right to refuse to bow down and idolize "The Jewish Sate" that has been usurping Palestinian land and life, and I very much wish secular America would join them on this wise course of action. No good has come from modern Israel, only constant lies about security and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
************************************************************************
RE: Iran's leader will meet Saddam's fate, says Peres
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article358209.ece
letters@independent.co.uk
Dear Editor,
I am sincerely looking forward to the time at last when Israel gets what is due, for indeed as Mr. Peres so succinctly states history ostracizes "the lunatics and those who brandish swords. Everyone who behaves like that ends the same way.""
I just hope that everyone has enough sense and compassion to end it gently. Let political Zionism be seen as the contemptuous ideology and evil it is, and let Palestine return in full to bloom not with the bullets and bombs of "The Jewish State" but with the true beauty of justice, human graciousness, dignity and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
***********************************************************************************
RE: U.S. filings discuss Islam scholar's ban
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604160365apr16,1,7229611.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com
Dear Editor,
A scholar's thoughts can easily be communicated via emails and the Internet- but true cultural exchange and respect and a comfortable dialogue with a trusted friend can not be achieved in the same way. It is our loss that our government has become so obsessed with accusing Arabs and Muslims of being terrorists. Our future as a global player has already been diminished by our arrogant wars and our enthusiastic support of the blatantly bigoted and cruel Israel. It's the same theme you know. Racist Israel interferes with Palestinian life on every level, even prevents children from going to school.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
*****************************************************************************
RE: A Radioactive Dilemma Wanted: a sensible policy to check Tehran's nuke program
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12335362/site/newsweek/
Letters@newsweek.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "A Radioactive Dilemma Wanted: a sensible policy to check Tehran's nuke program". Hearts and minds programs are a very good idea indeed... let's start with our own. Let's look more closely at already nuclear armed Israel that major thorn in the paw of peace, currently forcing all the world to limp and whine and yelp in one way or another. Israel as "The Jewish State" is the great divider, the cultural rift between East and West whereby American money, weapons, religious lunacy and hypocrisy shapes angst, anger, totalitarian terror- and more and more war. We should disarm and dismantle our friendship with "The Jewish State" and hope that Palestine can return with much more dignity, grace and tolerance- maybe even real democracy- than racist Israel has ever shown.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
**********************************************************************
RE : The Tomatoes of Wrath, With Hamas in power, Palestinians face financial shortfalls, shortages and spoiled vegetables
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1184062,00.html
letters@time.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "The Tomatoes of Wrath, With Hamas in power, Palestinians face financial shortfalls, shortages and spoiled vegetables" . Don't put the cart before the horse. Israel began it's economic stranglehold on the Palestinians long before Hamas was elected. However- thank you for mentioning that the phrase "Palestinian refugee". That is an important part of the equation of inequality created by political Zionism. Millions of Palestinian refugees wait for Israel to respect international law and their inalienable right of return. But instead of complying with the dictates of international and moral law Israel build a concrete apartheid wall and now bombs Palestinian refugee camps. Considering Israel's obvious institutionalized bigotry, huge arsenal of lethal weaponry- including nuclear warheads- and growing cruelty why exactly should any one want racist Israel to continue to exist ?
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
************************************************************************
RE: One Last Thing | Judeo-Christian tradition adapts, not so Islam
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/14351204.htm
Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com
Dear Editor,
This Easter there is no celebration of the stone rolled away- much less Passover freedom. Instead Islam is slammed once again as if there really is such a thing as "Judeo-Christian". That particular term by the way is a political one, meant to draw political lines in the sand, divide and conquer, empowering war and injustice by creating differences.
Did Christ rise so we could create Zionism and wreck Palestinians homes, traumatize and torment the living links to our Christian heritage ?
Did Christ rise so we could bomb the cradle of civilization ?
Did Christ rise so we could teach hate ?
"One Last Thing | Judeo-Christian tradition adapts, not so Islam" by Jonathan Last is an embarrassment and an abomination: Rather than reflecting the truth about Islam all it did was illustrate how Christians and Jews are mutually blinded by bigotry and a cruel desire to create a irreconcilable differences within the three Abrahamic faiths.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
************************************************************************************
RE: Palestinians Protest Pay Delay
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza16apr16,1,4049747.story?coll=la-headlines-world
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
While Israel is busy arresting sleeping Palestinian children ( Israeli troops arrested a 13 year old Palestinian child while he was sleeping, in a raid on a West Bank village ... ) http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=9a47f0f91e821b5cdb91e0312e2662895c16c253
Our "news" papers ignore that and instead feature Palestinian protest as if it all a matter of crazed militants seeking pay.
Righteous indignation and peaceful Palestinian protest against racist Israeli oppression and cruelty are by and large ignored, distorting the picture of what is really going on and who the Palestinians really are. They are people, simply people. Living breathing thinking feeling human beings. Families displaced and destroyed by political Zionism... Men , women and children demonized and impoverished by "the Jewish State" no matter they do or don't do.
Protest at Beit Sira " A well, that was crucial to the water supply of the village, is on the far side of the wall. Israel pumps the water from the well and sells it back to the Palestinian Authority. So the people of Beit Sira now have to pay 4 shekels/cubic meter for their water, whilst people in the illegal Israeli settlement of Makkabim pay just 1 1/2 shekels/cubic meter for water stolen from Beit Sira.
RE: "Hamas choice" letter by LORD TURNBERG
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2137336,00.html
letters@thetimes.co.uk
Dear Sir,
It is such a shame to still see so many fools like Lord Turnberg, so willing to wallow in toxic Zionist propaganda as if any peace will ever be had by stepping into the swill of institutionalized bigotry, injustice and state sponsored terror that is Israel, aiding and abetting that very racist nation in demonizing and destroying the indigenous Palestinian people.
