Israel, Haiti, Gaza and the Left Jack Kemp Even the mainstream media, the handmaiden of the left, cannot ignore the role of Israel in sending two 747s full of rescuers to Haiti and setting up a field hospital. Proportionately, it is a gift of labor and money greater than many other countries, including oil rich Arab states, have given to save lives in Haiti. CNN reported - on its blog that: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/21/israels-operation-in-haiti/ "The country has always been committed to helping the international community. Israel has been doing this for a while with relief missions in Kenya in 2002, El Salvador and India in 2001, and even going back to aiding Rwandan refugees in Zaire in '94. Don't forget that Israel lies on the Syrian-African rift, so we have to be prepared for a major quake. We have minor ones, but we are preparing for worse. It's important for us to have highly trained people ready to do that work. We do exercises to simulate a variety of scenarios that can occur. We must practice for manmade destruction from war, but also for natural disasters. Home Front Command coordinates using construction sites after a building is demolished, and before the rubble is cleared away. In July, we had a national preparedness drill called Turning Point 3, which tested response on every level in an emergency. Last week we hosted the IPRED conference (International Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters) with drills and discussions on disasters and emergency medicine." END OF QUOTE A second team of Israeli rescuers was sent in with joint funding from the Christian Broadcasting Network http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/January/Israel-Op-Blessing-Send-Second-MedTeam-to-Haiti/ and Reuters is reporting that a Haitian boy has been flown to Israel for open heart surgery. http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=34963905&videoChannel=75 All of this is far from the image the left likes to report about Israel, as an apartheid colonialist state that hates non-Jews. The media's short memory has also forgotten that from 1988 to 1991, Israel, with US help (that would be George Bush Sr., the 41st President), flew fourteen thousand Falashas, Ethiopian Jews, out of that war torn country to Israel in a huge rescue effort. Those were black skinned Jews that they rescued from Ethiopia who now live in Israel. Israel has also offered much agricultural development aid to many African countries over the years which doesn’t get much press. If you are old enough to remember the movies about the 1976 Entebbe rescue, you will note that Israel built the Entebbe Airport - and thus had its blueprints. There has been much discussion of the war in Gaza, as told from the yuppie version of history, i.e., as if it started with the invention of the first cell phones in 1980 or so. The truth is that Arab bands have been attacking Israel on raids from Gaza from the 1950s and earlier. That was roughly fifteen years before there was a Six Day War and a West Bank taken militarily by Israel as a result of Jordan joining Egypt's failed war against Israel. I cannot add a great deal of analysis about the current situation in Gaza, but there is a personal story I wish to relate from the 1990s. While posting messages on a Usenet political message board, I replied to someone saying he was traveling to Gaza by stating he had best be careful for his safety. This brought a response from a student with an MIT email address immediately calling me, in politically correct form, a racist. I told this young man that I was a person born in a hospital in post-war Germany where the doctors had to watch out for nurses giving newborn Jewish infants water instead of formula, therefore starving them and I knew a lot more about racism than this...kid from MIT. I also pointed out to him that in Kibbutz Gesher, southeast of the Sea of Galilee on the Jordanian border, the children slept in underground bunkers even a few years after the Six Day War because various artillery shells were launched at the kibbutz. What I left out of the conversation is that residents made sculptures out of them in the front lawns of their small houses. I then told the "genius" from MIT that an idealistic Israeli lawyer had opened up an office in Gaza and was killed by a local resident. I can't find information on him with general, free search engines today, but this really happened. Lastly I suggested to Mr. MIT that he leave his comfortable apartment in Cambridge and go to live in Gaza. Opening up a big mouth and accusing someone of "racism" in the comfort of Massachusetts takes no effort or dedication. And if you are young, you perhaps believe every member of the 60s Generation you encounter on an internet board can be shamed merely by the accusation of "racism." Until such time as it doesn't work. MIT didn't teach him a Plan B for handling that possibility. I never got either a posted message or email reply from the MIT student. Apparently the only coefficient o friction he could deal with was in a laboratory. Years later, in analyzing the Hollywood left's outrage over Mel Gibson's drunken remarks while ignoring the Vanessa Redgrave's political hatred of Israel, i.e., giving her continued movie parts while blackballing him, I came to a conclusion about modern politically correct moral outrage. In Judaism, there are no perfect human beings. That is particularly true of the Jews mentioned in the Bible, with all their faults. In Christianity (as I understand it as an outsider), there is only one perfect human being — and He rose to heaven on Easter Sunday around 33 A.D. So for both religions, there are no perfect human beings walking the earth today. But for the liberal religion, they attempt to rewrite Christ's words, (Let he who is without sin cast the first stone) into "By casting the first stone, you can spin it politically so as to imply that you are without sin." In other words, if you denounce someone of the Right loudly while ignoring your tacit support for someone of the Left doing the same or worse, you — as a liberal — can get a free pass in the media.