Yousef Abudayyeh – Open Letter to the US Mass Media
By Yousef Abudayyeh • Dec 31st, 2008 at 13:15 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism
Dear Editor, Imagine if more than 63 thousand Americans were massacred in a couple of hours' campaign of F-16 bombing. This number represents (by way of percentage) the number of Palestinians killed by Israel when it launched its massive air strikes in Gaza on Saturday. A friend of mine in Gaza tells me that hundreds are still buried under the rubble and the toll of deaths could easily reach thousands. Already there are more than 1,700 injured with many in serious conditions.Imagine if all this carnage is being paid for by your tax money.
Israel is carrying out an all out massacre in the Gaza Strip and the Arab American Community is outraged because neither the US Media is covering and reporting the facts nor do the Bush Administration and Congress have the backbone to order Israel, which gets almost 11 Billion Dollars a year from the US, to stop carrying out these war crimes.
The US Administration and the US media keep repeating the Israeli lies that it is doing this mass killing in retaliation to Hamas breaking the cease fire and launching rockets on settlers just outside of the Gaza Strip. Neither have the decency to think for a minute and investigate these lies.
Israel says that it left the Gaza Strip almost 2 years ago and that a cease fire agreement between it and Hamas took place and that Hamas violated it. What it does not say that since then it has been enforcing a very tight siege, were medicine, gas, food, electricity or even clean air is not allowed in. It does not tell you that since then it killed more than 67 people in Gaza and that more than 385 sick people died for the lack of medication and electricity that is needed to power life saving equipment, a very clear violation of the cease fire agreement it had with Hamas.
For almost 2 years Hamas did not retaliate. It actually put in jail members of resistance groups that could not take all these violations laying down.
All of this is well documented and easy to get information, but obviously not to the US Media and the US administration, who are doing a disservice to all of us. The whole world is aware of the US complicity in carrying out these war crimes .It¢s another shameful act that this Bush Administration is adding to its over-filled Dossier.
No crime should take place in our name and with our money. Bush, instead of trying to bring the Car Industry to its knees so he can give them loans to survive and sustain US jobs, should stop all US aid to the rogue state of Israel, and the US Congress should regain its independence and stop being an Israeli occupied Territory.
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Yousef Abudayyeh is a long time activist, founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans, a member of the coordinating committee of the Beirut meeting, member of Al-Awda, the right of Return Coalition and National Coordinator of the Free Palestine Alliance, USA. Married with two children and lives in San Diego ,California USA
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Domnule Yousef Abudayyeh, inaintea acestei scrisori si pentru a preveni atacul din Gaza, ar fi fost benefic sa cereti Hamasului (organizatie musulmana terorista) urmatoarele:
- recunoasterea Israelului;
- incetarea violentelor;
- respectarea acordurilor existente intre Israel si Autoritatea Palestiniana.
- sa nu atace Israelul.
Care stat din lume ar fi tolerat pe acesti teroristi din Hamas sau oricare ar fi ei, sa atace pe cetatenii sai pasnici?
Israelul isi apara cetatenii! VINA O POARTA HAMASUL!
Stiti ce a spus Golda Meir, pe cand era la conducerea statului Israel? Citez, in traducere din engleza in romana: ”Noi putem ierta arabii ca omoara copiii nostri, noi nu putem sa-i iertam ca ne obliga sa omoram copii lor. Noi o sa avem pace cu arabii cand ei o sa iubeasca copiii lor mai mult decat ei ne urasc pe noi.”
ATI POSTAT GRESIT CITATUL MEU DIN TEXTUL GOLDEI MEIR! Iata textul corect: ”Noi putem ierta arabii ca omoara copiii nostri, noi nu putem sa-i iertam ca ne obliga sa omaram copiii lor. Noi o sa avem pace cu arabii cand ei o sa iubeascacopiii lor mai mult decat ei ne urasc pe noi”.
