SaveIsraelsChildren.com

by Daniel Pipes
Thu, 3 Apr 2008
updated Sat, 5 Apr 2008

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The effort is the first time since World War II – when the Germans bombed London, and London children were sent off to families in the countryside to be cared for until the German assault ended – that a "people-to-people" campaign has been organized to remove children from a war zone. Sadly, indeed embarrassingly, the children are those of S'derot, an Israeli town of 19,000 near the border with Gaza that has been under a missile barrage since the Israeli retreat from Gaza in September 2005, with thousands of missiles to date. These have causing damage to property and injuries and death to residents.

The national government of Israel has basically averted its collective eyes from this tragedy, leaving the citizens of S'derot and potentially other towns to fend basically for themselves.

Into the breach now has come www.SaveIsraelsChildren.com, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that matchmakes between "families wanting to send their children abroad, and families who are willing to provide a temporary ‘home' for these children."

Comment: The need for such a private initiative points to the moral and operational bankruptcy of the Olmert government in Israel. (April 3, 2008)

Related Topics: Israel, Jews and Judaism

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Title	By	Date
Israel, This is a National Disgrace. [149 words]	maura collins	Apr 23, 2008 21:27
Sderot---suicide on the installment plan [136 words]	Alaska Paul	Apr 16, 2008 23:21
It's a pity that Olmert is setting the stage for Holocaust II [70 words]	M.D'Souza	Apr 16, 2008 12:28
Double Truth [30 words]	Francesco Mangascià	Apr 15, 2008 11:05
Wrongly directed criticism [297 words]	Ron Thompson	Apr 15, 2008 10:59
S'derot Rockets [14 words]	Jean Friedberg	Apr 15, 2008 10:58
1000 years of Arab nothing [46 words]	mickey spiegel	Apr 9, 2008 23:15
Shame Shame! [42 words]	Na'ama Nolon	Apr 8, 2008 08:58
↔ Shame on Israelis and North American Jews [158 words]	James Burke	Apr 12, 2008 06:43
See the positive [422 words]	Archimedes2	Apr 7, 2008 12:30
↔ Saving the Palestinian Children [66 words]	Rochelle Michaels	Apr 7, 2008 20:44
↔ Good examples! [178 words]	Archimedes2	Apr 8, 2008 18:23
↔ Saving the Palestinian Children [21 words]	Rochelle Michaels	Apr 12, 2008 16:02
↔ Hope in the children [215 words]	Archimedes2	Apr 12, 2008 21:59
"...the moral and operational bankruptcy of the Olmert government in Israel" -- Dr. Daniel Pipes [103 words]	Rochelle Michaels	Apr 6, 2008 16:24
↔ Who said it? [299 words]	Ron Thompson	Apr 16, 2008 10:55
↔ Peace can only be achieved when Israel negotiates with an enemy that has lost the war. [35 words]	Rochelle Michaels	May 3, 2008 22:02
Nice Plan [52 words]	Gennadiy	Apr 6, 2008 01:00
This Makes No Sense . . . [75 words]	ploni	Apr 6, 2008 00:07
Indeed it is a marvelous idea. [33 words]	Ynnatchkah	Apr 5, 2008 20:28
More to the point... [64 words]	Abram Greenberg	Apr 5, 2008 18:24
Fruits of Modern Jewish Liberalism: Jew-icide [77 words]	James Burke	Apr 5, 2008 18:15

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