letter to the Editor

This doesn't have anything to do with my healing...but it has to do with something else that is close to my heart-the nation of Israel....I read a letter in the San Antonio Express-News "Your Turn saying that the US should cut off aid to Israel because they wanted to build houses on land that is theirs to begin with...so I sent the following in response (whether or not the SAEN will print it out is another matter altogether)....


Carl D. Scott in his letter (Your Turn-March 17, 2010-'Cut aid to Israel') called the Israeli announcement about settlements an "affront to the United States and Vice-President Biden." The affront is the arrogance of some to say to a foreign nation (last time I checked Israel was not one of the United States) what it can and cannot do with its own land. The nation of Israel is not a child to be spoken down to and told what it can and cannot do. The policies of the United States and the United Nations have done nothing but shackle Israel-How would Mr. Scott feel if the Israeli government told him that he could not dig in his garden unless he received approval from them? And if he did dig, that the government would cut off funding to his country because of it. I think that Mr. Scott would say that it was his garden and he would do with it what he pleases, no matter what others may say.

Well then the same logic should apply in reference to a sovereign nation that is struggling for its existence against enemies and trying to take care of the needs of its own people. If I remember correctly, the United States did not have governments or a world body telling it what it could do or not do with the land that we had. So why then are we doing to other nations that which we would not have done to ourselves. What is the motive of our government and the United Nations in telling Israel what to do? It is to promote true peace or to keep a nation weak and defenseless so that it can be picked upon and wiped off the face of the earth?

Sincerely,
Edward Lozano