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Titolo: inizia l'invasione sionista del Congo

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Israeli at helm of massive food relief operation in the Congo
By David Brinn   March 25, 2007
It seemed like Aya Shneerson was on the fast track to journalistic success. 
The Haifa-raised Israeli had finished a degree in journalism from Georgia 
Tech - where her father, a professor at the Technion, was taking part in a 
professors exchange program - and had joined the CNN team in Atlanta working 
on the international desk.
But a fortuitous journey to Sudan sent her down an entirely different career 
path. Today, as head of the UN's World Food Program in the war-torn Congo, 
her work has helped to save countless lives in the country's remote 
villages.
"Returning to Israel after deciding to leave CNN in 1998, I started to focus 
on still photography and for my first story, I went to south Sudan on my 
own," Shneerson recounted to ISRAEL21c while on a brief vacation back home 
in Haifa. "Representatives from the World Food Program hosted me there, and 
I camped with them in the field."
The WFP is a United Nations humanitarian agency focusing on food relief, 
distribution, and insecurity. Founded in 1963 as a three-year experimental 
program, the need was found to be so immense that it was soon turned into a 
permanent agency. Today, it distributes food to 97 million of the poorest 
people in the world
"The WFP people in Sudan said they were looking for a spokesperson and that 
I should apply. I thought it would be exciting to stay there for a while and 
do a photo essay, so I applied and was immediately hired," Shneerson told 
ISRAEL21c.
For the next few years, Shneerson journeyed for the WFP to Sierre Leona, 
Burundi and Liberia, before arriving in the Congo, where she's now head of 
the World Food Program provincial office
"Our main mission is to give food aid - and when we talk about food aid, 
we're talking tons - up to 5,000 a month. We don't just come in and open a 
soup kitchen and provide food for a day," she said. "It's a massive amount 
of food we're talking about - we give food to last a month based on kilo 
calories per person - it's not one meal at a time."
And more than any other country she worked in, the Congo was in dire need of 
that food and aid. From 1997 to 1999, three outbursts of civil conflict led 
to large-scale looting and killings, which displaced over 800,000 people and 
provoked an alarming deterioration of the living conditions of the Congolese 
people. A 2002 stabilization process was jeopardized by a resumption of the 
fighting between rebel groups and government forces in the southern region 
of the country, which continues sporadically until today.
"Congo is still suffering from a prolonged war, created mostly by the people 
themselves. If a village gets attacked, the villagers tend to run away into 
the jungle, or another village. This creates a big food shortage, and it's 
our mission to alleviate that shortage caused by the displacement," said 
Shneerson.
Just last year, some 50,000 families fled their homes in the east's North 
Kivu province due to fighting between the army and rebel militias, she said.
When she's not out in the field supervising the food distribution, an 
average day at the office for Shneerson involves computer work, emails, and 
managing five offices with over 120 staff people.
"It's a massive logistic operation getting trucks to move food from the 
warehouses, loading, unloading. Everything has to be inspected, signed, 
approved - there's a lot of movement and coordination with other agencies 
and with peace keeping missions," she said.
In addition to immediate food relief, the WFP also provides long-term 
recovery programs which potentially will help the population in the Congo 
become more self-sufficient, Shneerson explained.
"We run school feeding programs - in food insecure rural areas, we encourage 
kids to go to school by providing food incentives there. We also work with 
malnourished families in programs with other NGOs, supporting both the 
children and parents, trying to get them back on their feet," she said.
For Shneerson, working with the WFP in the Congo has been a life-changing 
experience which has taught her many lessons about getting along in the 
world. She says it's not a job for everybody.
"You have to erase everything you considered to be behavioral norms, and you 
have to be able to live among extreme poverty. And in order to be able to 
continue to function, you can't get overwhelmed by everything," she said.
"And you have to handle being alone - there's not the entertainment leisure 
time you'd expect in a normal situation. You can spend days away in the 
jungle, and when you come back, there's not very much to do. So you have to 
learn to focus on the work."
Coming from Israel has proved advantageous for Shneerson among the local 
population, she said.
"The native people know I'm from Israel, and to them it's a positive element 
because of the religious context. The majority of the people are Christian, 
and they have a lot of respect and feel close to Israel, which they studied 
in church," she said.
Ironically, Shneerson finds her Arab UN colleagues to be the ones she has 
the most affinity for, and vice versa.
"I find that my closest colleagues are the Arab ones - culturally we're the 
most similar, especially the Sudanese. We're both warm cultures, 
family-oriented."
Shneerson's uncertain how long she can continue at such an intense position 
in such a volatile country. But she says she still receives immense 
satisfaction from it, even though the criteria has changed over the years.
"I used to say that if you save just one person, it's worth it - now I'm not 
so sure.
The change you enact is going to be small, your small little part. You can't 
save the world, but you can save something on a given day. It can be 
overwhelming though and you can get depressed," she said.
"I know I can't stay in countries like this forever," she concluded, adding 
with a laugh, "My mom would be happy if I ended up back in Israel."

