I have been away for the weekend and was mostly away from the news (and from email). And now, back online, reading comments, analysis, news, facebook posts, etc.
On the long ride home I was mind-drafting a post on the aftermath of the war.
As I started reading the news, and Israeli blogs, I started writing a post that I quickly discarded. Something about the recurrent and silly “we’re-at-war-with-Hamas-not-with-the-Palestinians” argument.
But I just could not get this story off of my mind -
A Palestinian doctor, Dr. Izzeddin Abulaish, who has worked in Israel as a physician, and who has lost three daughters - Bisan, 20, Mayar, 15, and Aya, 13, in Israeli raids. While he was out saving lives.
The story received wide coverage because, by some strange coincidence and a unique media event, the man's agonised voice was on air on Israel’s channel 10, through the loudspeaker of a journalist, minutes after he learned that his three daughters had been killed. (The story in Hebrew is here).
For three minutes, Israel heard the pain of a man who lost his babies to what can only be described as a terrorist attack.
Only this time, he was Palestinian. Go figure.
The New York Times article quotes an Israeli colleague of his, Anael Harpaz, saying, “I hope this is a wake-up call. This is such a peace-loving family.”
I doubt there’s anyone to take the call in Israel, though.
Right now, I can’t analyse the story. There’s nothing to analyse. It’s just a tragedy, a Tragedy, of the grand, mythical kind, that should be seen, taken, felt, and may I say - admired as such.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go drown my depression into another episode of "The big bang theory". It's about nerds who have no connection to the world outside their quantum physics research.
Right now I'm a little jealous really.
On the long ride home I was mind-drafting a post on the aftermath of the war.
As I started reading the news, and Israeli blogs, I started writing a post that I quickly discarded. Something about the recurrent and silly “we’re-at-war-with-Hamas-not-with-the-Palestinians” argument.
But I just could not get this story off of my mind -
A Palestinian doctor, Dr. Izzeddin Abulaish, who has worked in Israel as a physician, and who has lost three daughters - Bisan, 20, Mayar, 15, and Aya, 13, in Israeli raids. While he was out saving lives.
The story received wide coverage because, by some strange coincidence and a unique media event, the man's agonised voice was on air on Israel’s channel 10, through the loudspeaker of a journalist, minutes after he learned that his three daughters had been killed. (The story in Hebrew is here).
For three minutes, Israel heard the pain of a man who lost his babies to what can only be described as a terrorist attack.
Only this time, he was Palestinian. Go figure.
The New York Times article quotes an Israeli colleague of his, Anael Harpaz, saying, “I hope this is a wake-up call. This is such a peace-loving family.”
I doubt there’s anyone to take the call in Israel, though.
Right now, I can’t analyse the story. There’s nothing to analyse. It’s just a tragedy, a Tragedy, of the grand, mythical kind, that should be seen, taken, felt, and may I say - admired as such.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go drown my depression into another episode of "The big bang theory". It's about nerds who have no connection to the world outside their quantum physics research.
Right now I'm a little jealous really.
3 comments:
After watching this interview all I could hear for the next few days is the Doctors agonizing words echoing in my head, Ya Rubee!! Unbelievably tragic but am sure he is not the only one but am sure it brought it home to the Israelis!
Save some of that jealousy for me... I Watched yesterday the movie "Into the wild" and suddenly after three weeks of rockets sirens and too much tragedies it was so nice to be in a quiet and pastoral world for a change...
I swear I cannot understand this doctor opinion. All he has been asking for during the last few days: " Just tell that they shot them by mistake".
الله يعينه
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