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USA Today online comments
1-10-2009
RE: Readers pick sides in Gaza fight:What do you think is the best way to create peace between Israel, Hamas and readers on our boards?
http://blogs.usatoday.com/community/2009/01/readers-pick-si.html
anneseldenannab wrote:
Talk about a loaded question! "Readers pick sides in Gaza fight: What do you think is the best way to create peace between Israel, Hamas and readers on our boards?" asking readers to pick either Israel or HAMAS.
No THANKS! I'd rather avoid that trap... I opt to pick Palestine- and PEACE... a just and lasting peace:
I pick dismantling Apartheid walls of manipulative Zionist propaganda and all the many nefarious war games that seek to frame the conversation in order to frame the besieged people of historic Palestine at every turn.
I pick non-violence... and I pick FULL respect for basic human rights- universal rights- including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees inalienable legal, natural and sacred right to return to original homes and lands.
I pick protecting homes and families and children from harm.
I pick the rule of fair and just laws.
I pick refusing to arm any one religion and bigotry with lethal weaponry plus tax payers money as well as charity funds.
I pick Palestine- and American ideals of true democracy with liberty, justice and equality for ALL.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
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RE: Don't call it Gaza, it's Palestine By Hesham Tillawi, PhD
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4432&Itemid=31
10 January 2009
Dear Editor,
One thing I very much admire about PNN is the section devoted to non-violent resistance... that in and of itself sends a powerful message. A message that needs to be heard. And it is an inspiring message as well as an approach that keeps me returning to read more and more on your site. I can not say the same for other sites that in my opinion have the wrong priorities.
Anyway... I was very VERY impressed today by the excellent op-ed "Don't call it Gaza, it's Palestine" by Hesham Tillawi, PhD which echoes and explains exactly what I see and feel concerning Israel's psychological warfare, specifically its long term and highly manipulative tactics and intentional sabotage... and the way both war camp and peace camp tend to play everyone away from respecting Palestine in multiple places as well as multiple ways.
American newspapers might actually be interested in publishing such an intriguing and interesting perspective explaining Israeli war games and I would encourage the author to please submit this revealing op-ed to mainstream American newspapers in hopes that it can reach a larger audience- and hopefully help Americans (both the people and our politicians and pundits) better understand what has really been going on in the Middle East. Granted there is very much a Zionist propaganda war going on in our American newspapers- but that's no reason to give up before you even start! We still have a free press. Write to America- for America... make it so that mainstream America might understand and care about Palestine, before there is nothing left to save.
However (ever so reluctantly) I have to point out one major flaw with the op-ed "Don't call it Gaza, it's Palestine" as currently written. If you want to be winning over an American audience, including mention of Iraq and the US changes the character of the op-ed to sound more like the point of the op-ed is to bash America. Be very wary of Zionist tactics and traps: Zionist propagandists are in overdrive right now to trying to prove to America that Israel is America's friend and that Palestinians are America's enemy. Don't help them. Be wary... and careful.
In any case- please keep up the good work.
Sincerely
Anne Selden Annab
