Israel Sends Aid To Sudan
The JTA reports,
For the first time, Israel is sending humanitarian aid to an Arab nation with which it has no ties.
The Jewish state has joined the American Jewish World Service, the Union for Reform Judaism, the UJA-Federation of New York and the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, N.J., in donating $20,000 apiece for an educational project in Chad, now home to at least 200,000 refugees from Sudan.
Israel also has no ties with Sudan.
The Sudanese situation reminds Jews of the Holocaust, said Ambassador Arye Mekel, consul general of Israel in New York.
“Israel, as the Jewish state, can’t sit idly by when such a humanitarian disaster is taking place,” Mekel said, adding that this is only Israel’s first step in offering aid to affected Sudanese.
the fucked up backstory to this deal is REALLY interesting. i heard this at an AJWS presentation last week.
israel wanted to make the donation on their own at first. they called up AJWS…and found out that no one would take their money. israel = bad and its money is sketchy i guess if you’re a sudanese aid project dealing with the intracacies of muslim-christian discord.
so AJWS put together the matching grants from all those other orgs so that the on the ground aid orgs would be forced to accept the money – now a larger sum because it combined so many group
s cash.
isn’t that depressing? israel’s motives will always be questioned even if it is trying to do good.
“so AJWS put together the matching grants from all those other orgs so that the on the ground aid orgs would be forced to accept the money – now a larger sum because it combined so many groups cash.”
I have difficulty following the gist of that paragraph. Please explain.
jews will always be hated by the goyim, get over it.