Dear President Biden (etc),
Flagrantly violating international law and universal basic human
rights- Israel is in the wrong. And so is America for blessing Israel
with American tax payers' hard earned money, plus an unending plethora
of lethal weaponry:
Religion should be a personal, private choice, not a state funded project.
America should not funding and arming religious preferences in the
Middle East- stoking violence, religious extremism, illegal settlements
& ugly bigotry with horrific ramifications.
Israel has been utilizing bullets, bombs, detentions, torture,
displacement, and character assassinations, plus Apartheid laws, walls,
& policies in
order to starve and ethnically cleanse the Holy Land of the indigenous
non-Jewish people whose ancestry is firmly rooted in historic
Palestine.
UNWRA was established shortly after WWII when The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights & Israel were established. UNWRA would
no longer exist if Israel had started a just and lasting peace in 1948
by respecting the Palestinian refugees' inalienable right to return to
original homes and lands.
Churning out more and more refugees and punishing them when they dare
object to further displacement and poverty, Israel has become a
genocidal war machine.
America needs to wake up and shake off delusions that Israel is our friend.
Do not trust Israeli news and information. They want our money and
support, and for decades they have been deploying multiple skilled
propagandists and bully tactics in order to dupe American leadership
into doing their bidding.
Please stop doing Israel's bidding. Stand up for American ideals and
security... stand up for real freedom, equality and justice for all
human beings, regardless of supposed race or religion.
Exercise Golden Rule thinking by empowering international law, universal human rights, fair policies, and good investments.
Aid for starving children IS a good investment.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
If
you're shocked that 7 food aid workers were killed, wait until you hear
about the murders of Palestinian journalists, doctors, nurses,
teachers, ambulance drivers, mothers, fathers, and the children the
children the children #ceasefirenow
Dean Obeidallah CNN Opinion: "... Hearing someone on national network television say the words
“Free Palestine” — and having the audience spontaneously burst into
applause — is not something I’ve seen before. It’s something I wish my
late father, a Palestinian immigrant to the US, had been alive to see.
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
