Palestine STOP WARS mural by painted by Palestinian artist Mohammed Qreaiqe in Gent, Belgium.

Training for peace, progress, and respect for all human beings, regardless of race or religion, does not require urban warfare tactics. #CopCity #America #Israel #Palestine

United Nations 2023

I heard on the TV news of the violence- the protest about "Cop City" down in Atlanta Georgia, and I did not understand who or why. So I searched online for information, and found that the beginning was all about a park and forest land being demolished to make way for a massive training center for police. 

I do respect our police, but I do not support America becoming a Police State, with those already in power doing all they can to gain and keep more power.

Furthermore public parks and nature reserves should not be usurped by local, state or federal governments here in America to further militarize our police.  

This situation sounds so much like Israel as Israel freely usurps Palestinian land, training Zionist soldiers and testing weapons and tactics on the Palestinians in the illegally occupied territories, and then demonizing any and all who dare protest.   

I searched for more information on the people behind "Cop City" to see if Israel was connected to this project. First thing I find is a polished piece of propaganda that points to major American corporations that I won't name because I think that article is a misdirecting smokescreen created to protect Israel. 

Criticize Israel's state sponsored terrorism and you get wrongly accused of being an anti-Semitic.  That accusation silences many people, stifling an honest and helpful conversation, thereby allowing corruption and cruelty to flourish in racist Israel, and here in America as well.

Training for peace, progress, and respect for all human beings (regardless of race or religion) does not require urban warfare tactics.

Protests about police violence in our cities include the plea for money to be spent on the people's needs.  The only way to stop the violence in our cities is with crucial social programs and investments so that all Americans have a better chance to find decent jobs and create good lives for themselves. 

I did find one article from 2021 "Israel and the militarization of Atlanta's police" pointing out that Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange "has been exchanging technology, homeland security policies, and community policing tactics with the IPF through the GILEE program"

https://georgiastatesignal.com/israel-and-the-militarization-of-atlantas-police/

That information should be front and center with all news coverage concerning this situation, not buried away where few see it, because  that very foreign county called Israel really does have undue influence over our elected leaders, our media, our technology (Pegasus) and now our police.  

This is a very scary situation. Our democracy is in danger of imploding thanks to the influence of Israel.

International law and basic human rights should matter, so should the people of Atlanta.

 

"Out of the approx 35 people arrested at the #StopCopCity music festival last night, 22 are still being held and charged with "domestic terrorism," per the DeKalb County jail records website. Yet none are charged with violence, arson or the police claims #CopCity "

Letter I just sent to my elected officials "America should not be funding and empowering Israel. Invest in real freedom and democracy. Invest in America."

The only thing the US and Palestine have in common is they’re both occupied by Zionism- meme recently found on twitter

 

Dear President Biden

I pray for strength and the words to write to you today, urging you to help lead America away from fueling and funding religious extremism any where, specifically here in the United States of America but also in Israel, the Zionist state that determines freedoms, rights, respect, and citizenship on a person's religion.

America should be all about freedom FROM religion, as well as freedom to worship God if you want to do so. Religion should be a private personal choice, not a state funded preference and an inspiration for escalating hostilities and violence.

Protect and respect Jewish people as individuals, as well as Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and every other religion on earth. Live by the Golden Rule and let all be welcome and safe here in America:  Just America- Not Israel. 

Peaceful non-political religious congregations here in America help America thrive in many ways, including with soup kitchens and clothes for the poor.  This we should be proud of, but we should not be proud of U.S. support for Israel. 

We should be horrified and ashamed: For the past 75 years the native non-Jewish men, women and children of historic Palestine have suffered horribly due to rampantly racist Israeli policies with Zionist soldiers and settlers constantly usurping more and more Palestinian land, destroying more and more Palestinian homes and farms.

Worried about China's TikToc technology being used in America ?   I am, but I am even more worried about Israeli technology and propaganda campaigns being used in America, with Zionist agents influencing our media as well as our elections [and foreign policies].

America should not be funding and empowering Israel.  Invest in real freedom and democracy. Invest in America.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

 

Live by The Golden Rule 

Palestine- artist unknown

 

There’s no cycle of violence in Jerusalem – only Israel’s lethal oppression of my people: Guardian article by Jalal Abukhater

 "There are no “cycles of home demolitions” or “tit-for-tat expulsions” – Palestinians are not confiscating Israeli properties or detaining thousands of Israelis through military courts. Any approach that suggests symmetry of power – or responsibility – is analytically and morally flawed."  Jalal Abukhater

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/07/jerusalem-israel-demolitions-palestinians?CMP=twt_gu#Echobox=1675788159

 

AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE TO READ IN FULL

Dear President Biden ... Please stop supporting Israel and Israeli racism for everyone's sake.

Hope (أمل)، oil on canvas, 1985- Sliman Mansour "May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, many new inspirations to your life, and most importantly, may it be a year closer to a free Palestine."

 

Dear President Biden,

Good State of the Union speech last night. There is hope for America.

And deep within that hope that our democracy and economy will flourish for all Americans, not just a lucky few at the top, may I ask that we notice the very real plight of the Palestinians who have so little hope left due to rampant Israeli racism.

In 1948, after seeing the real horrors wrought by racism and the Nazi Holocaust, the world came together to create The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Modern man-made Israel, also created in 1948, has no excuse for being so cruel to the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine.

The Palestinian refugee crisis created by Zionists in 1948 goes on and on and on, with countless men women and children waiting for their inalienable legal and moral Right to Return to original homes and lands to be respected.  BUT Israel wants to be "Jewish", and so Israel demonizes and destroys people who object to that misguided notion. Palestinians get hit the hardest, but even American politicians and teachers who dare speak out risk their careers.

Please stand up for what is right and good. Set the right example. America should not be funding and fueling racism in any way shape or form.

Please notice that Israel built a land grabbing (apartheid) wall as if it supports a two state solution to end the Israel/Palestine conflict, but then at the same time Israel also builds and extends expensive Israeli-only road systems beyond the Israeli built "border" wall through out the illegally occupied territories, AND Israel also funds Jewish-only settlement neighborhoods beyond that "border" wall.  

Meanwhile Palestinians are harassed and cut off from their homes and families and employment due to Israeli checkpoints created to protect a cruel apartheid system...   NEVER AGAIN needs to include all human beings, not just Jewish ones.  Please stop supporting Israel and Israeli racism for everyone's sake.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

Painting by Mumen AlShayeb: #ShireenAbuAkleh was targeted and shot by Israeli forces while on assignment for AlJazeera in Jenin #Palestine

#ShireenAbuAkleh was targeted and shot by Israeli forces while on assignment for AlJazeera in Jenin, 268 days of absence that renders everything incomplete, except pain. #JusticeForShireen, always. Painting by Mumen AlShayeb

1947 Map of Palestine

 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023 & Hypocrisy

Zionism

Hypocrisy - Palestine ... Ukraine

Stand firmly against racist Israeli propaganda, misinformation & escalating brutality 

Never Forgetting Palestine

 

In Context: Palestine's Crown of Thorns

Palestine is bleeding.

 

A resident of Jiresh village in Nablus holds up a 117-year-old document demonstrating his title and ownership to his land, as Zionist settlers tried to set up a colonial outpost there over the weekend

A resident of Jiresh village in Nablus holds up a 117-year-old document demonstrating his title and ownership to his land, as Zionist settlers tried to set up a colonial outpost there over the weekend. No amount of historical reinvention by the colonizer will change the truth.