After a devastating earthquake struck Nepal at the beginning of May Israel sent a large delegation of 260 search and rescue experts to Kathmandu.

Israel's delegation was the second-largest in Nepal, just behind India, which sent the world's largest team to the quake-hit area. The next-largest delegation, from the United Kingdom, numbered 68 people, followed by China's 62, the US's 54 and South Korea's 40. Taiwan sent 20 personnel, Italy 15 and France 11.

Among the things Israel sent was an advanced multi-department medical facility, equipped with approximately 95 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies and a medical staff of 122 doctors, nurses and paramedics that was rapidly established in the city of Kathmandu to provide medical care for disaster casualties.

The Israeli action inspired notorious Israel bashers such as Max Blumenthal and Electronic Intifada reporter Rania Khalek to write posts in which they maligned the effort. Blumenthal suggested that "the main purpose of Israel's mission was to rescue newborn infants of Israelis who had used local surrogate mothers", to which Khalek responded: "Israel maybe headed to Nepal to learn from the earthquake how to kill better"

Another critic of Israel's humanitarian aid was Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, who tweeted the following message:"Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel's making in Gaza. End the blockade!"

It was another example of Roth's bias against Israel and the double standards evident in HRW condemnations of Israel. The Israeli organization NGO Monitor has published numerous reports documenting HRW's double standard and its obsession with Israel.

Roth's comment drew immediately sharp condemnations from pro-Israel bloggers like Avi Taranto who wrote in his blog at The Times of Israel:

the 140 characters in Roth's message give evidence a psychology so warped that many more characters are needed to address it. In plain English: the two have nothing to do with each other. What is wrong with you that your hatred of Israel would have you call for others to go without assistance they desperately need? Because that's what you said."

Yesterday Dr. Giora Weiser, an Israeli doctor in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem who was part of the Israeli medical delegation and the field hospital in Nepal decided to react. In an op-ed published by The Jerusalem Post, Weiser wrote about his horrific experiences in Nepal where he worked around the clock to save the lives of scores of Nepalese citizens.

He also had to say something about Roth's Tweet:

"I saw and read the inflammatory reports and statements leveled against Israel for sending medical delegations to Nepal, especially the inhumane questioning of Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW). There we were, covered in blood, drenched in sweat, and sometimes tears, and exhausted, both mentally and physically after ending another 12-hour shift during which we saved multiple lives and mended broken bodies as best we could.

It is ironic that Roth can pontificate from the safety of a nice warm home thousands of miles away from the grief and devastation on his computer or smartphone about a nation he constantly maligns as non-caring and heartless.

Here in the depths of despair, when the Nepalese cried out for assistance, Israel sent its sons and daughters to their aid. This is how someone who is serious about human rights acts.

Less than a year ago I joined my Nachal Brigade as they entered Gaza to end the rocket barrages on our population centers. There too my task was to heal the sick and treat the wounded.

It mattered little whether it was my fellow soldier or a Gazan youth that required attention.

Regardless of headline-grabbing reports and anonymous sources pounced on by the international media like those from Breaking the Silence, we who serve in war and in peace know the truth.

We don't seek acclaim or thanks, our sense of collective solidarity even with strangers across the world impels us to assist, to treat and heal.

This is Israel, Mr. Roth. Perhaps if you came out and saw us from behind your computer screens, you would understand what motivates us and what binds us to one of our founding doctrines of Tikkun Olam, fixing the world.

I am deeply proud to be part of a nation which does not hesitate for a moment to assist those in need wherever they may be."

Dr. Weiser opened his article with the Jewish prayer for physicians written by the great sage Maimonides:

"Grant me the physical and mental strength to be forever prepared to help the poor and the rich, the good and the bad, my love and my enemy, and may I always see the human in the infirm."

This is a moral imperative and a duty as a Jew, Weiser wrote.

The same moral imperative is causing the IDF to treat scores of wounded Syrian rebels in a field hospital on the Golan Heights and drives IsraAID Israel's disaster relief organization which provides humanitarian aid to regions that are traditionally hostile to the Jewish State.

When seven months ago Islamic State slaughtered the Yazidi people, and many of them tried to escape to Kurdistan but got trapped on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq IsraAID provided them with blankets. Later in total 5,000 mattresses and blankets along with powdered milk for babies were distributed in a refugee camp for Yazidi's and persecuted Christians in Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. The IsraAID staff in Dohuk was careful not to disclose they came from Israel because of the fear that Islamic State supporters might have infiltrated the camp.

IsraAID also provided humanitarian aid to Jordan, Sudan and Sierra Leone and many other countries. Among them, the United States where IsraAID provided aid to residents of New York City after super storm Sandy and after hurricane Katharina struck New Orleans. The organization also helped with tornado recovery in Oklahoma.

So where is this humanitarian aid when <1,500 people died in the last bombing run over Palestine. when soldiers were told to shoot at anything that moves.

That places the total killed and maimed at around 10 million Palestinians from the bullet, bulldozer and bomb since they decided to steal it.

Israel has such a decayed esteem oversea's, its not because they are lovely people but doing it just "to look good"

they have to use extreme measures when surrounded by hate... people just don't understand the muslims hate for the Jews...

1- Muslims & Christians branched off of ' God's Choosen People'
2- Israel was not an independent state until 1945
" Promised Land"
3- Muslims & Muslim Nations have NEVER acknowledge them as a Nation.
5- Palestinian territories is a community, & NOT a nation
6- Israel will not give up or give away anymore territory (of theirs, why should they ? who would? maybe Mexico wants a piece of Texas & tunnel in.)
No matter how much the Muslims scream or the press or the world or Obama distorts it, ignores it
* The tunnels from Palestinian territories into Israel, school bombings etc.*
7- Israel will not kiss *** or give in to PC crap. It says what they means, it means what it says. And how many Nations if ANY can say that ?


* Dramatic Music *

thank you, someone does seem to understand...

Try asking Hamas who constantly fired all their rockets into Israels cities trying to kill as many civilians as possible. Then used schools, civilians and children as human shields. Hamas is a terrorist arm of Iran.

then they blog about the "baby killing" Jews... and then all the anti Jew people eat it up like skittles...

Most of the BASHING which goes on against pretty much anything or anyone you can name, comes not from thoughtful, nuanced, studious critics.

It comes from what I like to call "ANTI People."

That is, people who start every thought they have, not from observation of reality, but from their pre-existing dislike, suspicion, prejudice, hatred, and other such presumptions about whatever.

Most Anti-Israel rants come from people who start from "Israel = Bad," and then decide about the immediate subject matter, based on that.

It's similar to the way that all Anti-Liberals, Anti-Conservatives, Anti-Capitalists, Anti-Socialists, Anti-Feminists, and so on behave.

You can find it in every "argument" they make. Anything the people they already hate do, which can't by itself be condemned outright, is tossed either into the bin marked "evil plot to fool people into thinking they are actually nice," or the one next to it with the label "Insidious Evil Plan Not Yet Identified Directly."

The only reason to counter their insanity, isn't to try to get them to think themselves. They are dead set against rationality. The reason to point out their nonsense, is for the sake of the people who are occasionally fooled into thinking that because they are so insistent, and keep repeating their paranoid accusations, that there might actually be something to them.

i won't argue that, i'm pretty anti democrat myself... but even that being said, i can still see some good from them, just not very often...

And do you see these "Anti-People" too? Who's "rationality" are they dead set against? Yours?

It's called self defense. Wouldn't you shoot your neighbour if he was trying to kill your kids. Try asking the monsters called Hamas the same question.