[HCCN] fw: Letter: Open Your Eyes to the Truth

[Judith Robbins]

The following letter was printed in the Blue Hill Weekly Packet this  
week. Thank you to Bonnie.



	On Wed., Dec. 30, I marched through town with 20 of my fellow Blue  
Hill peninsula residents.  Our simple request was for Israel to end  
the siege of Gaza.  We were small in number, but are part of a  
worldwide movement to bring justice to the Palestinian people.
	One year ago, Israel began a brutal attack on Gaza which lasted  
three weeks and left 1400 hundred Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.   
Homes, hospitals, schools and water systems were bombed.  There were  
documented war crimes on both sides, but those committed by Israel  
were overwhelmingly more numerous and more serious.  Since the end of  
this war, Israel has tightened its long-standing siege of Gaza,  
allowing only minimal supplies to enter.  Clean water, food, and  
medicine are in short supply.  Materials to rebuild the  
infrastructure damaged or destroyed in the war are not allowed to be  
brought into the country, leaving the people living amidst the rubble.
	Our own government is fully supportive of Israel in this.  We  
provided weapons used in the war, and are supporting the siege.  We  
are even helping Egypt build an underground “wall” to prevent the use  
of tunnels to move supplies from Egypt into Gaza.  Imagine having to  
hand-carry what you need to rebuild a hospital, for example, through  
a tunnel.  Once upon a time an American President yelled “Tear down  
that wall!” and the Berlin wall indeed was torn down.  Now we support  
the building of walls throughout Palestine.
	All walls between people must come down.  We must begin by tearing  
down the walls of fear around our own hearts, so we can open  
ourselves to the truth that we are all one, we are all of equal worth  
in the sight of God, and we all must be free.  Open your eyes to the  
truth of what is happening, and tell your elected representatives  
that it is unacceptable.


Bonnie Preston
Blue Hill

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