by voting in a terrorist group as their government the Palestinian people are now getting what they deserve. you put a fox in charge of the hen house, and then you are surprised all your chickens are gone. and I will be willing to bet that this so called letter was not written by some child, but rather some raghead terrorist sitting at his computer.
On Feb 2, 12:10 pm, amah abdullah <[email protected]> wrote: > Friday, January 30, 2009 A letter from a Palestinian Child to the US > President<http://justicenownetwork.blogspot.com/2009/01/letter-from-palestinian...> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TXr_0o12Tmg/SYPjzj6KOmI/AAAAAAAAAIY/95MYzy6...> > Precaution: The Palestinian child doesn't have a specific clear definition > for terms like "terrorism" and "peace". > > Dear Mr. President, > First I would like to congratulate you for your new post; I guess it is a > good but tiring job. I want to apologize for not watching your inaugural > ceremony, we have no electricity in Gaza, and moreover, I was busy dragging > out the corpses of my family while the ceremony was taking place. I heard it > was a hell of a ceremony, I wish I could shared the world its joy, but you > know, it was a bit difficult to feel happy in such circumstances. > But I heard you after the ceremony, two days later a neighbour came to us > while we were still searching for the corps of my little sister carrying > with him a portable TV. He looked very serious and said: Youth, the new > president of the United States is going to comment on what happened. He said > that he is optimistic because you assigned someone called Michael or… > Mitchell, something like that. He added that he is a good person. Oh, we > found the corps of my three years old sister, she was completely burnt, my > twenty one years old cousin fainted, but I remembered my father's advice for > me: Be a man. I was about to faint while I was pulling out her body which > was stuck under the devastated building and her body started to crumble…. It > was totally scorched. Before I lose control, I remembered my mother's > suggestion when we were frightened of the loud voice of the Israeli strikes: > When you feel frightened try to think of something else. > Thank you Mr. President, it was your speech that distracted me while I was > collecting my sister's fragments. I heard you saying: Israel has the right > to defend itself… achieving peace in the middle east…. Hamas was sending > rockets ….. democracy … and other words that I cannot remember. I am sorry > again, I was striving to concentrate in your speech but the smell of my > sister's body and my fear that I may lose some of it didn't help me to grasp > what you were saying exactly. I just realised our neighbour's anger when he > turned the TV off murmuring that he wasted the battery for nothing. We had > already pulled out the corps of my mother and half of the corps of my > father; we couldn't find the rest of his body. To be frank with you, I never > thought of addressing any American president, I mean, it goes without saying > that we are killed with American weapons and taxes. The doctors in the > hospitals said that Americans were experimenting a new weapon called DIME in > this war, I mean the war on Gaza. We don't talk to the enemy. > But during the funeral I heard you – on the same TV that belongs to the same > neighbour who usually turns it off after your speeches cursing his stupid > persistence on wasting the battery - in an interview with an Arab TV channel > saying that you want to deliver us a message that America is not our enemy. > Oh, I felt responsibility, it seems Mr. President that someone is playing > behind your back, it seems that you don't know that we are killed with your > weapons, it seems that those who use the veto to protect Israel and let it > get away with its crimes against us in the security council are just doing > this without even telling you, it seems that you don't know that your > country annually pumps a huge amount of money to Israel, well Mr. President, > Israel is the enemy, and we didn't choose it. We didn't beg for check > points, we didn't beg for blockage, we didn't beg for cluster bombs, > phosphorus bombs and this new bomb you are experimenting on us. > Besides, I heard you saying that you want to achieve peace in the Middle > East; I know, I know, it is us, we are the Middle East. Why Mr. President? > Why do you want to achieve more peace in us? We had enough peace; we had > more than enough peace during the last war. Do you want to achieve more? The > blond woman called Livni said that she wants peace that is why Israel waged > this aggression on us. I lost my whole family in this peace process. And > those who imposed the blockage on Gaza – during which one of my cousins died > because of the shortage of medicine – always talk about peace: Abbas, > Fayyad, Mubarak. They are men of peace, exactly like Livni. They did all > what they can to achieve peace, I don't think that you need more peace, do > you? > I went to my cousin's home, he also lost all his family, I am in his custody > now. He is my all family and I am his only family. He is twenty one years > old as I told you before, he was a student in the faculty of medicine, but > he was not allowed to graduate, the blockage and the bad circumstances > pushed him to leave the university and work, then he joined the resistance > during this last war. He is a Hamas member now. You said you will achieve > peace on them.. in them … within them? Something like that… right? Anyway, I > don't remember, I just remember that you want to harm my cousin too because > he is a terrorist. I wonder what is wrong with terrorists like my cousin. > He is a very nice guy, you would like him if you meet him. He prepares > breakfast for me, he cooks very delicious smashed eggs, he takes me to > school, he stays all night besides me because I have nightmares every night, > and when I wake up startled with the frightening nightmare he puts his hand > on my forehead and recites some verses from the Quran and sing me beautiful > songs till I fall asleep again. After school he plays with me soccer in the > street, he tells me very funny jokes and gorgeous fairy tales, he swings me > along with his friends whom you call terrorists and I laugh to tears. On my > neighbour's TV I watched you practicing some terrorism with your daughters; > you were playing with them exactly like my cousin plays with me. Why don't > you want my cousin to be