Ceasefire in Gaza is on – Now we need your charity

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Comment by Nelida Luna on January 18, 2009 at 4:15pm

This is no time to raise what he said "God, it's time to feel the son of God ... and acuddir andalusia llamdo, the suffering, innocent ....... how coonmigo David, as is for a donation ... God is in us, and us in our actions, we feel your presence .... namaste

Comment by Cida Medeiros on January 18, 2009 at 3:24pm

I agree that we need more information on how donations and money will reach children of Gaza. Thanks.

Comment by Debra Silver on January 18, 2009 at 2:17pm

...and by the way...I do help the children of Gaza through the Save a Child's Heart organization, in Israel that has operated on over 700 children from the Palestinian authority, including the Gaza strip, over the past 10 years, including Jafar, a one day old baby with a congenital heart defect...who celebrated his 1 month birthday in Wolfson hospital, Holon a few days ago....just a few kilometers beyond rocket range...

Comment by Red_Muze on January 18, 2009 at 2:09pm

Id love to donate, but i want detailed and transparent info on where the money goes, and how it reaches the children.

Comment by Debra Silver on January 18, 2009 at 2:02pm

I would have to agree with Pnina...if you are really speaking for peace...and really wishing for peace...than tell your leaders to stop bombing Israel...any siege would end at that moment...and what kind of a siege permits the numbers of trucks and the free electricity and fuel that has almost never stopped arriving in Gaza...though you might have to ask the Hamas leaders where it has disappeared to...
I received this today and feel it should be read by all in this 100 year war to throw the Jews into the sea...
Subject: The War with Israel Is Over....................and they won.

By Youssef M. Ibrahim.

Youssef M. Ibrahim, is a former New York Time Middle East
Correspondent and Wall Street Journal Energy Editor for 25 years, a
freelance writer based in New York City and Dubai in the United Arab
Emirates.

To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel Is Over - and they won. Now
let us finally move forward With Israel entering its fourth week of an
incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few
months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs is spreading through
commentary by Arab pundits, letters to the editor, and political talk
shows on Arabic-language TV networks. The new views are stunning both
in their maturity and in their realism. The best way I can think of
to convey them is in the form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs
from their Arab friends:

Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:

The war with Israel is over.

You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your
children.

We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we
stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are
moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause
and the "eternal struggle" with Israel.

Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations
trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you
could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had
in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle
for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more
misery and utter loneliness.

At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a
state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small
part of the West Bank of the Jordan. It is not going to get better.

Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts,
figures, and sound advice, friends.

You hold keys, which you drag out for television interviews, to houses
that do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention
of leaving in Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem.

You shoot old guns at modern Israeli tanks and American-made fighter
jets, doing virtually no harm to Israel while bringing the wrath of
its mighty army down upon you.

You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little
destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a war of
liberation. Your government, your social institutions, your schools,
and your economy are all in ruins.

Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of
death and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of
foreigners, including America and the United Nations.

Every day your officials must beg for your daily bread, dependent on
relief trucks that carry food and medicine into the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank, while your criminal Muslim fundamentalist Hamas government
continues to fan the flames of a war it can neither fight nor hope to
win.

In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out
landscape that is shrinking by the day.

What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More
important, what kind of miserable future does it portend for your
children, the fourth or fifth generation of the Arab world's
have-nots?

We, your Arab brothers, have moved on. Those of us who have oil money
are busy accumulating wealth and building housing, luxury
developments, state-of-the-art universities and schools, and new
highways and byways. Those of us who share borders with Israel, such
Egypt and Jordan, have signed a peace treaty with it and are not going
to war for you any time soon. Those of us, who are far away, in
places like North Africa and Iraq, frankly could not care less about
what happens to you.

Only Syria continues to feed your fantasies that someday it will join
you in liberating Palestine, even though a huge chunk of its
territory, the entire Golan Heights, was taken by Israel in 1967 and
annexed. The Syrians, my friends, will gladly fight down to the last
Palestinian Arab.

Before you got stuck with this Hamas crowd, another cheating,
conniving, leader of yours, Yasser Arafat, sold you a rotten bill of
goods - more pain, greater corruption, and millions stolen by his
relatives - while your children played in the sewers of Gaza.

The war is over.

Why not let a new future begin

Comment by rochelle on January 18, 2009 at 1:20pm

aside from money what items would make for the best aid package?

Comment by Admin on January 18, 2009 at 1:15pm

We are making progress

3250 $ have been given so far.

Thank you

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