Dear All, As always, you are free to "borrow" from this letter for your own messages to your congresspeople. As you may intuit from this letter, our congressional district lies in the "Bible belt" and is written with that in mind. However you choose to word your message, though, I hope you will take the time to write or call your representatives. You may also wish to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. May God have mercy on us all. Hajja Romi
Dear Congressman Cassidy/Senators Vitter and Landrieu, I wish to express my strong sympathy and support for the nonviolent activists on board a flotilla of ships in the harbor in Athens, who are trying to sail to Gaza with much-needed supplies of food and medicine for the captive population there. I realize that my support is at variance with that of the US Government and many of my fellow citizens, but I feel that people in this country are poorly informed as to the issues involved. For years our mainstream media in the United States has been completely dominated by pro-Israel interests, and as a result many people in this country who do not have connections in the Middle East, as I do, simply do not know the truth about the dispossession of the Palestinian people and the atrocities which have been perpetrated against them before, during and since the 1948 war which Israelis call their War of Independence and Palestinians call the Catastrophe (Nakba). Arab peoples have as much right as anyone to nations of their own, and simply because Israelis claim that God gave them Palestine does not make it so. God is not in the real estate business, and His promise was to Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him), father of BOTH the Jewish AND Arab peoples. For Israelis to claim that their covetousness of the land of Palestine and their murder of innocent civilians there is in conformity with God's will is clearly false, as their conquest and occupation go against His law in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17), if nothing else (laws #6 and #10). In addition, Israelis have also borne false witness against Palestinians (law #9) and their illegal settlements constitute theft (law #8) Two years ago, Israel mounted a punishing, devastating assault on the trapped population of Gaza. These people, most of whom are refugees and the descendants of refugees from the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, were bombarded with internationally outlawed weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorus. Among the more than 1400 known dead were many woman and children. Almost all of the dead were unarmed civilians and their death constituted a war crime that even Israelis like jurist Richard Goldstone condemned. While the US has consistently supported Israel in the prosecution of these attacks, most of the world has condemned them as war crimes. We do ourselves NO FAVORS when we continue to give Israel a blank check to harass and murder innocent people. Now, an unarmed flotilla seeks to leave Athens. Israel would be well advised to let it proceed without the kind of murderous attacks on the passengers which left nine dead in a similar attempt last year. We deceive only ourselves if we think that God will not punish us for supplying weapons for the hideous genocide of the Palestinian people which Israel is so clearly attempting. Cordially, Romi Wythe Elnagar Natural-born US Citizen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
