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International-UN-NGOs
Red Thingy Cross Finally Admits Israel
2006-06-22
The Red Thingy Cross admitted Israel to the worldwide humanitarian organization early Thursday, ending decades of exclusion linked to the Jewish state's refusal to accept the traditional cross symbol. The approval came in the early hours Thursday following a two-day International Conference of the Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent.

With a round of applause the Red Thingy Cross federation admitted Israel's Magen David Adom society simultaneously with the Palestine Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent. An optional new emblem was adopted so that Israel could retain its red star of David instead of having to adopt the red cross or crescent used by the 184 other societies in the global movement. "This has been going on for 58 long years. It's time. It's overdue," said Bonnie McElveen Hunter, chairman of the American Red Thingy Cross, which had been campaigning for years for the Israeli society's admission.

Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon said the International Conference of the Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent had earlier rejected a Muslim amendment that would have challenged Israel's occupation of Arab territory since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The vote was 72 votes for the amendment and 191 against, he said. Then the conference passed by a 237-54 vote a resolution setting up the legal basis for Israelis' admission and making an exception to the rule that societies have to be under a sovereign state so that the Palestinians could join as well.

Israel's military will be able to use the Silly Thingy crystal by itself on a white flag to protect medics and other humanitarian workers helping war casualties. But any society could combine the Silly Thingy emblem with the Thingy cross or Moon-Shaped Thingy crescent _ or both _ for temporary use.
What are the Paleo and Egypto ROE for vehicles/personnel bearing the Silly Thingy?
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Whenever I hear thingy, I think of this -
3rd: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one.
Pol: What do you mean?
3rd: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not ... thingy.
Pol: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
1st: Not poo poo's?
3rd: No.
1st: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment.
3rd: No, no, no - thingy.
2nd: Number ones?
3rd: No, thingy.
Pol: Thingy!
2nd: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
Posted by: Spot   2006-06-22 13:45  

#3  The quid pro quo for Israel's acceptance is that it must respect Palestinian emergency vehicles, not stopping them for inspections at checkpoints

really? sheesh. Talk about a good idea gone bad. The idea was originally a shared humanitarian one and now it is just another source of political cover for murder and treachery.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-22 06:30  

#2  The quid pro quo for Israel's acceptance is that it must respect Palestinian emergency vehicles, not stopping them for inspections at checkpoints. Hence the phrasing referencing the Palestinian Crescent (exactly the same as that of the Muslim Red Crescents) simultaneously with the Magen David.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-22 05:31  

#1  And what took them so long, might I ask? All this while the paleo branch was headed by arafat's brother (or brother in law, can't remember, I do not eat enough fish), and definitively and conclusively (lots of evidence for this) used for transporting weapons, fighters, explosives, staging pallywood "dramas" for the msm, etc, etc... in full violation of any kind of ethics.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-06-22 03:58  

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