January 28, 2009

Dear President Obama,

In an e-mail I wrote to you yesterday, I expressed the need for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza in order to help Palestinians there recooperate from the recent Israeli seige on them. Today, I read about US money that is given to Afghans when civilians are killed in US attacks.

An Israeli attack on Palestinians is almost like a US attack on Palestinians. The US gives Israel military aid dollars to buy US weapons with, which are then used to kill Palestinians. The US lets Israel do whatever they want with little question or complaint, and even backs them up in the UN with their Security Coucil veto powers.

Considering the fact that we "compensate" the people of Afghanistan after killing their civilians and destroying their property, doesn't it make sense to do the same thing with the citizens of Gaza? If we had a huge anti-Afghanistan lobbying group in the US, would we not give them reperations?

I write to you today to ask you again to please support the letter sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for humanitarian aid be sent to Gaza.

Thank you again.

Sincerely,

Davina