MISTER OBAMA, YOU FORGET SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS…

COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 25 Jan 2009

Michel Collon

Dear Mister Obama,

You have declared about the Gaza conflict: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I would do everything to stop that, and would expect Israel to do the same thing".

Protect your children? I certainly can understand that. But if you want to be completely correct, should you not tell them the whole story of that house? That you stole it, and also the garden and all the lands around? That you forced the previous owner to go and live in the doghouse?

Because that is exactly what Israel did, stealing the land of the Palestinians, forcing them to live in Gaza or as refugees in tents. As attested by the studies of Israeli historians like Benny Morris.

So, dear Mister Obama, you could not pretend to live in peace in this stolen house, as if nothing happened before! Just one question then: will your "changes" consist in repeating the same old lies of your predecessors about that house?

Please, receive, dear Mister Obama, my best wishes. And tell your friends that, on this land of Palestine, there is place for everybody. Unless a difference of religion or skin color is a problem for somebody?

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