Humanitarian aid or military occupation in Haiti?
By Mary Rizzo • Jan 21st, 2010 at 20:21 • Category: Mary's Choice, Newswire
SOCIALIST WORKER – WRITTEN BY Ashley Smith, who explains why help hasn't reached most of the victims of Haiti's earthquake–because the priority of the U.S. government is on imposing its control.
WHEN HURRICANE Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, George W. Bush displayed a callous disregard for the Black victims of the disaster.
When his administration finally responded, it deployed the National Guard and armed Blackwater personnel to impose order, rather than putting the priority on providing food, shelter and safe water. Kanye West's words during an NBC Concert for Hurricane Relief–"George Bush doesn't care about Black people"–were proved right.
On the surface, the response of the Obama administration to the horrific earthquake that struck Haiti last week couldn't seem more different. "I have directed my administration to respond with a swift, coordinated, and aggressive effort to save lives," Obama declared. "The people of Haiti will have the full support of the United States in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble, and to deliver the humanitarian relief–the food, water and medicine–that Haitians will need in the coming days."
His words were a stark contrast to the ravings of the racist right. Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama's speech was an attempt to win support among "both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country," and that "we've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax." Writing in the New York Times, conservative columnist David Brooks dismissed the idea that aid could help Haiti in this crisis–because Haiti's culture is "more progress-resistant than others."
Compared to such statements, Obama's sympathetic response and promises of aid may seem decent and just. But in the week since the earthquake, it has become clear that the U.S. isn't pursuing a humanitarian policy.
Though it is an opponent of the Obama administration, the conservative Heritage Foundation accurately described the aims that are driving U.S. policy in Haiti:
The U.S. response to the tragic earthquake in Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to re-shape Haiti's long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image of the United States in the region.
While on the ground in Haiti, the U.S. military can also interrupt the nightly flights of cocaine to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and counter the ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola. This U.S. military presence, which should also include a large contingent of U.S. Coast Guard assets, can also prevent any large-scale movement by Haitians to take to the sea in rickety watercraft to try to enter the U.S. illegally.
Meanwhile, the U.S. must be prepared to insist that the Haiti government work closely with the U.S. to insure that corruption does not infect the humanitarian assistance flowing to Haiti. Long-term reforms for Haitian democracy and its economy are also badly overdue.
However impolitic–the piece was quickly removed from the Heritage web site–this actually describes the policy that Barack Obama is carrying out.
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IF THE Obama administration were pursuing a humanitarian policy in Haiti, it wouldn't have appointed George Bush to join former President Bill Clinton in overseeing fundraising for disaster relief.
Not only did Bush spectacularly fail the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but his administration orchestrated a political destabilization campaign against Haiti's democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Bush imposed sanctions on the country that undermined Aristide's presidency and impoverished the masses. The U.S. then backed a right-wing coup that toppled the government in 2004.
Appointing Bush to oversee aid to Haiti is like putting Nero in charge of the fire department.
Then there's the mismatch between Obama's words about "full support" and the pittance his administration plans to spend to address the crisis–just $100 million. As Bill Quigley, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote, "A Kentucky couple won $128 million in a Powerball lottery on December 24, 2009. The richest nation in the history of the world is giving Powerball money to a neighbor with tens of thousands of deaths already?"
Moreover, a week into the disaster, while U.S. officials, privileged Americans and rich Haitians received quick relief, the promised aid hasn't reached the mass of Haitian people.
Amid a crisis where the first 48 hours are decisive in saving people's lives, the United Nations–and the U.S. in particular–failed to come anywhere near addressing the needs of the 3 million people impacted by the earthquake.
Every minute that aid gets delayed means more people dying from starvation, dehydration, injury and disease–and yet by Monday, the UN only planned to distribute food and water to 95,000 people.
An estimated 1.5 million people are homeless and sleeping in the streets, as many as 200,000 have died, and with each tick of the clock, the toll grows higher. Why could the U.S. not rush aid to Haiti? Why were American helicopters and transport planes so late in starting aid drops?
