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January
7, 2003
A Missive to America from Jenin
By ANNIE HIGGINS
Dear Fellow Citizens,
Imagine your city without a police force.
Imagine that the police stations are
rubble, having been bombed out months ago.
Imagine that every city in our nation
is in this situation.
Would you feel secure? Would you be able
to band together as a society to keep yourselves safe from within
and from without?
Imagine your roads are never repaired,
ever.
Imagine that when a few civic-minded
broad-shouldered citizens take up shovels to fix the road, they
are arrested and tortured and imprisoned without charge.
Imagine that when someone in your city
commits a crime in this police-less place, everyone in your city,
and that means you, is put under house arrest.
Imagine further that this extends to
terrorizing people without any pretext for doing so, with a terror
action that is fatal to one of your neighbors - a doctor in an
ambulance, a teacher returning home from school, a child writing
on the blackboard.*
Think for a moment of a crime you have
heard of in your city.
Is there a particular doctor you would
like to have killed in retaliation? A teacher you would like
to have eliminated? A child you would like to have snuffed out?
Yes? Then come and support the Occupation
of Palestinian lands.
No? Then why are you supporting such
a blood-drenched system of societal torture?
We have the privilege of taxation WITH
representation.
Every word that you fail to utter about
the evil of the Israeli Occupation supports this daily, annual,
decade-crossing monstrosity of Occupation which is swallowing
up the structure of civilized networks, and writhing from the
pangs of digesting its own poison.
Imagine representing your disagreement
with this use of your tax dollars.
Start with the White House Comment Line:
202-456-1111 [9 to 5 EST].
Sincerely,
Annie Higgins, US Citizen
*Cf. Dr. Khalil Sulayman of Jenin, Jenin
teacher Bassam Musa'id , Jenin schoolgirl Riham Ward.
Annie C. Higgins
specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies, and is currently doing
research in Jenin, Occupied Palestine. She can be reached at:
higgins@counterpunch.org
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