[Peace-discuss] An Open Letter To The World

[Wendy Edwards]

Someone posted it to our website too.

http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/128505/index.php

I'm about to respond again.

Wendy

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:55:42PM -0500, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Thanks, Lisa for this view from your Jewish (Israeli?) friend.
> 
> IAs you say, "twisted vitriol" enmeshed in a tissue of deceptions.  
> Its main message seems to be that if persecuted and abused when weak,  
> one can feel righteous persecuting and abusing when strong. Behind  
> all this is the racist thesis that Palestinians (or Lebanese,  
> Iranians, Iraqis Syrians,?) are irrelevant and disposable before the  
> wishes of a Greater Israel.
> 
> The correspondent might be told that this "I don't give a damn, keep  
> the bombs falling" attitude could well lead to the extinction of  
> Israel as it now exists. Most of the world would feel relieved were  
> that to come to pass. The rhetoric of Israeli leaders these days has  
> a Hitlerian quality, bitterly ironic as that may seem.  --mkb
> 
> 
> On Aug 5, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Lisa Chason wrote:
> 
> >I rec?d the following on July 13, via a Jewish friend, before all  
> >the escalating madness in Lebanon. I didn?t share it then but I  
> >keep thinking about it and want others to see this example of the  
> >traumatized and twisted vitriol that exists there
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >For Your Information
> >
> >
> >AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD
> >
> >
> >Dear World, I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel.
> >
> >Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. (Outraged?)
> >
> >Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it  
> >is the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; yesterday it was  
> >Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in  
> >Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears  
> >that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most  
> >extraordinarily.
> >
> >Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the  
> >Jewish people - upset you.
> >
> >We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian  
> >people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew  
> >of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians,  
> >Russians, Hungarians and Romanians. And we go back a long, long way  
> >in the history of world upset.
> >
> >We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of  
> >thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their  
> >way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they  
> >slaughtered untold numbers of us.
> >
> >For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best  
> >to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the  
> >arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn  
> >the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable  
> >Christian ecumenical spirit.
> >
> >And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear  
> >world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and  
> >establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close  
> >contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries  
> >that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What  
> >better notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you)- and  
> >have you love us and so, we decided to come home - home to the same  
> >land we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that,  
> >apparently, we also upset.
> >
> >Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please.
> >
> >Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and  
> >holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live  
> >alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are  
> >upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered  
> >over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are  
> >clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East
> >
> >Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are  
> >upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.
> >
> >Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.
> >
> >In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to  
> >impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish  
> >State to upset anybody Nevertheless, the same oppressed and  
> >repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem,  
> >Jaffa, Safed and Hebron.Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in  
> >Hebron in 1929.
> >
> >Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews  
> >in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli  
> >aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children  
> >slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs  
> >were upset over 1967?
> >
> >And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that  
> >would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel  
> >and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews -  
> >was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way,  
> >dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?
> >
> >The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and  
> >firebombs and stones are part of the same people who  when they had  
> >all the  territories they now demand be given to them for their  
> >state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same  
> >twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbach-al- 
> >yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen  
> >and heard then. The same people, the same  dream - destroy Israel.  
> >What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we  
> >should not "repress" them.
> >
> >Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in  
> >1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly  
> >compared to the Mongol massacres.
> >
> >You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in  
> >every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the  
> >sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.
> >
> >And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of that   
> >extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our  
> >own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well  think of how many  
> >times in the past you bothered us.
> >
> >
> >In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one  
> >Jew in Israel who could not care less.
> >
> >
> >
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