Icky, Icky, Jews Saved Their Lives
Reuven Weiss writes at ynetnews.com that Israelis saved drowning Iranians, who responded by hugging and kissing them in thanks...until...
"When we told them we're Israelis they just got up and fled," Nimrod noted.
That's the final paragraph in a story about the Israelis who saved the Iranians' lives. In Judaism, the highest value is for saving a life -- any life -- which is why Arabs get priority in Israeli hospitals if they are sicker than Jews who come in...even Jews injured while serving in the Israeli Army.
Former Jew-hater Bridget Gabriel, a Lebanese woman, changed her mind about the Jews after she saw an example of this in the care for her mother by Israelis in an Israeli hospital. Gabriel talked about this at Duke University:
My mother was wounded by a Muslim shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Muslims, Palestinians, Lebanese Christians, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation; they saw people in need and they helped.For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized that I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel, which was so far from reality. I knew for a fact that if I were a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown to the ground as shouts of joy of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) echoed through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I've always been sympathetic towards Jews. My mothers family was accused of being Jewish by Muslims in the MIddle East. They got kicked out and eventually landed in Mexico, where again they got accused of being Jewish. They were not Jewish, just some weirdo Middle Eastern religion. My great-grandma would always wear a hijab in the form of a chador while grocery shopping in Mexico. She was never allowed to be without one in front of any man. That meant when she got cancer she was not allowed to see a doctor because that would mean taking off the chador.
Anyways we were never allowed to discuss our religion openly in public until I hit my 20's. Speaking to a Jewish friend of mine, he says that's exactly what his family went through and had to practice in secret.
Purplepen at January 11, 2012 3:06 AM
I've read one of Brigitte Gabriel's books which includes this story
http://www.amazon.com/Because-They-Hate-Survivor-Islamic/dp/0312358385/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326283723&sr=1-1
Well worth reading, especially for anyone who is unclear about the difference between the different forces there.
Ltw at January 11, 2012 4:12 AM
A classic example of why multi-culturalism is simply wrong in its basic thesis. Some cultures are better than others using objective measures, like how they treat an wounded enemy they have in their care or how they treat their women.
Old Guy at January 11, 2012 7:43 AM
You know me better by my actions than my word. I can hide behind my words but not my actions.
Dave B at January 11, 2012 10:15 AM
Allegedly, it's a crime to fraternize with Israelis in Iran. That's what they're saying on YTNET.
Bill at January 11, 2012 11:05 AM
This is a semi-off topic post.
Mark Levin commented, tonight, on the investigation into the
Marines probe video of men urinating on Taliban corpses. He was basically saying it doesn't matter.
I can't and don't agree with the attitude. While I can't agree to give full honors to the treatment and burial of the dead of the opposing force, I can't say "blow this off."
If you kill the enemy and let them lay there, that is saying you quite frankly don't care that they died for their cause. But that is acceptable. When you clearly take the time to desecrate the dead, in any form or fashion, you are saying you consider them little more than animals.
The United States, even in it's current state, stands for more than that.
This is not a comment on what the bad guys would and will do. This is a comment on the principle that we, as in a U.S. Military force, are a better, more honorable force.\
When there is MASH unit in Kuwait -- take a guess what, they triage and treat both the U.S. and the enemy on the triage status, not what they are wearing.
There are certain lines you don't cross regardless of whom your enemy might be.
Jim P. at January 11, 2012 10:55 PM
"There are certain lines you don't cross regardless of whom your enemy might be."
Spoken like a person who has not spent much time in combat. War is hell. To expect young warriers to behave like gentlemen is to be an armchair expert. Please show us how it is done.
Dave B at January 13, 2012 12:03 AM
While I was never in combat, I was a member of the USAF. I want you to show me where in the UCMJ or the Code of Conduct that pissing on the corpse is considered acceptable? Especially at the urging or complicity of an officer or NCO.
I don't know how much of Abu Ghraib was the idiocy of the guards and lackadaisical command structure or if there were wing tips in the area.
While I agree that combat is a different animal, if you had a tape of a SWAT team pissing on the corpses of your druggie neighbors after they did a no-knock raid would you say they had gone too far?
I'm not arguing for civil rights. I'm arguing for at least not being a barbarian.
Jim P. at January 13, 2012 9:31 PM
I read the article. This explanation was left in the comment section:
"7. They fled because of the Iranian regime
If they got caught on camera mingling with Israelis they'd face severe penalties and torture back in Iran. I met a Syrian overseas once and our chat was nice until I said, "You know I've never met a Syrian before. I'm from Israel." He started to tremble and walked away. I was offended until a friend explained that the consequences for a Syrian fraternizing with an Israeli would be bad."
So perhaps they fled not because they believe that Jews are "icky," but because they wanted to avoid being tortured for fraternizing with Jews.
Michelle at January 14, 2012 2:06 AM
"When you clearly take the time to desecrate the dead, in any form or fashion, you are saying you consider them little more than animals."
Considering what they'd seen and experienced from the deceased and others like them, maybe that was the point.
Firehand at January 15, 2012 5:42 PM
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