Dear Khaled, Ramadan, Fatma, Rula, Ratiba, Mohammed Omar, Mohammed Balata, Suleiman, Youssef, Wa’el, Kifaia, I can’t say all the names, so many friends, everybody from the NCCR , the teams of the North and the South, all our friends in Palestine, your families, your children, we wish you all the very best for 2005, we wish you peace and justice and love, and strength to endure, and we wish for 2005 to be a better year than before.

In 2005 we will again work together, and strengthen our friendship.

All the best from your Kifaia friends in the Netherlands, Joes, Eelco, Ruud, Karin, Henny, Joris, Marijke, Josette, Helma, Jan, Deny, Anneke, Max, Leo, and everybody else, the ones you know and the ones you don’t know yet. You are in our hearts.

(I hope you like the picture of the fireworks in Amsterdam. It looks nice but it doesn’t sound nice. It sounds like an Israeli attack on Gaza)