Hamas Lawyers Up With the Help of the Red Cross While Israel Unilaterally Disarms

Benweingarten.com ^ | 2015-08-19 | Ben Weingarten

[fredericbastiat1]

This past Sunday, The New York Times ran a story encapsulating all that is wrong with the Western world’s approach to extremist Islamic fundamentalism.

In a report appearing in its first section, the paper revealed a startling bit of news: “Red Cross offers workshops in international law to Hamas.”

That’s right. The global institution, which claims that it works “to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles,” is busying conducting seminars for terrorists in Gaza on how they can be, umm, more humanitarian when attacking Israel.

What’s next? Teaching table manners to the Taliban? The Times article goes on to describe the three-day seminar that the Red Cross conducted for Hamas last month. It included role-playing and case studies, noting that “one exercise involved an armed group firing on an invading tank from the garden of a civilian home near a hospital.” How educational! Mamadou Sow, head of Red Cross operations in Gaza, breezily noted to the Times that earlier this year, when he presented Hamas leadership with a critique of their conduct during last summer’s Gaza war, they “welcomed it” and “indicated that they are a learning organization.”

[Macoozie]

There is HUGE gulf between Red Cross and Magen David Adom.
In the US, the Red Cross is seen by some as a symbol of oppressive religious bigotry.
(i.e. It’s only a reverse Swiss flag, not a bloody crucifix)
Red Crescent societies have a similar schism.

It ain’t your Grandma’s Red Cross no more.

The “Social Justice” Harpies claimed the International movement years ago.

[EinNYC]

This is why I refuse to contribute to the Red Cross any more. A couple of months ago, when there was some sort of heartbreaking incident resulting in many injured people in another country, I sent funds to Magen David Adom rather than the Red Cross as soon as I learned that Israel was sending a contingent of doctors and nurses there. Several years ago, I sent money to the Red Cross to help a girl with a rare disease who had come to the U.S. for treatment (in the days before GoFundMe), only to learn that their expenses had been picked up by the hospital. The Red Cross sure didn’t return the money, either. No more Red Cross (”red”—how aptly named now!) for me.