iPeace - Do They Really Want Peace or...

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Are They An Arm Of The Israeli Media Campaign And A Larger, Broader Goal To Destroy, Occupy and Annex Palestine?

iPeace claims to be a peaceful website. A place where people that want peace can congregate. As a member of iPeace, for now and until I am relieved of my membership by the administrators of the site for this post, I have my doubts about the people and motives behind iPeace.

I have had numerous private (well, that's what they're called) emails with the administrator, David Califa. His personal perspective on the war in Gaza is that he wants peace but his personal perspective on who is right and who is wrong is that Israel is right and had no choice but to attack Gaza, which is not the perspective of most 21st Century intellectuals writing on the subject across the internet. Nor is it the perspective held by millions globally as can be easily ascertained by watching the many protests worldwide, in Israel, Lebanon, Paris, Lisbon, Greece, and yes, even in the United States. There are many more that I haven't listed that occur globally each and every day.

After quite a bit of investigation and motivated by the fact that iPeace and David Califa are struggling to raise funds to help Palestinians with the assisstance of the United Palestinian Appeal and some type of arrangement made between David Califa's iPeace organization and UPA, I've got many doubts but nothing perfectly concrete.

What I do have is that United Palestinian Appeal is NOT recommended by the National BBB, or Better Business Bureau, who maintains a collection of not for profit organizations that it does represent as being bona fide along wth a collection of those that it indicates are not, for a variety of reasons.

As the information below suggests, taken from his LinkedIn profile, David Califa has had experience working with money. There's nothing wrong with being a banker. They're just not held in high esteem these days.

• Managing Director

  Sumitomo Finance

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  Proprietary Trading

• Managing Director

  Bankers Trust

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Financial Services industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

  Proprietary trading

• Vice President

  Salomon Brothers

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  1986 — 1994 (8 years)

  Proprietary Trading

Since United Palestinian Appeal does NOT meet National BBB standards which are not difficult to meet and also do not cost money to meet, I would have second thoughts about donating any money at all to any charities connected with iPeace and United Palestinian Appeal.

The real truth is that it isn't that difficult to connect with an individual Palestinian over the internet. It's quite simple to send a blanket, a bag of rice, flour or beans or other similar items of your choice. There's also the International Red Cross operating in Gaza which is always in need of funding and with a bit of research on your part you will find many non-profit and bonafide organizations operating in that part of the world that are always in need of help. The very last thing we need is another questionable non-profit organization incapable, for whatever reason, of getting the funds where they need to go and in this case that's directly to the children of Gaza.

The National BBB uses very loose criteria to accredit an organization. They are:

• In how they govern their organization,



• In the ways they spend their money,



• In the truthfulness of their representations, and



• In their willingness to disclose basic information to the public.

So before donating your hard earned money, ask yourself, "would I be willing to meet the above criteria if I were operating a non-profit organization?"

This link will take you directly to the National BBB page where you'll find more detailed information on United Palestinian Appeal HERE