ANGY KHARMA,

GAZA

Open Letter

 To:Mr. Tony Blair

The Prime Minister of the Great Britain

I am Ala'a Al Taji, 19 years old, a student in the Middle East Council of Churches, studying in the Secretarial Center and learn all subjects relating to the Secretarial work in Gaza.  I am writing this letter from Gaza, the occupied, suppressed forgotten land which cries daily for help, but with no avail!!!

 Sir,

We live in an awful, terrible, terrifying life everyday.  It is a disastrous situation; we got fed up with this life…

We missed the meaning and vitality of life, as our areas may be considered dead fragmented land.  Israelis have never stopped shelling our cities, they're demolishing our houses, killing innocent children, innocent citizens, so, where is the World Community, I really astonish how a human being even in a military uniform dares or stands killing others or torturing them, we who sometimes called by Israelis and their supporters terrorists will never do as what Israelis have been doing against us, and yet we are misunderstood even by you Mr. Prime Minister!!

It is not fair the way we are living in.   You cannot feel what we are going through.  Because you have never felt scared while you was sleeping from being shelled or killed by Israeli Apache, under the claim of security.  You haven’t felt the pain, the agony and the suffering inside from being lost, homeless, and you know exactly who caused that for us!!

So where is justice?  Don't we have the right to live a peaceful normal life? Don't we deserve that?   Are not we human beings just like your people?    Where is democracy you claim? the civilization you represent?!

It is the peace, which we badly need.  In addition, what I am longing for by this letter is to have your attention, to consider this problem we are in, and which we face, and to be only fair, and nothing more... 

Help me dream like others at my age, let me dream in anything except of blood, shooting, arrest, torture, hatred scenes!!!

I really want just once to see a just fair British Attitude towards Palestinians to feel that British People Conscience started to move ahead towards truth and justice.

No need Mr. Blair to remind you of my story as a Palestinian, who your ancestors know well.