Message from Noam Chomsky

March 04, 2009

Dear Milena,
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I'm writing you today because hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are suffering terribly following the recent Israeli attacks-paid for by your tax dollars and mine.

Even before this horrifying assault, there were tremendous shortages of food, medicine, electricity and fuel because of the Israeli blockade that has been going on for nearly two years.

We must do everything we can to stop the immoral acts of the Israeli government and our own government's political and financial support.

But right now, the children desperately need our immediate help. I'm asking you to make a contribution to the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) to help meet the most basic needs of children in Gaza.

I am a founding advisor and supporter of MECA. For the last 21 years, MECA has been sending food and medical aid to children in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon-more than $12 million in aid to date. And MECA supports community projects to improve children's lives in the West Bank and Gaza.

MECA's Director Barbara Lubin just returned from three weeks in Egypt working to get aid into Gaza, and then four days in Gaza. She said, "I have been to Palestine many times over the last two decades, but never have I seen anything like what I saw this time. I will never forget the sadness, the smell of death, the destroyed homes, schools, mosques and cemeteries"

In the aftermath of the bombardment MECA delivered four tons of medicine for infants and children, an ambulance that's outfitted as a mobile intensive care unit, several tons of powdered milk and baby cereal, 29 state-of-the-art wheelchairs, and a truckload of crayons, coloring books and paper to the children of Gaza and their families.

I am asking you, please, give whatever you can possible afford
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to help save the lives and ease the pain of thousands and thousands of children who are traumatized, injured, orphaned, and homeless.

Your contribution now will help:

* Send more medical aid in the months ahead

* Launch a major mental health intervention program for children in Gaza

* Build water purification and desalinization systems in Gaza schools

Gaza is no longer on the front page, but I know you understand that the catastrophe is far from over for the children and families who are trying to survive and rebuild their lives under the most desperate circumstances.

Thank you so much for your support,

Noam Chomsky
Cambridge, Massachusetts

DONATE NOW
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Middle East Children's Alliance

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Toys For Gazan Children Denied Entry Into Gaza

Toys For Gazan Children Denied Entry Into Gaza

Israel allows water filtration system into Gaza; refuses children's toys from UNICEF
Ma'an News

A UN report revealed that Israel, though refusing to allow construction materials into Gaza, allowed a Brackish Water Desalination Plant, nine trucks of prefab materials for school assembly between 22 and 28 February.

During the same time period 57 boxes of children’s toys from UNICEF were denied entry. "According to COGAT (coordinator of government activities in the territories)," the UN report released Tuesday said, "The toys were not a humanitarian priority."

Israeli authorities have resolutely refused to allow concrete, steel bars and construction equipment into the West Bank for fear that it would fall into the hands of Hamas. A Brackish Water Desalination Plant includes filtration systems, pumps, pressure valves, chemical treatment materials, electronic switchboards and remote control systems. The plant will provide 50 m3 of drinking water per hour which will benefit approximately 22,000 refugees in the Al-Bureij camp in the central strip.

While there is no question that such systems are a humanitarian necessity, according to reports by leading NGOs in the area, they have also stressed the importance of school supplies and the danger of major psychosomatic trauma among the children of Gaza.

Israel allowed a prefab school building into Gaza, but not 50 Early Childhood Education kits from UNICEF.

So as the refusals continue bare-minimum materials are allowed piecemeal into Gaza despite international partners who have "pressed for this incessantly" as Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations for the European Union said Tuesday.

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