09/06/2025
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Dear politicians,
As a citizen of Europe I am very concerned and rightly so.
It is thanks to us, the people, that you, the governments, exist.
I have been behaving exemplary (according to the system) all my life, I have studied well to become an osteopath for mankind. It is my job to ensure that people can recover from injuries and to bring the body and mind to a state of balance. It is my responsibility to continue to educate myself so that I can continue to help my patients as best as possible. It is my responsibility to grow as a person so that I can be the best version of myself when I support others.
In addition, I am also a mother. As a mother, it is my responsibility to take good care of my children. To teach them that they are loved even though they are imperfect, vulnerable, immature. It is my responsibility to strengthen my own maturity so that I can be a caring other for my children. It is my responsibility to get informed about my learned response mechanism and to bring it into balance so that my children do not have to be burdened with my unprocessed emotions.
I wonder what the responsibility of a politician is?
Isn't it to take care of the population? To show the citizens, who mostly work hard to pay those politicians, that the government is on their side? Or at least to be open to enter into a dialogue, with open and healthy communication? Isn't it the responsibility in that function to ensure with more force that with the money of the citizens things happen that are good for that same world for those citizens and not against?
Tonight, 12 international peace activists, non-violent activists have been intercepted and kidnapped in international and Palestinian waters, while they only wanted to show and act on the humanity that the politicians of our world do not bring forward.
Isn't this a world upside down?
I ask, as a citizen of this world, as a co-financier of the government, to take immediate action against Israel, for the safety and release of these activists and to prevent Israel from committing further crimes against humanity in Gaza, in Palestine and in the whole world. And to ensure a safe and sovereign solution for the Palestinian people, because they are also human, just like you and me.
It is our responsibility. And even more the responsibility of those with power.
With human regards,
Ann Vandenbogaerde, Belgian.
Freedom Flotilla Coalition
