Annie's letters: 7/2/06

Saturday, July 08, 2006

notes 7-9-2006

notes 7-9-2006
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P. A Health Minister: “40 killed, 178 injured in 48 hours” Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Sunday, 09 July 2006, 04:00 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19871&Itemid=1

Dr. Basim Na’im, the Palestinian Minister of Health, reported on Saturday evening that the Israeli army killed 40 Palestinians, including one in the West Bank, and injured 178 residents, including 23 in the West Bank, in the last 48 hours.
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Mother, her 5-year old daughter and 20-year old son killed east of Gaza city, Saturday night Saed Bannoura-IMEMC & Agencies - Sunday, 09 July 2006, 03:32 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19868&Itemid=1
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EI was saddened to learn this morning of the serious injury of 20-year-old Ma'an photographer Mohammad Az Zanoun in Gaza. A new employee of Ma'an, Mohammad has been taking some incredible photographs of the Israeli invasion. On Thursday, he miraculously escaped injury when an Israeli shell landed among a group of Palestinians." Mohammad Az Zanoun and the Spirit of Nonviolent Resistance Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4928.shtml

" Palestinians like Mohammad exemplify the spirit of nonviolent resistance shared by the majority of the Palestinian people, who only wish to live their lives in peace but face an unimaginable situation of daily violent colonization of their land, as Israel scrambles to change as many facts on the ground in its favor before the world wakes from its slumber.

Mohammad's unswerving belief that, if the Palestinian narrative could only be communicated to the world, that the consciences and hearts of the people will be moved to say to Israel, "Enough is enough", is a belief that literally gave birth to the Electronic Intifada."
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Crisis in US Media Coverage of GazaMedia coverage both reflects and influences policy and public opinion. Media coverage of events in Gaza again illustrates how the US mainstream media privileges the Israeli narrative, and frequently ignores both Palestinian experiences and international law, providing the US public and policymakers with only part of the story.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10521
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Israel's Wall Construction destroys 120-year old monastery, winery http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19867&Itemid=1
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Twenty-eight Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours here, the horrible shelling is still going on, there is no food, no water, no electricity. No water for people to drink, the attack is getting worse, civilians are targeted everywhere by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Heavy shelling is going on right now, My laptop battery is dying, more news coming later.
GAZA UNDER SEIGE Reports from Rafah July 7 2006 http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
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240 North Americans immigrated to Israel on July 6, 2006, including the brother of US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzner, who will live on the illegal settlement of Maaleh Adumim. A total of 24,00 immigrants from North America, France,and Britain are expected to immigrate to Israel this year, living on land, ninety-two percent of which was stolen from its indigenous inhabitants.

And the Palestinians of Khan Yunis filling containers with water after the IOF criminally blew up Gaza's only power facility.
July 07, 2006 Palestinians Irrelevant to New Zionist Immigrants http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/
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Stupidity and stubbornness are bad shapers of policy, and Israelis should look for something more functional and humane, because the Palestinians are not going away, are not scared, and are not simply going to roll over and surrender. Their actions almost sound like something taken from a noble page of Jewish history, defined by much wisdom, passion and determination to live in dignity - without ghettos or swamps. A swamp - not in Gaza, but in Israel's mindset by Rami G. Khouri Saturday, July 08, 2006 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=73781
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Palestine is right, Israel is wrong.... I invite the Israelis to imagine what would have happened to them if they had chosen some part of the US as their "promised land". If they had moved into some US region in 1948 and done the same things they have done in Palestine. July 07, 2006 IOF Wage Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza, West Bank http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/
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the Gaza hospitals medical resources is criticaly decreasing , the number of casualities increses as the operation continues , in 2 days 34 Palestinian were killed , , of the many injured 33 were children , the city 3 hospitals are working round the hour they urged people to donate blood,i told you earlier on that the civilians are not avoided,it is a battle that lacks the balance of power , with the resistance men and their comperatively limited weapons , and the most powerful army in the region, with the full support of the USA
From Gaza, with Love http://fromgaza.blogspot.com/
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Johnstone did not explain why the Palestinian attack on an Israeli army post was an escalation, while the Israeli raid into Gaza the previous day was not. Both were similar actions: violations of a neighbour's territory. Kidnapped By Israel The British Media And The Invasion Of Gaza by Jonathan Cook July 07, 2006 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=10537
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There was hardly any international news source in English - including those originating from Middle Eastern Arab countries - that accepted the Palestinian predawn attack on the Israeli military base as a clear act of retaliation and a dignified one at that. After all, Israel has murdered scores of Palestinian civilians in the last few weeks, while Palestinians have refrained from following the same course, instead targeting the same Israeli soldiers who have inflicted untold hurt on the residents of Gaza. The true story behind the Gaza crisis By Ramzy Baroud July 8, 2006 http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=5742
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THE first weapon of choice for the Israeli lobby when someone with prestige publishes a soundly researched paper or book critical of Israel or its powerful lobby is silence. If it's a book, it rarely gets reviewed; its author doesn't get interviewed. If it's a paper, there are no news stories in the big corporate press, no interviews with the authors, no television appearances.The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy : Keeping It Quiet By Charley Reese Publication time: 7 July 2006, 18:25 http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/07/07/4921.shtml
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Just remember that with the Bush administration, disinformation is standard operating procedure, along with secrecy. It clearly sees the American people as a mass of unwashed peasants who are too dumb to understand what the elite is doing. North Korean Missile Test: Another Red Herring by Charley Reese July 8, 2006 http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9268
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Preliminary Analysis of the Humanitarian Implications of the April 2006 Barrier Projections