The U.S. and UN claimed that damage to Haiti's airport, port and roads impeded delivery of doctors, nurses, food, water and rescue teams. But the U.S. always seems to find ways around such obstacles when it comes to invading countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Clearly the means exist to deliver aid quickly to a country an hour away from Florida.
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SO DID the U.S. relief operation fail to live up to its mission? The truth is that disaster relief for the poor is not the mission in Haiti, just as it wasn't the priority in New Orleans or any other disaster.
Instead of rushing aid to Haiti's poor, the Obama administration has prepared a military occupation, claiming that armed forces are necessary to control what they expected to be angry Black people.
The corporate media coverage shifted from its initial sympathy with victims of the disaster to churning out scare stories about looting. "[M]arauding looters emptied wrecked shops and tens of thousands of survivors waited desperately for food and medical care," Reuters claimed. "Hundreds of scavengers and looters swarmed over wrecked stores in downtown Port-au-Prince, seizing goods and fighting among themselves."
In other words, the media took a few isolated conflicts and blew them up into an implication that Haiti's poor are a violent threat–and the real obstacle to relief efforts.
These scare stories in turn became a justification for not delivering aid. Writer Nelson Valdes reported:
The United Nations and the U.S. authorities on the ground are telling those who directly want to deliver help not to do so because they might be attacked by "hungry mobs." Two cargo planes from Doctors Without Borders have been forced to land in the Dominican Republic because the shipments have to be accompanied within Port-au-Prince by U.S. military escorts, according to the U.S. command.
When asked why the U.S. hadn't used its C130 transport planes to drop supplies in Port-au-Prince, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, "It seems to me that air drops will simply lead to riots."
Of course, precisely the opposite is case. People will riot because they lack food and water.
The real situation is quite different. As author Richard Seymour wrote:
The striking fact, patiently reported by observers on the ground, is that Haiti is not gripped by anarchy, "mob rule," mass slaughter or anything of the kind. There was probably no more violent crime this weekend, and probably less than in some American cities. Instead, while aid is obstructed, Haitians have cooperated to undertake rescue efforts and administer aid without the assistance of relief workers.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez rightly describes Obama's military intervention as "occupying Haiti undercover." The U.S. has taken control of Haiti's main airport and seaport, and is in the process of deploying 10,000 U.S. troops to bolster the 9,000 UN troops already occupying the island. Half of the soldiers will police Port-au-Prince, and half will be deployed on military vessels surrounding the island.
In a puff piece meant to support this occupation, Time magazine perhaps unintentionally revealed the colonial nature of the operation. "Haiti," they write, "for all intents and purposes, became the 51st state at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday in the wake of its deadly earthquake. If not a state, then at least a ward of the state."
The U.S. is using its position of power to impose its control over the country and impede relief efforts, turning away planes from Doctors Without Borders, the Mexican government and the Caribbean Community and Common Market. Jarry Emmanuel, the air logistics officer for the World Food Program, complained, "There are 200 flights going in and out every day, which is an incredible amount for a country like Haiti. But most of those flights are for the United States military. Their priorities are to secure the country."
In a stunning video report from Port-au-Prince, an Al Jazeera reporter said:
Most Haitians here have seen little humanitarian aid so far. What they have seen is guns, and lots of them. Armored personnel carriers cruise the streets. UN soldiers aren't here to help pull people out of the rubble. They're here, they say, to enforce the law.
This is what much of the UN presence actually looks like on the streets of Port-au-Prince: men in uniform, racing around in vehicles carrying guns. At the entrance to the city's airport where most of the aid is coming in, there is anger and frustration. Much-needed supplies of water and food are inside, and Haitians are locked out.
"These weapons they bring," [an unidentified Haitian says], "they are instruments of death. We don't want them; we don't need them. We are a traumatized people. What we want from the international community is technical help. Action, not words."
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AS ANGER among Haitians simmers over the lack of real relief, it is only a matter of time before heavily armed U.S. and UN forces open fire and kill innocent Haitians.
