An Israeli doctor said, ‘Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take
a kidney out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work
in six weeks’.
A German doctor said, ‘That’s nothing! In Germany, we can take a lung out of
one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks’.
A Russian doctor said, ‘In my country medicine is so advanced, we can take
half a heart from one person, put it in another, and have them both looking
for work in two weeks’.
The English doctor, not to be outdone, said ‘Hah!. We can take two arseholes
out of Scotland, put them in 10 & 11 Downing Street and have half the
country looking for work within twenty-four hours’.
I promised I’d write a blog about Israel’s response to the Haiti earthquake crisis due to the lack of reporting happening in the British media (surprise surprise).
The IDF search and rescue delegation landed in Haiti on January 15th and the Medical and Rescue Team immediately set up a field hospital in Port-Au-Prince and began to treat patients there. In addition, the forces started locating and rescuing survivors trapped in ruined buildings, including many who were injured during the collapse of the UN headquarters.
The IDF field hospital is currently the most advanced medical facility in the area, with intensive care units, operating rooms and maternity/delivery rooms, as well as over 40 doctors and specialists. The field hospital has been set up on a football pitch:
Link to Google Maps – here
So, what are the stats? Well, as of writing this post it has been reported that the IDF Field Hospital has so far treated 383 people including dozens of children. 140 life saving operations were executed and seven babies were delivered. As of now, approximately 60 patients are being treated in different departments of the hospital. Last night, two children who were trapped under the ruins of a building for seven days and then rescued by an American team were brought to the IDF hospital for treatment.
So, this is just a taster of how the Israelis have responded to the crisis in Haiti. Please remember this when people start telling you that Israel is an evil country and abuses human rights.
You can find out more information from Twitter, YouTube and the IDF Blog.
I’ll leave you with a video produced by Neil Lazarus of Awesomeseminars.com
Please forward a link to the post to at least 5 people.
Martyn
A drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway next to a priest.
The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a
half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket.
He opened his newspaper and began reading and after a few minutes he
turned to the priest and asked, ‘Say Father, what causes arthritis?’
The priest replies, ‘My Son, it’s caused by loose living, being with cheap,
wicked women, too much alcohol, contempt for your fellow man, sleeping
around with prostitutes and lack of a bath.’
The drunk muttered in response, ‘Well, I’ll be damned, ‘ Then returned to his paper.
The priest, thinking about what he had said, nudged the man and apologized.
‘I’m very sorry. I didn’t mean to come on so strong. How long have you had arthritis?’
The drunk answered, ‘I don’t have it, Father. I was just reading here that the Pope does.’
I just wanted to share with you a blog presented by a friend of mine who is an excellent ranter and very politicised.
http://bobskisblog.blogspot.com
Enjoy!
I’ve been reading reports today that the Israeli government is launching an emergency campaign to save the Sea of Galilee from an environmental disaster.
Severe draught has left water levels so low that the lake bed is dry and cracked for several meters until any water can be further into the lake.
The tragedy is that you don’t have to be Jesus Christ anymore to walk here on the Sea of Galilee.
-Gidon Bromberg, Friends Of The Earth
This lake provides a third of all the water in Israel and some people say that mismanagement by the Israeli Water Authorities have left it in this state. Nobody really knows who is to blame, but the point is that something needs to be done before a catastrophe befalls upon this place of beauty, history and social importance.
I spent a few days on the shore of this beautiful lake in January this year and it is a special place that the people of Israel need to look after. It will be hard to conserve water even more so than they already do, but if anybody can manage with less water, it’s the Israelis.
Swimming in The Kinneret
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