His Majesty Edmund K. Silva, Jr. Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai i

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1 March 20, 2015 His Majesty Edmund K. Silva, Jr. To: President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister s Office 3 Kaplan Street Hakirya Jerusalem Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution By through leader.ir President Hassan Fereydoon Rouhani By through leader.ir c.c. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations 760 United Nations Plaza New York, New York Eric H. Holder, Jr. United States Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC Subject: I ka ōlelo no ke ola, i ka ōlelo nō ka make. In the language is life. In the language is death. (Words can heal; words can destroy) The United Nations Charter provides the rest of the authority to do it. (An autonomous independent sovereign nation-state contemplated under Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States requiring the state as a person of international law possessing the four qualifications of (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other )

2 Aloha Kakou, Honorable Leaders: I must remind you Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence and persuade others to do things is indispensable. Especially when being good stewards of your nations, this planet and the saving of mankind is at stake. Robert F. Kennedy wrote: A revolution is coming a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. I assure you that peace consisting of unconditional love and respect which transcends a higher calling of tolerance for our neighbors, our nations and self, will come if we stop the stupidity and noise of war. A revolution is already here. This Kingdom and the many good people around the world will no longer stand-by and allow you and terrorist groups to negotiate us all into the abyss of chaos, pain and suffering. The path you re leading all nations into is War. War, children, it s just a shot away. Gimme Shelter (M. Jagger/K. Richards) With the fate of Human civilization hanging in the balance, the forces favoring destruction are empowering each other. As a result, we are very close to full-scale catastrophic war. John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States government, invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. The invitation took place without any consultation between the Speaker and the President. One purpose of the invitation was to give a platform to a foreign politician opposed to the negotiations being pursued by the President of the United States with the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The absence of any consultation with the President and the goal of disrupting, or sabotaging all together, the negotiations being pursued by the President demonstrated a lack of respect for the proper role of the President and the Congress. It is the role of the President to negotiate executive agreements with other nations. In some instances, the Congress acts to approve or modify the agreement. In other instances, the President acts alone. The Constitution never envisioned that Congress would act alone to set foreign policy. If the Republican Senators wish to supplant the President in international negotiations, one can only wonder who would speak for the United States in such negotiations. Another purpose of the Speaker s invitation was to help Prime Minister Netanyahu in the last weeks of a very close election in Israel.

3 While the polls prior to the election indicated that the Prime Minister s chief opponent would win more seats in the Knesset, the Prime Minister won the most seats by far. The United States Speaker of the House showcasing the foreign politician right before the election helped to produce an outcome in which the Prime Minister could declare victory and, it appears, be in a position to create a majority coalition. Why would it be so important to the Speaker of the House to help re-elect the Prime Minister of Israel? The Prime Minister has shown himself to be a strong advocate against any peaceful settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue. In his commitment to preventing a negotiated settlement, the Prime Minister is willing to have the negotiations collapse. That failure would then lay the groundwork for an Israeli military attack on Iran s nuclear facilities. Just prior to the election, the Prime Minister announced that he would never support a Palestinian state as a resolution of the conflict in the Middle East. The Prime Minister reversed his own position on this issue in order to present the voters with an even more bellicose choice. The two-state solution is widely recognized as a necessity, if there is ever to be real peace in the Middle East. Making a pledge to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state is throwing gasoline on the Middle East fire. While the Prime Minister is now backing away from what he said and suggesting that a Palestinian state could come some time in the future, that change in position is widely regarded as without substance. The true goal of the invitation by Speaker of the House Boehner emerges as empowering a foreign politician, who would be the most willing and most likely among the leading candidates to unleash the dogs of war. Then forty-seven Senators in the United States Senate sent a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei essentially urging him to reject any negotiated agreement with the United States regarding Iran s nuclear program. The letter is a condescending message supposedly intended to educate the Iranian leadership about the United States Constitution. The irony is that the Senators ignored both the United States Constitution and laws by sending the letter. Where the Speaker of the House violated long-standing protocols governing the relationship between the President and Congress, the forty-seven Senators went much further.

