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Dear Mr. Obama:

I am deeply chagrined at the pot calling the kettle black in House Resolution 867, co-sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee senior members Reps. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), that was adopted by a vote of 344 to 36.

To contend that the Goldstone Report is irredeemably biased is an untenable position for America to take. History will doubtless prove the House wrong to support the inhumane and unbalanced "self-defense" practiced by the Jewish State of Israel against Gazans, Iranians, and Muslims in general.

I suppose that you have not yet strengthened your spine into the stainless steel one required to oppose the apparently all-powerful Zionist faction in Washington. But I do hope that, at least, your heart goes out to the victims in the conflict, disproportionately Arabs.

Such half-measures as today's Clinton report that "Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever." Still, Ms. Clinton said an Israeli offer to restrain -- but not halt -- construction represents "positive movement forward" toward resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

This is the spirit of weak-spined compromise plundering legitimate goals of the anti-war movement.

To dismiss all Gazans, Iranians, and Arabs to belonging to "violent militant groups" is wholly unreasonable. It is not anti-Israel bias; it is pro-Israel bias we must begin fighting.