Israel sets up field hospital; treats seven wounded Syrian civilians (thanks to Judith) BICOM
In the third incident of its kind over recent weeks, seven
Syrians were treated for their wounds in northern Israel yesterday,
having made their way to the Golan border between the two countries.
Last week the Israeli army treated two Syrian fighters injured in
clashes and in mid-February, seven Syrian combatants were treated in an
Israeli hospital. However, yesterday’s incident was the first time that
Syrian civilians had been given treatment in Israel.YNetsays
that it is unclear how the group of men reached the Israeli border, but
that they were met by soldiers from the Golani Brigade. Five were
treated by army medics on the spot while two were transferred to the Ziv
Hospital in Safed with severe head wounds, one later died. A hospital
spokesman said that the injured Syrians were all presumed to be
civilians.
In a sign that Israel is expecting to treat further Syrian casualties, Maariv
reports on its front page, that Israel has opened a field hospital in
the Golan Heights. Fighting from Syria’s two-year long internal conflict
has intensified near the Israeli border over recent weeks with some
estimates that Syrian opposition forces have recently captured large
swathes of territory in the area. Stray fire from the fighting has
landed in Israeli territory on several occasions and last weekend,
shooting appeared to be directed at Israeli troops with the IDF
returning fire.
These recent developments prompted the United Nations Security
Council to yesterday pass a resolution expressing “grave concern” over
repeated violations of border arrangements by the Syrian army and the
presence of armed opposition fighters within the “area of separation,” a
narrow strip of land that separates Israeli and Syrian forces, agreed
in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are now online. Point of information: Judea is now called the "West Bank" in order to remove the the obvious Jewish connection to it.
The discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a remote Judean Desert
cave in 1947 is widely considered the greatest archaeological event of
the twentieth century. Bedouin treasure hunters and archaeologists
ultimately found the remains of hundreds of ancient scrolls. These
fragile pieces of parchment and papyrus, including the oldest existing
copies of the Hebrew Bible, were preserved for two thousand years by the
hot, dry desert climate and the darkness of the caves where they were
placed. The scrolls provide an unprecedented picture of the diverse
religious beliefs of ancient Judaism, and of daily life during the
turbulent Second Temple period when Jesus lived and preached.
In between ducking bombs from a culture that creates nothing, invents nothing, produces nothing, and aspires to nothing except genocide. That's their major industry -- annihilation of the Jewish people. But Israel is the problem.
Vaxil's groundbreaking therapeutic vaccine, developed in Israel, could keep about 90 percent of cancers from coming back. As the world's population lives longer than ever, if we don't succumb to heart disease, strokes or accidents, it is more likely that cancer will get us one way or another. Cancer is tough to fight, as the body learns how to outsmart medical approaches that often kill normal cells while targeting the malignant ones. In a breakthrough development, an Israeli company has formulated a therapeutic cancer vaccine, now in clinical trials at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem.
There are a 12 Million Jews in the world, and yet they have received 192 Nobel Prizes. The Muslims number 1.4 Billion ... or 117 times the number of Jews! Based upon this 117:1 Muslim-to-Jewish ratio, one might expect the Muslims to have 22,464 Nobel Laureates. They have nine, including the prize awarded to the pedophile godfather of modern terror, Yaser Arafat.
Unless the Swedes and Norwegians start awarding Nobel Prizes for plane hijackings, pizza shop bombings, civilian bus attacks, Jihad suicides/homicides, drive-by shootings, throat-slittings, embassy attacks and other such acts of barbarisms, the embarrassing low level of contribution to the welfare of civilization and mankind by the [Arab] Muslim world will continue. The Jewish People, meanwhile, will continue being the Lights Unto All Nations.
And the world is licking their boots and doing their bidding, turning the homeland and its inhabitants over as ransom, as if that would slake their bloodlust.
In the words of the American Enterprise Institute’s political scientist Charles Murray, “In the first half of the 20th century, despite pervasive and continuing social discrimination against Jews throughout the Western world, despite the retraction of legal rights, and despite the Holocaust, Jews won 14 percent of Nobel Prizes in literature, chemistry, physics, and medicine/physiology. In the second half of the 20th century, when Nobel Prizes began to be awarded to people from all over the world, that figure rose to 29 percent. So far, in the 21st century, it has been 32 percent.”1 Jews constitute about 0.2 percent of the world’s population.
With fewer fish in the sea with each passing year, Israel's Grow Fish Anywhere has found a way to grow them in the desert.
Biological filters and specially developed bacteria treat the water the fish are growing in, without wasting anything.
