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Remarkable note towards the Tsunami disaster
I got an email recently explaining how much effort Israel has put in offering help in the Tsunami Disaster.
Actually I already knew this information. Israel, like in many cases, does have the knowledge how to deal with big disasters. (Israel's years of war with neighboring countries and bombing attacks by Palestinian suicide attackers have honed its rescue and recovery services and it has sent military medical teams to other countries hit by disaster, among them Turkey, Macedonia and Rwanda)
After the first news of the sea quake, they sent many volunteers to the places in need.
But we all know the position towards jews/israeli today, especially in muslim countries.
What happened?
Read it here:
Israel has offered its hard-won expertise in handling disaster to Sri Lanka and India in the wake of Asia's tsunami tragedy but it has met with a lukewarm response.
Israel's army sent 82 tons of medical and humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka, and Israel's civilian rescue service, working with the Red Cross, dispatched a planeload of blood products. An additional 40 tons of supplies collected by private donors flew out Friday.
But an offer to deploy 150 seasoned military medics and support personnel to set up field hospitals was rejected, Israeli security officials said on condition of anonymity.
Neither Israel nor Sri Lanka made any official comment on the island nation's rejection of Israeli army medical teams. A military spokeswoman said only that after consultation with Israeli officials, there was a decision to scratch plans to send service personnel and to dispatch instead "appropriate" aid. She did not elaborate.
In moments of urgent need, and solidarity, and especially aid that was sent, before many other countries had sent aid workers or humanitarian aid, those countries just refused...
What to say?
Posted on January 15, 2005
in Limit of my knowledge
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