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From: Dr. Ayoub
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: Fwd: 19 US Representatives are Listening to You to be POSTED on
NOOIC www.nooic.org
To: Tahrir Kalasho <tkalasho@gmail.com>,
Anthony Keith <AKeith@libertyfta.com>
Dear brothers in Christ;
We all need to rest our assurance
on God's love in our hearts.. Not
on the fear in our minds..!!!
God gave us this message to share.., So please don't keep it to
yourself >>!!!
That's why we all should have a good reason for optimism, because we
all are looking for Christ's return.
Dr. David Ayoub /president of
ABC Domestic&International Trading, Inc.
October 27, 2011
Dear
President Obama:
Dear
Representative Levin:
Dear
Senator Levin:
Dear
Senator Stabenow:
Iraq’s indigenous Christian Assyrians, including
Chaldeans and Syriacs, have been plunged into a situation of violence in the
wake of the Iraq War that today threatens their very ability to survive in
Iraq. Over 600,000 Assyrians, more than half of their pre-war population of
1.2 million, have fled the country. Assyrians are targeted for their
Christian faith and their indigenous ethnicity. Islamist extremists
persecute Assyrians in the most violent ways, as witnessed by the All
Saints’ Day massacre of (58) Assyrians during Mass in October last year. The
Kurdistan Regional Government discriminates against Assyrians as an
indigenous people whose basic rights are a threat to the KRG’s aims of
territorial expansion.
The type of oppression Assyrians are enduring is
truly ‘ethno-religious’ and requires urgent United States intervention in
the form of a comprehensive policy to ensure their continued survival in
Iraq, particularly in the Nineveh Plains, the heart of their ancestral
homeland. The preservation of Assyrians in Iraq is critical to American
interests in seeing a thriving democracy in Iraq. As the fourth largest
demographic in Iraq, Assyrians can play an important moderating force in the
current political struggles between Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. However,
their disappearance from Iraq would suggest ongoing persecution of
minorities and motivate ongoing instability as these larger groups vie for
power.
While the State Department is attempting to manage a
complex diplomatic situation in Iraq, the reality is that the State
Department has failed to respond adequately to the crisis that is quickly
reaching the tipping point of full exodus. In fact, the State Department has
failed to implement the past wishes of Congress in regards to preserving
Iraq’s vulnerable ethno-religious minorities.
In response to this inaction, the Senate
Appropriations Committee’s Report on the State and Foreign Operations
Appropriation for 2012 responds to this urgent need for a policy, directing
the Department of State to submit a report “detailing U.S. efforts to help
these communities, including assistance consistent with Article 125 of the
Iraqi Constitution; assistance in building an indigenous community police
force in the Ninevah Plains; and
efforts to support NGOs in the region."
I ask you to support this policy language as part of
the final language for the 2012 State and Foreign Operations Appropriation
Act. Passage of this language is critical to establishing the survival of
Assyrians as an important component of American policy in Iraq. This
language would help promote economic development, security, and potentially,
explore and enable viable political representation through the
implementation of Article 125 of the Iraqi Constitution. Assyrians at home
and throughout the international Diaspora hope that Article 125 could be the
legal vehicle by which to create a province in the Nineveh Plains. Such a
province would allow Assyrians to share control of local resources in
proportions to their numbers with Arabs, Kurds, and other minorities. Given
the lack of security and opportunity in the country generally, this shared
local control in the land they have occupied since an ancient time is
essential to stabilizing the population in Iraq.
However, sufficient resources must be allocated to
demonstrate this policy is a high priority for United States. Not less than
$75 million of the $681 million already allocated to Iraq should be targeted
to support this report language. This budget neutral reallocation is
proportional to the need that simply has not been adequately addressed since
the beginning of the Iraq War. At least $75 million would be required to
have a meaningful impact on stabilizing the Assyrian community in Iraq. And
yet, at 11% of the total budget for Iraq and 25% of non-military development
spending, such a reallocation would still preserve significant resources for
other priorities. Moreover, reallocating such funds would send an important
signal to our partners in the Government of Iraq that the survival of
Assyrians in Iraq is of vital American interest.
Given the Department of State’s prior years of
neglect of vulnerable Iraqi ethno-religious minorities, please ensure this
proposed Senate policy is fully implemented.
Sincerely,
Dr. David, Y. Ayoub/President
of
Iraqis Media Cultural
Center/USA.
32525 Mound Road, Warren, MI
48092
(586)275-5303
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