The Hate that Endures

Editorial of The New York Sun December 9, 2005
"Press releases were flooding the wires yesterday exulting in the news that a vote in Geneva had paved the way for the admission of Israel's Magen David Adom to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Senator Clinton and others who have been heroically active in support of Israel's effort for recognition were among those praising the development. But it wasn't actually the red star-of-David symbol that the signatories to the Geneva convention endorsed.
No, instead of allowing the actual symbol used by the Israeli organization to take its place with the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, the diplomats forged a compromise by which a "red square" would be added to the ambulances of the Jewish state participating in international rescue missions. Even this compromise was unacceptable to Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Our Meghan Clyne reports today that they couldn't even stomach the red square.
What this means is that ambulances displaying just a red star of David won't be protected on international missions. It's an illuminating moment, reminding us of the hate that endures for the Jews and the Jewish State. The news coincides with the comments yesterday from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, casting doubt on the Holocaust and suggesting that the Jews of Israel should be relocated to Europe. "Let's give some land to the Zionists in Europe or in Germany or Austria, so they can have their government there," he said, according to the Associated Press.
Meantime a separate report is circulating from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center documenting the incitement against Jews that is taking place now in the West Bank and Gaza territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority. An audio tape exported to the West Bank from Saudi Arabia refers to the Jews as "the sons of monkeys and pigs. "A radio station in Hebron broadcast songs calling for a jihad against Israel with lyrics such as "Do not fall asleep, jihad warrior, because justice never sleeps. Take your bullets with you and bring death." An enduring hate indeed."

The ICRC did not allow for the display of the Jewish symbol as part of an agreement for membership in their organisation, although there was no problem with the Christian cross or the Muslim red crescent. With such bias, why does anyone believe the ICRC statements about Israel's behaviour in Gaza?