Dear America- Israel's aim is to be THE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER that we once were.

United Nations ACT NOW for a peaceful world 

Dear America,

We have been duped & fleeced by a foreign power that wants our money, weaponry, and support in order to undermine real democracy and the rule of fair and just laws.

Israel's aim is to be THE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER that we once were.

Israel has yearned for war on Iran for years, and now, thanks to Trump and his Zionist son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Israel has a two for one deal with America and Iran both undermined, weakened, impoverished- to be eventually destroyed by a war instigated and perpetuated by Israel.

Time and time again our so-called friend Israel leads us into a trap.

Israel does not want peace- it wants targets and excuses to wage war. 

Right now, a U.S. Israeli is Israel’s ambassador to the United States- Yechiel Leiter.  How many other U.S. citizen's first allegiance is to Israel, not America.

Israelis help fund, build, and populate the illegal settlements and armed fortresses that have been stealing Palestinian land, rights and peace for decades. Lebanon and Syria are also being attacked and occupied by Israel. 

The world will not be a safer or saner place with Israel as THE ONE AND ONLY GLOBAL SUPERPOWER. 

Israel used the United Nations and international law to come into being in 1948, and Israel is now doing all it can to destroy the United Nations, international law, diplomacy and real dialogue.

FYI citizenship in Israeli is based on religion, hypocrisy, blatant injustice... and misinformation.  Israel's disinformation campaigns reach worldwide, pitting groups against each other and ramping up racist hate, rage, and war. 

Say no to war, and say NO to Israel.  Bring out all the best in people, not all the worst.

Say YES to the United Nations & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights- for everyone's sake.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

"Just when the outcome of a war and the stability of global markets hung in the balance, the president chose spectacle over engagement." The Guardian view on US-Iran talks: Trump’s diplomacy falters as risk of war grows

An American blockade in the strait of Hormuz raises energy-market dangers after failed negotiations – pushing a fragile ceasefire closer to collapse

Israel’s attack on UNRWA is central to its genocide of the Palestinians: UNRWA’s mandate to provide for Palestinian refugees makes it a direct threat to the Israeli genocidal project.

Bright Stars of Bethlehem: "You know when you live in a context like Palestine. Where our lives are being interrupted on a daily or weekly basis. We have almost every other year, a war. You feel everything is falling apart around you. And culture is the art to breathe. When everything around you is falling apart, culture keeps you sane. Culture keeps you going. Culture empowers you with a new vision and strength to continue and to excel in spite of everything. And so it wasn't by chance that we started the first and only university in Palestine with this focus on arts and culture." -Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb

Speaking to the world's leaders, the pope said, "Stop! It is time for peace! Sit at the table of dialogue and mediation, not at the table where rearmament is planned, and deadly actions are decided!" However, all the world's people also have a duty to reject the violence in their own hearts and minds, and help build a kingdom of peace each and every day in one's own home, school and community, he said. "Let us believe once again in love, moderation and good politics," he said, urging people to learn more and "get personally involved" in being part of "the mosaic of peace!"

"Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life,"

The New Yorker: Since the U.S. and Iran agreed to a temporary ceasefire, on Tuesday night, Israel has continued pummelling Lebanon with air strikes, killing more than three hundred people on Wednesday and wounding over a thousand more.

 Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped

While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon ... Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

We reiterate the urgent need Israel to uphold its obligations under international humanitarian law and ensure civilians are protected. Israel has an appalling track record of carrying out unlawful attacks in Lebanon and displaying a callous disregard for civilian life, fueled by the impunity Israeli officials feel they enjoy.

"Whenever we remember a loved-one Israel killed, the world says they went to a better place, and I only wonder why doesn't Israel just go to a better place?" Mohammed Mousa

“There is no military objective that justifies the wholesale destruction of a society's infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations.” Conflicts end when leaders choose dialogue over destruction, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stresses.

Imagine what we could have done to educate, inspire, and care for our children here instead of spending billions to bomb our children there.... Whatever there you are thinking about right now, there are [& they are] our children, too.

Red Cross ICRC: Indiscriminate warfare is indefensible and incompatible with law... Deliberate threats, whether in rhetoric or in action, against essential civilian infrastructure and nuclear facilities must not become the new norm in warfare. Any war fought without limits is incompatible with the law. It is indefensible, inhumane and devastating for entire populations. Across the Middle East, our teams are seeing the destruction of infrastructure essential for civilian life. Power plants, water systems, hospitals, roads, bridges, homes, schools, and universities have come under fire. Most alarming are potential threats to nuclear facilities. Any miscalculation can cause irreversible consequences for generations to come.

"THIS IS NOT AN ABSTRACT THOUGHT. We are standing in the place where the stone was rolled away, yet we know all too well that many stones remain sealed around us. Too many tombs have been dug again by hatred, violence, and retaliation. In this Holy Land, which is the mother of faith and has also become a land of constant conflict, the question resounds with dramatic force: “Where have you laid him?” For it seems that we place the Lord back in a tomb every time we believe that death has the final word over history, every time we resign ourselves to the logic of the enemy, every time we call an armed truce “peace” and the calculation of damage “justice.” CARDINAL PIZZABALLA AT THE HOLY SEPULCHRE ON EASTER SUNDAY

350 Palestinian children are in Israeli prisons on Palestinian Children’s Day, amid escalating, systematic, and direct arrest campaigns targeting them.

