| Adam Holland: Response to a reckless attack By Adam Holland JAN. 31, 2010 I mentioned that his column was reposted by the neo-Nazi Michael Santomauro both to provide the factual background of Dershowitz' column about it (Dershowitz read Santomauro's repost of Silverstein's column) and to indicate who liked it ... Adam Holland - http://adamholland. |
THE BEAT GOES ON: DERSHOWITZ SLANDERS ME IN JERUSALEM POST TOO, GHOULS REJOICE
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Recently, I wrote that Alan Dershowitz had published a Huffington Post blog in which he named and quoted from my blog post, The Zionization of Disaster Relief, about Israel's PR extravaganza in Haiti. Instead of attributing the blog post to me, the author, and linking to this blog, instead he wrote the following:
The neo-Nazi Web site ReportersNotebook.
com features a blog entitled The Zionization of Disaster Relief.
The editors of Huffington Post, after saying they would address the issue, have not yet done so. Now I discover that Dersh also published this same post on the same date, January 24th, in his Jerusalem Post blog. I've also written to the Post's editors asking them to correct the record.
Given that I've attacked Alan Dershowitz before here, it can be no accident why he formulated his paragraph about my blog post in the fraudulent manner he did. And now comes circumstantial evidence that this is the case. An anti-Semitism-
Strangely enough, Holland also actually blogs at Daily Kos. I wonder what credentials got him that gig? Is being a pro-Israel, Muslim hater sufficient now to get oneself a diary at DK (apologies to a few of my good blogging friends who are DK diarists)? This is beginning to look like pro-Israel tag team wrestling. You bad mouth one of theirs and they'll double team you with some of their big, fat sweaty hack heavyweights.
I'm not even going to get into how badly Holland mischaracterizes my views in the Haiti post I wrote. More interesting to me is the McCarthyite guilt by association rhetorical style of demagogue-goons like Holland (and Weissman, Horowitz, Pipes and others):
Silverstein's column has traversed the left-right wormhole and has been published by the neo-Nazi blogger (and David Irving associate) Michael Santomauro at his Reporters Notebook website (read here). Alan Dershowitz read this reposted version of Silverstein's column and blasted it in a column of his own…Silverstein'
s column has also been reposted on Russia'sPravda English language forum and the Arab website Uruknet.
My work is republished (without my knowledge or permission, but that's neither here nor there) by a Holocaust revisionist, the discussion forum of a Russian newspaper, and an Arab website–and that makes me…what? A known associate of organized revisionism, the Russians, and jihadists?
This may satisfy those of little brain among the pro-Israel-obsessed blog world. They don't seem to be able to debate honestly or characterize accurately what you write, so they resort to these fraudulent intellectual stunts. The Who once sang: "We won't be fooled again." Unlike their song, I don't think anyone is fooled by this narischkeit.
To me, this indicates a deep unease about Israel's perilous position on the world stage as the Goldstone Report begins to reoccupy headlines and Israel refuses to appoint the investigative commission demanded by the UN panel. The government has launched a vicious counter-attack against Israeli and international human rights NGOs, Israeli and Palestinian peace activists, the Report itself, and progressive bloggers who attest to the inadequacy of Israel's response. The attack is also coordinated along with internet activists recruited by the Foreign Ministry. Dershowitz and buddies of his like Weissman and Holland also play a useful role. I call it the vast right-wing hasbara conspiracy-crusade.
Dershowitz and Holland attacked my post because it revealed that the clothes the Haiti hasbara emperor were wearing were hiding the sins of Gaza. Interesting who they haven't attacked though–the Israeli doctor (and IDF Lt. Col.) whose newspaper article formed the basis for my article. My post is 85%Dr. Yoel Donchin's article from the Israeli press with 15% commentary written by me. But it would be much harder to target an experienced medicine specialist from Israel's Hadassah Hospital as being anti-Israel or loony-left than me (though it won't succeed with me either).
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As most objective observers throughout the world marvel at Israel's efficiency and generosity in leading the medical aid efforts in Haiti, some bigots insist on using these efforts as an occasion to continue their attack on the Jewish state. Both the neo-Nazi hard right and the neo-Stalinist hard left cannot help but to demonize Israel, regardless of what Israel does.
The neo-Nazi Web site ReportersNotebook.
| Her live report on Saturday afternoon makes no sense and is contradictory. See my yellow highlights. |
These are people with broken bones they are trying to control with morphine, and it's just not cutting it any more. For example, the loudest screams we hear are from people with pelvic fractures where the bones are sticking out of the skin. They need surgery.
And to talk about this I have Dr. Jennifer Furin here with me from Harvard medical school. And Dr. Furin, tell me, what percentage of the patients here need surgery within the next 24 hours?
