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| "This time of year, children in #Gaza should be preparing for school — choosing backpacks, sharpening pencils, dreaming of the year ahead. Instead, they search for water, queue for food, and shelter in classrooms turned into crowded refuges. Children in Gaza have lost three years of schooling risking to become a lost generation. We need a #ceasefire now." @UNRWA |
Dear America,
HAMAS and Israel are two peas in a pod- both arm religion and both use violence, terror and harassment to get what they want. However there are 2 big differences:
#1. Israel is a lot smarter than HAMAS. Israel knows how to
use everything to its advantage, including using every armed Palestinian
attack or insult as a reason to invade and destroy whatever Israel
wants to invade and destroy.
Israel has extensive outreach with the ability to convince outsiders that they are in the right even when they are very much in the wrong. For instance Israel has been deploying false accusations against UNRWA in order to
A. Block UNRWA aid and aid workers from entering Gaza.
B. To convince the U.S.A. to stop funding UNRWA.
C. To have an excuse to bomb refugee camps and Arab cities:
Gaza now, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria next, enabling Israel to expand its
Occupation and violations of international law in every direction.
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief Works Agency that aids, feeds, and
educates Palestinian refugees, and helps keep them alive. UNRWA works.
That is why Israel wants to destroy it.
Israel knows how to manufacture consent for genocide in multiple ways...
In 2024 the U.S.A. gave Israel $23 billion dollars in military aid to
Israel.
Which brings us to point #2. Israel is a heavily armed formal military with tons of sophisticated weaponry, an air force with jet fighters, drones, tanks, full control of all borders, extensive surveillance equipment, and an exceptionally talented PR department whereas Hamas is a relatively powerless small terrorist group with few weapons whose leadership lives comfortably far away from Gaza.
Israel says it wants the hostages but what Israel has wanted all
along is yet another an excuse to grab all the land of historic
Palestine and beyond.
Land for Peace for Palestine was a dismal failure. Oslo helped
Israel gain funds and support, and cover for continuing its war on the men, women, and children of historic Palestine.
Children are starving and dying in Gaza. Israel with its mainstream media minions have Americans convinced that HAMAS is to blame for this crisis because armed militants are stealing all the food.
Islamists are tools in Israel's arsenal: HAMAS really should return all the hostages ASAP, and they should lay down all their weaponry.
Give up on violence- but do not ever give up on shaping the rule of fair and just laws, for everyone's sake.
America needs to set the right example by refusing to escalate a
global arms race. We should be investing in peace and the people's
needs- not Israeli violence, corruption, and greed.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
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STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.
For almost 6 months, no shelter supplies have been allowed into Gaza. About 90% of people are displaced, living in overcrowded conditions. Existing shelters have deteriorated or been left behind amid repeated forced displacements. Further displacement will overwhelm an already catastrophic shelter situation. Let UNRWA bring in shelter supplies. #UNRWAworks
"The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli Government. It has unlawfully restricted the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance and other goods necessary for the survival of the civilian population in the Gaza strip." ... United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in Geneva... "They [Israel] must ensure immediate entry of humanitarian assistance in sufficient amounts, and full access to UN and other humanitarian organisations."
Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).
Palestinian Mona Lisa. A well-preserved portrait of a woman, part of a mosaic floor found in a Roman villa in the city of Sepphoris near Nazareth. Her realistic expression, faint smile, and expressive eyes reminded viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
"It’s not a “project” and it’s not “controversial.” It’s land theft and it’s ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW" ... Deftly, time & time again, Assal Rad points out how our media has been writing it wrong, rather than righting a wrong:
Israel killed Maria and her entire family today in Gaza. Israel dropped a bomb on the tent where they had taken refuge... Israel has killed more than one [Palestinian] child every hour since October 2023
Let's repeat this again: Even wars have rules- Civilians, Schools, Hospitals, Healthcare workers,Civilian infrastructure, [& JOURNALISTS] are Not A Target
Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them- Nesrine Malik in The Guardian
Israel destroyed 400 [Palestinian] homes in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, over the past six days through aerial bombardment and the use of booby-trapped robots...
Just a quick glimpse of Gaza Before & After Israel's War
Old photos of Palestine c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"
The water fountain is called a sabil [in Arabic], a word that originally meant path. Later, it came to mean path to God. Sabils were widespread in the Muslim world until the early 20th century. They were charitable water fountains refilled by water carriers at specific times of the day
"Illegal Israeli settlers’ seize the land of the ancient monastery of St Gerasimos in the West Bank [Palestine] near Jericho- an ancient early Christian sanctuary" - William Dalrymple, author of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Greek Orthodox Jerusalem Patriarchate lands face encroachments by Israeli settlers near Jericho
Our complicity in Gaza has set the stage for a second genocide - in the West Bank ... the back story that utterly undermines Israel's "self-defence" narrative in Gaza by Jonathan Cook
"Why are Western politicians and media outlets suddenly speaking about Israel's crimes? Not to save the Palestinian people from genocide. It's to protect their own reputations." OWEN JONES: Have Israel's Friends ABANDONED It? w/. Omar Baddar
"“The Middle East conflict”… what a ridiculous way to frame Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands." Assal Rad
UNRWA USA : "We grieve for the more than 200 Palestinian journalists, over 300 of our UNRWA colleagues, and the tens of thousands of innocent people killed [by Israel] in Gaza since October 2023."
Nadeen Ayoub, a former Miss Earth finalist, will represent Palestine at Miss Universe 2025, the country’s first entry into the global pageant.
The Jerusalem municipality has frozen all bank accounts belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. According to Protecting Holy Land Christians, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is now unable to pay salaries to its clergy, teachers, and staff. Other churches face similar disputes. A court case brought against the Armenian Patriarchate by the Jerusalem municipality is set to be discussed in September.
Israel threatens to ban major aid organizations as starvation deepens: 100 organizations call for an end to Israel’s weaponization of aid 14 Aug 2025 Global
They want you silent. Speak anyway Opinion
Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it. The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime
Israel Deports Father Nadino Capovilla
United Nations says families, a generation being ‘wiped out’ by Israel’s war on Gaza- Malnutrition from Israeli-induced starvation, & Israeli strikes kill dozens of Palestinians as journalists are deliberately targeted.
‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif
Dear America- Please no more Israeli GHF killing fields or other such Zionist schemes that aim to further harass and destroy the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine.
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
