Haiti

There’s real hope from Haiti and it’s not what you expect

by Paul Woodward 02.06.2010

Johann Hari: In the weeks after a disaster like the Haiti earthquake, journalists always search for an upbeat twist to the tale. You know it by now – the baby found alive after a week under wreckage. But this time, a shaft of light has parted the rubble and the corpses and the unshakeable grief [...]

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Haiti’s children adrift in world of chaos

by Paul Woodward 01.29.2010

Haiti’s children adrift in world of chaos By Deborah Sontag, New York Times, January 27, 2010 Haiti’s children, 45 percent of the population, are among the most disoriented and vulnerable of the survivors of the earthquake. By the many tens of thousands, they have lost their parents, their homes, their schools and their bearings. They [...]

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Haiti: Obama’s Katrina — and Israel’s mission accomplished

by Paul Woodward 01.26.2010

Haiti: Obama’s Katrina By Soumitra R Eachempati, Dean Lorich and David Helfet, Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2010 Four years ago the initial medical response to Hurricane Katrina was ill equipped, understaffed, poorly coordinated and delayed. Criticism of the paltry federal efforts was immediate and fierce. Unfortunately, the response to the latest international disaster in [...]

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Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good?

by Paul Woodward 01.25.2010

Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good? By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 25, 2010 When Amos Radian, Israel’s Dominican Republic-based ambassador to the nations of the eastern Caribbean, spoke to the Jerusalem Post last week, he was unequivocal in expressing appreciation towards the Bigio family. Gilbert Bigio, a Syrian Jew and honorary consul [...]

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Israel at war

by Paul Woodward 01.24.2010

Israel at war By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 24, 2010 Yesterday I called attention to an article in Hebrew (appearing on an Israeli website) with the extraordinary headline: “The painful truth: Haiti’s disaster is good for the Jews.” Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel has now translated the whole article which appears at Mondoweiss. It begins: At [...]

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How Israel saved the world

by Paul Woodward 01.24.2010

How Israel saved the world By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 24, 2010 Dr Ariel Bar speaking from the Israeli field hospital in Haiti: “When we save the life of one person, we feel that we saved the world. So we saved the world several times in this mission.” “No one but the Israeli’s [...]

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Securing disaster: The US repeats past mistakes in Haiti

by Paul Woodward 01.24.2010

Securing disaster: The US repeats past mistakes in Haiti By Peter Hallward, The National, January 21, 2010 One week after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the US-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course [...]

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The Haiti I love is still there

by Paul Woodward 01.23.2010

The Haiti I love is still there By Michael Deibert, Salon, January 22, 2010 Far from being the looting mobs that some media have portrayed them as, hardly anyone who has witnessed the response of the Haitians to this great catastrophe has not been moved by their incredible resilience and solidarity and their intact sense [...]

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‘The painful truth: Haiti’s disaster is good for the Jews’

by Paul Woodward 01.23.2010

‘The painful truth: Haiti’s disaster is good for the Jews’ By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 23, 2010 If I came up with a headline claiming the devastation in Haiti is “good for the Jews”, I could reasonably be accused of being anti-Semitic. But it’s not my headline. It comes from this report on [...]

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Helping the Haitians over there so that we don’t have to help them here

by Paul Woodward 01.22.2010

Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed AP, January 22, 2010 Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides and vacant lots into safer, cleaner tent cities. Aid officials said some 200,000 people [...]

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Haiti’s suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment

by Paul Woodward 01.21.2010

Haiti’s suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment By Seumas Milne, The Guardian, January 20, 2010 There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour of promised salvation. More than a week after the earthquake that may have killed 200,000 people, most Haitians have seen nothing of the armada [...]

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Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys in Port-au-Prince

by Paul Woodward 01.20.2010

Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys in Port-au-Prince By William Booth and Scott Wilson, Washington Post, January 20, 2010 A massive aftershock jolted awake thousands of earthquake victims and relief workers in this ravaged capital early Wednesday, sparking new cries of fear and sorrow even as an enormous international aid effort continued. [continued...] U.S. [...]

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Don’t send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me

by Paul Woodward 01.19.2010

Homeless Haitians told not to flee to U.S. By James C McKinley Jr, New York Times, January 19, 2010 America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States. Every day, a United States Air Force cargo plane specially [...]

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Netanyahu: We’re a small country with a big heart

by Paul Woodward 01.18.2010

Netanyahu: We’re a small country with a big heart By Ronen Medzini, Ynet, January 17, 2010 Referring to the Israeli aid delegation sent to Haiti, the prime minister said that “the moment the dimensions of the disaster became known, I instructed the immediate deployment of an aid delegation on behalf of the State of Israel, [...]

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After the earthquake, how to rebuild Haiti from scratch

by Paul Woodward 01.17.2010

After the earthquake, how to rebuild Haiti from scratch By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Washington Post, January 17, 2010 President Obama has declared that the United States will not forsake Haiti in its moment of agony. Honoring this commitment would be a first for Washington. To prevent a deepening spiral of death, the United States will [...]

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Obama pledges aid to Haiti

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Obama pledges aid to Haiti By Helene Cooper, New York Times, January 15, 2010 President Obama on Thursday promised $100 million along with more American troops for the relief effort in Haiti, vowing that the United States would stand with the impoverished nation as it grappled with the devastation of its capital city. The Pentagon [...]

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