Israel medical mercy in action
By Haitham Sabbah • Oct 12th, 2008 at 16:55 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, PalestineMedicine goes beyond political boundaries. At least this is what the International and Israeli media claims when it comes to Iran and an Iranian boy suffering from brain cancer seeking treatment in Israel and got approval to undergo surgery there.
That's great! By all means this makes everyone feel happy because at the end we are all humans and deserve equal treatment.
But not all stories have happy endings! Just few hundred kilometres south of tel Aviv, a task force of Israeli doctors was banned from entering the Gaza Strip. Although it sound like a joke, but it's not. This is what Israel is all about. Hypocrisy and racism!
To add insult to injury, the MSM played (as usual) the major role in this propaganda. A quick search in google news reveals this fact. Searching for "Iranian in Israel for treatment" revealed 139 results. To name some:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Telegraph.co.uk
Los Angeles Times
International Herald Tribune
The Associated Press
etc…
On the other hand, searching for "Delegation of Israeli doctors to Gaza denied entry" revealed ONLY 6 results. That is a ratio of 1:0.04 (of course the Iranian story is 1, and 0.04 is Gaza story).
Of course the life of the Iranian boy is as important as the Gazan's, but not for the International community and israel. Not even worth mentioning in the MSM.
Need I say more?
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Haitham Sabbah is an uprooted Palestinian blogger. He is the webmaster and editor of Palestine Blogs, also webmaster and co-editor of Palestine Think Tank. His personal blog is Sabbah's Blog: http://sabbah.biz/
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"Off the Charts" is a comparative study of how ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News reported -and did NOT- on the deaths of children and adults in Israel/Palestine
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/net-report.html
Perhaps the Israelis think of this as humanitarian genocide.The denial of health care for sick Palestinians.
Of course the more Palesitnians who die from what can be called natural causes is the less they have to murder and be held accountable for.