Israel Matzav

A story about the 'territories' that the international media will ignore

If any of you sees this story in any mainstream media outlet outside Israel, please post it in the comments. My guess is that you won't. This isn't interesting for the anti-Israel crowd.

On Monday morning, IDF paramedics near the Jewish town of Halamish (Neve Tzuf) in Samaria saved the life of a 10-day old 'Palestinian' baby who was suffering from respiratory distress.

In the early hours of Monday morning, the baby's Palestinian mother made her way to the border crossing while carrying her sick daughter in order to ask the soldiers for help.

A soldier who was on guard duty, noticing the mother's distress, immediately called the battalion's physician, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Michael Findlar.

"The baby suffered from severe respiratory distress and was vomiting," said the military physician. "We immediately began administering first aid and stabilized her condition.

"While several of us were treating the baby, another soldier called an ambulance in order to evacuate her to the Ramallah hospital," he said.

According to Dr. Findlar, this was not the first incident of its kind. He said local Palestinians realize they are better off turning to IDF soldiers during a medical emergency.

"This was the third such incident in two weeks. They know we have a regimental infirmary and a military ambulance," Findlar noted.

In each of the other two incidents, the 'Palestinians' were transferred to Israeli hospitals for further treatment and not to 'Palestinian' hospitals. And they accuse us of apartheid.

But here's more proof that this is not an infrequent occurrence. The picture at the top of this post is not from Monday's incident. It's an old picture that I chose because it had a baby in it. If you want to see pictures of the paramedics who saved the baby's life on Monday, you will have to go here.

So send this story to the New York Times, the Washington Post and London's Guardian and see if any of them will publish it. But don't hold your breath.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:29 PM