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| A rural Palestinian family in Ramallah around the year in 1914 |
Has Israeli brutality gone far enough yet, for you to realize how wrong Israel has been from the start, wrong in denying full and equal rights to the indigenous non-Jewish people of historic Palestine.
1948 saw the world unite to stop injustice & bigotry, as from
the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust a universal promise to humankind
was created, carefully crafted to highlight the vital importance of
respecting basic Human Rights.
BUT tragically for all, Zionist propaganda dominates in our mainstream media here in the West, as a very foreign country called Israel seeks to procure as much money and weaponry it can obtain in order to persecute, silence, and destroy Palestinians.
But Palestinians are not stupid, they have not and will not be
silenced or destroyed. Yes- Palestinian homes, villages, gardens,
orchards, & institutions have been bombed & bulldozed; countless
generations of Palestinian prisoners have been tortured; many innocent
lives have been lost. Palestinian families have been fragmented &
devastated on a personal level. But Palestine lives on gathering
strength in the hearts, minds, photos, documents, stories, poems, art
& nonviolent activism of a world wide diaspora. The truth will
set us free.
Apartheid Israel does not want peace- it wants all of the "Holy Land"
minus indigenous Arabs, except those willing to work as wage slaves for
'The Jewish State'.
Israel wants war and it wants Americans to hate Arabs and Muslims. Hate is evil and leads to evil things. Please no more wars and weaponry for Israel.
A just and lasting peace starts with full respect for International Law & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees' inalienable right to return to original homes and lands.
As our great modern American hero MLK Jr declared in 1963 in his I Have A Dream Speech "Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech about equity for all still rings true: "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children" https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/i-have-a-dream-speech
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What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
In 1948 Israel could have chosen to include all indigenous Arabs- Christian and Muslim- as part of the process to make a real democracy for all human beings, but Zionists did the opposite by creating a huge refugee crisis.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang
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