Haitian hypocrisy

There is a misprint here:

The disaster in Haiti is a natural one; the one in Gaza is the unproud handiwork of man.

should be

The disaster in Haiti is a natural one; the one in Gaza is the unproud handiwork of Hamas terrorists.

What a cheap shot by a muckraking Ha'aretz journalist who's too lazy to go out and find a real story

And what a cheap lying ageist Troll for reprinting it

The headline should read :"Despite our humanitarian aid to Haiti the media that libelled us over Gaza stays shtum"
sub-heading: "Delegitimising us is still the name of the game"

The disaster in Haiti is a natural one, and its victims are innocents whose country is the poorest in the Western hemisphere.

The disaster in Gaza is the result of a vile, brutal, corrupt, stupid Islamist regime attacking a neighbouring country which was in a position - after long and painful provocation - to hit back. Even the Arab states correctly warned Hamas what would happen in Gaza if they continued to fire rockets over the border. They didn't stop and it did happen.

But it's Israel's response we are talking about, not the disaster per se.

I'm glad to see the foreign megaphones know better than someone actually living in Israel. What is it, Jonathan, your plans for Board domination hit the buffers because of age? Worra numpty.

Let's look at the facts, shall we? Israel's IDF seems to want a more careful of things during operations to ensure the law is followed. This was done after the Goldstone Report. It was in the Israeli papers. Obviously, the IDF was stung by the report. It's image was hurt. Also, the t-shirts that made fun of killing in Gaza were disturbing even if the said t-shirts didn't prove anything happened anymore than the graffiti. What about the use of phosphorous in populated areas? We are talking about human beings. Yes, Hamas fires rockets, and, yes, they are war crimes. However, Hamas's actions do not justify collective punishment. Furthermore, the government turned a blind eye to Hamas in the early 80s so they could kill PLO men. Later, this backfired in the 90s for both the PLO and ordinary Israelis. Barak and Olmert intended to attack Gaza before the cease-fire broke down on November 4th and apply the "Dahiya Doctrine" know to Israeli military circles. This is named after a Beirut neighborhood that was pummeled. For years Gaza has suffered from a blockade. Has Israel acted humanely. I am happy Haitians are being helped, and I don't blame soldiers for policy. I don't think the government of Israel acts in a moral, responsible way. The Palestinians are simply treated as mind objects in the way as part of a larger egoic, nationalist project. They are not human, but obstacles in the way. The Haitians are partially a PR stunt to repair the image of the IDF. I am sure many of the IDF people there are mensches and great people. I am not judging ordinary people.

The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.

- Colonel Richard Kemp, former Commander, UK forces in Afghanistan

As Andrew says, Haiti and Gaza have nothing to do with each other, except in the minds of the Israel bashing CIF-exiled Trolls on this site.

One is a horrific natural disaster, the other "is the result of a vile, brutal, corrupt, stupid Islamist regime attacking a neighbouring country which was in a position - after long and painful provocation - to hit back."

So, Jonathan, you have found one single British officer to back Israel. Together with your bloggers and your papers published with sources ranging from Israel's Ministry of Defence, the Kibbutz movement's haganah and Palmach archive and the extreme right wing Gallili centre this does not add up to much more than a hill of beans.