"There's plenty of fish in the sea," the old saying goes - but that's not as true as it once was. In fact, says Dotan Bar-Noy, CEO of Israel's GFA (Grow Fish Anywhere) Advanced Systems, there are fewer fish in the sea with each passing year. "Overfishing is a much bigger problem than people realize, and in a few years, many species of salt water fish are simply going to disappear if something isn't done."
Bar-Noy and 30 or so others - mostly engineers, marine biologists and other technical folk - have found a solution to the diminishing numbers of fish in the sea. Based on the work of Israeli scientist Dr. Yossi Tal and Hebrew University professor Jaap van Rijn - inventor of the system - GFA has developed an on-land environment where fish can be raised, without having to exchange water or treat it chemically.
"We call this a zero-discharge system," Bar-Noy tells ISRAEL21c. "We use biological filters and specially developed bacteria to treat the water the fish are growing in, without wasting anything. The system can be set up to raise salt-water fish anywhere in the world - even in the desert, thousands of miles from the ocean," he asserts.
Fish farms are nothing new. They've been around for years, enabling growers to set up controlled environments that can ensure a specific yield of fish, allowing them to guarantee delivery without worrying about dwindling supplies in the ocean, pollution, inclement weather, and other factors that are hard to control.
Fish farm foibles
Still, while they enhance the conservation of fish in the sea, fish farms have problems of their own - mostly due to the need to circulate the water in the pools and tanks where the fish are raised. Most fish farms are located adjacent to a body of water, and their waste-laden water is channeled into the sea, and replaced with "fresh" sea water.
While fish raised in captivity don't produce an increased amount of waste, at sea it would be dissipated over a much wider area. The fish waste, with its nitrogen and other elements concentrated in a relatively small area, renders the water that it's dumped into uninhabitable for fish.
As the tanks are generally located near the shore, in relatively shallow water, the wastewater tends to linger there. With the movement of the currents, nearby jurisdictions are liable to find a considerable number of fish floating belly-up in their bays and harbors, having been poisoned by the high concentration of nitrogen and nutrients in the wastewater dumped from the tanks.
GFA's New York purification plant opened in 2009 and is already supplying 100 tons of sea fish a year to the US market.
This problem is so serious that in some areas fish farms are banned, despite their being perhaps the only technologically feasible solution available to combat overfishing, says Bar-Noy. Alternative purification systems are based on electrical treatment systems which are expensive to install and run, and are not all that effective, he notes. "Even when they work, the electrical purification systems are too expensive, and fish produced with those systems will cost far more than fish from the sea."
GFA is currently the only solution that eliminates the environmental problems associated with fish farming. Tanks are filled with water, then with fish - and added to the mix are microbes perfected by GFA to treat the nitrogen and organic waste byproducts of fish production, in the tank.
Water is only added to replace that which evaporates, and the fish can grow through their natural cycle and remain in the tank until they are ready for market. "It's the most efficient fish growing system possible," claims Bar-Noy, "There is no pollution, and there is no need to fish at sea. Just set up tanks with GFA technology anywhere in the world, and harvest the fish when you're ready to go to market."
Toward eliminating world hunger
Because the GFA system uses cheap and easy-to-produce bacteria to cleanse fish tanks, the costs for raising the fish are fully competitive with those for raising fish from the sea, or other farms, Bar-Noy points out. And tank-raised fish are uniformly tasty. "Fish from the sea are subject to the natural weather cycles of cold and heat, while farmed fish can be raised at a constant, ideal temperature. GFA fish have an even greater advantage, since the water they grow in is always fresh, making the fish taste better than fish from other sources."
The system has already been set up in several locations in Israel, and the company runs a purification facility in upstate New York, which has been operating since 2009. The facility, the largest using GFA technology, produced about 100 tons of fish last year - mostly salt-water fish like sea bream, bass, tilapia, and others.
GFA is currently working on the third generation of its purification system. While the company was formed in 2008, its technology was developed over a 20-year period. "While the ideas were there for awhile, the only viable purification techniques were based on electrical devices. It was only with the rise of biotechnology techniques that we were able to develop the bacteria that enable us to do the purification cheaply," Bar-Noy explains.
Teeth found near Rosh Ha’ayin older than anything uncovered in Africa.
Professor Avi Gopher from the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University holds an ancient tooth that was found at an archeological site near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old. Archaeologist Avi Gopher says further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, "this changes the whole picture of evolution."(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
This find changes everything. Beginning with evolution theory and crazy crackpot Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan. Won't be long before calypso Lou is calling this a Mossad plot.