Pope Leo urged "those who have the power to unleash wars" to chose peace. This should not be a peace “imposed by force”, he stressed, but one achieved through dialogue – “not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them”.

Pope urges world leaders to lay down weapons

On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo appeals to world leaders to choose “not to dominate others, but to encounter them”.

PBS News: Lebanese Christians displaced by war mark Easter far from their homes and churches

Trump’s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that’s just the start- That $11.3bn doesn’t include any estimate of repairing facilities or replacing losses.- Arwa Mahdawi

Dear America- American leadership has been opting to waste billions and now trillions of our tax money on war, all for what?

Centuries before America's Declaration of Independence in 1776 (and our subsequent Bill of Rights)- in 1095 the First Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Urban II— with a call to arms for Christians to reconquer Jerusalem from the Muslims.

Please stop funding and fueling Israel's wars and the ongoing destruction of historic Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria... and Iran.

War and terrorism are for tyrants, not for freedom or justice. Bully tactics teach all the wrong lessons.

Billionaires want Ballrooms. The rest of us want clean water; safe neighborhoods; good schools, libraries, & museums; National Parks; playgrounds; PBS; good job opportunities for ourselves and our children; affordable heath-care; AND PEACE.

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.

A barbaric new era has already begun as Americans are duped into being wage slaves for billionaires who have no respect for basic human rights and the rule of fair and just laws.

Golden Rule Thinking IS GOOD

Our land and resources are being gobbled up for AI data centers for what purpose? Is it for the greater good of tax paying citizens- or is it to feed the greed of corporations and companies that already use our data to charge us as much as they can at every turn.

Real freedom, justice, and democracy are being embezzled by corporate greed and political corruption to empower Israel and war.

"ISRAEL SAYS" is not God talking.

Israel has a right to exist, but Israel has no right to starve and displace the men, women and children of historic Palestine.

The vast majority of Americans are not wealthy & the taxes that We The People pay are being diverted into funding religious bigotry and terror via Israel's cruel war on the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine. HAMAS cruelty and stupidity echoes Zionist cruelty and stupidity and on and on it goes. Neither approach will build peace or security.

The weapons industry and a global war machine- AND INJUSTICE- burgeon with American tax payer funds.

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

DEAR AMERICA

USA: International Withdrawals Are a Vindictive Effort to Tear Apart a Global System for Cooperation

(Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

 

Responding to the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, said: 

“This is a vindictive and reckless assault on the legitimacy and integrity of the United Nations and the rules-based international order that has been the bedrock of global cooperation for the past 80 years. With this latest in a series of damaging attacks, President Trump is shamefully doubling down on his efforts to destroy the multilateral system that the United States helped to build from the ashes of World War Two to guarantee the universal human rights and protection of all people.

“This was a deceptive announcement, given the United States had already disengaged from many of these bodies and chosen to defund key UN agencies. It is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration’s callous disregard for international law and global commitments in crucial areas such as promoting development, addressing the climate crisis, ending violence against children, and achieving gender equality. For example, the UN Population Fund, which the administration has now announced withdrawing from after previously defunding it, is vital in the fight against gender-based violence and advocating for millions of women and girls around the world.

“Further, in publicly withdrawing from organizations it already had disengaged from, the administration used the occasion to broadcast its overt anti-Black racism. With Secretary of State Marco Rubio citing ‘DEI mandates’ as justification for the withdrawals, the administration’s announcement that it was leaving the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, a body of the UN Human Rights Council, from which the United States had already withdrawn, was nothing more than a deliberate act of racism and institutional sabotage.

“These decisions are not just cruel, racist and discriminatory, they will also no doubt prove to be devastatingly short-sighted by undermining the interests of people in the United States and around the world.

“Withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in particular is unprecedented and the United States will be the only country to have done so. Along with its withdrawal from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other climate-related bodies, this will actively undermine climate action both domestically and globally. It will inhibit efforts to protect the US population from the impacts of the climate crisis and could drive more climate displacement from other countries. Still, other states should seize this as an opportunity to now do the important work of fairly phasing out fossil fuels and funding a just transition, then call on the US to rejoin later.

“Withdrawing from peacebuilding mechanisms and bodies directly contradicts the US government’s stated calls for the UN to prioritize ‘peace and security’ opens in a new tab. This is particularly alarming at a time when President Trump is threatening several countries with military action and on the same day he called for a $1.5 trillion military budget opens in a new tab. The consequences of these withdrawals risk triggering global destabilization, further endangering human rights everywhere, and disproportionately harming the most marginalized communities.

“UN member states and implicated international organizations must act immediately to shore up the multilateral and international legal architecture essential to universal human rights, including by engaging in robust defense of these systems and meaningful reforms to preserve accountability, prevent erosion of standards and protect people all over the world.”