Already, on Wednesday evening, CBS News reported, "Controlled chaos turned to confrontation near the airport in Port-au-Prince today, when UN peacekeepers were ordered to clear the street filled with Haitian men seeking jobs. The force was made up of Jordanian, Pakistani and Indian forces that were unable to speak Creole, English or French. They did their talking with nightsticks and rubber bullets. At least one rubber bullet was seen fired into the crowd. No one was seriously injured."
U.S. ships are in the process of surrounding the island. Some will provide floating hospitals. But they are also there to prevent an exodus of refugees out of Haiti.
Under some pressure, Obama granted Temporary Protected Status to Haitian refugees currently in the U.S.–but only for 18 months. At the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced that any Haitians who attempt to enter the U.S. will be returned to Haiti.
The Obama administration is already coordinating plans for the restructuring of Haitian society–in the interest of international capital. It is implementing what author Naomi Klein calls the "Shock Doctrine"–when capitalist powers use economic or natural disasters to impose neoliberal programs, such as opening up national markets to multinational corporations, privatization of state-owned companies and cuts to the minimum wage.
The UN's special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, had been hard at work implementing such proposals before the crisis. He cut deals with cruise ship companies to dock on Haiti's northern coast and pushed the re-development of the Haitian sweatshop industry.
Now Obama, Clinton and Bush will further impose neoliberal "reforms." Already, the International Monetary Fund has extended $100 million in loans to Haiti during the crisis, and all of that money comes with strings attached. As the Nation's Richard Kim wrote:
The new loan was made through the IMF's extended credit facility, to which Haiti already has $165 million in debt. Debt relief activists tell me that these loans came with conditions, including raising prices for electricity, refusing pay increases to all public employees except those making minimum wage, and keeping inflation low. They say that the new loans would impose these same conditions. In other words, in the face of this latest tragedy, the IMF is still using crisis and debt as leverage to compel neoliberal reforms.
While the U.S. sends soldiers to police Haiti instead of providing humanitarian aid, Haitians in the U.S., Haiti solidarity activists and unions are mobilizing to meet the needs of the Haitian poor–and help empower them to take control over their society. In one powerful example, the National Nurses Organizing Committee is in the process of mobilizing 7,000 nurses from the U.S. to volunteer in Haiti to provide medical care.
As activists continue to donate money to organizations like the Haiti Relief Fund and Partners in Health that aim to empower Haitian grassroots institutions, we must make several demands on the Obama administration.
First, we must demand that Obama immediately stop the military occupation of Haiti, and instead flood the country with doctors, nurses, food, water and construction machinery. Soldiers with guns will only make the situation worse.
Second, the U.S. must also end its enforcement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's exile and the ban on his party, Fanmi Lavalas, from participating in elections. Haitians, not the U.S., should have the right to determine their government.
Third, we must demand that the U.S., other countries and international financial institutions cancel Haiti's debt, so that the aid money headed to Haiti will go to food and reconstruction, not debt repayment.
And we must agitate for Obama to indefinitely extend Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the U.S.–and open the borders to any Haitians who do flee the country.
Only through agitating for these demands can we stop the U.S. from imposing its Shock Doctrine for Haiti at gunpoint.
What you can do
Donations and aid are desperately needed in Haiti. Here are some organizations with connections to the grassroots movements in the country.
The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, organized by the solidarity organization Haiti Action, delivers resources directly to grassroots organizations. It was founded in 2004 after the coup d'etat that forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of office.
For more information, including a telephone contact, go to the Canada Haiti Action Network Web site.
The Zanmi Lasante Medical Center is located in the Central Plateau of Haiti and delivers health care through a network of clinics. The health center survived the earthquake and delivering aid to the disaster zone. You can donate to the center through the U.S. non-profit organization Partners in Health.
SOPUDEP is a pioneering school in Petionville. The resources of the school and its teachers are being mobilized to assist the neighboring population. You can support the school via the Canadian-based Sawatzky Family Foundation.
