Ohio Mark,
According to YOUR logic (which is merely a repitition of the Israeli's
excuse for their unbelievably horrific actions in Gaza), the American people
would deserve an even worse fate than that of the Gazan people because
they elected Bush for a second term. Because the amount of people who were
killed in Iraq are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS more than the Israelis killed by
Hamas.
At least Hamas is trying to free their homeland- What is the American
government's excuse? Or is the life of an American or Israeli more valuable
than the life of all other human beings?
And by the way, OF COURSE it wasn't written by a child. This is a style
of writing where the author narrates events in the voice of a child in order
to convey the child's thought and feelings and experiences. But let me
assure you, the written word can NEVER fully convey the horrors encountered
to their fullest.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Ohio mark <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> 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
> > --
> >
> > Amah Abdullah
> >
>
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