Arab countries lack of support to Haiti?

[Steve Foster]

I was wondering why the Arab nations have contributed so little to the Haiti tragedy?

I note that a few charities within some Arab countries are sending some token support & assistance, but why when the rest of the world is supporting the Haitian people are the rich Arab Gulf states doing so little?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Give it a rest - we all know you hate the Arabs but this drops to new depths !

 

[clapham_gull]

 

[DerbyGull]

I was wondering why the Arab nations have contributed so little to the Haiti tragedy?

I note that a few charities within some Arab countries are sending some token support & assistance, but why when the rest of the world is supporting the Haitian people are the rich Arab Gulf states doing so little?

It's cos its christians helping christians and muslims helping muslims or atheists helping atheists. Thats the way it goes

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Why beat about the bush, Foster? You think Muslims are worthless. Have a cookie.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Iran Sends 30 Tons of Humanitarian Aid to Haiti

The Society of the Red Dawn (IRCS) sent 30 tons of aid to the humanitarian devastation in Haiti caused by a powerful earthquake, a gesture that was imitated by other Arab and African nations.

A cargo plane left Teheran on Saturday with food, tents and medicines coordinated by the IRCS that is also known as the Red Half Moon, equivalent of the Red Cross, confirmed the head of the Iranian institution, Ahmad Estandiyari.

Estandiyari also mentioned sugar, tinned tuna and detergents among the goods sent to the Caribbean nation that was hit Tuesday by an earthquake of 7.3 degrees in the open Richter scale.

The Persian nation joined other states from different parts of the world who mobilized human resources, materials and funds to aid the hundreds of thousands of Haitian victims.

Among the first Arab nations to send aid to that devastated and impoverished nation are Qatar and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Jean Ping, president of the African Union Commission meeting in El Cairo to organize the second Afro Arab summit expressed his appreciation to the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa for the aid organized for Haiti among its 22 member nations.

According to the official news agency of the Emirates, WAM, in two days the first plane will leave through an organized air bridge to the Dominican Republic by its president, sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to deliver urgent humanitarian aid for the victims of the quake.

SCR head of the UAE, Ahmed Al Mazrouie indicated that the government transferred funds to aid institutions to support operations of aid in the Caribbean nation and local authorities will travel to Santo Domingo to coordinate and supervise delivery.

Diplomatic Dominican sources told Prensa Latina yesterday of the arrangements being made by its chancellor, Carlos Morales Troncoso, with the Arab Emirate leaders.

 

[clapham_gull]

I was wondering why the Arab nations have contributed so little to the Haiti tragedy?

I note that a few charities within some Arab countries are sending some token support & assistance, but why when the rest of the world is supporting the Haitian people are the rich Arab Gulf states doing so little?

More to the point how much have YOU given.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Arab countries have flocked to join the global aid effort for the survivors of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti which may have killed more than 100,000 people.

As the full extent of the quake that has destroyed much of the country became clear, planes loaded with tents, food and other emergency supplies were dispatched from the Middle East to support the estimated three million people stranded in the quake area.

A team from the UAE’s Red Crescent Authority (RCA) is expected to land in the neighbouring Dominican Republic on Tuesday, armed with $500,000 to buy food supplies for survivors. The charity has already dispatched relief items on two planes.


Some 50 tonnes of emergency supplies are also on track to arrive on February 19, funded by the UAE’s Khalifa Bin Zayed Charity Foundation.

“This is the initial response and we are currently in communication with seven international relief organisations to further extend our assistance,” Khalil Mohamed, a spokesperson for the charity, told IRIN, a unit of the United Nations.

Kuwait has donated an initial $1m to the relief efforts, to be delivered through the country’s Red Crescent Society (KRCS).

“We prepared 100 tonnes of relief items - which include food, medical supplies, tents, blankets and food items - and are waiting to assign a plane that will carry them," Yousef Al Me'raj, head of KRCS' disasters department, said.

Qatar has mobilised a 26-man rescue team comprising soldiers, police and medics, in addition to 50 tonnes of aid, and plans to donate emergency supplies in the coming days.

