Letter to Minister Mícheál Martin

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 12:03 by Claudia

I sent this letter this morning to:

Minister Mícheál Martin
Department of Foreign Affairs
80 St Stephen's Green,
Dublin 2

Feel free to do the same.

Dear Minister Mícheál Martin,

I urge you to end diplomatic relations with Israel until they start respecting International law.

Gaza is a very small over-populated area, it has essentially been an open-air prison for the last year and a half. The world stood by and let that happen and now it seems we are going to stand by and let those imprisoned people be brutally murdered in their “cage”.

The Israeli PR machine is very much on top of things, I am sure that they spent as much time preparing their propaganda as they did preparing their military incursion. By playing the “self-defence” card they can buy themselves some time to ethnically-cleanse the Palestinian population. But as the Palestinian body count reaches higher figures their propaganda will be increasingly exposed.

Please consider doing something unprecedentedly courageous and sever diplomatic relations with Israel in the same way they are severing the limbs of thousands of people. I cannot bear to see any more children murdered in this brutal manner. Something must be done.

Thank you.