A letter from an Arab doctor to a "settler" doctor
If
you regard treating a Palestinian child as an act which is "full of
it", I suggest you take a break, go back to your home and savour your
righteousness and self-pity. An open letter to Dr Dudi Mishali who
eschews the treating Palestinians following the abduction [of the three
Jewish seminary students.]
Ahmad Tibi
Several years ago the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) bombed Gaza. Three of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish daughters were killed when his home was hit. At the very same time he was treating Israelis. Some were soldiers or members of their families who have harmed his people, and some were settlers who have robbed his people of their land. Even after his daughters were murdered in the bombing Dr Abuelaish maintained his humanity. He remained a physician.
During Smadar Peled's item on Channel 10 a medical practitioner by the name of Dudi Mishali revealed that hitherto he had the privilege to operate on, and help cure children including Palestinian children. Nowadays, after the kidnapping, the settler doctor discovered that he was more of a settler than a doctor (Note [from Ynet]: Mishali is a former resident of Efrat [on the West Bank]). He alluded to taking care of a Palestinian child from Hebron as "a bleeding heart act" or even an act that is "full of it'. Just like that! His wife even says that we must cut off power to Hebron and impose a siege and stop medical treatment of their children "so that that they treat our children just like we treat their children."
Well she apparently must not have heard about 13-years-old Muhammad Dudayn's fate who was shot dead yesterday by Occupation soldiers searching for the disappeared/kidnapped, whose safe return to their families I yearn for. Muhammad Dudayn will never return to his family.
She had not heard, and her husband had not heard either, of the two students Nadim Nawarre and Muhammad Abu Tahir who were shot and killed by the army in Betuniya. They probably have not heard of nearly 2000 youths and children killed in recent years and Palestinian children who have been kidnapped at night from their homes and schools "under orders".
I recall encountering lots of hostile patients who picked out that my name is Ahmad. I even treated people who subjected me to hostile nationalistic taunts, because I don't regarded my medical calling as "something full of it" or the act of a "bleeding heart". Many Arab doctors do conscientiously treat army and police officers although these may well have killed their own people and hurt them. We have also treated people who apparently confiscated our lands and bulldozer drivers who have destroyed Al-Araqib and and other unrecognised villages in the Negev/Naqab. Because being a doctor is a mission. A doctor is a human being first before s/he is a Jew or an Arab. Japanese treated Americans and vice versa. By the way, I never asked anybody to thank me for the care or assistance that I provided. Medicine is based on human, and not on national or political opinion, values. True, a doctor also has feelings and opinions, but doctors test is their ability to push aside their views and not to exhibit them.
Dr Mishali, I have no wish to demand your removal from caring for children given that you have recently been arriving at work "feeling somewhat depressed" . A depressed doctor can be an oppressive doctor [the pun works much better in Hebrew-Tr]. I'm sure that there will be other doctors, both Jews and Arabs, who would agree to do what is hard for you to do: Operate on Palestinian children . Take a break -- go on holidays, return to the settlement which is plonked right on the land of the family of the boy from Hebron about whom you have some doubts whether you ought to operate. Savour the feeling of being a member of a self-righteous, usurper, self-pitying and stuck-up collective. Rest assured that every single Palestinian would rather you people got away from their lands and is quite willing to compromise about his/her health.
By the way, would you care to imagine what would happen to you if you were an Arab doctor Umm al-Fahm who, after 12 Arabs were killed in the October events, would have said that he's fed up with treating Jews because of the events? He would not kept his position for a day, just like the Arab Knesset employee who on his personal Facebook page dared to compare Palestinian administrative detainees to the three kidnapped youths and found himself jobless and out on his arse within hours.
Not-dear-at-all settlers: get out of Palestinian land , get away from us all.
