Bridge to Peace
After writing a somewhat negative post about the Israel/Palestinian conflict a few days ago and yesterday’s post about bin Laden, I feel a need to come back with something positive, something that can give us hope that the extremists won’t win.
Save A Child’s Heart is an amazing organization that enables children from countries without facilities for heart disease treatment. Many of these children are Palestinian. Money is raised around the world, particularly from Jewish donors, that help pay for everything including travel, medical procedures, and rehabilitation. There are volunteers that help prepare the paperwork and deal with the bureaucracy and the logistics.
Doctors evidently do not distinguish between children of different races, religions, or economic capacity. A child in need is a child in need is a child in need.
Maybe the political leaders should step aside and let the doctors lead the way to a peaceful and sustainable reconciliation.
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Alon Shalev is the author of The Accidental Activist (now available on Kindle) and A Gardener’s Tale. He is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Hillel Foundation, a non-profit that provides spiritual and social justice opportunities to Jewish students in the Bay Area. More on Alon Shalev at http://www.alonshalev.com/and on Twitter (#alonshalevsf).
Left Coast Voices 
Thank you for a great post.
I do like the manner in which you have presented this specific challenge plus it does indeed offer me some fodder for consideration. However, because of everything that I have witnessed, I just hope when the actual comments pile on that folks stay on point and in no way embark upon a tirade regarding some other news du jour. All the same, thank you for this excellent point and while I can not really agree with the idea in totality, I value the standpoint.