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why are the IDF there?
by gaze 5y ago
why are the IDF there?
- trynumber9 5y agobecause they volunteered and the Miami emergency response was willing to accept their help. They were then authorized to participate in the operations. The article lists many other countries this unit has also volunteered to help.
- napmo 5y agoIt is called "publicity stunt". They want to wash the bloods off their hand in the public view. They have killed more than 100k Palestinians since they have occupied their land in 1948. And the fun fact here is that the IDF has roots in the terrorist groups like Haganah, Irgun and Lehi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group) Even today, IDF is a terror group and executes terror plots across the world. This is separate from their daily killing and torture of the Palestinians.
- js212 5y agoWtf is wrong with you. Not the right thread to start this.
- vxNsr 5y agoMiami has many Israeli expats, this building specifically had many dual Israeli-American citizens and the family and friends of the victims called for the IDF to come help, the governor, and mayor ok-ed it so they came. Many countries have disaster recovery teams specifically tasked with assisting in international catastrophes, the Israeli one happens to be a division of the IDF, probably for budgetary reasons.
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoIt makes sense why it would be part of the IDF. In Israel, the usual reason you need disaster response is an act of terrorism. Having the disaster recovery and security forces all under a single authority makes coordinating a response much easier.
- HWR_14 5y ago> the Israeli one happens to be a division of the IDF, probably for budgetary reasons. Given that Israel has mandatory military service, it may have something to do with allowing that service to count.
- bawolff 5y agoI think its fairly common to have disaster recovery as part of the military, and to have them help in foreign countries when disaster strikes. E.g. canadian military helped out in usa during hurricane katrina
- napmo 5y agoIt is called "publicity stunt".
- pcbro141 5y agoIt sounds like a great real life training opportunity for a rescue unit, it seems like it would be hard to develop fake training exercises to simulate the challenges of a real collapse of a big building.
- mellow-lake-day 5y agoI think it's standard practice for one's military to help another country for example the Mexican military came to America to help during Hurricane Katrina. The military is prepared for all kinds of situations so they are probably the best government agency to help.
- dncornholio 5y agobecause they're Jewish