By the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) July 08, 2006
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10738&CategoryId=8
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IOF Offensive Continues in the Gaza Strip: Eleven More Palestinians Killed; Civilian Property Destroyed; Medical and Media Crews Attacked Report, PCHR, 8 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4926.shtml
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Palestinian holocaust must stop http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=5743
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Land Confiscation continues Attacks on PalestiniansThis week saw a flurry of confiscation activity in various parts of the West Bank, and in particular targeting the Jordan Valley. Large swathes of land were confiscated and annexed to nearby settlements. Meanwhile, in Hebron district the Occupation continues to steal land necessary for the construction of its Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1216.shtml
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International Powers Failing Palestine, Again T his year the 9th of July is a bitter day for Palestinians. The Occupation Army besieges Gaza, massacres its people and attacks its infrastructure. The ghettos of the West Bank take shape as the Apartheid Wall edges closer to completion and the Palestinian exodus from Jerusalem has begun. The brief euphoria of two years ago, following the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Wall, is a distant memory. http://www.counterpunch.org/juma07082006.html
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Health catastrophe looms in Palestine "In effect the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions -- the first time that an occupied people have been so treated," the FIDH said on Friday. "About one million of Palestine's 3.5 million population are directly affected by the non-payment of salaries while, indirectly, the whole population suffers economically," the FIDH added.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=11711
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Elderly man dies at border crossing; thousands of Palestinians stranded on Egyptian side
As the Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip continues, claiming over 40 Palestinian lives this week alone, thousands of Palestinians are stuck at the closed border, sweltering in the heat of the Egyptian desert sun and unable to return home to Gaza. At least one elderly man has died from heat stroke at the crossing. http://imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19861&Itemid=1
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Israel rejects Palestinian ceasefire callIsrael has rejected a Hamas appeal for a ceasefire as Israeli forces pursued their Gaza campaign to free a captured soldier and end militant rocket fire, killing four Palestinians. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060708/ts_afp/mideast_13
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Most Israelis want Hamas leaders assassinated-poll The vast majority of Israelis believe the Jewish state should assassinate leaders of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in response to the crisis in Gaza, a newspaper poll published on Friday showed.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07703842.htm
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Arab nations slam Israeli aggression, international 'silence'The foreign ministers of Arab nations attending a meeting on Iraq in Iran condemned Israel for its "increasing aggression against the Palestinian people" and attacked the "silence" of the international community.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060708/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestarab_060708151908
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Palestine: The land of the forgottenThere is a song called "The Arab Dream." It tells the story about the Palestinians and what will happen when Palestine wins the fight against the Israelis. The lyrics say, "Challenge the world and revolt, and learn to remain courageous. Love has fire and spark, and eyes filled with hope. Children, with stones in their hands, will reinvent the world."
http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=5770
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Aiding and abettingThe UN's special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, has accused Caterpillar of complicity in the violation of Palestinian rights, given that the company was well aware of the end use for which its equipment was destined, and indeed this does seem a clear-cut case of corporate involvement in crimes against the Palestinian people
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_hilary/2006/07/aiding_and_abetting.html
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In Gaza, an apricot tree stands in symbolic defiance of Israel's shameful retaliation By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza The Guardian 7 July 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1814465,00.html
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Olmert made no mention of the fact that nearly 1,000 Palestinian children and minors have been killed by Israeli forces, and that the systematic bombing of the Palestinian civilian infrastructure continues apace.Israel threatens 'open war' Gaza's 1.3 million inhabitants now face the threat of "an open and long war", reports Khaled Amayreh 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/fr1.htm ***********************************************************************
More than an emblem As the International Committee of the Red Cross adopts Israel's "red crystal" emblem, Dina Ezzat in Geneva monitors the erosion of European support for the Palestinian cause 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/in2.htm
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One sidedness, again Jordan Times editorial July 7-8, 2006 http://jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion1.htm
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What Israel forgets is that you cannot bomb a people into submission, and that moral right is ultimately stronger than the executioner's menace. Zionism's doom Al Ahram editorial 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/ed.htm
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Channelling the resistance Israel is more worried about resistance attacks against its soldiers than its civilians, for the former are the guardians of Zionism and the prestige of self-appointed supremacy, writes Azmi Bishara 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/op2.htm

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If this experiment in human despair works in the small Gaza Strip, its lessons can be applied to much bigger effect in the West Bank ghettoes left behind after convergence. This is how ethnic cleansing looks when it is designed not by butchers in uniforms but by technocrats in suits. Israel's experiment in human despair by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4915.shtml
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Israel may be preparing to resolve the contentious debate over the expulsion of the Palestinian refugees in 1948 - by repeating it. As Gaza's civil infrastructure goes into meltdown, worrying parallels are emerging with the chain of events following the withdrawal of the British from Palestine. Fight or Flight? History Repeats Itself in Gaza Jake Bower, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4919.shtml
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Since the signing of the Oslo Accords back in 1994, the Palestinians have been faced with predicament after predicament. True, prior to these peace accords, Palestinians were made to endure extremely harsh conditions living under Israel’s military occupation, which began in 1967. Even before that, the biggest blow was delivered to the Palestinian people and national cause in 1948 when the state of Israel was established at the expense of Palestine’s original inhabitants, over 800,000 of whom were forced from their homes and into a life of refuge. The Oslo "Death Trap" By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH July 07, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10723&CategoryId=3
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Meanwhile, Summer Rain is gradually picking up. Only within the past 24 hours, Israeli military forces have killed a total of 23 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, the vast majority of whom are civilians. Israel is happy again.

