Dubai Cares Children of Gaza Campaign

I just got this from my friend. If you’re in the UAE it would be great to join: Subject: help package 50,000 basic school kits and 50,000 hygiene kits for the Children of Gaza Dubai Cares is joining a united front of UAE-based relief and charitable organizations to pledge humanitarian assistance and mobilize the UAE community to help the children of Gaza. There are approximately 275,000 students of primary...

From UAE to Gaza

Throughout the past few days people in the UAE have been very procative in their efforts to do whatever they could towards Gaza. I am very pleased with the contributions of the people around me, be it monetary, supplying food or even a lending hand. While my friends and I shopped, a few of the guys from the group have been in the Aramex warehouse sorting up supplies and boxing them, and they told me that within the...

Quote of the Year & More Ways to Help Gaza

Quote of the year nomination goes to Shimon Peres: We are not in the business of public relations or improving our image. We are fighting against terror… So let me get this straight: bombing a school/UN-shelter is now considered fighting against terror? It’s clearly obvious they’re not improving their image but will they be able to handle the consequences? However the Quote of the Year award goes to Tzipi...

Compassion Goes a Long way

I’ve been in the office for a couple of hours now and I haven’t been able to fully concentrate on finishing any task. The ground offensive against Gaza set a new record for inhumanity as well as stupidity on both the Arab and Western fronts. What I wanted to say is that the past week has taught us a great deal about our situation as a global community. It has exposed deficits in both sides of the war, the...

Wake Up

It’s a shame to be human beings. I, for one, am ashamed of being human on so many levels. Heck, even animals are much better and more compassionate than we are.  Tomorrow people across the world will be partying and celebrating New Year, watching fireworks and competing against other countries/cities on the best fireworks display. I myself won’t be attending the fireworks. There really is nothing to...