Redux: Israeli PR In Haiti Earthquake & What the U.S. Should Really Do In Haiti

Exploited by Israeli propaganda

Israel and its Zionist supporters should not bother to spend hundreds of millions in propaganda in the U.S. - which they do - since the U.S. media is happy to offer Israel billions in dollars of worth in free promotion.

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ABC News, which under Peter Jennings used to be the only reliable nightly newscast on the Middle East; is now under the auspicious of fluff-news journalist Diane Sawyer. And Sawyer is all about the human interest angle devoid of any real information or context.

Last night, she had a story about an Israeli operated tent-hospital in Haiti. She gushed with praise about how Israelis were the first on the scene in contrast to the United States which has yet to set up an equal organization. About how skilled Israelis are, they even have specified tents!, and the Haitian people are so grateful one baby girl was named “Israel”.

Admittedly, Israelis are technically doing good work in Haiti. But this is shameless P.R. Israelis are flying half the globe to help people in Haiti, but miles from Tel Aviv 1.5million Palestinians suffer under the man-made tragedy of the Israeli (and Egyptian) government. Palestinians in Gaza are also going without medical help and supplies. Palestinians desperately seeking medical leave are often denied by Israel and Egypt and are turned around to die. Many have died. And Israel only allows some Palestinians to seek medical help if they agree to become collaborators for the occupation.

The Israeli campaign in Haiti so acutely reflects Israel’s aspiration to be a noble society while failing to recognize that humanity must begin at home. Israel wants to market itself as a liberal project, but it cruelly represses and kills the indigenous population while feigning concern for people elsewhere. This is in league with Israelis who just finished their time with the occupying IDF traveling to Tibet and wearing “Free Tibet” shirts. It is incredible that there isn’t even the slightest hint of irony.

Israel wants to be seen as a normal society and one that seeks to do goodwill, but only those in the gullible and pro-Zionist U.S. media will fall for blatant Israeli P.R. campaigns in Haiti and elsewhere while the nation continues to refuse to recognize the humanity of the Palestinians. Israel is not a caring society, they are selective in their concern and when they do offer help do so for political exploitive reasons hoping to distract from their oppression of the Palestinians. This is the worst form of charity. Israel wants to kill over 400 children in Gaza and then pretends it is a decent society by inventing the media into its Haitian tent. Shameless photo-op.

If Israeli doctors really cared they’d go to Gaza.

Redux: An Israeli doctor notes that the Israeli presence in Haiti is all about making the news and that Israel really does not care:

"The extreme right wing in Israel is using the Haiti operation to reframe the fallout from the Goldstone report in the eyes of the world," Dr Yoel Donchin, an Israeli anesthesiologist and a veteran of Israeli rescue operations told The Media Line. "They know the Haitians are not part of the agenda and this is just for propaganda. But if it’s good for Israel they don’t care."

"You can’t save everyone, and anyone who has studied mass casualty situations knows that the first thing you have to do is not rush in but to send a small team to evaluate what is the best way to help in the long run," he said. "So the fact that Israel wants to race to be the first to be there means nothing in the big picture, because Israel is usually the first to arrive but also the first to leave."

"If, for example, Israel were to bring water purification systems and chemical toilets it would be much more helpful," Dr Donchin said. "But their logic is that then it wouldn’t get on the news."

As soon as the Western media leaves Haiti, the Israelis will immediately pack up and not even bother to leave token aid to the Haitians. Israel will not be a donor nation to Haiti.

And on Haiti: it is frustrating that nobody in the U.S. press is noting that one of the main reasons Haiti is poor is because Congress imposes sugar tariffs that prevent Haitians from selling their paramount crop to the U.S. market. The tariff is lobbied for by 11,000 powerful American sugar farmers (mostly in Florida just 90miles off the coast of Haiti) who do not want foreign competition. They make campaign contributions every election year and the tariff stays put which means Haitians are denied the ability to trade and making a decent living (they stay poor or turn to drug smuggling) and Americans have the benefit of paying 3x the world price for sugar, which then, of course, inflates the price for everything that goes into sugar. This is why American candy makers have relocated to Mexico where they can import Haitian sugar into their factories.

Instead of removing the tariff, a good all-around - Haitians, American workers, American consumers, the drug war - the U.S. media and the government self-righteously pretend that America is so noble because it is giving Haiti aid while preventing Haitians from trade all for purpose of campaign contributions.

We would do genuine and long-term good by believing in free trade and instead of making Haitians dependent on aid allow them to create their own prosperity with their head held up high.

But the Israeli and U.S. government are more concerned with cosmetic 'good' for the cameras and in reality actually do more harm.