As of last Friday Israel’s relief efforts to Haiti included the following: A field hospital, the only hospital in operation, with 40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children's ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms, a surgical department, an internal medicine department and a maternity ward.
The hospital can treat approximately 500 patients each day, and in addition will perform preliminary surgeries. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, one of the richest countries in the world, has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.
Some Arab countries have “pledged” help, such as $1 million pledged from both Kuwait and Morocco. This is less than two Hollywood movie stars, Sandra Bullock and Angelina Jolie, have already donated.
In the meantime, the United Arab Emirates says it will “shortly” send a plane with humanitarian assistance. Qatar, with the third largest gas reserves and the second highest GDP per capita in the world, has dispatched 50 metric tons of aid to the hundreds of thousands of homeless and injured Haitians.
Doubtless some organizations will be able to get Israel's humanitarian efforts classified as a war crime. Norway could come in handy here since along with most of the countries that subscribe to the "religion of peace" it seems too busy supporting unsubstantiated charges against Israel to be bothered doing anything to help. Who wants to talk about a disproportionate response now?
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Our respective cultural heritage, influenced by various political and spiritual perspectives, provide insight into why the traditionally Judeo-Christian nations respond more vigorously than do islamic nations.
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