Comments on: Do you stay or do you go?

By: Mike Samuel

Mike Samuel — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:22:45 +0000

Hello to all in Israel etc, I just came across this website while trying to get my opinion out there, which is very hard since the news media seems somewhat biased against Israel.(Al- Jazeera NEVER shows pictures of the 300,000 dead in Dafur region Sudan!)

I’am originally from Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies and currently live in Toronto Canada. I am 100% behind Israel in its life or death fight to get its soldiers back safe and sound and bring an end to Hebollah terror, after all no one has heard about the whereabouts of navigator Ron Arad who went missing many years ago in south Lebanon and is reported to be in Iran or may not be alive after all these years.

I was also greatly moved some months ago watching young jewish kids protesting the genocide in Darfur in NYC by its mad Islamic gov’t that wants to kill innocents like Saddam’s henchmen and using God’s name to do these terrible things, which is in fact a great sin in the eyes of God.(PS I’am NOT a fundamentlist Christian!)

Anyway I’am in Toronto and willing to volunteer in Israel, I’am also a heavy truck driver with exprience in Iraq and Kuwait (2004) I’ve even done a basic bodyguard and pistol shooting course and is a licenced private Investigator in Canada.

Mike in Toronto

By: esther

esther — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:12:30 +0000

If anyone can do it, Momo can. Do what you can, Barri. You can also support Israel from the US, by writing about what you’ve seen and experienced. And you can always come back.

By: G-D SQUAD

G-D SQUAD — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:39:57 +0000

Yeah, my 16 year old sister is still there on her summer program, having the time of her life I might add. And I’ll be purchasing my ticket to Israel within the next month. It’s times like these that Israel needs our support. Yasher koach, Rabbi Yo.

By: barri

barri — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:10:02 +0000

despite the barrage of e-mails and the huge sighs on the line when i finally make phone calls back to the states, i’m too am still here. i’m slated to leave july 31–a decision made with no subtle amount of pushing from my mother. i’ve thought rather seriously about staying and volunteering through the jewish agency program with magen david adom, even now as i sit in a hostel with roommates that fled a kibbutz in nahariya after 7 days in a bomb shelter and after sitting on allenby near the beach talking to a yeshiva student who left tsfat. what’s keeping me back is not the fear of bombs (because laya’s completely right about driving cars), not the language barrier or even my own confusion with what i thought about israel before i arrived and since. it’s exhaustion that says “go home. you’ll have been gone six weeks.” i don’t think of myself as a zionist but that doesn’t stop me from thinking i should pick up the phone to call momo and have him find a way to extend my flight past september.

By: Steves Rick

Steves Rick — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:24:01 +0000

It’s something to talk about. I am not changing my travel plans, I will be there in a few weeks.

By: amechad

amechad — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:43:53 +0000

Living in Jerusalem, I can understand staying away from the North but I can’t understand not coming to Israel. Most of the country is not getting attacked, life goes on, etc. except for the important Northern areas.

And, of course, we need you