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Write to the Israeli Embassy!

30th March 2001

Dear Embass y Staff,

I am appalled by both the recent IDF massacre of Palestinian civilians since September 2000 and the restrictions on movement in Gaza and The West Bank. I am also angered by your disproportionate response (in the form of multiple helicopt er rocket attacks) to the unjustified, but limited, suicide bombings by Hamas. Palestinian children, some as young as 18 months, and Arab members of your own population have been murdered by your undisciplined, trigger-happy forces and you have no right to claim moral righteousness. The logic of punishing Arafat by destroying his base of operations, when he is clearly not responsible for the actions of dissidents within Palestine is beyond my comprehension. I am not Muslim, I am not of Arab descent and I am not a member of any political party, I am simply a concerned member of the British population.

As an ardent campaigner against fascism, I am saddened that Israel, a refuge for many from the horrors of the Holocaust, has become nothing less than a fascist state based upon the inherently racist principles of Zionism and led, currently, by a one-time terrorist and mass-murderer. As an anti-fascist I find this hard to reconcile with history. Your population are too young to remember the Holocaust a nd having stirred their bloodlust since birth with tales of 1948, is it any wonder that a fascist like Arial Sharon appeals to them?

I can only hope that your country?s paymaster, the United States of America, following the poorly-justified attac k on Baghdad a few months ago and the oil-money induced abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol, will find itself rapidly out of favour with Europe. As has been the case before, with your many vetos of UN resolutions, it is increasingly a case of Israel and the USA against the world. During recent atrocities, the British government has stood idly by, as it did when Israel dismembered Lebanon for its own political ends. However, there are many of us in Britain who will continue to campaign for an arms and genera l trade embargo on Israel, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied territories and the rights of Palestinians to return to their homes and live in peace.

I imagine you must be pretty busy at the moment, therefore I do not expect a reply, merely an acknowledgement of my distaste for Israel?s actions and my embarrassment at the support for your state that the British government (Once an Evil Empire itself) seems incapable of relinquishing.

Yours Sincerely, etc.

20th May 2001

Dear Embassy Staff,

I wrote to you on the 30th of March regarding your government?s disproportionate response to Palestinian demonstrations. In reply I was incorrectly sent a letter addressed to somebody else, who was no doubt was complaining about a similar topic. I have included my original letter with this one and would appreciate it if you could repsond.

I am writing (again) to register my distaste for your use of F16 fighters against civilian and Official Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza. Arial Sharon led your nation into the quagmire of Lebanon and we all remember the results of that decision. I am appalled by the murder of 5 Palestinian Police officers carried out by Israeli troops some week s ago and I had hoped that such a heinous mistake would soften your approach to the occupied territories.

As I write this letter, one Palestinian civilian in Nablus, is trapped under a heavy building and continues to scream as Palestinian police and civilians work to dig him out. Dead bodies continue to be dug from the rubble. What funds I can afford I will use to help the Red Crescent replace the Norwegian ambulances your troops destroyed.

Yours Sincerely, etc.