It's the evil zionists, the powerful jews who try to control our country and even the whole world. The American people do not agree with any of the agressions on Palestine and even many other actions our government take or took. The hard working and suffered American people do not have any control over what their leaders do, who unfortunately are pressurized by all those stupid, disgusting and filthy rich jews who also control the media (in my opinion, especially the FOX news). The solution would be all those bad jews in the US to be banished to hell forever , so that this world can become a better world. The citizens of our country have nothing to do with all this violence neither do they agree with it, their tax money used to support israel is neither agreed upon, unfortunatelly the rich and powerful jews in our country take the money from us either we like it or not and do whatever they want with it. They believe that they can even "move" their possessions to the "other side" when they die, and the status they have here in this plane of existence is the status they will have in heaven. I mean, in hell. This is really what they believe in. That's the reason why they are so greedy and worship money and power and use everyone they can as stupid puppets to do the job for them while they lay back comfortably and even laught on their puppets on how idiots they are (Bush is just an example of a stupid puppet…) while they are counting their money.
@Lucretia Berzintu – It's Israhell, the biggest terrorist organization in the world, that must be disbanded, including you…
Lucretia, you are nuts! Stop sniffing that stuff, will ya?
Un singur lucru trebuie retinut: pe cine nu-l omori ,nu te lasa sa traiesti ! Daca traia Beghin in 2001 la prima racheta a hamasului ,se aplica legea talionului. Se aplica acum dupa 8 ani de suferinte,umiliri si pagube materiale cu pierderi de vieti umane sau mutilari pe viata.
Ben Gurion a gresit in mai 1948 cind nu a dat denumirea de IUDEEA Israelului de azi. Acum s-ar fi vazut cit i s-a furat Israelului!!
Israelul trebuie sa rada de pe suprafata pamintului bazele teroriste si hamasul. HAZNA-LA SA ISI ASTEP[TE RINDUL….ori vrea sa devina …indian daca iese din bunkar?
@Dr. Ervin Elias – It's Israhell, the biggest terrorist jewnazi organization in the world, that must be disbanded and dismantled, including you…
3bancan, I know you can read Sloveno and many others can't but if your tone of insulting every single person here continues, it's going to be difficult to allow you to keep posting. I want to allow other language groups to exchange views, but if you have to insult, do it in your own language, and we are none the wiser!
@Mary Rizzo – OK, I'll translate – as literally as possible – only one of Dr Ervin Elias's great deep profound thoughts to make the context clear:
"Israelul trebuie sa rada de pe suprafata pamintului bazele teroriste si hamasul" = Isra(h)el(l) must erase from the surface of the earth the terrorist bases and Hamas. (The reader could even more appreciate his borderless and boundless humanity by substituting "the Palestinians" or "all the goyim who don't obey the 'Jewish' diktat" for "the terrorist bases and Hamas" – the thing not inconceivable from that Dr, as it is clear from this sentence that he calls for the "Wagh on Teghghogh" all over the globe)
I think that it's clear to the readers why Dr E.E. writes (not in Slovene as you presupposed but) in Romanian – and probably not from Romania but from Isra(h)el(l).
Lucrezia Berzintu above sings nearly the same old j..n… song.
Now, if you find my comments too offensive then just erase them, the genocide in Palestine will go on all the same, with or without them…
Israel was responsible for the 911 attack on America but the jew media doesn't report the facts. Indeed, America is under Israeli occupation as well. Good luck with the resistance, I'm rooting for Palestinian victory….your day shall come!
@Mary Mckeen –
Damn you stloe my thunder….you my friend put the hammer on the nail….well said…
Hamas was begun by the zionists, years ago, so they are bombing 'symbolically' against 'stooges' they installed themselves to be 'pariahs' for the locals in government of Palestine! it's idiocy.
Before the intifada, it was small, had not much power, they were 'small potatoes' in the eyes of people there, only after a few years and when Arafat lost control of the PLO, things quietly changed, monies were paid to get areas played by both sides at once, with no one the wiser … denigrating to the abyss we have now!
The truth needs to be told: Hamas leadership 'is' and was a 'puppet', serving time for the Israelis to create a scenario in which they ask the Russians to help them, get the oil and gas fields under THAT part of the country for ITSELF, via it's current 'despotic' strategy!
Funny when Israelis 'need' something they just seem to be able to 'take' and no questions asked, or need be, apparently. Pathetic, if you ask me! Seem to be very good at manipulating governments and people this way!