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.
Ever been to Pune? Near Bombay. Thats where I live. Its a nice place.
You said -- "Some people see 'Anti-Semitism' everywhere when it doesn't apply to a certain situation."
Anti-semitism is everywhere. It's all around Israel, and for the last 100 years or more "in the land" (the time before they declared their nation again, and after that time, through the present).
It was there during the Second World War, which went a long ways towards the Israelis forming their own nation, once again -- after two thousand years of persecution.
The nation of Israel continues to be subject to anti-semitism in the United Nations, with countless resolutions being brought up against them, time and time again. In fact, the one most common topic over the history of the U.N. (for all sorts of resolutions) is against the nation of Israel.
The Islamic religion is nothing more than a "Jew-hating" (and Christian-hating) religion, by its own words from its "so-called" holy book -- the Koran, and from the pedophile so-called "prophet" they have, called Mohammed.
Considering the two-thousand (plus) year history of anti-semitism and "jew-hating" -- YOU are the one with the blinders on. You've probably been listening too closely to that "ole pedophile" Mohammed.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Huge nasty Jew. Buhahahahaha.
LOL
Good one.
Did you steal your job from these poor Americans ? Outsourcing, you know...
You gotta be kidding me.
Butt monkey.
ATTENTION WORLD: WE NEED HELP (EXCEPT FROM JEWS)
Yeah that's a good message to send
You said -- "Why does SJackson turn up when anything remotely involving Israel appears on Free Republic. Anything else going on in the world apart from Israel ? Any other countries suffering out there at the moment ? What's the spiritual exchange rate at the moment ? Is it now standing at one Jewish life is worth 1000 goyim lives ? Depends who your Rabbi is I suppose."
Hmmm..., you keep building up your "anti-semitism credits"....
Way to go.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Save your time posting to me troll.
Well Indians get those jobs because those jobs require u to speak "ENGLISH". LOL!!
Dick Cheney to you!
Based on your posts, that fact is quite clear.
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