2013 Briefing Book - Print Version - Aipac
2013 Briefing Book - Print Version - Aipac
2013 Briefing Book - Print Version - Aipac
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS<br />
Israel Provides Humanitarian Assistance Throughout the World<br />
Equipped with firsthand knowledge of the challenges that resource-poor countries face, Israel<br />
has strived to provide other countries with the assistance they need to develop and grow.<br />
Before it had even established embassies in many<br />
world capitals, Israel sent experts abroad to teach<br />
developing nations such skills as how to upgrade<br />
medical facilities, improve schools and coax crops<br />
from arid land. Today, Israel has one of the most<br />
extensive foreign assistance programs in the world<br />
for a nation of its size.<br />
Israelis are all too familiar with the reality of genocide.<br />
In both the Rwandan and Sudanese genocides, Israel<br />
provided humanitarian assistance to the refugees.<br />
In Rwanda, Israel established a field hospital and sent<br />
several doctors and nurses as wells as medical supplies<br />
and vaccinations. In Sudan, Israeli humanitarian<br />
groups provided water desalination equipment,<br />
Israeli doctors and other experts have quickly responded to major disasters around the globe, including the<br />
earthquake in Haiti.<br />
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