International Red Cross Accepts Israel

Posted on June 22, 2006

….finally!!! Macker’s World has the details.

The Red 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 Cross and Red Crescent.

With a round of applause the Red Cross federation admitted Israel’s Magen David Adom society simultaneously with the Palestine Red 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 Cross, which had been campaigning for years for the Israeli society’s admission.

It is about time. Macker takes on the decision about Palestine.

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One Response to “International Red Cross Accepts Israel”

kerwin_brown on June 22nd, 2006 10:01 am

For an organization that gave of religion a long time ago the red cross took long enough to reconize Isreal. So what was the real hold up if it was not religion?