Countdown to the Muslims claiming the remains as fakestinian....5,4,3,2...
(AP) - Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man.
A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half that old.
Archaeologist Avi Gopher said Monday further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, "this changes the whole picture of evolution."
Accepted scientific theory is that Homo sapiens originated in Africa and migrated out.
Not so fast. Science cannot be absolute when they rely so heavily on assumptions instead of concretes.
Dr. Ran Barkai from the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University walks at the archeological site where ancient teeth were discovered near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old. Archaeologist Avi Gopher says further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, "this changes the whole picture of evolution."(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Eight human teeth dating back as far as 400,000 years ago and found at the prehistoric Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha’ayin – discovered recently by Tel Aviv University researchers – are “the world’s earliest evidence” of modern man (Homo sapiens).
Until now, remains of humans from only 200,000 years ago have been found in Africa, and the accepted approach has been that modern man originated on that continent.
Long before the land was called Israel and the residents Jews, Homo sapiens lived here twice as long ago as was previously believed, the researchers wrote in the latest (December) edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
The cave was uncovered in 2000 by Prof. Avi Gopher and Dr. Ran Barkai of TAU’s Institute of Archeology. Later, Prof. Israel Hershkowitz of the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine and an international team of scientists performed a morphological analysis on the teeth found in the cave.
The examination included CT scans and X-rays indicating the size and shape of the teeth are very similar to those of modern man. The teeth found in the cave are also very similar to evidence of modern man dated to around 100,000 years ago that had previously been discovered in the Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel and the Qafzeh Cave in the Lower Galilee near Nazareth.
The Qesem Cave is dated between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, and archeologists working there believe that the findings indicate significant changes in the behavior of ancient man. This period of time was crucial in the history of mankind from cultural and biological perspectives, and the fact that teeth of modern man were discovered indicates that these changes are apparently related to evolutionary changes taking place at that time, they maintained.
Gopher and Barkai noted that the findings that characterize the culture of those who dwelled in the Qesem Cave – the systematic production of flint blades, the habitual use of fire, evidence of hunting, cutting and sharing of animal meat, mining raw materials to produce flint tools from subsurface sources and much more – reinforce the hypothesis that this was, in fact, innovative and pioneering behavior that corresponds with the appearance of modern man.
The specimens, date back to the Middle Pleistocene era, include permanent and deciduous teeth. They were thus placed chronologically earlier than the bulk of fossil hominin specimens previously known from southwest Asia. Although none of the Qesem teeth resemble those of pre-Homo sapiens Neanderthals, a few traits may suggest some affinities with members of the Neanderthal evolutionary lineage, but the balance of the evidence suggests a closer similarity with the Skhul-Qafzeh dental material, said Gopher and Barkai.
Watch this. It is something glorious to see. Much thanks to Dr. Steve Carol for sending this to Atlas. The perfect gift.
An excellent ten minute video of the 1947 UN Partition plan that gave international recognition to the fact that a Jewish state already existed de facto in British Mandatory Palestine. Left off this video was the Arab reaction which already preceded the vote -- attack the Jewish community and prevent the reemergence of a sovereign Jewish state after 1,875 years. The Arabs continue their attempt to destroy that sovereign state.
Below is a clip released last month. It is a preview of a longer documentary (called “Dancing under the gallows”) which will appear next year. I suggest you watch the video first, and then read my commentary, which gives additional information.
Alice Herz-Sommer lives alone in a small single-room apartment in north London, and considers herself one of the luckiest people alive.
Besides being the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor, Alice is also the second oldest person in London. She was a leading pianist in Prague before the war, and even now (she turns 107 this month), continues to play the piano for three hours or more every day, performing Schubert, Smetana and Beethoven in a style long forgotten, the style of Artur Schnabel, who was one of her teachers.
She was born in 1903 in Prague, then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Growing up in the Jewish cultural circles of Prague, as a young girl she knew Franz Kafka, who was a very close friend of her elder sister’s husband. She started playing the piano when she was five, taking lessons with a distinguished pupil of Liszt, Conrad Ansorge. At 16, she became the youngest member of the master class at Prague’s prestigious German musical academy.
Alice Herz-Sommer, in Prague before the war
“MUSIC WAS MY FOOD”
In March 1939, Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia and Jews were forced out of their jobs and banned from public transport, parks, theatres, concert halls and swimming pools, and forbidden to have jewelry, cash or own telephones. “Although we were poor, had nothing to eat and the Nazis and their Czech collaborators took away all our belongings,” Alice says, “for me the greatest punishment was having to wear the yellow star. When I went on the street my best non-Jewish friends didn’t dare to look at me.”
