Monday, May 19, 2008

Healing The Enemy

At Pajama's Media, Stephanie L. Freid writes about Israeli army doctors serving on a West Bank military base near Ramallah, running an emergency clinic for local Palestinian villagers:
“I decided to radio for a military helicopter and evacuate the child to an Israeli hospital,” Poran continues. “He had clearly suffered brain damage and needed the type of acute care he couldn’t get at Ramallah Hospital. It was a risk - having a helicopter land there outside the gate. There’s vulnerability to sniper fire and attack from surrounding hillsides. We were all at risk working on him out there in the open surrounded by Arab villages. ”

But the Orthodox Jewish physician made a life-saving medical decision based upon professionalism. “Yes, I am religious,” he quietly offers, eyes slightly clouding. “But if I see a wounded 14-year-old boy it doesn’t matter that he’s Palestinian. I don’t ask questions. It was as if he was my own son. You don’t not take care of a kid.”
Read the whole thing.

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