letter I just sent to my elected leaders
Dear America,
Israel with all its pretty propaganda enriches some, but impoverishes
many many more, triggering injustice and suffering every where it can
reach, including right into America, robbing US blind.
Robbing US of real democracy and equality- robbing US of free speech
and our fourth estate, robbing US of civilized and well informed
dialogue, robbing US of funds needed for human beings, for our children
and schools and the environment... robbing US of goodness and grace. Robbing US of respect and a decent future.
Zionism inspires religious extremism & corruption worldwide. No one is safe. No one is secure.
For every one's sake please stop trusting Israel. Stop funding
Israel. Stop arming Israel. Stop excusing Israel. AND stop duplicating
the propaganda of a very foreign country that is in flagrant and long
term violation of international law.
STOP ignoring racist Israel's intentional and systematic destruction of Palestinian families, homes, communities and jobs. Start a better way forward towards a just and lasting peace & progress by saying NO to trigger-happy Israel and NO TO WAR!
Fund UNRWA and true compassion, not the killing zone scheme of Israel's "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
Because as Volker Turk warns, “The current trajectory of escalating conflict and disregard for human rights is indefensible.”
Stand up for international law and Human Rights, not the weapons industry.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
Israel VS Iran ... Israel's nuclear weapons - up to 400* VS Iran's nuclear weapons 0 [ZERO!]
"The Iraq playbook is back & the media won't question it. Iraq has no nuclear weapons. Israel- on trial for genocide- does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn't- & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.... BEWARE OF POLITICIANS BEATING THE DRUMS OF WAR
"Israel is a nuclear-armed state, with one of the most advanced military’s in the world, funded and armed by the U.S., that started a war of aggression with Iran and is committing genocide in Gaza… And the BBC makes it sound like they’re William Wallace resisting the English." Assal Rad
"Dekel also credits Abdoh with helping spark her interest in the larger story surrounding the Tehran children, including the Jewish community's ancient roots in Iran and the remarkable humanitarianism of a Muslim nation accepting Jewish refugees in the Nazi era, when so many countries were turning them away."
NEW YORK, 15 June 2025 – “This weekend’s surge in violence across the Middle East signals a dangerous escalation. Children are once again paying the ultimate price. Since Friday, an intense military escalation in the region has seen strikes on Iran and Israel hit residential areas, killing and injuring civilians – including children – and causing damage to civilian infrastructure. Beyond the death toll, this alarming escalation creates widespread fear and trauma among children in all communities. UNICEF strongly condemns all forms of violence against children. Our thoughts are with all the families and communities mourning this tragic loss of life. We reiterate the Secretary-General's call for all sides to show maximum restraint, avoiding at all costs a descent into deeper conflict, a situation the region and its children cannot afford. UNICEF urgently calls on all parties to uphold their obligations under international law and to ensure the protection of civilians, in particular children. All children have the right to live without the threat of war and violence...." UNICEF for every child
The United Nations 2025 ACT NOW for a peaceful world: Did you know that the world spent $2.4 trillion on its militaries or that the global economic cost of violence was nearly $20 trillion in 2023?
"There are no bomb shelters in Gaza. There are no sirens. And there is no emergency alert app on our phones. And if there was one, there is no phone signal or internet connect most of the time. And there is hardly any electricity to charge our phones. The only shelters we have been running into and living in are schools and hospitals. But even those have been bombed constantly and our families were burnt alive in front of our eyes. Even the areas that were designated as "non-combat zones" got bombed. We live there in tents without access to water or food or clothes." Mosab Abu Toha
‘They just see you as an Arab’: Israel’s Palestinian citizens given cursory protection from attack. Deaths of four family members sheltering in supposed ‘safe rooms’ in Tamra highlight racial inequality of Israel’s defence of its citizens
Israel's attack on Iran: "It’s all looking very Gaza-like: escalation with no end; or regime change with no plan." Nesrine Malik in The Guardian
"Killings & wars will breed more wars & bloodshed. Civilians will always suffer first & suffer most. Political will, leadership & courage are overdue & needed more than ever. It's time for long lasting peace in Gaza & across the region." Philippe Lazzarini
In Tel Aviv, rescue teams use advanced equipment, sniffer dogs, and heavy machinery to save those trapped under rubble. In Gaza, civil defense workers and neighbors dig with bare hands, without fuel or tools, because Israel blocks the entry of life-saving equipment. Many victims in Gaza die slowly, not from the initial bombing, but from suffocation, hunger, or thirst beneath the ruins.
It Being Sunday ... a 2025 poem by Anne Selden Annab
It being Sunday
in a land with many churches
I pray that prayers for peace
rise up, rise up to sway
people away from war.
Away from bombing children,
pulverizing families,
Away from generating enemies.
Away from creating poverty, starvation, suffering...
Might does not make right
nor does armed resistance.
Scorn violence!
We live in an age of computers- the internet
an endless feed of personal truths at our fingertips
with the power of fair and just laws
able to shape a better way forward
for all of humankind.
***
Laila El-Haddad & Mosab Abu Toha both win the JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD 2025 for their essays on Gaza ... "We Palestinians win, with or without recipes..."
CSM: In Gaza, Palestinians wonder: Is it worth braving bullets to find food?
Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
Antisemitic and Islamophobic violence is rising in the United States. Both must stop: We have a duty to call out antisemitism when we see it. We also have an equal duty to remember that Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are also being targeted
Let's use the best tool we have: EDUCATION against ignorance, prejudice, hatred, genocide
More journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza than in most major wars combined.
The MATH of modern GENOCIDE & the US weapons industry.
"The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes, and prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation and escalatin violence" Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Building a Culture of Peace ...
"The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." ~Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations
"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
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