An Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi on Israel

Celebrating Ethnic Cleansing

By KATHLEEN M. BARRY

Dear Nancy Pelosi,

Check your history books.  

Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel is celebration of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Palestine, the celebration of the expulsion of 750,000 Arabs who generations later still people the refugee camps of Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, who still mourn their families slaughtered by Zionists as they completely destroyed Arab villages in Palestine, who still hold keys to their homes that were seized by the new Israeli state in 1948. 

I stand with Jews, with Palestinians, with every people who seek protection from persecution, but never with those who persecute others, who conduct well documented ethnic cleansing to gain their own protection which in six decades of Israeli wars has been no protection at all for Israelis. 

I expected George Bush to align himself with the war mongering far right wing government of Israel.  He after all provided most of the millions of laser guided smart bombs Israel directed at apartment buildings and cluster bombs that still take lives in the south of Lebanon.  Israel's crimes against humanity in the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon go unnoticed by you and your delegation as you are only concerned with Hezbollah's threat to Israel, kidnapping of three soldiers.  In that war, the Israeli Air Force launched more than 7,000 air attacks on about 7,000 targets in Lebanon between 12 July and 14 August, while the Navy conducted an additional 2,500 bombardments.  Does that sound at all proportional to the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers?    Neither are justified, but reason is required, although with your personal convictions override reason making you very dangerous in a position of leadership. 

Are those the Israeli tags of kidnapped soldiers you carry from that war?   Do you wonder at all about the families of the 1200 dead Lebanese while you worry for those soldiers?  Check the details Nancy, Israel's aggression of Lebanon's borders has outnumbered Hezbollah's. 

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