Saturday, March 27, 2010

My letter to the Washington Post RE Linda Gradstein's Book review: 'A Wall in Palestine' by Rene Backmann

RE: Linda Gradstein's Book review: 'A Wall in Palestine' by Rene Backmann
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032602527.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032602527_Comments.html


Dear Editor,

Grateful for crumbs, I was very glad to see
Linda Gradstein's book review... but I cannot help but wonder how someone else a tad less beguiled by Israel might have reviewed the book 'A Wall in Palestine' by Rene Backmann:

Missing from Gradstein's analysis was reference to the highly relevant fact that the wall is illegal according to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).... and missing from her analysis is reference to at least some of all the many ways that sovereign Israel has been been systematically usurping land, rights, freedom, and peace from the native non-Jewish Palestinians- on both sides of that monstrous Israeli made Apartheid wall.

Full disclosure has to be part of the process of heading towards a just and lasting peace for Israel and Palestine- and for everyone's sake we need to be conscientiously and compassionately advocating full respect for international law and basic human rights across the board. That includes doing all we can to support formal diplomatic negotiations and a two state solution to once and for all end the contentious Israel/Palestine conflict.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
Growing Gardens for Palestine

Putting the Arab Peace Initiative Into Action

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