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Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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And did you see the remarable "Israel's finest hour indeed"?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1263147940967
"If there is anyone who still doubts the ability of the State of Israel to accomplish great things, the events of the past week should lay those concerns to rest. From one end of the world to the other, the highest ideals of Judaism and Zionism were prominently on display, as Israel took part not in one – but two! – remarkable missions laden with meaning.
Across the ocean, amid the rubble-strewn streets of Port-au-Prince, three IDF rescue teams carefully searched through the ruins of the Haitian capital for survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake. Racing against the clock, these young Jews in uniform, accompanied by specially-trained canines, heroically sorted through mounds of debris and wreckage to pull the wounded to safety. "
The real context of "these young Jews in uniform" who do not shy away from inflicting "A Fate worse than Shoah" in their own backyard while enjoying a can of pepsi:
print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-genesis-to-genocide-in-palestine.html
but then the golem is suddenly transformed into torch bearers of Moses to perform Nightingale miracles upon another 'untermenschen', one has to ponder about the "Jews" part:
print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/11/genesis-to-genocide-golem-not-jewish.html
And that pondering is insightfully unraveled here:
http://rudetonotice.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-look-marvelous.html
The last line few lines of which suggests the following:
"… and what exactly do they do in the mash field hospital with all the little orphaned children? does anyone oversee anything going on or would that be rude? would that insinuate that maybe, you know, given the circumstances of the israeli organ stealing that has happened in the past with disadvantaged populations that maybe our israeli bestest friends could use some chaperones around the destitute orphans of haiti, lest their little kidneys go missing?"
My question is – what is the significance of this rush to "aid" Haiti by all the most barbarous golems of the planet apart from it being their "Ganges" to bathe clean before their next meal?
The pious everywhere need some "Hajj" to recharge their batteries!
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
For Israelis it is another opportunity to steal human organs.
http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/01/after-stealing-palestinian-organs-now-it%e2%80%99s-haiti%e2%80%99s-turn/
Haiti as a military operation doesn't make much sense. An insignificant impoverished cesspool of humanity – that's how any war planners would look at it unless there were some strategic reasons to visit 'American Peace and Liberty' there, appropriately sugared for the ambiance at hand of course. In this case, a relief mission. In Iraq's case, WMD. In Iran's case, again WMD. In Pakistan's case, "loose nukes". Etc.
And it is of course true that opportunities to make fortunes exist, as captured in the immortal diction of Captain Rhett Butler: "What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one." But that's just a side-effect. All vultures will look for their pound of flesh in the carcasses of humanity. But what is the real reason for Haiti's 'Katrina' redux?
The following three links at Global Research are rather interesting:
"A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake" by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17122
"Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux" by Cynthia McKinney
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17063
"Oil in Haiti – Economic Reasons for the UN/US Occupation" by by Marguerite Laurent
globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17149
Interesting, but not convincing enough for occupation of Haiti. There is some other angle. I don't know what it is – but there has to be some strategic reason for "imperial mobilization" to Haiti, and because of which no grass-roots level relief efforts will make any significant impact anymore than it has made in Gaza, Iraq, Pakistan.
The script for the destiny of Haitians has been written elsewhere – just as it is for the Palestinians. Not at ground zero. That is merely the stage upon which the scene is being enacted – just as NY was for 911. The real agenda is acted upon by "history makers" while the narrators are left to study what they do. This profound bit of political-science wisdom isn't entirely mine, but reported in the pages of the New York Times:
' The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” '
"Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" By RON SUSKIND Published: October 17, 2004
nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?ex=1255665600&en=890a96189e162076&ei=5090
All these "imperial mobilizations" are intelinked. The overarching agenda is clear. Just that what's the strategic significance of Haiti?
CFR is already out with its "Rebuilding Haiti: The Work of Decades" project, chartering out its territory and noting:
"This is a long-term reconstruction. People need to be thinking about decades. … The United States is taking the lead in the global rescue. Are you pleased with the American response so far?"
