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From: martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Re: Charity
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 15:36:03 EST
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I  would  think  twice about giving money to the International Red Cross
which counts as a member  organization  the  Red  Crescent  which  often
serves  as  a  tool  of  Islamic Barbarism (treats Muslim and non-Muslim
victims differently) and  which  tends  to  propagandize  slavishly  the
opinions  of the PLO which is a modern expression of traditional Islamic
Jew-Baiting.  The International Red Cross accords no official status  to
the Red Magen David.

The Behavior of the IRC was mixed during the Holocaust.

From Franco, Spain, the Jews and the Holocaust p.82.

The  Spanish  government was sincerely interested in achieving this aim,
and acted accordingly.  However, the Swiss government, as  well  as  the
International Red Cross whose seat was in Geneva, virtually collaborated
with the German mass murderers against  this  small  group  of  Jews  in
Vittel.  They took a rigid legal stand in order to destroy us.

While  the  Germans  recognized our passports, for their own reasons, as
explained above, the Swiss  government  and  the  Red  Cross,  who  were
supposed to be guided by humanitarian motives, cast doubt on our foreign
citizenship, knowing well that their attitude meant a death sentence for
our   group!    They   must  therefore,  bear  a  considerable  part  of
reponsibility for the fate of these 173 Jews taken by the  Germans  from
Vittel to Auschwitz, where they were all killed except for three (3) who
escaped.

I have also heard reports of bad behavior of the IRC during the  Israeli
War of Independence.