Je kunt je afvragen of je hulp voor verschillende gebieden zo met elkaar moet vergelijken, maar de verschillen zijn wel erg groot. Waarom zijn we bereid zo eindeloos veel meer aan Gaza te geven dan aan welk willekeurig rampgebied dan ook, gebieden waar veel grotere aantallen mensen zijn omgekomen en nog omkomen, waar er schrijnender armoede heerst en waar bovendien veel meer mensen wonen? Vinden we Gazanen zieliger dan Haitianen of Darfurianen of Congolezen?
De hulp voor Gaza is overigens, meer dan die voor Haiti, iets van regeringen. Ondanks alle sympathie die de Palestijnen tegenwoordig oproepen, zijn er geen hulpacties op de schaal waarop dat voor Haiti of de door de tsunami getroffen landen gold. Mensen demonstreren liever tegen Israel dan dat ze proberen om via eigen initiatief de situatie voor de Gazanen te verbeteren (de 'Gaza Freedom' vloot was, zoals inmiddels bekend, ook vooral een actie tegen Israel en niet bedoeld om de humanitaire situatie van de bevolking te verbeteren. Het feit dat niemand protesteert terwijl Hamas de hulp al weken tegenhoudt is wat dat betreft veelzeggend, net als het feit dat het grootste schip, de Mavi Marmara, helemaal geen hulp aan boord had.
RP
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Gaza already pledged 7.5 TIMES more US aid per head [ $ 579.95 ] than Haiti [ $77.47 ]
This astounding Haiti-Gaza comparison does not get much media or political or NGO notice.
This story is even much worse than it seems - when you look at both the populations and deaths involved.
CIA estimate is [ 2009 ] 1,551,859 people in Gaza, but 5,035,536 in Haiti.
This means that PER HEAD, Gaza gets $579.95 but Haiti only $77.47.
Gaza was thus pledged 7.5 TIMES as much per head after the IDF operation as Haiti after the devastating earthquake.
If you also look at the death toll, Haiti lost an estimated 230,000 on Jan 12, 2010, which equals US aid of $3,043.48 for every fatality.
The highest allegation of the Gaza death toll is 1,417 which would equal US aid of $ 635,144.7 per fatality.
For US aid, every Gaza death is worth 209 TIMES as much as one in Haiti.
Gaza lost at most under 0.0913 % of its population, but Haiti lost 4.568 %, or 50 times more.
Gaza lost 1 in every 1,095, but Haiti lost 1 in every 22 people.
But then Haiti is neither Arab nor Muslim.
And no oil-rich tyrants or suicide-bombers need to be appeased.
The UNDP Human Index Rankings also expose the myth of Palestinians as the *wretched of the earth*. Of 182 areas surveyed, Palestine is 110, in that ranking which looks at not only income but human well-being in many fields such as literacy and life expectancy.
In its *Medium Human Development* group, Palestine ranks above countries like:
Indonesia at number 111,
Bolivia at 113,
Vietnam at 116,
Egypt at 123,
South Africa at 129,
Morocco at 130,
India at 134,
Yemen at 140,
Pakistan at 141,
Haiti at 149,
Sudan at 150,
Tanzania at 151, and
Nigeria at 158.
Palestinian Life Expectancy at 73.3 years is same as EU member Hungary, while their Adult Literacy at 93.8% exceeds Philippines at 93.4%. As regards Children Under-weight By Age, it is like Russia where 3% of those are under 5, while Palestinian Incoming Remitances are $149 per head, compared with $150 in Israel, $101 for Egypt, $125 for Arab states overall, and $135 for Ireland.
Odd priorities at work in international aid ?
Tom Carew
Gaza Enjoying More Aid than Quake-Ravaged Haiti -
Ynet - Jacob Shrybman
Published: 03.18.10, 11:15
Bolivia at 113,
Vietnam at 116,
Egypt at 123,
South Africa at 129,
Morocco at 130,
India at 134,
Yemen at 140,
Pakistan at 141,
Haiti at 149,
Sudan at 150,
Tanzania at 151, and
Nigeria at 158.
Palestinian Life Expectancy at 73.3 years is same as EU member Hungary, while their Adult Literacy at 93.8% exceeds Philippines at 93.4%. As regards Children Under-weight By Age, it is like Russia where 3% of those are under 5, while Palestinian Incoming Remitances are $149 per head, compared with $150 in Israel, $101 for Egypt, $125 for Arab states overall, and $135 for Ireland.
Odd priorities at work in international aid ?
Tom Carew
Gaza Enjoying More Aid than Quake-Ravaged Haiti -
Ynet - Jacob Shrybman
Published: 03.18.10, 11:15
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is set to arrive in Israel to visit the Gaza Strip amidst demands to end a so-called siege on the terrorist-controlled territory. Yet one has to ask what siege, or blockade, he is referring to, with 738,576 tons of humanitarian aid being transferred into the Gaza Strip in 2009.
Moreover, the UN has provided $200 million in Gaza Strip aid following a military operation that reportedly claimed 1,300 fatalities amongst a population of less than 1.5 million – meanwhile, notwithstanding plans to raise more funds, it has provided only $10 million to natural disaster victims in Haiti as of the end of January, an earthquake that claimed the lives of over 230,000 people and affected over 3 million. Of course, that is without mentioning that Haitians have not been attacking an innocent nearby civilian population for a near decade.
The international community has bought into a bold-faced lie about an Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip while ignoring the facts on the ground. International humanitarian aid has been flowing rapidly into the Gaza Strip for years and in no way stopped after Operation Cast Lead, as 30,576 aid trucks entered the territory in 2009. In 2009, 4,883 tons of medical equipment entered the Gaza Strip. Just last month, a new CAT scan machine was brought into the Strip.
The world's largest prison?
The Gaza Strip has also been referred to as "the world's largest prison", implying that residents are not being able to exit the territory. Yet in 2009, 10,544 patients and their companions left the Gaza Strip for medical treatment in Israel, and last week alone nearly 500 patients and companions from Gaza entered Israel for treatment.
Meanwhile, US government officials such as Congressmen Keith Ellison and Brian Baird, both of which visited Sderot with the Sderot Media Center, have promoted the idea of a "Gaza Siege." They must be ignoring the fact that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $900 million in aid to be sent to the Gaza Strip following Operation Cast Lead. A USAID and DOD report calculating the aid sent to the quake-raved Haiti noted that, as of last month, all US government programs provided just over $700 million in aid, nearly $200 million less than to the terrorist-controlle
Over a year has passed since Operation Cast Lead and the international community is still buying into the lie about a "Gaza Siege." Meanwhile, the Sderot Media Center has reported that over 320 rockets and mortars have hit Israel in that same year. Indeed, Ban Ki-moon should be visiting Kibbutz Nirim to see where a rocket destroyed a building just last week, instead of helping promote a myth by visiting the Gaza Strip.
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