Open Letter to President Bush
Never has there been a president who gave Israel such an automatic carte blancheand even encouraged it to take violent action, to deepen and entrench the occupation. This is not friendship with Israel. This is not concern for its future.A president who did not even try to pressure Israel to end the occupation is a president who is hostile to it, indifferent to its future and fate. A president who endorsed every abomination – from the expansion of settlements to the failure to honour commitments and signed agreements,
including those with the U.S. such as the passages agreement and the freeze on settlement construction – is not a president who seeks the best for Israel or aspires to peace.
Please, Mr. President, prove Gideon wrong for all our sakes, including your own.
Sincerely,
Alan Hart
PS. I do appreciate that you made something of a rod for your back when you promised Sharonin 2004 that Israel could keep the main settlement blocks on the occupied West Bank. But you could break that commitment by saying that it’s one you should not have made because the settlements are illegal in international law and that what you said has no standing in international law. You could even say, “I’m sorry, I was wrongly advised.”
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