NORMBLOG HAS AN INTERESTING IF DISTURBING story, via Roger Simon, about the kind of tough ethical choices faced by Israeli doctors every day. How does one deal with having to treat people who either want to kill your people...or already have.
The patient is in a bad way. He is in septic shock and decompensating in front of me. 'Prepare theatre, we need to go now' I say to the resident. 'They are already waiting for us' he replies and with a wry smile he adds, 'do you know who this is Prof?' The patient's face is not familiar and I shrug. 'This is Hassan, from the Church of the Nativity'. Hassan was a member of Hamas and was wanted by Israel for masterminding a double suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem earlier in the year.
Later in this wonderful piece, which isn't that long and deserves a full read, doctor Avraham Rivkind asks these questions...
Were we right to put so much effort and resource into one life when that person had murdered so many of our civilians? Would the Palestinians or even the Arab world do the same for a wounded Israeli?
...and provides answers worthy of his profession.
How easy would it be for a guy like this to have simply let another terrorist die? Perhaps the answer lies in this speech excerpt, highlighted by RepJ:
"We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world – except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous by nature, as they have been throughout history. The day will come when everything will be relieved of the Jews - even the stones and trees which were harmed by them. Listen to the Prophet Muhammad, who tells you about the evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew."
I guess there is one lucky terrorist that should be grateful the Jews don't feel the same way about him as he does the Jews.
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