Recently, there has been some hoopla over the state of Israel providing aid to Haiti and some conservatives in the media have been continuously applauding Israel for helping the victims of the Haitian Earthquake. I think that it is great that Israel is providing aid to Haiti because they certainly need it but I find it strange that Israelis are sending aid to Haiti on one hand while killing and starving their neighbors in Gaza on the other. The relentless Gaza blockade shows no sign of abating. The people of Gaza continue to starve, suffer and die. While Israel provides medical treatment to Haitians through IDF field clinics, the Gazans are forced to die from treatable illnesses due to a lack of medications and equipment combined with restrictions on travel and the blockage of foreign aid. Israeli aid to Haiti seems like a tactic designed to boost the image of Israel in the international community.

The sad thing is that the people trapped in the open-air prison of Gaza have been utterly and callously ignored by the international community. Forget help, they can’t even manage to get a newspaper headline. My heart goes out for those who have been so brutally disregarded and must feel incredibly dejected.