David Califa's Blog – January 2009 Archive (7)

Indeed, a ceasefire in Gaza is now in place, but the long process of healing wounds and re-starting normal life just begins.



iPeace is focusing on rushing aid to the children of Gaza. For that we opened a cause in facebook and a special action group in iPeace.



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The deaths that opened the hearts of many Israelis.



So many deaths in this bloody war between Israel and Hamas have been in vain. If anything can be a consolation to Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish at this unimaginable hard time, is the fact that the death of his 3 daughters opened a channel between Palestinian hearts to the mainstream Israeli hearts.



It happened last night, and the events were broadcasted live in prime… Continue

We appeal to the government of Israel to open the border-points with Gaza in order to allow for evacuation of children from the battle zone to a safe location, until they can be returned to their families with the cessation of hostilities.



Whether we agree or disagree with the aims of the present war, the fate of hundreds of thousands of endangered children is of utmost… Continue

Let me tell you a story. I went to visit my parents in Beer Sheva today. It takes about an hour to drive there. I got there at 12:45 pm. Said hi, kissed my parents and went to look what's cooking in my mom's pots.

Suddenly a siren started wailing. This has only one meaning for it these days for a million people in Israel. A missile is doing its way from Gaza in your direction. And you have to act fast.



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There's a great deal of misunderstanding of the 100 years old Israeli Palestinian conflict. There's a great deal of disinformation about it in iPeace today. And there's a great deal of manipulation end exploitation of the situation, some of it very cynical.



Here's part of a message I and 45 others received yesterday:



"Israel is the attacker since centuries ago - Jews dont have a land and thats a fact. and they have made protocols and through them have prepared… Continue

iPeace prides itself on being a free space for sharing ideas, opinions and information.





But we have and uphold certain standards. We will not allow posting of explicit horror images of war. We don't need to see it to realize that war is horrific.



We understand also that emotions in these days are running high. But we will not tolerate personal attacks between members.



We ask you to help us in keeping the iPeace space civilized and report to… Continue