Publisher’s note: This open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was sent to me in an email and I’ve taken no literary license or abridged a word…because there is no need. The author, Paula R. Stern, states very clearly what every U.S. Citizen with half a brain knows and understands only too well about the current state of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; at least where it regards the middle east and our friend Israel. Without mincing words, she schools him on exactly what has, is, and will continue to happen with the policy of appeasement we so casually use.
We are in grave danger on many fronts, however this administration’s treatment of our allies, and especially Israel, coupled with its appeasement of our enemies amounts to nothing less than a treasonous assault on our own national security.
I join Mrs. Stern in her no holds barred sentiments to Mr. Kerry and his State Department, and the entire administration. Well worth the read and share to friends.
Paula R. Stern:
Dear Secretary of State John Kerry,
Because of my respect for the United States, I will attempt to afford you the honor you think you so richly deserve. It’s hard to speak to you with anything but anger, hard to feel the need, again, to start from the beginning because you clearly choose to ignore history in your quest for glory. It is a quest destined to fail but its outcome, even, or more accurately especially, in failure, will hurt Israel.
Greater men than you have tried to make, to force, peace on the Middle East. I promise you, you will fail too. You will fail because you are not addressing the root cause of the problem. You, like so many before you, take the easy way out. Blame Israel. It is so easy to do, and so stupid.
I could speak to you of history – a history longer and greater than you can imagine. I could speak to you of injustices – yes, our land is filled with the graves of those murdered for the unjust reason that they lived here, or traveled abroad, or ate in the wrong restaurant, or took the wrong bus.
I could speak to you of justice – of a population exchange similar to those that have taken place throughout history as nations settle between war and peace. They left their lands to go there, most voluntarily so that their invading brothers would have a clear path as they pushed the Jews into the sea. And our people, who left their homes and possessions in Arab lands, most forced, not voluntarily, and came here.
We fed our brothers, clothed them, and gave them homes. And most importantly, we loved them and gave them the most precious of gifts – a future, a present, as integral parts of the land and people of this country. My neighbor, the family across the street – they live in the same houses that I do, drive the same cars, attend the same schools. He is an engineer; he is a judge in the courts. She is a nurse; she is a lawyer. All my neighbors, though their grandparents came here with nothing.
And at the same time, across many borders, the Arabs put their “brothers” in refugee camps, all but starved them. They raised them to be embittered – not at those who kept them in squalor, but those they had hoped to defeat. They blame us and you are naive enough to blame us as well?