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Open Letter to the American People on Syria

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday November 01, 2013 16:32author by Mairead Maguire - Peace Peopleauthor email info at peacepeople dot comauthor address The Peace People, 224 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 6GE, Northern Irelandauthor phone Phone: 0044 (0) 28 9066 346 Report this post to the editors

Nobel laureate pleads for Syria

"I write to you to ask your help for the people of Syria. All the people of Syria deserve your attention. Like you, they want the opportunity to live, love and labour in support of their children’s dreams"

Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate

My dear friends,

As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Americans: Martin Luther King and Dorothy Day.

American peace activists and civil rights workers were imprisoned, some killed. But a generation spoke and sang about love. Like Mahatma Gandhi in India, the Berrigan Brothers in the Peace Movement and the American Civil Rights Movement show us that the path to freedom and equality is a peaceful one. This journey of transformation in the pursuit of peace and justice is a constant challenge to the entrenched powers which thrive on hatred and war; acting as a constant challenge to blind prejudice and the lies that are necessary for war.

In making this journey of love we must always acknowledge that those we regard as enemies are fellow human beings and we are called to love them . If we don’t, when do the killing fields stop?

I first came to you from Northern Ireland to speak to you about what was happening in my country. I was met with great kindness in America. Now I write to you to about Syria.

We must not allow a war to go on for decades, as many did in regards to Ireland. We must have the foresight to stand up for peace, nonviolence and reconciliation now, before the suffering is entrenched and before prejudices and lies seep deeply into the consciousness of a new generation, acting as seeds for more yet more war.

I write to you to ask your help for the people of Syria. All the people of Syria deserve your attention. Like you, they want the opportunity to live, love and labour in support of their children’s dreams. With your efforts we can make it a bright future in a peaceful and prosperous country where love will conquer all.

The people of Syria are a diverse people, a courageous and generous people with a proud history of tolerance. Over many centuries, their country has welcomed millions of disparate people seeking refuge just as the United States has done.

I visited Syria in May 2013. Despite the on-going violence, I found it to be a land of hope. I met tribal and religious leaders, political dissidents and grieving parents and widows. In Syria, there are millions of ordinary folk risking their lives for a peaceful, reconciled and united Syria they can all love.

Mother Agnes Mariam, one of the leaders of the Mussalaha (reconciliation) Movement in Syria, is on a speaking tour of America this November. Mother Agnes Mariam has sat at a table with the prime minister of Syria has and has eaten olives with a rebel leader. And recently she risked her life to negotiate the safe passage of thousands of civilians and of many fighters from a conflict zone.

Your heroes, the heroes we all uphold, show us bridges of nonviolence and peace must be built between people. War stems from hatred and lies. Peace requires courage, wisdom, and love. And foresight.

Mother Agnes is bringing to America a universal message your country knows well. She presents it through the story of Syria. I encourage you to hear the story of Syria.

Peace,
Mairead Maguire
www.peacepeople.com
lst November,2013



Editor's note.

This is the same Mother Agnes who helped expose that it was the so-called rebels (or terrorists backed by various Gulf states and the US, Uk and France) who staged the chemical weapon attacks and faked their extent. See ‘Staged and scripted’: Mother Agnes finalizes chronology of Damascus chemical attack. She is currently doing a lecture tour in the US.

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author by Bribonadaspublication date Thu Nov 07, 2013 13:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I find it interesting that our Nobel “peace” prize winner is now offering support to the Assad regime through this pro-regime “pacifist” nun . Mairead's capitulation to imperialism was complete many years ago as I thought was made abundantly clear on indymedia http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102893 after she offered ” support” to Julian Assange.
The myth about the Assad regime being in some ways opposed to imperialism is exposed in the Socialist Democracy (see link below ) article “Yet while the situation may inexorably drive towards some kind of imperialist intervention, the outstanding fact to date has been the reluctance of imperialist states--and above all Israel--to lend any concrete support (or in Israel's case, even verbal support) to the opposition trying to overthrow Assad's tyrannical capitalist dictatorship.”

http://socialistdemocracy.org/RecentArticles/RecentWhat....html

author by Tpublication date Thu Nov 07, 2013 19:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I am not clear why Mairead's support for Julian Assange is used as part of your argument for Mairead's capitulation to imperialism

On the other point referred to the Socialist Democracy article -namely:
Yet while the situation may inexorably drive towards some kind of imperialist intervention, the outstanding fact to date has been the reluctance of imperialist states--and above all Israel--to lend any concrete support (or in Israel's case, even verbal support) to the opposition trying to overthrow Assad's tyrannical capitalist dictatorship.”

Socialist Democracy are fundamentally wrong in ascertaining that. It is quite clear and that there has been considerable help, aid, finance and training provided to the so-called rebels but in reality terrorists, given by UK, France and Turkey. And we can be sure that none of these would make such a move without the all-clear from Washington.

 
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