Israel: letter by Yvonne Deutsch
addressed to the International Network of  Women in  Black.

Yvonne Deutsch is one of the founders of the Feminista Center of Jerusalem (and his first coordinator) and also one of the founders of Women in Black of Jerusalem. She appears in a   Zionist list between 'Jewish of self-hating and/or Israel  treating (click)'

The letter was sent to the International Network of  Women in  Black at July 30 2006 after the massacre of Qana, where a hundred of civilians took refuge, and that cost the life to 60 people, among them 37 children. (Notes of  Paz Ahora).

Spanish Version by Yolanda Roullier. (Women in Black, Spain).
 

Dear Women in Black,

Thank you for all the support and the solidarity actions. Today more than 50
civilians, refugees of the war in Lebanon, mainly women and children, were
killed by the Israeli army.

I cannot describe you the horrible feeling that the horrors of this war and
the ongoing occupation are  done in our names. We are in the streets
everyday. Our voices in the media are hardly heard. This weekend an indepth
inteview was conducted with the founders of "Four Mothers" who struggled in
the 1990's to bring back the soldiers from Lebanon.

Today they support the war. Our voices are marginalized though
here and there we appear in the paper or television. But very little.
Of course, the discourse is militarized . Pictures from Lebanon are not showed in
the way they are showed abroad.

So, with all the pain, the helplesness in effecting our perspecitves on
reality, the anger and sorrow and the fact that we are few and regarded as
traitors  - we have to  continue. The pressure for national solidarity
dismisses not only the cruelty of this war in Lebanon but also the effect of
the war on poor people in Israel, the fact that many don't have an income 
and the rise of violence against women in the north, in the areas that are
suffering from the war.

Thank you for your solidarity
love, justice and peace and a very BIG HUG
Yvonne Deutsch


July/30/2006