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[From Rashid Hamid, U.K.]
Scumbag speilberg...
Making Millions Off the
American
People to Help Israel
http://www.allahuakhbar.com/article_detail.asp?ID=331
US filmmaker Spielberg to donate $1m to Israeli 'victims' of intifada
Friday, December 13, 2002
US film director Steven Spielberg is to donate one million dollars from
his Holocaust Foundation to five organisations which help Israeli victims
of
Palestinian
attacks, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Spielberg, who set up the Frankfurt-based foundation from the profits of his
1994 Oscar-winning film Schindler's List, said he was donating the money
because of the ongoing violence.
"I understood that it isn't about to end," he told Maariv newspaper. "I
have
understood that the tragic reality existing today in Israel is almost
permanent and there is no chance it will change in the near future."
The money is to go to five different organisations whose main aim is to
counsel and help the victims of Palestinian attacks and their families.
Some funding will also be used to provide scholarships at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem that will be named after the nine people,
including
five Americans, killed in a Palestinian bombing in the university's
cafeteria on July 31, Maariv said.
Spielberg, who was due to make an official announcement later Thursday,
wanted the news to be published first in Israel.
A total of 2,760 people, of whom 2,032 were Palestinians and 678 Israelis,
have been killed since the intifada, or uprising against Israeli
occupation, broke out in September 2000, according to an AFP toll
Author: Ahmed al Ajmi Source: Ummah News and Agencies
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