Aid agencies on the ground in Haiti have described the situation as desperate. The epicenter of the earthquake struck just ten miles from the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, destroying hundreds of buildings. Some desperate Haitians have begun looting shops in the downtown district, prompting police to break up the crowd with gunfire, killing at least one man.

“There are many, many people trapped in the rubble,” said Paul Conneally, spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. “We're not optimistic at the moment.”

Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary-General, described the tremor as "catastrophic" and urged the international community "to come to Haiti's aid in this hour of need".

Some 70,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves and a state of emergency has been declared until the end of January, the Haiti government said.

The Middle East’s poorer, oil-less countries have been quick to join the region’s sweeping aid drive. In Jordan, a Royal Air Force plane carrying a mobile field hospital and six tonnes of food, medicine and clothing was dispatched to the quake zone on January 14. Lebanon has dispatched a plane loaded with 25 tonnes of tents and three tonnes of medicines, vaccines and other supplies, which is expected to arrive on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Iran Sends 30 Tons of Humanitarian Aid to Haiti

The Society of the Red Dawn (IRCS) sent 30 tons of aid to the humanitarian devastation in Haiti caused by a powerful earthquake, a gesture that was imitated by other Arab and African nations.

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Diplomatic Dominican sources told Prensa Latina yesterday of the arrangements being made by its chancellor, Carlos Morales Troncoso, with the Arab Emirate leaders.

Owned

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Palestinians in Gaza are offering donations and financial support for the victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake at the Strip's Red Cross headquarters, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported on Monday.

The Ma'an reported said that Gazan family members of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel also participated in the effort, offering financial donations and goods such as blankets and covers, as well as food and milk for children.

The report comes after the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, said that it intended send humanitarian to Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake which all but leveled the island's capital city, adding that it was working to ensure the safety of members of the Palestinian community residing on the island.
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Head of the Committee to Break the Siege Jamal Al-Khudary said "people may be astonished at our ability to collect donations from our people [in Gaza]; we tell them that this is a humanitarian campaign and our people love life and peace ?"

"We are here today supporting the victims of Haiti ? we feel for them the most because we were exposed to our own earthquake during Israel?s war on Gaza."

 

[Steve Foster]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

So instead of referring to "Arab Nations" you actually meant one ?

 

[clapham_gull]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

What have you done this week to help ?

 

[The Wizard]

I'd imagine that those 'arab' countries have done a lot more than you my friend, a lot more.

 

[brighton bluenose]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

Why dont you f*** off you boring racist cvnt??!!

Lets talk instead about Israeli terrorism - the three Hamas officials murdered by a parcel bomb in Beirut over Christmas or the wounding of three children by an undoubted Israeli bomb in a Hizbollah owned building in Southern Lebanon last week!!

Lets hope the IDF and nazi-style Israeli state get another bloody nose in the coming war in that area!

 

[Steve Foster]

So instead of referring to "Arab Nations" you actually meant one ?

Regrettably, the list is much greater.

There are 25 Arab countries. A few have "promised" support, some charities within these countries have launched appeals or sending aid as some of the previous posters have stated.

However, where the Western world has poured in aid, people & financial support immediately, our Arab bretheren appear a little indiffirent.

And by the way. The headlines in Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper, yesterday was: 80 year old marries 12 year old girl (I understand). Says it all really.

 

[Scampi]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant Steve. So far you're Arab nations seems to have been whittled down to one, and lets face it, it's not as if they've said they're not going to be sending aid,

 

[GNF on Tour]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

Your a miserable ignorant racist tosser.

 

[Juan Albion]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has yet to announce its contribution to aid efforts, but has sent a message of condolence to Haitian President René Préval.

Very comforting to the Haitian people......

Actually that's a very smart move on the part of the Saudis. The need in Haiti is going to be long term, and I imagine this means that the Saudi aid may come just as some other aid is dropping away. Well done the Arabs!

 

[clapham_gull]

Regrettably, the list is much greater.

There are 25 Arab countries. A few have "promised" support, some charities within these countries have launched appeals or sending aid as some of the previous posters have stated.

However, where the Western world has poured in aid, people & financial support immediately, our Arab bretheren appear a little indiffirent.

And by the way. The headlines in Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper, yesterday was: 80 year old marries 12 year old girl (I understand). Says it all really.

... and what have you done this week?