[A-List] Fwd: The Crisis in Gaza

[Todd Boyle]

I nominate this letter from a man in Western WA.
to his Senators, for letter of the year.   GREAT. 5-stars.

We should read it to the public, instead of to our Senators,
who of course ignore everything except the money - power
dynamic.   --Todd.


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, tkrebsbach at msn.com <tkrebsbach at msn.com> wrote:
From: tkrebsbach at msn.com <tkrebsbach at msn.com>
Subject: FW: The Crisis in Gaza
To: tkrebsbach at msn.com
Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 9:49 PM

The following email was sent to Senator Murray and a similar one to 
Senator Cantwell through their websites.

At one time not so long ago, I respected and admired members of 
Congress.  Now I totally despise them.

tom krebsbach


From: tkrebsbach at msn.com
To: tkrebsbach at msn.com
Subject: The Crisis in Gaza
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:25:16 -0800

Dear Sen. Murray,

I am becoming increasingly concerned for the United States Congress 
and its reputation in the world.  I fear that most people in the 
world are beginning to think that the people of the United States are 
governed by a large collection of fools and mad men and women.

What else could they think considering how the United States Congress 
continues to support, defend, and praise a government which over the 
years has repeatedly slaughtered people indiscriminately, ignored 
dictates of international and human rights law, and commited the most 
egregious abuses and atrocities against an essentially helpless and 
defenseless people?

The insistence of Congress that Israel is righteous in decimating the 
Palestinian people when all evidence suggests quite the opposite 
might very easily lead most people in the world to conclude that the 
members of Congress are not playing with a full deck.  For you see, 
people who continually deny reality and live in a fantasy world are 
often judged to be insane.

Of course, members of Congress, such as yourself, might stubbornly 
maintain that Israel has a right to exist and is only defending its 
sovereignty.  This has always been the ploy of members of Congress 
when forced to defend their irrational defense of the most heinous 
acts of Israeli barbarity.

Even assuming that Israel has a right to exist and to defend its 
sovereignty, how does that justify what Israel has done to the people 
of Gaza over the last month, or to the people of Lebanon in the 
summer of 2006, or to the refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in 
1982, or to Palestinians in general ever since the founding of Israel 
in 1948?

Does it not matter a little that the Zionists forced the Palestinians 
from their land in 1947 and 1948 through a process of ethnic 
cleansing so that they could establish the state of Israel on what 
had been Palestinian land?  (If you do not think that this process of 
ethnic cleansing took place, then you need to read the book, The 
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by the Jewish Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe.)

Is it totally irrelevant that Israel almost always responds to any 
act of defiance in a completely disproportionate manner?  Hamas 
militants fire rockets into Israeli territory with little damage 
being done, and Israel responds by pounding the Palestinians 
mercilessly with weapons supplied by the United States 
government.  Since the fighting started, over 700 Palestinians have 
been killed by Israeli forces, with many of the dead children.  Four 
Israeli civilians have been killed and ten Israeli soldiers.  Sorry, 
that is not proportionate.

Have you and your colleagues in Congress ever asked yourselves why 
Hamas fired those rockets which brought on the disproportionate 
Israeli response?  Do you suppose it might have something to do with 
the fact that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas never produced 
what it was supposed to produce, namely a freeing of political 
prisoners and an opening of the borders of Gaza so that the people 
there could seek to have a reasonable life?  In a most deceitful and 
disgusting manner, Israel did everything it could to destroy the 
people of Gaza by limiting aid to this crowded sliver of 
land.  Israel did everything it could to turn Gaza into a hopeless, 
stinking prison of despair.  Under the circumstances, it would seem 
the behavior of Hamas was completely rational.

Considering the actions and pronouncements of Congress with regard to 
Israel/Palestine, please forgive me if I insist that you and your 
colleagues are completely delusional and off your rockers.  For I 
find it hard to accept the alternative:  that you are sound and 
rational people.  If you are people of sound mind, then I must 
conclude that you and your colleagues are nothing better than cynical 
murderers and supporters of genocide.  In that case, your hands are 
covered in the blood of people of the Middle East.  In that case, you 
are little better than the war criminal, George W. Bush, and like 
Bush, you belong in jail for the rest of your life.

How I regard you and the others in Congress may not matter all that 
much to you.  But it would not surprise me if many people in the 
world, viewing things objectively and rationally, share my 
view.  What does that say about you, Murderer Murray?

With the utmost sincerety and sense of despair,
Tom Krebsbach
Brier, WA


          
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