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Flotilla farce: Hamas refuses to allow in ‘humanitarian aid’ (2)

07/06/2010 / / 0 Comments

As I write, most of the aid from the Freedom Flotilla and the Rachel Corrie that Israel has sent through to its crossings with Gaza is not being allowed in by Hamas.

Can you believe that? Its people are in such dire need but Hamas  will not allow in this ‘vital’ aid.

Where are the protests from the Free Gaza Movement about Hamas’s inhuman blockade? Why are the IHH not slammimg Hamas. Why is Turkish prime minster Erdogan not taking Hamas to task? Where is Ban Ki Moon? John Ging (UNWRA) anyone? Amnesty International? Save the Children? Human Rights Watch? All silent. Desmond Tutu? Shtum.

I see. It’s only when Israel blocks anything that it’s wrong. Now I see. Thank you so much you irrational bunch of hypocrites. At last I am enlightened.

What the hell is going on when no-one says anything about this!

The Palestinian Authority’s Crimes against (its own) humanity

19/03/2009 / / 0 Comments

Following my previous post here Arutz Sheva today reported the results of the P.A’s decision not to fund hospital treatment in Israel for its citizens.

This decision by P.A. health minister Fathi Abu Moughli was as a result of Operation Cast Lead and is testimony to the perverted mindset which believes that such an action would harm Israel and remove a propaganda opportunity. Anything which reveals Israel to be in any way humanitarian is to be deplored, according to the P.A’s warped logic.

The Arutz Sheva report is very disturbing:

A decision by the Palestinian Authority Health Minister to cut off medical benefits at Israeli hospitals has cost the life of at least one little girl…

Six-year-old Asil Manasra died. The Palestinian Authority child had for eight months been receiving intensive treatment at an Israeli hospital for complications arising from tuberculosis. One week after the PA Health Ministry forced her family to stop the visits, the little girl struggled for breath no more..

It continues:

“I blame everyone. Should children die because of political decisions?” Asil’s father asked the AP reporter in anguish. “How can you stop treatment? When a child is so sick that she is going to die, is there something more important than that?”

Apparently, for the Palestinian Authority, propaganda is more important than life.  This is a sad fact of Palestinian life – it, life itself,  is only valued if taken by Israelis. Otherwise, Palestinian lives are pawns in a political and ideological game.

Read the whole sad story here


Israel’s International Rescue

16/03/2009 / / 0 Comments

ZAKA is not a name that is well-know outside Jewish circles. That’s because it is a UN-recognised Israeli humanitarian organisation. Not many people are interested in anything to do with Israel’s humanitarian activities – it doesn’t quite fit with their preconceptions, prejudices or bias.

So for the uninformed here goes: ZAKA is a volunteer rescue and recovery service.  The organisation’s job is often a harrowing one, literally picking up the pieces after terrorist attacks, originally just in Israel.

It’s role expanded over time because it widened its remit to include disasters abroad to recover the bodies of Jews to ensure burial according to Jewish law and practice.

Now Zaka is using its experience to train voluntary groups around the world to help them cope with disasters (natural and man-made) and the aftermath of terrorist atacks.

Volunteers will be act as a first response unit assisting other professional on the scene of the incident.

ZAKA has already assisted after the Tsunami in Thailand, the bombing at Taba in Egypt, in Mumbai and in Namibia, a country with whom Israel does not even have diplomatic relations.

As UN NGO it can go anywhere in the world without invitation.

ZAKA assists with the living and dead of all nations regardless of race or religion. And although it specialises in Jewish victims it makes no distinctions.

Such is its work that it has even been put forward for a Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the UK parliament.

The PA’s sick logic

05/03/2009 / / 0 Comments

I recently wrote about how many Palestinians have sought medical treatment in Israel.

Now Israel’s ‘peace partners’ cannot bear that Israel might be seen in a good light. So what do they do? They further emiserate the lives of their own people:

The Palestinian Authority has announced that it will stop sending sick Arabs to Israeli hospitals and will cut off funds to local residents who use Israeli medical facilities. “Israel cannot be allowed to render medical aid at the same time it is killing us,” said PA Health Minister Fathi abu Marlee.

So reports Arutz Sheva today. So yet again the Palestinian leadership not only fails its own people but blatantly uses them in its propaganda battle against Israel. It would rather they die than be treated by Israelis.

Tragic.

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