Singing in the Rain By MIFTAH (Editorial) July 07, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10722&CategoryId=3
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Today You Will Read About the Horror From Lama Hourani, Gaza, (Co-ordinator of the Palestinian Working Women Society for Development) July 07, 2006 http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/
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In Gaza's rocket rain A Palestinian blogger on life in the blast zone. By Mona Elfarra, MONA ELFARRA is a doctor who lives in the Gaza Strip. Website: www.fromgaza.blogspot.com. July 6, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-elfarra6jul06,0,1186973.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
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Support ethnic cleansing for only $150! July 04, 2006 Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2006/07/support-ethnic-cleansing-for-only-150.html
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According to statistics provided by the Israeli Committee Against House demolitions, over 5,000 homes have been completely destroyed by the Israeli army in Palestinian areas since the start of the Intifada. Thousands more have been partially demolished. The majority of those displaced by the destruction of their homes – numbering in the tens of thousands – have been women and children, the overwhelming majority refugees. Palestinian Women and the Intifada By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH July 05, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10709&CategoryId=21

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Shammout was seventeen when on July 13, 1948, he was evicted from his home along with the majority of the population of Al Lydd. They were ordered at gunpoint to leave their homes, surrounded by armed Zionist gangs and overseen by sharpshooters on roofs. They were herded into the town squares and thence forced eastwards into the wilderness. On the way, they were molested by Zionist thugs who at gunpoint stole their valuables and confiscated the little water or food some of them had. The painful march took three to five days to complete. Many perished. With his family, he ended up in the refugee camp of Khan Younis where he painted the suffering of women and children, and the agonies of long lines for food and water. Shammout organized his first exhibit in 1950 in this very refugee camp. In remembrance: Ismail Shammout, 1931-2006 Samia Halaby, The Electronic Intifada, 5 July 2006
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4903.shtml
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Rest in Peace, Ismail Shammout – artist, historian, activist, advocate, compassionate humanist, and a Palestinian treasure. You will be missed, but your inspiring work will live on forever. Tawfiq Zayyad’s poem, “All I Have,” is a fitting tribute to end with:

ALL I HAVE

I never carried a rifle
On my shoulder
Or pulled a trigger.

All I have
Is a lute’s memory
A brush to paint my dreams,
A bottle of ink.

All I have
Is unshakeable faith
And an infinite love
For my people in pain.

For more information, please visit: www.shammout.com

Ismail Shamout (1930 – 2006) tribute by Haithem El-Zabri, July 4, 2006 http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/obituary.htm
Ismail Shammout was a refugee who lived the Palestinian experience fully, and went on to tell the story through art. Dispossession, exile, identity, suffering, perseverance, and struggle, are all predominant features of his brilliant oil paintings, and his remarkable way of advocating for his people's cause.

Shammout was born in 1930 in the Palestinian agricultural town of Lydda, son to a produce wholesale merchant. He remembered clearly how their world had turned upside down when they were driven out of their homes on July 12, 1948. The Israeli soldiers ordered them, at gunpoint, “Out! Out!” and the family of nine was instantly homeless.

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CALL FOR ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL http://www.pacbi.org/
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June 30, 2006 BREAK THE SIEGE ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
http://www.al-awda.org/alert-siege.html

Al-Awda calls upon the international community, Palestine solidarity activists and groups, Arab community organizations including community centers, mosques and churches, to demand:

Ending the siege imposed on the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law.
The immediate release of all political prisoners, including all elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
To provide Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with financial and material support, and to Demand the implementation of their inalienable right to return to their homes and lands from which they have been dispossessed since the imposition of the Zionist state in 1948 and thereafter.
An end to all Zionist occupation, Apartheid and all other war crimes.
An end to all U.S. aid to Israel which supports the continuing occupation.

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Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home by Salman Abu Sitta June 5, 2006 Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian author and researcher on refugees. http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/june/june5-0.html
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
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TUNE IN The 58th anniversary of the dispossession of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel (Al-Nakba), and the current dire situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Arab Voices Radio - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Dr. Zahi Damuni Co-founder of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, who currently serves on Al-Awda's national coordinating and executive committees, and is coordinator of the organization's chapter in San Diego, California.( Dr. Damuni's actual interview well worth listening to is about 20 minutes into the show) http://www.arabvoices.net/
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The writing really is on the wall- for a glimpse explore Al-Awda http://www.al-awda.org/

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PalestineOnlineStore.com

REFUGEES @ Palestine Online Store

This page features resources related to the refugee issue. Refugees are suffering tremendously, and especially so in Gaza. Their plight is one that deserves no less than our full and immediate support. We hope that these materials will help in supporting them by increasing awareness. To support them by making donations, we recommend donating to UNRWA.

http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/refugees/
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Look into My Eyes
Outlandish Song based on Words by Gihad Ali
Major hit in Danish charts in 2005

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1802904692610872111

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In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide. Al-Awda Fact sheet: The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied http://al-awda.org/facts.html
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letters 7-8-6

RE: The agony of Gaza
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2006/07/07/the_agony_of_gaza/

Dear Editor,

Your editorial "The agony of Gaza' certainly does make many excuses for racist Israel, basically obscuring the fact that Israel itself is a crime against humanity growing ugly and uglier everyday. The foundations for that monstrous apartheid wall in the Holy Land went in long before this most recent Israeli economic and military siege on Gaza. Civilized people really should recoil at the idea of Israel as "The Jewish State" dividing and destroying Palestine- killing the real children and heirs of the land.

