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| A fragment of Irina Naji's recent painting HUNGER in Gaza, Palestine. All of her paintings are pages of her life in Gaza, Palestine. |
Dear America
America arms Israel and Israel arms religious extremists, not only
its own Zionist soldiers and settlers but also ISIS militancy &
murder in Gaza.
Stop and think- this is just plain wrong!
So is our VETO of a Gaza ceasefire: 15 to 1. We are the 1 in the wrong. The resolution called for an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and entry of humanitarian aid.
We
should not be aiding and abetting Israel's violence and Zionist
cruelty. Nor should we be neutering our own judicial system by taking
away contempt of court rulings (section 70302 of the just passed House
Resolution HR1.)
FYI We also need the ICC [International Criminal Court] and we need to start listening to the knowledge, experience and better judgement of people who are not being brainwashed by a very foreign country that has been violating human rights and sovereign borders for decades, with every year bringing an escalation of depravity.
We should be supporting the people's needs, not state sponsored terrorism and the intentional starvation and torture of children.
We should be fully reinforcing and funding The United Nations, human rights, international law, UNESCO, and UNWRA.
We should also be fully fortifying our own libraries, schools, museums, and PBS (noncommercial radio + TV) for everyone.
Invest in the right things- not more and more racist hate, injustice, violence & war.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
"She was a shadow in human shape, curled in the ruins of a kitchen that no longer existed, feeding her infant an empty spoon. Over and over. “Eat,” she whispered, as if mercy could be faked long enough to save him. And the child obeyed. Because hunger makes gods of mothers, even when they have nothing left to give but lies. "
Today, Israeli forces have once again attacked a sacred Christian site: Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital in Gaza City. This time, they killed three journalists, two civilians, and wounded 30 others. The Episcopal Church of Jerusalem has condemned it as an “unprovoked assault”
People in Gaza have lost everything and need everything ... The only way to help is through the United Nations including UNWRA. UNWRA works. UNWRA has the expertise, experience and resources. The UN, including UNRWA, operated a system in Gaza with 400 distribution points—reaching people where they were. The current model excludes the most vulnerable.
Buying Time for Genocide - The US & Israel never wanted a ceasefire — blocking efforts for months while the US kept supplying weapons. #ARMSEMBARGONOW ... GAZA STRIPPED... and KILLING THE STORY anti-Palestian racism in media justifying Israeli violence & censoring rights-based language
"My Loyal Cactus" a Gaza poem by Ahmed Miqdad
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
1945 Jaffa Port Palestine- Palestinian fishermen fixing their nets
Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights defender: Our lives are blighted by illegal settlements, and 22 more have just been approved. Unless Israel is held to account, we will be erased
Letter from Gaza: The Nakba We Are Living Through "I have now become a refugee twice over: once from our historic village of Barbara, and now from Jabaliya." Hamza M.Salha Jun 02, 2025
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.
Gaza’s endangered heritage: 5,000 years of history at risk amid conflict
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
FOLLOW HIM and FOLLOW HER and FOLLOW THEM
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
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Tragedies
abound here on planet earth, but at least we can try to make our world a
better, more fair, just and secure place for more people.
Dear America- Racist times created hell on earth for "others" then, we really should know better now...
Funding religious extremists and charlatans is a recipe for disaster.
Dear America- Please do not let this tragic situation became a reason for more people to be treated more unequally, with more Palestinians and Palestinian Americans being doxed, destroyed, and displaced.
Life is not a video game. These are real human beings and American made weaponry has been creating a Holocaust with The Rule of Lawlessness in the Holy Land.
Dear America- Taxpayers' money should not be shoring up greed, corporate corruption, injustice, and war.
Please, let Golden Rule thinking and the rule of fair and just laws guide US all towards a better way forward.
State sponsored violence is not the way to convince vulnerable people to veer away from arming religious tyranny and terrorism.
Criticizing Israel is not Anti-Semitic. Calling for respect for human rights and the rule of fair and just laws is not Anti-Semitic. Countering the poisonous propaganda of a very foreign rogue nation state that interferes with our elections and our free speech is not Anti-Semitic... Americans should not be funding, arming, and/or excusing Israel in any way, shape, or form.
Please stop fueling corporate corruption, WAR, and escalating suffering for countless men, women, and children.
Israel, armed with American made weaponry and political support, invests in religious extremism and sets up families to be canon fodder for religious wars.... Israel claims to be Jewish, but what it really is is a cruel war machine that has been aggressively grabbing land, rights, and peace from the people of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
Hate crimes are escalating here in America with people primed by Zionism to think, say and do horrible things...
Dear America- Don't let American weaponry or words inspire even more religious extremism, terrorism, and state sponsored brutality world-wide
Slavery, Segregation and Forced Displacement are wrong. Wrong then and wrong now.
Please do not demonize and silence or destroy people who speak out peacefully against corruption, injustice, racism, bigotry, and violence of every type.
Frankly every Holocaust Museum on earth should have a wing added explaining the very real plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish Palestinians. 75 years and counting...
America should not help Israel commit crimes against humanity.
Dear America- letter sent to my elected leaders: Please understand that our friend Israel already is a one state "solution" that has been oppressing and intentionally displacing the native non-Jewish Palestinians for decades now.
The best idea is to start with full support for fair and just laws based on full respect for basic human rights.
Dear America- Freedom, justice and peace: These ideals should be our New Year's resolution- for everyone's sake.
Israel and its propagandists claim it is all about self-defense, but Israel is and has been the aggressor and the rule breaker.
Americans should focus on building peace - My letter published online in my local newspaper The Patriot News: "Our domestic and foreign policies should align to shape true justice, peace, and prosperity for all people, regardless of race or religion."
Dear Elected Officials- Stop poisoning the land, and undermining international law.
Silence is Complicity... and silence turns voters off, ensuring that Democracy dies in the darkness.
Our tax money should go to the people's needs- not war mongering and weapons manufacturing for foreign countries that use bigotry and injustice to determine who gets security and who gets their home demolished.
Dear America- We are in this collectively- no exceptions... Stop the hate- and the pollution of war.
Dear America- Don't let Israel drive a wedge between you and the truth.
Dear America, Please Help Stop Institutionalized Bigotry & Injustice
Dear America- Israel can not be trusted, and should not be subsidized
Accusing peaceful pro-Palestine protesters of being "antisemitic" pleases Israel but it does not make any Jews any safer anywhere.
Send an honorable message far and wide- we believe in freedom of and from religion... and we believe in real justice, peace, and security for ALL !
"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