Tuesday, May 06, 2008

letters

RE: At 60, Israel remains true to its mission & The near impossibility of a Mideast peace
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/06/opinion/edyashiva.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/06/opinion/edgreenway.php

Dear Editor,

The best way to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday is to rise up to seriously challenge and denounce the Zionist propaganda war that seeks to promote and protect the idea of "Israel" in the first place.

Israel is an investment in institutionalized bigotry and injustice. No one should make peace with that. Diplomats are forcing Palestinians to be their own prison guards with this latest Peace Talks farce that mainly grants racist Israel even more time and reasons to usurp even more Palestinian land, rights and life.

Give Israel an inch and it uses that inch to take another mile claiming it has to protect itself. I say pull the plug on the entire Zionist project. Add another wing to every Holocaust Museum world wide explaining The Nakba and how wrong it is to demonize, displace and destroy any human being any where- regardless of religion.... Free Palestine- for everyone's sake, help the Palestinian refugees return home and let real justice and decency build a better way forward for that very troubled region.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Israel's 60-Year Test by BRET STEPHENS
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121003365007069313.html?mod=todays_columnists

Dear Editor,

Bret Stephens wants us to admire Israel because its blatantly racist war on the people of historic Palestine is not as obviously harsh as it might be if Israel weren't using such admirable restraint. Drilling into the statistics he conveniently forgets to mention that mandatory military service puts Israeli females into uniforms as official soldiers - which makes his whole "To be female is a fairly reliable indicator of being a noncombatant" approach a total farce.

Israel's existence depends on our stupidity in conjunction with clever propagandists like Stephens, whose work helps sustain the money flow that makes Zionism possible- and a very lucrative deal for those at the top: Israel is a basic pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme...there is no end benefit; the money simply travels up the chain, and only the originator (or at best a very few) wins in swindling followers. It's a HUGE scam... Countless people, including each and every American taxpayer, are being coerced into funding and defending "Israel".

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Arab and Israeli Peace, at Least for Children & Honoring Survival, and Gifts to a Nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/arts/television/03glob.html?ref=middleeast
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/world/middleeast/06jerusalem.html?ref=middleeast

Dear Editor,

Because of Israel, Jews-preferred Israel, the vast majority of Palestinians today are in forced exile, cruelly refused their inalienable right to return to their homes and their true heritage because "Israel" wants to be Jewish- which means it has to get rid of the native non-Jewish people already living there.

Arabs (Palestinians) trapped on the far side of Israel's Apartheid-security wall get harassed and shot at by the IDF and starved by racist Israeli policy.

Token Arabs (Palestinians) allowed to remain, for now at least, in what is called Israel, get to be PR agents for the Zionist project as they are forced to "make peace" with the ongoing Nakba, the catastrophe that is displacing and destroying the people of historic Palestine.

America might be easily beguiled and misled by expensive Zionist PR (for now at least), but the Palestinians know better- and the Palestinians know how to survive no matter what. Palestinian survival is emerging with strength and dignity in art and poetry and films worldwide: If you want to honor survival don't honor Israel- honor the people of historic Palestine.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: PUTTING AMERICA LAST
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05062008/postopinion/letters/sign_of_the_times__putting_america_last_109626.htm

Zionist letters are PUTTING AMERICA LAST
Dear Editor,

On seeing the letters headlined "PUTTING AMERICA LAST" I was expecting something very different - Silly me was even hoping some readers had dared step up to say screw Zionism and that insane investment in institutionalized bigotry and injustice- that expensive and dangerous scam called "Israel" !

Wake up people, stop obsessing about a small irrelevant school in NYC and start noticing the huge nuclear armed Israel fiasco that has been aggressively usurping massive amounts of American money - both public and private funds as it freely " promotes separatism, foments anger and hatred of American values and plants the seed for potential violence and terror in impressionable youth."

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: At 60, Israel remains true to its original mission
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/06/at_60_israel_remains_true_to_its_original_mission/

Dear Editor,

Yes indeed Israel remains true to its original mission- impoverish and displace the people of historic Palestine: "While the economic situation for Israeli Arabs deteriorated, the Jewish state was undergoing its longest period of uninterrupted economic expansion, from 2003 to 2007." http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelarabseconomy_080505151718
Arab Israelis left out of economic boom"

Israel is a rogue nation in long term and flagrant violation of multiple international laws and the Palestinians' basic human rights. Meanwhile American taxpayers are being forced to fund and idolize the pseudo-religious fiasco called "Israel" as it undermines the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine by intentionally creating and exasperating the largest, longest running refugee crisis in the world today. Israel's neighbors struggle simply to survive while Israel thrives. Our own economy is in shambles while Israel thrives. Any one else see a pattern?

