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Israeli doctors save life of Iraqi child
Meital Yasur Beit-Or
Published: 04.12.08, 08:06
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1. Intellegence Gathering. be cautious
Cabdullah ,   India   (12.04.08)
This is notI think a humanitarian help it is to get info.. No body can trust Israel . They claim to save lives, why are they killing children in the GAZA strip while they claim they are saving an Iraqi live. Fake..................
2. Our Doctors save the life of an Iraqi Child
Millicent ,   Israel   (12.04.08)
Great news that we have saved another precious life and another family knows that Israel is not the enemy like their country's Mullahs and Leaders are telling them.This is great PR and evenutally we will warm the hearts of those that call us enemy!
3. #1 (really "#2", but OK....)
Kamal ,   Nablus   (12.04.08)
Contrary to what you spewed forth, they ARE saving lives while many Islmaist extremists the world over are extiguishing them. Its just a fact. Ask the families of those saved. YOUR "claims" are false, just like many of your beliefs. You have some gall, after what happened in India just last week to put forth such "claims". Back to your spider hole, filth...
4. #1 Cabdullah, kindly keep your idiotic bigotry to yourself.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (12.04.08)
We are in a direct armed conflict with Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip, which is why civilians there get hurt in the crossfire, thanks to the good militants' way of launching rockets from civilian areas. But what do you care, eh? You sound like the kind of person who would convince himself that Islamist terrorist attacks in India were actually done by Hindus to feel better about himself.
5. #1 India and Israel have a common enemy,
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (12.04.08)
you and the likes who see a conspiracy in everything that happens in Israel.
6. To number one
sue ,   Israel   (12.04.08)
This child is being helped in Israel for humanitarian reasons, keep your anti-semitic opinions to yourself. Israel does not kill Palestinian children. Why are you so paranoid about Israel and the Jews. Maybe learn something from us.
7. Israeli doctors save life of Iraqi child
Marlene ,   Israel   (12.04.08)
No 1 - Fake exactly what information can we get from a woman who cannot communicate with us. You are totally stupid and blind To all other Israeli bashers - would Iraq save the life of an Israeli child? I doubt it
8. Israel helps Iraq child
Aviva ,   Israel   (12.04.08)
Number one I feel sorry for you with so much hate .
9. but yet the Jews are still the terrible monsters
ari ,   israel   (12.04.08)
would an "enemy state" take in our children to save them?!?!?! I am glad the little girl made it and wish on her peace..................
10. Israeli doctors save Iraqi child
Ahmed Kadret ,   Baghdad, Iraq   (12.04.08)
As an Iraqi I think that what these Israeli doctors did was brave, it shows chivalry and it puts you in the lead always, please don't judge the policy of Arab governments as they are a few demented people who come from peasant backgrounds and they managed to dictate to the masses lies and false information that cannot even be based on facts. NOT all Arabs are fanatics , you have fanatics and ignorant people everywhere, and the small number of retards don't represent the entire nation. I think what your doctors did was wonderful and it always makes you stand on a higher level, why should you condescend yourself to haters, I agree if this was an Israeli child that needed help Arabs wouldn't help, perhaps because of their governments and all the lies that have been drummed into peoples heads. I admire what you did and that just shows that Israel is superior and classy, why lower yourself to a bunch of ignorant idiots, let the haters hate you continue to be virtuous until those few collapse and people in Arab countries will wake up and smell the coffee and turn against their leaders who can only stay in their positions as long as there is hate and conflict, that will change and we should look for similarities rather than differences. Israel is a neighbor and I welcome Israel and its wonderful citizens back to a land that is rightfully theirs and you are here to stay and the future of the Middle East will be different, Ignorance has a short life span. Please dont hate back, forgive and forget, be the bigger people, especially in this day and age i think religion is an outdated concept and once more and more people realize that our troubles will be over. Love from Baghdad and again I commend you for showing class and grace. oceans of love and luck and happiness always and my condolences to the Israeli families who lost their loved ones in Mumbai, I am truly sorry and I wish i could write the families and console them, this is not fair, and the perpetrators should be punished especially those who claim to be religious, religion is love not hate and no one has the right to take anyones life away. Israel is a blessed nation and you attract positive energy because you are civilized, educated human beings and just be patient, dont blame the citizens of Arab countries blame their low life leaders whom without terror and fear wouldnt even dream of ruling countries they could only wish to run a hot dog stand in and even that, they wouldnt be able to do a good job at it.
11. @ahmed THANK YOU
yehud, israel   (12.04.08)
we need more people like you.
12. To Save an "enemy child"? unheard in Arabia
chop-chop   (12.04.08)
To all readers, please do not comment or reply to Cabdulla of India. To do so, puts you in the same league.... the GUTTER.! That is where he originate... That is where his mother originate That is where his father originate As well as his teachers in the class room.....Allah's teaching in all his splendor and Glory. Just ask muslim readers (if capable)to name ONE Jewish child (or a grown-up for that matter) who was saved, nurtured back to life ,by any Arab doctor, an Arab hospital, an Arab country,and allowed Mom or Dad to remain with the sick infant. I probably get a stroke if Ynet gets 100 replies, 50?, 10? ONE???
