Open letter to Vice President Mike Pence

I worry. I want Israel - Palestine to survive. I am of Jewish descent. I, too, have a spiritual connection to the land. The region is my home, born on the outskirts of Israel – Palestine on a British Ship, Red Sea of Dutch parents. Inside my soul and within all of my being, I am attached to the splendor of its many colors, their tints and hues. I really do not know how to explain my love and deep devotion to the land, but I understand implicitly and intuitively why neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis will ever leave.

 

Wouldn’t it be an ironic twist if all the indigenous people in the Region were genetically connected to any of the twelve tribes of Israel, the Israelites, God’s only Chosen? And even if none of the Palestinians carry the DNA of the original Israelites, certainly God’s DNA prevails in us all because we are created in His image. And in God’s image, we are more invisible than visible. Shouldn’t we then seek to understand the other?

 

When will the people of the Region greet each other with “Welcome Home”? Sooner than later the people of Israel - Palestine will rejoice freedom of movement by Living Together, inside ONE Home Land within TWO borderless states, their ONLY option. Will the people of Israel - Palestine take up the challenge and converge toward a series of catalytic possibilities? The alternative: more cataclysmic calamities! 

 

The Region is meant to be shared because The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץהמובטחת‎‎, translit.: Ha'Aretz HaMuvtahat; Arabic: أرضالميعاد translit.: Ard Al-Mi'ad) is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), was promised and subsequently given by God to Abraham and [all] his descendants. Abraham’s legacy was that he lived a life filled with profound courage and moral imagination. He shared the Promised Land. And humbly, Abraham persisted on paying an honest price for his grave, which was much more than what the indigenous people wanted. They intended to present the land as a gift to one whom they revered.

 

What if the Israelis (an Israeli is not necessarily an Israelite … not all Jews are descendants from the Tribe of Judah … ‘Jews’ was also a term used to mean ‘non-Israelite resident’ in the Land of Judah) rediscover themselves and build the Zion of my parents’ dreams, a heaven on earth, a Zion belonging to all of Abraham’s descendants, all of God’s children, the God of all mankind? In the collective memory of NEVER AGAIN, the Israeli credo so genetically encoded in our history and hysteria, can be changed from “we will fight to the end, if we must…” to “do what’s right” (Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Yair Golan). The most preponderant lesson to be learned from the Biblical Abraham is that in his blind ambition to obey, God stopped Abraham to kill in His name. God did not create us to obey Him robotically. Remember Jacob, the swindler and con artist? He wanted to make good on false promises, misrepresentations, innuendo, and treachery. He wrestled with God and wouldn’t let go until God granted him mercy. And God changed his name to ‘Israel’ and blessed him.

 

I refuse to accredit the term ‘Zionist’ to the Neo-Zionists. The Sacred Texts define Zionists as ‘A people of God called to build a heaven on earth, to become a light among nations’. Of course there are Muslims, Christians and Jews who are true and practicing ‘Zionists’. What about the Jews who claim to be God’s Chosen, who have bastardised a most beautiful, God given word, to make them look good in the eyes of many, some who are still blind? Are these Neo-Zionists people of God? Are they creating a heaven on earth? Are they a light among nations? Are they not vaingloriously validating their malevolence by the Book, the Books of Joshua and Samuel? Is it God who has commanded them to drive the Palestinians away or are they driven by gluttony, power and a lust for more?

 

Though Jews, many Neo-Zionists are not Jewish. They are atheists. Their godless faith is in canons of deception, destruction and decadence. They sing the praises of greed and self-indulgence. Neo-Zionism (hell on earth) is not the same as Zionism (heaven on earth). Neo-Zionists perpetrate an ideology of ethnic cleansing and external expansion; by abandoning democratic norms in pursuit of redemptive violence against anyone who stands in their way without ethical or legal restraints; under pretence of defence, fortified with deadly warfare.

 

And what about the claim of Israeli ‘self-defence’, deploying lethal fire power against a defenceless people, behind iron walls limited to fireworks, bubble gum and spit but ablaze with grit? From 2001 to 2014, the Palestinian resistance has launched 4,890 mostly homemade rockets and hurled 15,047 mortar attacks, into Southern Israel. They have terrorized the Israelis with fear. But few Israelis were killed and injured. Within a span of thirteen (13) years, Israel suffered a grand total of 28 deaths and 1,971 injured, albeit 28 deaths too many; 1,971 injured, too many. Palestinian projectiles follow indiscriminate trajectories, flight paths invariably going to ‘nowhere’ on the vast open Negev Desert, exploding on land or, when intercepted, in thin air. Gaza is located next to the sparsely populated Negev.

