Coyote
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posted 12 January 2008 12:01 PM
My title.I have a brother with heart problems, who has had to face multiple invasive surgeries and gave us all a scare this past Spring. It was grim, but he's doing remarkably better (even back at work!). This story, then, touches me particularly close to the mark. Haaretz Editorial: quote: The images of children walking alone on their way to the frightening surgery should have reverberated from one end of the country to the other. They should have disturbed all Israelis, no matter what their political outlook. All parents in Israel should have put themselves in the place of those unfortunate parents. Israel must not take inordinate pride in the very fact that it provides medical care for two sick children. In the state of siege it has imposed on Gaza, Israel bears heavy moral responsibility for the welfare and health of the besieged. It should also be noted that the siege is preventing Gaza's Shifa Hospital from expanding its departments as planned, due to lack of building materials in Gaza. But the decision not to allow parents to accompany their children, which is also made in many other cases in which patients are denied entry to Israel for life-saving treatments, is insufferable. Israel is taking the name of security in vain. No security consideration can excuse closing the crossing to the sick children's parents, who are under no suspicion and who are not allowed in only because of their young age.
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