As I imagine all of you are doing, I’ve been following the horrific news from Haiti. One aspect struck me as noteworthy, though I haven’t seen any mention of it in the mainstream media.
Israel has been particularly energetic in helping Haiti. Its Foreign Ministry just announced that Israel will send a delegation to establish a field hospital there. The hospital will include 40 doctors and 24 nurses, and is scheduled to leave Thursday evening. Capable of treating 500 patients, it will include an intensive care unit, two operating rooms, a pharmacy, and an X-ray lab. Search and rescue agents from the Homefront Command will also be sent. Diaspora Jewish groups are also rushing to get aid workers, supplies and money to the disaster zone. An advance five-member IDF-Foreign Ministry team left for Haiti on Wednesday, including experts in engineering, medicine, logistics and rescue operations from the IDF's Home Front Command. A team of four ZAKA volunteers (which is known for collecting body parts from terrorist bombing for proper burial), which was in Mexico to recover body parts of victims of a helicopter crash that killed Jewish businessman and philanthropist Moises Saba Masri and three of his family members, was now moving onto Haiti to help there. An Israeli coalition of humanitarian groups, IsraAID, is sending a 12-man search-and-rescue team, which includes emergency medical staff.
Last November, Haiti was one of 114 UN members to vote in favor of adopting the infamous Goldstone Report, condemning Israel for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” for defending itself against rocket attacks from Gaza.
Apparently, Israel does not hold grudges.
(By the way, I haven’t noticed a single reference to any of Israel’s oil-rich neighbors sending a single volunteer or spending a single petro-dollar to help Haiti. I guess they’re too distracted by the Palestinian “refugee camps” which they’ve allowed to fester in their territory for the past 60 years.)
Lawrence J. Siskind
Harvey Siskind LLP
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