There’s a little buzz today on this story reporting that Israel has turned down a request from Samantha Power and the United States to provide medical assistance and personnel to Ebola-stricken countries in Africa:
#IsraeltheRegion #IsraelInside #Ebola #SierraLeone #SamanthaPower Israel rejects US request on Ebola relief in… http://t.co/3toHAIuKJM
— Israel News (@IsraelNewsNow) October 3, 2014
Yaalon: The hell I'll expose my troops to Ebola: Although the United Nations calls for our replacement with a … http://t.co/2Q3dTlgqS9
— (((IsraelMatzav))) (@IsraelMatzav) October 3, 2014
Does Samantha Power not see the double-standard here? To summarize: the United States cancelled flights to Israel earlier this summer because of one errant rocket from Gaza that hit near Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, but now wants Israel to send help to hot-zones in Africa? Israel was somehow unsafe for air travel, but there are no worries flying Israelis to Liberia or Sierra Leone?
Now, we can’t speak for Team Obama and know if they understand the optics of their request, but Twitter noticed and is asking why flights to Israel are different than flights to nations with Ebola outbreaks:
https://twitter.com/chelsea_elisa/status/517671523931652096
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/517604746539311105
https://twitter.com/zhanover/status/517536099288510464
Pretty much says it all that Obama banned travel to and from Israel, but not Liberia. #Ebola
— Razor (@hale_razor) October 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/alleygirl2409/status/518014444199501824
https://twitter.com/Xti10slr/status/517692062960218112
Over to you Ms. Power.
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