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Pregnant Palestinian women forced to give birth at home because of fence
Ali Waked
Published: 26.12.07, 23:37
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31. Send her to Arafat's shrine... You get what you pay for!
Evan ,   Milwaukee, US   (12.27.07)
32. 30 Unfortunately far more pregnant palestinian women and
jack g. ,   richmond, va, us   (12.27.07)
babies have died at checkpoints for lack of medical care then all of the pregnant Jewish women who have died at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Furthermore, more pregnant Palestinian women and Palestinian babies have died at the hands of Israeli soldiers then all of the pregnant Jewish women killed in the conflicts. Both numbers pregnant women Palestinian or Jewish are merecefully small, however, neither side is justified in their actions. One act of pure unadulterated evil does not justify another act of pure unadulterated evil. The reference to Hitler is completely correct; the dehumanization of pregnant women blaming their "people" for their state, whether Jewish or Palestinian, now or 70 years ago, is exactly how such actions are justified by those committing them.
33. 30 Leah. What do you want telling me actually?
Artek ,   Poland   (12.27.07)
What do you want telling me actually? The most Palestinians are wrong because they support suicide bombers. That’s why the innocent Palestinians (like this woman) has to suffer? There is no difference between this mind and what the nazis told about the Jews: Jews were "wrong" because the majority of them supported the communist “terrorists”. That was (according to the nazis) why the Jews had to “pay” during the biggest war ever seen by the human race.
34. Jack, #30 and Artek
israeli ,   israel   (12.27.07)
Can you name one instance of a pregnant woman or baby that died at a checkpoint for lack of medical care? Artek, I would have expected a little more knowledge about the Holocaust from a Pole (my Mom's family was from Poland and almost all were murdered by the Nazis). Jews were not exterminated because they supported communism, but because they were Jews. The draconic Nurnberg laws did not mention communism, they were about racial issues. Besides, I do not recall Jews blowing themselves up in Germany or in Poland in order to kill innocent civilians. There is no Auschwitz in Israel, we did not kill 6 million Arabs, nor do we intend to. There are no mass graves, no crematoria, no mounts of eye-glasses, shoes, hair. We do not perform medical experiments on Arabs, young, old, twins or otherwise. You of all people have no right to draw comparisons between Nazis and Israelis. And please, do not try to change history. Holocaust was not about communism.
35. 17 jack
carol ,   eilat   (12.27.07)
EVIL THESE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS.THEY SHOULD HAVE THERE OWN HOSPITALS THEY HAVE PLENTY OF FUNDS FROM AMERICA BUT THEY PREFER TO SPEND IT ON MORE WEAPONS AND ROCKETS.
36. correction
israeli ,   israel   (12.27.07)
my talkback #34 was intended for Jack #32, not Leah #30.
37. #34 israeli
Artek ,   Poland   (12.27.07)
That’s not true nazis hated Jews “because they were Jews”. Nobody hates somebody because their name. The nazis have seen the Jews as a dangerous, different “rase” which wants to destroy the european culture by using money, revolution and “subversive” ideas as communism. Hitler called the Jews as the “anti-race”. 1936 on the NSDAP-Congress in Nurnberg Rosenberg told 98% of the leading squard in the USSR are Jews “In the USSR there is not the dictatorship of the proletariat, there is the dictatorship of the Jewry over the whole population”. You don’t know the nazi-term “Juedischer Bolschevismus”? You are right, threre is no Auschwitz in Israel. But Israel doesn’t fight a “total”-war with ten tosuands of victims every day and front lines over a thousands of kilometers. How could it change the relationships to the Arabs in Israel? In the last decades, there are some years Israel killed in one year(!) more innocent arabs, then nazi-Germany during the whole time from the seizure of power to the beginning of the WW2.
38. So what?
(12.27.07)
My grandmother had 7 kids at home in her own bed, and she never complained to the American government! Checkpoints or not, this woman should leave the crying and complaining to her baby and get on with raising her kids.
39. not unheard story, despite the needless hype
(12.27.07)
This happens in our country too. Taxi drivers, firemen or good samaritans deliver babies all the time that come too fast. She should have planned better. Period.
40. Artek, you have the mentality of a bumpkin
(12.27.07)
"That’s not true nazis hated Jews “because they were Jews”. Yes, they did. Plain and simple. And so it has been throughout history; until the State of Israel was created, that is. And you sit there wondering why those Jewish people take extra precautions to preserve their safety from those who have proven time and again that they would like to destroy them? What a naive fool you are!
41. # 25 and 26
ron ,   ham can   (12.27.07)
You people are very stupid,,, yaahhh lets all feel bad and help the people who want to kill you.;.. grab a brain,, dumbasses
42. I see B'Tselem and I immediately doubt the story.
AK   (12.27.07)
Wonder why?
43. #40 Finally you convinced me
Artek ,   Poland   (12.27.07)
The nazis hated the Jews because of the four letters in their name: "J" "E" "W" and "S". You are very clever.
44. reply to #16
cathy ,   beirut, lebanon   (12.27.07)
you're right, iraq is a much better idea.
45. To Artec in Poland
mr ,   israel   (12.27.07)
Is it possible that you are an anti-semite ? I believe you Poles love us !!!!
46. Jack
Leah   (12.28.07)
You are actually mistaken with your statstics, while it is true more Palestinians have died or have been killed in the past 7 years. That's not the case at all with women and girls because just as many Israeli women have been killed and injured as Palestinian women. Including pregnant women. Over 30 percent of Israeli casualties have been female, only 5 percent have been Palestinian. I feel sorry for the pregnant Arab women that are affected by these measures taken by Israel,which I also feel are harsh. But I still blame these measures on the terrorists who would love to kill and maim every Israeli including every pregnant Israeli women if they got the chance. Do you expect Israeli soldiers to care more for Arab women then they do for their own wives,sisters,and mothers?
47. to mr from Israel
Artek ,   Poland   (12.28.07)
Why do you think I'm an anti-semit?
48. #37 where the hell do you get your facts?
rachel ,   usa   (12.28.07)
Please prove all this bull you are saying ......
49. #43 your stupidity is amazing !
rachel ,   usa   (12.28.07)
50. You are such a racist
Palestine ,   Palestine   (12.28.07)
You are such inhuman racist, one day you will harvest what you planted, plant hatred you will get it. What a racist
51. #50 how strange we seem to agree on that one
rachel ,   usa   (12.28.07)
Yes that's right, plant hatred ...(and the palestinian institutional terror sure know how to do that )....and you WILL reap what you sow ....
52. Pregnancies
R ,   LA, USA   (12.30.07)
As far as this comment that women have given birth at home for thousands of years, what if, today, the woman needed a c-section?
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