Sri Lanka said refusing IDF aid team

haaretz ^ | 28 dec 04 | Yoav Stern and Amos Harel

[Darkwolf377]

Perhaps you should take a dose of your own medicine.

Wow, that's a good one. You come up with that on your own or do you have a team of writers?

Nice to see you can't answer my points so you're off on this ridiculous track. Have fun on this nonsensical binge you're on.

[DainBramage]

If Israel wanted to help Sri Lanka in the future they might want to invest in some early warning tsunami devices for the Indian Ocean. The PM of Australia has proposed the idea as well. Israel has made a fair bit on their arms

Uhmmm you wrote invest genious. (from 33)

[NautiNurse]

too bad that some people think they are too good to have help from the Jews.

Where in the article is this intimated?

[Petronski]

Yep, water's coming to a boil now. If the flame war keeps up, soon there will be fresh coffee for everyone.

[NautiNurse]

too many people can be as bad as none?

Excellent point. Too many volunteers in the acute crisis phase is almost as chaotic as the disaster.

[Darkwolf377]

I couldn't care less--you're on a website, I could tell you I worked overseas with the United Nations for 13 months in logistics, or that I donated $1000 this morning. Talk is cheap--in your case, extremely so.

The point is you're running around pointing fingers when all anyone has done is comment on one specific article. It may be disproved, and if so, whoopee do. But it's served it's purpose--you've gotten to preen about what a good person you are. Big deal.

I just find it laughable that someone whose going on about "the innocents" has time to waste on one article when he should be wiping these supposed tears off his face and getting over to the Red Cross, or be on the phone calling friends asking them to donate money, or calling his senator, or a htousand other compassionate expressions in such a time, and you use your time to strut your self-proclaimed moral superiority.

I, on the other hand, merely commented on an article, on a site which is about commenting about articles, and my history and what I am doing (or not) about a tragedy is none of your business (Jesus said something about keeping that kind of stuff to oneself).

You and your buds go right on parading your supposed superiority. I'm sure you've saved many lives strutting around here this morning. How proud you must be.

[white trash redneck]

Where in the article is this intimated?

Where in the article (or anywhere else for that matter) is it intimated, or explicitly stated, that aid was rejected from any other country except Israel? If you can find an article reporting that any other country's aid was rejected, please post it. Otherwise, it seems pretty clear that the leaders of Sri Lanka would prefer that their countrymen suffer so that they could take a poke at Israel and indulge their antisemitism.

[DooDahhhh]

probably from the title. Who knows what this poor country is going through with all the dead and injured.

[DainBramage]

My girlfriend and I spent many months in Indonesia working at schools and working with various community projects in some of the most poorest and disadvantaged areas. Most tourists visit other countries just o have some fun, or for pure hedonism. I have always done my bit for the country in was in at the time.

Can someone please post a midi with loud applause and cheering?

Your boring me now Peace Corps dude. Im gonna have to pull out the violins if you keep it up.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

[veronica]

The Turd World will never change. Ignorance abounds.

[Darkwolf377]

"Most tourists visit other countries just o have some fun, or for pure hedonism. I have always done my bit for the country in was in at the time."

So what? That was what you chose to do, what you wanted to do. If you think that makes you some moral arbiter, who can decide what is good and true and right, you're insane. Those "tourists" you sniff at provide a healthy part of many of these economies, while your conscience-healing charity work was something you could obviously afford to do, and is now something you parade around for your own self-aggrandizement.

I'm sure your efforts have revolutionized the world, but it's embarassing watching someone wave his personal charitable works around in a vain attempt to impress others...and which has NOTHING to do with the veracity of the article in question.

You go save the world--just make sure you advertise it to everyone afterwards.

[sukhoi-30mki]

It seems that the Israeli aid team has been rejected,but not Israeli material aid.This could be put down to a number of reasons including political expediency(the Arabs won't give aid if the JOOs are around & Sri Lanka has lots of expats in the M.E) or sheer lack of common sense as Sri Lanka has never faced a crisis of this order before.I don't think SL has any anti-Israeli tendencies.The govt in Colombo survived the 2000 LTTE offensive thanks to Indian & Israeli arms.

[Petronski]

[sausageseller]

Do you know what the word "cancel" means?

[veronica]

Go back to LF. You are smelling up this joint.

[gitmo]

6000 plus people die in a terrible tragedy and some people are more outraged about a small group of people being refused entry (if they were actually refused)into a sovereign nation in the midst of terrible grieving and chaos.

You are missing the point. The outrage isn't that Israel was snubbed. Heck, they're used to that. The outrage is that a nation whose people just suffered an unimaginable tragedy are are on the precipice of an even worse one (from disease) would turn away valuable aid just to make a political statement. That is the hierarchy of suffering: bigotry trumps lifesaving aid.