letter I just sent my elected leaders via congress.org
Dear President Obama,
As your second term is to begin soon, people are hoping your second inaugural address will help steer this nation in more positive and productive directions.
Personally I hope that you will clearly and firmly voice support for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, for I am quite convinced that ending the Israel-Palestine conflict will have positive ramifications world wide.
While your wife is shopping for an enchanting inauguration ball gown to wear to help visually convey the dignity of your office as well as reflect her own personal beauty, Palestinians are also using fabric to reflect the dignity of Palestine's struggle for peace and justice.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces tore down the tented village Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun), set up to protest Israel's plans to build the "E1" settlement on Palestinian land.
But the story continues- as it has for over sixty years- as another tent village for Palestine has appeared, northwest of Jerusalem, a tent village named al-Karamah (Dignity).
A fully secular two state solution to once and for ALL end the Israel-Palestine conflict must be based on full respect for international law and basic human rights, including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees right to return to original homes and lands as promised by the international community in 1948 when Israel achieved statehood.
DIPLOMACY IN ACTION The United States Office of International Religious Freedom has the mission of promoting religious freedom as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy:"Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countries" http://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/
I think it is obvious that people should not have their homes destroyed and their land usurped and their freedom curbed and their ability to work sabotaged and their basic human rights denied because they have been deemed the "wrong religion" by Israel.... American tax payers should not be forced to help fund Israel's investments in Jewish 'housing', in both Israel proper as well as in the illegally occupied territories.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American homemaker & poet
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