My letter to USA Today RE Israel insults the U.S. with go-it-alone tactics By DeWayne Wickham

RE: Israel insults the U.S. with go-it-alone tactics By DeWayne Wickham
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/03/column-israel-insults-the-us-with-goitalone-tactics.html#more

Dear Editor,

Good to see Dewayne Wickham's probing but polite op-ed "Israel insults the U.S. with go-it-alone tactics".... It really is rather disturbing to find out that "while unemployment in Israel dropped to 7.4% in the last quarter of 2009, joblessness during that period in the U.S. hovered around 10%." Compare that too to unemployment for Palestinians and the contrast is even more jarring. According to the CIA Fact book unemployment in Gaza is 40% (2009 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gz.html and unemployment in the West bank is 19% (2009 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html

Israel's Jews-preferred policies in both Israel-proper as well as the illegally occupied Palestinian territories have been creating poverty and despair for countless native non-Jewish Palestinian families and communities for decades now. That alone should be reason enough for America to be firm about supporting a fully secular two state solution to end the Israel/Palestine conflict.... A two state solution in line with international law and the Arab Peace Initiative "Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a military solution to the conflict will not achieve peace or provide security for the parties".

Peace and Palestine need to be a priority- for every one's sake.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

We need a Golden Rule Peace for Israel and Palestine