Two for the Good Guys

[Zhukov]

Lest anyone forget who the good guys are:

Memories of losing his right hand in an Iraqi prison, Qasim Kadim says, are sharpest on very cold nights. The remaining stump feels like a block of ice.

Kadim, a victim of Saddam Hussein's bloody regime, may never have to experience the painful, chilling feeling again. Now in Houston with six other amputees, Kadim will soon receive a $50,000 bionic arm courtesy of several journalists, doctors and hospitals.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/2494625

An 8-month-old Iraqi girl with a possibly fatal growth in her neck arrived in the United States for free treatment, weeks after her parents brought her to a U.S. military base in her homeland.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5023158/

 

[freeandfun1]

Even the mean Jews in Israel have helped out.....

Iraqi baby in Israel for heart surgery



HOLON, Israel, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A week-old Iraqi baby girl was taken to Israel Wednesday for a heart operation that cannot be performed in Iraq.

Physicians told the BBC the child's arteries are reversed and she needs emergency surgery within the next week.

Cradled in her mother's arms and swathed in a red and yellow blanket, tiny Bayan Jassem was welcomed by Israeli doctors with the Arabic greeting "Salaam Aleikum."

Her trip to Israel was organized with the help of an Israeli charity called "Save a Child's Heart."

Bayan and her parents were accompanied by Jonathan Miles, an American who has often escorted Palestinian children to Israeli hospitals.

LINK

 

[Doc Holiday]

Yep, those Israelis just hate the Arabs so bad.

 

[Annie]

The Israelis do it because it's the right thing to do. There are idiots and murderers amongst them, but not in the number we seem to see on the other side.

I hope the child is doing fine.

 

[freeandfun1]

Originally posted by Kathianne
The Israelis do it because it's the right thing to do. There are idiots and murderers amongst them, but not in the number we seem to see on the other side.

I hope the child is doing fine.

It is an old story. Unfortunately, she didn't but the parents were ever grateful to the doctors. I saw them in an interview and they said that the kindness of the Israeli doctors made them change their mind about what they had always thought about Israelis in general....

However, once they got home, who knows!

 

[Annie]

Once they got home their story better change or they'll meet the same fate as an Israeli.

 

[freeandfun1]

Originally posted by Kathianne
Once they got home their story better change or they'll meet the same fate as an Israeli.

Sad isn't it? They can't go home and tell everybody how helpful the Israelis were or it might get them killed.

What a pathetic society.

 

[5stringJeff]

Originally posted by freeandfun1
Even the mean Jews in Israel have helped out.....

Iraqi baby in Israel for heart surgery



HOLON, Israel, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A week-old Iraqi baby girl was taken to Israel Wednesday for a heart operation that cannot be performed in Iraq.

Physicians told the BBC the child's arteries are reversed and she needs emergency surgery within the next week.

Cradled in her mother's arms and swathed in a red and yellow blanket, tiny Bayan Jassem was welcomed by Israeli doctors with the Arabic greeting "Salaam Aleikum."

Her trip to Israel was organized with the help of an Israeli charity called "Save a Child's Heart."

Bayan and her parents were accompanied by Jonathan Miles, an American who has often escorted Palestinian children to Israeli hospitals.

LINK

The son of a good friend of mine was born this way. He is now almost two years old and after a few surgeries, he is prefectly normal, although he won't be able to stay active or live in high elevations.