Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Stop wasting America's time and resources playing word games for racist Israel

377-44-1: House passed a resolution that the "slogan, 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic and its use must be condemned." clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll1  
 

Dear Biden, Harris...etc... my elected leaders,

The House formally condemns words- specifically the pro-Palestine pro-Democracy phrase "From the River to the Sea", while foolishly ignoring the horrific violence of the sovereign nation state that fully controls all the airspace and borders between the actual river and sea!!!

Decade after decade for 75 years now & counting, Israel as "The Jewish State" has been intentionally impoverishing, denigrating, displacing and/or killing countless Palestinian men, women and children between the river and the sea. 

Israel as "The Jewish State" is a man made entity and tourist trap that American preachers & politicians idolize and arm with taxpayers' money plus American made military weaponry: American $$$ SHOULD NOT be used to fund and arm a very foreign country's preferred religion, bigotry, injustice, brainwashing and brutality.  

Our charity should be healthy food for the hungry- NOT WEAPONRY & WORD GAMES for Israeli war mongers! 

Israel claims self defense as "The Jewish State" in order to destroy more Arab homes and neighborhoods because Israel wants the land but not the indigenous non-Jewish people of that land.  Who is the terrorist?!  And why are you not using your position and public podium to condemn Israel's apartheid practices & its extensive state sponsored terrorism.

Why are you not clearly advocating full and equal rights for all people, regardless of supposed race or religion!  Maybe it is in part because the "All the News that's fit to print" NYTimes has a word list its journalists have been told to avoid using when writing about the Israel/Palestine conflict: Refugee Camps. Occupied Territory. Slaughter. Massacre. Carnage. Genocide. Ethnic Cleansing.  

Stop wasting America's time and resources playing word games for racist Israel!!!

Please start using your own position and power to advocate American ideals and good investments such as secular democracy with freedom of and from religion for all people, including Israelis and Palestinians.   

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES  https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

Israel’s War on Gaza

The Intercept: Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”

Israeli forces are broadcasting fake sounds of women screaming and babies crying to lure Palestinians out and kill them, a rights monitor has found.

The face of America’s ugly Gaza policy: "... Can we really celebrate Black women [Kamala Harris] in power who can’t use said power to prevent death and starvation inflicted on a stateless people? I — like an increasing number of voters — don’t think so." Karen Attiah

"Trauma in Palestine is collective and continuous. PTSD is when your mind is stuck in a traumatic loop. In Palestine, the loop is reality." Dr Samah Jabr

2024 USC canceled Asna Tabassum's valedictorian speech after receiving a wave of hate online for supporting Palestine.... please read her statement in full

Thank You for The Literature of Palestine

Zeina Azzam, Alexandria’s poet laureate, whose parents fled Palestine, creates potent art from the devastation in Gaza- with her poem "Write My Name"

driven slightly mad by injustice....

Please no more funds, weaponry, and support for war mongering Israel

CSM: Snapshots from Gaza: By sheer will, Palestinian women eke out a life

Israel bombs UN school in central Gaza twice in 24 hours... the school shelters a large number of displaced people, mostly women and children.

Settlers rampage through West Bank, burning cars and injuring Palestinians Palestinians in the West Bank faced large-scale attacks by Israeli settlers on Friday and Saturday, as cars were set alight and dozens injured

CNN: Israeli settlers storm village in West Bank and kill at least 1 Palestinian.

"... and birds shall return" The Deluge and the Tree poem by Fadwa Tuqan, written in 1967, right after the Naksa (ongoing israeli made Nakba) & remembered #Gaza 2024

17 children’s books for Arab-American Heritage Month - 2024 - Rebekah Gienapp [nurturing antiracism]

Christians for a Free Palestine just shut down the US Senate cafeteria. If our leaders don't let Gaza eat, then they don't deserve to eat lunch.

Debating ancient Middle East history is a distraction from the death and human suffering now ravaging Palestine | Opinion in my local newspaper

Palestine Is Poetry by Sabrin Hasbun ..... "Grief and loss and violence and pain have been forced on us constantly, for over 75 years."

The indiscriminate killing, the manmade starvation and the bombing of aid workers must bring the west to a moment of decision -Chris McGreal

UN rights body demands Israel be held accountable for possible war crimes..."in just six months, more humanitarians have been killed in this conflict than in any war of the modern era.”

Palestine was not an empty piece of land before Israel

Dean Obeidallah: Two words  [#FreePalestine] that made Ramy Youssef’s ‘SNL’ monologue historic 

Easter Sunday: The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 painting by Sliman Mansour

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

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

 

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world

 PALESTINE REMEMBERED

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