Actually, given what Israel has done, and is doing to the Palestinian people
every day, I'd say that this is pro Israeli propaganda. Sorry, if you were
reading about the day to day lives of Palestinians, this story, nice as it
sounds, is meaningless. It's kind of like talking about how one slave owner
was nice to one of his slaves. And, your comment that both the leadership of
Israel and the leadership of Palestine should hopefully work out their
differences, illustrates how much information the media distorts. First of
all, the Palestinians do not have an authentic leadership. The Palestinian
Authority is a tool of the Israeli government and very corrupt. Its job is
to keep the Palestinians in line. Hamas was voted into power in 2006 because
of the corruption of the P A, but it certainly doesn't represent all of the
Palestinian people. But the point is that Israel has all of the power in
this situation and it has the military and financial backing of the US. It
always has. So there has never been a time when the Palestinians could
actually sit down and work out any kind of bargain with Israel. Israel
always set the terms of the agreement, even when the US pretended to be an
honest broker. It is most ironic to talk about hope for the Palestinians at
this time when Netenyahu just said that there is no way that Israel will
ever agree to a two state solution.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] A Sign of Hope
Hi all,
Below is a truly heartwarming story of an Israeli nurse who breast fed a
Palestinian baby in a time of need. I would like to think that this story
could inspire change among the leadership of both sides in a conflict which
has ravaged the region for far too long. Our troubled world is badly in
need of stories like this one where compassion and human fellowship trump
bigotry and conflict.
Bob Hachey
Israeli Nurse Breastfeeds Baby of Injured Palestinian Woman
"The human connection is very strong."
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Sometimes, differences don't matter.
For a heroic nurse in a Jerusalem hospital earlier this month, one of those
times arrived as she showed up at the hospital for her night shift.
Earlier that day a deadly car crash had killed a Palestinian man and sent
his wife to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem with a critical
head
injury. The couple's baby, Yamen, had only minor injuries, but with his
mother unable to feed him, he had no source of food, according to
NBC News.
Yamen's aunts arrived at the hospital and tried to feed the 9-month-old with
a bottle, but he would not take it, and they were forced to sit and watch
for seven hours as he cried in hunger.
That is, until Ola Ostrowski-Zak arrived for work that night. The Israeli
nurse said she immediately knew she had to do something.
"I thought to myself, 'I must help this baby," she told The Today Show.
Ostrowski-Zak, who has an 18-month-old baby at home, decided to feed the
9-month-old Palestinian baby herself.
After Yamen fed and calmed down, his aunts hugged and thanked Ostrowski-Zak
for being willing to feed a Palestinian baby, according to the report. The
nurse then posted to Facebook asking more women to volunteer to help feed
little Yamen, and more than 1,000 women responded that they would drive to
the
hospital to help.
"This story represents the real Israel," Ostrowski-Zak
said.
"Any mother in Israel would have helped him. The human connection is very
strong."
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