RE Suhail Shafi's June 30th letter "The killing of an American
journalist is a sign of increasing Israeli human rights abuses against
Palestinian"
Dear Editor,
Here we are in America, 4th of July weekend 2022, celebrating the
freedoms and good fortune we have thanks to our brave & beautifully
insightful Declaration of Independence of 1776: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Yes, it took time for slaves to be freed, and for full and equal
rights and respect to be given to all Americans, including women- but we
started on the right path in 1776.
After the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights of 1948 was also establishing the right path on a global level: "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"
Israel's most recent extra
judicial killing of yet another unarmed journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, is shocking and
should be a rude awakening for America's misguided supporters of the
dangerous myths and deceptions inspired by Zionist Israel.
Israel is not on the right path, and never has been on the right
path. Modern man-made Israel has been oppressing, impoverishing and
displacing the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine for
generations. America should not be supporting Israel in any way, shape or form.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
PATRIOT NEWS
The killing of an American journalist is a sign of increasing Israeli human rights abuses agains Palestinians | PennLive letters
Over a month ago, Shireen Abu Akleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian
heritage working as a journalist with the Al Jazeera network was killed
by Israeli occupation forces while wearing a press vest clearly
identifying her as a journalist. One month after this brazen extra
judicial killing of an unarmed journalists, the Biden administration has
refused to take a stand against the killing of a U.S. citizen by a
supposed U.S. ‘’ally’' and has instead vaguely advocated for an
‘’investigation’' into the killing, while ignoring the mounting evidence
the killing was conducted by the Israeli military.
The murder of a prominent Palestinian American journalist comes at a
time when the human rights situation in the illegally occupied
Palestinian territories under Israel control for five and a half decades
appears to be deteriorating with extrajudicial killings, ethnic
cleansing and house demolitions against Palestinian civilians becoming
increasingly the norm.
The
human rights violations are paid for by U.S. tax dollars sent by the
United States to the tune of $3 billion a year. In other words, at a
time of increasing economic challenges in the US, American tax dollars
continue to be funneled into one of the world’s most repressive regimes
whose human rights record Amnesty International, in one recent report,
compared to South Africa’s apartheid.
The
murder of a U.S. citizen and journalist should come as a reminder at a
time of economic uncertainty no reason exists why U.S. overseas aid
should be paying for human rights abuses by Israel.
Suhail Shafi, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
