Tell President Bush (email: president@whitehouse.gov) and Secretary of State Rice, and your Senator and Congressperson and your favorite presidential hopeful, about Gaza. Get them to do something before it is too late, or make them understand why, ultimately, if they do not do anything, Israel will need to do something.
The following letter (edited a tiny bit) published by permission, was written in response to my article Gaza on my mind. Please do write, but don't use the same text.
Ami Isseroff Continued...
Ami Isseroff on 12.16.07 @ 09:43 PM CST [link]
Gaza on my mind and O Jerusalem provoked a number of (predictable) reactions. At least one person did the right thing in my opinion, about the only thing we can do right now. She wrote to President Bush and pointed out that there can be no peace unless the Gaza problem is solved.
Not a single person who advocates "No concessions in Jerusalem" was able to explain whether this includes the enlarged municipal boundaries of Jerusalem or only the Old City, Mt. Olives and Mt Scopus, what the strategic, religious and national significance of Khirbet Beit Sahur might be, what we are to do about the 250,000 Arabs that would be annexed to Israel and become citizens, or how we would overcome the fact that not a single country recognizes our claim to Jerusalem. The slogans about not dividing Jerusalem are the same slogans that a certain party used in 1948. Should the Zionist movement have rejected UN General Assembly Resolution 181 because it did not give Israel sovereignty over Jerusalem? Some people thought so. It seems to me that they were wrong then, and they are wrong now. Continued...
Ami Isseroff on 12.16.07 @ 02:20 PM CST [link]
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