And to you, I offer this Mahmoud Darwish poem:
O those who pass between fleeting words
It is time for you to be gone
Besides being a physician, Ahmad Tibi is a member of the Knesset
Hebrew original: http://www.ynet.co.il/
Translated by Sol Salbe of the Middle East News Service, Melbourne, Australia
Ahmad Tibi
Several years ago the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) bombed Gaza. Three of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish daughters were killed when his home was hit. At the very same time he was treating Israelis. Some were soldiers or members of their families who have harmed his people, and some were settlers who have robbed his people of their land. Even after his daughters were murdered in the bombing Dr Abuelaish maintained his humanity. He remained a physician.
During Smadar Peled's item on Channel 10 a medical practitioner by the name of Dudi Mishali revealed that hitherto he had the privilege to operate on, and help cure children including Palestinian children. Nowadays, after the kidnapping, the settler doctor discovered that he was more of a settler than a doctor (Note [from Ynet]: Mishali is a former resident of Efrat [on the West Bank]). He alluded to taking care of a Palestinian child from Hebron as "a bleeding heart act" or even an act that is "full of it'. Just like that! His wife even says that we must cut off power to Hebron and impose a siege and stop medical treatment of their children "so that that they treat our children just like we treat their children."
Well she apparently must not have heard about 13-years-old Muhammad Dudayn's fate who was shot dead yesterday by Occupation soldiers searching for the disappeared/kidnapped, whose safe return to their families I yearn for. Muhammad Dudayn will never return to his family.
She had not heard, and her husband had not heard either, of the two students Nadim Nawarre and Muhammad Abu Tahir who were shot and killed by the army in Betuniya. They probably have not heard of nearly 2000 youths and children killed in recent years and Palestinian children who have been kidnapped at night from their homes and schools "under orders".
I recall encountering lots of hostile patients who picked out that my name is Ahmad. I even treated people who subjected me to hostile nationalistic taunts, because I don't regarded my medical calling as "something full of it" or the act of a "bleeding heart". Many Arab doctors do conscientiously treat army and police officers although these may well have killed their own people and hurt them. We have also treated people who apparently confiscated our lands and bulldozer drivers who have destroyed Al-Araqib and and other unrecognised villages in the Negev/Naqab. Because being a doctor is a mission. A doctor is a human being first before s/he is a Jew or an Arab. Japanese treated Americans and vice versa. By the way, I never asked anybody to thank me for the care or assistance that I provided. Medicine is based on human, and not on national or political opinion, values. True, a doctor also has feelings and opinions, but doctors test is their ability to push aside their views and not to exhibit them.
Dr Mishali, I have no wish to demand your removal from caring for children given that you have recently been arriving at work "feeling somewhat depressed" . A depressed doctor can be an oppressive doctor [the pun works much better in Hebrew-Tr]. I'm sure that there will be other doctors, both Jews and Arabs, who would agree to do what is hard for you to do: Operate on Palestinian children . Take a break -- go on holidays, return to the settlement which is plonked right on the land of the family of the boy from Hebron about whom you have some doubts whether you ought to operate. Savour the feeling of being a member of a self-righteous, usurper, self-pitying and stuck-up collective. Rest assured that every single Palestinian would rather you people got away from their lands and is quite willing to compromise about his/her health.
By the way, would you care to imagine what would happen to you if you were an Arab doctor Umm al-Fahm who, after 12 Arabs were killed in the October events, would have said that he's fed up with treating Jews because of the events? He would not kept his position for a day, just like the Arab Knesset employee who on his personal Facebook page dared to compare Palestinian administrative detainees to the three kidnapped youths and found himself jobless and out on his arse within hours.
Not-dear-at-all settlers: get out of Palestinian land , get away from us all.
And to you, I offer this Mahmoud Darwish poem:
O those who pass between fleeting words
It is time for you to be gone
ايها المارون بين الكلمات العابرة خذوا اسماءكم وانصرفوا
Get it, doctor?Besides being a physician, Ahmad Tibi is a member of the Knesset
Hebrew original: http://www.ynet.co.il/
Translated by Sol Salbe of the Middle East News Service, Melbourne, Australia
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