Israeli Aid, Unreported

[drdon326]

When disaster strikes anywhere in the world, Israelis can be counted on to help. So it's no surprise that within hours of the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the following humanitarian missions all departed from the tiny Jewish state:

�œ The Israeli organization Latet ('To Give') filled a jumbo jet with 18 tons of supplies.

�œ A medical team headed by four doctors from Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday night (Dec. 27), carrying medicine and baby food. The doctors specialize in rescue operations, trauma and pediatrics.

�œ An IDF rescue team is now on its way to Sri Lanka with 80 tons of aid material, including 10,000 blankets, tents, nylon sheeting and water containers, all contributed by the IDF.

�œ A ZAKA rescue-and-recovery team arrived in the disaster areas Monday night, armed with its specialized equipment for identifying bodies.

�œ A Health Ministry contingent left for Thailand on Monday night to aid in rescue efforts. The group includes doctors, nurses and four members of the IDF.

�œ Israel has also offered its assistance to India �\ a search-and-rescue team from the Home Front Command, as well as consignments of food and medicine.

Yet, with the exception of UPI (as of this writing - Tues. 4pm EST), none of the major news outlets have dedicated an article to this remarkable Israeli humanitarian effort. This, despite the fact that the IDF sent all Israel-based journalists a press release Monday evening (Dec. 27), inviting them to the airport to cover the departure of one IDF group.

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Israeli_Aid3_Unreported.asp

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Someone remind me....how many people are Saudi ARABIA, Jordan, Egypt,lebanon,Kuwait and their best friend France sending ??

Yeah....as one poster stated....just "let it die".

[AngryAmish]

1. Didn't Sri lanka decline the aid?

[drdon326]

2. Not the aid....

they just didnt want "those Israelis" called the IDF.


In other words...well accept your help and money.. but you are not welcome here !!

[Violet_Crumble]

21. Here's a link to a thread about it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x83338

They didn't decline the aid, nor did they decline help from Israeli personnel...

Violet...

[President Kerry]

3. actually quite a bit..

It's senseless and stupid to be provocative in times of tragedy. No one accused Israel of being stingy, to my knowledge. But you post is only here to incite Arab- and France-bashing. And yes, this coming from a Jew.

[Eric J in MN]

5. The point of the article isn't to be controversial. The point

is that we hear so much about the bad stuff Israel does.

We should hear about the good stuff, too.

[President Kerry]

11. but not in a "we're better and more generous

and all-that-crap way". I applaud Israel for their relief efforts, but they, just like us in Iraq, have lots of humanitarian work to do in Palestine to prove themselves.

[Forkboy]

9. Don bash the French?

senseless and stupid

lol

[drdon326]

10. I apologize...

whatever you say.

[Forkboy]

12. Well,that was sincere

:eyes:

Listen Don,the fact that Israel is doing what they can is great.The fact that France is doing what they can is great.

Let the hate go for a day or two.

[drdon326]

13. Nah....

after reading your posts in other forums, I'm not going to argue with you , man.

[mike_c]

4. maybe Israel should spend the money easing the humanitarian...

...disaster it has caused in Palestine. Crocodile tears from Israelis don't mean much when they are themselves the deliberate cause of immense human suffering.

[Eric J in MN]

6. Does that go for the US?

Should we only spend money easing the suffering we've caused in Iraq, and not give to Indoneisa, Sri Lanka, and other nations hit by the tsunami?

[mike_c]

8. good question....

My personal opinion is that yes, restitution to Iraq should come first.

[KlatooBNikto]

7. Let us applaud Israel's great efforts to help the victims of this colossal

targedy.Every act of kindness, fellowship and mercy has a ripple effect and it can only produce goodwill among men. Let this be the first act of an ever expanding force for good in the world. Let us use this tragedy to get rid of hatred.Israel has clearly shown the way.

[Elise]

14. I'll second that emotion!

Thank you, Israel, for acting as always: offering tangible assistance to those in need.

[Elise]

15. Arab states offer their help:

Oh, wait: it's only Kuwait!

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=3799&cat=a

[KlatooBNikto]

17. I don't think we should worry about who provides aid and who doesn't.

All of us who are blessed with life, health and happiness in this country and others that are not affected should count ourselves as the fortunate ones who have the opportunity to help our fellow men in need.This tragedy to me shows how trivial our man made differences are, be they religious, racil or anything else. Let us put them aside.

[Elise]

26. Ordinarily, I would certainly agree,

however, this is the I/P forum ...............

[Name removed]

28. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Elise]

29. Why,

whatever do you mean?

O8)

[bpilgrim]

30. yep, like your post that started this thread...

complete BS... see what i mean?

peace

[Elise]

33. I didn't start this thread

Peace? :eyes:

[bpilgrim]

38. sorry

THIS sub-thread :eyes:

peace

[bpilgrim]

32. i posted the mirror opposite of your accusatory post

which of course you have now edited to completely change it's original MSG. probably to confuse and be generally deceptive as is your habit.

well, at least you can't edit your original BS that started this twisted thread.

like i said, how predictable :crazy:

peace

[Elise]

34. Again:

I did not start this thread; but do find it 'interesting' that you continue to insist it is somehow twisted.

What part of that are you unable to comprehend?

:crazy:

[bpilgrim]

39. zzZZZ...

i'm just glad we now have a whole thread - and sub thread - that clearly illustrates both of your callous attitudes no matter the horrific circumstance for all to see.

thanks for sharing :toast:


peace

[Englander]

36. It's been edited twice,at least.

The previous post as well!! And,the two "liberals" here have matching avatars; isn't that sweet?

