A Letter to The American People & TheFree World خطاب إلى الشعب الأمريكي والعالم الحر

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

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[حسام الدين مصطفى]

A Letter toThe American People and Conscience of The Free World

To American People...
To All World Free Nations ...

We the members of World Association for Arab Translators and Linguists are Arab academics, intellectuals, translators, writers, poets, and activists concerned about our Arab nation's issues concerns express our opposition and remonstrance to the U.S.A policies which supports the Israeli massacres against the unarmed innocent Palestinian people.
As leaders and members of the modern Arab renaissance movement. We believe that the current policies of the U.S.A will not sow seeds of peace and security, but only the fair action can achieve security in the Middle East and for the United States of America.
The U.S.A claims of trying to plant peace, democracy and justice have been unmasked but our Arab world was the soil where U.S.A planted thorns tension and violence.
The U.S.A drawls all the time about its deep rooted respect for humanity and human rights but the reality of its actions proves the opposite. We wonder how U.S.A disregarded the principle of not to increase the suffering of friends or foes, but to ease their pain and despair.

The U.S.A foreign policy towards Arab issues gave any good but made the bad situations worse. It caused tremendous loss of human life, the additional deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians as well as crumbling Arab infrastructure.

The U.S. which loudly criticized Iraq for seeking weapons and occupied it for the claims mass destruction while it is preparing to develop a new series of nuclear weapons. The United States will abdicate its voice to call for nonviolent resolution of other conflicts particularly Palestinian- Israel.



The U.S.A acts and policies will not increase security for the United States and other Middle East countries. It will increase the already rising tide of anti-American sentiment, broaden the divide between the West and the Arab world, and further destabilize the whole region by kindling more anger feelings against it. In addition, the U.S.A policies will likely put at risk the American interests in Arab region only but in all Muslim World.

It is our belief that the main problem with U.S. policies in the Middle East (in particular in Iraq, Palestine, and other countries in Arab World) is precisely the double standard and prejudice.

As a matter of fact, the oppressive practices and policies of U.S.A created enemies not only in the Arab World but exceeded to the Muslim World, which see the U.S. A as a staunch ally of Israel, even when it violates all international resolutions or kills innocent women and children.


The American administration still live in illusion of it is the sole world polar world, they should get vigilant that there is a steady rise of other effective international powers and that the delusion of the high-handed policy that the US followed as a super power is no longer acceptable to the international community.

Actually our conscience is bleed by the acts of injustice that the U.S.A. and its Israeli ally committed against the Palestinians.

What is happening in Palestine and particularly in Gaza is a blunt inhuman degrading treatment. It is a torture cruel practice against unarmed innocent people.

What Gaza witnessing now is a crime against humanity, it is a flagrant example of genocide against a nation striving under brutal Israeli occupation. It is against all human principles, religious beliefs and international conventions.

There was there a time when the U.S.A administrations succeeded in deceiving the world and gaining respect and admiration worldwide for its false calls about safeguarding human rights and democracy, but now the crimes of U.S.A allover the world exposed the reality of its aims.

It is worthy to mention that US exports to Arab countries achieved a record of $35 in 2006. So, the US administration should recognize the fact that it stands to win a great deal by being fair and even-handed in its relations with the Arab world and its issues. Otherwise, it will continue to lose billions of dollars in trade and investment opportunities allover the world.

Now there is no alternative in front of the U.S. administration but understanding that as long as it remains committed to a one-point agenda of looking at the Arab world from the Israeli perspective, its approach toward our region will continue to be biased, even such a policy will lead to harm to the U.S.A national interest.

Thus, the American persistence and total silence is a message that tells the world: U.S.A is a real enemy of humanity, justice and democracy.

Despite some initial skepticism, we still have some hope that the American people may manacle the U.S. administration's killing machine in Arab region.

We know that some wise minds in the United States support our legal and fair requests.
We hope that they will consider our words, recall how much issues are at stake in the Arab world, and ponder how costly silence and mixed signals when our children are killing by Israel bloody hands under the witness of U.S.A.
In our letter we nowhere blame the American people but our accusing finger is basically pointing toward the U.S. administration.

