Considering the frequent attacks in Israel – more or less daily from their Palestinian “neighbors” – as you’d expect, medical services in Israel have evolved. They’re much more accustomed to having to deal with victims trapped in rubble from bomb or rocket attacks, and rescuing, triaging, and treating victims in the worst possible conditions; more so, probably, than any other medical personnel in the world. So after the earthquake in Haiti, they immediately sent supplies and teams to do what they do best.
They have so impressed even Bill Clinton that he was moved to say (at Davos), “Shimon, I don’t know what we would have done without the Israeli hospital at Haiti. The Israeli hospital was the only operational facility which was able to perform surgery and advanced tests.”
Carl in Jerusalem has more on how the IDF learned to administer medical care in such challenging circumstances.
And in response to this? A weird convergence of Truther loons and Muslim antisemitic conspiracy loons accuse them of doing all this good to gain access to steal organs. (Yes, seriously. No link to those jackasses; if you really want to have a dip into that sewage you can google it.) No good deed goes unpunished.
