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DALLA PALESTINA




> > Da: "Noah Salameh" <salamehn@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@palnet.com /salamehn@hotmail.com