The Sinister Attacks on Israeli Offers of Aid to Lebanon
It would make more sense to criticize countries that don’t send humanitarian aid than to judge Israel’s aid as not sincere enough.
August 10, 2020
The Sinister Attacks on Israeli Offers of Aid to Lebanon
It would make more sense to criticize countries that don’t send humanitarian aid than to judge Israel’s aid as not sincere enough.
“The only encouraging thing” about the deadly explosion in Beirut, wrote the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt on Twitter, “is that even Israel has been quick in offering humanitarian aid.” Had Bildt been better informed, he might have known that there is nothing new or unusual about the Jewish state offering humanitarian assistance to its Arab neighbors—or to more far-flung nations. Yet his bizarre comment was less hostile than the reactions of those who rushed to dismiss the offer as a meaningless public-relations stunt. Lahav Harkov writes:
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