(04-01-2024, 10:49 PM)duncanhidao Wrote: Faced with statements of this kind,? any type of discussion becomes useless.
Debates can still be made but understanding that if a person is in a war zone, then that person has the possibility of being targeted by one side or the other either by design or default must be understood. I have a few friends that have and still partake in these kinds of adventurous lifestyles of helping others and assisting even more. It's an understanding that these people must understand before they make these choices.
In major conflicts, civilians taking actions contrary to one side or the others action, can be considered spies or saboteurs on the battlefield. Just because the organizer of the group says otherwise doesn't mean anything to those in the conflict.
My friend that takes part in "Doctors without Boarders" does so with the clear understanding that he is helping out someone that another side wanted to die. This action makes him a target. These WCK workers should have the same understanding as my friend does. If they don't, if they felt safe, then the people who sent them there need to be examined for not preparing those workers properly. I'm sure their families might need a lawyer to deal with this group and not go after either Israel or Hamas since it was the World Center Kitchen that failed these workers. If on the other hand the WCK did inform and educate these workers about the dangers of going and operating in a combat zone, then these people died knowing full well that this might happen.
While these don't alleviate the fact that people died, we shouldn't look at them as people that were killed without cause or understanding of why. José Andrés using these peoples deaths as a cry for support is exploitation by him for political gains, or worse personal enrichment through donations to his group. This really should be a separate thread all together, but the reason why it should be discussed here is for the same reasons why CGI (Clinton Global Initiative) is topical. These people seem to both take advantage of and in cases, create global events in order to push out a helpful hand in the shape of a fist.
Let's not forget that Anthony Bourdain was digging into human trafficking when he died, and one of the people that knew where he was staying was José Andrés. While I do not dispute that Bourdain died due to his own hand (autoerotic asphyxiation), but instead question who were the people that ransacked his room, looking reportedly for his notes, before the police or even Hotel staff got into there? Where they José Andrés' people or someone else's?
