Good, but Israel needs to do more in the area of military equipment provision.

K?

They are still doing business with Russia.

And they refuse to even sell/give their cyber spyware to Ukraine for fear of getting on Russia's bad side.

Israel needs to pick a side.

I imagine there's more to the condemnation than your few sentences reveal.

Thanks for stopping by to dump on a worthy post.

I am well over $2000.

Want to try again?

or in this case wound dressing.

At least stop doing business with Russia.

Not that it is illegitimate to ask Israel for more, but context is important. Is Israel doing less than most? More than most? Any requests for countries doing less than Israel?

Israel has taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees. Sent tons and tons of medical aid to Ukraine, they have been mediating for peace between the two nations, and they have set up the only field hospital inside Ukraine.

Also Israel is applying the same sanctions the other nations have applied against Russia.

How many of them did not set up a single hospital in West Ukraine?

How many of them did not send a single round of ammunition to the defenders of Ukraine? These are the countries who need to do more. You are welcome to list them all in your next rant.

Other countries will be weighed as well.

India, South Africa….

Thanks for the field hospital & medical personal Israel.

Ukraine apparantly appreciates the assistance.

And Israel is way ahead of south Africa.

But I am curious, how do you measure the balance of support that Israel gives to Russia? Certainly not by the number of hospitals Israel provided to Russia...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113331970

I would like to see a FIRM Commitment to one side.

...after being voted against by just a few D's in the House, its passed but funding was held in committee in the Senate till recently, predictably by Sen Rand Paul.

I haven't followed up on it since then.

Recall that the region of Ukraine had also requested an Iron Dome Protection System last year as well.

I’m not sure that our congress has a say.

Half of NATO states do not provide military support to Ukraine. Or hospitals.

https://www.ajc.org/news/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-israels-iron-dome-defense-system-and-those-who-voted-against


Iron Dome is an air defense missile system developed by two Israeli firms with support from the U.S. Emphasis on defense. It is never used to attack or retaliate and poses no threat to Palestinians.

The system has three components: a radar that detects incoming rockets; a command-and-control system that determines the threat level; and an interceptor that, if the system determines human lives or infrastructure are at risk, seeks to destroy the incoming rocket before it strikes.

According to Israeli officials, it is about 90% effective in stopping short range rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists next door in Lebanon or Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in neighboring Gaza. The system protects Israelis of all backgrounds and faiths.

For example, when Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired more than 4,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel this past May, more than 1,500 targeted heavily populated areas, including Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv. Iron Dome shot down more than 90% of those rockets, greatly reducing the death toll. Even with Iron Dome, about a dozen Israelis were murdered. That number would have been much higher without Iron Dome.

It also saves Palestinian lives. Giving Israel a viable option to defend itself shifts its focus from a strategy of preemptive offensives against terrorists who hide among tightly-packed civilians areas to a defense system that intercepts real and present danger. It also reduces the need for ground operations in and around the civilian areas that terrorists use for launching missiles and rockets at Israeli civilians. Often ground offenses result in greater loss of lives.
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THANK YOU ISRAEL.

Appreciate your posts, btw.

I am sure that none of the Ukrainians being treated at that hospital will complain about Israel only caring for itself.

It's a good read.

We do what we can~

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Dr. Eduard Zalyesov was born in the contested eastern Luhansk region, a frontline of conflict with Russia since Moscow first invaded Ukraine in 2014. His sister still lives in Dnipro, and although he tries to talk to her every day, he will not see her while serving in Ukraine.

“To move around Ukraine is a little problematic,” he noted.

Nurse Sergey Mazis was born in Kyiv, but said his Ukrainian roots were not his primary motivation for joining the wartime delegation.

“Even though I was born in Ukraine, I came more out of connection to the humanitarian mission. If this were in another place in the world, I would have come,” Mazis said.

Har Even agreed that “our mission is to make sure the Ukrainian people know they’re not alone in this crisis.” He also recalled that many mission members — including his own family — have “deep roots in this land that go back many generations.

“All my grandparents were rounded up in the spring of 1943 and sent to the camps. Miraculously, they survived and here I am,” he said in remarks during the hospital’s opening ceremony.

“There are too many stories and reminders that we have a clear moral obligation not to look away.”

At the same ceremony, a Mostyska municipal official noted that Israel had many Holocaust survivors, some of whom fled from Ukraine, and lauded the fact that their descendants had now come back to Ukraine to help.

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The Israeli state field hospital is a collaborative effort of the Health Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and Sheba Medical Center, which is operating the hospital, and is funded by the government, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.