Contact: media@aiusa.org

 https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/usa-international-withdrawals-are-a-vindictive-effort-to-tear-apart-a-global-system-for-cooperation/

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"The Israeli Knesset – which recently voted to annex the West Bank – adopted legislation in 2024 that forcibly removed UNRWA international staff from the occupied Palestinian territory and blocked the entry of our supplies into Gaza. A virulent disinformation campaign has tarnished the Agency’s reputation and strangled funding for our vital work. This September, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, found that the laws adopted by the Knesset to cripple UNRWA’s operations, and the establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, were calculated to block lifesaving aid and create “unlivable conditions of life” leading to the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza – a genocidal act. In October, the International Court of Justice found that Israel is obliged to lift restrictions on UNRWA’s operations, and to agree to, and facilitate, the Agency’s relief efforts. The Court recognized the unique and sustained connection between the Agency’s mandate and the realization of human rights for the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination. In short, safeguarding UNRWA’s mandate and operations is required under international law; it is vital to the survival of millions of Palestinians; and it is essential for a political solution."

#UNRWAworks

 UNRWA

@UNRWA

 

“For two years, UNRWA has weathered existential challenges, delivering its mandate against impossible odds in the occupied Palestinian territory. 

 

 The renewal of this mandate alone will not be sufficient to safeguard the Agency’s work, and the lives and future of Palestine Refugees. 

 

Member States must take concrete steps to delineate UNRWA’s role within a timebound political process and to fully finance the provision of essential services until that process is complete. 

 

To support the Agency is to invest in a political path forward, and to stand in true solidarity with all those committed to a lasting peace.”  

 

— UNRWA Commissioner-General @‌UNLazzarini addressing the General Assembly Fourth Committee Full remarks: 

 

 https://unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/statement-unrwa-commissioner-general-philippe-lazzarini-united-nations

 

Mr. Chair,

Excellencies,

After two years of brutal warfare in Gaza, an uneasy truce offers some respite to a devastated population.

As people return to obliterated homes, search the rubble for missing relatives, and piece together their shattered lives, the future remains deeply uncertain.

The ceasefire is tenuous, with multiple breaches testing the resolve of its guarantors.

It is not enough to merely prolong the absence of war – we must chart a viable path to peace.

***

The humanitarian needs and trauma in Gaza are overwhelming.

My team has endured two years of bombardment, displacement and siege.

They are grieving the killing of countless loved ones and more than 380 colleagues.

They are utterly exhausted, but they have never stopped working.

Their determination has been key to Gaza’s survival.

Today, UNRWA delivers 40% of all primary healthcare in Gaza, providing some 14,000 medical consultations each day.

We bolster public health through immunization campaigns, nutrition screenings, water quality testing, and pest control campaigns.

Our water wells, desalination systems, and waste management services benefit hundreds of thousands of people.

We conduct in-person learning for more than 40,000 children, and support nearly 300,000 children through online learning platforms.

Psychosocial support is integrated into our educational activities – both are critical for reviving hope and preventing radicalization.

Contrary to relentless disinformation, UNRWA’s education programme demonstrates a commitment to tolerance, human rights, gender equality and diversity that is unparalleled in the region.

We have held fast to these commitments, despite strong opposition and intimidation by Hamas and other groups.

We have succeeded in educating generations of Palestinians who are thriving global citizens, enriching communities across the region and beyond, in Europe and North America.

Excellencies,

The viability of political plans for Gaza depends on successful stabilization and recovery.

This requires rapidly scaling up humanitarian assistance and reinstating critical public services.

With its 12,000-strong workforce, and deep reserves of community trust, UNRWA’s capacity to deliver is unrivaled.

However, our operations continue to be undermined by political attacks and precarious finances.

The Israeli Knesset – which recently voted to annex the West Bank – adopted legislation in 2024 that forcibly removed UNRWA international staff from the occupied Palestinian territory and blocked the entry of our supplies into Gaza.

A virulent disinformation campaign has tarnished the Agency’s reputation and strangled funding for our vital work.

This September, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, found that the laws adopted by the Knesset to cripple UNRWA’s operations, and the establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, were calculated to block lifesaving aid and create “unlivable conditions of life” leading to the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza – a genocidal act.

In October, the International Court of Justice found that Israel is obliged to lift restrictions on UNRWA’s operations, and to agree to, and facilitate, the Agency’s relief efforts.

The Court recognized the unique and sustained connection between the Agency’s mandate and the realization of human rights for the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination.

In short, safeguarding UNRWA’s mandate and operations is required under international law; it is vital to the survival of millions of Palestinians; and it is essential for a political solution.

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In these challenging times, it is heartening to witness the remarkable solidarity and support from university students across the #USA many #European countries & others around the world standing with #Gaza. #StandWithGaza #StudentsForPeace #HumanRights #StopGenocideInGaza

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In these challenging times, it is heartening to witness the remarkable solidarity and support from university students across the #USA many #European countries & others around the world standing with #Gaza. #StandWithGaza #StudentsForPeace #HumanRights #StopGenocideInGaza