After two years in the Prague ghetto, she was deported with her husband and son to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín in Czech), north of Prague, where tens of thousands of Jews were killed. She became part of the camp orchestra and even managed to play Chopin’s 24 Etudes from memory.
“We were hardly given any food in Theresienstadt. We lost weight. We scavenged for potato peelings as people starved to death around us. People ask, ‘How could you make music?’ We were so weak. But music was special, like a spell. Music was my food. There were excellent musicians there in the camp orchestra, really excellent. Violinists, cellists, singers, conductors and composers.”
ONE OF ONLY 130 CHILDREN TO SURVIVE
Her husband (a well-known violinist who she married in 1931) was moved from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in 1944, and then to Dachau, where he was killed along with most other members of her family. In 1942, her adored elderly mother (who, as a child, was a friend of Gustav Mahler) was deported from Theresienstadt to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Above: A memorial at Treblinka. Each stone represents a Jewish town or city, the population of which was exterminated at the camp
Alice’s 6 year-old-son Raphael, who was a talented singer, took part in performances of Hans Krasa’s children’s opera Brundibar, given as part of the Nazis’ attempts to show how “normal” life was in Theresienstadt for the visiting Red Cross. Out of 15,000 children who were sent to the camp, he was one of only 130 to survive.
Alice and her son (now aged 8) were liberated by the Red Army on May 9, 1945, the last day of the war. “When I came back home it was very, very painful because nobody else came back. The whole family of my husband, several members of my family, all my friends, all the friends of my family, nobody came back. Then I realized what Hitler had done.”
She then moved to Israel (joining one of her sisters who had managed to escape there before the war) and taught music in Tel Aviv. “I must say, when I moved to Israel there was not a day without political tension, but to experience democracy! After Hitler and Stalin, you feel what it means. You can read, speak, trust everyone. It was a beautiful life in Israel, inspiring. Musicians, scientists and writers – they all came and lectured. It was a cultural centre. I was very happy.”
In 1986, at the prompting of her son who had moved to England, she moved to London.
“LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL”
One of the other women featured in the video clip above is Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was born in 1925 in Breslau (which was then in Germany but is now part of Poland and has been renamed Wroclaw). Anita is a cellist of world renown, and one of the only surviving members of the 40-piece Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz. The orchestra was conducted by Alma Rosé, the daughter of Gustav Mahler’s sister Justine, before she died in Auschwitz in 1944.
Islamabad, Oct 20 : A well-known sarod player of Pakistan shut his newly-opened music training centre here after his 12-year-old son was threatened. He was told to 'stop teaching music'.
Sarod player Asad Qazilbash was shocked when his son, playing in the street with his friends, was approached by a group of young men who told him to tell his father
to immediately remove a signboard announcing launch of classes for those interested in learning music. [...]
"I recently tried to start music classes at my house for those who are interested in learning the art.
"Earlier this month when I was out of the house, my son, playing in the street with his friends, was approached by a group of young men wearing 'shalwar-kameez' and turbans on their heads and asked him who lives in the house where a board about music classes was installed," Qazilbash was quoted as saying.
"My son responded in affirmative to which they scolded him and told him to convey the message to me to immediately remove the board, stop teaching music..."
The musician ignored the threat and two days later, the same group of men turned up again and this time they spoke harshly to his son.
The men told the boy: "We told you to tell your father to immediately remove this board and stop teaching music. But your father has neither removed the board nor he had come to us to explain his position, as we told you to tell him to do.
"There are enough evils in society, which have tarnished the image of Islam and we don't want anybody to add to these evils any more. Tell him clearly this time around to immediately remove this board, stop teaching music... So far we are asking politely. If he didn't comply with what we have said things can become very nasty."
Qazilbash then decided to remove the board of music school from outside his house.
"I not only removed the board, but also stopped music classes for the time being. But I am worried about the safety of my children because it is not possible for me to keep
Once again more irrefutable proof is discovered of Jewish ownership of Israel and the Muslims go freakin' nuts. As if 56 countries weren't enough. One tiny Jewish state is an insult to Islam! One tiny Jewish state defames Islam!
Facts makes these killer plum crazy. Facts are an insult to Islam. Respect that!
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- An Israeli archaeologist's discovery of
fortifications in Jerusalem that she says date back 3,000 years to the time of
King Solomon and the government's plans to include two West Bank shrines as part
of Israel's national heritage has incensed Palestinians.