It is indeed "ethically indefensible" of Israel to be doing what it is doing to the displaced and imprisoned men, women and children of Gaza. But it is equally ethically indefensible for US not to object and condemn Israel and all of political Zionism in the strongest terms possible!

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Albert letter " 'Israel lobby' isn't cause of conflicts"
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.08jujul08,0,4572855.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

Dear Editor,

Letter writer Albert wants us to BELIEVE that Israel is both our friend and a modern industrial democracy. He is wrong on all counts. Palestine's blood is on Israel's hands and there is nothing civilized or even modern about this situation (except Israel's lethal weaponry which has pushed the Palestinians into veritable prison camps and then bombed them into the dark ages.)

Democracy ? Only if you are Jewish and an immigrant. Industrial ? Only Zionists get to profit from Palestinian pain, the rest of the population of the Holy Land gets to lose homes, livelihoods, land, rights and life.

Shares are core beliefs ? Nope- not at all, however our "friend" racist Israel has been quite adept at manipulating myths to make it seem like we are two peas in a pod. It has also been quite adept at dominating the conversation and silencing dissent:

"THE first weapon of choice for the Israeli lobby when someone with prestige publishes a soundly researched paper or book critical of Israel or its powerful lobby is silence. If it's a book, it rarely gets reviewed; its author doesn't get interviewed. If it's a paper, there are no news stories in the big corporate press, no interviews with the authors, no television appearances." The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy : Keeping It Quiet By Charley Reese Publication time: 7 July 2006, 18:25 http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/07/07/4921.shtml

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Victor Davis Hanson 's "Grappling with the Israel enigma"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0607070302jul07,0,1316248.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607080177jul08,1,5455552.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Dear Editor,

Victor Davis Hanson really should start grappling with the truth about racist Israeli brutality rather than so foolishly propagating toxic Zionist propaganda that serves no purpose except to empower an Israeli made clash of civilizations and a war on all of Palestine fully funded by American stupidity.

The so called "historian" who is not even aware
that Israel's entire history has been one of intentionally wrecking Palestinian homes, destroying Palestinian families, usurping Palestinian land, rights and life is not exactly the brightest bulb in the box ! And it it exactly such brash idiocy that makes racist Israel itself so despised by many. Want a better source of facts on the situation try the Electronic Intifada:

Just received - a report from Palestine... " EI was saddened to learn this morning of the serious injury of 20-year-old Ma'an photographer Mohammad Az Zanoun in Gaza. A new employee of Ma'an, Mohammad has been taking some incredible photographs of the Israeli invasion. On Thursday, he miraculously escaped injury when an Israeli shell landed among a group of Palestinians." Mohammad Az Zanoun and the Spirit of Nonviolent Resistance Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4928.shtml

And focus on this... " Palestinians like Mohammad exemplify the spirit of nonviolent resistance shared by the majority of the Palestinian people, who only wish to live their lives in peace but face an unimaginable situation of daily violent colonization of their land, as Israel scrambles to change as many facts on the ground in its favor before the world wakes from its slumber.

Mohammad's unswerving belief that, if the Palestinian narrative could only be communicated to the world, that the consciences and hearts of the people will be moved to say to Israel, "Enough is enough", is a belief that literally gave birth to the Electronic Intifada."

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: The Israel enigma By Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060707-084207-9032r_page2.htm

Dear Editor,

"What explains most of the world's dislike of Israel?" Victor Davis Hanson pretends to ask, but then he goes off into his own little la la land of carefully selected half facts carefully sorted and displayed to make Arabs and Islam look really really bad. Well gosh Mr. Hanson, it is exactly that kind of nasty hate mongering and basic manipulations of the truth that modern man made Israel inspires in its many bigoted fans that convinces much of the world to actually feel a sense of repulsion when the word "Israel" is uttered... You see, despite all the pretty Zionist PR and spin, Israel stands for blatant injustice- ethnic cleansing- genocide. Not nice stuff.

Since 1948 armed Zionist terrorists and immigrants have been methodically and intentionally wrecking Palestinian homes, families, communities and life in multiple ways, thanks primarily to political Zionism's racist quest to shape and maintain "The Jewish State" in and on what really should just be Palestine for all its people.

In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, both Christian and Muslim, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide. ( Al-Awda Fact sheet: The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied http://al-awda.org/facts.html ) So when one speaks of Israel VS the Palestinians one is actually discussing not two separated nations, or religions, but one country divided into two by segregation and injustice, with privileged Jewish immigrants freely stealing Palestinian land and rights everywhere in every way they can. And then adding insult to injury Israel accuses the impoverished and persecuted Palestinians of being " terrorists " because they dare object !

Israel is not an enigma- it's just stupidity plus blatant bigoted brutality... despite all the pretty Zionist propaganda: Nazis had nice propaganda too.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: This isn't minor - Zionist letter
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06189/704270-110.stm

Dear Editor,

Susan Hirsh, formally of Pittsburgh, is obviously a proud Zionist propagandist living in racist Israel's Jerusalem-while millions of displaced Palestinians suffer and starve in refugee camps so that Israel can pretend to be the "Jewish State".

Ms. Hirsch has freedom and rights and many opportunities to flourish financially and emotionally in two sovereign nations: Whereas the Palestinians have no real rights or security anywhere primarily thanks to fools and bigoted idiots like Ms. Hirsch.

