Tuesday, June 21, 2011

My letter PUBLISHED in the LATIMES June 20 2011: Lessons of the 'Gay Girl' hoax

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0620-monday-20110620,0,5103672.story?page=2
Lessons of the 'Gay Girl' hoax

Foolishly, I too got taken in by the compassionate calls to care about Amina, who turned out to be nothing but a sock puppet for a misguided writer.

However, I do not believe that this well publicized blogosphere incident should be used as an opportunity to discredit and dismiss the Palestinian refugees' very real right to return to original homes and lands, a cause Goldberg points out this "Amina" supported.

United Nations Resolution 194 from 1948, clearly affirming the Palestinian refugees' right to return, is not a figment of anyone's imagination. The photographic records and documents following the plight of the Palestinians for the past 60-plus years are about very real, oppressed, impoverished and displaced men, women and children.

Anne Selden Annab

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