We must learn from our mistake when Oslo Accord was signed; we did not voice our objection to it. If you agree with the statement below, please add your name and forward to your lists.

We Reject The “Road Map”

It is time for the whole world to deal with real issues that caused the conflict in Palestine.

Time and again, the world only hears the views of the aggressor and confusing talk of security, peace in the Holy Land, illegal settlements, militants, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, a Palestinian state, and powerful terrorist groups threatening the security of a poor democratic nation.

These words and terms generate a cloud of dust, where it becomes a challenge to see the truth. The truth is obscured by Uncle Sam, who has attacked defenseless countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, and Somalia with almost no outcry from the rest of the world; who uses his political might to extort, manipulate, and blackmail the global bodies of the United Nations and World Trade Organization; whose economic might has forced most of the world into poverty; and whose huge propaganda machine, disguised as free and objective press, has paved the way for piracy and theft of the resources of entire countries.

I listen carefully, hoping to hear the story of six million Palestinian refugees; of the racism of a “state for Jews only”; of war criminals such as Sharon, Mufaz, and Perez; of occupation, road blocks, open policies of military assassination; of torture, illegal confiscation of land, uprooting of trees, demolishing of homes; of roads for Israelis only; of Christian fundamentalists calling on Israeli soldiers to obey God’s will by shooting-to- kill Palestinians; of Sabra and Shatila; and of 10,000 Arab prisoners of both sexes and all ages in Israeli prisons.

The “Road Map” is the creation of a Christian fundamentalist Caesar, a war criminal fundamentalist Zionist (Sharon), and a stooge appointed by the first two (Abu Mazen), coming together in an effort to make us give up our right to our lands from before 1948, and say that our resistance is instead terrorist crime.

Once this is accomplished, the “Road Map” gives a vague promise of a vague “viable Palestinian state” that does not have clear borders, place of birth (maybe Jordan as Sharon and the Christian Fundamentalists always suggested), rights to security (because security belongs to the Israeli occupation under this agreement), the right of return of Palestinian refugees, rights to Jerusalem, or water, or air. But most unclear about the “Road Map” is when the end of the occupation will be.

Like the “Road Map”, many past false agreements — Oslo, the Mitchell Report, the Tenet Agreement, the Camp David Agreement, Taba, Sharm El-Sheik — never mentioned occupation, racism, Apartheid for Palestinians, or oil.

So, when George Bush speaks of a Palestinian State, we remind him that Palestine is not his to give! Palestinians do not need to be given their own land. It is ours whether Mr. Bush approves or not. The only Road Map that we want to see is the one that the USA, Britain, and Israel will use to get out of Palestine, Iraq, and the whole region.

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Amer Jubran a founding member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine.