Obama, deliver me from the pain in my stomach.
Obama, say they'll change the world. Do me a favor, come and change my life personally. Come to Israel, delivered from control other people. Come and forcing us to do what is clear, and written, appropriate and necessary. Come and get us out of the occupied territories. Do not have to get up early in the morning. I hate getting up early to go to the checkpoints to see and to mourn. So do not need to see children of 19 years who have been persuaded to believe who are defending their country pointing their rifles at children of 5 years. Make it so that when my daughters spend half an hour in the shower, I do not have to think about families bringing water from distant sources donkeys, in bottles of Coca Cola. Make it so that when you're in line at the supermarket, do not have to think about the amount of people waiting in line at the controls, inside and outside the cities, going to school, when they visit their families for go to hospital or to work. Make it so that when my sister runs the hospital to give birth, and when I take my husband to the hospital, virtually cetelleando red lights, do not have to think about giving women light, heart patients and injured people being transported in an ambulance without a permit, a second ambulance with a permit. Make it so that when you see a soldier in uniform on the street do not ask me what he did last night. Which came home brandishing his weapon, what boy work over in the streets of Hawara, that evil smile. Make it so that in the morning does not hear the satisfaction in the voice of the announcer on the radio news, which reports that the army has killed six terrorists.
Six people without name, without mothers. Obama, this fall did not go to the olive harvest to help the Palestinians. Did not work out. So please do not have to suffer my conscience because I'm not doing enough. To be living my life, continuing my career, while for other people, just get home safe and sound, is a career in itself. Please save me from this pain I feel all the time, deep in the belly. Never stops, I can never really enjoy life, children, friends or work, because my mind is preoccupied with the image of the boy bound and blinded, and 3 year old girl hit her head rotating over the control, and barriers of dirt and concrete blocks that prevent many people's lives to be normal. Come on, Obama, come and save us from ourselves. And if that is what mean when they say they are no friend of Israel, then, do not be a friend. We have friends that we are equipped with weapons and justify all the horror it causes, and save us from international tribunals. Be truly a friend indeed. Save us from ourselves. And do not do it for the world, do it just for me, so you can have peace. You owe me. I do not believe in God, but still, I prayed for you. I wrote this letter the day you were elected, before Israel attacked the Gaza Strip. Before the Israeli media were entranced as they watched flames Gaza.
This letter was written by an Israeli woman, a member of Machsom Watch a voluntary Israeli women's movement, founded in 2001, dedicated to monitor and denounce human rights violations in the control of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Meets Israeli women united in their opposition to the occupation and its commitment to human rights.