Israel Must Stop Sending Aid to its Enemies

It’s madness. It’s far left edicts like being forced to treat and save Jew killers only to return them to the genocidal battlefield that spurred the calls for judicial reform, the very reform the Israel left protested against en masse.

This is so insane, evil even, and why Israel needed the judicial reform that the Israeli left lost its collective mind over. It was leftist poison like this — the best medical care for their bloodthirsty executioners.

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— 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@PamelaGeller) December 13, 2023

Israel Should Stop Sending Aid to its Enemies

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By Hugh Fitzgerald, February 7, 2024:

Israel not only helps its friends. It also has a long record of helping its enemies, sending humanitarian aid, medical personnel, and search-and-rescue teams, to these countries in the wake of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. This practice has not lessened the recipients’ enmity. Israel should cease the practice, and direct its aid only to its friends, and to those who need it most, which right now includes Israel’s own people, for the war in Gaza, and Hezbollah rockets, have forced 280,000 Israelis to be internally displaced, having had to leave their communities on the Gaza and Lebanese borders. More on Israel’s aid policy, and why it should be changed, can be found here: “Israel is wrong to give aid to antisemitic countries – opinion,” by Sheila Nazarian, Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2024:

In recent months, much has been made by Israel’s enemies of American relief aid to the Jewish state. What many of these critics overlook, likely because they do not know, is that Israel has its own decades-long record of providing humanitarian aid and emergency relief to countries in need, including Muslim-majority countries with no diplomatic ties to Israel – who now repay the Jewish state with inaction, silence, or overt hate in the wake of October 7.

In 1958, within a decade of Israel’s founding, the country formally adopted an international humanitarian aid agenda in an effort to prioritize foreign cooperation. That year, the government officially established MASHAV, the Foreign Ministry’s Center for International Cooperation, to administer its humanitarian efforts. MASHAV helps countries battling hunger, disease, and poverty by providing technical training and sharing Israeli technology.

The office sends Israeli eye doctors – widely considered authorities in the field – to countries across the developing world to treat preventable blindness and ocular disease, setting up “eye camps” using equipment usually unavailable in that country to treat patients and train staff. In the 1970s, MASHAV broadened the scope of its efforts by granting safe-haven in Israel to refugees initially from countries like Kosovo, Bosnia, and Vietnam, and more recently from Darfur.

Since the founding of MASHAV, which is now Israel’s official agency for international development cooperation, the Jewish state has provided humanitarian aid to over 140 countries. Starting in the 1980s, it has also offered humanitarian aid on an emergency basis, supporting countries facing everything from natural disasters to mass casualty terrorist attacks. In 2004, Israel sent 60 tons of aid to Indonesia, a country with no ties to Israel and the largest Muslim population in the world, after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.

Indonesia refuses to have diplomatic relations with Israel, consistently supports anti-Israel resolutions at the UN, and refused even to express sympathy after the October 7 massacre. Those 60 tons of aid from Israel obviously had no effect on modifying Indonesia’s enmity.

In 2005, Israeli organizations provided aid in Pakistan after the earthquake in Kashmir, with Israeli NGOs dispatching missions to the region to help thousands of families, and in 2010, the state ramped up its earthquake relief efforts by sending a mass mission to Haiti, which included an IDF search-and-rescue team and field hospital. Israel has such a robust tradition of emergency humanitarian relief that the country even provided aid to Turkey and Syria after the 2023 earthquake.

Israel sent aid to Pakistan in 2005 after an earthquake struck, with no visible change subsequently in Pakistan’s attitude toward the Jewish state; it still refuses to recognize Israel, and has made clear that it will not do so until Israel agrees to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, and allows the establishment of a Palestinian state on the territory vacated, which must include east Jerusalem. That will never happen.

While Turkish President Erdogan has for years continued his thunderous denunciations of Israel that began with the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010, Israel did not hesitate a minute, but was among the very first countries to send aid to Turkey after the earthquake in 2023, providing humanitarian aid as well as critically important search-and-rescue teams. Those Israeli teams are credited with saving the lives of 19 Turks, pulled from under the rubble.

But after the atrocities of October 7, no words of sympathy for Israel were uttered by the Turkish government or the Turkish people. Palestinian flags fluttered in Turkish cities, anti-Israel and antisemitic posters were pasted on walls and displayed in shop windows — “Jews not wanted” was one of them — and Erdogan praised Hamas after its operatives had on October 7 beheaded babies, burned children alive, raped, tortured, and murdered girls, sliced the breasts off women, gouged out the eyes and cut off the genitalia of men. That lifesaving aid Israel provided after the earthquake to Turkey earlier in the year did not soften Erdogan’s rants against the “Zionist entity”; they have only increased. His party’s organ, the newspaper Yeni Safak, headlined a story on Israel “The terror state must be destroyed.” The Turks themselves have held marches in support of Hamas, calling for an end to Israel’s “aggression” in Gaza. A politician from Erdogan’s AKP Party said at a public hearing that he was praying for the soul of Hitler, adding that the world will find peace only when it is cleansed of Jews and that the Holocaust was “unfinished.”

