Date sent: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 21:57:20 +0900 Subject: War Crimes From: Philip White <philsiro@mx.suwanet.net> To: <info@gush-shalom.org> Dear Gush Shalom, I sent the letter below to the newspaper you referred to. Being a non-Israeli outside of Israel it won't be published of course, but it adds to their pile. If there is a specific threat to your organisation, please let me know, so that I can alert the foreign ministers in Australia and Japan. They too will ignore the issue, since I don't live in Australia and I'm not Japanese, but I'll do what I can. Yours sincerely, Philip White ------------ Dear Editor, Israel is committing war crimes in the Occupied Territories. Protecting those who commit war crimes is a crime. Exposing those who commit war crimes is a duty. In the context of the current actions of the Israeli government and military, warning people not to commit war crimes is absolutely necessary, for the sake of those who become the victims of those crimes, as well as for the sake of those who might otherwise be misled into committing such crimes. I therefore support Gush Shalom. I hope their war crime monitoring campaign acts as a deterrent to those who might otherwise commit such crimes and leads to the prosecution of those who do commit them, right up to the highest leadership in the Israeli government. Yours sincerely, Philip White Chino, Japan