Left-wing Irish charity Trocaire
campaigns against the life-saving
Israeli wall.
There is no mention at all of Islamist terror!
"The wall does nothing to achieve a more peaceful Middle East",
they claim, ignoring the fact that
that is exactly what it has done.
It's a 3 minute ad for why you should not give money to Trocaire.
From here.
Trocaire,
the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland
(Anti-War on Iraq,
Anti-War on Afghanistan,
Anti-intervention in Sudan, Anti-Israel)
Trocaire doesn't seem to understand the cause of poverty:
Trocaire seeks to address causes of poverty
- letter by Trocaire's Justin Kilcullen, January 23, 2005,
shows the inability of left-wing charities to understand poverty.
He lists the root causes of poverty as:
"unfair trading practices, human rights abuses, conflict and inequality",
again missing the two main causes,
lack of democracy
and lack of capitalism.
Gaza strip: An open air prison?, Justin Kilcullen, 16 August 2005.
The article consists entirely of criticism of Israel.
The Palestinians are not criticised.
Israel has sealed off the Gaza strip just for fun, it seems.
No mention of Hamas.
No criticism of Hamas and suicide bombings
and the shooting of settler children
in their beds.
No criticism of the endless Islamist jihad to destroy Israel
and set up an Islamic tyranny.
What is this politicised rubbish doing on Trocaire's website?
Trocaire protest at the US Embassy in Dublin
during Israel-Hezbollah war, 31st July 2006.
Why not protest at the Iranian Embassy in Blackrock, Co.Dublin?
After all, they're the aggressors, they started the war,
they want to exterminate Israel,
they arm Hezbollah, and they could end the war by surrendering.
Trocaire and Goal clash on Sudan, August 8, 2004
- Trocaire's opposition to military action
to stop the Sudan genocide.
It seems to me that this prejudiced, lefty charity
cares more about restraining US power
than they do about saving lives.
Action on Sudan, August 8, 2004
- GOAL supports all possible action to stop the Sudan genocide.
"The Security Council
has once again proved itself to be out of touch
and continues on its downward spiral into redundancy.
Bush and Blair were prepared to commit troops to prevent persecution
in Kosovo and Iraq and they must do the same again."
Until Trocaire reforms:
Do not give money to Trocaire.
Give your money to GOAL
instead.
See also here.
As well as attacking Israel,
Trocaire also
spend your money
banging on about
climate change.
Why can't they just stick to the third world?
I'm sure that Christian Aid does some good work in the third world.
Why do they have to spoil it all by getting involved in
politics?
Why can't they just stick to
charity?
If a charity must make statements about politics,
it should only make them about issues on which we can all agree
- such as the famine-causing tyrannies of Sudan and North Korea
- rather than about issues on which reasonable people disagree,
such as Israel.
I can't give money to Christian Aid
because they promote ideas I disagree with.
This is a shame.
There are many other charities that do not talk about politics -
or only talk about issues like Sudan that we can all agree on.
Give your money to these charities instead.
GOAL is one
in Ireland - but there are hundreds of others.
Instead of just concentrating on charity,
they get involved in politics.
They say
for example:
"Christian Aid is gravely concerned about the Israeli government's
unilateral disengagement policy, including its
stated commitment to retaining the majority of illegal settlements in the West Bank".
This is not something about which Christian Aid should take a position.
Christian Hate?
- Christian Aid Watch blog,
focusing on their anti-Israel bias.
Read it all.
Christian Aid have got diverted on campaigning against
"climate change".
Anything instead of addressing the actual cause of world poverty
- lack of science, democracy and capitalism.
Christian Aid is also linked to the anti-Israel group
Pressureworks.
Their
distorted history
sums up the attempted Second Holocaust
in 1967 as follows:
"The Six Day War was the inevitable conclusion of
years of tension between Israel and its Arab neighbours, setting the tone in the Middle East for years to come."
So it wasn't an attempted genocide by
Islamic supremacists then,
despite Nasser
openly saying he wanted to destroy Israel?
It was just the product of some abstract "tension"?
I think you'll find the "years of tension" came from the very
existence of a dhimmi state.
Pressureworks sum up
the 1980s
as follows:
"The aggressive approach of Israel's ruling Likud party leads to the first Palestinian intifada,
or uprising, bringing Israel global condemnation."
Instead of promoting capitalism,
Christian Aid spend your money on the
climate change scare.
The former will end poverty in the third world.
The latter won't.
They claim that:
"Israel's illegal occupation has raised poverty among ordinary Palestinians to the levels of sub-Saharan Africa."
On the contrary,
Palestinians were doing fine under Israeli occupation.
Their wealth tripled from 1967 to 1999.
It was Arafat's intifada that destroyed their economy, not Israel.
War on Want spokesman Nick Dearden
makes excuses for suicide bombing of Israeli civilians:
"I wish to express my disgust at the dismissal of
Jenny Tonge
from your front bench. That poverty and desperation caused by years of Israeli aggression - the biggest source of instability in the Middle East - leads people to suicide bombings is obvious. Without trying to understand the conflict in this way, we have no hope of achieving peace in the region. Jenny Tonge's comments on Palestine were not only reasonable but express the feelings of many people in this country, and probably the majority of people across the world."
Nick Dearden is wrong.
There are hundreds of millions
of poor and desperate
people in the world,
but most of them are inherently decent people,
struggling to make a living and feed their families,
and harming nobody.
It is obvious that "poverty and desperation" are not the reasons why Palestinians
want to murder innocent people
in shops and cafes.
It is obvious that "poverty and desperation" are not the reasons why Palestinians
machine gun babies in their car seats.
Religion and ideology are the reasons why,
not poverty and desperation.
War on Want's
anti-Israel campaign
(also here
and here)
features pictures saying "RESIST".
First, a "charity" should not be supporting resistance to Israel.
Second, it is well known that Palestinian resistance to Israel is actually going on, and is
barbaric and extremely violent,
targeting innocent people.
Such a picture encourages more killing of innocent people.
They started off just helping poor people in the third world, but:
"Following a re-elevation of its work in the early '80's, however,
AFrI changed its approach from a charity to a justice perspective.
Realising that, despite the aid given by AFrI and many other agencies, the situation in
[Third World] Countries was getting worse rather than better.
AFrI decided to focus on some of the major causes of poverty. We identified
unfair distribution of wealth, wastage of resources on the arms trade,
[Third World] debt, unfair trade and environmental destruction,
as some of the major causes."
Thus missing the two
major causes of all poverty and famine on earth:
(1) lack of democracy, and:
(2) lack of capitalism.
In one short paragraph Afri encapsulates the stupidity
of the entire western left
when it comes to the third world and poverty.
When Ahern turns to Healy, you know he's lost the plot
- Alan Ruddock, September 5, 2004, exposes one of Fr. Healy's economically illiterate statements:
"In spite of dramatic cuts in taxation rates, revenue kept coming in
and allowed us to record sizeable current account surpluses"
The German Red Cross
was taken over by the Nazis in
WW2,
and split from the international Red Cross.
It observed
and collaborated with atrocities,
rather than preventing them.
Red Cross aids Taliban.
The Red Cross provided first aid training and first aid kits to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland
(Anti-War on Iraq,
Anti-War on Afghanistan,
Anti-intervention in Sudan, Anti-Israel)
Since 1995.
