Mossad Engineering Disasters So Israeli Relief Efforts Can Look Good

Ali Abunimah has been documenting cases of what he has come to call “aid-washing.”

Haiti, October 5 – Hurricane Matthew swept through this impoverished nation yesterday, leaving behind devastation and yet another humanitarian crisis – a breach into which a well-practiced, efficient operation of Israeli medical and other assistance will soon step, highlighting the concern the Jewish State shows for victims of natural disasters throughout the world, and forming another instance of the Israeli secret service manufacturing such a disaster for purposes of providing such aid and burnishing the country’s image internationally.

Long on the receiving end of criticism for its treatment of the Palestinians, Israel has embarked on a multi-pronged effort to showcase its humane side and soften such charges. Many in the international community, however, especially Israel’s detractors, dismiss Israel’s flourishing democracy, acceptance of LGBTs, disaster relief, and free medical assistance to Syrians wounded in that country’s ongoing civil war as mere window-dressing to obscure the human rights violations inherent in Israeli rule over the Palestinians. The policy has now advanced further, with the Mossad engineering various catastrophes, to the sites of which Israeli relief volunteers can be whisked within hours, with the effect of intensified appreciation for Israel that could offset other, more diplomatically challenging, policies.

International relations specialist Ali Abunimah has been documenting cases of what he has come to call “aid-washing,” in the manner of “pinkwashing,” the accusation that Israeli acceptance of LGBTs is only intended to deflect criticism of other policies, and does not indicate that Israeli society is actually welcoming of LGBTs.

“It’s suspicious that Israel is always one of the first relief missions to arrive anywhere,” noted Abunimah. “It only looks as if they have their operation so well-oiled that they can always be out there helping before anyone else, but in fact that’s only because they know it’s coming.  Their people are behind the earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and what have you, so of course they’re poised to make it look good.”

Abunimah also pointed out the common knowledge in his circles that Israel is behind the unrest in Syria. “It’s all to distract from Israeli oppression in Palestine,” he explained. “The medical treatment of  Syrians near the Golan Heights is of course similar to the worldwide disaster relief operations in that respect, but it also simply, and unjustly, distracts international attention from the Palestinians. Who in their right mind gives a crap about hundreds of thousands of Syrians dying and millions more being displaced? I mean, even the UN recognizes that non-Palestinian refugees are only sort-of refugees, since they get resettled as soon as possible. But Palestinians are refugees through and through, which is why they can never get resettled anywhere – and if they do settle somewhere, they don’t lose their status as refugees. Those Syrians and Iraqis are just wannabes engineered by Israel to distract from the real crimes being committed.”