PR savvy Israel's real mission is to sell the world the lie that it is "The Jewish State" while Zionists freely usurp Palestinian land, rights and peace... Zionist Israel is nothing but a HUGE scam based on institutionalized bigotry and ignorance. Would you approve of the USA declaring itself a Christian nation with taxpayer funds building and defending heavily armed Christian-only immigration, projects and "neighborhoods" plus a strangulating web of USA-only roads all through out Canada and Mexico?

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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RE: Palestine before and after by Sherri Muzher
Dear Editor,

Thank you for publishing Sherri Muzher's exceptionally good op-ed " Palestine before and after ". I hope you publish many many more articles by this gifted Palestinian-American writer and thinker. For everyone's sake, America needs to hear more such authentic voices- beautifully honest and wonderfully articulate voices honoring and respecting historic Palestine where "the roots are unquestionable and run eternally deep, from archaeological finds to folktales. ".

For everyone's sake we need to understand the importance of listening to and respecting the people of Palestine past, present and future. We need to be exposed to true Palestinian perspectives- not more bad translations and interpretations by Zionist ideologues and hate mongers- but the real thing... the real people who know and love Palestine.

We need to know that recently the Israeli Government imposed a new travel restriction which has prevented Palestinian Christian children from traveling to Jerusalem for this year's annual Children's Journey to Jerusalem http://annies-letters.blogspot.com/2008/05/israel-blocks-childrens-peace-march.html

We also need to seriously listen to and respect own ideals - liberty, justice and equality for ALL ... in other words FREE Palestine ! Free the people and the stories and the land itself, help open hearts and minds so that every refugee can return home with dignity, to help rebuild a better way forward for all God's children.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES 5-5-2008
Recent News & Opinions:
U.S. Aid to Israel Is Funding Our Decline from Alison Weir
Boycott Israel's 60th Birthday Celebrations:
One of the most enduring and deceptive slogans of Zionism was coined by Israel Zangwill almost 100 years ago: Palestine was a "land without people for a people without land...."

Recent Anthologies & reports that help explain the Palestinian perspective:

The untold stories from The Institute For Middle East Understanding

UNRWA & Partners Commemorate 1948 Introduction: I Come from There and Remember | Overview | Testimonies
Palestinian Refugees: Jordan/Lebanon/Syria/West Bank/Gaza (UNWRA photo archives)

Raise public awareness and support for a just solution to Palestinian residency and refugee issues:
Nakba issue of al-Majdal, issue 36/7, is available at:
www.badil.org/al-majdal/2008/winter-spring/majdal36-37.pdf

YouTube - Palestinian Women: Stories Of Nakba In Their Villages video

The Institute for Middle East Understanding: SPECIAL NAKBA COVERAGE

Love and resistance in the Gaza Strip- interview with Dr. Mona el-Farra

Please do not forget Palestine's Children & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

PALESTINE: 60 YEARS OF FORCED EXILE - TIME FOR RETURN!
FREEDOM & RETURN: A Rights Based Solution to building a just and lasting peace in the Middle East ... Not just the return (al-awda) of the refugees, but also a return to the rule of law and respect for human rights: For more than five decades Palestinian refugees and internally displaced have struggled for a solution to their plight based on UN resolutions and international law, including the right to voluntarily return to their homes and lands of origin from which they were displaced/expelled during wars in 1948 and 1967 and due to other Israeli policies of forced eviction, deportation, etc....
60 Years On- Honoring the Struggle for Justice and Dignity...Palestinian Refugees and IDPs

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
"The humanitarian aid and assistance that UNRWA provides to the Palestine refugees can never be enough. But it will be required as long as the issues of statelessness, prolonged military occupation, economic marginalization and vulnerability characteristic of the Palestinian refugee crisis are not addressed." http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.htm?tbl=PUBL&id=4444d3c92f

Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

 PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID

Please do not forget Palestine's Children & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

PALESTINE: 60 YEARS OF FORCED EXILE - TIME FOR RETURN!
 "Wherever there are Palestinians, we fight on. Do not allow yourselves to be silenced. Do not allow yourself to just walk off from people who seem indifferent. Make your presence felt. And in the end, we WILL win" - Edward Said at Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition National Rally in New York City, April 7, 2001.

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