For Israelis, Mixed Feelings on Aid Effort

[elleng]

“Israelis are caught in a great confusion over themselves,” noted Uri Dromi, a commentator who used to be a government spokesman. “There is such a gap between what we can do in so many fields and the failure we feel trapped in with the Palestinians. There’s nostalgia for the time when we were the darlings of the world, and the Haiti relief effort allows us to remember that feeling and say, you see we are not as bad as you think.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/world/middleeast/22israel.html?em

[orion007]

1. It's called " selective compassion" n/t

[elleng]

2. You've got it wrong.

[Quasimodem]

3. Yes, Dr. Jeckyll is a nice man.

If only he could euthanize Mr. Hyde.

[tabatha]

4. I can understand that.

They have done a good job in Haiti.