The Palestinians say they see this as a new plot to scupper their dream of an
independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Palestinian protesters have clashed with Israeli police in Hebron after Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that the two fiercely contested
sites in the West Bank would be included in a $100 million plan to restore
national heritage sites.
These are the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb on the
outskirts of Bethlehem, 12 miles north of Hebron.
The Hebron site has been a source of conflict for decades. Jews call it the
Cave of the Patriarchs, where the Bible says the patriarchs Abraham, Issac and
Jacob were buried with three of their wives. The site is also sacred to Muslims,
who also revere Abraham. They call it the al-Ibrahimi Mosque.
Those killers can call it anything they want. Defend the Jewish homeland and its heritage.
And while 63% of Americans staunchly support Israel, Obama slammed Israel for restoring the two national heritage sites. Be careful, B. Hussein, your Jew-hatred is showing. Perhaps it goes back to the Islamic antisemitism he was taught in his koranic classes in Jakarta.
Fox News' wall to to wall Haiti coverage to the exclusion of everything else is bad enough but Israel's herculean efforts in Haiti have been completely ignored by the continuing dumbing down network. I guess they are whoring themselves completely to their Saudi masters (Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders
in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said he is going expand his alliances with
the media giant.) [Update - I stand corrected. I heard Fox had a story a couple of days back. I have been on Fox the last 48 hours and heard not a word. If they are doing wall to wall coverage - one story doesn't cut it.]
Israeli field hospital earns accolades as only aid mission able to do complex surgery in devastated country. CNN reports other missions transfer patients to Israeli base. ABC reports on young woman giving birth therem
The valiant work of Israel's rescue mission to Haiti has been widely covered in the Israeli press. Now it has earned praise from a surprising source: On Monday, US media broadcast items praising the assistance provided by Israel, and one reporter even sent a letter of thanks to Israeli representatives in New York.
CNN reported that Israel is the only state so far to have sent a field hospital equipped with all that is required for surgical operations. Doctors from various missions send patients requiring surgery to Israel's makeshift hospital, particularly those whose condition is critical, the news network said.
According to the report, other field hospitals contain no more than stretcher
beds and medical teams who administer first aid, and they are not prepared for
complex surgery
An additional IDF rescue and medical aid team is scheduled to depart to Haiti Monday night and will include Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, Director General of the Ministry of Health Dr. Eytan Chai-Am, and Surgeon General, Brig. Gen. Nachman Ash.
The delegation will deliver relief reinforcements that include medicine and additional equipment and will examine the needs of the IDF medical staff on the scene.
As a response to the disaster in Haiti , the IDF has sent a Medical and Rescue Team of over 220 members, among them Search and Rescue teams, doctors, nurses, members of
the Communications Corps, and more. The IDF delegation arrived in Port-Au-Prince , Haiti and immediately set up a
Communications Center and a Field Hospital in a
soccer field near the air port, equipped with some of the finest medical and
logistical equipment Israel could provide. They
began accepting and treating the wounded right away, while Search and Rescue forces continued to locate and
rescue survivors trapped in the rubble, including many who were injured during
the collapse of the UN headquarters.
The IDF delegation to Haiti , led by the Commander of the Land Search and Rescue Squadron of the Home Front Command, Brig. Gen. (res.) Shalom
Ben-Aryeh, will stop searching for people trapped under ruins in Port-au-Prince
starting on Tuesday, Jan. 19th. More than four days after the severe
earthquake, and upon evaluation of the situation by commanders of the delegation
in the field and in Israel , it has been decided that at that time there will be
a zero percent chance of finding survivors. However, Home Front Command forces
will remain with the delegation for the next two weeks, assisting the Medical
Corps in manning the IDF field hospital in the disaster zone.
As of Monday, Jan. 18th, the IDF Medical Corps has treated
approximately 200 injured people. 30% of the injured in the hospital are in
serious condition, 50% are moderately injured and the rest are lightly injured.
More than half of the injured are under the age of 16. The majority of injuries
are limb injuries and bone fractures. 25 life-saving surgeries have been
performed.
The director of the Haiti field
hospital, Col. Dr. Itzik Reis, explained that the IDF delegation is also giving
assistance “to people from emergency crews from all over the world – who simply
are not capable of dealing with everyone who needs help and giving them
treatment.” Col. Reis added: “We have all of the necessary equipment here, it is
exactly like a hospital in Israel .”
Today, Monday the 18th, the Israeli forces running the hospital
were joined by 9 volunteer doctors from Los
Angeles. With so many wounded and so many medical needs to address in
this time of crisis, all the help provided by the various countries coming to
the aid of the people of Haiti is crucial.
