‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات Letter to the Editor. إظهار كافة الرسائل
‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات Letter to the Editor. إظهار كافة الرسائل

الخميس، 4 أغسطس 2011

I was wrong!‏

Dear brother Adib,

Here is the e-mail I had sent to you admitting that I was wrong.
Gulamhusein

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
                                                                                ...Martin Luther King                        

"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed".....Dwight Eisenhower




--- On Sat, 6/11/11, Gulamhusein Abba <gaabba2000@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Gulamhusein Abba <gaabba2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: I was wrong!
To: "Adib S Karwar" <adibsk@cyberia.net.lb>
Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 1:49 PM


Dear brother Adib,
 
Ever since you raised your strong objection to my suggesti0n that Jews from all over the world be given a right to immigrate into the envisaged single-state Palestine, I have been thinking about it and have finally come to the conclusion that you are absolutely right. No such “right” is called for or justified. Agreeing to let the Jews who have poured into Palestine in their millions after the creation of Israel – agreeing to let them stay on as law abiding citizens of the single-state, secular and democratic Palestine to be formed is compassion and benevolence enough.
 
This will be in stark contrast to the so called civilized Western countries that looked the other way and refused entry into their ports to ship loads of Jewish refugees fleeing from the atrocities committed against them in Germany , Poland and other fascist countries. They were diverted to Palestine . And, by ultimately creating Palestine , these Western countries not only successfully kept away from their shores these Jews but laid the foundation for creating a long arm of their own in the Arab region.
 
By allowing the Jews that are already in Palestine to stay on, the Palestinians will be extending to them the compassion that the Western countries so cruelly refused to them in their hour of need. It is a heavy price the Palestinians will pay for cruelties against Jews not committed by them.
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I am including here two items which you may want to tell your readers about. The first is about a video by a former Zionist, the son of a Jewish General no less. Your readers will be able to hear from the horse’s mouth as it were, the lies and misdeeds of the Zionists.
 
The second is a quote from Eisenhower. It is an excerpt from his address to the nation made on  February 20, 1957. Somebody should bring this to the attention of President Obama and the US Congress.
 
I have for long argued that there is no question of “negotiating” with Israel the terms of its withdrawal, much less as to how much of the land illegally seized by it is to be returned to its rightful owners, the Palestinians. What is required, I have consistently claimed, is enforcement (of international law regarding land acquired through force), not negotiations (see http://defyingsilence.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-to-muzzle-israel.html)
. And now I have come across a quotation from no less than a former President of the US that fully supports my claim.
 
I am reproducing herewith, first the quotation from Eisenhower and then the item about the video.
 
The Eisenhower quote:
 
“Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of UN disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal? If we agree that armed attack can properly achieve the purpose of the assailant, then I fear we will have turned back the clock of international order …..”  Dwight Eisenhower.
 
The item about the video:
 
 

UNFORGETTABLE WORDS FROM AN ISRAELI GENERAL'S SON

In the name of truth and justice
PLEASE read the following and see the video

Gulamhusein Abba
UNFORGETTABLE WORDS FROM AN ISRAELI GENERAL’S SON
They will shake you to the core.
 
“So those people who want to associate themselves with Israel, Zionism and drape themselves in the Zionist flag – the flag that has come to symbolize intolerance, hatred, racism and brutality – they can feel free to do so.

But, they need to know this: that when the trials begin and the tribunals take their place, and when the truth and reconciliation commission begins its work and they are finally shamed into admitting they were wrong, they need to remember to go down on their knees and beg forgiveness from the people they so greatly wronged.

They need to realize that we will never forget them and that their conscience will never allow them to forget that they supported the killings, that they draped themselves in the flag and that they mocked the bereaved.

The rest of us will move on in line with the rest of the Middle East which will follow the example of the people of Egypt to create something that will surely be a tremendous accomplishment – a democratic, secular state in our own shared homeland – a state where Muslims, Christians and Jews live as equals and educate their children to love their homeland with its multitude of cultures, its rich history and its promising future.”

SO ENDS MIKO PELED’S NARRATION
YOU MUST WATCH THE WHOLE OF THIS POWERFUL VIDEO

Please send on to family, friends, lists
Spread as widely as possible

The book “The General’s Son” will be available later this year.
 