The hope is still alive that the American people can refurbish that repugnant image, if fair people join hands working for achieving real peace and justice.

This letter is also addressed to all free countries and nations, we invite them to act in solidarity to take all possible actions to save the Palestinian children and support all good efforts to end the suffer of Palestinian people in Gaza and all occupied Palestinian regions.
World Association for Arab Translators and Linguists

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

خطاب إلى الشعب الأمريكي و كل أمم العالم الحر

إلى الشعب الأمريكي:
إلى أمم العالم الحر :

نحن أعضاء الجمعية الدولية للمترجمين واللغويين العرب من أكاديميين و مفكرين و مترجمين و كتاب و شعراء ونشطاء معنيون بقضايا أمتنا العربية نعبر عن معارضتنا واحتجاجنا على سياسات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية الداعمة للمجازر الإسرائيلية تجاه أبناء الشعب الفلسطيني الأبرياء العزل.
إننا وبوصفنا قادة وأعضاء بحركة النهضة العربية الحديثة قد صدق لدينا أن السياسات الحالية التي تتبعها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية لا تبذر بذور السلام ولا الأمن وإنما الأفعال العادلة وحدها هي ما يمكنها تحقيق الأمن لمنطقة الشرق الأوسط و الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
إن ادعاءات الولايات المتحدة بأنها تغرس السلام والديمقراطية والعدالة قد افتضح أمرها وأضحى عالمنا العربي هو التربة التي تزرع فيها الولايات المتحدة أشواك التوتر والعنف.
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إن الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تتشدق دوماً عن احترامها العميق للإنسانية وحقوق الإنسان لكن حقيقة أفعالها تثبت عكس ذلك. وإننا نتعجب كيف تغض الولايات الطرف عن مبدأ عدم زيادة معاناة الأولياء و الخصوم و العمل على محو ألمهم و شقائهم.

إن السياسة الخارجية للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تجاه القضايا العربية لم تثمر عن أي خير بل إنها حولت الأوضاع من سيء إلى أسوأ..

إن الولايات المتحدة تعالى صوتها منتقدة العراق واحتله بسبب مزاعم أسلحة الدمار الشامل بينما هي مستمرة في جهودها لتطوير سلسلة جديدة من الأسلحة النووية، والولايات المتحدة هي من صار صوتها خافتاً تجاه الدعوة إلى الحل السلمي للصراعات الأخرى خاصة الصراع الفلسطيني - الإسرائيلي

إن أفعال وسياسات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية لن تزيد من أمنها ولا أمن دول الشرق الأوسط، بل إنها ستعمل على تفاقم مشاعر العداء الموجودة تجاه الولايات المتحدة و تزيد التباعد بين الغرب والعالم العربي بل وتتعدى ذلك إلى زعزعة استقرار المنطقة بأسرها من خلال إضرام نيران مشاعر الغضب عليها. فضلاً عن ذلك فإن سياسات الولايات المتحدة باتت تمثل خطراً على المصالح الأمريكية ليس في المنطقة العربية فحسب بل في العالم الإسلامي بأجمعه.

إن قناعتنا هي أن المشكلة الرئيسية تجاه سياسات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية بمنطقة الشرق الأوسط ( خاصة في العراق وفلسطين وباقي دول العالم العربي) إنما تكمن في الكيل بمكيالين والإجحاف.
وفي واقع الأمر فإن الممارسات والسياسات الغاشمة التي تنتهجها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية قد خلقت لها أعداءً ليس في العالم العربي وحده بل تخطت ذلك إلى العالم الإسلامي اللذان باتا يريان الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية حليفاً مؤازراً لإسرائيل حتى وإن خرقت كل الحلول الدولية أو قتلت النساء والأطفال الأبرياء.

إن الإدارة الأمريكية لا تزال تعيش في ضلال القطب العالمي الأوحد، وحري بها أن تفيق فتدرك أن هناك تنامي مستمر لقوى دولية فاعلة أخرى وأن وهم سياسة اليد العليا التي تتبعها الولايات المتحدة بوصفها قوة عظمى لم تعد مقبولة في المجتمع الدولي.

