[Alouette]

So, the Red Crescent is allowed so the Muslims won't be offended, and the Red Magen David is not allowed so the Muslims won't be offended.

Oh, and the Red Crescent is allowed to transport weapons and suicide bombers in its ambulances through checkpoints without being searched, so the Muslims won't be offended.

I'm offended...but I'm not a Muslim.

[SJackson]

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[BenLurkin]

"So, the Red Crescent is allowed so the Muslims won't be offended, and the Red Magen David is not allowed so the Muslims won't be offended. "

Apparently so.

We are living in the age of insanity.

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[lilylangtree]

I speculate that the islamic arabs will never let Israel join the Red Cross just like the islamic countries can't define "terrorism". Beyond their collective comprehension.

[End Times Sentinel]

I've got a better idea:  Why don't we figure out a way to get the U.S. out of the Red Cross?  Then the U.S. and Israel could stand together, united against this despicable, corrupt organization.  Let them solicit money for disasters only to funnel the money into a needle exchange program under someone else's name.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Psycho_Bunny]

[cake_crumb]

So, the Red Crescent is allowed so the Muslims won't be offended, and the Red Magen David is not allowed so the Muslims won't be offended.

Oh, and the Red Crescent is allowed to transport weapons and suicide bombers in its ambulances through checkpoints without being searched, so the Muslims won't be offended.

I'm offended...but I'm not a Muslim

Bears repeating BUMP

I'm sick of anti-Semitism being masqueraded as "tolorance"

[George Smiley]

Sounds like they should adopt a red dot with a circle around it.

[steveyp]

You need a diplomatic conference to decide on an emblem.

And there you have crystallized so much of what is the fundamental problem with global organizations.

[azhenfud]

"I'm offended...but I'm not a Muslim."

Doesn't count. You must claim your "offended islamite" title to be recognized.

[Nachum]

The red cross emblem was first adopted in 1863, when Swiss humanitarians founded the movement to care for war victims. It simply reverses the colors of the neutral Swiss flag, without any religious intent

Except for the Muslims who started the Red Crescent society in 1863 along with it.

[antiRepublicrat]

Next:

Note, this isn't a satanic symbol, which would be this upside-down. My point is that now every religion is going to want its own symbol as part of the Red Cross, and where will that end?

[minus_273]

bump!

[petitfour]

Just make it the Red Crescent of Embrace and sing kumbaya.

[dervish]

BTTT!

Just another example of the Muslims turning the world upside down and trying to make Israel a Pariah nation. Kudos to the American Red Cross for trying to stop them.

I can guarantee that Jews do not use their ambulances to smuggle weapons or terrorists. That is the act of the real Pariahs.

[ariamne]

Typically appalling double standard. Have these nations learned none of the lessons of pre-World War II appeasement?

[pabianice]

If any Freeper donated to Katrina victims through the loathsome Red Cross, shame on you!

[goldstategop]

The proposal is insulting and smacks of anti-semitism. Israel would prefer a neutral, non-religious symbol for the Red Cross Societies but neither the Christians nor the Muslims will agree to give up their symbols for one. The Magen David Adom Society has flourished fine for 57 years without official recognition from rhe International Red Cross.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Ciexyz]

The fight for equal justice can be long and distressing. (sigh)

[Ancesthntr]

The disagreement centers around whether a red Star of David can join the emblems of the red cross and red crescent to identify ambulances, medical workers and others on humanitarian missions.

No, this is only a symptom of the disagreement; the real problem is that the Arab members of the Red Cross (who are the ONLY ones objecting) still cannot accept the very idea of a nation run by Jews, let alone the reality of it. This is pure anti-Semitism, nothing more and nothing less. The fact that the other members (the US excepted, as usual) permit this bullshiite to continue earns them a pox on their houses.

The latest proposal envisions what its proponents call a red crystal — a square standing on one corner, with a blank white interior and a thick red border. Magen David Adom, or MDA, the Israeli society, would be allowed to put its Red Star of David in the center but the Israeli military would not be able to use the combined symbol in an armed conflict to protect its medics.

To use anything other than the existing symbol, which is also the symbol for Israel the nation, is unbelieveably insulting. I suppose that it was OK for the German military in WW1 to use the Red Cross symbol while having the Knights Cross on vehicles and planes, but not for the JOOOOOS.

KCUF that noise. Israel should want to have little to nothing to do with such trash.