I think Hamas has every right to refuse to bow down and idolize "The Jewish Sate" that has been usurping Palestinian land and life, and I very much wish secular America would join them on this wise course of action. No good has come from modern Israel, only constant lies about security and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
************************************************************************
RE: Iran's leader will meet Saddam's fate, says Peres
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article358209.ece
letters@independent.co.uk
Dear Editor,
I am sincerely looking forward to the time at last when Israel gets what is due, for indeed as Mr. Peres so succinctly states history ostracizes "the lunatics and those who brandish swords. Everyone who behaves like that ends the same way.""
I just hope that everyone has enough sense and compassion to end it gently. Let political Zionism be seen as the contemptuous ideology and evil it is, and let Palestine return in full to bloom not with the bullets and bombs of "The Jewish State" but with the true beauty of justice, human graciousness, dignity and peace.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
***********************************************************************************
RE: U.S. filings discuss Islam scholar's ban
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604160365apr16,1,7229611.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com
Dear Editor,
A scholar's thoughts can easily be communicated via emails and the Internet- but true cultural exchange and respect and a comfortable dialogue with a trusted friend can not be achieved in the same way. It is our loss that our government has become so obsessed with accusing Arabs and Muslims of being terrorists. Our future as a global player has already been diminished by our arrogant wars and our enthusiastic support of the blatantly bigoted and cruel Israel. It's the same theme you know. Racist Israel interferes with Palestinian life on every level, even prevents children from going to school.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
*****************************************************************************
RE: A Radioactive Dilemma Wanted: a sensible policy to check Tehran's nuke program
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12335362/site/newsweek/
Letters@newsweek.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "A Radioactive Dilemma Wanted: a sensible policy to check Tehran's nuke program". Hearts and minds programs are a very good idea indeed... let's start with our own. Let's look more closely at already nuclear armed Israel that major thorn in the paw of peace, currently forcing all the world to limp and whine and yelp in one way or another. Israel as "The Jewish State" is the great divider, the cultural rift between East and West whereby American money, weapons, religious lunacy and hypocrisy shapes angst, anger, totalitarian terror- and more and more war. We should disarm and dismantle our friendship with "The Jewish State" and hope that Palestine can return with much more dignity, grace and tolerance- maybe even real democracy- than racist Israel has ever shown.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
(not posted)
**********************************************************************
RE : The Tomatoes of Wrath, With Hamas in power, Palestinians face financial shortfalls, shortages and spoiled vegetables
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1184062,00.html
letters@time.com
Dear Editor,
Regarding "The Tomatoes of Wrath, With Hamas in power, Palestinians face financial shortfalls, shortages and spoiled vegetables" . Don't put the cart before the horse. Israel began it's economic stranglehold on the Palestinians long before Hamas was elected. However- thank you for mentioning that the phrase "Palestinian refugee". That is an important part of the equation of inequality created by political Zionism. Millions of Palestinian refugees wait for Israel to respect international law and their inalienable right of return. But instead of complying with the dictates of international and moral law Israel build a concrete apartheid wall and now bombs Palestinian refugee camps. Considering Israel's obvious institutionalized bigotry, huge arsenal of lethal weaponry- including nuclear warheads- and growing cruelty why exactly should any one want racist Israel to continue to exist ?
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
************************************************************************
RE: One Last Thing | Judeo-Christian tradition adapts, not so Islam
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/14351204.htm
Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com
Dear Editor,
This Easter there is no celebration of the stone rolled away- much less Passover freedom. Instead Islam is slammed once again as if there really is such a thing as "Judeo-Christian". That particular term by the way is a political one, meant to draw political lines in the sand, divide and conquer, empowering war and injustice by creating differences.
Did Christ rise so we could create Zionism and wreck Palestinians homes, traumatize and torment the living links to our Christian heritage ?
Did Christ rise so we could bomb the cradle of civilization ?
Did Christ rise so we could teach hate ?
"One Last Thing | Judeo-Christian tradition adapts, not so Islam" by Jonathan Last is an embarrassment and an abomination: Rather than reflecting the truth about Islam all it did was illustrate how Christians and Jews are mutually blinded by bigotry and a cruel desire to create a irreconcilable differences within the three Abrahamic faiths.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
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RE: Palestinians Protest Pay Delay
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza16apr16,1,4049747.story?coll=la-headlines-world
letters@latimes.com
Dear Editor,
While Israel is busy arresting sleeping Palestinian children ( Israeli troops arrested a 13 year old Palestinian child while he was sleeping, in a raid on a West Bank village ... ) http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=9a47f0f91e821b5cdb91e0312e2662895c16c253
Our "news" papers ignore that and instead feature Palestinian protest as if it all a matter of crazed militants seeking pay.
Righteous indignation and peaceful Palestinian protest against racist Israeli oppression and cruelty are by and large ignored, distorting the picture of what is really going on and who the Palestinians really are. They are people, simply people. Living breathing thinking feeling human beings. Families displaced and destroyed by political Zionism... Men , women and children demonized and impoverished by "the Jewish State" no matter they do or don't do.
Protest at Beit Sira " A well, that was crucial to the water supply of the village, is on the far side of the wall. Israel pumps the water from the well and sells it back to the Palestinian Authority. So the people of Beit Sira now have to pay 4 shekels/cubic meter for their water, whilst people in the illegal Israeli settlement of Makkabim pay just 1 1/2 shekels/cubic meter for water stolen from Beit Sira.