وفي الواقع فإن أفعال الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية غير العادلة وما اقترفته حليفتها إسرائيل ضد الفلسطينيين قد أدمى ضمائرنا.
إن ما يحدث في فلسطين وعلى وجه الخصوص في غزة هو معاملة لا إنسانية مهينة غاشمة، بل إنه ممارسة تعذيب وحشي ضد شعب أعزل برئ
إن ما تشهده غزة حالياً هو جريمة ضد الإنسانية وهو مثال صارخ على مذبحة جماعية ترتكب ضد شعب يكافح تحت وطأة الاحتلال الإسرائيلي الغاشم. إن ما يحدث إنما يخالف كل المبادئ الإنسانية والمعتقدات الدينية و المواثيق الدولية.
لقد كان هناك زمن نجحت خلاله الإدارة الأمريكية في خداع العالم واستطاعت أن تكتسب الاحترام والإعجاب في طول العالم وعرضه بدعواها الكاذبة عن حمايتها لحقوق الإنسان والديمقراطية، لكن جرائم الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في كل العالم قد فضحت حقيقة مطامعها.

ربما يجدر بنا أن نذكر أن صادرات الولايات المتحدة للدول العربية قد حققت رقماً قياسياً إذ بلغت 35 مليار دولار أمريكي عام 2006 لذلك فإنه يتعين على الإدارة الأمريكية أن تدرك حقيقة أنه يمكنها أن تحقق مكسباً عظيماً وكل ما عليها أن تكون عادلة غير متحيزة فيما يتعلق بعلاقتها بالعالم العربي وقضاياه، و إلا فإنها ستظل تخسر مليارات الدولارات من فرص التجارة والاستثمار في العالم بأسره.

والآن لا محيص أمام الإدارة الأمريكية إلا أن تتفهم بأنها ما دامت مستمرة في الالتزام بخطة عمل أحادية التوجه ولا تنظر إلى العالم العربي إلا من خلال المنظور الإسرائيلي فإن توجهها نحو منطقتنا سيظل مغلفاً بالتحيز بل إن مثل هذه السياسة ستؤدي إلى الأضرار بالمصالح القومية للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
وعليه فإن الإصرار الأمريكي وصمتها التام إنما هو رسالة تخبر العالم أن الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية هي العدو الحقيقي للإنسانية و العدالة والديمقراطية.

ورغم بعض الشكوك الأولية إلا أنه لا يزال يحدونا بعض أمل أن الشعب الأمريكي قد يوقف آلة القتل التي تستخدمها الإدارة الأمريكية في المنطقة العربية

إننا ندرك أن هناك بعضاً من العقول الحكيمة في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تدعم مطالبنا المشروعة والعادلة.
وإننا نأمل أن ينظروا باعتبار لكلماتنا و يدركوا القضايا التي باتت على المحك في العالم العربي وأن ينتبهوا إلى ما قد ينجم عن الصمت و التلميحات غير الجلية عندما يستمر قتل أبنائنا بيد إسرائيل الدموية وتحت أمام ناظري الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
إننا في خطابنا لا ننحي باللائمة على الشعب الأمريكي ولكن إصبع اتهامنا موجه إلى الإدارة الأمريكية بصورة أساسية

لا يزال الأمل حياً أن يستطيع الشعب الأمريكي تغيير هذه الصورة البغيضة وذلك إذا ما تلاقت أيدي المنصفين منهم للعمل على تحقيق السلام والعدالة الحقيقيين.