Israel's "sovereign" land is stolen land and Israeli troops are basically foreign invaders who have usurped and destroyed the indigenous Palestinian individually and collectively: Zionists "faithfully serving" modern man made Israel's institutionalized bigotry and blatantly racist home wrecking war on all of Palestine might not break any technical Israeli laws at this point in time, but all of Israel certainly does violate the spirit of both real justice and real democracy with full and equal rights for all.

So does the fact that this year a total of 24,00 immigrants from North America, France,and Britain are expected to immigrate to Israel, living on land, ninety-two percent of which was stolen from its indigenous inhabitants: Racist Israel is an ongoing crime against humanity made strong by our own stupidity: Face the facts- and free Palestine for everyone's sake!!!

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Frida Ghitis's Arab blogs criticize Israel, Arab leaders
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14992600.htm

Dear Editor,

My heavens how Frida Ghitis twists things: I too have been reading Arab newspapers and blogs but in doing so saw no one disagreeing in any way with the general impression that Israel's economic and military siege on Palestine is an opportunity for anything except escalating injustice, suffering and despair ! Nitpicking through to pluck up blog comments to paint a different picture is simply dishonest.

Various Arabs have been criticizing various Arab governments in various ways all along- it does not take Israel's violence to achieve that !

Priorities please Ms. Ghitis: America foolishly squanders massive amounts of money and attention on Israel while blithely ignoring Israel's institutionalized bigotry, injustice, state sponsored terror and many endlessly ugly crimes against humanity. Israel as the misnamed "Jewish State" receives the lions share of all our foreign aid- as such we seriously need to pay more attention to what exactly we are investing in.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

Friday, July 07, 2006

letters 7-7-6

RE: Arab leaders may hold key to Gaza calm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0707/p01s03-wome.htm

Dear Editor,

By Gaza calm do you mean working towards making sure racist Israeli crimes against the Palestinians stop- or do you mean merely that the Palestinians stop resisting blatantly bigoted oppression and cruelty ?

One loverly thing about blogs is how honest the bloggers can be- making connections that our mainstream media tends to miss accidentally on purpose. Here is an important one :

Palestinians Irrelevant to New Zionist Immigrants: umkahlil July 07, 2006 http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/

" 240 North Americans immigrated to Israel on July 6, 2006, including the brother of US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzner, who will live on the illegal settlement of Maale Adunim. A total of 24,000 North American immigrants are expected to immigrate to Israel this year, living on land, ninety-two percent of which was stolen from its indigenous inhabitants.... And the Palestinians of Khan Yunis filling containers with water after the IOF criminally blew up Gaza's only power facility."

And another which really is the exact same theme :

My Mother From Gaza, with Love July 08, 2006 http://fromgaza.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-mother.html

"My mother is a retired head teacher ,she lived through all the Israeli Palestinian conflict stages , she eye witnessed what was happening in Palestine during the British mandate, ,and how Israel was founded on the ruins of the Palestinian people , who were forced to flee and were up rooted from their villages and towns that was later on occupied by jews from allover the world and Palestinians became refugees , , Israel was founded with the myth of land with no people for people with no land !!!"

Israel- racist Israel was founded on a lie and that very same lie continues to take Palestinian land and life... when please will the world have the common sense, the compassion, the decency and the dignity to just say NO ISRAEL !!!!

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: letters: Why Israel is hated
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/07/07/EDGOBIPUHA1.DTL

Dear Editor,

Bravo to the letter writers Cromey & Bates for bothering to answer Victor Davis Hanson's nasty Zionist rant.

However I do not think merely "withdrawing to the 1967 borders will bring about peace for anyone... Israel has been institutionalized bigotry and a home wrecking killing machine all along and quite frankly all reasonable and compassionate people should be repulsed by the very idea of this modern man made misnamed Jewish State. It should be Palestine for all its people.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

notes 7-7-2006

notes 7-7-2006

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In Gaza, an apricot tree stands in symbolic defiance of Israel's shameful retaliation By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza The Guardian 7 July 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1814465,00.html
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Olmert made no mention of the fact that nearly 1,000 Palestinian children and minors have been killed by Israeli forces, and that the systematic bombing of the Palestinian civilian infrastructure continues apace.

Israel threatens 'open war' Gaza's 1.3 million inhabitants now face the threat of "an open and long war", reports Khaled Amayreh 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/fr1.htm

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More than an emblem As the International Committee of the Red Cross adopts Israel's "red crystal" emblem, Dina Ezzat in Geneva monitors the erosion of European support for the Palestinian cause 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/in2.htm
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A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in slow motion. To no avail have the UN and other relief organisations been warning of what might happen. The international community has been calling for restraint, but the damage being done in Gaza is likely to have much further-reaching effects than a mounting casualty list. One sidedness, again Jordan Times editorial July 7-8, 2006 http://jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion1.htm
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What Israel forgets is that you cannot bomb a people into submission, and that moral right is ultimately stronger than the executioner's menace. Zionism's doom Al Ahram editorial 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/ed.htm
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Channelling the resistance Israel is more worried about resistance attacks against its soldiers than its civilians, for the former are the guardians of Zionism and the prestige of self-appointed supremacy, writes Azmi Bishara 6 - 12 July 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/op2.htm

