Humanitarian Crisis?

How many Pali Arabs does it take to change a light bulb?
None they sit in the dark and blame the Jews.

That was once a joke, now it's a humanitarian crisis. Even Condappeaser is calling it a humanitarian crisis.

While the world communitay and the blood thirsty savages whine about the Jews turning the lights off (while in fact it was Hamas was shutting down power as well), real humanitarian crises go largely ignored;

War in Congo kills 45,000 people each month  GUARDIAN hat tip wolf

· Decade-long conflict is most deadly since 1945
· Half of dying are small children, survey shows

A decade of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing to kill about 45,000 people each month - half of them small children - in the deadliest conflict since the second world war, according to a new survey. The International Rescue Committee said preventable diseases and starvation aggravated by conflict have claimed 5.4 million lives since the beginning of the second Congo war in 1998, equivalent to the population of Denmark. Although the war officially ended in 2002, malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition continue to claim thousands of lives.

The study of 14,000 households across Congo between January 2006 and April 2007 found that nearly half of all the deaths were of children under the age of five, who make up only 19% of the population.

Congo has endured two foreign invasions and protracted civil war since the aftermath of Rwanda's genocide spilled across the border in 1994 with an influx of more than a million Rwandan Hutu refugees. The years of conflict resulted in millions of people fleeing their homes, sometimes to live for years in forests where many died, and the collapse of what infrastructure still remained after decades of neglect under Mobutu Sese Seko.

Rwanda, another golden UN moment.

Those who returned home found water sources, health clinics and farms destroyed. Marauding bands of armed men were responsible for mass rape, particularly in the east of the country, which made it much more difficult for women to venture into fields to grow food.

"When war destroys a country's economy and infrastructure, there's no quick fix," said Dr Richard Brennan, one of the survey's authors. "Significant improvement in Congo's health and mortality will require years of unwavering commitment from the government and the international community and substantial financial investment. Sadly, the humanitarian crisis in Congo continues to be overlooked and funding remains disproportionate to the enormity of need."

The IRC said that a peace deal in the eastern province of North Kivu, where fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in recent months, is also crucial to curbing the rising death toll.

There was hope yesterday that the conflict in the east might finally be drawing to a close after the government and armed groups were reported to be ready to sign a peace agreement. But the deal apparently did not directly address how to deal with two of the most important armed factions - that of the rebel Tutsi general, Laurent Nkunda, who is wanted for war crimes, and the Rwandan Hutu group that has been a leading cause of instability.

Congo is one of 11 countries where 20% of children die before the age of five, according to a Unicef report released yesterday. A child born in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance of surviving until the age of five. The report, the State of the World's Children, says nearly 9.7 million children under five died worldwide last year from disease or lack of food.

The media aligned with the terror force:

"A Palestinian boy cries outside his house in the Gaza strip'

The Jews made the little baby cry. Bad Jews!

Israel to ease blockade after British critcism and UN food aid warning

Israel today bowed to international pressure and agreed to ease the blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has led to fuel shortages and electricity blackouts in the Palestinian enclave.

It comes as Britain voiced its dissaproval and the UN warned it will have to stop food distribution to the 1.5 million residents of the Hamas-held territory unless Israel opens up the border again.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak agreed to allow fuel and medicines for one day tomorrow - hours after the area's sole power plant shut down, plunging Gaza City into darkness.

Plunging!

Earlier today, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander called on all sides to exercise restraint and work for the reopening of crossings between Israel and Gaza, shut in an effort to stop Palestinian rocket fire.

Restraint!

The statement said the UK does not support the closure of the crossings and called for "urgent" action to restore electricity, warning that continued fuel shortages will have "immediate humanitarian consequences". 

Comments

[geo11]

No sympathy for the Palestinian people. They chose a murderous group of terrorists as their political leaders. The constant rocket attacks upon innocent Israeli citizens deserves a response. The Israeli government had better wake up and retaliate in a more reasoned response. Is it not a government responsibility for the protection of it's citizens? Tell the Palestinians that the area from which a rocket is lauched will be attacked unmercifully. A scorched earth policy needs to be applied if Israel wishes to survive.
Ohlmert is an idiot and the sooner booted the better.

[Pamela Geller]

what he said!

[Shy Guy]

"We ask no favours of the enemy. We seek from them no compunction. On the contrary, if tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "No, we will mete out to them the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us." The people with one voice would say: "You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.""
- Winston Churchill, 1941-07-14, in a speech before the London County Council. The original can be found in Churchill's The Unrelenting Struggle (English edition 187; American edition 182) or in the Complete Speeches VI:6448.

I wish.

[Mega]

This "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza is so f'ing ridiculous, I can't stand it. And it ain't just the UN that's condemning Israel and turning up the pressure. All over the web, the antisemites have crawled out of the woodwork to voice their outrage at Jews for this "outrage". Olmert should not have done this, because (a) it serves no purpose, you can't punish people whose dream is to die killing you, and (b) it was obvious before it even started that Israel would be pressured to back off - Hamas knew it, I knew it, in fact the only people who didn't see the whole sequence of events in advance was Israel. It's pathetic. What about "go into Gaza, destroy Hamas, and destroy the entire infrastructure of bomb-making" does Israel not understand? I thought Israel had the fourth largest / most effective military force in the world. USE IT ALREADY for god sake. WTF is Israel waiting for? Please, Israel, pretty pretty please, no more "collective punishment" exercises to be followed by humiliating policy reversals 24 hours later. Get some people into that government with the intellectual skill to say "If we cut off the power, they're going to call Reuters and light candles and make frowny faces, in that order". Israel, you have to destroy Hamas, period. Do it already.

[AMartinez]

I'm with Mega on this one. What is it gonna take for Israel to wake from their stupor?