An additional IDF aid delegation is scheduled to depart to Haiti
tonight, Monday the 18th. The delegation will be headed by the GOC of the Home
Front Command, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, and will also include the Director General
of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Eytan Chai-Am,
and the Chief Medical Officer, Brig. Gen.
Nachman Ash.
The delegation will deliver relief reinforcements that include
medicine and additional equipment. Upon its arrival, the delegation will examine
the needs of the IDF medical staff on the scene. The duration of the Israeli
forces' stay in Haiti has yet to be determined, however their devotion to the
mission of helping the local population is unwavering, and they continue to work
around the clock to provide the medical attention so direly needed in the
region.
As news of
the earthquake in Haiti started to emerge, the Israeli government immediately
began to make plans to send a delegation to aid in the relief
efforts.
"Our decision to immediately dispatch a large delegation
of doctors, nurses, medics, rescue forces as well as drugs and medical equipment
to Haiti expresses the deep values which have characterized the Jewish people
and the State of Israel throughout history," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said.
On Friday, two
Israeli jets carrying nearly 10 tons of medical equipment, doctors, nurses,
medics, police forces and an elite search and rescue team landed in Haiti. The
220-person delegation is led by Brig. Gen. Shalom Ben-Aryeh (Res.), the
commander of the Home Front Command's National Search and Rescue
Unit.
Thus far, the
Israeli search and rescue units have rescued 70 people from beneath the
rubble.
In addition to
deploying search and rescue units to find survivors, Israel established a field
hospital that includes 40 doctors, 24 nurses, medics, paramedics, x-ray
equipment and personnel, a pharmacy, an emergency room, two surgery rooms, an
incubation ward, a children's ward, a maternity ward, and more. The field
hospital is capable of treating nearly 500 victims per day and performing
initial surgeries.
The IDF's chief medical
officer, Brig. Gen. Nachman Esh, said that while the field hospital will largely
treat trauma patients, similar to those encountered in a war, specialists in
various other fields have also been sent.
"We expect to have to deal
mainly with trauma cases, but when we arrive there, we also expect to encounter
the secondary wave of infections and diseases, as well as the routine cases that
the local hospitals would usually deal with," Brig. Gen. Esh said.
To see a special report on CNN
about the Israeli Field Hospital, click here.
To see how the Israeli Field
Hospital saved the lives of a newborn baby and its mother, watch this ABC
Special.
To view the latest directly from
the Israeli delegation in Haiti, click here.
The large field hospital established by the IDF Medical Corps at 10 a.m. Shabbat local time was already
treating dozens of patients four hours later, when its commander, Lt.-Col. Dr.
Itzik Reiss, was able to take a breather and speak to Israeli health reporters
via a conference call.
The hospital has an emergency room, pediatric, orthopedic, internal medicine, obstetrics and surgery departments, clinics and other facilities. The delivery room and premature baby unit are prepared to function but have not yet received any women or infants.
(Partial
list): Abd Al-Jawwad Ziada, president of the Union of Food Manufacturers -
Palestine Abdeen Jabara, past president, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination
Committee Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar), Syrian poet Aki Kaurismaki, film
director Alexandre Trudeau, filmmaker and journalist; second son of the
former Canadian prime minister, the late Pierre Trudeau
Ali Abunimah,
author and co-founder, Electronic Intifada Ali Glenesk, organizer of the May
2009, 40-person student delegation to the Gaza Strip and contact person for
the Gaza Freedom March student committee Ali Mallah, vice president,
Canadian Arab Federation and founding member, Trade Unionists Against
War Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Kennedy, Scottish
novelist and comedian
Amjad Shawa, director, Palestinian Network of NGOs
(PNGO) Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat Arik
Ascherman, Rabbi - Israel
Arun Gandhi, founder, Gandhi Institute for
Nonviolence Assaf Kfoury, professor Avi Shlaim, warden, St. Anthony's
College, Oxford University Ayman Zidan, Syrian actor Barbara Lubin,
executive director, Middle East Children's Alliance
Baroness Helena
Kennedy, British lawyer, broadcaster and Labor Party member of the House of
Lords Baroness Jenny Tonge, former MP for the Liberal Democrat Party -
UK Bella Freud, British fashion designer
Betty Hunter, Palestine
Solidarity Campaign, UK Bill Fletcher Jr., executive editor,
BlackCommentator.com Bill Scheurer, editor, PeaceMajority Report Bruce
Kent, British peace campaigner Carmina Tremblay, L'autre Parole, Collective
de Feministes Chretiennes - Montreal, Canada
Caroline Lucas, member of
the European Parliament and leader, Green Party of England and
Wales Chandra Kumar, editor, Upping the Anti
Caryl Churchill, British
playwright and author of Seven Jewish Children Charles Pachter, a Canadian
artist whose images of the queen, mose and maple leaf flag have become pop
icons
