An Honorable American Protests Sanctions on Iraq
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" I am so disappointed with all your foreign policy in the Arab World
that I will never again renew my American passport".

That is what an American citizen from Kansas, Ann Dabbas, told the U.S.
Government in a letter that she recently sent to the American
Ambassador in Amman, Jordan.  Mrs. Ann Dabbas is NOT an Arab-American.
She is not even a Muslim.  But she is an honest American with a vibrant
conscience who has been living in Jordan since she married Dr. Hashim
Dabbas about four decades ago.

At a time when the whole world is being Americanized through the
process known as globalization, Mrs. Ann Dabbas has elected to protest
against the sanctions and the bombing of Iraq in a quite extraordinary
way.   She tells the U.S. Ambassador in Amman: "The US & UK are still
committing the most horrendous crimes on the COUNTRY of Iraq".
Therefore, the full-blooded American from Kansas states: "I am ashamed
to tell people I am American".   She adds that "the imposition of the
sanctions on Iraq is purely for the benefit of the Zionists", and warns
America that its policies in the Arab World is costing the discontent
of millions of Arabs.

Thus, Ann Dabbas makes the linkage which many opponents of the
sanctions refuse to make.  Namely, she emphasizes the connection
between the political interests of the Zionists in the Arab World and
the continuation of the sanctions and the bombing on Iraq.  While
citing the illegitimacy of no-fly zones and the use of depleted
uranium, Mrs. Dabbas does not reduce the issue of the sanctions to the
single dimension of humanitarian concerns.  She urges Americans to seek
alternative sources of information and to shake the hold of Zionists on
American policies in the Arab World since the 1967 war.  Hence, she
situates the cause of lifting the sanctions in its proper political
context, not just in the ethereal space of well-intentioned idealism.
To truly work towards lifting the deadly sanctions on the people and
the COUNTRY of Iraq, one must confront the Zionists in America.  That
theme runs like an uninterrupted thread in Mrs. Dabbas's letter to the
U.S. Government, without forgetting to draw a clear distinction between
Jews and Zionists on the side.

Furthermore, this honest American has set an example for all to follow,
if not in the specific method of protest she has chosen, at least in
the attitude behind it.

The Free Arab Voice has obtained a copy of Mrs. Ann Dabbas's letter to
the U.S. Ambassador to Amman.  She writes from the heart without a
political agenda or calculation as will be obvious to anyone who might
read her words.  The editors of the Free Arab Voice have elected,
however, not to post her letter due to the sometimes aggressive
language that Mrs. Dabbas uses.   When a white Anglo-Saxon American
says those things to other Americans, that's one thing.  But when we
post them, we might be misconstrued as anti-American when in fact we're
anti-Zionist and anti-American Government.

In short, a copy of Mrs. Dabbas's letter to the U.S. Ambassador in
Amman is available upon request.   If interested in receiving a copy,
please email us.

The Free Arab Voice (http://www.fav.net)