Dear America,
Modern warfare coupled with colonialism is not the stuff of days gone by when all
things were handmade and it took months to cross an ocean.
Modern colonialism is technologically advanced, with tyrants free to
empower "AI " in massive data centers quickly calculating which
individual, or family, or community, or country would be best to silence
and
destroy so that greed, corruption, and cruelty can thrive for an
empowered few, while the rest of us are wage slaves for expanding
inequity and injustice.
Intentionally impoverishing people, fragmenting families, pulverizing homes and schools, torturing
and pushing civilians into starvation and forced exile is and always has
been wrong. Civilization depends on US refusing to be stupid & cruel.
1948 was a turning point for all of human history as all the world
saw the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. We live in a post WWII world
where international law has been firmly established based on full
respect for basic UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS- and sovereign borders.
Thinkers and workers slowly built the world we have today and all its
many benefits.
Thinkers and workers figured out how to cook good food and build safe
and prosperous communities. Thinkers and workers created public
libraries and museums and fair and just laws to help ensure that
"others" would be included in our prosperity: Along the way we learned
that slavery is wrong. We learned that domestic violence is wrong. We
learned that racist hate is wrong.
SO WHY are we funding Israel and why are we bombing Iran for Israel!!!
The epitome of modern warfare, colonialism, bigotry, and injustice
today is power hungry, war mongering modern Israel generously armed with
an immense arsenal of sophisticated
lethal weaponry aimed to wage endlessly escalating war on all neighbors.
Modern man-made Israel steals land,
rights, resources and peace from indigenous people.
Modern man-made Israel also kills journalists and aid workers and has
been intentionally impoverishing, oppressing and/or killing and/or
displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine for
decades- including countless Christians. FYI Israel does not care if
America is also destroyed.
STOP THE WAR!!!
AND stop funding and/or excusing Israeli crimes against humanity.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
A girl in Az Za’ayyem Bedouin community (Jerusalem governorate) stands on what remains of her home following its demolition by Israeli authorities due to the lack of building permits, which are rarely granted to Palestinians, April 2026. - Humanitarian Situation Report | 1 May 2026
‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks. Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence
"Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case." Statement from Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in response to LeMoyne College's President's email
"My suffering, though severe, was never compounded by denial. The world around me was structured to keep me alive. That distinction matters. Because elsewhere, at this very moment, there are people whose hunger is not the byproduct of illness—but the result of policy. Of decision. Of design. In Gaza, and within the walls of Israeli prisons, hunger is not incidental. It is imposed..." Hunger, By Design By Mike Odetalla
How do armed conflicts affect us? What is the #CostOfConflicts? .... A Plea for Peace & the United Nations
"God is not a real estate agent. The Holy Land is not a prize to be won, but a sanctuary for all God’s children to live in equality." Kairos II provides a definitive Christian perspective on the current reality in the Holy Land. It offers a framework for understanding this as a moral and spiritual crisis that demands a response from every person of faith.
"The olive tree is not just the modern symbol of the Palestinians and their deep roots in the soil of their land, it was always central to their history and economy..." William Dalrymple
"Don't Say Palestine- How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide" NEW BOOK by the brilliant headline fixing writer Assal Rad ... "In Don’t Say Palestine, Rad reveals a pattern of dehumanizing language—in outlets from CNN and the AP to the BBC and The New York Times—so consistently employed throughout the Palestinian genocide that it amounts to a policy. Mainstream Western media consistently downplays Israeli responsibility, “others” Palestinians, and casts doubt on inviolable tenets of international law like the sanctity of hospitals and journalists in war zones."
Meanwhile, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of Palestinian residents. In two and a half years, 59 Palestinian communities have been expelled, and more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes throughout the West Bank.
"Gaza represents a new pinnacle for this type of wholesale destruction as a military strategy, of using overwhelming and disproportionate force against civilians and infrastructure." Is this what war looks like now? Mohamad Bazzi
Over 270 journalists killed by Israel with impunity. When surveillance, harassment, and military force converge, the result is not just intimidation but the systematic erasure of those documenting the truth.
Welcome to Byblos, Lebanon- Every time you walk into a library or open a book, you are unknowingly referencing a Phoenician port that has been standing for over 7,000 years...
Dear America- The devastation and cruelty of the Nazi Holocaust proved beyond the shadow of a doubt how modern weaponry and racist hate were a truly evil combination. We now have The United Nations, international law, and Universal Human Rights to steer more sane and compassionate choices for all human beings. Empower that please!
Funding and arming terrorism and violence is evil and wrong: America should not be funding, arming, defending, or trusting today's Israel in any way, shape or form.
Violence is a problem- not the answer.
In 1945, 50 nations came together in San Francisco to create a new organization for peace, prosperity & human rights- the United Nations
"The United Nations is the only place on Earth where all the world's nations come together to discuss common problems and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. This intergovernmental organization born out of the ashes of the Second World War remains indispensable to the pursuit of world peace, justice, equality and sustainable development" https://www.un.org/en/
The right of refugees to return to homes and lands they were expelled from is an individual right and cannot be unilaterally abrogated by third parties. https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-palestinian-refugees-the-right-of-return-under-international-law/441
"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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