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2025-01-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Israel send firefighting and rescue experts to aid US with LA fire
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[Jpost] "The special relationship between America and Israel on display!" The House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans said on X Saturday.
…using advanced Israeli technology to help contain the fires. The team also met with Congressman Brad Sherman yesterday, who thanked them for their support. “We are proud to offer our support to California,” said Israel Bachar, Consul General of Israel. The team will continue their mission to protect lives and minimize damage. #Israel #LosAngeles #WildfireResponse #USIsraelPartnership
The Israeli consulate in Los Angeles said on X on Friday that the experts would be working alongside local fire fighting units and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services using “advanced Israeli technology to help contain the fires.”
“This delegation is further evidence of the friendship and deep commitment of the relations between Israel and the United States, and of the importance that the State of Israel places in assisting its great friend as it deals with one of the largest fires that the state of California has ever known,” said the Israeli ministries.
California Congressman Brad Sherman welcomed the Israel firefighters, noting that Israel was absorbing the costs of the delegation.
The Israeli ministries and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia said that the Israeli experts were sent with the assistance of the Emergency Volunteers Project, an organization funded by the federation and established 16 years ago to aid Israeli emergency services during national disasters.
Israeli NGO Lev Echad
sent its own delegation of emergency response experts last Tuesday, hoping to help with the development of infrastructure to improve aid efforts in the LA area.
“The goal of the delegation is to work in collaboration with local leadership, aid organizations, and new volunteers, providing tools to build unified systems that enhance community response and recovery,” said Lev Echad CEO Tomer Dror.
Local Jewish groups have also started their own initiatives, with the Jewish Federation Los Angeles working to provide mental health support, meals, and shelter for people displaced by the fires. The Jewish group said on its website that it also started a Wildfire Crisis Relief Fund to “support our neighbors affected by this catastrophic event.”
“In these challenging times, the strength and resilience of our Los Angeles community shines brightest,” JFEDLA said on its website. “Together, we can support those in need and help rebuild what has been lost.”
While Israeli projects have sought to aid victims of the fire, the Adalah Justice Project
| … pro-Palestinian group that celebrated the 10/7 invasion of Hamas, they’re funded via the Tides Foundation… |
and Jewish Voice for Peace
| …another Tides Foundation recipient, they’re a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism, deploying their claimed Jewish identity as defense against the charge of Jew-hate… |
took to social media on January 10 to blame Israel for the severity of the disaster.
“Billions for genocide abroad worsen environmental crises at home,” Adalah and JVP said in an Instagram post criticizing the US government for aid to Israel that could have been used to respond to the LA fires.
The anti-Israel groups claimed that the Israeli war against Gazan terrorist organizations had “emitted more carbon than twenty of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries” in a year, “exacerbating climate change.”
Code Pink
... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost...
| Nowadays the war that Code Pink concentrates on is Israel vs Hamas. They’re funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based American billionaire tied to China’s Communist Party. His wife is Jodi Evans… |
also connected the war in Gaza to the LA fires, claiming on Substack that a war economy was prioritized over “respect for indigenous caretaking practices and life.”
“Amidst a world that has gone through imperialist ecocidal war for decades, the world’s biodiversity, much of which is in sovereign indigenous land, has been decimated,” Code Pink said earlier in January. 
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