'They love me'!
The Hill reports that Arabs in Arab countries are '
warming' to President Obama.
Since 2011, opinions of Obama’s policies have grown exponentially in
Egypt (from 3 percent to 34 percent), in Jordan (from 3 percent to 25
percent) and in the UAE (from 8 percent to 38 percent).
Views of Obama in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Lebanon have also increased between 7 and 24 percentage points.
Saudis,
Emiratis and Egyptians gave the administration the highest scores, but
ratings in each country remain well below 50 percent.
Those surveyed
said the Obama administration has been the most effective in ending the
U.S. presence in Iraq, after troops pulled out in 2011, and working to
end Iran’s nuclear program.
The administration has been the least
effective in improving relations with the Muslim world and handling the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Arab Spring, according to the poll.
Talk about framing the questions to get the results you want in a poll. Obama has been most effective in ending US presence in Iraq because he just ended it and let the consequences be damned. He's been totally ineffective at ending Iran's nuclear program (look at the news from Geneva), but is still 'effective' because US 'intelligence agencies' tied Bush's hands from trying in 2007. None of this actually makes Obama popular.
Strong majorities in each country support U.S. policies to spur a
negotiated solution to the civil war in Syria, and favor the U.S.
providing more assistance to its refugees. Majorities in all countries
oppose any form of U.S. military engagement in Syria.
Most of the
countries strongly support U.S.-led negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear
program, but they have little confidence the talks will succeed.
On
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, strong majorities in every Arab
country surveyed said they aren’t confident the U.S. has been
even-handed in its approach to negotiating peace. More than half of
Palestinians, for instance, felt that way.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Arab spring, Barack Hussein Obama, Egypt, Iranian nuclear threat, Iraq, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Syrian civil war, United Arab Emirates, US foreign policy
The New York Times actually runs a story that's favorable to Israel
It's been going on for months, but with an increase in civilians being treated, the New York Times has finally deemed it fit to print:
Israel is treating casualties of the Syrian civil war at Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, Ziv Hospital in Safed, Rambam Hospital in Haifa and at a field hospital in the Golan Heights. They're getting better medical care than they could ever get in Syria, and the government of Israel is footing the bill (Hat Tip:
Tamar H).
“Most come here unconscious with head injuries,” said Dr. Masad Barhoum, the director general of the
Western Galilee Hospital here in Nahariya, on the Mediterranean coast six miles south of the Lebanese border. “They wake up after a few days or whenever and hear a strange language and see strange people,” he said. “If they can talk, the first question is, ‘Where am I?’ ”
He added, “I am sure there is an initial shock when they hear they are in Israel.”
The identity of the patients is closely guarded so they will not be in danger when they return to Syria. Soldiers sit outside the wards where the adults are to protect them from possible threats and prying journalists. But doctors granted access to the children in the closed intensive care wing, on the condition that no details that could compromise their safety were published.
Like many Israeli hospitals, this one serves a mixed population of Jews and Arabs; its staff includes Arabic-speaking doctors, nurses and social workers. In the lobby, a glass display case contains the remnants of a Katyusha rocket that was fired from Lebanon and hit the hospital’s eye department during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. The rocket penetrated four floors but nobody was injured because all the north-facing wards had been moved underground.
With more than 100,000 people estimated to have died in the Syrian civil war, Dr. Barhoum, an Arab Christian citizen of Israel, acknowledged that the Israeli medical assistance was “a drop in the ocean.”
But he said he was proud of the level of treatment his teams could provide and proud to be a citizen of a country that allowed him to treat every person equally. He said the cost of the treatment so far had amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars and would be paid for by the Israeli government.
Since late March, almost 100 Syrians have arrived at two hospitals in Galilee. Forty-one severely wounded Syrians have been treated here at the Western Galilee Hospital, which has a new neurosurgical unit as well as pediatric intensive care facilities. Two of them have died, 28 have recovered and been transferred back to Syria, and 11 remain here.
An additional 52 Syrians have been taken to the
Rebecca Sieff Hospital in the Galilee town of Safed. The latest, a 21-year-old man with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, arrived there on Saturday. A woman, 50, arrived Friday with a piece of shrapnel lodged in her heart and was sent to the
Rambam hospital in the northern port city of Haifa for surgery.
Little has been revealed about how they get here, other than that the Israeli military runs the technical side of the operation. The doctors say all they know is that Syrian patients arrive by military ambulance and that the hospital calls the army to come pick them up when they are ready to go back to Syria.
The Israeli military, which also operates a field hospital and mobile medical teams along the Syrian frontier, has been reluctant to advertise these facilities, partly for fear of being inundated by more wounded Syrians than they could cope with.
Read the whole thing. Some apartheid state....
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, apartheid state, field hospital, Israeli apartheid, Israeli medical care, Syrian civil war
Video of civli war in Syria
It looks more and more like there's a civil war in Syria.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip:
Ya Libnan).
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Syrian civil war, Syrian uprising
