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Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Middle Areas. © 2024 UNRWA Photo War has robbed every boy and girl in Gaza of their childhood and education. |
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Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Middle Areas. © 2024 UNRWA Photo War has robbed every boy and girl in Gaza of their childhood and education. |
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The Land & Love by Palestinian artist Ismail Shamout who was born in 1930 in Lydda - Palestine. During the Nakba of 1948, he and his family were forced out of their home during the assault of Jewish Zionist militant groups on their town. A long march on foot allowed them to settle in the refugee camps of Khan Younis in Gaza |
My most recent letter sent to my elected officials 10/2/2024
Dear America,
ISRAEL INVADES AMERICA again and again with every Zionist
spokesperson on TV news spinning pro-Israel propaganda for an Apartheid
nation that wants the "Holy" land, but not the native non-Jewish men,
women, and children of that land.
Palestine- Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon all bombed
aggressively by Israel as it targets homes, apartment blocks, schools,
roads and infrastructures, obliterating families and communities with
American made lethal weaponry.
Israel wants enemies & religious extremism so it can raise more
funds and sympathy from US. Israel wants us duped- and we are.
Homegrown corporate corruption insists that the very foreign man-made
Apartheid nation called Israel has "the right to defend itself", while
refusing to see or explain the very real plight and suffering of
Palestinians as Israel cruelly persecutes, impoverishes, and displaces
them.
We don't have a Fourth Estate empowering our democracy, we have
Zionism unfairly influencing our elected leaders & voters, leading
US astray from American ideals of real democracy with full and equal
rights for ALL people, regardless of supposed race or religion.
Taxpayer money should not be funding weapons and excuses for war mongering Israel.
And Israeli groups such as AIPAC should be registered as agents for a foreign country.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
"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
Lina Khatib is director of the Soas Middle East Institute and associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House
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“If we stay in our houses, they bomb us. If we shelter in a school, they bomb us.”
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Palestinian children play in a field of wild mustard flowers near the border fence east of Gaza City on March 16, 2018. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images. |
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ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO
READ GOOD ARTICLES (or quotes or watch videos) IN FULL: HELP
SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and
conversations) THAT EMPOWER
DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE &
PEACE... and hopefully
Palestine]
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Press Conference by the deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, H.E. Mr. Mr. Ayman Safadi, and the Commissioner General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, following the UNRWA Ministerial Side Event.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini today (26 Sep) said one million children below the age of 18 in Gaza are “living in the rubble, deeply traumatised,” among them, 600,000 school age children who “have already missed a full year” of education.
Lazzarini said, “we should not make a mistake. These are not just attacks against UNRWA, they are attacks against the broader United Nations system, they are attacks against the broader international community. They aim first at stripping Palestinians from the refugee statue, but secondly also they aim at weakening or putting an end to the aspiration of the Palestinian for self-determination.” He said, “there are relentless efforts to outlaw UNRWA, to dismantle UNRWA, to eliminate UNRWA. We heard even at the beginning of the war that it became almost a war objective to get rid of UNRWA.
Now, let's be clear. It has nothing to do with neutrality breaches.” The Commissioner General explained that the agency “has a system which are much more robust than the average of any other agency operating in the region. But because of our footprint, because of the complex political environment, because of the emotional divide, also preventing in the region, much more needs to be undertaken and we have agreed on that. And today we are regularly reporting back to the donors.
On the polio vaccination campaign, coordinated with Israel, he said, “if there is a will, we can make it happen.” The campaign, he said, “was a complex operation” involving the Israeli government and various UN agencies, “but the one who administered the vaccine to the children below the age of ten, was primarily UNRWA.
Lazzarini said, “I think it is shortsighted and naive to believe that if you get rid of UNRWA or dismantle UNRWA you will have no refugees anymore. UNRWA’s mandate is to provide these human development activities. Even if we stop providing these activities, even you should shut down all the school and all the and a primary health centre. You will still have Palestinian refugees. The provision of the services and the statute are two different issues.”
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"CHILDREN DESERVE TO BE CHILDREN" |
How many human beings- men, women, & children- have Zionists been
harassing, impoverishing, traumatizing, wounding, and murdering since
Zionists decided they wanted the land of Historic Palestine- but not the
indigenous people of that land.
We are no longer living in a myopically cruel world where Might is Right, and the biggest BULLY "wins" ...
The horrors of the Nazi Holocaust should have taught us better, taught
us to do better by all of humanity for ALL human beings, regardless of
supposed race or religion.
Israel's aggressive state sponsored terrorism, violence, bigotry, and
injustice is being armed, funded and excused by Western Powers, with
our country, the USA, being at the top of the list for complicity with
war crimes.
Israel's reign of terror has systemically displaced people, tortured
people, and killed people. In 1946 Zionist terrorists bombed the King
David hotel in Jerusalem (Palestine), killing 91 people of various
nationalities and injuring 45. So what does the West do- in 1948 they
hand Zionist terrorists the power to divide and destroy the Holy Land,
in a myriad of ways, including cruel Apartheid policies. What an
example to set! Zionists can use terrorist tactics but Arabs and Muslims
can not.
I do not like HAMAS or Hezbollah, or terrorism, or religious
extremism of any type, but can you blame them for trying to protect
their loved ones from Israel's constant crimes against humanity!
It is disgusting that American jobs are being based on weapons
manufacturing funded by tax payers, and those weapons are feeding the
Zionist war machine called Israel as it obliterates Arab homes,
families, farms, and livelihoods.
American blood Arab blood Christian blood Jewish blood Muslim blood
all blood is just blood: Stop arming endlessly escalating war. Just
stop.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
"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