No one is ignoring Haiti. It seems to me that the entire worlds attention is now wrapped around this tiny nation, whose government has retreated into non-existance. Money is flowing in from everywhere but no one is quite sure how to administer it. The Americans are busy trying to ensure security in a historically highly volatile nation. As usual the security and logistics efforts threaten to consume the humanitarian efforts.
Since Israel is experienced in disaster management and we believe in the concept of "Tikkun Olam", which is something like healing the world, we're able to set up quickly and fill the health gaps left when the entire world has no choice but to focus on security. To some extent, our constant preoccupation with preserving our existance, has enabled us to walk a fully functional balance beam of administrating health care and managing human welfare in a secure environs while threatened.
One one matter truly irks me and that is the matter of everyone's neighbour and his sister wanting to help Haiti while ignoring all the other regions that need help. Sudan has fallen off the media radar. No one pays attention to the Congo anymore. Rwanda has lost it's luster. Shall I go on? It's a huge world with many problems...why must everyone choose to focus on the same one? Help Haiti but don't forget the other 7 billion living on the planet.
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