Hope for the Muslim World
Pastorius links to an interesting article in the New York Sun. The following excerpt caught my eye as it illustrates a point we both have been making in several different ways:
Ms. Darwish, 57, said she had not met a Jew until she moved to America at age 30. As a child, she was taught, "Don't take candy from any stranger, it could be a Jew trying to poison you."
Then, ten years ago, her brother in Gaza had a stroke. A panic ensued over whether to send him to Cairo Hospital in Egypt or Hadassah Medical Center in Israel. The matter was settled by an Egyptian diplomat in Gaza: "If you want him to live, you send him right now to Hadassah." And so his life was saved.
Ms. Darwish said that while her mother was in Jerusalem taking care of her brother, she noticed that Jews who had been kicked out of Egypt by Nasser, who had confiscated their property, had rebuilt their lives in Israel. "They are not left in refugee camps like we did to the Palestinians," Ms. Darwish said.
3 comments:
I wouldn't have been surprised if she had refused treatment. Sometimes hate is so completely ingrained into a person's they would rather die than let the object of their hate help them. Same situation in the South with older whites and black doctors. Some people are defined by their prejudices.
That's a very expensive way to gain sympathy, especially since there are many poor people around the world desperately needing medical care, not just the Palestinians.
Imagine what a poor Ethiopian Christian dying of the same disease might think ("do I have to become a terrorist so that an Israeli hospital will admit me in order to convince me not to be a terrorist ?"
For every one Palestinian feeling less hatred for Israel, there will thousands across the world feeling more hatred...
Jack, I hope you don't mind, but I tagged you. There are some interesting questions on my blog I would like you to answer. Thanks...and sorry...
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