13. Hi Ahmed
Nice Bloke ,   Rochdale   (12.04.08)
That was heartfelt beautifully wriiten. Salaam to you.
14. How Naive
Mike Jefferson ,   Washington, D.C.   (12.04.08)
While I applaud the Israeli physicians for their sense of humanity (as opposed to Paleo and Egyptian docs who are leaders of terrorist organizations), the thought that their gestures of goodwill will be repaid in kind is extremely and dangerously naive. The Islamic fundamentalists subscribe to a nihlistic death cult that no amount of kindheartedness can overcome. In fact, it is perceived as weakness. Yes, the Israeli doctors should continue their humanitarian efforts, but do so under no illusions. Islam needs wholesale reform not bandaids.
15. #12 chop-chop
Nice Bloke ,   Rochdale   (12.05.08)
"Just ask muslim readers (if capable)to name ONE Jewish child (or a grown-up for that matter) who was saved, nurtured back to life ,by any Arab doctor, an Arab hospital, an Arab country,and allowed Mom or Dad to remain with the sick infant. " Since there are Jews still living in Arab countries and presumably they get ill or injured from time to time - who else would treat them but Arab doctors in Arab hospitals?
16. Ahmed
Alex ,   San Diego, CA   (12.05.08)
Thank you :)
17. #1, Cabdullah obviously interested in lies instead of lives
David ,   Boston, USA   (12.05.08)
Good news, your kind always lose. Better news, Israel will always win over evil. Best news, Jews have survived all enemies while none of our enemies has every survived.
18. I would save an Israeli child
ahmed Kadret ,   baghdad, Iraq   (12.05.08)
if i were in a situation where I could have helped any human being i would help them I wouldn't ask about his nationality or religion, God helping a fellow human being, I wouldn't be able to go to bed at night knowing that I could have helped someone and didn't. I would help an Israeli child or an adult even, a human being is a human being people and just because there are some minor demented people out there whose parents didn't show them what love is doesn't mean that the entire population is evil. please be pragmatic, I mean if i saw a homeless person in the street i would help him or her I wouldn't ask him where are you from or what is your faith, seriously you'd have to be a serious psychopath to even contemplate that. Let's face it, our Arab leaders hate Israel out of spite and jealousy because Israel achieved alot in the past 60 years, they rebuilt a nation based on civil law and democracy and we planted tyranny and ignorant peasants as our leaders and they destroyed our lives and now we are bitching because Israel has it and we don't, its not Israel's fault that we are losers. It's not Israel's fault that we have morons, illiterate people, poverty, lack of services etc, if we were decent we could have built civilized societies and its never too late. Israel doesn't care nor spend much time thinking about our issues and psychological problems, they can live with or without us and that is a fact and please stop blaming Jews, if your cat drops dead its not some Jew's fault and leave your paranoid psychological inferiority complexes away from Jews. Israel is better than us and that is fact , lets strive to become like them or better then we can bitch about Israel, let's solve our own issues and get power and security running in our capital and restore the 3 million Iraqis who are displaced before we bitch about Israelis. I went to junior high school in NYC and it was a school whose staff were mostly Jews and during 1991 I felt ashamed of even going to school because Saddam went to war with the U.S and bombed Israel, and my teachers, a Jewish woman called my house and she was so sweet, they were all sweet to me and treated me with kindness, tell me if a Jewish guy or girl went to a school with a majority or Arabs or Moslems would they be treated with kindness? I think not and that is the difference, if you are going to say something be objective otherwise you will look like an idiot. Thank you Israel I appreciate what you have done and I will always love and respect you for that. rise above those haters and let them hate who cares, you won't stop existing because of some demented psychopath's. seriously lets upgrade our own faith and see what applies in the 21st century and what doesnt and I say 90% of Islam doesn't so get over it and drop religion and follow Hamurabi's law that will set a right path towards progress rather than submission or Islam. GET OVER IT and STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR OUR OWN ISSUES.
19. please be objective
ahmed Kadret ,   baghdad, Iraq   (12.05.08)
If i ever decided to adopt a child and discovered that the child was born to Jewish parents, when the child grows up I will let him know that and give him an option if he wants to continue being Jewish and he can go to schools and Synagogues and we would even celebrate Hannukah, I don't see how ones choice of prayer or meditation conflicts with another human beings' , it doesn't the essence of life is love, if we don't have that and we can't love others then we don't deserve to live
20. NICE BROOKS REPLY........
chop-chop   (12.05.08)
Maybe I should have been more precise in my description of a Jew. I was under the assumption that ALL readers and commentators understood that I meant a Jewih enemy, an Israeli......Mea culpa---cela va sans dire.