إن هذا الخطاب موجه أيضاً إلى كافة الأقطار و الأمم الحرة وندعوهم إلى العمل سوياً على اتخاذ كافة الإجراءات الممكنة لإنقاذ الأطفال الفلسطينيين و دعم كافة الجهود الحميدة لإنهاء معاناة الشعب الفلسطيني في غزة وكافة المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة
الجمعية الدولية للمترجمين واللغويين العرب

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

Palestinian Children Under Israeli Occupation
أطفال فلسطين تحت الاحتلال الاسرائيلي (http://www.pcdc.edu.ps/children_under_occupation.htm)

[محمد عبد الفتاح أحمد]

You, Americans, see how Palestinian children, men and women are abused, killed in cold blood with media coverage? I think there is something wrong with the way you see the world. Please think again and imagine your children and adults are in place of those oppressed victims. Is it civilization principles to uproot trees, demolish houses, scare boys and girls to death, and humiliate aged people? Think again, and you may get convinced that due rights must go back to their claimants.

[ناصر العبدلي]

American Admenstration who was ever wearing the mask of Humanity, freedom and Democarcy which have been droped since they widely opened thier arms to thier little child ' Israel' is now claiming for world peace. Isn't it absurd in terms of self-contradiction . So, how could we expect any positive action from them so long as our mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and dughters are being made housless , oppressed and slaughtered with no reason. Really it is shame on us if we keep our hands off, and our words beautifully formed in the absence of action

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

Palestinian Children Victims
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation
The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers.”
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American news reports repeatedly describe Israeli military attacks against the Palestinian population as “retaliation.” However, when one looks into the chronology of death in this conflict, the reality turns out to be quite different.


Source: B'Tselem, The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. (Visit their statistics page.) Their statistics cover through August 31, 2007.

These numbers include civilians and combattants killed by members of the opposing nationality (and therefore, do not include Palestinians killed by an explosive device that they set or was on their person, Israelis killed in 'friendly fire' incidents, etc.). The numbers also do not include the sizable number of Palestinians who died as a result of inability to reach medical care due to Israeli road closures, curfews, etc.

The figure for Palestinian deaths is extremely conservative, since it is difficult for B'Tselem to report on deaths in the Palestinian territories. The Palestine Red Crescent Society, internationally respected for its statistical rigor, reports significantly higher numbers of Palestinian deaths. We do not doubt the reliability of their data, and only use B'Tselem's more conservative numbers because they collect data on both populations.

In the past we used the statistics provided by Israel’s military for the number of Israelis killed, but they have not updated their statistics page since early in 2006. In addition, there is reason to believe that their numbers may have been somewhat inflated.

Breakdown of Deaths Israelis
Palestinians

Children Killed
(More on the impact on children.)
118
Remember These Children
952
Remember These Children

Civilians* Killed
704
B'Tselem
2,019 - 2,878
B'Tselem

People killed in the course of a targeted killing
1
367
B'Tselem

People who were the object of a targeted killing
1
218
B'Tselem

People killed on own land
558 (54.5%)
B'Tselem
4,211 (98.5%)
B'Tselem

People killed on others' land
466 (45.5%)
B'Tselem
63 (1.5%)
B'Tselem


* The Palestinian people do not have a military, so the usual classification of civilian is not being used. Instead B'Tselem provides data on the number of Palestinians who did not participate in hostilities, a significantly more stringent qualification that the one used to identify Israeli civilians. We do not know how many of the Israelis listed as civilians participated in the hostilities. Many settlers who illegally have taken over parts of the West Bank (and used to live in parts of the Gaza Strip) are heavily armed and there have been numerous reports of their brutal attacks on their Palestinian neighbors.

Gaza Casualties
June 28 - October 27, 2006
Total Fatalities
247

Civilian Deaths
155

Deaths of Children
57

Total Wounded
996

Wounded Children
337 (34%)


Source: Physicians for Human Rights, quoted by BBC

Causes of Deaths of Israeli Soldiers
2005
Committed Suicide
30

Illness
14

Accidents
26

Terror Incidents
6


Source: Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv, Oct. 10, 2005, p. 6.
Note: The paper also reported that since 1992, 459 Israeli soldiers have committed suicide.
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With no shooting from the Palestinian side, and often little or no use of tear gas to disperse the protests, Israeli soldiers have repeatedly fired live ammunition into unarmed crowds.”