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UN rights council deplores military operations The Jordan Times 7 July 2006 http://jordantimes.com/fri/news/news2.htm
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If this experiment in human despair works in the small Gaza Strip, its lessons can be applied to much bigger effect in the West Bank ghettoes left behind after convergence. This is how ethnic cleansing looks when it is designed not by butchers in uniforms but by technocrats in suits. Israel's experiment in human despair by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4915.shtml
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Israel may be preparing to resolve the contentious debate over the expulsion of the Palestinian refugees in 1948 - by repeating it. As Gaza's civil infrastructure goes into meltdown, worrying parallels are emerging with the chain of events following the withdrawal of the British from Palestine. Fight or Flight? History Repeats Itself in Gaza
Jake Bower, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4919.shtml
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Since the signing of the Oslo Accords back in 1994, the Palestinians have been faced with predicament after predicament. True, prior to these peace accords, Palestinians were made to endure extremely harsh conditions living under Israel’s military occupation, which began in 1967. Even before that, the biggest blow was delivered to the Palestinian people and national cause in 1948 when the state of Israel was established at the expense of Palestine’s original inhabitants, over 800,000 of whom were forced from their homes and into a life of refuge. The Oslo "Death Trap" By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH July 07, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10723&CategoryId=3
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Meanwhile, Summer Rain is gradually picking up. Only within the past 24 hours, Israeli military forces have killed a total of 23 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, the vast majority of whom are civilians. Israel is happy again.

Singing in the Rain By MIFTAH (Editorial) July 07, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10722&CategoryId=3
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Today You Will Read About the Horror From Lama Hourani, Gaza, (Co-ordinator of the Palestinian Working Women Society for Development) July 07, 2006 http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/
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In Gaza's rocket rain <>A Palestinian blogger on life in the blast zone. By Mona Elfarra, MONA ELFARRA is a doctor who lives in the Gaza Strip. Website: www.fromgaza.blogspot.com. July 6, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-elfarra6jul06,0,1186973.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
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Support ethnic cleansing for only $150! July 04, 2006 Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2006/07/support-ethnic-cleansing-for-only-150.html
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According to statistics provided by the Israeli Committee Against House demolitions, over 5,000 homes have been completely destroyed by the Israeli army in Palestinian areas since the start of the Intifada. Thousands more have been partially demolished. The majority of those displaced by the destruction of their homes – numbering in the tens of thousands – have been women and children, the overwhelming majority refugees. Palestinian Women and the Intifada By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH July 05, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10709&CategoryId=21

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Israel Closes Bethlehem to Jerusalem Residents The Israeli army has issued orders to close the ‘Bethlehem Terminal’ to Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. This has been in practice for many months, and has now become army policy following recent orders by Major General Yair Naveh, Head of IDF Central Command. For years, Bethlehem’s residents have been forbidden from accessing Jerusalem without special permission from the Israeli army. http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2339473.html
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Army vehicles bulldoze farmlands in Khan Younis areaLocal eyewitnesses reported that three military bulldozers backed by seven tanks and an air cover intercepted in the area for 600 meters away from the eastern borders of the Strip and started bulldozing farmlands planted with olive trees. According to Jaber Abu Rajeelah, a resident from the area, these farmlands belong the Gazan families of Abu A'nza and Abu Rajeelah families. http://imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19804&Itemid=1
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Europe's response to the siege of Gaza is shamefulThank goodness for the Swiss. Alone in Europe, their government has dared to condemn what the Israelis are doing to Gaza. It is collective punishment, they say. It violates the principle of proportionality. Israel has not taken the precautions required by international law to protect civilians. Its statement stands in contrast to the European Union's shamefully muted voice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1813447,00.html
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North America, France set to lead immigration to Israel Nearly 250 North Americans landed in Israel on Thursday on the first of seven planeloads that will bring an expected 3,400 new immigrants from the United States and Canada, the most since 1983 and well above last year's 2,987. Immigration from France is also expected to reach 3,500 people in 2006, the highest level since 1971, the agency said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735610.html
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Israeli Offensive Grounds Gaza FishermenIsrael, which maintained control of Gaza's coast even after its pullout last year, sealed off the sea with naval gunboats after a soldier was captured in a June 25 militant raid on an army post. It has also stranded about 3,000 Palestinian fisherman on shore for 10 days, costing the local economy $250,000 in losses, said Tarek Saker, director general of fisheries at the Palestinian Agriculture Ministry. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070600715.html

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Israel is driven by a terrorist, racist, and fake fundamental religious ideology of “god’s chosen people in god’s Promised Land”. Even before establishing the state of Israel all Israeli leaders, without exception, had been calling for the preservation of the pure Jewish blood in a Jewish only state, a twin ideology of the Nazi’s pure superior Arian blood.
Israel is The Mother of Terrorism in The Middle East By Dr. Elias Akleh June 26, 2006 http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/june/june26-0.html
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Shammout was seventeen when on July 13, 1948, he was evicted from his home along with the majority of the population of Al Lydd. They were ordered at gunpoint to leave their homes, surrounded by armed Zionist gangs and overseen by sharpshooters on roofs. They were herded into the town squares and thence forced eastwards into the wilderness. On the way, they were molested by Zionist thugs who at gunpoint stole their valuables and confiscated the little water or food some of them had. The painful march took three to five days to complete. Many perished. With his family, he ended up in the refugee camp of Khan Younis where he painted the suffering of women and children, and the agonies of long lines for food and water. Shammout organized his first exhibit in 1950 in this very refugee camp. In remembrance: Ismail Shammout, 1931-2006 Samia Halaby, The Electronic Intifada, 5 July 2006
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4903.shtml
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ALL I HAVE

I never carried a rifle
On my shoulder
Or pulled a trigger.

All I have
Is a lute’s memory
A brush to paint my dreams,
A bottle of ink.

All I have
Is unshakeable faith
And an infinite love
For my people in pain.

