Diana Fullbrook on 'Israel - the truth'

Dear Sir

You may find that not all Christians will agree with your introduction about the current state of Israel and its connection with Abraham.

It sounds as if you are promoting the land grabbing movement of "Zionism". In other words whereby people of the Jewish religion (not Christian) are encouraged to feel that in whichever part of the world they currently reside they were and are entitled to go to the area which is at present designated Israel (thanks to a failure by the British Government about 60 years ago and a subsequent 7- day- war supported by arms from the US with its large population of Zionists), but which is not actually recognised by modern Arab States as even existing .Its neighbour Jordan does not recognise Israel (it does not appear on their maps).

Jordan is much poorer state militarily, far less aggressive and not needing such a ghastly police force with guns as Israel has. Despite producing wonderful fruit etc like Israel, Jordan is comparatively economically deprived thanks to all the bias given towards the Israeli state; even river water is stolen from Jordanian agriculture by the Israeli State with all its aid from Zionists in USA. Countless Christian Arabs were forced to flee their homes over the past 60 years to such places as Jordan (there are a few lucky ones who are not now still living in refugee camps) because of the state of Israel stealing their huge farms and villages in the West Bank and other areas of "Israel".

If you followed the statistics of the racial mix of this area now compared with 50 years ago you will note that people of Jewish religion and Zionist desires were very low in numbers compared to today, now that the Palestinian villages and land have all been taken over by force (a case of David having overcome the Goliath of the majority who happened not to follow the Jewish religion). I fail to see what connection a racist pushy Zionist land-grabbing movement, similar to that of the apartheid movement in South Africa has with religions, either Jewish or Christian. I had always thought that the Bible dealt with spiritual matters rather than matters of possessing land and politics. After all, Jesus himself told people to give up possessions (including land, presumably) before following him.

The mis-understanding of the present cruel racist oppression of Israeli Arabs and deprivation of their land titles is due to faulty reporting and propoganda which confuses the plight of people who were Jews during the war years with the Zionist movement which has allowed one race to take the land belonging to people of another race. Does the Israeli state believe that the sufferings which people of Jewish religion had and died from under Hitler entitle them to take similar reprisals on their own people who happen to be of Moslem and Christian religion. There are very very many Palestinians who are Christians - what about them?

I am amazed that a Christian website as its introduction appears to be promoting the sort of cruelty where aggressive Israeli soldiers have the freedom to shoot any stonethrowing Palestinian boys. Have you ever read the losided statistics for the deaths on either side since, say the 70s? I think you would be amazed to read the figures which of course have not been published in our biassed press. You are assuming a lot in assuming that we Christians all believe the same in politics (a bit like some Christians who assume that all Christians are anti-abortion).

In the hope that your web-site will allow the free interchange of truly Christian ideas rather than instant judgmentalist views on political matters. If you wish to print my letter as an individual opinion you may.

Yours faithfully

Diana Fullbrook

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