A calm message in a tumultuous time to President Biden

Do you know, Mr. President, how many and who were killed by Israel in Gaza? As a reminder... twenty thousand so far... and now time continues indefinitely.

Seven thousand children other than those who died as fetuses in their mothers’ wombs.

Young, old and old, male and female, writers, historians, poets, journalists, engineers, doctors, nurses, skilled workers, craftsmen in all fields, farmers, teachers, artists, builders, ambulance, freight and taxi drivers, and athletes excelling in all sports.

Such people, Mr. President, built civilizations when they had the means of life, and unfortunately, you, Mr. President, covered up their killing and provided the perpetrators with the latest means of lethality, produced by American factories. Perhaps you do not know that these are brothers of scientists who contributed to building the United States, and relatives. There are thousands of professors who teach your children in your schools and universities, and cousins of Palestinians who gave you their votes to reach the White House. Perhaps you will look with some degree of justice at their cause and their legitimate human aspiration for freedom and independence.

This is a classification of those killed by your smart, i.e., “stupid” planes and missiles.

Mr. President, you graciously call for the two-state solution, but what is actually happening is the killing of the citizens of the state that did not exist, and which, if the situation continues as it is, will be a state on paper, or a place for the largest percentage of orphans, widows, the disabled, and frightened children, whose memory will never depart. The sounds of explosions, the roar of planes, and the scenes of the mass burial of those who were prayed over, without those still under the rubble even receiving a prayer in absentia.

Mr. President Biden... You do not support Israel, nor do you provide it with the capabilities of so-called self-defense. You encourage it to move forward with the double killing of Palestinians and Israelis, in the narrowest arena in the entire universe, Gaza and the West Bank.

Mr. President, you used the “veto,” which seemed as if it had only been invented in order for the American administrations to exercise it to prevent any glimmer of justice toward the Palestinians.

This veto, Mr. President, is responsible for the continuation of death and destruction. It is responsible for the drowning of Israel, which it loves, in the burning sea of Gaza. It is responsible for the American bleeding that does not stop to provide the perpetuation of a war that has no hope of achieving its goals, even if those in charge of it imagine that.

This, Mr. President, is a message to you... to your administration... to the hand that raises the “veto” sign in the Security Council, and to the air bridge that departs from America and lands in Israel, carrying everything necessary to continue this madness.

This, Mr. President, is a message that expresses a people who, despite all the horrors that are taking place, still seek freedom and lasting and just peace, and which you know well and from whom you are very far away, a people that numbers more than fifteen million people, and is the only one among the peoples of the entire world that does not have a state. Although our poet Mahmoud Darwish said wisely: How small is the state, and how great is the idea! Regarding his people, he said: We love life as long as we can.

When you visited us in Palestine, you said that you have the right to a state, but unfortunately it will not be achieved, neither in the long nor longer term, nor for the civilians. Do you not notice, Mr. President, that a war of extermination is being waged to prevent its birth in the first place?