Sunday, May 29, 2011

My letter to the Guardian RE The ruined village Palestinians will never forget...




RE: The ruined village Palestinians will never forget, The ruins of Lifta are the final remains of the Palestinian hamlets that fringed Jerusalem until 1948. Now plans to bulldoze them are causing outrage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/29/ruined-palestinian-village-lifta-development

Dear Sir,

I very much appreciated Harriet Sherwood's most recent story concerning the tragedy of Lifta and the Palestinian refugees, but she could have included more facts.

Israel really should have respected the Palestinian refugees right to return to original homes and lands in 1948. The United Nations certainly did make clear at the time that they must. Instead years have gone by- and Israel has continued to push more and more Palestinians into forced exile and despair.

Zionists have been very good at convincing themselves and any one who will listen that Palestinian refugees can't ever return. I think Zionists are wrong.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."Eleanor Roosevelt

The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

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