In Syria as I write this, the death toll is approaching 300,000 during the civil war. More than ten million Syrians have been turned into refugees. The suffering of the refugees is staggering, and many are in terrible conditions. Some of the refugees have fled to other countries. Jordan, for example, has taken almost two million Syrians, and the burden of caring for them has been extraordinary for that kingdom. For the refugees who are still in Syria, many are starving, ill or homeless.
I mention Syria, because the big new in humanitarian aid in the Middle East this week came in the form of a flotilla of ships that sailed from Greece to bring such aid to Gaza. The ships tried to sail past the Israeli blockade of arms and military supplies of the Gaza Strip. Israel wants to keep arms away from Hamas, the terrorist group that rules in Gaza. It also wants to keep out the materials that would be used to rebuild tunnels from Gaza into Israel which Hamas uses to launch surprise terror attacks on nearby Israeli communities.
It's interesting that the humanitarian aid was sent in a three ship flotilla to Gaza rather than Syria. After all, there is no shortage of food in Gaza, unlike for the Syrian refugees. There is no lack of medical supplies in Gaza, unlike for the Syrians. The people in Gaza are building new homes unlike the Syrian refugees. Conditions are not great in Gaza, but there is no humanitarian crisis as there is in Syria. So why did the flotilla assemble and sail to Gaza? Why did they claim that there was a humanitarian crisis?
The people behind the flotilla claim that they are trying to bring much needed supplies to Gaza to help the local people. That, however, has now been exposed as a lie.
A few days ago, the Israeli navy boarded these ships and stopped the flotilla. The main ship was brought into the Israeli port of Ashdod and the others were allowed to sail away. What was found when the ship made port is the most important part of this story. The ship was empty. It had no cargo. There was no humanitarian aid on board. The whole idea of a flotilla bringing aid was a lie.
In a rather humorous development, the organizers of the flotilla took issue with the Israelis announcement that the ship was empty. They say that the large cargo ship had two boxes of humanitarian aid on board. One box held a nebulizer. That's something that one could buy at the local drugstore for twenty bucks. It's about the size of a shoebox. The other box supposedly holds a solar panel that could be installed on the roof of some building in Gaza. ONE SOLAR PANEL! Even the average house with solar panels has six to ten on the roof, and this is just one. So a cargo ship was sent to Gaza to deliver a few hundred dollars (at most) worth of supplies? The cost of the trip itself is surely more than ten thousand dollars per day. The organizers want the world to believe that they spent close to a hundred thousand dollars to try to deliver less than $500 of supplies? Just a nebulizer and one solar panel? Really?
Of course, if you look at the coverage in the media of this entire event, you will find stories how Israel clamped down on the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies. That lie is put out there and the media runs with it.
As they used to say on the radio, now you know the rest of the story.
I mention Syria, because the big new in humanitarian aid in the Middle East this week came in the form of a flotilla of ships that sailed from Greece to bring such aid to Gaza. The ships tried to sail past the Israeli blockade of arms and military supplies of the Gaza Strip. Israel wants to keep arms away from Hamas, the terrorist group that rules in Gaza. It also wants to keep out the materials that would be used to rebuild tunnels from Gaza into Israel which Hamas uses to launch surprise terror attacks on nearby Israeli communities.
It's interesting that the humanitarian aid was sent in a three ship flotilla to Gaza rather than Syria. After all, there is no shortage of food in Gaza, unlike for the Syrian refugees. There is no lack of medical supplies in Gaza, unlike for the Syrians. The people in Gaza are building new homes unlike the Syrian refugees. Conditions are not great in Gaza, but there is no humanitarian crisis as there is in Syria. So why did the flotilla assemble and sail to Gaza? Why did they claim that there was a humanitarian crisis?
The people behind the flotilla claim that they are trying to bring much needed supplies to Gaza to help the local people. That, however, has now been exposed as a lie.
A few days ago, the Israeli navy boarded these ships and stopped the flotilla. The main ship was brought into the Israeli port of Ashdod and the others were allowed to sail away. What was found when the ship made port is the most important part of this story. The ship was empty. It had no cargo. There was no humanitarian aid on board. The whole idea of a flotilla bringing aid was a lie.
In a rather humorous development, the organizers of the flotilla took issue with the Israelis announcement that the ship was empty. They say that the large cargo ship had two boxes of humanitarian aid on board. One box held a nebulizer. That's something that one could buy at the local drugstore for twenty bucks. It's about the size of a shoebox. The other box supposedly holds a solar panel that could be installed on the roof of some building in Gaza. ONE SOLAR PANEL! Even the average house with solar panels has six to ten on the roof, and this is just one. So a cargo ship was sent to Gaza to deliver a few hundred dollars (at most) worth of supplies? The cost of the trip itself is surely more than ten thousand dollars per day. The organizers want the world to believe that they spent close to a hundred thousand dollars to try to deliver less than $500 of supplies? Just a nebulizer and one solar panel? Really?
Of course, if you look at the coverage in the media of this entire event, you will find stories how Israel clamped down on the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies. That lie is put out there and the media runs with it.
As they used to say on the radio, now you know the rest of the story.
1 comment:
Thank you for telling the truth. The blockade is legal, of course: a country at war is entitled to prevent military supplies getting to its enemies. The lies we read about Israel and Gaza are truly astounding, and you wonder what hidden intent is behind this anti-Israel campaign.
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