DR. JENNIFER FURIN, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: Within the next twenty-four hours, approximately 30 percent of the patients in the hospital need immediate surgery or they are going to die.
COHEN: They will die of infections?FURIN: They will die of infections, malnutrition, and metabolic derangements.
COHEN: The U.S. Department of Health and Human services does have a team that sets up operating rooms for patients like this. What are you hearing? Are they coming any time soon? FURIN: In any situation like this with downed communications, rumor and speculation are the norm. We hear every day that the team will be set up, we'll be able to send patients over there for life-saving and limb-saving surgery. Every day the expectation goes down, the hope, most importantly, of the patients are dashed as there is nowhere to send them for necessary, life-saving surgeries.
COHEN: Is there any hope at all? Is anyone setting up an operating room for these patients at all?FURIN: I know there is a lot of talk and speculation about it. The only people we've actually seen on the ground doing things are the team from Israel.
COHEN: The team from Israel is building an operating room?FURIN: Yes. They are building a functioning triage level and surgical field hospital. They are the first ones who will be operating.
COHEN: Thank you, Dr. Jennifer Furin from Harvard medical school.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Nearly a third of the patients at a makeshift hospital in earthquake-ravaged Haiti will die without immediate surgery, a doctor warned Saturday.
"Within the next 24 hours, approximately 30 percent of the patients in the hospital need immediate surgery or they're going to die," Dr. Jennifer Furin, from the Harvard Medical School, told CNN of the roughly 300 patients at a makeshift hospital on a United Nations compound near Port-au-Prince's airport.
"They will die of infections, they'll die of dead tissue, they'll die of malnutrition and metabolic derangements," she said.
The screams at this temporary hospital have crescendoed since Tuesday's earthquake, and medical workers futilely tried to ease pain with morphine. The loudest cries came from those with pelvic fractures so severe that their bones protruded through their skin.
Video: Medical facilities scarce
Video: Baby pulled from rubbleFurin said rumors and talk of setting up an operating room abound, but that nothing has materialized.
"Every day as the sun starts to go down, the hope, most importantly, of the patients are dashed, as yet again there's nowhere to send them for these necessary life-saving surgeries," she said.
One team, from the Israel Defense Forces, began setting up a surgical field level hospital at an abandoned athletic field.
"They're the first ones who are going to be operating," Furin said.
The Israeli delegation of 220 arrived at the Antoine Izmery soccer field Friday to begin setting up tents and equipment. Its doctors and other medical personnel anticipated treating about 500 casualties a day. Much of the aid will be focused on helping any survivors of the destroyed U.N. headquarters in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Facts that Elizabeth Cohen did not want to report, the nations from the same region, as Israel, were not noted and also may, may explain why the Israeli field hospital was so underutilized.
From Jan. 14-16 the same time frame of the Israeli arrival to Haiti this was not reported by CNN:
Jordan: A Jordanian air force plane carrying a military field hospital and 6 tons of food and supplies left Amman on January 14. A second plane carrying Jordanian medics left the following day.
Iran: Iran's Red Crescent society sent 30 tons of humanitarian aid, including food, tents and medicine, on January 16.
Kuwait: Kuwait donated $1 million to relief efforts; the Red Crescent is preparing 100 tons of food, medical supplies, tents and blankets to fly to Haiti.
Lebanon: Lebanon is loading a plane with 25 tons of tents and 3 tons of medical supplies; it leaves tomorrow.
Morocco: Two planes carrying 24 tons of aid left the city of Kenitra on January 16. The Moroccan government has pledged $1 million in aid to Haiti.
Qatar: A Qatari C-17 aircraft loaded with 50 tons of aid left for Port-au-Prince on January 14. The Qatari government also sent a rescue team to set up a field hospital; the Red Crescent will sent another $100,000.
Turkey: Three cargo planes -- carrying search-and-rescue teams, a mobile hospital and aid materials -- left for Haiti on January 16. Another two planes left yesterday. Turkey has also donated $1 million in cash.
United Arab Emirates: The UAE sent two planes loaded with tents, and a team from the UAE's Red Crescent will arrive in the Dominican Republic tomorrow to buy $500,000 worth of supplies and truck them to Haiti. Another 50 tons of emergency supplies will be air-lifted from Abu Dhabi tomorrow.
Treating Survivors
Haiti Day 6 - No one but the Israelis have come to help any of ...interviews makeshift medical tent personnel on January 18, on Monday morning. Asking Harvard Medical Dr. Jennifer Furin, "Have the Americans set up a field hospital ...(Like Ms. Cohen does not know the State Department passed the baton for Israel to milk the publicity that she helped facilitate.)
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