IDF aid mission leaves for Philippines

[shira]

An IDF delegation departed on a humanitarian mission to the Philippines Wednesday morning to provide aid to the storm-ravaged city of Tacloban, the army said.

The 148-member group, comprising national search-and-rescue unit officials and senior doctors in the IDF medical corps, will be tasked with rapidly setting up a “multi-department medical facility” to provide medical care for casualties of the disaster in Tacloban.

The facility will have children’s, women’s and ambulatory care departments, as well as a general admission department, and will be “equipped with approximately 100 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies from Israel.”

An IDF assessment team of six medical and logistics experts landed in the Philippines Tuesday to find an optimal location for the field hospital.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-aid-mission-leaves-for-philippines/

[oberliner]

1. Are they going to steal the land and ethnically cleanse the native population?

Just wondering!

[shira]

2. No silly, they're in the Phillipines to occupy it & take the natives' organs.

And even if that's not the case and they went there to do some good, not that Israel's capable of anything good, it's just a feeble attempt to turn the world's attention away from the Palestinians they're currently grinding into pulp.

[oberliner]

3. Oh, right: Something-washing

Has the term been coined yet?

[Scootaloo]

4. Nah, the British don't fund that sort of thing anymore.

Glory days, y'all, glory days.

[delrem]

5. I'm glad to see that hasbara hasn't used this tragedy to mock the Palestinian plight.

It's good to see hasbara evolving.

[shaayecanaan]

6. Good for them...

it would probably be better if countries co-ordinated their relief efforts through the main aid agencies rather than they all try and go it alone, and it would probably be better if they concentrated as much on reconstruction as compared with the more dramatic search and rescue side of the equation.

It probably wouldn't hurt to contribute some cash as well.

But good on them anyway. Certainly a less churlish response than was received from China.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnmmfENy6vy0dHRoLTM0dzlsek0xWUYxV2xHX1dWNWc&output=html

[delrem]

7. China seems to be acting out of spite, giving pennies, which isn't a good thing.

But overall it hasn't been a good thing, as can be seen by reading that spreadsheet and comparing it to moneys spent on wars of choice.

The whole world seems to be going through a churlish "I've got mine" attitude toward transactions, to the extent that the world's top 0.1% owns all of our production, of our resources, of our means of communication. Those top 0.1% are internationalists who make their residence wherever it's convenient, and who do their business where it's convenient. And comparison of these charts shows that this 0.1% make their money, their business, out of war, not of peace.

[King_David]

8. International -aid-relief Washing

[shira]

9. They're not fooling anyone. They can't be nazi, racist, apartheidists to the poor Palestinians....

...and then pretend to act nice to everyone else & think they'll get away with it.

Nope.

Not possible.

[oberliner]

10. Ali Abunimah is going with #bluewashing

@AliAbunimah

Israel’s propaganda exploitation of typhoon survivors in Philippines is aimed at #bluewashing its crimes against Palestinians.

[King_David]

11. Ha ha

It wasn't predictable , was it?

[Mosby]

12. No doubt

and Mondoweiss is not to happy either:

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/11/philippine-alongside-snyderman.html

[shira]

13. Predictable. I wonder what comments Abunimah has made about Israel treating Syrians....

....in Israeli hospitals.