Drowning in Salem - In Order for Life to Continue

Later, Feras said to me: “What I learn in my life, after First Aid and to drive Ambulance, I learn very good thinking. Really. It is very important: if I see someone in a dangerous situation like a car accident, a house fire, in the water, a factory accident or shot by tank - I don’t think who they are, I forget if it is Muslim, Christian, Jew, really, because that way is peace”.

This young man, who often comes close to death, demonstrates the difference between the total absence of understanding or humanity of the Israelis and the complete comprehension of the reality of the situation, when he says to me later that evening – “You see, An’ne, at that moment when they refuse to help someone in a dangerous situation they lose all humanity and become less. Really, I am sad for them”. No hatred, no resentment, just understanding. Two peoples a world apart – on the one hand, only the wish to kill and destroy, on the other, only the wish to help and heal. Hatred versus love. Violence versus kindness. Delusion versus comprehension. Ignorance versus knowledge. Self-preservation versus self-sacrifice. I pity Israel.
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Israel Attempts to Foil Abu Mazen’s Efforts to Form Government

The Palestine National Authority (PNA) accused Israel on Tuesday of trying to undermine Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas’ mission to form a new government, with the aim of foiling international efforts towards releasing and implementing the so-called “roadmap” to peace in the Middle East.
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