Israeli Hospital will treat Lebanese Victims

[villager]

Breaking News
Israeli hospital will treat Lebanese victims
An Israeli hospital said it would treat Lebanese victims of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer said private donors in Israel and abroad would pay for the care.

“We are not to blame for the war,” said the hospital’s director general, Zev Rothstein. “We don’t ask who is to blame.” The offer is being promoted on Arabic-language radio broadcasts and in Cyprus, where many Lebanese have gone.


http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=3816

[xultar]

1. “We don’t ask who is to blame.” BRAVO!!!

[villager]

2. indeed

n/t

[Nimrod2005]

3. GOOD NEWS!!!

[uppityperson]

4. good. How are the victims going to get there safely?

good for health care people who care.

[progressivebydesign]

19. oops.. they bombed out all the roads.. good question. n/t

[PCIntern]

5. Years ago I was part of a children'ts hospital

proposed which would treat Arab and Israeli children in Israel during the height of hostilities. Israeli health care always took better care of Arab POW's than the countries of origin. Old story...goes back to the PAssover Seder.

[adriennui]

6. the israelis really don't drink the blood of little arab children?

i'm shocked, just shocked!

[Mandate My Ass]

7. so these bombed kids

will be doing well for themselves... :eyes:

[Poll_Blind]

11. INDEED. Babs would be proud. n/t

PB

[Mandate My Ass]

12. It was the first thought that crossed my mind

Not to mention that Lebanon is very ethnically and religiously diverse. But the Arab put-down was a real kick in the teeth.

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[PCIntern]

9. So the health care pro's should rescind the offer?

See, during the PAssover Seder, there is a point at which each participant diminishes their cup of wine in order to rmember the spilt blood of the enemies of Israel. The death of the enemies diminishes each of us as well. Isn't that a nice tradition?

The implication is that we are not aggrandized by the killing of our sworn enemies. This is a religious principle. Now there are some who would say that seeing the blood of the Jews in the streets would be preferable.

No Jews rejoince in the death and destruction which is occurring. I would not necessarily be able to state that for the other side however...perhaps you can enlighten us further in this regard.

[villager]

10. I'm pretty sure it's not the hospital staff dropping the bombs...

And any ray of light like this in a dark time is a good one...

[ShortnFiery]

17. Well like the ONE Lebanese woman the Israelis have med-eva-cd

out to Israel's finest trauma unit, forgive me if I hold a little part of myself to think its real, but also a PR stunt.

If Israel truly cares about the lives of the Lebanese People, they would WORK WITH the World Community to implement a CEASE FIRE a.s.a.p.

Yes, it's nice, but not enough - we need a CEASE FIRE!

[LivingInTheBubble]

13. I hope they have a few hundred thousand beds...

And how exactly are the lebanese supposed to get there.

[Ghost Dog]

16. People such as many of these, for example:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14033490/
TIBNIN, Lebanon, July 25 - The Israeli shells thundered into the charred hillside above the Tibnin General Hospital. There were two, then another, then two more, the uneven cadence of an attack on Tuesday. The walls shuddered and acrid smoke drifted through the building. Huddled inside were at least 1,350 Lebanese in hallways, rooms, stairwells, a lobby and a basement lit by a few candles, hiding with little water, less food and almost no hope of salvation from a war that provoked their flight and had returned to their doorstep. "Oh Lord!" cried 60-year-old Saadeh Awadeh, leaping up from a tattered cushion against a wall. "God stop the bombs!"

<snip>

The Tibnin hospital, eight miles from the Israeli border, a half-hour drive to the coastal city of Tyre in peace, is a Guernica-like tableau of suffering, desperation and anguish, the nexus of the country's unfolding humanitarian crisis in a hilly redoubt near an ancient fort almost unreachable by perilous roads. There are no doctors here. Water does not run. The electricity was cut on the war's first day.

Elderly women, fleeing two weeks of fighting since, have wrapped their swollen, bloodied and bruised feet in gauze. Five babies have been born premature since the fighting started. There is nowhere to bathe them. In another hallway, Abeer Faris cradled in her arms her 3-day-old infant, whom she carried on foot from the besieged city of Bint Jbeil nine hours after giving birth.

<snip>

There are no shops open in Tibnin, once a town of 4,000. Families said they were surviving on one meal a day; estimates of the sick ran from 40 to more, mostly children. The hospital administration has largely fled; so have the doctors. Hardly any aid can reach the town on winding, remote roads where Israeli forces have repeatedly struck civilian cars. The hospital's lifeline is the Lebanese Red Cross, which lost two ambulances Sunday night when Israeli rockets pierced their roofs. On most days, sometimes in several trips, the ambulances bring 300 to 500 packets of flat bread, 10 pieces in each, and maybe 100 cans of tuna.

"It's one drop of water in the ocean," said Qassem Shaalan, a Red Cross worker who was wounded in Sunday's attack. "It's not 1 percent of what they need," he added. "It's one in 1,000."

/more...

[Joanne98]

14. This is like what we're doing. Selling the bombs, then giving aid

to the people who got bombed.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Good on them. :thumbsup:

And again, :thumbsup:

[progressivebydesign]

18. Oh.. the fucking irony. STOP attacking these poor people!!

Then you won't have to treat them. sheesh.

[PCIntern]

20. Good point..

tell the Hezbollah this. Then, the Israelis wouldn't have to treat their own who are maimed and killed by rockets falling...killing, ironically enough, Israeli Arab children.

do you think the Hezbollah respond to entreaties by pacifists?

Would they ever?

Methinks not.