[Peace-discuss] Fw: Re: Urgent Appeal to Israel's Prime Minister's office

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

You didn't really expect any different did you?  You couldn't have thought
that they would be candid, frank, and honest enough to tell you what their
real reasons and motivations were, to admit that they were provocateurs or
aggressors, to accept responsibility for creating the terrible living
conditions that  the  Palestinians have had to live under and put up with,
etc.; or did you?

 

From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net
[mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Jenifer
Cartwright
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:51 AM
To: Peace- discuss
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: Re: Urgent Appeal to Israel's Prime Minister's
office

 


Didja all get this response to yr petitions re Israeli's aggression against
Gaza????

 --Jenifer

--- On Sun, 1/11/09, PMO HEB <PMOH at pmo..gov.il> wrote:

From: PMO HEB <PMOH at pmo.gov.il>
Subject: Re: Urgent Appeal to Israel's Prime Minister's office
To: "'jencart13 at yahoo..com'" <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 8:11 AM

We acknowledge receipt of your e-mail regarding the IDF campaign to protect
the residents of southern Israel.

 

For the past eight years, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have lived under
the specter of incessant and indiscriminate rocket attacks from the Gaza
Strip.  While people in other countries have carried about their normal
routines, sending their children to school and walking their dogs in the
park, the people of Sderot and its neighboring communities have been denied
such luxuries - for fear of being hit by incoming missiles (
<http://maillist.tehila.gov.il/t/905/4667/267/0/>
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=panic02-V&ak=null).  No
sovereign nation should be expected to tolerate the daily targeting of its
people, and yet the State of Israel has exercised maximum restraint and
worked relentlessly to achieve a peaceful solution with the Palestinians.

 

Since seizing control of the Gaza Strip by way of a violent coup in June
2007, Hamas - a terrorist organization allied with Iran, Syria and Hizbullah
- has escalated its assault on the State of Israel.   Even a truce with
Israel was abused by Hamas which persisted in attacking Israeli towns, while
also conspiring to upgrade its terrorist capabilities, manufacture and
smuggle massive quantities of weapons into Gaza and construct a network of
underground tunnels for combat purposes.  Now, after Hamas has unilaterally
abandoned this ceasefire and expanded the range of its missiles to threaten
close to one million Israelis, the State of Israel must act decisively to
defend its citizens.

 

In 2005, the Disengagement plan brought an end to Israel's presence in the
Gaza Strip, with the hope and aspiration that its Palestinian residents
would begin to govern themselves and prosper.  Israel has no desire to
re-establish its hold over Gaza, but has resolved - in self-defense - to
gain control over areas from which rockets are being launched on Israeli
towns, and to significantly disable the Hamas terrorist infrastructure.
Ultimately, Operation Cast Lead aims to produce lasting change in the
security predicament affecting residents of Southern Israel, and Israel
expects the international community to lend its support in the fight against
Hamas terror.  Terrorism is terrorism no matter where it occurs.

 

At the same time, the IDF is taking great pains to direct its activities
exclusively against terrorists.  Hamas, however, callously places
Palestinian civilians in harm's way, using schools, mosques, other public
institutions and even private homes as arsenals and bases of operation -
effectively taking the Palestinians of Gaza hostage and using them as human
shields.  Responsibility for injury to civilians in Gaza rests solely with
Hamas.  In contrast, the State of Israel is doing its utmost to minimize any
harm to the Palestinian civilian populace; hundreds of trucks carrying
humanitarian aid have been allowed passage into Gaza and this assistance
will continue.  There is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

 

The State of Israel seeks peace and will remain steadfast in its pursuit of
a two-state solution that will allow Israelis and Palestinians to live
together as neighbors in harmony. 

 

Sincerely,

Prime Minister's Office - E-Correspondence

 

 

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