The White Poppy for Peace Campaign

Please help !! We cannot bend to Tyranny x

Sadaf Liberty 01 January at 07:59 Reply
http://www.vivapalestina.org/home.htm

*31st December 2009... See More

On 6th December 2009 the third Viva Palestina international aid convoy set off from London. Over the next few weeks it traveled almost three thousand miles through 9 countries gaining support as it went. By 24th December, Christmas Eve, when it reached the post of Aqaba in Jordan it had grown to almost 500 people in 250 vehicles - carrying much needed medical aid for the besieged people of Gaza.

And there its journey could have come to an end. The convoy was refused passage across the Red Sea to the Sinai by the Egyptian authorities - gatekeepers of the Rafah crossing into Gaza. The convoy would only be allowed to enter Gaza if it landed at the port of Al-Arish on the Mediterranean coast.

The convoy was forced to turn around and head back through Jordan and Syria to take ship from there to Egypt. But this solution, imposed by the Egyptian authorities, has come at a cost. Viva Palestina and our partners will need to charter three ferries and a plane to move our vehicles and convoy members from Syria to Egypt. And we need to raise the money to pay for this.

So we are asking our friends and supporters to dig deep in their pockets and make an emergency donation towards the costs now facing the convoy. With your help we will once more deliver aid to the people of Gaza - and once more demand the end to this in human siege.

Thanks you for your support and may we wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Viva Palestina and friends*

PLEASE MAKE A DONATION HERE: http://www.vivapalestina.org/emergency.htm

I wish them strenth and peace...Canada knows and cares.

"In Sderot on Thursday, about 200 children holding Israeli flags attached letters of peace to white balloons and sent them aloft on a hillside toward Gaza. But the wind was unfavorable and the balloons flew in the opposite direction."

"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a by stander."
This was found on the wall of a holocaust museum .
Posted by Misster Karen very poignant.

“Does it matter that he is from Gaza and I am from Beersheba, that he is ...an Arab and I am a Jew? It has no meaning to me. He sees my child and I see his child.”

There is a page for Viva Palestina ,as it has only 200 or so mebers because it is new a lot of the bigger fan pages for peace are supporting them with news of the Peace march and the convoy with medical aid .We feel that ot is very important to give our support to what is a huge campaign for Peace this is what the white poppy has tried to do since ... See More1934 bring forward peace initiatives to put an end to War and the devastation it leaves behind.If these updates are irritating anyone we apologise but it has been very important to get as many people as possible to take non violent action to contact embassies ,MPs and the like in this situation.Because of your actions the people in the convoy and on the march are encouraged to know we are doing our part .Thank you x