(Intermountain Jewish News-Denver) Editorial - The Israeli aid organization IsraAid has provided almost $100,000 in nutritional and hygienic assistance to refugees displaced by the Syrian civil war. The ironic dimension is that the Israeli aid workers and their Jordanian counterparts find it necessary to remove the word "Jewish" from the aid packages. The recipients, after all, are Syrians. They are not like the thousands of Haitians, Filipinos, Peruvians, Sri Lankans, Somalians, Japanese and even Americans (victims of Hurricane Sandy, the Oklahoma tornado and Boulder floods) whom IsraAid has helped in recent years. They are citizens of an Arab state that has been in a state of war with Israel since it was born. In these Syrian refugee camps, no reward - not even a word of thanks - is expected. We can think of no nobler example of selflessness, of human compassion, than this latest of IsraAid's operations.
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