Saturday, January 4, 2025
CNN: Israel considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Trump’s inauguration & On Friday, the State Department informally notified Congress that it intends to sell $8 billion in arms to Israel
By and , CNN
January 4, 2025
Israel is considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Donald Trump comes into office later this month...
... Relief organizations have consistently called for an increase in the amount of humanitarian aid allowed into the besieged strip, warning for months of the rising risk of famine for civilians.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update on Tuesday that only... READ MORE https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/middleeast/israel-gaza-aid-limits-trump-intl
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‘We’re dying from the cold’: Displaced Palestinians battle winter in Gaza- By Kareem El Damanhoury, Mohammad Al-Sawalhi and Eyad Kourdi, CNN
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Deir Al-Balah, Gaza
CNN
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Standing barefoot in the mud with an empty container in hand at a crowded water station in central Gaza, Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is fearing the winter weather and looking for clean water for her family.
Her family are living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Balah, after being displaced from Gaza City amid heavy Israeli bombardment. But their new home holds deadly perils of its own.
“We’re dying from the cold. This is not life, this is not living – I pray every day that we die to be relieved from this life,” Alaa says as she fights back tears. “No food, no water, no life.”
Several Palestinians, including at least five babies, have
died in recent days due to severe cold weather. The UN’s agency for
Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned on Tuesday that “more babies will
likely die” in the coming days... READ MORE https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/middleeast/gaza-winter-palestinians-intl-latam
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Babies are dying in Gaza; we must do something to stop it | PennLive letters - "Let us return to decency and compassion as a nation." Ann Marie Judson
Babies are dying in Gaza due to extremely cold weather. Families whose homes have been bombed are now living in tents. Food, water and medicine are scarce. The United Nations warned in November that 1.95 million people were at risk of famine. ... READ MORE https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025/01/babies-are-dying-in-gaza-we-must-do-something-to-stop-it-pennlive-letters.html
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Friday, January 3, 2025
Dear America- Freedom, justice and peace: These ideals should be our New Year's resolution- for everyone's sake.
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| Jimmy Carter, along with his beloved wife Rosalynn, worked tirelessly to build homes for the poor with Habitat for Humanity |
Dear America (letter just sent to my elected officials),
As we mourn our 39th President Jimmy Carter's death, as well as two horrific acts of violence in New Orleans and in front of the Trump Tower in Los Vegas, please let us step towards building peace, not more and more violence and war.
We call it TERRORISM when violence is done by an individual or small group, and WAR when it is done by a Sovereign Nation.
We arm the Sovereign Nation and excuse it when uses violence and state
sponsored terrorism against individuals and vulnerable families, which
in turn sends the message worldwide that violence against civilians is
OK by US.
Having and beating slaves was legal in America 170 years ago. Just because something is technically legal, does not make it right or good.
I object to our tax money being used to fund and empower the weapons industry and Israel, a militarily powerful and affluent sovereign nation that has been building Apartheid in Palestine for generations now.
Israel's genocidal policies towards Palestinian men, women and children have to be stopped... Just because you have your head in the sand does not mean all the world is clueless about Israel's escalating crimes against humanity. Meanwhile China is rising in power and influence while America is falling.
After the horrors of the NAZI Holocaust our First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt helped shape the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights "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" https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/translations/english
Freedom, justice and peace: These ideals should be our New Year's resolution- for everyone's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
Notes https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced: Carter signed treaties to hand over the Panama Canal and criticized Israel, drawing respect and fury past his one term - Chris McGreal 30 Dec 2024 in The Guardian
If Americans Knew: Warsaw 1944, Gaza 2024
Requiem for a Refugee Camp- In October, 2023, I could not imagine anything worse than the destruction in Jabalia refugee camp. But what is happening now outstrips anything I saw there. By Mosab Abu Toha December 31, 2024 in The New Yorker
FROM & for PALESTINE: Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer... Emmanuel, you who were born in a stable and made your home among the oppressed. May your light pierce the darkness of violence and despair. Strengthen us to be bearers of that light, standing in solidarity with all who yearn for liberation and hope.
Feast of the Holy Innocents: Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7
The United Nations & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Baby Jesus born in Bethehem Palestine
We will always carry their memory in all we do...
Maha Hussaini: Not only are Palestinians continuing to study under Israel's genocide, but they also hold Palestinian cultural activities in schools in displacement camps. Good morning from central #Gaza, where I met these beautiful girls wearing their Palestinian thobe on their way to school 12/16/2024
MIT Science for Genocide
Christmas IS Palestine .... where it all began
One the most iconic images of the Holy Land is the fish and loaves mosaic in the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi author of Palestine Inside Out
Always, no matter what.... Even Wars Have Rules
"If the U.S. had held Israel accountable for the killing of other Americans like Rachel Corrie or Shireen Abu Akleh, perhaps Israeli soldiers would not feel so emboldened to kill Americans, and other civilians, today." Hamad Ali in The Hill 12/14/24
Dear America- Israel and its propagandists claim it is all about self-defense, but Israel is and has been the aggressor and the rule breaker.
