Charlie Brown Gets a Rock, OR Christians Get a Cross, Muslims Get a Crescent, Israel Gets a… Square?
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
The Red Cross humanitarian movement has voted by a large majority to admit Israel, ending decades of isolation.
…states the BBC. The good news? The vote by Red Cross members to allow Israel to join was decidedly one-sided:
The issue was then put to a vote, in which 237 states and societies voted for the changes, with 54 voting against and 18 abstaining.
Is the world finally recognizing that Israel is here to stay? The bad news? The approved symbols to be flown by Red Cross aid units are rather selective. Christians get their cross, Muslims get their crescent, and Israel gets a… square? Again, the Beeb:
The new symbol, a red square at an angle on a white background, can be used by any relief teams in areas where there is sensitivity about Christian or Muslim symbols.
Israelis, including military medics, will be able to use the crystal by itself on a white flag. On their own territory - or with the agreement other states participating in UN operations abroad - they will be able to combine it with the star of David.
Isn’t that special. Jews will be able to display the Star of David only by approval. And, of course, there was the ever-present special treatment accorded to the Palestinians:
The same meeting of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement in Geneva approved membership for the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC).
It had been excluded because the statutes only allow relief societies from sovereign states to join, but the rule was specifically modified to include the PRC.
I find Israel’s situation similar to the old, endearing Charlie Brown character — Everyman, if you will — from Charles Schultz ’s Peanuts Halloween special (It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown):
As the kids go trick or treating, Charlie Brown’s is
found wearing his famous ghost costume, which has 18
holes instead of the traditional two.As the kids count the “spoils” of their trick or treat
bags……..Charlie Brown says: “I got a rock.”
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June 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Here is what Israel should do, in my opinion:
Until Israel is allowed to display the Star of David the medical community and Mogen David Adom should tell the Arab community that they will no longer treat non-Israeli Arabs in Israeli hospitals. That means that those women and children whom are being used and often injured in their roles as human shields by the Arab terrorists hiding behind them while they send rockets across the border will no longer have free access to Israeli hospitals and expertise.
Palestinians engaged in a terror war on Israel will have to finance their own hospitals - perhaps by using some of the millions of aid money for hospitals rather than buying munitions and bomd belts in full view of NGOs and the UN who directly and indirectly collude in these transactions.
This repudiation of the Jewish Star of David is a wholesale condemnation of all Jews and it is disgraceful.
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I have a great idea! The MDA should adopt the red crescent symbol.
That should get some of our neighbors seething and rioting over the desecration of their religious symbol by the sons of pigs and monkeys.