It’s not unusual for the Israeli medical system to treat patients from neighboring Arab countries. But how do they work this with a pediatric patient like this who is from the family of one of the most vicious Israel haters and terrorists in the Arab world? Is the little girl’s Israel-hating family allowed into the Israeli hospital? If so, seems like a big security problem for Israel.
The Israelis esp. the Jews, are just being Israelis and Jews. They treat everyone they can, regardless of their origins.
American and allied troops in So. Vietnam did this too. A lot of VC lives were saved due to American doctors. For some, this act of kindness was the precipitor of their defection from the communists.
You have no idea how important a factor in one’s mindset and worldview a hospital is. Saw this in So. Vietnam and Cambodia. That is why the communists kept blowing up and burning down regional and local medical hospitals and clinics.
It represented the SVN govt’s attempts to help the people improve their lives. As my son’s godfather, a Vietnam veteran said, we built the schools/clinics. The communists came in and burned them down. We built them up again. The communists destroyed them again. We built them a third time and the communists didn’t destroy them. The people protected them from the reds. It was now their hospital/school/clinic, for the people.
The Israelis know well the successful lessons of Vietnam, and shared their anti-terrorism strategies and tactics with us (in Vietnam and elsewhere).
For many Palestinians, they would rather have a friendly and accessible Israel as a neighbor than the criminal and religious fanatics they have ruling over them now.
That’s the difference between “us” and “them”.
He can visit her via skype, and she should be held as a hostage in the medieval sense, as security for the good behavior of her daddy. But unlike in the middle ages, we won’t have to throw her off a high tower and watch her go splat if daddy misbehaves; just cut off his skype visitation for a year. I love skype. We can get medieval on his ass without even using a rack.
Around 2005 in Israel, an Arab Muslim that was treated in a hospital for emergency surgery came back to bomb the place. He detonated 150 foot from the entrance to the hospital when he was stopped by some suspicious soldiers. Left a huge black scorch mark on a stone wall. Killed the soldiers instead of the doctors.
His private parts were found days later hanging in the grill of a parked car. Not all his parts ended up in the coroners bucket for return to the Pali’s for burial. So I guess it is no wonder that the Koran says the the virgins in Muslim paradise are perpetually virgin.