Haiti is still a nation in shambles. Very little real relief has been able to reach the civilians in need, and many are still on the cusp of death by starvation. The nation lost over 200,000 people from the devastating earthquake, and there are upwards of 1 Million Haitians still without the essentials for survival today!
In the first couple of days after the devastating Haiti earthquake, we watched as Zionist Israel sent a "medical team" to Haiti for "humanitarian aid". Our Zionist controlled press ran the story daily about how this "medical team" was there to help and aid the wounded in Haiti. But revelations surfaced that they were there for a far more nefarious reason: To harvest human organs from Haitian survivors and/or the dying! The Israeli Government cut short their "humanitarian aid" over a week ago, and called this medical team home (with their supply of human organs in tow). There has been nonstop news out of Israel since about the great and nobel deeds of this medical team in helping Haiti!
Now, according to this new article from www.uruknet.info, many are now looking upon this so called Israeli "nobel deed" as sheer hypocrisy, due to their brutality against the people of Gaza! Here is that article, with my comments to follow:
Hypocrisy in HaitiAijaz Zaka Syed
February 7, 2010
Israeli hypocrisy would be comical, if its consequences weren’t so tragic. These days, Israeli media and Israel’s powerful friends in the media in the United States have been tom-tomming about the noble help and rescue mission Israelis have undertaken in the remote, quake-hit island of Haiti.
Doubtless, the catastrophe that has hit Haiti is truly mind-boggling and terrifying. The all-round devastation the island has suffered is beyond words. This is perhaps how our world would look like when the End comes. And one hates to make a political point out of this terrible, terrible human tragedy. But you can’t help it when you come across the kind of hypocrisy that Israel displays in Haiti.
While the people it has locked away in their homes in Gaza and across the Palestinian territories live in most despicable conditions and crave the basics such as food, water, electricity and just about everything else, the magnanimous Israel is sending aid and medical teams to help the luckless people of Haiti.
Can there be a more stunning example of hypocrisy and double standards?
I am not even remotely suggesting that Israel shouldn’t act to help the calamity-hit people of Haiti. In fact, given the magnitude of the tragedy, every one of us should do his or her bit for the unfortunate people.
Lest the U.S. media preoccupied with Israel have failed to notice, Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Iran, Kuwait, Morocco and many others, have also reached out to Haiti, sending much-needed aid soon after the earthquake last month. Despite its tiny size, the U.A.E. has been quick to act through the Red Crescent and even independently, just as it always has in the past.
But you don’t get to hear about them on Fox News or CNN because Arab countries are not crowing about their actions. Perhaps, it’s time they should. In any case, when it comes to fighting a propaganda war and handling the media, Arab and Muslim countries have never been a match for Israel and its many lobbies and think tanks.
Just Google and see how bloggers are praising Israel for its mission in Haiti even as they blast the oil-rich Arab and Muslim countries for not giving a damn or a dime for the needy in Haiti.
This, despite the plane-loads of relief and aid supplies Muslim countries have sent. This is just one instance of how shockingly ill-equipped Arab and Muslim countries are for the modern warfare of the media and the diplomatic battles for hearts and minds.
But this is not about what the Arab and Muslim world is doing in Haiti. This is about the ludicrous double standards of the state that claims to be the only "democracy and civilized society" in the Middle East.
If the Israelis have reached out to the Haiti tragedy by swiftly dispatching a medical team, it’s laudable. But why the gentile Jews who were moved by a tragedy on the other side of the world cannot see what’s been happening right under their noses for years beats me.
It’s indeed good to see that Israelis are after all human and can be moved by human suffering. But I wonder why the same Israeli hearts run dry of the milk of human kindness when it comes to Palestinians.
Help for the helpless Haitians is welcome but what about those languishing in Gaza? As Israeli writer Akiva Eldar argues in a courageous piece in Haaretz, "The remarkable identification with the victims of the terrible tragedy in distant Haiti only underscores the indifference to the ongoing suffering of the people of Gaza. Only a little more than an hour’s drive from the offices of Israel’s major newspapers, 1.5 million people have been besieged on a desert island for two and a half years. Who cares that 80 per cent of the men, women and children living in such proximity to us have fallen under the poverty line? How many Israelis know that half of all Gazans are dependent on charity, that Operation Cast Lead created hundreds of amputees, that raw sewage flows from the streets into the sea?"
Why aren’t there more voices like that of Eldar from within Israeli society against the victimization and persecution of Palestinians? Why don’t more Israeli journalists and commentators protest against the inhuman treatment of Palestinians, whose only crime is that they were born at the wrong time in the wrong country? They are as guilty as the Jews had been seven decades ago when the Nazis sent them to their death. Why can’t yesterday’s victims see the tragic irony and incongruity of their actions against today’s victims?
As Eldar has the moral courage to point out, if Haiti is a natural disaster, "The one in Gaza is the un-proud handiwork of man. Our handiwork!"
Israeli media is full of heart-warming, feel-good stories about the brave Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, soldiers and medical teams saving lives and rescuing babies on the Caribbean island. But how many Israelis care about the babies and infants dying for lack of critical food and medicines in Palestinian territories under their occupation? How many care about pregnant women, critically injured men dying after endlessly waiting at Israeli checkpoints?
The Israeli concern for people in the devastated Haiti is very touching. But how many Israelis care two hoots about the thousands of Palestinian families living in open, in the ruins of their former homes?
Israel’s bombing blitz on Gaza last year destroyed 60,000 homes, 3,500 of which were totally turned into rubble. More than 1,500 people, nearly half of them women and children, were killed in the war that started the day after Christmas in the land that gave birth to Christ.
And much of the surviving population in the limbo that is Gaza cannot go back to living, nor can it rebuild its homes and demolished city. The Israeli blockade of the Strip means nothing, including construction material and the promised aid by the international community, can get into Gaza.
Isn’t this a mockery of humanity and the so-called international community that while this population languishes under a lockdown in the largest prison on the planet, Israel sends food and medicines to the people on the other side of the world? Can there be a more breathtaking example of injustice? As Akiva Eldar says, "the images of Israeli doctors (helping) in Haiti cannot blur Israel’s ugly face" in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine.
When will the world break its silence to end this charade in the Holy Land? When will the world act to stop Israel’s oppression? How long will the poor Palestinians have to carry this heavy cross that the West has forced on them? Any answers, Mr. Barack Obama? Any clue, Mr. Ban Ki-moon?
*Aijaz Zaka Syed is a widely published Dubai-based commentator. Write to him
at aijaz.syed@hotmail.com
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:: Article nr. 63051 sent on 08-feb-2010 06:16 ECT
NTS Notes: This is sickening and shows the two faced nature of the Israeli government and the IDF. These criminals are committing crimes against humanity against their neighbours, especially the people of Gaza, and yet they want to sway world opinion because of their "humanitarian actions" in Gaza? Hypocrisy indeed!
And BTW, the suspicion that that "medical team" was there to harvest Human Organs is still open and should be investigated. I will do my part, so stay tuned.....
More to come
NTS
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