 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
...Martin Luther King                        

"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed".....Dwight Eisenhower



Mr. Gulamhusein Abba gaabba2000@yahoo.com Suggested that all the Jews in the world should be allowed to immigrate to Palestine, to which I replied to as per my comment in red below. Mr. Gulamhusein reconsidered his suggestion as he wrote: “admitting that I was wrong”.
Adib


His claim of what  “everyone knows” and what “America and the international community can do” is just not true. He said that “a lasting peace will involve two states for two peoples: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people”. There are those who believe that a true and lasting peace will come about only if there is a single, secular, democratic state which recognizes the right of all people who now live there to continue living there, and the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral lands as also the right of all Jews to immigrate to this single state to be known as Palestine, and guarantees all its citizens the right to vote and equal treatment. (The Jews around the world cannot immigrate to Palestine, they have no right to do so at all, they belong as the wise old lady, Helen Thomas, said they should return to where they came from, to their original homelands around the world…. But out of generosity Jews who invaded Palestine if they accept to remain in Palestine and as we said above, non Zionist Jews, and behave as good people they may stay. There is no place for 12 mil. Palestinians and 13 mil Jew in Palestine, Foreign Jews has no link or right to settle in Arab Palestine, they have ethnic or racial relation with Palestine they are converts to Judaism of central Asian roots; so what relation do they have with Arab Palestine!!!!
1.    My dear friend, it is a matter of principle that I disagree with having all Jews or any Jews of the world to invade (It is not a matter of immigrating, it is simply invasion, occupation and colonization of Palestine our own land). It is not our fault that they were maltreated or persecuted or even put to extinction (holocausted) to which in principle I disagree on, but I don’t give my country to them because they have nowhere to go to, anyhow they have their original homelands to stat or return to? Zionist want us Palestinian Arabs to go to Arab deserts to give them Arab Palestine. The British discriminated against Jews for religious reasons, so they created for them Zionism to look for a homeland of their own. They are British Jews so don’t discriminate against them so as for colonialist purposes have a homeland for them in Palestine to act as a long colonialist arm in our Arab homeland to exploit it. The west including America, England and France colonized the whole Arab homeland, and millions of Arabs lost their lives  and their wealth was stolen. The west headed by America and its western gangs invaded Iraq resulting in 1,500,000 martyrs, 4,700,000 displaced Iraqis, the country was dismantled and destroyed…. We Arabs suffered on the hands of the west and its Zionist Jews, the Zionist ex-minister of internal security wrote an article which he entitled “We destroyed Iraq” Israeli Internal Security Minister: We destroyed Iraq! The Oil of do you want more of them to replace us Arabs?, no sir, I don’t give the right to them even if they refuse to settle in Palestine. We have at least six million hate ridden of them… enough is enough, and we shall fight them forever till we liberate Palestine. There are Arab Jews for who we tell them you are our compatriots, and we don’t want you to leave your Arab homeland. Arab Jews were never mistreated as they were mistreated in the “civilized west”. We, out of generosity may accept some non Zionist Jews to stay in Palestine though they have no right on us to be obliged to. Netanyahu declared in the US congress, “Not a single Palestinian shall be allowed to return…” No to return to our occupied Palestine, so how dare we invite all the Jews of the world to “return to the so-called ‘Land of Ysrael’ I am an uprooted Palestinian whose land, home and fortunes were stolen by Zionists, do you expect me to be generous with them. You wrote about that. They want all Palestine to be a Jewish stae!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Adib

الجمعة، 18 مارس 2011

FIVE ROADBLOCKS TO PEACE / REFUGEES"

FIVE ROADBLOCKS TO PEACE / REFUGEES"
letters@latimes.com

Dear Editor,

The road to peace has as many roadblocks as the Israeli occupation put in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including those put in Israel 1948. 94% of its area ownership belongs to Palestinian Arabs, which should be returned to them plus the loss of its income and sufferings, including tens of thousands of death casualties resulting from 57 years of Zionist atrocities and occupation.

Prescription does not apply to land theft by force of arms, and a self proclaimed Jewish state should not create other roadblocks in the face of millions of Palestinians to return to their land and be compensated for their various types of losses and sufferings on the hands of Israeli occupation throughout the years.

