Annie Lennox Responds To Yoram Dori’s Open Letter
Annie Lennox responded to the open letter written to her in the Jerusalem Post by Yoram Dori, a senior adviser to Israel’s President Shimon Peres. The Eurythmics singer tells readers:
From my perspective, peace and security comes with dialogue, not bullets andbombs, and therefore I make no apology for being a leading member of the voiceof reason, in opposition to this senseless war. I have taken this position asa humanitarian and as a mother. I cannot stand seeing children killed. Icannot stand seeing families shattered. I want this to end, and only apermanent ceasefire will achieve this.
A peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians is possible, but it is beingmade impossible by this war. War is not the way to solve this conflict, andall it is doing is sewing the seeds of hatred and anger on both sides of thefence and fuelling further misery, which is likely to find expression inanother round of conflict.
I am not alone in my views, and my position is supported by a cross-spectrumof communities in Britain including my Jewish and Israeli friends. Mr Dori,for your information, I too have friends and family in Israel, and want to seethem safe and secure, in the same way that I want human rights protection for the citizens of Gaza.
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January 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
annie lennox cut the crap!. You cannot have dialogue when one party [Hamas] refuse to accept the others [Israels] very existance.!!
Israel made peace with Egypt, peace with Jordan, is talking to Syria [indirectly], talking to Fatah [directly]..as an Israeli, Hamas want me dead, plain and simple,DEAD! by your perverted logic I should talk to my potential executioner. For every tragic lost life in Gaza the blame goes to Hamas and your ilk who try to intellectualise and justify hate!! Where were you wonderful British when the RAF bombed Dresden, you did it because you ,yourselves were being bombed!!!Your hypocracy knows no bounds.