Hmmmm....
Posted on 12/28/2004 3:28:39 AM PST by white trash redneck
A 150-member Israeli aid delegation canceled its mission to Sri Lanka on Tuesday, after the country - one of the hardest hit in the Asian tsunami disaster - refused to accept the Israeli team, Israel Defense Forces officials said.
However, Israel is sending supplies at Sri Lanka's request, including 10,000 blankets contributed by the IDF, tents, nylon sheeting and water containers. The IDF Home Front Command is organizing aid preparations.
The Israeli humanitarian organization Latet ("To give") is sending a separate aid package Tuesday. It is filling a jumbo jet with 18 tons of supplies worth $50,000, at Sri Lanka's request. The group is considering sending additional aid shortly.
Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the death toll from the tsunami had risen to about 15,000 people, including at least 200 foreign tourists. Sri Lankan military spokesman Daya Ratnayake said more than 1.5 million people had been displaced from their homes - around 7.5 percent of Sri Lanka's population.
About 26,000 people were confirmed dead Tuesday in the wake of the tsunami that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia two days before, with some estimates nearly doubling that toll.
The aid delegation that had been set to depart for Sri Lanka on Tuesday included medical teams and representatives of the IDF and Defense Ministry, who were planning to provide humanitarian assistance and participate in search-and-rescue operations.
The delegation was planning to assemble a medical facility comprised of specialist doctors, and set up emergency, internal medicine and pediatric departments, as well as laboratory and X-ray facilities in the southern part of Sri Lanka.
A far smaller team landed in Sri Lanka on Monday night, headed by four doctors from Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem in Jerusalem. The team was carrying medicine and baby food.
The doctors - who specialize in rescue operations, trauma and pediatrics - were also checking the viability of setting up a field hospital in the area, and advised Israel to send a larger team, such as the one Sri Lanka rejected.
"We will advise Israel and the Foreign Ministry... to send something more massive," said Dr. Avi Rivkind, director of Hadassah's trauma unit. "We will try to use our... broad experience in dealing with terror attacks and rescuing masses to help in this disaster as well."
Israel is weighing the option of sending similar delegations to Thailand, where more than 1,000 people have died, and India, where more than 4,000 people have died, but has yet to make a final decision on the matter.
Health Min. team leaves for Thailand A Health Ministry contingent left for Thailand on Monday night to aid in the rescue efforts there after around 1,000 people, including tourists, were killed on the islands of Phuket and Phi Phi. The contingent includes doctors, nurses and four members of the IDF, Israel Radio reported.
Israel has also offered its assistance to India. Mofaz passed on the offer to Indian authorities through Israel's military attache Colonel Moshe Krawitz.
Mofaz offered aid of two kinds - a search-and-rescue team from the Home Front Command, as well as consignments of food and medicine.
A ZAKA rescue-and-recovery team left for the disaster areas Monday night armed with its equipment, including materials and tools for identifying bodies, as well as body bags.
"We are waiting for any instruction," Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the director of the organization, said Monday.
Of course because I'm a woman. Maybe your tastes are elsewhere you limp wristed moron. Still here! I can't believe it.
Don't waste your energy with the not-so-newbie troll.
A lot of the early Nazis were queers.
;O)
A connection that continues to astound me.
What were the other screen names you have used on FR?
Hmmmm....
veronica, I do believe you've got it :-))
"Yes, the truth that the Sri Lankans would rather hate Jews than be helped by them. Who else have they refused entry to?"
Well i am not exactly from Sri Lanka but I am from India (which also happens to be an affected country). If I know my country well enough (which i certainly do), I can tell u this for certain that nobody in my country hates Jews. I think the same applies for Sri Lanka. Why should they hate jews? We arnt muslims and we never had any animosity with the jews. Jews lived happly for centuries in India. While I do not know Sri Lanka's reason for rejecting Isreal's aid but I am not sure it has anything to do with hatred for the jews. India for one has been grateful to Isreal for helping us in the past (Bhuj earthquake) and is still grateful for whatever help it is providing now.
You're a Stormfront retread. How's that internet infestation campaign going? Removed those awful prison tattoos yet? Drank the last bit of moonshine and meth you turd on civilisation's ass?
LOL
Got a cup of coffee for me? Hold the cream & sugar--but I'd love a cheese danish.
What do you want from Jackson ? He has just pinged other Jews, who maybe know something more and maybe can explain this situation.
Do you like kittens?
Well, SJackson can defend himself, but from my point of view, I'd say our jackbooted friend mostly wants a target for some good old-fashioned joooobaiting.
Feel free to post anything you can find about aid from other countries being rejected. Until then, there is no reason to believe that any other countries' aid was rejected.
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