A friend went shopping in Westchester today and picked up the local paper, the Rivertown Enterprise. “There’s a big fat 1 page ad from Greenburgh Hebrew Center supporting Israel. Not one token word about the Gazans. That’s honest, at least,” he wrote to me.
Here’s a link to the relevant webpage at the conservative congregation’s blog. Notice the inextricable ties to Israel and Palestinian bombs aimed at hospitals, schools, etc.
Support Israel by donating to GHC’s Israel Bonds Fund–Operation Protective Edge
From Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to Hamas:
“We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude. You have succeeded where we have failed. Because never before, in the history of the modern State of Israel, has the Jewish people been so united, like one person with one heart….”We at GHC have a rare opportunity to support Israel as a community. Due to the generosity and innovative thinking of a member family, we have been offered a matching grant for GHC to purchase Israel Bonds. ..
Making this directed donation to GHC will not only strengthen our synagogue financially, but it will make a strong statement of the dedication and conviction we share as a community to support the State of Israel and our People…
The purchase of Israel Bonds –now– will directly benefit the State of Israel and its citizens who are living with ongoing bombing of their homes, schools, hospitals, synagogues, streets, and countryside.
Due to the urgent nature of this appeal we are requesting that you send your check payable to “GHC-Israel Bonds Fund” to the GHC office no later than Monday July 28, 2014…
GHC’s Mission and Vision Statement, engaging with our changing world:
“Ahavat Yisrael, our love for Israel and for the Jewish people, connects us inextricably to Israel, the state and its people.”GHC-Israel Team
Also from the blog:
There have been huge losses in this war, and our troops and brothers and sister across Israel need us now more than ever! We must keep our heads up and focus on the task at hand.
Gideon Levy addresses a similar contempt for Palestinian suffering in Haaretz today. There are 155 dead children in Gaza, killed by Israel; and Israelis are not moved to express any compassion.
[T]here exists a complete lack of compassion for the victims on the other side, even for those children, dying in gruesome numbers, which will go down as a new record of shame, even in the Israeli record book…
The pictures coming out of Gaza – and not in the Israeli media, which begrudgingly posts them to fulfill its obligation – should upset every Israeli. It’s possible that Gazans would be happy to celebrate dead Israeli children, and despite that happiness, there haven’t been any. If we were to witness such a phenomenon, we would be shocked, and rightly so. But we can ignore the wholesale killing of dozens of Palestinian children, day after day, or perhaps even celebrate it. After all, “Even Hitler was a child.”
And on the Can you see yourself as others see you front, here is Ayman Mohyeldin reporting from Gaza on the aftermath of an Israeli onslaught:
In 13 years, I have never seen or smelt death the way I have seen and smelt it on bodies dragged from Shejaiya into the Shifa morgue today
There is no difference between stockpiling arms in mosques and raising money for the arms in a Synagogue or raising money for the boots,dry foods,or medicines for the soldiers .
Fine – you want to show support to the state of israel, then let all of the money it gets come out of the synagogues tithes from now on and not a cent from taxes.
what about this.
Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I won’t play in Israel’
http://www.hotpress.com/Sinead-OConnor/news/Sinad-OConnor-I-wont-play-in-Israel/11954250.html
David Cronin piece on http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/thank-you-sinead-oconnor-boycotting-israel picks out some points
100 grand for a 10 grand gig (Euros?) Israel is really desparate the cultural boycott is working.
thank you Sinéad O’Connor
Israel is the ultimate welfare & belligerent state. Begging for shekels and more. Their outrage and desperation following the FAA ban is proof of where their real concerns lie.
It’s not innovation nation & it’s not a lovely tourist destination.
Thanks Phil.
Israel, whether they are in the middle of one of the constant wars, has this ugly habit of begging for aid, fund raising campaigns, even bill boards on US highways, showing a cute little Israeli kid, healthy looking most of the time, and asking for aid for “starving children”. It used to make me laugh, because I think those who rush to help poor Israel, were naive. If Israelis were starving and suffering, imagine those poor blockaded Palestinians, who have no access to basic necessities.
Besides, why should Americans send any of their hard earned money to Israel? There are many Jewish billionaires and millionaires, who should step in and help their people. Americans have fellow Americans starving at home, and charity begins at home. It should not go to an over indulged nation, that brags it has a great economy, the 6th largest weapons manufacturer, and gets the most US aid from us?