A letter from Norway
People all over the world are watching and reacting to Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians. This is a letter I received on 7th Oct 2025 from a lady in Norway who had purchased my books. I include it here with the author’s permission:
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Dear Jonathan
I received your books yesterday. Thank you! I’m looking forward to reading them. Today is 7th October, two years since the horror started, and it’s still not over…
I also started out writing a diary and some poems because it all was so hurtful to know what was coming after the attack but, after a while, I gave up following all of the details in all the bombing and killings. The evil in it all…
So it’s good to know that some people like you, have managed to express some of the stories of those beautiful Palestinian people who are just trying to get through it all.
Now I am mostly following the news and going to demonstrations and reading about Palestinian history – while keeping in touch with Palestinian friends and colleagues who have been in Gaza and other places in Lebanon and the West Bank.
But what to say and how to comfort people in Hell? It’s so hurtful. This madness is destroying us all, leaving us with few illusions of a better world, or of justice and fair play.
The Gazans have shown us how the weapons industry and tech companies have stolen our lives by bribing the politicians.
The war has revealed how nobody really cares about the Palestinians except for how they can steal their homes and oil and olive trees and land. Nobody has an « interest» in giving the Palestinians their freedom.
And right now it looks dire when the old dinosaur colonialists are still ruling the world and so frustrating that not even our politicians in Europe are willing to break the siege for humanitarian reasons.
Love the Flotilla people!!
We live in 2025 and still the apartheid state is allowed to exist and terrorise the people. It’s REALLY hard to digest!
I am not very hopeful for real change yet, but just as we were protesting about the Vietnam war, and the injustice of South Africa, we will have to fight for the self-determination of the Palestinians.
We must keep believing in the justice of the International Court, and that they will get these criminals – or at least some of them!!!
I hope the power of the people is stronger than the people in power!
Greetings from Helle
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Dear Jonathan
I received your books yesterday. Thank you! I’m looking forward to reading them. Today is 7th October, two years since the horror started, and it’s still not over…
I also started out writing a diary and some poems because it all was so hurtful to know what was coming after the attack but, after a while, I gave up following all of the details in all the bombing and killings. The evil in it all…
So it’s good to know that some people like you, have managed to express some of the stories of those beautiful Palestinian people who are just trying to get through it all.
Now I am mostly following the news and going to demonstrations and reading about Palestinian history – while keeping in touch with Palestinian friends and colleagues who have been in Gaza and other places in Lebanon and the West Bank.
But what to say and how to comfort people in Hell? It’s so hurtful. This madness is destroying us all, leaving us with few illusions of a better world, or of justice and fair play.
The Gazans have shown us how the weapons industry and tech companies have stolen our lives by bribing the politicians.
The war has revealed how nobody really cares about the Palestinians except for how they can steal their homes and oil and olive trees and land. Nobody has an « interest» in giving the Palestinians their freedom.
And right now it looks dire when the old dinosaur colonialists are still ruling the world and so frustrating that not even our politicians in Europe are willing to break the siege for humanitarian reasons.
Love the Flotilla people!!
We live in 2025 and still the apartheid state is allowed to exist and terrorise the people. It’s REALLY hard to digest!
I am not very hopeful for real change yet, but just as we were protesting about the Vietnam war, and the injustice of South Africa, we will have to fight for the self-determination of the Palestinians.
We must keep believing in the justice of the International Court, and that they will get these criminals – or at least some of them!!!
I hope the power of the people is stronger than the people in power!
Greetings from Helle