DALLA PALESTINA

[Carlo Gubitosa <c.gubitosa at peacelink.it> (by way of Alessandro Marescotti <a.marescotti at peacelink.it>)]

> > Da: "Noah Salameh" <salamehn at hotmail.com>
> > Data: 05/04/2002 10:06
> > Oggetto: Lara
>
> My friends, brothers and sisters,
>
> Again I'm comiming back to write to you this day also under the curfew and 
> the the roar of the chains of the Israeli army tanks, I'm as you may know 
> still at home and difinitly in the lawer rood to avoide the shooting with 
> less food and with more fear . The Israeli army declair in the morning 
> that they will entensify their operation against Palestinian People to 
> finish before the pressure of the international community increased, so we 
> are now with more shooting and more tanks. Today in Bethlehem city more 
> than 120 tanks, the Israeli army destroyed some doors of the church of 
> Netivity, and the focus this day in the center if the city which is the 
> church, I'm living one Kilometer from the church, I'm lucky because it 
> means that I will be save for this moment, until they invade the church, I 
> hope not and the international protest will give some results.
>
> Yesterday I tried to get some hope from Bush speach about the Middle East, 
> but I disappointed when I heard that his priority is to change our leader 
> and not to stop his allience from this continuation killing of people and 
> the hope of peace. May be Bush wand a government like Afghanistan 
> government which has nine (9) ministers who have USA grean card( USA 
> resedents) Sorry Mr. Bush to select our leader is a Palestinian work not 
> American nor Israeli busniss.
>
> If Bush is realy interested in peace and justice he has to stop sending 
> the machines pf killing to our area, and stop supporting occupation, 
> discrimination and apartheid. I hope he gives more time to crticise 
> violation of human rights and damaging the Infra structure of Palestinian 
> areas, I hope he send food and milk to our children not tanks, and F16, we 
> need peace not arms.Please don't use the 11th of Sept to justify killing 
> us, we are also against Ben Laden, and against fundemetalisim and against 
> terror including your terror and your allies the Israelis who occupied 
> three milion Palestinians whitout giving civil rights to us.
>
> I'm sorry for my American friends, I know that many of you don't know what 
> your government do in different part of the world and if you know you 
> don't accept or support that. But I hope you understand my pain as 
> Palestinian who work for peace, justice, freedome and reconciliation in 
> Nonviolence means and faced of Tanks, curfew, starving, preventing food 
> and milk, and collective punishment for a whole people, for three milion 
> people. I'm asking you if an American man attack and kill one hundred 
> person, do you think that the government will punish all the vity or even 
> his mother of his father, Why we have to be punished collectivily to feed 
> the feeling of revenge, and revenge who? the children and women, ....!!
>
> I'm trying all my time not to talk about politics, I don't know if now I 
> talk politics, is talking about my life is politics, I'm teaching Human 
> Rights and I'm expert in Human Rights and I don't find any item in the Un 
> decleration of Human Rights or the Internationale convenent suppoty or 
> justify what is going and done by Israeli army, How to prevent the aid 
> team from reaching the injurds and let the bleeding until they died, or 
> prevent them from evacuating the dead persons, Two Palestinian civiliand 
> killed in a house in Bethlehem a women of 60 years old and her son of 38 
> years old, and they left with the children ( 6 children between 6-16) in 
> the same room for more than three days, the army prevent red crecent or 
> the red cross from evacuating them. On family burried their father in the 
> garden in the darkness because they were not allowed to take him out.Is 
> this go with and standerd of human rights laws or human measures or any 
> religion.
>
> My friends, Excuse me today, I'm not feeling good because the food is 
> getting less, and the worst from all of this that today the Fifth of April 
> is the Birthday of my daughter LARA, she will be five years old and I 
> can't give her a gift or have a party or even a cake , she asked me in the 
> morning , Where is my gift, and she came to kiss me, and said today is a 
> feast, I will have a lot of things, but I didn't know what to say to her, 
> that she will not have agift or a party, she doesn't understand what is a 
> curfew or what means this shooting around us....
>
> Please, excuse me if I used some violent words, I realy don't want that or 
> mean that, I'm not against any one or hate any one. My GOD is just love, 
> peace, justice and reconciliation, I would like to sleep and walk up and 
> find no wars or no weapons in our country fron any sort or any side. 
> Enough killing enough torture, enough humilation, insultation and occupation.
>
> My wife asked me to say that she feels upset and so sad that she can't go 
> to her hospital( Rihab is a nurse) and there are just three nurses in her 
> section working day and night for the intensive work,
>
> It is now the test for our values, ethics and morals of standing in front 
> of the wave of killing and violation of hesuman rights, this test not 
> external but internal, from inside us, do we agree of what the occupation 
> army doing now? Do we agree with militery occupation in the third 
> millinuem? Do we have to keep silent of this crimes? I'm asking your 
> values, principles, ethics,morals and religios rules. I will not judge 
> you, no one have the right to judge any one, it is your values and ethics 
> will judge you, you have to judge yourselfe, I'm just asking you to act 
> according to your inner judgments.
> Yours in Peace & Reconciliation
> Noah Salameh
> The Center for Conflict Resolution
>      and Reconciliation - CCRR
> P.O.Box 861
> Bethlehem - Palestine
> Telfax: 972-2-2745475
> Tel: 972-2-2767745
> Email: ccrr at palnet.com /salamehn at hotmail.com