Comments on: Israeli Army Doctors Heal the Enemy

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:09:08 +0000

Time for a new story : tell us about kids in Gaza recovering from having white phosphorus dropped on them. Yes, some of us do know and care about what you are up to.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:11:23 +0000

To Patrick (13) and his kind:
i’m a medical student in Israel, volunteering in the clinic for refugees from Sudan and other Muslim African countries and Gaza Strip&West Bank too…
Why do they come to Israel and not to the neighboring countries, like Egypt? I’ll tell you why. Because Egypt shoots them at their border – if they manage to escape to Israel’s territory, they’re being taken to the hospital immediately, and they are being cared there….Believe me, i’ve seen more than 5 patients like this in two weeks…
If it’s normal for you, you’ve probably never been in Middle East,you’ve never seen these poor Palestian kids going to kill themselves anong Jews, you’ve never seen them throwing stones at Israeli soldiers and Israeli military doctors who take care of them if they’re being injured by their own Hamas militants….Please come to Middle East…..
I’ve never heard about Palestian doctors taking care of us, Jews….
i’ll be glad to hear about them….
Please come ot Middle East and you’ll see the truth, not from mass media you’ll get it.
Yours,
medical student and future Israeli Defence Forces Doctor….

By: HUMANE - ISRAEL « Freedemocracy’s Weblog

HUMANE - ISRAEL « Freedemocracy’s Weblog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:59:34 +0000

[...] May 19, 2008 … Medicine trumps politics for the Israeli army doctors serving on a West Bank military base near Ramallah who run an emergency clinic for local Palestinian villagers. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/israeli-army-doctors-heal-the-enemy [...]

By: heather

heather — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:36:33 +0000

thanks, Patrick.

Then, given that the Palestinian median age is between 15 and 16 years of age, even the Palestinians think of these boys as BOYS? What on earth is their conception of “child”, then??? We think of a boy/child as being not old enough or mature enough to be completely responsible for his actions.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:23:17 +0000

Ms. Fried,

Have you ever tried to do any serious journalistic investigation on why the Palestinian healthcare system is in such shambles?

Further, I would hope that ANY medical person anywhere would respond to the medical needs of the patient in front of them under normal triage rules without consideration of the potential political leanings of that patient. Basically, what I’m saying here is that what you have reported on is normal, and nothing to consider all that heroic. I must say though that I do not wish to take away the positive side of this story.

heather,

In the culture concerned with in this article, a 14 year old boy is just that, a boy, a child.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:45:34 +0000

That young boy has already been subject to a lifetime of propaganda which he was never equipped to see clearly or understand, only to accept and act upon. They raise their children to be murderers, and to believe Jews are subhuman and deserving of death. That kid is only a kid but he’s already fully prepared to do his duty to his people.

Perhaps his experiences with this treatment will at least change a part of his mind about how evil Jews are.

And in the end, it is not about how the recipient of human kindness reacts or does not react, it is about the faithfulness and nobility of the person doing the GIVING. We should always encourage the goodness in ourselves and discourage the evil. That is what this doctor is doing, and all the others involved in the treatment. Whether the boy gets it or not is irrelevant; it’s about the people who are helping, and what it does for THEM.

By: heather

heather — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:35:52 +0000

heyjude: in OUR western culture, a 14 year old boy is a “child”. In others, a boy becomes a MAN at the age of 12. Even in WWII, the British Royal Navy had 12 year old midshipmen.

In Afghanistan, a boy of 12 is a man and is given a rifle. In the mid 1700s, in Great Britain, 14 year old boys were deemed to be adults and treated as such by the law and by society. In most human societies throughout human history, almost everyone was dead by the time they were 30 years old. Half of every population was dead by the time they were 20 years old.

We live in a very unusual society today.

By: Rick T.

Rick T. — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:45:03 +0000

Hi Steph,

Great article, keep up the good work!

By: stephanie

stephanie — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:32:20 +0000

heyjude: There aren’t roadblocks for Palestinians getting to hospitals inside Ramallah. So it’s not “cherry picked” as you put it. As I wrote, it’s about buying time. The base is closer.

By: heyjude

heyjude — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:17:38 +0000

The enemy? The boy is a child. One reason that villagers would go to the army base medics is that there are Israeli road checkpoints and curfews hindering quick movement to a PA-run hospital. These also stall movement of medicines and equipment. Your heart-warming piece appears a trifle cherry-picked, Stephanie.