Dear Elected Officials- Stop poisoning the land, and undermining international law.
My Letters https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/letters
"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..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced: Carter signed treaties to hand over the Panama Canal and criticized Israel, drawing respect and fury past his one term - Chris McGreal 30 Dec 2024 in The Guardian
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| Jimmy Carter writes in a guest book at the end of his visit to the Cuban Jewish community centre in Havana, Cuba, on 28 March 2011. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images |
From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced
Carter "....warned that big money was now so pervasive in American politics that the US was “no longer a functioning democracy” because of “unlimited political bribery”"
But nothing ran Carter into so much trouble as his willingness to call it as he saw it on Israel. In 2006, he drew a torrent of criticism and abuse with a book critical of Israel’s failure to make peace and end the occupation. The title – Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid – lit the fuse by suggesting Israel pursues a racist policy against the Palestinians...."
".... Carter infuriated his critics further by standing his ground and ramping up the criticism. He said that balanced debate about US policy on Israel is “practically non-existent” in Congress or in presidential races, and accused America’s political leadership of being “in the pocket” of the Jewish state.
“We cannot be peacemakers if American government leaders are seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever Israeli government happens to be in power at the moment. That is the essential fact that must be faced,” he wrote."
...READ IN FULL IN CONTEXT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-foreign-policy-
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| Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid was published in 2007 |
Requiem for a Refugee Camp- In October, 2023, I could not imagine anything worse than the destruction in Jabalia refugee camp. But what is happening now outstrips anything I saw there. By Mosab Abu Toha December 31, 2024 in The New Yorker
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Palestinians survey the destruction after an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, in November, 2024.Photograph by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP / Getty |
Requiem for a Refugee Camp
In
October, 2023, I could not imagine anything worse than the destruction
in Jabalia refugee camp. But what is happening now outstrips anything I
saw there.
For a
long time, I wondered what my paternal grandparents, Hasan and Khadra,
experienced in 1948, when Zionist militias expelled them from their
homes in Jaffa. After they moved into the newly formed Al-Shati refugee
camp, on the banks of the Mediterranean, did they keep their bags
packed, ready for the day when they would return home? How many weeks or
years did it take them to unpack for good, realizing that Al-Shati was
now their home? My father, his siblings, and most of my siblings were
born there. Decades later, when Hasan and Khadra died, they were buried
in a nearby cemetery.
What if Hasan and Khadra could have filmed what happened to their homes in Jaffa? What if they had footage of their journey to Gaza and the start of their lives in the camp? If Palestinians had live-streamed the start of the catastrophe that we are still living in, could it have been prevented? What became of their house, and the mulberry tree in their yard? I don’t have answers to these questions. But, in 2024, I felt that I started to understand my grandparents.
A few
years ago, seventy per cent of Gazans were refugees. In 2024, the U.N.
reported that ninety per cent of Gazans were displaced. All of Gaza’s
universities are gone. About ninety-five per cent of schools have been
damaged or destroyed. Whole neighborhoods are filmed as they get blown
up. A house where one of my aunts lived, on the edge of Jabalia, was hit
by an air strike that killed sixteen relatives, including one of her
daughters. My grandmother’s sister, Um Hani—whom I called sitti, or grandma—was killed, too. Her body is still under the rubble.... ".... READ MORE https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/requiem-for-a-refugee-camp
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Monday, December 30, 2024
FROM & for PALESTINE: Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer... Emmanuel, you who were born in a stable and made your home among the oppressed. May your light pierce the darkness of violence and despair. Strengthen us to be bearers of that light, standing in solidarity with all who yearn for liberation and hope.
Emmanuel, you who were born in a stable and made your home among the oppressed. May your light pierce the darkness of violence and despair. Strengthen us to be bearers of that light, standing in solidarity with all who yearn for liberation and hope. Grant us the courage to proclaim, as Mary did, your promise to lift up the humble, to fill the hungry with good things, and to bring down rulers from their thrones.
Lord in your mercy…hear our prayer
Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians. Inspired by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, this liberation theology seeks to deepen the faith of Palestinian Christians, to promote unity among them and lead them to act for justice and peace.
Feast of the Holy Innocents: Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7
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| Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7 2023-Dec 29 2024 |
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| Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7 2023- Dec 29 2024 |
Sunday, December 29, 2024
The United Nations & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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| United Nations- Early draft of Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/translations/english |
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| Norman Rockwell's art illustrating The Golden Rule |
Human rights are inherent to us all, regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status...
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| Peace is worth figuring out- for all our sakes |
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