Israeli and Jewish Groups begin aid to the Philippines after typhoon

[Sweet_Caroline]

As usual with worldwide natural disasters, Israel again steps up to the mark to help out.


Jewish, Israeli Groups Begin Aid to Philippines

American Jewish JDC and IsraAID work on response to devastating typhoon in Philippines. Israelis among the missing.

By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 11/10/2013, 7:34 PM


As the Philippines continues to reel from the devastating typhoon which has left an estimated 10,000 people dead, a staggering 800,000 missing and whole neighborhoods flattened, Jewish and Israeli aid agencies are stepping in to provide emergency relief.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and IsraAID have begun planning their responses to the ongoing crisis, which has also cut communications in the country, leaving hundreds of thousands isolated from any kind of help. Israel's Foreign Ministry has also announced that it will send a search and rescue team.

In a statement Sunday, the JDC’s CEO Alan Hill said, “Our heartfelt prayers go out to the Filipino people in the wake of yesterday’s deadly storm. We immediately activated our network of global partners and will leverage our previous experience in the region to provide immediate, strategic relief to survivors in their time of need.”

“These efforts are especially poignant for us given the Philippines’s life-saving actions during the Second World War when the country offered safe haven to more than 1,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi onslaught. It is our privilege today to honor that historic debt,” he added.

JDC has done previous work in the Philippines, including playing a part in fighting post-typhoon cholera in 2009, he noted.

IsraAID reportedly plans to send a team of medical and trauma professionals to the region to assist local NGOs and UN agencies. The agency has responded to crises around the world in recent years, including in Haiti,
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Mumbai,
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and South Sudan.
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The Foreign Ministry has announced that Israel will send a search and rescue team with experience in searching damaged buildings, as well as a medical team. Israel has frequently offered aid in the wake of disasters overseas, including the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010
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and an earthquake in Turkey in 2011.
Israel to Aid Turkey After Quake - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

Israel has particularly close ties with the Philippines. There are at least 30,000 Philippine citizens living and working in Israel, and possibly tens of thousands more; several thousand have received Israeli citizenship.

Philippine citizens who spoke to Israeli news outlets on Sunday expressed extreme concern for the fate of relatives in the Philippines who they have not been able to contact due to the typhoon's impact on communications in the country.

Jewish, Israeli Groups Begin Aid to Philippines - Global Agenda - News - Israel National News

 

[Lipush]

Tikkun Olam!

 

[R.C. Christian]

Nice propaganda effort.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Nice propaganda effort.

Excellent of Israel to help out, don't you think? I will wait patiently to see Arab countries to do the same.

 

[Lipush]

Nice propaganda effort.

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Nice propaganda effort.

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

Watch the rest of the insects crawl out from under their stones now.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Nice propaganda effort.

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

No you weren't. You're were just waiting to jump on the first person who didn't wrap himself in your silly flag.

 

[Lipush]

Nice propaganda effort.

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

No you weren't. You're were just waiting to jump on the first person who didn't wrap himself in your silly flag.

You're such a crack-up!

 

[Sally]

Nice propaganda effort.

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

No you weren't. You're were just waiting to jump on the first person who didn't wrap himself in your silly flag.

Doesn't the R.C. in your screen name stand for Roman Catholic? If not, I apologize, but the people in the Philippines are in dire need of help right now. As a decent human being, I know you want to help these Roman Catholic people, and you can donate to several different groups.

How to help: Organizations offering relief to Typhoon Haiyan survivors - World News

 

[Jos]

Kidneys, Livers, Hearts all need harvesting

 

[R.C. Christian]

I waited to see who will be the first asswipe to pull out the "propaganda" card.

Congrats, you're today's winner.

No you weren't. You're were just waiting to jump on the first person who didn't wrap himself in your silly flag.

Doesn't the R.C. in your screen name stand for Roman Catholic? If not, I apologize, but the people in the Philippines are in dire need of help right now. As a decent human being, I know you want to help these Roman Catholic people, and you can donate to several different groups.

How to help: Organizations offering relief to Typhoon Haiyan survivors - World News

You're very estute even though that wasn't the reason why I picked the name R.C. Christian.

I have zero problem with Israel helping people out, but when I see a post like this it comes across as propaganda because good propaganda can't really be argued with which is what makes it so damn good. I mean, who would have a problem Israel aiding some battered people? My statement was just an observation.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Should the typhoon devastate Vietnam Israel will help there. Israel also took in the 'boat people' in the 70s.

 

[Sally]

No you weren't. You're were just waiting to jump on the first person who didn't wrap himself in your silly flag.

Doesn't the R.C. in your screen name stand for Roman Catholic? If not, I apologize, but the people in the Philippines are in dire need of help right now. As a decent human being, I know you want to help these Roman Catholic people, and you can donate to several different groups.

How to help: Organizations offering relief to Typhoon Haiyan survivors - World News[

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You're very estute even though that wasn't the reason why I picked the name R.C. Christian.

I have zero problem with Israel helping people out, but when I see a post like this it comes across as propaganda because good propaganda can't really be argued with which is what makes it so damn good. I mean, who would have a problem Israel aiding some battered people? My statement was just an observation.

I hope you are being observant to all the Muslim propaganda against the Jews as well. I think it is great when people of other religions help those in need regardless of their religious background. When people give like that, it shows you that people put religious differences aside and just want to help their fellow human beings.

 

[Lipush]

Haters will be haters.

 

[Sally]

Kidneys, Livers, Hearts all need harvesting

I think, Joe, that a list of the five top countries harvesting organs shows the Muslim countries making quite a showing.

As for livers and hearts, maybve that's what the radical Muslims eat after they take them out of a dead body. I am sure they will take you on if you volunteer to be their chef.

 

[MJB12741]

Israel has a history of helping innocent people in need all over the world. Israel is even saving the lives of innocent Syrian children in Israel caught up in their terrorist internal massacre of each other.

 

[MJB12741]

During the hugh natural disaster in Haiti, Israel was the first country to provide aid & medical help to save Haitian lives. In fact, a Haitian mother was so grateful to the Israeli's for saving the life of her baby that she named her baby Israel. What a heartwarming story for all peoples of love & peace.

Haitian mother names her baby 'Israel'