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"maff" |
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11 Nov 2005 08:51:22 AM |
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OT: Ahmed's gift of life |
Ahmed's gift of life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1640037,00.html
Ahmed Khatib's death was tragically unexceptional: the 12-year-old
Palestinian was shot by Israeli soldiers while holding a toy gun. But
what happened next was not. The boy's parents donated his organs to six
Israelis. They tell Chris McGreal why their decision was a gesture of
both peace and resistance
Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian
For once, the circumstances of a young boy's death from an Israeli
bullet are not in dispute. The army concedes that one of its soldiers
shot 12-year-old Ahmed Khatib in the head during a raid on Jenin
refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week. Other Palestinian
children playing with Ahmed have backed up the military's statement
that he was waving a toy gun that looked, to the soldier who shot him,
remarkably like the real thing.
Chris McGreal
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e26f462cdcfdf3bd
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| User: "Martin" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ahmed's gift of life |
11 Nov 2005 10:26:13 AM |
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maff wrote:
Ahmed's gift of life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1640037,00.html
Ahmed Khatib's death was tragically unexceptional: the 12-year-old
Palestinian was shot by Israeli soldiers while holding a toy gun. But
what happened next was not. The boy's parents donated his organs to six
Israelis. They tell Chris McGreal why their decision was a gesture of
both peace and resistance
Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian
He should be nominated for a Darwin award, sounds like a slam-dunk to
get stupid genes out of the gene pool. Hopefully his parents don't have
any other kids.
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| User: "Mark Stahl" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ahmed's gift of life |
11 Nov 2005 02:20:54 PM |
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"Martin" <martin_nospam@etiqa.co.uk> wrote in message
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maff wrote:
Ahmed's gift of life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1640037,00.html
Ahmed Khatib's death was tragically unexceptional: the 12-year-old
Palestinian was shot by Israeli soldiers while holding a toy gun. But
what happened next was not. The boy's parents donated his organs to six
Israelis. They tell Chris McGreal why their decision was a gesture of
both peace and resistance
Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian
He should be nominated for a Darwin award, sounds like a slam-dunk to get
stupid genes out of the gene pool. Hopefully his parents don't have any
other kids.
Wow. Just.... wow.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ahmed's gift of life |
11 Nov 2005 01:39:21 PM |
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maff wrote:
Ahmed's gift of life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1640037,00.html
Ahmed Khatib's death was tragically unexceptional: the 12-year-old
Palestinian was shot by Israeli soldiers while holding a toy gun. But
what happened next was not. The boy's parents donated his organs to six
Israelis. They tell Chris McGreal why their decision was a gesture of
both peace and resistance
Well, this makes a change. Usually the Israelis take the organs
without bothering to get permission.
http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/outrageous/organtraffic.asp
Look up Israel's actions on December 30, 2001. The Israeli
Terrorist Forces shot three kids who were unarmed, then
took the bodies whereupon their organs were removed
without permission before the bodies were returned on
January 6.
The incident was ignored by most western media.
Didn't the Nazis do stuff like that to the Jews during WWII...?
Or maybe Israel does it because the orthodox Jews won't
permit organ donation.
http://home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles/hedges/hedges1.htm
From the article in Harper's magazine:
Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight
young men, six of whom were under the age of
eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they
kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and
seriously wound four more, three of whom are
under eighteen. Children have been shot in
other conflicts I have covered - death squads
gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala,
mothers with infants were lined up and
massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put
children in their sights and watched them
crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo - but I
have never before watched soldiers entice
children like mice into a trap and murder them
for sport.
For once, the circumstances of a young boy's death from an Israeli
bullet are not in dispute. The army concedes that one of its soldiers
shot 12-year-old Ahmed Khatib in the head during a raid on Jenin
refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week. Other Palestinian
children playing with Ahmed have backed up the military's statement
that he was waving a toy gun that looked, to the soldier who shot him,
remarkably like the real thing.
The shootings happened in the daytime. Some reports
have said the "guns" were pieces of wood. Other news
reports have said the murdered boy wasn't even carrying
a "gun".
Of course, if the Israelis weren't occupying Palestinian
land, they wouldn't have been there to shoot the boy.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"Half the bible is nothing but
who to kill and how to kill them."
- 2, The Ranting Gryphon
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