For more information, please visit: www.shammout.com

Ismail Shamout (1930 – 2006) By the Palestinian American Congress July 07, 2006 http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10724&CategoryId=32

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CALL FOR ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL http://www.pacbi.org/
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June 30, 2006 BREAK THE SIEGE ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
http://www.al-awda.org/alert-siege.html

Al-Awda calls upon the international community, Palestine solidarity activists and groups, Arab community organizations including community centers, mosques and churches, to demand:

Ending the siege imposed on the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law.
The immediate release of all political prisoners, including all elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
To provide Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with financial and material support, and to Demand the implementation of their inalienable right to return to their homes and lands from which they have been dispossessed since the imposition of the Zionist state in 1948 and thereafter.
An end to all Zionist occupation, Apartheid and all other war crimes.
An end to all U.S. aid to Israel which supports the continuing occupation.

BUILDING THE RIGHT TO RETURN MOVEMENT

The writing really is on the wall- for a glimpse explore Al-Awda http://www.al-awda.org/

July 14-16, 2006 upcoming Al Awda Convention, San Francisco, CA

Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, former member of the Palestine National Council and known expert researcher on Palestinian refugee affairs.
Michel Shehadeh, L.A. 8 defendant
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Director of Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dr. Asa'd Abu Khalil, Professor at California State University, Stanislaus

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PalestineOnlineStore.com

REFUGEES @ Palestine Online Store

http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/refugees/
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Look into My Eyes
Outlandish Song based on Words by Gihad Ali
Major hit in Danish charts in 2005

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1802904692610872111

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Why not choose a Palestinian voice- letters 7-6-2006

RE: Bahija Réghaï's EXCELLENT letter
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1152136215199&call_pageid=968332189003&col=968350116895

Dear Editor,

I was THRILLED to see Bahija Réghaï's EXCELLENT letter " Israel singled itself out " ! Although to me it is not just a matter of Israel's many violations of international law and the Palestinians basic human rights. It is not just a matter of Israel's blatantly racist and brutal war on all of Palestine : It is also the huge Zionist propaganda machine....Seems to me that Israel pays every side at once- dominates the conversation, asserting its voice everywhere it can, then complains about unwanted attention.

Zionist ideologies freely promote Israel in many ways, raising vast sums of money in the West, both public and private funds for political Zionism and the continued displacement and demonization of the Palestinians. We have a right to resist- a right to refuse to buy into racist Zionist lies about democracy and peace. A right to insist on divestment from the home wrecking war machine of injustice that has spent the past 60 years aggressively usurping Palestinian land and rights.

We have a right- and even a duty for everyone's sake- to stand up and say NO ISRAEL !

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: If Hamas wants to govern, it must halt the terrorism , Militant group's failure to evolve is hurting its voters, peace process. http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060706/edit06.art.htm VS opposing view
Don't blame Hamas Israel, more than the Palestinian government, is blocking peace. By Edmund R. Hanauer Edmund R. Hanauer, an American Jewish human rights activist, directs Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel. http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060706/oppose06.art.htm

Dear Editor,

I find it odd that to present an opposing view to your editorial page on Israel, the (misnamed) Jewish State and Hamas you pick an American Jewish activist to speak for the other side. Why not choose a Palestinian voice- someone who really understands the situation form a Palestinian perspective.

For instance one of my favorites is regularly published everywhere http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/801/fr1.htm except where we need to hear him most, here in the West. Khalid Amayreh writes beautifully, with honor, honesty and dignity... His pearls of wisdom did just pop up on a blog in the Washington Post :

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/2006/07/05/mediating_gaza/comments.html

Posted at July 6, 2006 05:55 AM

» Khalid Amayreh | Permalink

Israel is an occupier, murderer, liar and land thief. The Israeli occupation is a daily crime, it is an act of rape.

This Nazi-like occupation is the root cause of instability in the Middle East, and the Palestinian resistance is an inevitable effect. Even the quagmire in IRaq has its roots in the Palestinian-Israeli strife.

When people are tormented, humiliated, subjugated, starved and killed on a daily basis, they are not expected to throw flower at their tormentors.

The American poet Auden said:

I and the public know,
what all school children learn,
those to whom evil is done,
do evil in return.

Hence, there is only one solution for this problem:

End the occupation, stop the slow-motion genocide against these helpless Palestinians who can hardly feed their kids? Break up the Israeli policy of denying Palestinians access to food, water, and work? Call the spade a spade especially when you find it in the hands of our gravediggers.

Send in UN forces to the West Bank to establish who is the aggressor and who is the victim. And don't succumb to lies of the Jewish-controlled media. Try to seek the truth from other neutral sources, and they are many.

I say that because there are many misinformed Americans who would insist that Israel wants peace?

Well, Israel doesn't want peace. A country that builds hundreds of for-Jew-only settlements on occupied land obviously doesn't want peace.

Israel only wants two things: 1- Palestinian land, and, 2- American money and unlimited American backing.

Please seriously consider providing American readers with broader perspectives such as those that can be offered by actual Palestinians when discussing Palestinian issues!!!!

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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If you were appointed as mediator in this latest Israeli-Palestinian crisis, what steps would you recommend? http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/2006/07/05/mediating_gaza/comments.html

Posted at July 6, 2006 07:18 AM

» Anne Selden Annab | Permalink

I am utterly delighted to see the Palestinian columnist Khalid Amayreh pop up to answer your question... I just wish his columns appeared in the Washington Post's pages as a regular columnist.