And here is the punchline:
"The U.S. Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, apparently fairly successfully. Should U.S. forces take over the running of the country, the distribution of aid, and ensuring security?"
cfr.org/publication/21214/rebuilding_haiti.html
I predict that the same question will be asked of Pakistan soon.
Mary
The connection between anti Americanism, anti Israelism and the "modern" left is as good as the chances of seeing blue sky in the Mojave Desert on a given day, so none of your articles concerning Israel and America are surprising.
I find it ironic that you mention Rush Limbaugh in your article. Rush absolutely hates liberalism. In his daily talk show, Rush attacks the Democrats on the basis that he believes that everything the Democrats try to accomplish, whether its the President or Congress, is to create a welfare state which will burden the powerful American economy. Unfair redistribute of money from the rich to the poor is the main idea behind the welfare state. The whole theme of his show brilliantly attacks liberalism, yet no rational American believes this story. No doubt some is true, but certainly the possibility that every action by the Democrats is to create a welfare state is ridiculous.
Your article reminds me a lot of Rush Limbaugh. Why? Because most in the "modern" leftist movement hate US imperialism. In fact, many on the left believe that EVERY action taken by the US is for American interest whether that involves invading a terrorist domain in response to 911 (oil and gas pipelines) to providing a nuclear umbrella for Europe. All actions must benefit the America in some way. Even supposed humanitarian actions in Haiti are nothing but a cover for the real agenda – to impose our will by military actions, take over the government of the Haitians and carry on a policy of imperialism in South America from our new strategic location.
And the proof? Well first, you cite the Heritage foundation. The Heritage foundation is a conservative think tank that has absolutely nothing to do with the government. There is as much of a relation between the Heritage Foundation and the Obama administration as the Daily Kos and the Bush administration. In other words – none. How you managed to convince yourself that this was surely proof of an American takeover of Haiti is beyond me. I cannot even venture a guess.
The second bit of evidence is even more ridiculous. You cite the deployment of George W Bush to Haiti to head up the relief effort on behalf of the Obama administration as proof of an imperialist agenda in Haiti. For a former President of the US to head up a disaster relief effort is common. Former Presidents, George H. Bush and Bill Clinton, teamed up for the Tsunami relief effort in Indonesia, but no one accused the Bush administration of using former President Bill Clinton to take over Indonesia. You are an American so none of this surprises you, I'm sure. None the less, you lied about the intentions of the Obama administration to push an anti American agenda.
In your eyes, America can do no right. There is not even one sentence of praise for the American effort. Your hatred for your place of birth (I assume) is so self consuming that you'll lie to promote your own political agenda. That you will use the suffering of others to promote your lies is what is really disgusting to me.
I'm sorry, this article is a particularly sad case of leftist winging. The situation in Haiti is unimaginably horrific, and I wish I could do something about it. But it's not true that the USA is responsible for every disaster. Within hours of the earthquake, I heard Naomi Klein opportunistically trying to use it to promote her 'disaster capitalism' 'theory'. Why on earth would US capitalists want Haitians to die in an earthquake? Knee-jerk leftism hasn't helped the Palestinians, which is what this site is about. Tom Wonacott (above) fairly complains of the connection between 'anti Americanism, anti Israelism and the "modern" left'. What we, the modern left, need to do, is break that connection! Anti-Zionist does not imply anti-Western.
I have been racking my brains out to understand why? Why take-over Haiti? As mused here:
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/01/21/humanitarian-aid-or-military-occupation-in-haiti/#comment-14653
it made no sense at all. Until of course, I read the following statement in John Pilger's article:
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5482-enslaved-haiti.html
"On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law."
Now with that new precedent established as international law for every country in crisis, and duly stamped by the United Nations as the last refuge of all former soveriegn nations – the new governing body which exudes global governance authority, by fiat, and by legal treaties, across the full spectrum of crises from Global epidemics to Global Warming to Global Financial Collapse to Global War on Terror to Global Population Explosion – the next country to be taken over may well be Pakistan!
To both protect itself and the world from all the 'loose nukes' about to fall into Bin Laden's cold dead hands!