The only generous solution offered by Palestinians to end this catastrophe, is the creation of a democratic and secular Palestinian state in historic Palestine, where all Palestinians whether still in it or in their diaspora and those presently called Israelis can live as equal citizens, one man one vote.

The sufferings of Jews in Europe can and should not be avenged against the indigenous Arab people of Palestine.

Sincerely

Adib S. Kawar

A displaced Palestinian Arab

Beirut - Lebanon


Live the Chai Life with Jewish Voice for Peace‏

From: Dana J. Schneider, Jewish Voice for Peace [mailto:info@jewishvoiceforpeace.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:56 PM
To: adibsk@cyberia.net.lb
Subject: Live the Chai Life with Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace

Dear Adib S.,
Chai! Life!
I'm Dana. I am 36, Jewish, and I live in Brooklyn. And that's me, and my tattoo, over there on the right.

I'm writing to you today for one important reason: Chai. In particular, Jewish Voice for Peace's Chai Society for people like you who believe deeply in the work of this organization - who believe in the life it has breathed into the movement for peace, and who are willing to be part of the life force that sustains us through good times and bad.
It's pretty simple - $18 per month. That's it. That's all it takes to allow us to count on a stable budget every month to run the campaigns that are making headlines and changing the world.
Are you in?

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The name of this new group, Chai, is pretty special to me - and I know it's pretty special to a lot of people.

Back when I was a college student, even before I spent my junior year abroad in Jerusalem, I was struggling with so many things about my Jewish identity, community, and justice politics. There were ways I felt I fit in, and other ways I struggled with the Jewish institutions. And when I went to Jerusalem, and experienced for the first time in my life the painful truths about Israel and Palestine, that feeling of tension just grew. 

Shortly after, like many Jews who reject the notion that marking our bodies is forbidden by Jewish law, I got my first tattoo. It was a "chai" on my arm.
"Chai" literally translates to mean "living" but is a symbol that signifies Judaism's focus on the importance of life.  I got it to remind me to be present to all that life has to offer, to serve as a Jewish good luck charm that I could carry with me always, and as part of showing the world that my Jewish identity is one that both deeply respects tradition, and honors and embraces change making, evolution, risk taking, justice, and difference.
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I hope you'll join. And, no matter what, thank you for all you've already done and will do. It means more to us than perhaps you know.
L'chaim,

Dana J. Schneider
Development Director
P.S. I look forward to getting to know many JVP'ers around the country as I settle into my position.  To this end, please don't hesitate to call or email me with questions or just to chat. I am reachable at dana@jvp.org, or in our New York office at 718.514.2071.














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Dana.
You have been in occupied Palestine the land of which was stolen with all what is on and under it by Zionists who has no relation with this land, and even its name was forged to be called by the occupiers “Israel”, which is a sort of piracy like everything Zionists do, do you realize that. And still Zionist are trying to steal more Arab land by, as is always the case, the force of arms and terror helped by colonialst powers lead by the United states after they took over from the colonialist British, who not only finance Zionists, but Americans were the only permanent UN SC who vetoed the Arab draft resolution to condemn Zionist colonies built not only on Palestinian land occupied in 1948, but these occupied in 1967.

Do you think that my own land and home and other property could be liberated with what you call peace, what peace is that Zionists understand. My dear what was stolen by force cannot be liberated except by the way it was stolen,force.

I was uprooted from my home and land by Zionist terror, still I cannot even visit my home where I was and my father and mother and the parents and great grandparents for a thousand generations were born in this land whose name was forged to become “Israel”!!!!,

If you want money for your peaceful project my and all uprooted Palestinian brothers and sisters fortunes are still in occupied Palestine, which Zionists use to import more Zionist colonizers to replace my people; so you can finance your project from it.

What you should do my dear Dana, is to convince more Jews like you who went to occupied Palestine is to leave it for its rightful owners, It doesn’t belong to them. If they remain in it, it means they are participating in a war crime and a crime against humanity.

I hope you understand my logic, we have no hate for Jews unless they keeps away from our occupied land.
We appreciate your feeling in declaring: “I went to Jerusalem, and experienced for the first time in my life the painful truths about Israel and Palestine, that feeling of tension just grew.” You are a woman conscience; so work for the Palestinian Arab cause.
Have a good life back home in Brooklyn.

Best regards
Adib S. Kawar
An uprooted Palestinian Arab