Israel’s aid to Syria after the same 2023 earthquake was swiftly offered; the Syrians made a show of refusing to accept such aid from the “Zionist entity,” but in fact, in strict secrecy, it accepted the humanitarian aid, though it did not allow Israeli search-and-rescue teams inside Syria. Syria not only remains in a state of war with Israel, but it continues to allow Iranian-backed groups in the country to shell the Golan Heights. That is the malevolent Syrian response to Israel’s good deed.

So the next time there is a tsunami in Indonesia, or an earthquake in Pakistan, Turkey, or Syria, the Israelis should not immediately dispatch humanitarian aid and search-and-rescue teams. Instead, both the government, and Jewish aid agencies, should sit tight. Let the world realize that Israel is no longer going to be a source of succor for its enemies, who have so often pocketed its aid and then continued to denounce the Jewish state until the welkin rings with anti-Israel hate. Just this once, Israel, behave the way all other countries behave. Stop thinking you have to be so very tikkun-olamish and in all things a light unto the nations, including by helping your worst enemies. No, you don’t.

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turtlebrat

2 months ago

No help to barbarians who will kill Jews regardless of how well they are treated. Only an insane person would let them survive if their goal is to annihilate your people. Do it quickly now and fk the UN and jobama. Your enemies’ friend is your enemy.

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Sir Peter

2 months ago

There’s only one thing Israel should send to Muslim countries. It’s delivered by rocket

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PatD

2 months ago

The only reason to keep one alive is to interrogate and to torture!

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THX 1138

2 months ago

Which is the proper morality for living and flourishing on earth? Self-sacrifice or self-preservation? Unearned guilt and undeserved humility or earned confidence and pride? The Bible or Ayn Rand and Jane Eyre?

“Love for Enemies
27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Judging Others
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” – Luke Chapter 6

“In a society in which everyone is commanded to love and help others equally (as in all the societies discussed), justice is essentially outlawed. In such societies, the standard for how to treat people is not as they deserve based on their choices and actions but equal treatment for all. However, these protagonists either have or learn a strong sense of justice, one that consists of treating others as they deserve based on their virtues or vices. When a classmate espouses the Christian idea that one ought to “turn the other cheek,” Jane disagrees vehemently:

You are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.27

Jonas, on learning about one of the many things his community had been deprived of via the Sameness, reacts indignantly: “‘When did they decide that?’ Jonas asked angrily. ‘It wasn’t fair. Let’s change it!’”28 Equality 7-2521 sums up the point nicely when he pledges, “I am neither friend nor foe to my brothers, but such as each shall deserve of me.”29” – “Individualism in Anthem, Jane Eyre, and The Giver” by
Angelica Walker-Werth

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent…. It is not justice or equal treatment that you grant to men when you abstain equally from praising men’s virtues and from condemning men’s vices. When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you—whom do you betray and whom do you encourage?” – Ayn Rand

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Martin1818

2 months ago

Reply to  THX 1138

Great comment!
I will add the following.
In the modern world, only Israeli Jews behave like Christians. (turn the other cheek, love enemies, etc.).
At the beginning of the material, the author wrote about helping the population of hostile countries.
In addition to this, we can mention the following actions:
They treat and teach terrorists with blood on their hands in prisons, and then the terrorists are released and kill Jews again.
They treat the “civilians” of Gaza, and the “civilians” promise to kill these doctors in the future right during the treatment.
They warn terrorists and their accomplices from among the “civilian population” about upcoming attacks… The list could go on for a long time.
You correctly pointed out why this is wrong.
But I want to mention one more reason why such actions are wrong.
By persistently acting nobly, despite the actions of its enemies, Israel HUMILIATES both the enemies themselves, and other Muslim countries, and in general all countries and peoples.
And this HUMILIATION causes even more hatred towards Israel.

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garry pollack

2 months ago

the aid needs 2 B refocused on Juda-izing Gaza….

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2 months ago

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Gator

2 months ago

Hopefully Israel will learn just to take care of itself and forget everyone else, as no one else comes to Israel’s aid. Appeasement has never worked

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Stephen Honig

2 months ago

What idiots, they all should have been killed. This would never happen in reverse. There are no browning points here. They did this for humanitarian reasons fk them!

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Ronald Nuxon

2 months ago

In the mid-set of these ungrateful Arab recipients of Israeli medical largesse, Israel provides it because they (meaning, the Jews) are feeling guilty of persecuting Arabs, as they should. So, why not accept it? Arabs deserve it, after all.

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Martin1818

2 months ago

Reply to  Ronald Nuxon

Nonsense.
Nobody is persecuting them.
It is islamosatanics around the world who have been persecuting people of other religions for centuries, killing, raping and robbing; in Israel they do the same.
At best, they deserve to be expelled from the land that G-d gave to the Jews.
And in the worst case, they must be treated as they treat others.

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