My letter to CSM RE Israel scrambles Palestinian 'right of return' with Jewish refugee talk

Palestinians display a huge key, known as 'the Key of Return,' which was exhibited at the seventh Berlin Biennale in March, in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida near Bethlehem, Aug. 29. The key symbolizes what the Palestinians call their 'right of return' to properties lost during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation. Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP

RE  Israel scrambles Palestinian 'right of return' with Jewish refugee talk
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/1001/Israel-scrambles-Palestinian-right-of-return-with-Jewish-refugee-talk

Dear Editor,

Rather than respecting international law and basic human rights- and rather than deploying both compassion and  logic, Israel is doing what it can to push peace and justice farther away, intentionally sabotaging fair and just negotiations for a two state solution to end the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Day after day after day for decades Israel has been and continues to demonize, impoverish and displace the native non-Jewish population of the Hoy Land: fragmenting families, destroying communities and pushing countless Palestinian men, women and children into forced exile and despair.

The right of return is not a bargaining chip- it is an inalienable, natural basic human right. You enjoy it every time you leave your own home. You depend on it as an investment emotionally and financially...and you count on it when you plant a tree in your garden expecting to one day harvest the fruit.
 
Israel's monstrous Apartheid wall and its ongoing Jews-preferred investments and settlement projects all through out the illegally occupied territories are obvious proof that Egypt, Algeria, and Jordan were wise to notice Zionist crimes against the Palestinians, and to take precautions to protect themselves.  

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES

The Office of International Religious Freedom ( http://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/ )  Given the U.S. commitment to religious freedom, and to the international covenants that guarantee it as the inalienable right of every human being, the United States seeks to:

Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countries

Palestinian Refugees (1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.

"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

UN Resolution 194 from 1948 : The refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible