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Open letter to Yavin Katz
Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Wednesday, August 16 2006, 11:42:17 (CEST)
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Dear Yavin Katz,

I write in response to your letter published in the August 7 issue of Zinda magazine. I would first like to start by refuting some of the points raised in your letter asking Assyrians not to condemn the actions of the Israeli government.

According to the Christian Science Monitor Hizbullah’s attacks stem from Israel’s illegal incursions into Lebanon, not Hizbullah’s.

"In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities and continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What peace did Hizbullah shatter?" [1]

The reason for the attack is also clear. "But there is no serious debate about why the two soldiers were captured: Hizbullah was seeking to exchange them for the 15 prisoners of war taken by the Israelis during the occupation of Lebanon and (in breach of article 118 of the third Geneva convention) never released. It seems clear that if Israel had handed over the prisoners, it would - without the spillage of any more blood - have retrieved its men and reduced the likelihood of further kidnappings. But the Israeli government refused to negotiate. Instead - well, we all know what happened instead. Almost 1,000 Lebanese and 33 Israeli civilians have been killed so far, and a million Lebanese displaced from their homes." [2]

It was Israel that began to indiscriminately bomb Lebanon. Collective punishment through the targeting of innocent civilians by its very nature is Terrorism. This illegal Terrorism against Lebanon should not only be condemned by Assyrians but by the entire civilised world. Israel has for some time been committing numerous acts of Terrorism, human rights abuses and violations of international law, thanks to the acquiescence of its corporate hijacked US ally.

The sad fact of the matter is that both the Israelis and the Arabs are victims of the world’s rogue superpower. The US uses Israel as a military base in order to control the world's strategic oil reserves in the Middle East and subsequently maintain its global and economic hegemony.

But it's not too late. Israel should finally realise that it cannot treat its neighbours and the Palestinian people it has displaced and driven from their homes with utter disregard. No people can be subjected to the constant humiliation as shown to the Palestinians by the Israelis over decades without some backlash. Israel must also finally withdraw to its 1967 borders and return Palestine to its rightful inhabitants. Israel must also be called upon to finally comply with numerous UN resolutions and pay for the destruction they have caused to Lebanon's infrastructure and civilian property.

But this will only happen when Israelis wake up and join their fellow Semitic brothers in the Middle East and the Diaspora in boycotting and protesting against the US companies responsible. These same US companies have hijacked the US government and influence its foreign policy decisions that keep the region destabilised and stuck in this manufactured "War on Terror." These companies include war contractors such as Boeing, General Electric, Raytheon and McDonald Douglas who have profited from the deaths of our people, in both Lebanon, Iraq and Israel, are the main beneficiaries of these wars. It’s about time we started protesting with our dollar. I urge everyone to start boycotting these companies for example by not flying with any airlines that use Boeing aeroplanes and not buying electrical appliances manufactured by General Electric. Let’s be more discerning with our dollars than Israel has been with its bombs.

Regards,

David Chibo

Melbourne, Australia

Notes:

1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0801/p09s02-coop.html

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1839280,00.html



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