The article, "Israel's Disproportionate Response" has been posted with permission from the author         Israeli First Responders: The facts speak for themselves Commentary on the article, "Israel’s Disproportionate Response"   By Jeff Bruzzo It seems the Israel bashers, here and at the U.N., have been quiet lately on the heroic fact that Israel has been one of the first responders in Haiti, after the horrific earthquake on January 12, 2010. So much so, that their silence has permeated the cubicle lined offices of most of the MSM as well. Project Shining City firmly believes in setting the truth straight and we will do so without the political correctness once again. As my brother stood at the Gaza border in Israel recently, on a training mission with Israeli first responders and Doctors, He held pieces of some of the more than 5,000 Kassam rockets fired onto Israeli schools, hospitals, and civilian homes… on purpose. Yet it was those same hospitals which afforded wounded terrorists the same care as the Israelis they sought to kill after the Gaza actions, (Operation Cast Lead) by Israel. Still there are those who must belch the proliferation of anti-Semitic hearsay by claiming mass figures of a Gaza holocaust in and of itself. For the limited and under-proportional Israeli response to year after year attacks from Gaza, any civilian casualties are quickly termed over kill, when the sad truth lies in the fact that Muslim terrorists are the first ones to hide behind innocent children in schools, hospitals, and homes. The following article, by Peggy Shapiro, recognizes what many in high places often deliberately fail to mention… how after all of the above, Israel still shows an overwhelming generosity to the world. They are among the leaders in the world when it comes to first response and security; honed out of years of survival against a ruthless enemy who wouldn’t think twice about blowing themselves up in a market of innocent civilians. Haiti is only the latest example of Israeli good will and many are witness to this fact. Israel's Disproportionate Response Peggy Shapiro In the midst of the tragedy and chaos in the Haitian capital, Israeli doctors, part of IsraAID -F.I.R.S.T. (the Israel Forum for International Aid), delivered a healthy baby boy in an IDF field hospital. When the baby's grateful mother, Gubilande Jean Michel saw her newborn son, alive and well, she named him Israel in gratitude to the people and nation who brought her this blessing. Little Israel is one of the hundreds who have been saved by Israeli doctors or rescue teams. A search and rescue team from the ZAKA Israel's International Rescue Unit pulled eight Haitian college students from a collapsed eight-story university building. Despite its small size, Israel sent a large contingent of highly-trained aid workers to quake-stricken Haiti. Two jumbo jets carrying more than 220 doctors, nurses, civil engineers, and other Israeli army personnel, including a rescue team and field hospital, were among the first rescue teams to arrive in Haiti. In fact, they were the first foreign backup team to set up medical treatment at the partially collapsed main hospital in Port-au-Prince. Yigal Palmor, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman said, "It's a large delegation and we're prepared to send more." The international agencies that condemn Israel for its "disproportionate response" when it is attacked are not mentioning Israel's disproportionate response to human suffering. The U.S. has pledged 100 million and sent supplies and personnel. The U.K. pledged $10 million and sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers.China, a country with a population of 1,325,639,982 compared to Israel's 7.5 million sent 50 rescuers and seven journalists. The 25 Arab League nations sent nothing. At the start of Sunday's regular Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli team had already treated hundreds of patients. "I think that this is in the best tradition of the Jewish People; this is the true covenant of the State of Israel and the Jewish People," he said. "This follows operations we have carried out in Kenya and Turkey; despite being a small country, we have responded with a big heart. The fact is, I know, that this was an expression of our Jewish heritage and the Jewish ethic of helping one's fellow. " In the rubble and suffering of Haiti, Israelis are relentlessly searching for and saving lives. It is this "disproportionate response" that rankles their enemies the most, for it shines a light on their failings. I’m sure the conspiracy theory pundits are hard at work writing off the above facts as a U.S. military plan to dominate the Caribbean, much as Hugo Chavez claimed the Navy was responsible for the Earth quake to begin with. As much as the Truthers have left Israeli super plots of a 9/11 conspiracy with more question marks and derisive accusations, based on fact-less documents and speculation, I have never heard one of them mention the following, by the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C, found at: http://www.israelemb.org/articles/2005/september/hurricane_katrina_Israeli_response.html “On September 8, 2005, an Israeli airlift arrived on a specially chartered EL-AL flight with relief aid. The 80 ton shipment included baby food, diapers, water, ready-to-eat meals, clothes, tents, blankets, mattresses, stretchers, first aid kits, wheelchairs and other medical supplies donated from different governmental institutions, civilian institutions and the IDF.” They were one of the few international teams to assist us in the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans Count your friends America!