21. iraqi child
fcd ,   israel   (12.06.08)
who covered the costs?????? for an israeli child kupot holim would do everything possible not to cover the costs.
22. #18 ahmed kadret from iraq
(12.06.08)
you left me speechless. as an israeli and a jew, i can't but be amazed at your post. i never ever thought that there are arab people who hold views such as you do. your personal views are not only kind and understanding to jews and israel situation in particular, but kind to humanity and life in general. you are so very right about arab hate, arab propaganda, arab intolerance of others and the way arab nations waste their valuable generations of future leaders by constantly transmitting hate and propaganda rather than modernity, education, a good future, goals of prosperity, etc.. if only the arab regimes invested as much effort in education and modernity and in freedom and tolerance, we all would have never seen terror, conflicts, poverty and abuse by those regimes. you should really see what the pa and hamas are teaching their youth. you would cringe! they all say it is jews' fault, but this is just a psychological excuse. the arabs need a common enemy to divert negative attention to them by their populations. there is 100% chance that if there is a semblance of democracy in the arab world and good education and freedom and enlightment, these arab rulers would be in jail for hundreds of years already. can you imagine israel amongst 22 of these regimes? can you imagine life in israel bombarded everyday with arab hate, propaganda, missiles and fear by abnormal people you are talking about. in any case, thank you for understanding. the jewish soul is the most compassionate soul and the moto of judaism is about freedom, humanity, peace, harmony and giving and sharing.
23. STOP HATE
ahmed Kadret ,   baghdad, Iraq   (12.06.08)
I understand what Israel is going through that is why i decided to become a diplomat and change things, Im sorry that some minor idiots are leading the masses in such direction, I know about Judaism because my mothers family were jews who converted into Islam so that they could come back to Iraq and save their belongings, I totally get the plight and the hatred that hizbollah and hamas and all those scum bags are doing and they do preach and teach hate which is sad. but they will never prevail, hatred eats the hearts and souls of sick demented twisted sub human riff raff and they wont find that light at the end of the tunnel, please rise above it and give them the silent treatment and defend yourselves if need be, I think Israel should work on an extensive program to expel these countries from the United Nations for being so backward and I know the Arab regimes dwell on hatred, but please don't you ever think that we are all like that, Iraq is a beautiful country with many beautiful and educated people, since its independence in 1921 we managed to build a civilized and modern state, my grandmother and her sisters went on a scholarship to the UK at age 17 during the 1930's to study and there are so many wonderful Iraqis still living in Baghdad and not all muslims are retards, Islam doesnt preach hatred and the Israelites are mentioned throughout the Koran and no where does it say palestine , the land of Cannan is the Land of Israel and i read parts of the Koran for objective and research means , frankly I don't believe in religion and many Iraqis don't either and they are fed up, its just that many of them are governed by militias and you all know the mess in Iraq. I apologize for every missile that Saddam has launched against Israel and if I ever become a political leader in Iraq I will come and apologize to the Israeli people and compensate those who suffered at the hands of this demented dictator, the guy was a psychopath and he abused Iraqis more than anyone else and even the current regime is merely a puppet regime that is manipulated by sick people like Mahmood Nejad
24. ahmed
edy ,   usa   (12.06.08)
salam ahmed , we need more people like you !
25. #23
(12.07.08)
ahmend....salaam, shalom, with love from israel to you and the iraqi people. we dream of the day in israel where all these nut jobs will dissapear and we can finally live in peace and prosperity together.
26. Thank You
Ahmed Kadret ,   Baghdad, Iraq   (12.07.08)
I agree, I am doing my best in creating awareness and talking to people in an effort to abolish hatred, hatred is a disease and it eats you up inside. Let's talk and think and promote Love, forgiveness and tolerance, and when we disagree with anyone's action(s), there are civilized means and objective criticism to get our point across. This way we will get people to listen, when you kill hundreds of people in cold blood, I for one won't even bother looking at you, much less sympathize. Happy Eid, Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas and Oceans of Love and Luck and happiness everywhere, Let's join hands and force a positive energy and let's attract peace and tolerance, love always triumphs over sick deluded and ignorant people, Ignorance is not bliss. we will win I know so, because we have a brain and we know how to use it, and we don't harbor any hatred or grudges against anyone even those who harm us, we wish them well and hope that they heal.
27. ahmed....you are "The Man"....!!!!
JL ,   israel   (12.07.08)
28. Where are those posters from "the ugly Israeli" article?
Tahl ,   Israel   (12.08.08)
Funny how all the Israel-haters quickly found their way over there, yet neglected to come and read this beautiful story. After all, the "good Israeli" angle is hardly as popular.
29. I have seen the work they do
israeli   (12.08.08)
I have been to the hospital they work at. There were children from Gaza, the West Bank, Kenya, etc. This organization really needs support. They are doing amazing work.
30. Giving acts of loving-kindness brings peace
Jake   (12.08.08)
Giving land does not. May God bless and sustain the Iraqi girl, and those that helped her in the hour of need.
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