RE: The Voice of a Woman By Shmuel Rosner ttp://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/the-voice-of-a-woman/?ref=global
Dear Editor,
Modern man-made Israel's blatant and ongoing violations of international law and universal basic human rights empowers religious extremism on both sides of the Israel/Palestine conflict in both large and small ways.
If indeed, in dealing with religiously based scorn for women's equality and the freedom to sing on a stage "the only compromise that seems possible is one that would require abandoning a principle all Israelis grew up to appreciate: the value of togetherness" as Shmuel Rosner claims in his conclusion, I have to wonder what he means by 'togetherness' as clearly most Israeli Jews have not spent the past 60 years applying that togetherness logic towards building a just and lasting peace based on respect for and a rapport with the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land.
Palestinian land, freedom and rights are being usurped by Israelis in every possible way. Palestinian families are being fragmented and impoverished by Israel's "security" measures. Palestinian homes are being demolished by Israeli forces, and Israel is doing all it can to sabotage and destroy secular Palestinian resistance to a rapidly growing storm of escalating institutionalized bigotry. Rather than honoring the idea that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and acting in "the spirit of brotherhood" every Israeli tax payer and investor has been funding a rising tide of religious tyranny, militancy and cruel injustice with wide spread negative ramifications.
A fully secular two state solution ASAP to once and for all end the Israel/Palestine conflict would go a long way towards disarming and calming down all the various ideologues, religious fanatics, and criminals who have been perpetuating and benefiting from the conflict.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American homemaker & poet
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