Open Letter to Senator
/Presidential Candidate
Barak Obama
Dear Senator Obama,
We Palestinians, whether in Palestine that was
occupied in 1948, or Palestine that was
occupied in 1967 and in our diaspora/Ashatat
counting now over ten million uprooted people,
were shocked and saddened to read your letter
addressed to Mr. Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations. We were
shocked and astonished that you,
especially as a U.S. citizen of African
roots, would not have remembered
the stance of the Zionist state of
Israel during the uprising/Intifadah
of the non-white people in South Africa.
Those men and women, who are a part
of the indigenous population of the
continent where your roots are still
deep in its soil, were not supported
in their struggle by Israel. In fact, this
rogue state was one of the very few
countries in the world to ally itself and
supply the apartheid colonizing
establishment in South Africa with
all its requirements of arms and
weapons to maintain its apartheid
regime, so that it could fight and
subjugate the revolting citizens of
the colony, who only sought to
obtain equal rights in the place
of their birth.
We were astonished to read that
you support the apartheid state by
saying
"Israel has the right to respond".
Has it not occurred to you, Mr. Senator,
why the indigenous population of
Palestine have been uprising for so
many decades, and suffering the
death of thousands and thousands
of their men and women of all ages
including the very young and very old,
who are living in refugee camps
away from their own homes and
land that they had been developing
with sweat and blood for thousands
of years? We are saddened that a man
of your caliber who promotes the rights
of the subjugated masses in your
great nation, the United States,
and everywhere in the world, who
condemns the Bush regime because
of the wars it is waging around the
world resulting in thousands of deaths,
with its maimed men and women
serving in your nation's armed forces
away from their homes and beloved
ones expresses such opinions regarding
our people. You are aware of the
millions of deaths, the men, women
and children who have become
disabled, and the other millions
of individuals who have been uprooted
and are living in the status of poor
refugees in and out of their homelands
as a result of these criminal wars?
Mr. Senator Obama, how is it possible
that a personality of your status,
caliber and intelligence has missed
to read, see and hear the news of
how Palestinians in occupied Palestine
are treated like slaves if not animals,
which is by far worse than the way enslaved
Africans were treated for centuries
by the American colonizers? Did you
read, hear or see how those Palestinians
are tortured and dehumanized on
the over 750 checkpoints and crossings
all over the occupied West Bank of
Palestine? Did you hear, read or see
how barbaric Zionist colonizers are still
stealing more and more Palestinian
land to build more Zionist colonies
over what remained unoccupied
and un-stolen of Palestinian Arab land,
and how these wild racist colonialists
are cutting down millions of centuries'
old olive trees, razing thousands of
acres of farmland, demolishing
thousands of residential, office and
industrial buildings and leaving thousands
of people living in the open air or tents
in the heat of the summer or the
freezing cold of the winter? We
doubt that you don't have the
courage to admit that you have
heard, seen or read about the
apartheid wall that Zionists unashamedly
call "security wall" while the main
reason is to steal more land in the
22% left of Palestine unoccupied in
1948, and let's not forget the stealing
of fresh water resources to be used by
Zionist colonialists to be pumped back
out of their sewage system as filth and
flooded over the fields of the poor
Palestinians who have not been
colonized yet?! And you turned
your face away pretending not to
have seen, heard or read about
all that and many and many other
war crimes the Zionist state of
Israel that had been denying
Palestinian Arabs to exercise their
Right of Return to their stolen homes
and land!!!!
It would be a shame if a man of your
caliber and status does deny seeing,
hearing and reading all about these atrocities
against a people that belongs to the human
race in the twentieth century, only
because he might gain the blessings of
the Zionist Israeli lobby, to be elected
as president of the United States,
while knowing well that those who
control the possibilities and means
shall put all the barriers and checkpoints
in your way to deprive you of this
pleasure.
Mr. Obama, have the courage to include
among the causes you fight for to admit
that Palestinian Arab resistance are the
people who are fighting in self defense
and not the other way round.
Palestinian resistance, by
international legal rules, is accorded
every right to use any means to regain
all their rights in their land and as
human beings, and live in a democratic,
free and sovereign state.
Sincerely
Adib S. Kawar
An uprooted Palestinian Arab still living
as a refugee for the last 60 years
Beirut –Lebanon
ZOG Report: Obama: Israel was forced to close Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/
rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=865078
Obama: Israel was forced
to close Gaza
The letter from the Senator to the
Ambassador speaks for itself:
Dear Ambassador Khalilzad,
I understand that today the UN Security
Council met regarding the situation in Gaza,
and that a resolution or statement could be
forthcoming from the Council in short order.
I urge you to ensure that the Security
Council issue no statement and pass
no resolution on this matter that does
not fully condemn the rocket assault
Hamas has been conducting on
civilians in southern Israel...
All of us are concerned about the
impact of closed border crossings on
Palestinian families. However, we have
to understand why Israel is forced to
do this... Israel has the right to respond
while seeking to minimize any impact
on civilians.
The Security Council should clearly and
unequivocally condemn the rocket
attacks... If it cannot bring itself to
make these common sense points,
I urge you to ensure that it does not
speak at all.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator
- THE UN SAYS
- Israel
- is allowing only 41% of Gaza's food requirements
- Israel
- grants only 1 in 7 patients access to urgent
- treatment outside Gaza
- Israel
- denies medication and hospital supplies to Gaza
- Israel
- is not allowing enough fuel to treat and pump clean water in Gaza
- Israel's
- cruelty has caused more than
- 70 deaths of untreated Gaza patients since June
BARACK OBAMA SAYS:
- "We have to understand why Israel is
- forced (sic) to do this"
PLEASE CALL THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN TO SAY YOU ARE OUTRAGED!
(866) 675-2008
TALKING POINTS:
- Denying food to 1.5 million civilians is a crime!
- It is irresponsible for Obama to encourage it.
- Denying medicine to sick and dying people
- is a crime. It is NOT self defense.
- Israel's actions are collective punishment.
- Why does Obama not condemn it?
- Denying food, medicine and other essential
- supplies does nothing to harm fighters or the
- Hamas government in Gaza. It only harms civilians,
- one half of whom are children.
- Does Obama consider them disposable?
Obama's callous defense of Israel's
cruelty deserves your action.
Presidential candidates are sensitive to criticism.
Your calls have the potential
to make Palestinian rights an issue.
Now is the time.
Following is the text of Obama's letter to the U.S.
Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad.
A photocopy of the signed letter is at
http://jewishstandard.net//content_
images/ObamaLetterbig.jpg
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