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Open letter to Ismael Haniyeh

by Robert Thompson

Sunday 24 June 2007

Robert Thompson is a French citizen and a retired Avocat (Trial Lawyer) at the Boulogne-sur-Mer Bar, living with his wife in a small village in Northern France. He was born at Leek (North Staffordshire, England) in 1931, and, after reading Jurisprudence at Oxford University, he became an English Solicitor. He later went to work at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. There he was Director in charge of the Legal Department and also Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration, the most important international commercial arbitration centre on the world. While there, he became the I.C.C. Director in charge of relations with the Arab states, where he travelled for professional reasons, and he worked towards legal cooperation with the countries then within the Comecon. Robert can be reached via e-mail at: robert@axisoflogic.com

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Dear Prime Minister,

You and your colleagues have had to suffer greatly since you, together with your Muslim and Christian allies, won the elections last year, even though they were held under enemy occupation by invaders who have come from all around the world to steal your homes and lands.

It is sad that Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah ever fell into the trap of accepting the confidence trick known as the “Oslo Agreement”, and they have never recovered their freedom ever since that terrible failure to recognise how this craftily continued all the evil intentions of the invaders. The enemies who have occupied your lands still want no more nor less than to complete the ethnic cleansing of all the territories which they have conquered, whether in 1948 or in 1967.

I, like many others here in Europe, hope that one day (although we recognise that it will probably not be very soon) justice will return to the Holy Land as a first step towards a fair and durable peace, whereby all the people of Palestine and of the rest of the Near and Middle East will be able to return to their ancestral homes.

Your enemies are already saying that you will, if you manage durably to take control of the Gaza Strip, go against the teachings of the Qur’an by discriminating against those of the inhabitants who are non-Muslim. However, your personal history appears to make it more likely that you will follow the precedents set by Islamic traditions, and it seems only fair to give you the benefit of any doubt unless and until you should disappoint us.

Please do not forget the support which so many of us are willing to give you and your allies in your constant and unceasing struggle against the illegal occupation of Palestine, and continue to act with justice and humanity towards every single inhabitant of the territories which you can control.

In the meantime, please be reassured that you and all your people will remain in the thoughts and prayers of every decent person around the world, even as the forces of evil under the leadership of the Neocons / Zionists continue to do everything that they can to destroy you all.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Thompson

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