Probably the biggest question I have now is what I should be doing. I have a strong urge to go back home and be with people I love and miss.
But I have an equally strong urge to cross the border into Palestine, into Gaza. I need to be doing something meaningful, but I don't know what. I donated blood, I'm type O, which seems to help out more often than not.
But I need to do more than bleed for them. I need to work.
I'm just thinking out loud. Who has advice?
I hear the sounds, see the planes and have seen the trucks after trucks taking much-needed goods to Palestine. But there are not enough of those trucks and the border is not nearly open long enough to get things through. I see the trucks brining wounded people to our hospitals. At first it seemed like alot was happening, there were a few peaceful protests and we donated blood in the hospitals. But I keep wondering what else we can do to help? Clearly Egypt is not doing enough, and neither is the rest of the world.
Egyptians seem to be afraid. At lest those here in Al Arish. Everytime we hear a war plane flying overhead everyone says a small prayer thinking it will be their last. But somehow I think the people are equally afraid of the Palestinians breaking to border. They need anything and everything. They are living in substandard impoverished conditions. When they do come, as the inevitably must - they will finish the rice and flour and medical supplied and will all be homeless on our streets here. But why? Shouldn't Egypt do something else? Shouldn't America do something else? Shouldn't I do something else? We can't be silent!
