Seperti kita saksikan sendiri dengan membaca artikel dibawah ini, dalam
keadaan
situasi di Asia Selatan yang sedang terkena musibah ini, Israel mengulurkan
ban-
tuan dengan tanpa pamrih.
Keinginan baik ini ternyata di tolak oleh Sri Langka, mengingat ada sebagian
kelompok muslim yang tidak sudi mendapat bantuan dari negara Israel.
Dalam satu pihak bantuan dari Israel itu ditolak mentah-mentah, tapi dilain
pihak dari negara-negara Arab penghasil minyak itu sunyi senyap. Sepertinya
kepekaan mereka itu menjadi seret dan penuh arti.
Kita menjadi saksi siapa dan bagaimana negara Israel dalam hubungan inter-
nasional.
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Ignoring Israeli Kindness
By HonestReporting.com
HonestReporting.com | December 29, 2004
When disaster strikes anywhere in the world, Israelis can be counted on to
help.
So it's no surprise that within hours of the devastating tsunami in the
Indian Ocean,
the following humanitarian missions all departed from the tiny Jewish state:
-- The Israeli organization Latet ('To Give') filled a jumbo jet with 18
tons of supplies.
-- A medical team headed by four doctors from Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital
arrived
in Sri Lanka on Monday night (Dec. 27), carrying medicine and baby food. The
doctors
specialize in rescue operations, trauma and pediatrics.
-- An IDF rescue team is now on its way to Sri Lanka with 80 tons of aid
material,
including 10,000 blankets, tents, nylon sheeting and water containers, all
contributed
by the IDF.
-- A ZAKA rescue-and-recovery team arrived in the disaster areas Monday
night, armed
with its specialized equipment for identifying bodies.
-- A Health Ministry contingent left for Thailand on Monday night to aid in
rescue efforts.
The group includes doctors, nurses and four members of the IDF.
-- Israel has also offered its assistance to India ?\ a search-and-rescue
team from the
Home Front Command, as well as consignments of food and medicine.
Yet, with the exception of UPI (as of this writing - Tues. 4pm EST), none of
the
major news outlets have dedicated an article to this remarkable Israeli
humanitarian
effort. This, despite the fact that the IDF sent all Israel-based
journalists a press release
Monday evening (Dec. 27), inviting them to the airport to cover the
departure of one
IDF group.
This is all the more surprising given the fact that the major news agencies
have entire
teams of reporters in Israel, who submit at least one 'Israel-article' each
day.
So what did the Associated Press send out today to its 15,000 subscribing
news
agencies? A dreary story about the construction of a new IDF base near
Jenin. AP
sarcastically remarked in this 'news' story that the base's 'elaborate color
scheme and l
andscaping shows that the army is not planning to pull its forces out of the
area
anytime soon.'
The lack of media interest in this Israeli humanitarian effort means that
Israeli benevolence
toward other peoples is not fairly conveyed to the western world. Perhaps if
it were
conveyed, observers would come to understand something else -- that Israel's
response
to Palestinian violence is also motivated by the highest ethical concern for
all human life,
and is not (as the media so often portray it) driven by an oppressive,
mean-spirited
national ethos.
HonestReporting encourages subscribers to write a letter to your local
paper, praising the
massive Israeli humanitarian mission to South Asia -- which the major media
have apparently
deemed 'not newsworthy.'
Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.
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