 By David Brinn   March 25, 2007
ehm... dispiace deludere la tua voglia di menare anche in Congo, ma
"israeli" è singolare. 
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"israeli" è singolare.
E allora?
-Stefano

 E allora?
hai bisogno, al solito, di traduzione in concetti elementari?
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hai bisogno, al solito, di traduzione in concetti elementari?
Provaci, sempre che tu sia in grado di comprendere ed esplicitare tali
"concetti elementari" :)
-Stefano

 >> E allora?
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il tuo amico nahum fa del sarcasmo: 
sar|cà|smo
s.m.
1 ironia amara e pungente rivolta contro qcn., dettata da animosità e
insoddisfazione e tesa a ferire l’oggetto di tale sdegno
nel titolo del post [messaggio su usenet] usa "invasione sionista"
per canzonare chi si permette di criticare la politica di israele
[baluardo di democrazia in medio oriente]
il post riporta un articolo su una tizia israeliana che è diventata capo
regionale di un programma per il cibo delle nazioni unite in congo. sasha,
onde evitare che qualche idiota [tipo decessi] identifichi con la signora
Aya sia tutto israele, chiarisce la differenza tra "israel" ed "israeli".
al decessi tuttavia non basterà nelmmeno qs post [messaggio su usenet]
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 "israeli" č singolare.
si tratta indubbiamente di una avanguardia. dopo di lei, con la scusa 
dell'intervento umanitario, verranno i settlers mangiabambini.
mi stupisce che non te ne sia accorto. 

identifichi con la signora Aya sia tutto israele,
Infatti Nahum ha parlato di *invasione SIONISTA*, caro *FESSO* di un
Sasha :)
Impara a leggere prima di aprire bocca.  Ti farebbe solo bene.
-Stefano

 Impara a leggere prima di aprire bocca.  Ti farebbe solo bene.
Terminato di analizzare (per i mentecatti come te) il titolo, eri
piuttosto impegnato a trollare che non ti sei accorto che sono passato ai
contenuti dell'articolo citato da nahum. Chiaro, Sua Certezza?
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in Congo, si, come no. Ma sai di cosa stai parlando? Ci sei gia stato
per renderti conto di come è la situazione?

Andrea Nahum ha scritto:
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se leggi l'articolo che hai linkato ti stupirai di trovare che Aya č stata
preceduta da alcuni colleghi arabi (tagliagole naturalmente).
ti conviene lasciare appassire il tuo inutile thread con le ultime
minchiate di decessi.
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Chiaro,
Che sei un *FESSO* incapace di leggere e argomentare?
Era chiaro da un bel pezzo :)  Non preoccuparti.
-Stefano

minchiate di decessi.
...disse il *COGLIONE* dopo la sua ennesima figura di merda... :)
-Stefano

 preceduta da alcuni colleghi arabi
ma non mi dire !
ora verrà pure fuori che in Israele gli arabi hanno il diritto di voto e ci 
sono pure diplomatici beduini !