:hi:

[Elise]

40. Yes, the only 2 liberals here

are yin and yang. Your point?

Now, please turn your attention to issues of substance: see my post re the private little war. So I won't be accused by, what, the non-liberals here?, of multiple editing, I will guess the post you might be considering is #35 .... but, it might be + or - that #.

To address your not-so-subtle slam, it is incomprehensible that any liberal would wish the tiny sliver of the ME to simply lie down and die. Tell me: is that your idea of Hitler, The Return?

[Englander]

42. Post 26,29. You've completely changed the meaning...

of those 2,after they were given a response.

I'll answer your question,say in about 50 minutes,so that the answer I give will bear some relation to the original question.:hi:

[Violet_Crumble]

19. I must thank you for getting the priorities straight...

I know now the most urgent and pressing priority out of this catastrophic disaster is to sit around and play Country A is better than Country B because they gave more money! Hell, damn that liberal media for focusing on the victims! They should be spending 24/7 praising a bunch of countries for the aid they send! Let's not forget who the real stars of the Tsunami-Show are!!

Methinks there's more than one person here who needs to let go of petty biases for at least five minutes and think about how disgusting it is to use this disaster as nothing more than a wagon to peddle their own little agendas...

Oh, and seeing yr so fascinated with the Arab states, read post 18...

Violet...

[newyorican]

16. I don't know about "unreported"

as I read about Latet on Google.

But, cudos are deserved for lending whatever can be usefully employed.

Sri Lanka did not turn down anything. They simply could not handle a group as large as 150 from Israel. They did accept a group of about 50.

[Violet_Crumble]

20. Thailand's also turned down foreign personnel...

So Sri Lanka's not alone. On the news last night a Thai official was saying that they'd been totally overwhelmed with the personnel sent by other countries (mostly without being asked) and asked them to stop sending them until Thailand requests them....

Violet...

[eyl]

25. So did India

[catbert836]

18. Even though I'm a Palestinian supporter,

I have to applaud Israel's generosity in this case. We should all do so. I doubt the people affected by the tsunami care where their aid is coming from.

As for the rest Dr. Don mentioned:
Saudi Arabia: $10 million
Jordan: $12 million
Egypt: $13 million
Lebanon: $7 million
Kuwait: $8 million
France: $23 million

This was from Reuters, in a country by country breakdown of where the aid is coming from. I'd give you the link, but it seems they have already shut it down. There's also a lot of physical help coming from these countries, by way of supplies and people on the ground. If I find specifics, I'll post them.

I applaud their generosity, and I think all Israeli supporters should as well. For the tsunami, it's time for us to abandon politics and help the victims.

[pelsar]

22. catbert....

thanks....as an israeli....thats one of the places we start breaking down the "barriers". just recognizing that there is good within each society, when we see and recognize it.

[drdon326]

27. I applaud their generosity......

N/T

[bpilgrim]

31. but what about the censorship?

are you OUTRAGED?
do you have a link to an article that expresses this outrage?

maybe in the jpost :shrug:

peace

[Elise]

35. What censorship?

You are responding to a post about countries which have donated to the tsunami tragedy.

Why do you gratuitously take a shot at drdon326 by posting: "are you OUTRAGED? do you have a link to an article that expresses this outrage? maybe in the jpost"

What is that about? If you are having a private little war with another member here, how does that fit into the rules?

[bpilgrim]

41. Arab Aid, Unreported

he started this thread on the very topic of a country that is providing aid not being reported so i naturally thought he was concerned with the issue.

shoot, it even tripped you up...

"Arab states offer their help: Oh, wait: it's only Kuwait!"
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=3799&cat=a

what's this about? are y'all just FRONTING :shrug:

hope that helps :hi:

peace

[King Mongo]

23. unreported news

>>Someone remind me....how many people are Saudi ARABIA, Jordan, Egypt,lebanon,Kuwait and their best friend France sending ??

I guess that such was not reported by the UPI, otherwise, you would have read it and informed us about it.

[bpilgrim]

24. so how many millions does that add up to?

Saudi pledges $10 million in aid to Tsunami victims

28 Dec 2004 21:58:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
RIYADH, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Oil-rich Saudi Arabia pledged on Tuesday a $10 million aid package to victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia, which officials say has killed more than 59,000 people and affected millions of others.

A statement on the official Saudi Press Agency said the country would donate $5 million worth of food, tents and medicine, to be transported and distributed via the Saudi Red Crescent.

source...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28610241.htm

maybe it's just at the end of a very long list, fortunately for the victims.

i hope a BIDDING WAR breaks out :evilgrin:

peace

[Englander]

37. "Honestreporting" are bigoted wingnuts....

They might have a point about the non-reporting of Israeli aid,but only a bigoted,weird-arse fundie wingnut would use the deaths of 120,000+ to make a petty,pathetic political point about the OT.

[lefty_mcduff]

43. What's France up to? Let's take a look, shall we....

PARIS, Dec 30 (AFP) - France will provide 22.16 million euros (30.14 million dollars) in international aid for nations hit by the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean over the weekend, as the overall death toll rose to nearly 81,000, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

A further 1.56 million euros in bilateral assistance was earmarked for "humanitarian aid and assistance to people" in the form of rescue and identification teams, specialists for psychological assistance, repatriations and maritime search patrols by sea and air.

Another 5.6 million euros are the French quota as part of an EU aid package, the ministry said.


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