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UJA Donors Feel Betrayed
Dear David:
Thank you for sharing the response on your clear editorial criticizing the UJA-Federation’s $1 million allocation to Gaza aid, which one community member has called a “hatchet job.”
The real atrocity was Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which inflicted devastating loss and trauma on the Jewish community.
The editorial’s stance comes from a place of deep conviction: Jewish charitable funds, donated to the UJA-Federation with the trust that they would uplift and protect Israel, should not be redirected to Gaza—controlled by Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to our destruction—especially during wartime while our soldiers are dying on the battlefield.
Many donors feel profoundly betrayed, as their contributions were intended to strengthen Israel, not to provide aid that risks being exploited by those who perpetrate evil against us. Like you, I find it incomprehensible that anyone would support aid that could indirectly bolster such malevolence. The UJA-Federation’s decision to divert these funds raises serious ethical questions, and I believe they should face legal accountability for what clearly is donor fraud, violating the trust of those who gave in good faith.
Our community deserves clarity and fidelity to the values behind our giving.
Best regards,
Richard Allen
Defends UJA’s Donation
Dear Editor:
Regarding the editorial you published concerning the $1 million donation given by the UJA to assist Gazan civilians who are being displaced due to the war, what you don’t know is that none of the funds from any donations were used for that purpose.
Sincerely
Name Withheld Upon Request
Time to Debunk the Palestine Myth
Dear Editor:
It is time to debunk the Palestine myth.
Palestinianism has only one function. It is the negation of the State of Israel.
It was not initiated in 1964 by the Soviet KGB and Egypt to create a 23rd member of the Arab League. It was not meant to give a home to a group of dispossessed Arabs. It was, and is, a tool for diminishing American influence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by eliminating the Infidel Jewish homeland and returning the Jews to their proper station as Dhimmis.
They recruited Arab fighters from throughout MENA and called them “Palestinians”. Their MO was terrorism to drive home the message. They blew up airports and embassies. They hijacked aircraft, murdering passengers. They slaughtered Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics
They renamed Israel ‘Palestine’ and called the Arabs ‘Palestinians’, though the diverse Arab groups had no common linkage and were loyal to their own tribes or clans.
They had one thing in common: a devotion to the Prophet and the lessons of the Quraysh Jews.
In 622, the Prophet Mohammed found shelter among the Quraysh Jews after being rejected in Mecca. The Jews operated camel caravans. They signed the Constitution of Medina, ensuring co-operation and laying the foundation for a Muslim community. However, in 629, when the Jews refused to follow his new religion, Mohammad turned on them. He directed the decapitation of the men and took 1000 girls and women as slaves.
This taught generations of devotees two things. First, Taqiyya, lying to the Infidels to gain an advantage is both respected and expected and second, killing Jews is a sacred duty.
This is the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Western leaders must come to terms with this reality and support Israel’s right to defend itself.
The 100-year war against the indigenous Jews had unexpected results. To combat the existential threat to its existence, Israel strived for excellence and became the 10th most powerful country on earth. Since the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks on southern Israel, the enemies who executed these war-crimes have been seriously diminished. On the negative side, the blood libels spread across the world by radical Islamists has spawned the worst antisemitism we’ve seen since WWII.
Today, as the Gaza terrorists continue to fight and to hold 50 living and dead hostages. Only one world leader supports Israel. That is America’s President, Donald J. Trump. Most second-rate democracies, like Canada, France and the UK fawn over the Islamists and will join the UN in recognizing the fictional state of Palestine this fall. That not one of them has read article 80 of the UN charter, which clearly defines Israel’s borders to include Gaza, Judea and Samaria and makes no mention of Palestine, is a disgrace… but they have their constituencies to worry about in their next elections.
Imagine how different the world would have been if Winston Churchill, instead of Neville Chamberlain had been Prime Minister of the UK before WWII.
Sincerely
Len Bennett,
Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Lies About Gaza’s Kids
Dear Editor:
Yet another Gaza child who was presented by the media as a victim of Israeli starvation, turns out to be the victim of a pre-existing genetic disease.
The Free Press recently investigated the cases of twelve Gazan children and young adults whose skeletal appearance gave the impression of starvation, and were trumpeted in front page photos in the New York Times and elsewhere—until it turned out that they actually were suffering from various other preexisting medical conditions such as cystic fibrosis and cerebral palsy. (See thefp. com/p/they-became-symbols-for-gazan-starvation )
Add number thirteen to that list: Karim Ali Fouad Abu Mu’amar, age 3, whose frail and gaunt appearance was featured in a front page photo in the London Daily Mirror last week. He was a victim of “the starvation in Gaza,” the Mirror claimed.
Since Israel’s critics have no evidence of “starvation in Gaza,” they are reduced to exploiting children such as little Karim, who, it turns out, was diagnosed at the age of ten months with Fanconi syndrome, a genetic disease that leads to muscle and urinary tract weakness. It’s hereditary. Other members of Karim’s family have it, too.
Meanwhile, the number of meals distributed in Gaza since May by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund reached 142 million last week. That’s not a typo. The number is 142 million. And the GHF is only one of the agencies delivering food to Gazans.
Sincerely
Professor Rafael Medoff