Brev från Ramallah.

Den senaste tiden har jag haft omfattande kontakt med kamrater från Västbanken i allmännhet och Ramallah i synnerhet. Jag följer kriget dels genom media men också ganska direkt via mina kontakter från det katastrofala området på plats.

Jag fick ett brev på min mail denna morgon. I det brevet beskriver en av mina vänner dennes tankar om situationen. Jag publicerar detta brev i sin helhet här nedan.

"My very dear friends, those who have been thinking of us, praying for us and acting for us. Bless you all.

You do not know how important your solidarity is and how we value your deep understanding of the truth of our situation and your exposure of the lies that accompany one of the most brutal acts in modern history.

One and a half million Gaza residents living in one of the most crowded areas in the world, have been under siege and blockade for several months, depriving them of the most essential needs and threatening their children with starvation, malnutrition and inadequate medical services. If this is not a war crime, we do not know what is (except that we are not in a state of war but a people under occupation!) To further subjugate the Gaza residents to relentless bombardment from air, sea and land is unprecedented in modern history.

Israel claims that it is defending the security of its people. Is it not high time for the world to realize that Israel is merely defending the spoils of its aggression and the accomplished facts it has been imposing on our people and our land by brute force? Is it not high time for the world to realize that security and peace can never come about by perpetrating injustice by the awsome machinery of war and destruction. Human beings across the ages have given up their lives and have offered tremendous sacrifices to break the yokes of oppression. The result has always ended with the victory freedom . War machinery has been able to kill bodies, break bones, destroy homes, devastate land , but it has never been able to break the human spirit aspiring for freedom.

We thank you again dear, dear friends and hope that very soon our messages will be to congratulate one another on the truimph of wisdom and compassion over shortsightedness and brutality!"