Now, no traitor from Pakistan even has to sign on the dotted line – all they have to do is continue on with accelarating the crises within…
And a great earthquake just about now, like the one which hit Kashmir in 2005, wouldn't that be just wonderful for a full-spectrum humanitarian takeover of Pakistan? We have the precedent set in Haiti – unopposed by the world!
An easy precedent setter – that is the only real convincing explanation of Haiti's takeover.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
I believe if most of the Americans saw this article you would never be allowed to be there. So many Americans gave to this cause, how dare you imply that they only sent military. If you would pay attention, Haiti gov asked for assistance of presence of the military because while "most Haitians are very patient, under these conditions after a few days, there could be many problems"….Hmmm, Prisoners escaped, so yes there were problems, people were hungry and frustrated and of course they felt the need to loot to survive, and YES, you need law and order when people are desperate-they will endanger others as a matter if survival…so aid workers were supposed to risk their lives? Please commend those soldiers and watch the LIVE video of them helping to disperse aid…they had t o organize, and yes Im sorry, docks were down, landing strips needed repair ro planes to land safely…you expect people unfamiliar with the place to be organized? Especially when roads and buildings were destroyed and with aftermaths of more earthquakes, encountered problems as well? LETS SEE YOU do better. As a nurse and helping in those areas I resent your implications. USA has always helped in the after math of quakes or any disasters, monetarily and humanitarily the government GIVES and the people themselves GIVE more as witnessed by telethons, musicians, fundraisers…for the benefit of who? Themselves? Oil? And so sorry, while Katrina was a complete mess too, medical personnel did have difficulties there, some of it due to difficult people, and yes looting. And while most of the people were lovely, you did have those who wouldnt clean lift a finger to help themselves or others, and were disrespectful to volunteers. I would love to see all of you who gave input to this letter do better under so many bad circumstances. Were you there helping?I have worked many disasters, and when people are desperate they will be disorderly(some of them), while others will pitch in to help and never stop. So what if the former presidents helped? While you may not like them, they have a right to use their experience to work on things maybe they feel they could have done better in past events, experience being the best teacher. Obviously you are serving your own agendas by attacking so wrongly. Dies it make you feel strong? Powerful? Those of us with some sense see right through you. Were you in Bam or Indonesia or Pakistan or many other places where there were disasters helping? Did you witness all those Americans and their government helping, because they were there. And you know what? Maybe America should just quit lending its help to disasters, then what? Then you will be judging them asking them "where are you America??" Oil ? Are you kidding? Whats wrong with you who have to find fault with everything people do? Youre so quick to point out everyones mistakes but wont admit your own. Shame on you for bashing people who try to help. Who could perfect helping a natural disaster when you have chaos of so many people hurt and so many trying to help, when roads, docks and runways are out~ hospitals destroyed, etc….judge ye lest ye be judged, unless you can do better, I think its wise you say nothing, and while your entire article was negative, how about some thank yous to those of us who left or jobs and are giving of our time and perhaps risking our own lives to help people in need? America was having economic issues but that didnt stop them or many countries. Maybe if you spent more energy on positive things and nice dialogue instead of pointing out faults when you yourselves had little to offer, maybe then the world would change. But my advice to America? You have good hearts, maybe its time that you let these people judging you flounder and sink on their own if they are going to be critical. I saw a lot of Haitians praising and thanking God for America and other countries and humanitarian services who were there. You just have to put our own "spin" on it dont you? One of these days I hope these countries who help so much, just stop, because only THEN will they be appreciated. YEP, and what are YOU doing for Palestine other than causing negative feelings and hateful dialogue ? That sure has worked thus far hasnt it? I advise you to take a lesson from GOD, and walk the path he teaches you-to be tolerant and non judgmental, and to use love and dialogue not hate and not just talk with a forked tongue , it may come back to bite you.