Chelsea Boudin, writer and lecturer Christopher Hedges,
best-selling American author Cindy and Craig Corrie, co-founders, the Rachel
Corrie Foundation Clare Short, member of Parliament and former Secretary of
State for International Development, UK
David Hartsough,
Peaceworkers Dennis Dalton, Barnard College Dennis Brutus, poet and
anti-apartheid activist, South Africa Derek Summerfield, physician and
researcher on Gaza Derek Wall, former Principal Speaker of the Green Party of
England and Wales Diana Buttu, Palestinian lawyer and former peace
negotiator Diane Wilson Dina Kennedy, U.S. coordinator of the Free Gaza
Movement and member of the American Palestinian Women's Assn. Dr. Mona El
Farra, Red Crescent Society for Gaza Strip Dr. Munir El-Kassem, president and
founder, Islamic Institute for Interfaith Dialogue
Dr. Patch Adams,
physician/healer, Gesundheit Institute Dr. Rupert Neudeck, Green Helmets,
Germany Duraid Lahham, Syrian actor, and wife Hala Betar Ehab Lotayef,
Montreal-based writer, engineer and activist Erik Fosse, director general,
NORWAC (Norwegian Aid Committee) Eseed Al-Astal, vice president of the Union
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Nonviolence Service Felice Gelman, member of the WESPAC Foundation and board
member for Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theater Felicia Langer, recipient
of the Alternative Nobel Prize Fignole St. Cyr, general secretary, Autonomous
Confederation of Haitian Gael Murphy, cofounder of CODEPINK; co-chair,
Legislative Commitee, United for Peace & Justice; and chair of Gaza
FreedomMarch Congressional Outreach Committee George Galloway, UK Member
of Parliament, Viva Palestina George Sawa, musician - Toronto,
Canada
Ghada Karmi, author and physician
Gianni Vattimo, member of
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Canada
Graham Watt, MD, physician and scholar
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Al-Aqsa University Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor and lecturer Howard
Zinn, historian and author Ibrahim Shalaby, Palestinian-Canadian
artist
Ilias Al-Jelda, National coordinator of the International Union
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Parliament, London Fanshawe
Jane Frere, Scottish Artist Jeff Halper,
founder, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Jennifer Loewenstein,
associate director of Middle East studies,University of
Wisconsin-Madison Jodie Evans, cofounder, CODEPINK Jocelyn Hurndall,
mother of Tom Hurndall, a photojournalist killed in Gaza in 2003 while
rescuing Palestinian children
John Berger, English art critic, novelist
and painter John Dugard, professor of international law and former judge for
the International Court of Justice and special rapporteur for the
UN Commission on Human Rights John Pilger, journalist, filmmaker and
Sydney International Peace Prize recipient
John Rees, co-founder Stop
the War Coalition (UK) Jonas Hassen Khemiri, award-winning Swedish novelist
and playwright
Jonathan Cook, journalist - UK Jonathan Kuttab, human
rights lawyer - West Bank & Amman, Jordan Judith Weisman, Jewish Women to
End the Occupation Kamal Boullata, visual artist - Menton, France Karma
Nabulsi, scholar and PLO member Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative
Nonviolence Ken Loach, filmmaker Khaled Abu Zaid, president and founder of
National Center for Community Rehabilitation, Gaza Leslie Cagan, national
coordinator of United for Peace & Justice from December 2002 to April
2009
Libby Davies, member of the Canadian Parliament, Vancouver
East
Linda Ramsden, director, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
UK Lord Andrew Phillips, OBE (Order of the British Empire),
Liberal Lorraine Guay, professional nurse - Montreal, Canada
Luigi De
Magistris, member of Parliament - Italy Luisa Morgantini, former vice
president, European Parliament Mads Gilbert, professor of emergency medicine,
University of Tromsø - Norway Mairead Maguire, Nobel peace laureate Manal
Awad, women's rights activist - Gaza Marco Rizzo, former European MP Mark
Johnson, executive director, Fellowship of Reconciliation U.S. Mary Hughes,
co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement Medea Benjamin, cofounder, Global
Exchange and CODEPINK Mieciu Langer, Holocaust survivor Mike Leigh,
Oscar-nominated British director Mirene Ghossein, member of Adalah NY, the
Middle East Committee of the WESPAC Foundation and Alwan for the Arts Mona
Amyuni, senior lecturer, American University - Beirut Mubarak Awad, founder,
Nonviolence International - Washington D.C. Mustafa Barghouti, deputy,
Palestinian Legislative Council Nabeel Alkam, Palestinian writer Nadia
Hijab, senior fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies Nancy Murray,
president, Gaza Mental Health Foundation Naomi Klein, author Nisreen
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linguist and author Naela Alwaary (Dr.), head, Women for Jerusalem
Association
Norman Solomon, author of the International Campaign to
Break the Siege Oliver Stone, filmmaker Olivia Zemor, President of
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine
Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian
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for the Arab Voice newspaper and a Palestinian American graduate student at
New Jersey Institute of Technology Pam Rasmussen, chair of the Gaza Freedom
