My letter to Biden
I am posting this here, in the open, with some trepidation. My heart has been breaking for the Palestinians for years--actually decades--now. If I am kicked off of livejournal because of what I say, well at least I have spoken the truth as I see it.
Here is the letter.
Mr. President, I voted for you in 2020, and was proud to do so.
You have lost my vote.
It breaks my heart that you are assisting in a genocide, and sending bombs to be dropped on the heads of Palestinian children.
One can deplore what Hamas did on October 7 without justifying Israel's horrendous response. Sixteen Israeli children died that day. Nearly four thousand children have died in Gaza. How can that possibly be justified? Israel has bombed churches and hospitals, killed journalists and medical workers, and committed many other war crimes.
Mr. President, you have the power to stop this. You can deny funding to Netanyahu until he withdraws from Gaza and agrees to make peace. Again, Hamas, however much we may deplore some of their actions, has offered to release all the hostages. It's Israel that has refused.
As to making peace, we know what a just peace would look like. Either Israel becomes a true democracy, with no walls, no discrimination, and equal rights for all, or there is a two-state solution. Israel, again, has rendered the two-state solution nearly impossible by its settlements. All the settlements must be disbanded, Israel must withdraw to the 1948 borders, and Palestinians must be given at least a nominal right of return.
As I said, you have the power to do this. You have the power to stop Netanyahu and work for peace.
If you do, you will regain my vote. If you don't, all I can do is refuse to vote for you and tell everyone I know not to vote for you.
Thank you,
Here is the letter.
Mr. President, I voted for you in 2020, and was proud to do so.
You have lost my vote.
It breaks my heart that you are assisting in a genocide, and sending bombs to be dropped on the heads of Palestinian children.
One can deplore what Hamas did on October 7 without justifying Israel's horrendous response. Sixteen Israeli children died that day. Nearly four thousand children have died in Gaza. How can that possibly be justified? Israel has bombed churches and hospitals, killed journalists and medical workers, and committed many other war crimes.
Mr. President, you have the power to stop this. You can deny funding to Netanyahu until he withdraws from Gaza and agrees to make peace. Again, Hamas, however much we may deplore some of their actions, has offered to release all the hostages. It's Israel that has refused.
As to making peace, we know what a just peace would look like. Either Israel becomes a true democracy, with no walls, no discrimination, and equal rights for all, or there is a two-state solution. Israel, again, has rendered the two-state solution nearly impossible by its settlements. All the settlements must be disbanded, Israel must withdraw to the 1948 borders, and Palestinians must be given at least a nominal right of return.
As I said, you have the power to do this. You have the power to stop Netanyahu and work for peace.
If you do, you will regain my vote. If you don't, all I can do is refuse to vote for you and tell everyone I know not to vote for you.
Thank you,