- Shoot to Maim


Source: The Palestine Red Crescent Society, is our source for the Palestinian injuries. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on June 30, 2007.) Our source for the number of Israelis injured is Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on January 15, 2006.)

The exact number of Palestinians injured during the current uprising is very difficult to ascertain. This is caused in part by the chaos that ensued following the re-invasion of the West Bank during March and April 2002. The estimates range from about the number recorded above to 53,000 (Palestine Monitor). It is believed that up to about 10,000 Palestinian children have been injured during this time period.
We have been unable to find details about the breakdown of injury types suffered by Israelis, so the chart below only applies to the Palestinians injured.

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For further information and complete report ... Click Here (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/)

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

Killed Children
TOTALS SINCE SEPT 2000: Palestinians: 971
TOTALS SINCE SEPT 2000: Israelis: 119

TOTALS FOR 2007: Palestinians: 52
TOTALS FOR 2007: Israelis: 1

For More Details ….. Click Here (http://www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2007.html)

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

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[حسام الدين مصطفى]

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Palestinians inspect damage where four schoolboys were killed in the southern Gaza Strip
See the article ...... Here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,603634,00.html)

[حسام الدين مصطفى]

The child and her diary

June 17, 2002

Laila Yaghi

She wrote in her diary every night

When bullets passed by her window… she wrote

When Israeli soldiers killed her mother she wrote

She wrote of the horrors she sees

And the nightmares of flames and destruction

She the Palestinian child

Writes in her diary every night

To ease her enormous pain

To sedate her fears and nightmares



That little Palestinian child

Had died while writing in bed

From Israelis bulldozing her home

And now she lies in her tomb

Forgotten…as if she never existed

But her diary will carry on

The suffering of every Palestinian child

And now on her tomb Israeli children play

And sing with no worries of tomorrow

Where she once lived is confiscated

What are left from her family are refugees



And we continue to support Israel

With 10 million dollars a day!

And we continue to say

All humans are created equal



But continue to send to Israel

10 million dollars a day!

[محمد عبد الفتاح أحمد]

A Palestinian Boy's Tragedy
Behind the lofty gigantic Israeli Separation Wall, horrific scenes unfold every day. A completely demolished Palestinian house, located in a dreary district, created an air of gloom and destruction. In front of the debris, a bunch of girls and boys, tousled and shabbily dressed, were passing their small football to each other with perfect childish innocence. Their bare feet made countless stamps on the soft dusty ground, showing their tiny footprints. The ball kept bouncing here and there and rolling along the area they allocated for playing. There were olive- trees, not far-away, large, shady, and swayed by gusty winds. Suddenly, the winds abated and the trees stood still, motionless, with their drooping black olives out of reach. A strange feeling encroached on my limbs and heart; the smell of death wafted across the area. From a well-concealed position, a Jewish sniper shot a bullet that whistled loudly over the kids' heads. The children hid behind a mammoth piece of debris, cuddling up together in absolute horror, except for a disheveled boy in a threadbare white shirt and tattered trousers who stood alone at the playground, placing the ball on his right hip. He turned to his playmates, shouting at them to huddle together again. But they could not answer his calls; the answer, indeed, was another bullet that penetrated his head and laid him in a pool of blood. The gushing blood soaked the whites of his eyes even his face. His eyelashes stuck to their eyelids, and the dark pupils were sparkling. Blood emitted from his nose and mouth, running down to the white shirt, smearing it with purple spots. Having watched such an awful scene, the girls and boys scurried to their ramshackle houses, leaving the boy's sister with him. Her shrill screams and loud wails could shatter even the strewn stones and cause surrounding onlookers to cry their eyes out. The poor girl approached her dead brother, shook, hugged, and crazily called him, but how could a corpse reply? Warm blood went on oozing slowly from the boys' head. She sat beside him, and placed his blood-soaked head on her chest. Her skin got wet through her blood-stained dress. Her eyes shed ceaseless streams of hot tears, threading their way through the coagulated bloody face. All of a sudden, she relaxed the grip on her brother and breathed her last. Then a deadly silence hung over the area.