It does. The Israeli trauma teams were offered on Tuesday, would have been on the ground within 24 hours. That would have beaten the American military by three days.
This is a silly arguement.
Israel offered, the US declined, Israeli charities provided the aid anyway.
That's pretty much the end of it.
State will thank many nations for their aid, and leave Israel off, rightfully, since Israel provided nothing, only Israelis.
What is silly is that u don't back up your arguments with facts. The US military was on the ground in NO on Tuesday, Wednesday, and then in great numbers on Thursday. By Friday they had evacuated pratically the whole city!
I just heard something VERY interesting listening to the actual presser from the State Department for SEPTEMBER 1 which was the Monday after the storm..16 FULL DAYS before Diane West's 'article' claiming that Israel had been slighted, etc. They mention the aid offer from ISRAEL. So this needs to be sent to Powerline. I knew this did not pass the smell test. Go listen for yourself:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2005/