I find it astounding that so many fools in the West are so willing and eager to support segregation a la Israel's institutionalized injustice and this constant quest to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land of non-Jews so as to shape and maintain the misnamed Jewish State.

In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide. (Fact Sheet: The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied http://al-awda.org/facts.html)

The place really should be Palestine for all the people- and political Zionism should be recognized as the trouble maker it has always been- a toxic ideology that invests in inequality, builds apartheid, and wages a very nasty war on those who dare object to such flagrant injustice and barbaric cruelty.

Negotiate with a crime against humanity ? Why is it that so many foolish American "peace" activists mainly ask that Israel's genocide be a little less obvious, a little less ugly, but really still going on ! Let's start from the very beginning please and rethink the whole idea of arming and empowering the bigoted ideologues of political Zionism in any way !

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

letters7-5-6

RE : Palestinians forfeit claim to empathy
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.05jujul05,0,2803377.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

Dear Editor,

I think your letter writer claiming that the "Palestinians forfeit claim to empathy" has it very much backwards- Israel- racist Israel with that monstrous land and rights grabbing apartheid wall plus economic and military sieges on all of Palestine has forfeited all claim to empathy !

According to the Fact sheet: The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied : "In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide." http://al-awda.org/facts.html

Zionist propagandists SHOULD lose all credibility. Never mind the fact that Zionists are actually working for a foreign country- just focus on what Israel has done to Palestine and the real children of the Holy Land. This Israeli made mess is nothing short of genocide and should be condemned as such.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: A call to cool off the Mideast crisis
Washington should facilitate aid for Palestinians and support moderate Islamic and Arabic elements.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0705/p09s01-coop.htm

Dear Editor,

Why "cool off" the Mideast crisis, negotiating with a crime against humanity and foolishly allowing political Zionism to continue with its slow motion ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land which erupts in various obvious wars then subsides again to the still painful albeit less obvious violence of racist Israel's ongoing institutionalized bigotry and injustice.

Yes, America needs to intervene because American money, weaponry and political support has helped racist Israel become the immoral monster that it is today! We have a duty to make right a terrible wrong- and in intervening to help bring a just and lasting peace to the Holy Land we must honor the true spirit of democracy with full and equal rights for ALL- including the Palestinians, with our choices firmly rooted in our own own laws and ideals. Specifically the First Amendment that our law makers are sworn to uphold. The very first line and the highest priority : "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"

Our Congress supporting and even arming Israel as the Jewish State is the epitome of establishing a religion as well as imposing forced segregation and inequality. And yet rather than confronting this dangerous hypocrisy, free speech in America has been stifled so as to protect political Zionism. The epicenter of this so-called clash of civilizations is Israel. Racist Israel. We really should divest emotionally and financially from the toxic delusion misnamed "The Jewish State": In other words, for everyone's sake- Free Palestine Fully.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Gaza crisis clouds West Bank plan
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060705/a_gaza05.art.htm

Dear Editor,

The "conflict" between Israelis and Palestinians is that political Zionism invaded, destroyed Palestinian homes and families, usurped Palestinian land and rights, actually built a concrete wall of hate- and now expects the real people of the land most harmed by Israeli built hate to worship racist Israel as "The Jewish State"... Israel's strategy is nothing short of genocide and the sooner our conversations on this matter are more honest about Israel's ongoing intentional violations of the Palestinians basic human rights the sooner a just and lasting peace can be forged, focused on full respect for U.N Resolution 194 from 1948, the Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Israeli leader warns of `long war' over captive soldier
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607050173jul05,1,1719990.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Dear Editor,

While the PR savvy Israel might be cleverly warning of a 'long war' over captive soldier, as if this is only a beginning of Israeli violence, we are fools not to see that all of Israel has been one long nasty Zionist war on the native non-Jewish Palestinians.

Most Palestinians are refugees, forced from their homes and land by Zionist terror. And the genocide escalates as Israeli made segregation complete with a concrete apartheid wall severing the Holy Land in two, with Zionist zealots, warriors, and bigoted immigrants in absolute power pushing Palestinian families into impoverished prison camps which are easily attacked by one of the most powerful miltaries on earth.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Let Freedom Ring ! letters 7-4-2006

And in making America really be- let us free Palestine too... Let Freedom Ring Worldwide!!!

letter I just sent via congress.org
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=20004&letter_id=786812506
Dear President Bush

As we celebrate our freedom and our flag and The Fourth of July - Israel is segregating, imprisoning and torturing the people of Palestine in every way possible, aggressively using both psychological threats and actual physical violence, unleashing its massive IDF military force on the civilian Palestinian population of the occupied territories ( FYI Israel's actions are in flagrant violation of the 4th Geneva Convention, and we really are obliged to respect the 4th Geneva Convention... and as human beings we are obliged to to notice the very real plight of the Palestinians )

Dozens of Medical Patients and Hundreds of Gaza Strip Residents Suffering Harsh Humanitarian Conditions due to the Closure of Rafah International Crossing Point http://www.pchrgaza.org/

But do not think the crisis is just the economic and military siege of the Israeli made Gaza Genocide- everywhere where Israel's blatantly racist war on the people of Palestine can reach, tormenting, harassing, and harming the vulnerable men, women and children of Palestine, there are multiple incidents and obvious signs that Zionist Israel is much more than a mere rogue nation scorning the Palestinians basic human rights.... BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights On the Main Findings of the Impact of the Wall and its Associated Regime on the Forced Displacement of the Palestinians in Jerusalem, June 2006
http://www.badil.org/Publications/Press/2006/press422-06.htm

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