March Peace & Justice Outreach Committee; member, steering committee,
Peace ActionMontgomery, and activist with CODEPINK and the
International Solidarity Movement Penn Kemp, poet, novelist, playwright
and sound artist - London, Ontario, Canada
Peter Juviler, professor
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campaigner
Philip Andrews, liberal democrat, House of Lords -
UK Phyllis Bennis, author and fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies -
Washington, D.C. Prof. Anat Biletski, Dept. of Philosophy, Tel Aviv
University Professor Vic Allen, retired, Leeds University - UK Rabbi
Arthur Waskow, Shalom Center Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Shomer Shalom Institute for
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Ronnie
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Fahs, Lebanon Sir Geoffrey Bindman, British lawyer and human rights
advocate Sir Iain Chalmers, doctor and medical researcher, UK Sonia
Alfano, European MP, President of National Association of Relatives of
Victims of the Mafia - Italy
Tariq Ali, British author Tom Hayden,
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Against the Occupation, Sydney - Australia Jewish Voice for a Just Peace -
Austria Jewish Voice for Peace Jews Say No Khadem el-Haramein Centre
for the Quran and Sunna Labourers' Support Association Land of the Israa
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Research - Lebanon Not In Our Name - Canada Nour Association for Societal
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of Israel (Umbrella organization for 7 student orgs + Student Affairs
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Oy, all these Jewish discoveries must be making baby Islam so crazy (and Moe had no witnesses in that cave, let alone historical proof). They must be up there at Al Aqsa (site of the oldest Jewish temple) destroying those Jewish artifacts harder, faster!
Check this out. Oldest Hebrew evuh! They'll be killing Jews left and right for this one.........
By decoding the inscription on a 3,000-year-old piece of pottery, an Israeli professor has concluded that parts of the bible were written hundreds of years earlier than suspected.
The pottery shard was discovered at excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa near the
Elah valley in Israel -- about 18 miles west of Jerusalem. Carbon-dating places
it in the 10th century BC, making the shard about 1,000 years older than the
Dead Sea scrolls.
Professor Gershon Galil of the University
of Haifa deciphered the ancient writing, basing his interpretation on the
use of verbs and content particular to the Hebrew language. It turned out to be
"a social statement, relating to slaves, widows and orphans," Galil explained in
a statement from the University.
The inscription is the earliest example of Hebrew writing found, which stands
in opposition to the dating of the composition of the Bible in current research;
prior to this discovery, it was not believed that the Bible or parts of it could
have been written this long ago.
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, current theory holds that the Bible could not have been written
before the 6th century B.C.E., because Hebrew writing did not exist until
then.
English translation of the deciphered text:
1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord]. 2' Judge the sla[ve] and
the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an] 3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the
infant / plead for the po[or and] 4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at
the hands of the king. 5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the
stranger.
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
...Winston Churchill
This is what we are up against. This is the twisted mindset we are facing in trying to have normal relations with the "Religion of Peace". (hat tip Mark H.)
In an interview with Member of the Knesset Dr. Arieh Eldad:
Dr. Arieh Eldad:
I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank,
which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin
for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty
situations. This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem
University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the chairman of plastic
surgery.
This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza ,
who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after her family
burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when
the women are suspected of having an affair. We supplied all the needed
Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend
and colleague Prof. Lior Rosenberg, and discharged to return to Gaza .
She was invited for regular follow up visits to the outpatient clinic
in Beersheba . One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a
suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of
the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family
promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.
Best regards,
Esther
This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land
of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational
conflict.
So, who's side are you on... a country that shares our pain and our battle, or those who stand on rooftops cheering when 3000 Americans are murdered by their fellow savages? (hat tip Stuart)
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