i just made a donation to help israel. it's called Table to Table

[catmother]

http://www.tabletotable.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=42

the above link is for those who are interesting in helping.

[davidinalameda]

1. I bet it's some sort of front organization

the Israelis don't have hunger; they eat Arab children

:sarcasm:

you did a good thing catmother

[catmother]

5. thank you. i'm very comfortable with it.

[OrechDin]

13. I donated to the United Jewish Appeal`s special emergency campaign,

for Israel. It seems the Jewish organizations have swung into 1st gear with emergency

campaigns in these tough days.

[tocqueville]

2. is that a current event ? because in case...

I'd recommend to support those who REALLY need it....



http://www.leb.org/v3/lebanon

Solidarity is essential
How to help Lebanon

leb.org encourages you to donate to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an established institution that was the first to be able to send help to Tyr and the Southern villages since the beginning of the war.

Donate in your language:
English, Français, Español.

Also recommended by leb.org:

Lebanese Red Cross
American Red Cross
Croix-Rouge française
Unicef Lebanon (and USA)
MercyCorps Lebanon
Caritas Liban
France diplomatie (DAH)
AUB, Facing the Challenge
MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières
WFP, World Food Programme
AFPI & KOUDOURAT
Focus on displaced people
Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior

Solidarity is essential but it may sometimes be misused. Please choose with care, so that you really make a difference.

[catmother]

3. well then you can donate to them. seems like there getting

plenty of support.

[tocqueville]

7. yep practically everybody...

you cannot send a country to the verge of collapse for two abducted soldiers. Collective punishment is a war crime. With the Israeli scale it's a crime against humanity.

[Tom Joad]

4. Every April 15th we make a contribution to the Israeli military.

Well, actually every paycheck. You get the point.
Gotta stop this madness, must stop arming Israel.

[catmother]

6. actually everyone's paycheck makes a contribution to many

countries, including palestine and other arab countries. :think:

[tocqueville]

8. like $99,325.60 ?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/U.S._Assistance_to_Israel1.html

Loan guarantees are not considered foreign aid so the $7.9 billion in guarantees have been excluded from this table (see Loan Guarantees for Israel ). This table also excludes funding for certain other projects the CRS does not consider foreign aid, such as the $180 million for the research and development of the Arrow missile.

compare that to the US peanuts to the Palestinians...

oh I forgot Egypt and Jordan too... just to keep them quiet. But to them no militay developpement no....

[breakaleg]

9. don't they get Billions annually from the US?

and isn't their economy flourishing?

they have enough money.

Perhaps they should pay to rebuild Lebanon.

[tocqueville]

10. actually Israels economy would collapse

without US help. Make no mistakes, the US is financing this war

"total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes. Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries.

AID does not term economic aid to Israel as development assistance, but instead uses the term "economic support funding." Given Israel's relative prosperity, U.S. aid to Israel is becoming increasingly controversial. In 1994, Yossi Beilen, deputy foreign minister of Israel and a Knesset member, told the Women's International Zionist organization, "If our economic situation is better than in many of your countries, how can we go on asking for your charity?"

http://www.washington-report.org/aboutwrmea/index.htm

[Minnesota Libra]

12. Lebanon should hit up Hezbollah to rebuild Lebanon since.............

....it's Hezbollah who kidnapped the Israeli soldiers and brought this about in the first place.

[poverlay]

14. Do you honestly believe that's what started this? n/t

[Minnesota Libra]

11. catmother, You did REALLY good and thanks for the.............

....link, I'm going to do the same thing.

Am glad to see I'm not the only one who supports Israel.

[undergroundrailroad]

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