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| IDF Cpl. Levin & Palestinian "Baby Jude" |
There is a story on YNet that will not make big news. At the same time IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz arrived in Neve Tzuf to offer his condolences to the surviving family and relatives of the Fogels, soldiers saw a Palestinian cab racing towards the entrance to the community. Inside the cab, soldiers and paramedics found a young (Palestinian) woman in advanced stages of labor and in an obvious life-threatening situation: The umbilical cord was wrapped around the young baby girl's neck~mother and child were at risk of dying...
Stop and think for a moment. A short distance away the Fogels were sitting shiva for five members of their family (including 3-month old baby Hadas) who were massacred just days earlier. The day of the Fogel massacre, settlers saw the fireworks and celebrations in nearby Palestinian communities. So what was the reaction to this Palestinain woman who shows up at the gates to the community in a life threatening situation? The same as it always is. They responded immediately and saved both baby and mother. Corporal Haim Levin, 19, an IDF paramedic, was the first medical team member at the scene to take action. He remarked afterwards:
"They thanked us and told us they named the girl Jude," Corporal Levin said. "I volunteered for Magen David Adom since age 15 and it's the first time I witnessed childbirth. It was an amazing feeling, to hold the girl that was just born in my arms, and to know that in this complex place we did something good."
This is the Israel I love! This is how our country is--every day. Yes, we defend ourselves when necessary, but at the same time we have compassion--even for those who want us dead. Remember this story next time somebody asks you to join a boycott or tries to tell you that we are an apartheid state...
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