[WCUSP] A little success -- read to the end

[Libby or Mort Frank]

Hi all,

Our Phila. branch Middle East committee has a modest project -- to get one letter a week sent to the Phila. Inquirer regarding Israel/Palestine.  We're working with some members of the local Jewish Voice for Peace.  We have 8 or 9 women willing to write a letter once every 8 or 9 weeks.  About 5 have been submitted and two have been printed.

I'm retyping the one that just appeared on Jan. 10 from one of our members, since I can't correctly forward her letter with my limited computer knowledge.  (By the way, we have new members participating.)

Here's the letter.

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Jews above criticism?

It is almost impossible for an American Jew to criticize the Israeli government's policy toward the Palestinians without being called anti-Semitic or a self-hating Jew.

I found this out in the 1980s when I wrote an article for a Center City paper called the Welcomat abut finding a Jewish temple where my son would not automatically be taught that all Palestinians are terrorists.  Vitriolic letters from all over the East Coat lambasted my views.

Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,  is also reaping tremendous criticism from Jewish groups and individuals.  This criticism drowns out the reality of what is happening.  Israel says its security fence is to keep out terrorists, but the wall is carving up the West Bank so that Palestinians are cut off from their olive groves, farming fields, water, education and health resources.

If American Jews could only see that Israeli treatment of Palestinians is causing more hopelessness, and consequently terrorism, then maybe they would work against the wall, too.  Without justice, there is no peace.

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The member included her email address.  She wrote that she received abut 40 responses -- 30 of them positive!

Libby

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