The Canadian Union of Postal Workers wants mail delivered to Gaza.
Following an announcement by Canada Post that Israel Post has suspended mail delivery to Gaza, the union is encouraging people who wish to send mail to Gaza to get their mail onto the Canadian boat bound for the blockaded Palestinian territory.
"As postal workers, we know very well that cutting off mail creates suffering and hardship for people, who are isolated from their loved ones," said Denis Lemelin, National President of CUPW. "How many more abuses will the people of Gaza have to endure?"
Numerous organizations are working together to endorse a Canadian boat to Gaza in the autumn. Others, including Independent Jewish Voices, have supported the idea of getting mail onto the boat.
"We are heartened by the growing international response to Israel's cruel treatment of the Palestinian people," said Lemelin, whose union has been at the forefront of condemning human rights abuses in the occupied territories. "We stand in solidarity with all efforts to break the blockade and end the indignities imposed on the Palestinian people by the state of Israel."
What should you do if you want to send a letter to Gaza? Lemelin suggests contacting organizers at the website http://canadaboatgaza.org/
"World sympathy for Palestinians goes only so far
No one much cares about what they endure, unless it can be blamed on Israel.....
It's nice that so many people around the world care so deeply about the Palestinians. One could almost -almost -get misty hearing the passionate outcry and of the dramatic actions their advocates take in the name of helping Palestinians...Gaza, once a relatively liberal, free-thinking territory, has slowly moved along the path to full Islamic law in the past five years. All movie theatres and bars, for example, have been closed. Dozens of Internet cafes have been bombed, as have churches, monasteries and Christian schools. Earlier this summer, Hamas militants set fire to United Nations children's camps, which competed with Hamas-run indoctrination activities for children. The regime has been busy shutting down non-governmental organizations that provided aid to Palestinians, but we haven't heard much about that.
...The true agenda is attacking Israel, not defending Palestinians. If their supporters really cared about Palestinians, they would work to help them no matter what the source of the injustice. Watching the charade, one's eyes can get misty -from the stench of hypocrisy that fouls the air." By FRIDA GHITIS, Miami Herald; McClatchy-Tribune
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-ed/World+sympathy+Palestinians...
Ah, the Zionist disinformation squad is back in action! I guess the cheques arrived this week from Jerusalem.
'M. Spector' - You've posted a nasty insult, but you have made no argument to dispute anything in the article I cited.
I don't debate with trolls. And I don't debate with pro-Zionist journalists like Ghitis through intermediaries like you.