Part of a Letter to President Barack Obama sent via White House Website 7/22/14
Dear President Obama,
I am writing to you not as a professional but as a fellow-father, to share with you with my deep concern over what I perceive to be a lack of rhetorical and material support for Palestinian civilians– families like yours and mine– who have no options in this ground invasion.
I can only imagine how difficult your work must be. I urge you to consider people you met while President, people like our readers, who like other millions across the U.S., understand the inherent immorality of a lopsided fight, who increasingly see themselves in the position of fighting much stronger forces.
Finally, I write to you as a father who understands first hand what it is to lose a son in violent and tragic circumstances; it is a loss that creates a hunger to see that others never lose like this.
Please do everything you can to end this conflict. It is an incredible burden you bear and I am grateful to you for everything positive that you are doing.
Thank you,
Christopher M. Theodore
Founder and Publisher
The Reader Magazine
www.readernation.org