 

Neo-Zionism defiles the good in our Abrahamic Faiths and defies the prime directive in the Sacred Texts: Revere the Stranger. Neo-Zionists are obsessed with creating an exclusionary community (kampf), a lebensraum for a ‘Chosen Few’, by deploying brute force without considering the consequences of the other; by unconscionably dispossessing them from their properties, displacing them from the land and imprisoning them in servitude behind iron walls with no hope to ever return; with neither compromise, concession or conciliation; them or us; the end justifies the means! It’s either ‘my way or the highway’. This perversion and aberration, this depraved, distorted and deviant ideology – this false religion – can never have a happy ending. Ask Nazi Germany!

 

Israelis and Palestinians must reclaim their guiding principles and fundamental beliefs derived from the Sacred Texts: “love your neighbour,” “love the stranger,” or “justice, justice shalt thou pursue”. Israel - Palestine is the Holy Land. Any peace accord, minus full reconciliation, will inevitably collapse. The wounds will only be temporarily soothed, letting the disease to stealthily spread and eventually erupt and explode again.

 

And a road toward ‘reconciliation’ is the focus of my letter to President Trump. Let’s be agents and instruments of reconciliation. Aren’t the Gospels all about reconciliation? And isn’t the Good News the story about a refugee born in a manger during times of genocide, called to save (release from the bondage of evil) mankind. Why did seventy countries convene in Paris on 15 January 2017? Why does the Israeli-Palestinian Feud, the defining feud of our times, enrapture the world? Could it be that our hearts belong to Zion, that we all carry the DNA of the original Israelites inside our souls? We know how many seeds are inside an apple. Only God knows how many apples are in one seed.

 

With every good wish to you, Mr Pence, I am,

 

Respectfully yours,

BUILDING THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION, THE NETHERLANDS

 

 

Abraham A. van Kempen

Editor

 

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Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations

 

Jordan

 

His Majesty King ABDALLAH II

King of Jordan

 

Dr. Hani Al-Mulki

Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

 

Mr. Nasser JUDEH, Minister

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. Ms. Dina Kawar

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Ahmad Mufteh

Ambassador of Jordan to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Dr. Sima Sami Bahous

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations

 

Kuwait

 

His Highness Amir SABAH al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah

Emir of Kuwait

 

Sheikh JABIR AL-MUBARAK al-Hamad al-Sabah

Prime Minister of Kuwait

 

H.E. SABAH AL-KHALID al-Hamad al-Sabah

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. SALIM al-Abdallah al-Jabir al-Sabah

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Mr Hafeez Mohammed Salem Alajmi

Ambassador of Kuwait to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Mr. Mansur Ayad al-UTAYBI

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations

 

Lebanon

 

Mr. Michel Aoun

President of the Republic of Lebanon

 

Gibran BASSIL

Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Antoine CHEDID

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o Ms. Abir Ali 
Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Embassy of Lebanon to the Netherlands

 

H.E. Mr. Nawaf SALAM

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations

 

Oman

 

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said

Sultan of Oman

 

c/o H.E. Mrs. Hunaina bint Sultan bin Ahmad al-MUGHAIRI

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Muhammed Harub Al Said

Ambassador of Oman to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Mrs. Lyutha bint Sultan bin Ahmad al-MUGHAIRI

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations

 

Qatar

 

His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

 

H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Naser Bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Prime Minister of Qatar

 

Dr. KHALID bin Muhammad al-Atiyah

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. Muhammad bin Jaham Abd al-Aziz al-KUWARI

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Khalid Fahad AL-Khater

Ambassador of Qatar to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Sheikha Alya Ahmed Saif AL THANI

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations

 

Saudi Arabia

 

His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

King of Saudi Arabia

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Adil al-Ahmad al-JUBAYR

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ambassador in the US

 

c/o H.E. Mr.Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Abohaimed

Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in the Hague

 

H.E. Abdallah bin Yahya al-MUALLAMI

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations

 

Syria

 

Mr. Bashar al-ASAD

President of the Syrian Arab Republic

 

Mr. Imad Mohammad Deeb Khamis

Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic

 

Mr. Walid al-MUALEM, Minister

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

Bashar al-JAFARI

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations

 

Turkey

 

Mr. Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN

President of Turkey

 

Mr. Binali Yıldırım

Prime Minister of Turkey

 

Mr. Mevlut CAVUSOGLU

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Serdar KILIC

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Sadik Arslan

Ambassador of Turkey to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Mr. Yasar Halit CEVIK

Permanent Representative

United Nations New York

 

United Arab Emirates

 

His Highness KHALIFA bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan

President of the United Arab Emirates

 

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Vice President and Prime Minister

 

His Highness ABDALLAH bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

c/o H.E. Yusif bin Mani bin Said al-UTAYBA

Ambassador to the United States

 

c/o H.E. Mr. Saeed Ali Yousef Alnowais

Ambassador of United Arab Emirates to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

H.E. Mrs. Lana Zaki NUSAYBA

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nation