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A fucking lawyer types:

I've been saving a number of items to write about that I want to present for your information without further comment. In one way or another, they are interesting and informative.

The people of Israel display adherence to the commandment to repair the world. Out of their own trials with terrorism they have become world leaders in rescue missions and emergency medicine. They rightly take pride in the IDF's mission of aid to Haiti. Jay Newton-Small reports that most of Haiti's hospitals were destroyed in the earthquake.

One of the seven field hospitals set up following the earthquake was established by the IDF. Newton-Small writes: "The Israeli hospital can treat only about 100 people a day, but it is the paramount medical center operating in Haiti in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake. It receives the cases that other hospitals find difficult and cannot manage."

Ella Perlis spoke with an American/Israeli iDF officer about the facility. "Located on a Port-au-Prince soccer field," she writes, "the facility has operating rooms, an intensive care unit, a pediatric ward, and even a pharmacy. The technology is as sophisticated as most Western hospitals: it has x-ray equipment, respirators, monitors, and incubators that have sustained at least two premature babies born since the earthquake."

Commenting on the Israeli mission, Frida Ghitis adds: "Israeli rescuers, experienced at recovering the remains of terrorism and war victims, risked their lives crawling into unstable buildings to dig out desperate survivors....While the harshest critics of Israel's morality, the countries that have done their best to smear Israel, did not lift a finger to help Haiti[,] Israel, a land smaller than New Hampshire, sent hundreds of emergency workers, one of the largest contingents." The New York Times has posted the video report from Reuters that includes footage of a Haitian man being rescued from a collapsed building on Friday by a team from Israel. He was one of two survivors pulled from the rubble ten days after the earthquake.

A human being makes the "further comment" that Scott Johnson can't bring himself to make:

In this mirror, Israel now sees an image of itself as a big-hearted nation admired around the world for its humanitarian efforts in Haiti. But the self-satisfaction will be short-lived. Before long this glimmer of goodwill will once again be overshadowed by the enduring reality that in the minds of most Israelis the suffering of others seems just as likely to provoke callous indifference as it does an open heart.

The big Israeli heart shrivels at the sight of a Palestinian.

We wonder what part of Scott Johnson's anatomy shrivels when he sees a Palestinian, or an Ay-rab or Mooslim of any kind.

And, as seen immediately below, shouldn't we just be letting these people fend for themselves? It'll teach them a lesson in self-reliance.