Haiti

The earthquake in Haiti has little to do with the main theme of this blog, but when facing this level of human tragedy one is hardly left unaffected. I, of course, followed the reports through the prism of being an Israeli, following the reports in our media (how did we manage to be the only ones up and running?)

I barely remember the earthquake in Armenia that happened when I was a kid in USSR. The earthquakes in Turkey and Iran, the tzunami in East Asia and Katrina I remember better. It seems that our embattled country is always among the first to offer help (though Iranians turned it down if I am not mistaken). And being the embattled country that we are and, unfortunately, familiar all too well with rescue missions and other emergency procedures we manage to do a lot of good in these situations. That makes me very proud to be an Israeli.

Here are a couple of links to the coverage (in case anybody is reading this). There are additional links in side the thread from AbsoluteWrite, along with many links to relief agencies seeking donations (thanks to William Haskins and others who posted in that thread).

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168243
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3836254,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9591907

P.S. How did we manage to be the only equipped field hospital? Maybe the stories about Jewish conspiracies have some truth to them after all :)