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Hamas hospital hypocrisy

13/07/2010 / / 0 Comments

Interesting article on Arutz Sheva website a few days ago.

Israeli medicine is second to none. We saw their magnificent response to the Haiti earthquake.

In her article Maayana Miskin tells us that in the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv in the heart of the Zionist entity, 100 patients a month from Gaza are treated.

Yes, you read that correctly, 100 per month. One hospital.

But that’s not all. It also treats foreign Arabs from countries that don’t even recognise Israel.

But that’s not all. The relatives of these Arabs are provided with free food (presumably Halal) and a place to stay.

But that’s not all. It’s just one of several hospitals that do this.

And as a Druze Knesset minister, Ayoub Kara,  points out, Hamas gives nothing in return for this. Well he’s wrong about that. They send hundreds of missile towards amongst other things, hospitals in Sderot and Ashkelon.

And Gilad Shalit still remains a prisoner for four years with no Red cross/Crescent visits.

This is Israel’s version of Humanitarian Aid. It doesn’t arrive with metal bars and knives, just the odd scalpel.

What sort of mentality is this that so demonises the Jews yet accepts their medical care?

Yes, Israel is not perfect, but who else treats its enemies like this in the Middle East?

Dizengoff – now, and then

07/07/2010 / / 0 Comments

There seems to be a new trend that I wasn’t aware of before where a group of people (call it a flash mob if you will) pre-arranges to perform in a public space having secreted itself amongst the general public.

Such an event happened in the Dizengoff Mall in Tel Aviv.

Israeli culture looks to the West and also to the East with its mixture of Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews. This time it’s very much European culture being celebrated.

Watch this event on this YouTube video.

In 1996 a Hamas suicide bomber tried to enter Dizengoff. The security was so tight that he decided to detonate outside on public crosswalk/pedestrian crossing. It was the eve of Purim, a festival notorious with the Nazis who liked to hang Jews in revenge for the hanging of Haman and his sons. Hamas are aware of this connection which is not just orthographic.

13 people were killed including several children.

The gap between normal life and sudden death can be a very small one in Israel.

Israelis have a culture of life, Hamas a culture of death.

Israeli Arab women march through Tel Aviv

09/03/2009 / / 0 Comments

We hear so often that Israel is racist and apartheid, that it is not a true democracy.

Ha’aretz reporter Noah Kosharek reports on a march through Tel Aviv by Arab women which was organised by the Workers Advice Center.

The women want to work in agriculture but there is a general policy of employing foreign workers within that sector. 

The main thrust of the protest is to bring attention to the plight of Arab women and empower them to find work at a fair wage.

Apparently 83% of Arab women in Israel don’t work. This is probably more of a cultural problem than one of discrimination although the article does not explore the causes of such a high figure.

So what is my point?

How many Arab countries would countenance a demonstration by women at all? Were these women marching through Tel Aviv attacked or abused? No. Can you imagine a march of Jewish women in Teheran or Damascus? 

This is a fundamental difference between Israel and its neighbours which many on the left in the UK who support Israel’s enemies: Israel is a free country and a democracy. It is not perfect by any means, but at least everyone regardless of race or religion can find a voice. There is freedom of speech and of the press. 

The world concentrates on Israel’s relationship with the Territories, the Separation Wall, the restriction of movement and illegal settlements. All these are genuine concerns, and the plight of Palestinians outside of ‘Israel proper’ can be described as being between the ‘Rock’ of Israel’s policies in the Territories and the ‘Hard Place’ of being subject to rule by either Hamas or the PA.

The questionof whether you can separate the two Israels – the Israel within the pre-1967 and the Israel in ‘the Territories’  – I’ll leave to another time.

See the article here

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