4 These senators clearly violated the Logan Act, which states: "Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both." These Senators were willing to ignore the appropriate constitutional role of the Congress and break the law to sabotage negotiations that might bring a peaceful resolution to the controversy regarding the Iranian nuclear program. The Senators sought to have those in Iran opposed to any agreement harden their position and cause the negotiations to fail. The Senators are quite clear that they consider the Ayatollah to be an enemy of the United States and a hard liner in the political spectrum in Iran. By strengthening the position of the Ayatollah, therefore, the letter would constitute giving aid and comfort to the enemy the classic definition of treason. What could lead these elected representatives of the United States to so openly violate the constitution and laws that they took an oath to uphold? While the Speaker empowered the Prime Minister on one side, the forty-seven Senators empowered the most hard line leaders on the other side. The result is to significantly increase the possibility of war. As noted above, the Prime Minister is all too willing to provoke a war. He explained his position opposing the two-state solution by stating that Hamas could take over the Palestinian state and threaten Israel. Hamas is considered a hard line organization that often takes provocative positions and actions against Israel, including their call for destruction of the State of Israel. By crediting them with being the basis for eliminating the two-state solution, the Prime Minister empowers Hamas and strengthens their role within the Palestinian community. The Prime Minister handed Hamas the argument that there will never be a Palestinian state unless Israel is defeated. An empowered Hamas is more likely to pursue the aggressive policies that threaten to bring war to the Middle East, a war that could drag the other nations of the world into a conflagration.

5 As the election approached, the Prime Minister even felt free to divide Israel internally by encouraging his voters to come out in response to what he termed Arab voters coming out in droves. Internal division between Arab Israelis and other Israelis will only further destabilize the situation. So what we see is all those that want war empowering each other and moving us closer and closer to the point of no return. Those in leadership escalate their rhetoric and close the doors to peace to prepare their populations for still more war. What is war anyway? While we claim to have moved beyond Human sacrifice, we continue the practice of war. War is simply Human sacrifice on a larger scale. Human sacrifice is a form of death worship. The high priests of our past, who cut out the hearts of their sacrificial victims to draw power from the still beating heart, reappear in our time as politicians and arms merchants who convert Human sacrifices into votes or profits. The sacrifice is falsely portrayed as serving some higher good, righting some historical injury, or pursuing some manifest destiny. The Human sacrifice is really made to gain some objective, such as economic advantage, control over populations, seizing land, or stealing natural resources from others. Economic conditions are manipulated to provide few opportunities for young people from impoverished families, so they volunteer to be sacrificed. When they are killed or return maimed they are celebrated as heroes. Every politician kisses the ring of glorifying the practice of Human sacrifice. We just don t call it what it really is. The soldiers see the truth. Their high suicide rates document the nature of their experience. The question is whether those who favor peace can turn the tide in the other direction. We are a small nation with little international influence because we exist as an occupied territory. Nevertheless, we are offering peace-making services to all the nations of the world. We would welcome particularly those who now see war as inevitable allowing us to apply our peace making skills to the current situation in hopes of finding a path that brings happiness, peace, and prosperity to all those who are so tired of permanent war. Our proposal, as set forth in my first letter, is that the nations of the world create a Council of the Wise to address the question of peace in the Middle East. That Council would be composed of people who have demonstrated their commitment to peace.

6 Perhaps the King of Bhutan, who measures the success of his governance by the level of happiness found in his people, is an example. People inside and outside government would be eligible, except for those who are parties to the current dispute. By parties, I refer to those nations who created the situation in the first place and those who now have to deal with what was created by others. We would provide specialists in ho oponopono (conflict resolution) to assist in clarifying the positions of the parties to the dispute and in constructing a resolution. The Council would invite input from all nations and design a peace settlement. That settlement would be brought out to the Human Family for comment. After the comment period, the Council would prepare a final proposed resolution of the conflict. That resolution would be brought to all the nations of the world. The goal would be a solution that is perceived as fair and just by enough nations throughout the world to persuade all parties to accept the resolution. We submit this proposal for consideration by the rest of the Human Family and invite anyone with a better proposal for achieving peace to step forward and offer his or her mana o (heartfelt thoughts). We also would encourage everyone to observe whether those refusing to pursue this proposal offer their own pathway to a meaningful peace. Me ke aloha pumehana, Edmund K. Silva, Jr. His Royal Majesty cc: Na Kupuna Council O Hawai i Nei Ali i Mana o Nui Lanny Sinkin Chief Justice Jennifer Pawlowski HM Attorney General Judge Navin-Chandra Naidu