An
Open Letter To America
By Ibrahim Ebeid
04 August, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Dear Fellow Americans
Are we really aware of why people around the world don’t harbor
love and respect for us? Have we ever thought why people around the
world "hate" us?
Most of us do not know why
because we are being fed with false propaganda, which has become ingrained,
in our minds, and we have been forced to believe that people around
the world envy our way of life and hate our democracy.
To know the reality we have
to pause for a while and take a profound look at the policies and actions
of our governments. When we do so then we might discover the facts and
reasons why people dislike us. Though facts sometimes are painful, we
have to accept them in order to eradicate the evil causes and purge
ourselves.
I would like to be very frank
with my fellow citizens and tell them some of the reasons why people
hate us. I was born in Palestine. I suffered under unfair and unjust
US policies. The price my family and I paid was very heavy and high.
We lost everything that my father worked for when the Zionist state
was created in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled
from their land and became refugees. They were forced to spend the bitter
cold of winter under the trees, the lucky ones were sheltered in tents
made of canvass that were donated by the United Nations Relief and Work
Agency. Those places, later on, were converted into temporary camps
until such a time feasible for the refugees to return to their homes;
the refugees and their descendents are still waiting.
Mr. Harry Truman ignored
that human tragedy and he was very quick to recognize "Israel"
11 minutes after its announcement. Since then, the United States, was
and still is siphoning billions of dollars and sending the most sophisticated
arms from the US arsenal to help the Zionists fulfill their dreams:
to kill more Arabs and to grab more lands for the Zionist settlers.
Palestinians are considered subhuman, or like roaches, and must be crushed
according to Zionist leaders. "The Palestinians would be crushed
like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls,"
‘Israeli” Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish
settlers reported the New York Times on April 1, 1988. " [The Palestinians
are] beasts walking on two legs." Menachim Begin stated in a speech
to the Israeli Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the
Beasts:” New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
And yet, we Americans, who
claim to be the freest people in the world who believe in freedom and
democray, are supporting such a racist entity that is built on usurped
land, its leaders are full of hate and they are commiting genocide against
the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.
We Americans are being robbed by Republican and Democratic administrations
alike. They are utilizing the taxpayers’ money to help “Israel”
to launch continuous wars to kill thousands of people and destroy entire
nations with “our” unconditional support. Palestine was
completely usurped and its people are uprooted, Lebanon is being attacked
and destruction and death are spreading all over the land. Do we expect
people to have faith in us?
Our president, Mr. George
W. Bush, became the most vocal voice of Zionism in the world. He is
not concerned about peace in the world. He is encouraging the "Israelis"
to commit more crimes and massacres against the Palestinians and he
is sending more destructive weapons to the Zionists to kill more Palestinians
and Lebanese. Both countries are being destroyed and ruined. Both countries
are being besieged and blockaded and Arab children are being killed
with no remorse. And yet we call America a broker for Peace and Justice?
On April 18, 1996, the Zionists
attacked Qana, in Lebanon, and killed 110 women and children who were
taking refuge in the United Nations compound. The horrible crime was
repeated again on July 30, 2006 when the same Zionist criminals attacked
a building in Qana and killed more than 60 innocent civilians who were
taking shelter to avoid the savagery of their enemy. Among the dead
were about 40 children, if not more. They were killed with American-made
bombs that President Bush donated to the perpetrators. Killing innocent
people and especially children make people around the world hate and
despise Americans.
We are launching a savage
war against the people of the Cradle of Civilization since 1991 with
no cessation .Our laser-guided “smart bombs" destroyed Al
Ameriyah shelter on February 13, 1991 and more than 400 Iraqi civilians
were killed, mostly women and children.
More and more people are
being killed by the US occupiers and by the sectarian militias of the
sectarian government that we created in Iraq. People are being buried
in mass graves that we are creating and blaming on the Iraqi Resistance.
The United States has killed
more than 200,000 Iraqis during the illegal invasion of March 2003 and
thousands more after. Now, the average is about 100 killed a day.