a good terrorist like you? Why do you want to make > peace in my country while you all live in terrorism happily? Did we annoy > you Mr. President? We don't even know you, if someone in my district did > anything wrong to you just tell me and I will oblige him to apologize for > you. > Then you tell us that you are not our enemy! Then who is our enemy Mr. > President? I see, it is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Oho, my mother > used to tell me that I have to lessen my satirical remarks, I am sorry Mr. > President, but imagine Mr. Obama that you were dragging the corps of one of > your girls – God forbids – while someone is nagging behind you blaming you > for the death of your own daughter and never blames the one who killed her, > on the contrary, he thinks that the murderer's crime is entirely justified > and you and your daughter deserve what happened to you, what would you think > of that guy? Would you think that he is your friend? > Mr. President, I know that you are "not an Arab but you are a decent family > man", but that doesn't mean that those indecent family Arab men, women and > children deserve to be barbequed. You don't kill people because they are > indecent. By the way, my parents were not Hamas members, truly they elected > Hamas, but they didn't work with the resistance. > My mother was happy with the elections; she said that this is democracy. I > am very sad that my mother didn't know that democracy means destruction; she > thought it is a nice thing. Now I know that democracy is like peace, they > both kill families and children. But it is too late; I wish my mother read > more books to know better than that. > The whole situation really confuses me, my cousin says that is because I am > still a child, but I am not a child, I am seven years old and I am a man as > my father wanted me. Yet I really do not understand when people are occupied > what usually they do except resisting? When they are the natives, the owners > of the land and someone comes and expel them from this land and build > settlements, are they supposed to just leave without any resistance? Would > you do this Mr. President? Would you give up your home to somebody else that > easy? Why would you live with your daughters safely at home while my home is > devastated? > I am not a creature with a tail, I really do not have any tails, you can > check yourself. I am a human being like you, exactly like you. Apparently > you believe the blond woman when she says that Hamas is hiding among > civilians. I will tell you the story because it is obvious that they are > deceiving you. Hamas is not a ghost or a monster, it is a movement, that is > to say… hmmm how can I explain it to you, yea, like a club or stuff like > that, a group of people, very large number of people, those people are > mostly like my cousin, I mean, ordinary people, cousins, brothers, > neighbours…etc, and naturally such people have families and homes, these > homes are in Gaza, so if someone of them is sitting at home with his > brothers and sisters and this home is in a building that is full of women > and children, actually he is not hiding, I mean if you phone called him he > will answer, if you called him from the street he will look to you from the > window as he does with his friends. > They are the tenants, they don't have any place to go to except Gaza, they > don't have any homes except their homes. And the blond woman says that they > send rockets, well besides that Israel is occupation and we have to get them > out of our lands, and these "cities" you are referring to are settlements > built on our occupied lands, and those "civilians" whom you sympathise with > are occupiers who were brought by the Israeli army to live in our lands, > beside all this, she is a liar, there was no ceasefire at all, during the > calming or the ceasefire we had the Israeli planes flying over our heads, > striking, killing six people one of them was my cousin's neighbour, he was > wounded and left on the passage to Egypt because the borders were blocked > and he died on the borders. > So I can assure you that these six were dead, because my cousin attended his > neighbour's funeral. See? she is lying. I wonder how an adult woman like her > lies all the time like that, and you are a kind person, I can understand why > you believe her, that is because naturally an adult shouldn't lie, but life > is full of surprises, I swear she is lying, I tell you what, let her face me > personally with what she is telling the world, I will tell her that she is > lying and she will never be able to deny it, I bet she will even refuse to > face me. > I really don't want to be your enemy Mr. President, you Americans have nice > movies, nice burger, nice coke, we can easily love you, but you don't give > us any space. Arming Israelis to shower us with phosphorus peace, burning us > with DIME peace, destroying our schools with cluster peace and peacefully > making me an orphan… and now I am threatened to lose the last person left in > my family, that doesn't make you a biased mediator or a strong ally to the > enemy Mr. President, that makes you THE ENEMY. > I don't think it is smart to have a strong enemy like you, but what can I do > Mr. President? Apparently it is your choice and I have nothing to do about > it. > Don't worry Mr. President, everything is settled, I live with my cousin, he > is preparing me emotionally that I may lose him, he told me what to do when > he dies. > I know what to do, I went to a friend and I asked him to list me with the > resistance and not to tell my cousin, he said that I am still a child, so I > asked my cousin (without telling him the reasons of course) to find a way to > smuggle milk and cheese through the tunnels so I can grow up fast and strong > and join the resistance to be a nice young man like my cousin, to defend > other families, to save the souls of other mothers and fathers, to protect > other children from becoming orphans like me. > As for you, try to reconsider finding out who annoyed you in my district and > made you insisting on killing us all, I swear I will tear him into pieces. > > Best regards to you and special respect to your daughters…. I'll pray for > them in order not to face my destiny. > Sincerely > Ali > -- > If you do not wish to receive any more messages from me, please reply to > this message asking to be removed from my mailing list. > > Amah Abdullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
