An Open Letter For Justice And Peace

To: Members of the Senate; Members of Congress; Vice President Joseph Biden and the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama: Regarding Our participation in the oppression of the Palestinian People

Dear All:

One cannot emphasize enough the thunderous humanitarian import of the following statement:

The violent illegal settlers in the West Bank have the vote; the oppressed Palestinians who
continue to languish under Israel's illegal military occupation do not.

Gaza is a tiny area crammed with starving 1.5 million Palestinian refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes by Israel and then ultimately locked up in the world's largest open air concentration camp.

Israel broke the ceasefire in 2008 - a ceasefire Israel had agreed to with Hamas. [1a]

Hamas abided by the ceasefire with the understanding that this would lead to the lifting of the military blockade.[1b]

The entire time Israel, behind everyone's back, girded for destruction; everyone's back, that is, except our own.

Israel broke the ceasefire, raining hellfire and death upon them - hellfire, I hasten to add, that we illegally donated to them - a hellfire which included our own donated white phosphorous
chemical weapons; chemicals which cannot be put out with water; chemicals that burn straight through bone. [1c]

Half of Gaza's 1.5 million hungry, cold, injured, sick and scared individuals are children. We are hearing reports that Israel, for the first time in over three years, has just allowed in clothes and shoes. [1d]

Reasonable people surely would feel compelled to ask themselves what children's shoes have to do with Israel's security. It is but a glimpse of the extremity; of the imposed deprivation.

Other examples of Palestinian life:

'[The] Israeli regime destroy[ed] some 400,000 trees during their incursions into territories under the Palestinian Authority's rule in the last two years. [Palestinian authorities] describe the damage as a systematic move aimed at mounting financial pressure on Palestinian families, especially those living off their farms and orchards. Israeli settlers often join the campaign by raiding and burning West Bank olive orchards and gardens, while a separation wall Israel has been constructing across the West Bank furthers the burden posed on the Palestinians.' [1e] More

Bigger than land on map, Palestine is the name of all universal struggles for a better world