Gafoor inaccurate on Israel

AL GAFOOR’S letter on April 15 is full of inaccuracies and he should not be allowed to get away with them.

To say that the medical and humanitarian aid Israel gives to Syria is part of a strategy is simply not correct.

Israel has not only helped the Syrian civilians, but did so many years ago for the people of southern Lebanon from mid-1970. It continued assisting the ill from that country who could not receive treatment in their own.

Not only did the sick come to Israel, but ordinary citizens of Lebanon would cross over into Israel to do their shopping, and this was a daily event until the terrorist movement, Hezbollah, stopped it.

Palestinians from the Palestinian Authority Territory and Gaza go to Israeli hospitals for treatment, on a daily basis, for minor ailments to children dying from cancer. Even the head of Hamas sent his dying granddaughter to Israel to save her. Also heart patients. Israeli doctors work hand in hand with their Palestinian colleagues and many Palestinian medical specialists are trained in Israel. Israel is the most humanitarian country in the world. It rushes to help all countries that have suffered disasters and does not ask for anything in return

Gafoor then blames Israel for the destruction of Gaza. Has he gone mad? Hundreds of trucks move from Israel to Gaza on a daily basis with goods such as building materials and foodstuffs, and Israel trains farmers from Gaza in the latest agricultural methods and even supplies them with seeds. Why does Gafoor not blame Egypt, which maintains a blockade of the Gaza-Egypt border? The Americans are on record having stated that it is the Palestinian Authority that has held up the peace talks, not Israel.

As for Gafoor’s last comment about the Jews monopolising the international banking system as well as world trade, that comes straight out of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. But being less than one-quarter of 1% of the world population, not even us Jews, as good as we are, could not control the world and would not want to.