You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope is lost.
We are the prisoner who is stuck in a cell; without the help of others, we will never succeed in extricating ourselves from the bonds of our natural fear and the historical accounting. And there are no "others" except for America, for which no substitute has been found, even in its time of weakness.
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Eloquent, passionate plea to President-Elect Obama to take a new approach to peace between Israel and Palestine. All the more valuable and vital because the author is an Israeli Jew who opposes the actions of his own government "leaders".
The Israeli politicians – the singers of all the wars – will try to feed you “direct negotiations” and “without external pressure;” these refrains are groundless. Ask your advisers, Dennis Ross and Dan Kurtzer and Martin Indyk, and they will tell you.
… don’t get too upset by the Israeli lobby in Washington, whose voice is that of Benjamin Netanyahu and not necessarily the voice of Jacob, nor is it the representative voice of the large Jewish community in America. It is hard to be black, who knows as well as you; it is hard to be a Jew, we know; and it’s somewhat easier to be a professional Jew in the Diaspora of Washington, D.C., who is more of an Israeli patriot than many Israelis, and no less of one than Evangelist clerics, who are preparing from afar for Armageddon.
On the contrary, follow your own path and talk to them, talk to everyone, talk to anyone who is willing to talk. For eight years they didn’t talk, they only tried to educate the entire world using sanctions and the sword, and this is the result.
When presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke to AIPAC, America's leading pro-Israel lobby, he vowed to take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of Israel. I pray that his definition of "all steps necessary" includes demanding an end of the Israeli government's occupation of Palestinian Territories, for that is the only to end the violence, and it must happen now.