Posted on 03/12/2011 10:24:04 AM PST by IbJensen
Mohammed Nabil Taha, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, died this week at the entrance to a Lebanese hospital after doctors refused to help him because his family could not afford to pay for medical treatment.
The tragic case of Taha highlights the plight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who live in impoverished refugee camps in Lebanon and who are the victims of an Apartheid system that denies them access to work, education and medical care.
Ironically, the boy's death at the entrance to the hospital coincided with Israel Apartheid Week, a festival of hatred and incitement organized by anti-Israel activists on university campuses in the US, Canada and other countries.
It is highly unlikely that the folks behind the festival have heard about the case of Taha. Judging from past experiences, it is also highly unlikely that they would publicize the case after they heard about it.
Why should anyone care about a Palestinian boy who is denied medical treatment by an Arab hospital? This is a story that does not have an anti-Israel angle to it.
Can anyone imagine what would have happened if an Israeli hospital had abandoned a boy to die in its parking lot because his father did not have $1,500 to pay for his treatment?
The UN Security Council would hold an emergency session and Israel would be strongly condemned and held responsible for the death of the boy.
All this is happening at a time when tens of thousands of Palestinian patients continue to benefit from treatments in Israeli hospitals.
Last year alone, some 180,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered Israel to receive medical treatment. Many were treated despite the fact that they did not have enough money to cover the bill. In Israel, even a suicide bomber who is -- only! -- wounded while trying to kill Jews is entitled to the finest medical treatment. And there have been many instances where Palestinians who were injured in attacks on Israel later ended up in some of Israel's best hospitals.
Lebanon, by the way, is not the only Arab country that officially applies Apartheid laws against Palestinians, denying them the right to receive proper medical treatment and own property.
Just last week it was announced that a medical center in Jordan has decided to stop treating Palestinian cancer patients because the Palestinian Authority has failed to pay its debts to the center.
Other Arab countries have also been giving the Palestinians a very hard time when it comes to receiving medical treatment.
It is disgraceful that while Israel admits Palestinian patients to its hospitals, Arab hospitals are denying them medical treatment for various reasons, including money. But then one is reminded that Arab dictators do not care about their own people, so why should they pay attention to an 11-year-old boy who is dying at the entrance to a hospital because his father was not carrying $1,500?
But as the death took place in an Arab country – and as the victim is an Arab – why should anyone care about him? Where is the outcry against Arab Apartheid?
They can always blame Israel. I believe all Arab regimes are secretly happy Israel exists. Israel’s existence gives them an outlet for their inherent anger generated by their backward Muslim societies. It gives Arab politicians a straw-man which they can use to deflect focus on their own failed policies.
If anyone wants to send this to friends without the “right” label, try this link:
http://www.hudson-ny.org/1953/arab-apartheid
Are we talking about Muslims? Islam loves death more than life- so what’s the problem? If he had died blowing UP the hospital, taking others with him, that would have been ok?
Really- barbaric people complaining about barbaric treatment doesn’t compute.
Thanks IbJensen.
BTTT
Tell me where is the Moral Outrage for continued Slavery that exists in East Africa? The Slaughter in the Sudan, etc.?
The absolute hypocrisy of the world that continues to condemn The USA for all sorts of imagined sins never ceases to amaze me.
All of the West knows what Islam is, but the left uses it to put Western values to the test, and to help them ruin what the West has accomplished.
Oh. I thought they meant apartheid as applied to women.
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