Nida from the WAR Zone
Today (24/7/2006), I have received a desperate letter from Nida, a lovely-kind-heart Palestinan girl whom you will miss alot while she is away. She gave me permission to publish this, so we can learn how bad the situation is in her home these days.
My 'political' statement:
Supposing you care enough, please make any efforts to STOP THE WAR,for example by boycoting any Israel products.
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WAS wr wb dear emma,
I miss you so much and keep thinking of you and the safety of your family. I hope you and the girls are doing well, and that your summeris going better than mine. I'm trying to keep safe, but I'm furiousabout this aggression against the Lebanese people, especially when I see the double standards of the internationalcommunity, and the blunt support of the US for more bloodshed.
I'm caught in the middle of this insane war. You probably hearmore in western media about Haifa and the Jewish towns in Israel,yet my village Kofor Yassif is even closer to the Lebanese borders.
Last Monday, and as part of Israel's "free press" policy, Al-Jazeera reporter was arrested from my village as he was reportingon the latest developments. But I doubt you get that in the news,or see the Israeli children write messages on bombs ready to be firedat Lebanon, or even the fact that none of the Palestinian villagesand towns in Israel are provided with shelters. The two Palestinianchildren killed by rockets in Nazareth the other day, were also killed as a result of Israel's policy of neglect, racism, and discrimination against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Nazareth is the biggest Palestinian city in Israel, yet unlike Jewish cities, it is not provided with shelters or alarm sirens.
So far more than 300 killed in Lebanon, thousands injured, and almosta million displaced. Imagine all of this could've been spared if Israel kept its promise and freed the Lebanese prisoners as agreed in 2000. Some of these prisoners rottened more than 25 years in Israelijails, and they are not the only ones. Israel is holding more than 10,000 prisoners, among them are 350 Palestinian children. Some of theprisoners are even from countries like Jordan and Egypt which have peace agreements with Israel.
Yet no body seems to mind when Arabs are killed, kidnapped, or im-prisoned, and the international community finds the lives of two Israeli soldiers more valuable than hundreds of Lebanese civilians, including children, killed so far.
I don't know what else to say, it's been more than ten days now,and no one is acting to end this. On the contrary the US says Israelshould ignore calls for a ceasefire, and Condoleezza Rice describedthe plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new MiddleEast". This leaves me speechless...
I just wonder, if we were rather talking about animal rights imagine how many will come to their rescue.
Love & SalamNida
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