Israel sends aid to California as deadly fires rage
Israel sends aid to California as deadly fires rage
IsraAID has sent a team of emergency personnel to help the victims of the blazes in California that have killed 40 and razed 5,700 homes and businesses.
The Israeli team began work in Santa Rosa, California last week, and is helping to coordinate and provide relief supplies and stress management to the affected community.
“The situation on the ground is overwhelming and the need for both physical and emotional support is urgent. The loss of lives, houses and the news about Camp Newman are hard to digest,” said Yotam Politzer, co-CEO of IsraAID.
IsraAID, a non-governmental organization that flies out all over the world to provide both short and long-term help in the wake of disasters, has a team based in the Bay Area of California, which is supported by the Koret Foundation.
They were “able to respond immediately and work side by side with our friends from Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa, and our partners from JFCS (who provided much needed mattresses), the SF federation, congregation Rodef Sholom, Temple Emanuel and Kol Shofar to establish a camp for children and families affected by the disaster within Shomrei Torah compound,” said Politzer.
He added that IsraAID plans to monitor the long term needs of those affected by the fires, and provide support during the recovery process.
An IsraAID worker helps out evacuees in California. Photo courtesy of IsraAID
IsraAID has responded to a string of natural disasters in recent months, sending teams to Puerto Rico , Texas , Mexico and Dominica, following the recent floods and earthquake.
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You don't seem to see HamasAID or HezbollahAID. They're too busy plotting to kill Jews.
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The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid ( IsraAID ) is an Israel -based humanitarian organization that responds to emergencies all over the world with targeted help. This includes every aspect of disaster relief , from search and rescue to rebuilding communities and schools, to providing aid packages, medical assistance, and micro-financing to rebuild businesses and post- psychotrauma care . [1] IsraAID has also been involved in an increasing number of international development projects with a focus on agriculture, [2] medicine, [3] and mental health. [4]
The Syrian civil war has been long and especially barbaric. If any aid is given by any Arab country its only to those fighting on the side it supports.
However, there is one country that is giving aid to victims on any side-- any Syrian who makes it across the border into Israel (including combatants who are from countries that are Israel's enemies) get the best medical treatment (free of charge).
Hospital in Israel Treats Wounded Syrians
In Galilee, an Israeli hospital 30 kilometers from the Syrian border treats wounded Syrians from the bloody civil war happening there. Some of them children.
Now, two years and 500 patients later, the hospital continues to take these wounded in. Brought into the country by the IDF army, there are three other hospitals in northern Israel treating these patients. But Ziv’s close proximity to the border with Syria makes them the sought out and preferred destination for treatment.
17% of the Syrian patients treated by the hospital are children. One of the children we met while there was a shy three year old boy suffering from a torn liver due to shrapnel after an explosion. Quiet and stoic for a three year old, the boy hasn’t spoken since he arrived at the hospital one week ago. His uncle joined our group after a shower. Stoic and quiet as well. Answering our questions with only one word answers.
There is no charge because these people have no money. The government of Israel and the taxpayers of Israel are paying the bills,” Futterman told us.
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Would the Palestinians be so generous and humanitarian? I don't think you would have to think too long to be able to answer that. But the UN and hte world would rather look at Israel through Palwstinian eyes. "There are none so blind as those who will not see."
This is not widely known, but Israel allows some Arabs from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment. Here's the story of one Gazan girl who had a severe nd who burn as made trips into Israel to one of their excellent hospitals for medical treatment-- and what happened next:
I can't open that, Krishna, but I would like to know the story. Is there a text version?
The woman's name was Wafa al Bass-- a Gaza Arab woman who had some severe burns. Israel arranged for her to have treatment in Israel. She seemed grateful, at first but one day as she was at the border crossing something seemed suspicious. She was was checked & it turned out she had concealed a considerable amount of explosive under her clothes.
Dr. Eldad is a member of the Knesset. and a reknowned plastic surgeon. Here's an interesting interview with him-- in part of the interview he talks about the incident. Its HERE.
(There's a lot more on other topics. in the interview-- I recommend reading the whole thing)
I recall reading about that incident at the border gate, or else it was a Gazan woman who appeared very pregnant, except that was no baby.
Because I'm a slow, methodical reader, I'll have to read that "book" by Dr. Eldad when I have an hour or two to spare. LOL
Okay, Krishna. I have read the whole interview. I am in lockstep with him. I think Dr. Eldad should be Israel's PM. He was predicting the Islamization of Europe well before I saw it happening. His concept of settling the refugees in Jordan is wonderful, save that the King of Jordan will never allow it. But I have to say, he's my man.
I'm not sure. I could be wrong, but I think that may have been a differentnone? Of coursdethere have been so many that they no longer get big headlines like they used to,
What I do find ironic is that those who constantly clamour about Israel's "Blockade"of Gaza (Implying that the border is sealed airtight) don' trealize how much goes in everyday-- trucks from Israel carrying needed food and supplies into Gaza!
And of course not only do the people who claim Israel's border is airtigth false make that accusation-- but they also fail to realize that Gaza has borders with two countries-- not one! So that even if Gaza's border with Israel was totally sealed (which of course it isn't)-- they have another border with Egypt...
Anti-Semitism is still alive in much of Europe.
However, since the Syrian civil war has created such a YUGE number of refugees going to Europe (and given the continuingnhoors of the Syrian war, that will continue), I think more and more Europeans will start to change some of their views (and I'm referring here to the liberals-- not to those on the right).
To cite but one example: Sweden has always had a large number of anti-Semites. (And while they claimed to be neutral in WWII, they were in fact a major supplier of badly needed steel for Nazi Germany's war machine).
So it should come as no surprise that they welcomed Muslim immigrants with open arms.
But even they are finally starting to question their previous policies:
Sweden Toughens Rules for Refugees Seeking Asylum
Some very interesting information about how more and more Europeans are waking up to the dangers of unlimited immigration...
Terrorism is greatly increasing in some countries in Europe-- France & Britain especially come to mind. But recently Sweden may slowly be beginning to have the same problem, although these sorts of terror attack often get very little coverage in the U.S. media (Most Americans I know have no idea that there were any terror attacks in a country such as "neutral" Sweden.
From the above article:
Resentment toward migrants in Sweden was heightened last summer when a woman and her son were stabbed to death at an Ikea in Vasteras. An Eritrean who had been denied asylum was charged with the crime.
And of course there was this one:
On 7 April 2017, in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, a hijacked lorry was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed through a corner of an Åhléns department store. Five people were killed and 14 others were seriously injured.
Police considered the attack an act of terrorism. Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old rejected asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, was apprehended the same day, suspected on probable cause of terrorist crimes through murder (a Swedish legal term). Swedish police said he has expressed sympathy with extremist organizations, among them the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL), [5] and Uzbek authorities said he had allegedly joined ISIL before the attack. [6] Akilov admitted carrying out the attack at a pre-trial hearing on 11 April.
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Well, before it gained independence as a new country called "Jordan" , that was one of the parts of "Palestine" (i.e. The British Mandate of Palestine).
What was a British colony now consists of 4 parts-- two of which are totally independent self-governing Arab "Palestinian" states: Hamastan (AKA "Gaza") & Jordan.