KATHY PASSED THIS INCREDIBLE LETTER ON, BY WAY OF BARBARA AGOSTINI:
Jerusalem,
July 24th, 2006
To Secretary of State
Ms. Condoleezza
Rice
Madame Secretary,
After ten days of destruction,
death and suffering, you have finally decided to come to our
region.
If the goal of this visit is to achieve an immediate
cease-fire and an exchange of prisoners of war, to work for the
implementation of all United Nations resolutions related to the
Israeli-Arab conflict and the fulfillment of all the agreements
signed under the auspices of the international community; if you
genuinely intend to stop the brutal attacks, destruction and state of
siege on the Palestinian and Lebanese populations and other regional
violence; if these are your objectives - you are welcome and we wish
you success in your mission.
As citizens of the State of
Israel, Arabs and Jews, who know well our government and its total
loss of control and sanity, we would suggest you not to spare any
pressure, political as well as financial, in order to stop it in its
present deadly course. As one of your predecessors as the head of
the State Department, James Baker, understood well more than ten
years ago, only friendly but firm pressure can stop the insane policy
of unlimited brutality and bring our leaders back to the negotiation
table.
If, on the other hand, your presence in our country is
aimed to push the government further in what your President calls a
global non-ending pre-emptive war, and to send Israeli soldiers to
the front line of your crusade, we ask you to leave our country and
to return back home. We and our families do not want to be the
hostages and victims of the United States' imperial war.
Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens against war and occupation.
HERE ARE TWO MORE ITEMS IN THE SAME LINE: THE VOICES FROM ISRAEL THAT THE MEDIA TRY TO BLOCK...
“I, Tsilli Goldenberg, Israeli citizen
Accuse you - Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, Amir Peretz, Minister of Defense, Dan Halutz Head of Staff Chief Commander of the Israeli Army, of committing this bestial barbaric slaughter in Lebanon.
I accuse you of committing Crimes against Humanity towards the Palestinian People. I accuse you of deserting our soldiers, when their lives could be saved by negotiations, and I accuse you of starting an unjustified war in my name.” - Tsilli Goldenberg, Masarik 11, Jerusalem 93106 Israel
“The daughter of Israel’s newly elected prime minister added her voice to those of pacifists around the world when she actively participated in a demonstration outside the home of Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, calling him a ‘murderer’”
FROM “THE CAT'S DREAM” http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2006/07/did-you-know.htm