My Letter to the IHT regarding Ahmad Tibi's excellent op-ed "A Harsh Reality for Palestinians."
RE: A Harsh Reality for Palestinians By AHMAD TIBI
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07iht-edtibi.html?ref=global
Dear Editor,
Good to see Ahmad Tibi's excellent op-ed "A Harsh Reality for Palestinians."
Part of the harsh reality for Palestinians on both sides of that horrible Israeli made Apartheid wall is the fact that Israel's bad habit of oppressing, impoverishing and intentionally displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine guarantees that Israel will elect to become even more monstrous as time goes by.
It is bad enough already: Every Palestinian oppressed and every Palestinian pushed into forced exile already is an Israeli "vote" for even more institutionalized bigotry, injustice, state sponsored terror and religious extremism. Israel's "creeping Jim Crowism" has dire and widespread ramifications, including in Iraq where there are some 3,000 Palestinian refugees "stranded in two makeshift camps on the Iraqi-Syrian border, and about 11,000 living in Baghdad and the provinces of Mosul and Basra." http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83819
Every Palestinian prevented from returning to ancestral homes and lands with full and equal rights and freedoms all through out historic Palestine already is an Israeli "vote" for barbaric cruelty and continued violence all over the Holy Land and beyond.... The highest priority in the process of creating a just and lasting peace, a civilized peace for the people, of the people and by the people, has to be FULL respect for the Palestinian refugees' inalienable legal, moral and natural right to return to original homes and lands.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
FACTSHEET: The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied
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My letter to The Oregonian regarding Alison Weir's honest and revealing The truth about Israel
How Palestine Became Israel
1948 map by Dr. Salman Abu SittaRE: The truth about Israel by Alison Weir
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/04/the_truth_about_israel.html
Dear Editor,
What a HUGE relief to see Alison Weir's honest and revealing "The truth about Israel". Weir has done a magnificent job widening the Information Highway, and opening up many hearts and minds with her op-eds, speeches, and her easy to understand website If Americans Knew http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ ... a treasure trove of highly pertinent facts and figures.
One thing I very much treasure and appreciate about America is that one can easily have friends of any and every religion and background. Economic and social opportunities abound (regardless of ones supposed race or religion) and we are all free to work hard and prosper and collaborate for the greater good of our communities. In sharp contrast institutionalized bigotry and brutality shape day to day life in Israel/Palestine.... after so many violent injustices all through out the Holy Land, it really is time to rethink- and we should start at the formal beginning:
" In 1948, the international community felt a deep sense of responsibility for the mass dispossession, ethnic cleansing and the Zionist transfer policy that began then. United Nations Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, who was later assassinated by a Zionist terrorist hit squad, stated: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine" (UN Doc Al 648, 1948). This remains true today as any Jew, regardless of national origin, can gain automatic citizenship while Palestinian Arabs are denied their right to return to their own homeland." The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied http://www.al-awda.org/facts.html
America should be investing in America- our infrastructures and our ideals. And as far as our foreign policies go real democracy with freedom, justice and equality starts with FULL respect for international law and basic human rights- including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees inalienable right to return to original homes and lands.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES 4-3-2009
Palestinian refugee Mohamad Mahmoud Al-Arja, 80, still has the key from his house in Beer AI-saba, which is now inside Israel.
Palestinian refugees represent the longest suffering and largest refugee population in the world today. Al-Awda FACTS
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