On January 23, 2010 – Russian online daily Pravda claimed that Russian Northern Fleet indicates that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was clearly the result of US Navy weapon test meant for Islamic Iran. Venezuelan president Hugo Chevez has blamed Obama’s Zionist administration for using the disaster to occupy Haiti. Washington has dispatched 11,000 US soldiers to the country while blocking the humanitarian aid reaching the country. It’s feared that 200,000 people including 21 Canadian have died as the result of the eartquake.
Avraham Zuroff writing in Israeli daily Arutz Sheva had reported that Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructure’s Geographic Institute will carry-out a test in the southern Negev Desert in order to stimulate an earthquake on behalf of US Defence Department. according to the daily: “Israel will create a controlled explosion of 80 tons of explosive material which will stimulate the intensity of a tremor after an earthquake on magnitude 3. Natural earthquakes of similar intensity occur in the Middle East region about once a week without the public feeling them”.
Israel which has sent a team of doctors to Haition – is using it a PR campaign against the Arabs and Muslims. Islamophobe Alan Dershowitz, a senior member of Israel Hasbara (propaganda) Committee wrote in Zionist think tank, Huffington Post: “While Israel dig deeply into its treasury (which has sucked US$3,000 billion from US taxpayers since 1970s) and manpower to send medical assistance a quarter of the way around the world, Arab and Muslim nations are generally missing in action when it comes to relief efforts”. However, the IRIN Global (the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affiars) smacks the face of Zionist Jew liar. On January 17, 2010 – IRIN reported that aid to Haiti is pouring from UAE, Jordan, Islamic Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon and Islamic Relief (UK). Furthermore, American investigating journalist, Stephen Lendman, has claimed that 220 Israeli doctors and soldiers on the humanitarian mission in Haiti are involved in human organ stealing and harvesting body parts. Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive in his interview with CNN’s Zionist poodle, Christiane Amanpour has confirmed this: “There is organ tafficking for children and other persons also because they need all types of organs”. Last year Sweden’s newspaper Aftonbladet had reported that “Israeli troops stole and then sold the organs of Palestinians who died in custody in early 1990s”.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez believe that the US tested HAARP ( a US military program) to create the Haitian earthquake. The publicity stunt to cover-up the real cause of the earthquake is modeled on Israel Hasbara Committe propaganda lies. Professor Michel Chossudovsky wrote on January 21, 2010: “The Haiti relief disaster scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US southern command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake. In the past, mant analyst believed that Indonesian Tsumani was also a result of a similar test by Russia.
The Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean is a daughter of Haiti. Haiti-born Canadian radio host, Jafrikayiti (Jean Saint-Vil), has apealed Michaelle Jean to demand that French president Nicolas Sarkozy (son of Jewish mother) must return US$40 billion to Haiti government – which French government had ransomed at gun point from the Republic of Haiti from 1825 and 1947.
“A Jew is entitled to extract the liver from a goy if he needs it, for the life of a Jew is more valuable than the life of a goy. Likewise, the life of a goy is more valuable than the life of an animal,” – Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzberg
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/israel-us-and-haiti-quake/
Shaukat
You speak of Islamaphobia, but there are all types of phobias.
"…..Russian online daily Pravda claimed that Russian Northern Fleet indicates that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was clearly the result of US Navy weapon test meant for Islamic Iran….."
Ever heard of Ameriphobia?
"…..Furthermore, American investigating journalist, Stephen Lendman, has claimed that 220 Israeli doctors and soldiers on the humanitarian mission in Haiti are involved in human organ stealing and harvesting body parts. Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive in his interview with CNN’s Zionist poodle, Christiane Amanpour has confirmed this: “There is organ tafficking for children and other persons also because they need all types of organs”. ….."
Ever heard of Judeophobia?
@Sarah Hassan: You are full of it, please give me a break. The USA and France has had it out for Haiti since they rebelled against the racist institution of slavery and they have never forgiven them as if its up to them to forgive, how arrogant. I agree with Hugo Chavez, the US did this earth quake with their techtonic weapon as an excuse to go into Haiti and finish what they've dreamed of for centuries. Grow up Sarah Hassan. Don't believe the hype.