I really don't want to vote for Mr. George Bush. I don't like anything he stands for domestically. People in my community (the Orthodox Jewish community -- very pro-Israel and anti-terrorist) seem to think his foreign policy is head and shoulders above yours, but I don't agree.
I don't want to vote for a man who is in Saudi Arabia's back pocket. In my opinion, Saudi Arabia is the greatest threat to our freedom, because of their financial support of terrorism and terrorists. I don't want to vote for a man who realizes that the US needs to fight terrorism, but backpedals when it comes to supporting Israel's life-and-death (on a daily basis) fight against terrorism.
I have seen precious little on your stand on these issues. I want to vote for you, I want to convince my friends and relatives (and others in my community) that you are the appropriate leader for this segment of our national history. But I have very little concrete evidence that you understand the true threat that terrorism (including Palestinian terrorism against Israel) poses to freedom and to our very lives.
As a Jew, I know how important it is to live in a world (and a country) where I have the freedom to live as a Jew, an Orthodox Jew, openly and proudly. I can't imagine living my life any other way. I understand why millions of Jews over the centuries preferred death to forced conversion or idolatry. There is no other way of life that is as meaningful, in my humble opinion.
But I know that if the terrorists get what they want, then that freedom will evaporate. I will be offered the choice of becoming a suppressed Muslim woman or dying. I worry about a world in which morality ceases to exist, in which freedom and liberty are foreign beliefs, in which life isn't valued, and in which Draconian punishments are as common as mosquitoes in a swamp.
And I worry how seriously you will deal with this. I worry, too, that you don't understand that most Palestinians are not interested in living in peace with Israelis, that "Palestine" is just a ruse to destroy Israel.
I, too, was a supporter of a Palestinian state until Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians what they said they wanted and they not only turned him down, but stormed out of talks and started an Intifada, during which hundreds of Israelis have been murdered or injured.
They showed their true colors then, and they show their true colors day in and day out when they argue that Palestinians are being "humiliated" by the same security measures that Israelis and tourists to Israel take for granted. My brother's reaction to his first visit to Israel over 20 years ago was that in the US, they search your bags on the way out (to make sure you're not stealing anything), but in Israel, they search your bags on the way in (to make sure you're not carrying a bomb).
Please stand up for the world by taking a strong stand against terrorism and all the regimes that support it.
I don't want to vote for a man who is in Saudi Arabia's back pocket. In my opinion, Saudi Arabia is the greatest threat to our freedom, because of their financial support of terrorism and terrorists. I don't want to vote for a man who realizes that the US needs to fight terrorism, but backpedals when it comes to supporting Israel's life-and-death (on a daily basis) fight against terrorism.
I have seen precious little on your stand on these issues. I want to vote for you, I want to convince my friends and relatives (and others in my community) that you are the appropriate leader for this segment of our national history. But I have very little concrete evidence that you understand the true threat that terrorism (including Palestinian terrorism against Israel) poses to freedom and to our very lives.
As a Jew, I know how important it is to live in a world (and a country) where I have the freedom to live as a Jew, an Orthodox Jew, openly and proudly. I can't imagine living my life any other way. I understand why millions of Jews over the centuries preferred death to forced conversion or idolatry. There is no other way of life that is as meaningful, in my humble opinion.
But I know that if the terrorists get what they want, then that freedom will evaporate. I will be offered the choice of becoming a suppressed Muslim woman or dying. I worry about a world in which morality ceases to exist, in which freedom and liberty are foreign beliefs, in which life isn't valued, and in which Draconian punishments are as common as mosquitoes in a swamp.
And I worry how seriously you will deal with this. I worry, too, that you don't understand that most Palestinians are not interested in living in peace with Israelis, that "Palestine" is just a ruse to destroy Israel.
I, too, was a supporter of a Palestinian state until Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians what they said they wanted and they not only turned him down, but stormed out of talks and started an Intifada, during which hundreds of Israelis have been murdered or injured.
They showed their true colors then, and they show their true colors day in and day out when they argue that Palestinians are being "humiliated" by the same security measures that Israelis and tourists to Israel take for granted. My brother's reaction to his first visit to Israel over 20 years ago was that in the US, they search your bags on the way out (to make sure you're not stealing anything), but in Israel, they search your bags on the way in (to make sure you're not carrying a bomb).
Please stand up for the world by taking a strong stand against terrorism and all the regimes that support it.