Hell Made in Israel (19/6/02)

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam

Daily I receive alot of support letters, that will be part of my diary in abook, in the next closed future, at the end of this year.

Today, Mr. Haim Guivon from Haifa, send me a letter that helped me to stopcrying for a while after I heard the explosion news in Jerusalem.

All of killing news, made me cry, whether of killing Palestinians orIsraelis, I believe, killing is killing, and both of us Palestinians andIsraelis, paied the price of the presence of the Jewish settlents and theoccupation in the West Bank.

I’m sorry for killing all the inoccent civilians, I’m sorry for allowingracist people to lead our societies. I’m sorry for all the Israelis theysend me sorrow letters, and the last one was from Mr. Haim Guvion, and thisis part of his letter;

Subject: Love

Kawther,

I am so sorry, Ms. Kawther. I’ve seen your page as a link of Gush Shalom’s,of which I am a member.Sorry, sorry, sorry. Ashamed, ashamed, ashamed.

I love you and your people, and I will go on till my last day, I am 72 yearsold, doing the very little that I can for justice, respect of human dignity,and combating the intolerable racism, the religious fundamentalism of mypeople and the ruthless exploitation and humiliation of yours.

I write this several hours after the bus explosion in jerusalem. Nothing canchange my feeling of shame andrage for what we are doing to you,people.I am sorry I don’t speakArabic (another shame of mine), although I’velearned spoken Arabic for one year. not enough, unfortunately. Our teacherwas a wonderful man from sakhnin, but he had to discontinue the lessons forpersonalreasons…

Feel free to ask me for anything you consider to be in the frame of mypossibilities.

LOve,

Haim