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| In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 photo, Friar Gabriel Tooma enters the Chaldean Church of the Virgin Mary of the Harvest, set in the seventh century Saint Hormoz monastery built into a hill overlooking Alqosh, a village of some 6,000 inhabitants about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Mosul, northern Iraq. (AP Photo) |
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Dear Editor,
Ignatius overlooked a crucial part of the picture in his shattering Middle East Essay: The ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel in its quest to be "Jewish" arms religion with lethal weaponry and tax payers money, and has succeeded in building a vibrant Jews-preferred economy with citizen rights, freedom, respect, and security for Jews.
Meanwhile the native non-Jewish population is cruelly persecuted, oppressed, impoverished and pushed into forced exile, day after day after day for more than six decades now as the largest longest running refugee crisis in the world today continues unchecked.
With out earnest and energetic respect for international law, universal basic human rights, the rule of fair and just laws, coexistence, inclusiveness and diplomacy, the fanatical extremism and sectarian violence through out the region will persist and splinter from group to subgroup, impoverishing and endangering people everywhere.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Ziad J. Asali: Crisis in Iraq Risks Regional Conflagration: " Iraqi Shiites will continue to defeat their own purposes if they attempt to marginalize the Sunni community in a sectarian and exclusionary manner. Iraqi Sunnis cannot achieve their own goals by banding together around fanatical extremists."
Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push: During the past 11 years, at least half of the country's Christian population has fled the country, according to some estimates, to escape frequent attacks by Sunni Muslim militants targeting them and their churches.
The saga of Prof. Dajani is a subset of a broader Arab struggle between the forces of intelligence and stupidity: "The whole Arab world is at a turning point. If it continues to allow the stupidity and ignorance lobby, in all its myriad forms, to insist on cultural insularity, chauvinism, and deafness to the outside world, it will remain utterly stuck and unable to successfully join and compete in a globalizing world. But if the intelligence and knowledge constituency, as embodied by Prof. Dajani and so many other important leading Arabs, succeed in turning their societies away from decades of enforced parochialism, they will be among the most important groups in building a better future for the Middle East." Hussin Ibish
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