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May 1, 2015

By Sending Aid to Nepal, Israel Is Not Trying to Win a Popularity Contest

It's not trying to "polish its tarnished image."

After the recent earthquake, Israel sent the largest delegation of any nation to help locate, rescue, and care for survivors. Predictably, some of Israel’s enemies accused it of trying to distract from its imagined wrongdoings, or to polish its tarnished image, while a more hardened anti-Semite suggested that Israel was “heading to Nepal to learn from the earthquake how to kill better.” Haviv Rettig Gur responds:

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May 1, 2015

  1. By Sending Aid to Nepal, Israel Is Not Trying to Win a Popularity Contest

    It's not trying to "polish its tarnished image."

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