Our blind hatred to everything
that’s not American caused the deaths of more than two million
Iraqis during the First Gulf War and during the genocidal blockade and
no-fly zones that we imposed on Iraq. Most of the dead were children
and our representative at the United Nations; Ms Madeleine Albright
tolerated the killing of the Iraqi children and said, "The price
is worth it". Then she was rewarded the portfolio of Secretary
Of State. And do you expect us to be revered and loved by the people
of the world?
We are sending thousands
of our troops to foreign lands, to Afghanistan and Iraq, to kill innocent
people and to force them to accept our export of “democracy.”
This type of democracy is causing misery to many families in Iraq and
to the families of our servicemen who die in vain to satisfy the egos
of President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza
Rice and the Zionist “allies” of Washington.
Mr. Bush sent Condoleezza
twice to "Israel" to give his support and assurances to the
Zionists to commit atrocities and destruction in Lebanon and the result
was very vast and devastating, Children are being slaughtered with our
bombs and you expect the Arabs and the rest of the Muslim World to love
us and favor our democracy, which in reality, means their destruction?
The attack on Qana and the
killing of Lebanese children and their moms took place while Condoleezza
Rice, our Secretary of State, was meeting with Ehud Olmert, the "Israeli"
Prime Minister. Of course this meant that the attack took place under
the eyes and the blessing of the United States. The Zionist leader,
Ehud Olmert requested the approval of the United Sates, and more time
to continue the war against Lebanon and its people. What is taking place
in Lebanon and in Palestine, in Qana and in Gaza is indeed a massacre,
a crime against humanity, a hate crime, and a racist crime against people
for being Arabs or Muslims. The United States is responsible for such
crimes because our President and his administration are putting all
our power and resources behind such a "state", behind "Israel".
Our tax money is going towards committing war crimes instead of spending
it for peace or at home, on education, medicine, research, building
homes for the homeless and poor, creating new jobs, etc.,
We send our young people to kill, to rape, to commit atrocities and
to die for wars in the interests of the rich, corporate America and
above all on behalf of “Israel” that is holding us hostage.
Are we responsible for the
acts of our government?
Yes we are responsible because
we allow such people to hold office; we have elected them and now we
are paying the price. People around the world hate us. Our young men
and women are being killed, and we are creating more enemies. We do
not have enough jobs; our senior citizens cannot afford to buy medicine;
we pay high prices for gasoline; and we pay heavy taxes to supply the
costs of wars committed by our government and by our Zionist allies.
We became the butchers of the world instead of the advocates of peace.
We should stop supplying
"Israel" with weapons of destruction.
We should stop wasting our
billions on the "Israeli" war machine.
We should stop all the wars that we are launching around the world,
especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We should build bridges of
love and friendship among nations.
We should treat all nations with equal respect.
We should always stand with
justice.
We should withdraw our troops
from around the world and bring them home alive.
Is our foreign policy stemming
from our interests in building peace and democracy around the world?
The answer to this question
is a flat no. Our foreign policy has been a hostage to the interests
of the few: to corporate America, to the rich who want to be richer
even by launching wars to rob other nations. And who pays the price
to these greedy ambitions? The answer is the poor, young Americans.
They are the ones who are forced to go to wars to shed their blood and
the blood of others for oil and “Israel.” Mr. Martin Indyk,
the then US Ambassador to Tel Aviv, once said about the first Gulf War
it was for "oil and Israel." Indeed it was and now most of
the Americans know it.
American foreign policy was
always and still is not fair, especially when it comes to the Arabs
and Muslims. The United States never allows the United Nations Security
Council pass any resolution condemning the state of “Israel”
for war crimes and atrocities that it commits, because, "Israel"
according to our successive administrations, is our staunchest ally.
These are some of the reasons why people hate us. It is about time to
put America on the right track. It is about time to join the human race
and be part of a peaceful and civilized World.
Respectfully
Yours truly,
Ibrahim Ebeid
US citizen and a veteran of the Vietnam era