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The ZOA and Marty Peretz say Obama dissed Israel when he failed to list Israel in remarks given on Jan. 15 about countries extending aid to Haiti. Can you spot the glaring discrepancy that makes this complaint total b.s.?

From the ZOA release, quoted by the R0ute 17 blog (curiously, the release is not on the ZOA web site):

“The Zionist Organization of America is critical of the fact that President Barack Obama” for having [sic] “mentioned several other countries helping Haiti but conspicuously omitted one whose assistance to Haiti has exceeded that of all others apart from the U.S. itself – Israel.”

Here’s what the president said:

At the airport, help continues to flow in, not just from the United States but from Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, among others. This underscores the point that I made to the President [of Haiti] this morning: The entire world stands with the government and the people of Haiti, for in Haiti’s devastation, we all see the common humanity that we share.

Here’s the rub: The president’s remarks were given at 1:08 P.M. EST on Fri., January 15. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Office and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the IDF Aid Delegation in Haiti did not land in Port-Au-Prince until Friday evening, and opened for operations on January 16.

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