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Dear Ms Levine,

I was deeply disturbed to see your advertisement in Haaretz recently, advertising the sale of houses for English -speaking people in Maale- Adumin and other colonies.
'COLONIES' IS A CURIOUS CHOICE OF WORD INDEED. MAALEH ADUMIM IS A SUCCESSFUL QUALITY OF LIFE JEWISH COMMUNITY BUILT ALONG THE RIDGES OF CONTIGUOUS HILLS THAT WERE ABSOLUTELY UN- POPULATED BEFORE AND AFTER 1967. I TOURED THIS AREA IN 1971 AND SAW AS MUCH WITH MY OWN EYES. I DOUBT YOU WILL FIND ANYONE CREDIBLE WHO EVEN ATTEMPTS TO DISPUTE THIS FACT.
You must know that this land is Palestinian land and does not belong to you or the Israeli Government to build on.
ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DOCUMENTATION I HAVE STUDIED, ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THIS LAND IS EQUAL TO OR BETTER THAN THE COMPETING CLAIM OF ANY OTHER SOVEREIGN ENTITY.
This land you are building on/selling houses on, is very stricly within the Palestinian side of the Green Line determined as the boundary between Palestine and Israel in 1967.
PALESTINE IS NOT A STATE. SURELY YOU KNOW THIS, WHICH LEADS ME TO ASK WHY YOU WOULD INTENTIONALLY STATE OTHERWISE? BOUNDARIES ARE BETWEEN STATES AND THERE IS NO BOUNDARY IN THIS AREA. THERE ARE CEASEFIRE LINES AND AD HOC DEMARCATIONS OF THAT NATURE, ALL OF WHICH HAVE DEFINITIVE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DEFINITIONS, ALL OF WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO FINAL NEGOTIATIONS AND DECISIONS.
The International Court of Justice and the UN have both declared the building of Jewish Settlements on Palestinian land to be illegal.
THE HITLER-STALIN PACT, THE MUNICH AGREEMENT, EVEN TODAY'S TACIT GLOBAL PERMISSION TO THE INSANE IRANIAN REGIME TO ACQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPONRY ALL ENJOY(ED) INTERNATIONAL BLESSINGS. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED NATIONS IS A FONT OF MORAL STANDARDS, I IMAGINE THAT WOULD SAY IT ALL. ISRAEL LIVES IN A REAL WORLD WITH REAL SECURITY ISSUES, AND THE CREATION OF MAALEH ADUMIM IS ESSENTIAL TO SECURING AND PROTECTING THE CITIZENS OF THIS NATION. SOME INDIVIDUALS DON'T REALLY VIEW THE SAVING OF JEWISH LIVES AS A PARTICULARLY HIGH VALUE. SAD, ISN'T IT? MANY NON-JEWS VOWED AFTER THE HOLOCAUST THAT IN A WORLD IN WHICH SIX MILLION JEWS WERE SLAUGHTERED, NOT ONE MORE MUST BE ALLOWED TO BE MURDERED. A SMALL MINORITY REACTED: WHY DIDN'T HITLER FINISH THE JOB? WHICH SIDE DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH?
Before the State of Israel was declared in 1947, all this land belonged to the Palestinians, who were driven from their villages and over 400 villages ethnically cleansed and destroyed. The people who survived and rightfully own this land have lived wretched lives in the many refugee camps in and around Palestine.
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION THE ROLE AND CLAIMS OF JORDAN, THE COUNTRY THAT ACTUALLY CONTROLLED THIS AREA? I SUSPECT BECAUSE YOU ARE EITHER IGNORANT OF THE HISTORY AND ITS FAR- REACHING IMPLICATIONS OR CYNICALLY CHOOSE TO PICK AND CHOOSE YOUR 'INFORMATION' FOR DEMAGOGIC PURPOSES. YOU ALSO NOT UNSURPRISINGLY FAIL TO MENTION THE RIGHTS AND CLAIMS OF 600,000 JEWS WHO FLED ARAB COUNTRIES, ABANDONING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL PROPERTY. ISRAEL DID NOT SHUNT THEM INTO PATHETIC REFUGEE CAMPS TO BE PARADED ACROSS THE WORLD STAGE DECADES LATER AS POLITICAL PAWNS...WE LOVINGLY ABSORBED THEM INTO OUR FLEDGLING SOCIETY AT GREAT SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COST. OF ALL THE MANY SAD POPULATION EXCHANGES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN THE PAST CENTURY (I.E., INDIA AND PAKISTAN), HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF WHY IT HAS BEEN ONLY SOME OF THE PALESTINAIANS WHO FLED WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO RESETTLE IN NEW SOCIETIES...ONLY THEM! OR WHY THE HALF-MILLION PALESTINIANS WHO IGNORED THEIR LEADERS' EXHORTATIONS AND STAYED IN ISRAEL ARE TODAY ENJOYING THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING OF ARABS IN ANY MIDEAST COUNTRY, ENJOYING LONGER LIFE SPANS AND LOWER INFANT MORTALITY RATES AND PARTICIPATING IN THE ISRAELI DEMOCRACY (WITH ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES FREELY ELECTED IN THE PARLIAMENT).
Surely those people should be given their land back and have the right to return to their own villages and houses. It is shameful and sinful that you and your company are profitting from the illegal eviction and displacement of innocent people.
SINFUL? THAT RELATES TO A SPECIFIC KIND OF TRANSGRESSION. THE BIBLE RATHER CLEARLY--FOR ANYONE WILLING TO READ IT--COMMANDS THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO COME TO AND LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, PRECISELY MENTIONING THE AREA OF MAALEH ADUMIM AS PART OF THAT ETERNAL HERITAGE. TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN REBUILD THIS AREA FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S HABITATION WOULD BE THE SIN, UNLESS YOU REJECT THE VALIDITY OF THE BIBLE PRIMA FACIE.
THERE IS A SPECIFIC KIND OF MENTALITY WHICH SINGLES OUT ISRAEL AND JEWS FOR A SPECIAL KIND OF CRITICISM. IT IS CALLED ANTI-SEMITISM. IT DISTORTS HISTORICAL FACT, IGNORES TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES AND ULTIMATELY SEEKS TO DENY TO THE SMALL REMNANT OF JEWS WHO SURVIVED HITLER THE ABILITY TO FULFILL THEIR MISSION OF SURVIVAL IN THE ONLY LAND THEY CHOSE THROUGH OVERWHELMING HISTORICAL AND MORAL TRADITION TO LIVE IN, ISRAEL. I RESPECTFULLY CHALLENGE YOU TO SEARCH YOUR SOUL AND DETERMINE IF IT IS INFECTED BY THIS PATHOLOGY OF HATRED FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE. I CAN THINK OF NO OTHER REASON WHY YOU WOULD IGNORE THE FACT THAT 22 WEALTHY INDEPENDENT ARAB STATES EXIST FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING JORDAN WHICH WAS PART OF THIS TERRITORY AND TODAY HAS A MAJORITY PALESTINIAN POPULATION.