Wednesday, June 9, 2010

My letter to the New York Review of Books RE 'The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment': An Exchange June 24, 2010

RE:Letters
'The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment': An Exchange June 24, 2010
In response to:
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment from the June 10, 2010 issue

Dear Editor,

Thank you for not letting Abraham H. Foxman have the last word with his letter responding to The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment . This past week the Foxman's ADL along with Rabbi David Nesenoff , White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, former White House Counsel Lanny Davis, and Ari Fleischer former White House press secretary (to name a few major players) very much helped create and exasperate a defamatory and cruel hate campaign against Helen Thomas, forcing her to resign.

Israel's settlement projects and apartheid polices in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories combined with Avigdor Lieberman’s "crusade to humiliate, disenfranchise, and perhaps even eventually expel Arab Israelis" puts Palestinians, the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land, in a totally impossible situation. Already the vast majority of Palestinians have been pushed into forced exile and cruelly denied their inalienable legal and natural right to return to original homes and lands... How many more Palestinian men, women and children must be persecuted and displaced (and how many more naive folks world wide will be conned into either inadvertently or purposefully empowering Islamists) while Israel and its supporters bicker and battle on and on about perceived "identity" crises?


Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES
Peacemaking takes courage, leaders

Israel must clarify Palestine's status

The Arab Peace Initiative

My letter to the Washington Post RE Helen Thomas agrees to bow out as commencement speaker at Walt Whitman High




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