from an email i just received...
Saturday evening on his Geraldo At Large program anchored from Haiti and aired on FNS, Geraldo Rivera and his brother Craig reported on an Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF) field hospital operating in Haiti . Within 24 hours of the earthquake the IDF had arrived in Haiti and built their field hospital (16 hours flying and 8 hours building). They have a full operating theater, a pediatric ICU, an Obstetrics facility and about 100 beds, all set up in a tent. The unit is staffed by about 40 IDF doctors. They are saving lives by preventing infection in neglected wounds and by operating when necessary.
The IDF unit is complemented by a ZAKA unit, the folks who clean up human remains after bombings and provide for compassionate burial. It is worth noting that ZAKA are primarily Orthodox Jews who violated the Sabbath in order to get to Haiti quickly. Jewish law says saving lives takes precedence over the Sabbath.
There has been a general lack of publicity for this effort which I believe is based on a perception among the media that Israel is too controversial to show a purely humanitarian side. It begs the question among Israel bashers why Israel can be so compassionate in Haiti and so allegedly brutal in the territories. Nobody wants to get into this. It shows the success of the Arab propaganda campaign to demonize Israelis and delegitimize the Jewish State
My comments:
Israel and Israelis are amazing as far as I am concerned and when you are in their country you see how Arabs & Muslims, Jews and Christians can all get along and they do, somehow they make it work, and I think it has to do with the Jews running the government. If it was an Arab government the Jews would probably not be there, they would be killed, forced to move, forced to convert...who knows. The state is one that everyone wants for the religious history and culture but somehow the Jewish government continues to make it work, as best as they can. Kudos
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