Comments on: UN-helpful http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/19/4001 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:04:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/19/4001/comment-page-1#comment-29718 Alex Bensky Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:28:58 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/19/4001#comment-29718 "She told the story about her brother in Gaza who 10 years ago unexpected collapsed and the question was: which hospital should they take him too–the hospital in Gaza or Hadassah Hospital. The decision was, that if he was to live, they had to take him to the Jewish hospital." And, of course, there was that young woman from Gaza a couple of years back who had received courteous and effective treatment at a Beersheba hospital and repaid the help and generosity by trying to return while laden with explosives. She was prevented from repaying the people who treated her by killing them only because of an alert guard at a checkpoint. I think of that whenever I read stories about the brutal way Israelis handle the checkpoints. “She told the story about her brother in Gaza who 10 years ago unexpected collapsed and the question was: which hospital should they take him too–the hospital in Gaza or Hadassah Hospital. The decision was, that if he was to live, they had to take him to the Jewish hospital.”

And, of course, there was that young woman from Gaza a couple of years back who had received courteous and effective treatment at a Beersheba hospital and repaid the help and generosity by trying to return while laden with explosives. She was prevented from repaying the people who treated her by killing them only because of an alert guard at a checkpoint.

I think of that whenever I read stories about the brutal way Israelis handle the checkpoints.

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