Hi Helen!
You insist to discuss the Mennonite matter. If you really want and agree then what better than a special thread. Start a forum and I promise to be there to give you my opinion. For now I will give you some information on Canadians for Palestine.
Canadiands for Palestine
Children of NABKA
For Palestinians, the events between 1947 and 1949 are remembered as a
time when Israeli military forces destroyed over 500 Palestinian
villages and expelled between 700,000 and 900,000 Palestinians from
their lands -- about 85 percent of the Palestinian population at that
time. These refugees have lived exiled from their land since then.
Today Palestinians represent one-third of the global refugee and
internally displaced population. Learn about the Palestinians, who call
these events the Nakba, an Arabic word meaning catastrophe.
Learn More -buy the book From MCC store or borrow the slide show "Dividing Wall" and "Walking the Path Jesus Walked,"
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Palestinian group gets MCC aid following Israeli attacks
Gaza, Palestine
Mennonite
Central Committee (MCC) is providing $29,600 to a Palestinian women’s
organization to help families and children cope with the trauma of
Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Recent Israeli attacks on
Palestinian targets, including public utilities, have cut electricity
and water supplies in much of the region. Local residents are
traumatized by gunfire, bombing and the sonic booms of fighter jets.
Culture and Free Thought Association, a women’s organization in Gaza’s
Khan Younis refugee camp, operates community centres for children,
teenagers, women and cultural events. The association is using MCC’s
grant to hire five trauma counsellors and to purchase a generator and
fuel to provide electricity at the centres.
The counsellors
will work with a volunteer drama team from the association to help
children deal with trauma creatively by writing and performing skits
about their experiences.
Recent Israeli attacks in Gaza began
on June 28 in response to attacks on Israel by the Palestinian Hamas
movement. Israel is demanding that Hamas release a captured Israeli
soldier, Gilad Shalit, and halt rocket attacks on Israeli communities.
Hamas is demanding the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
held by Israel.
Alain Epp Weaver, an MCC representative for
Palestine, Jordan and Iraq, says that the violence is contributing to a
humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
“All of this comes on top of the
fact that you have a very high poverty level in the Gaza Strip,” he
says. “Up to 80 percent of the population is living on well under $2 a
day.”
Since the recent violence began, Israel has almost completely closed Gaza’s borders, and food and fuel have grown scarce.
Epp Weaver says that MCC is working on plans with partner organizations to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza.
—MCC release by Tim Shenk
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Since January I am member in a Community
Canadians for Palestine
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Georgios