Name : Douglas L Perle
e-Mail : you2home@msn.com
Natl : American Irish Norwegan

Dear President Bush,

As a Citizen and one who has formerly served my country in wartime. This brings me no pleasure having to voice my opinion on this subject. For many years I have studied the Jewish state of Israel and I have admired them for their strength and will to be a “State”. However, I have since looked at the Israeli state from the other side of the coin. The picture is not so perfect or beautiful and it has the ring of terror from the distant past. Terror that the Jewish people themselves went through. The Jewish people are now terrorizing the Arab people. With so much military power as to be able to murder at will anyone they choose. We, the United States of America, are disgraced by our continued support of such atrocities. We claim to support Human Rights. Who's Human? And who's Rights?

We, complain about China violating the Human Rights of their people? Yes! Why, then are we supporting a Nation that sees the Palestinians as non-persons with no rights and no nationality? A People of our Earth with as much Right to exist as the Israelis! Why are we not beating our swords against this atrocity? This is far worse than a Communist takeover of South Viet Nam. This is willful and wanton support of not just violations of Human Rights but murder of a nation of People.

I know Mr. President you are trying to be a responsible person and not someone's plastic do as your told puppet. However, after many years of watching each of the Presidents of my Country sidestep this issue I believe firmly that Israel owns the United States of America! The influence they have is directly proportional to the amount of Money we pour over the nation of Israel! I say it now and again in this letter. If the United States of America really wants to stop the butchering in the Middle East cut off the purse strings to all parties.

The comments that follow are from a hero of mine. A person I look up to as a true patriot of his country. However, this statement is why I question Israel's true purpose in occupation of a foreign land.

“Civilian Israeli settlements throughout the territories are essential to Israel’s permanent military control over the territories. Not because they can ensure security better than the army, but because without them we cannot keep the army in those territories. Without them the IDF is a foreign army ruling a foreign population” rather than an army defending the “right” of the citizens to live in their homeland in peace and security. Moshe Dayan

There are no accidents in the Israeli plans. From the planned expulsion in 1948 of the Palestinians people. The massacre at Dair Yassen in 1948, designed to put fear into all Palestinian people. To the 1967 six-day war a preemptive strike. And the planned massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982. Also, the Israeli planned crushing of the Palestinian Intafada that has failed. Now, the plan is combined with the Moshe Dayans idea. Occupy the land; claim you are defending your people. Make laws that racially discriminate against Arabs, any and all Arabs. This law making has been going on for 53 years! Make the laws impossible for Arabs to comply with by denial of permits to build etc.

Then when it is deemed needed the Israeli Army can and will bulldoze Palestinian homes that do not have the Israeli permit on ground that it is protecting its people in an occupied land of Palestine.

In only one example, in between Deir Al Balah and Gaza City, Israeli bulldozers have razed a 30-meter wide strip of land from the edge of the Gaza Strip down to the sea. Trees, houses, anything in the way have been reduced to a dusty path for re-invasion at a later date.

As many as 18 homes were demolished in Rafah on June 23, 2001 when the Israeli army entered Maghazi Camp at approximately 3 A.M., firing on the residential area with tanks before moving in with bulldozers. Another three homes were demolished in the Mighraqa region, also in the southern Gaza Strip.

The U.S. criticizes Israel only when it commits acts embarrassing to the United States! Continuing to supply Israel with vast and unconditional military and economic support that guarantees Israeli violence and aggression will continue.

If the United States of America wants peace in the Middle East it only has to close the purse strings to all parties involved. The U.S. fails to standup for Human rights violations or even mention such acts. Including reported torture, prison terms for Palestinians attempting to get the truth out about what is really going on. How, the Israelis will take as long as need to “eliminate all foreign resistance”. Even “murdering every last Palestinian” a family at a time! , so as not to create any notice by the world outside of Israel. This plan may take years or a thousand years. To create the racists state of New Israel without any Arabic population what so ever!

This statement that follows from Mr. Sharon is typical of the Israeli contempt of our country! Mr. President, as a Leader of The United States of America why did not someone reply to this statement?

“No one in this world has the right to put Israel on trial. No one. On the contrary, Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the state of Israel on trial."

This was Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, response to a U.S. commission investigating the causes of violence in his country. This appears to be the truth as the United States of America bows to Israel's total disregard for United Nations resolution after resolution.

This tells me that the Israeli's own the American Government. That We the American Public have no voice! As no Nation other than Israel has a voice. We are shunned away as insignificant to these self-righteous bigots. Our political leaders in the past have sold the Freedom of Others for the interests of the Israeli's.

The real cause of the “uprising” September 28, 2000 was a long list of Israeli butchering and bulling. And the straw that broke the camels back was the Al-Aqsa Mosque incident.

We, the American Citizens do not hear the truth out of the Middle East. The News is scrubbed and washed with Israeli bios that point away from Israel to the Arab Nations and Palestinians. When the real cause is the United States continued supply of massive arms. That no Nation, other than the United States has? Except for Israel, WHY?

The “WHY”, Israelis own the Arms manufacturing, Banking, and political systems of My Country!! And our own Government is POWERLESS. Thus we turn our backs on the human rights violations. We do not pretend to ignore that the Israeli Government is systematically “Eliminating the opposition”. We bow to the Israelis and cow tow to the continued atrocities perpetrated by Israel on the people of the Occupied territories. Occupied Territories, the United Nations and all other Nations condemn.

"The site [of the Al-Aqsa mosque] is also sacred to the Jews and [Ariel] Sharon wanted to assert their claim. He did not just visit, however. He and hundreds of police invaded the walled compound. Israeli police beat Palestinian officials who tried to bar the doors to the Al-Aqsa mosque."

-Marie Colvin, London Sunday Times, October 8, 2000

Sources in Jerusalem revealed that, incredibly, it was Barak who gave the green light for Ariel Sharon, Netanyahu's successor as leader of the rightwing Likud party, to visit Haram al-Sharif, the Islamic holy site in the Old City on September 28, that set off the current wave of violence.

Mr. President

I Believe someone more powerful than the Israelis has to say, STOP IT! And mean it with authority! And willingness to backup the Rights of All People not just the Israeli Rights!

Thanks You Mr. President

Douglas L Perle
1945 Berry St SE
Salem Oregon 97302
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