September 22, 2002

A Tale of Two Cultures:

A Tale of Two Cultures: Civilization vs. Barbarism

1) A report from the Israel Defense Forces
Using Palestinian Children For Carrying Out Suicide Terror Attacks

Last night (17 September 2002), in the afternoon, a large explosive device was activated against an IDF force in Han-Yunis. The device was thrown towards the soldiers by a small child, who was one of a group of Palestinian children who gathered together near an IDF Armored Personnel Carrier and threw stones at an IDF military installation in the area.

The brigade commander, Captain S. said that "During the afternoon hours, at around 16:30, we identified a group of approx. 50-80 children approaching the installation. The Children started throwing stones at the fence and at the installation. I boarded an Armored Personnel Carrier in order to send out a warning signal and make them leave the area. Several children, including teenagers, approached the Armored Personnel Carrier. I shot a few warning shots at the children ran away to the nearby neighborhood. One of children threw an object at me. The object, which seemed to be a bomb or a grenade exploded about 50 meters from me".

2) Jerusalem Post
Sep. 22, 2002
Palestinian girl receives Jewish bomb victim's kidney
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A suicide bombing that took the lives of six Jews provided a new life for a Palestinian girl, who received a kidney from a young Scottish student killed in the blast, hospital officials said Sunday.

Yasmin Abu Ramila, 7, a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, had been on a transplant waiting list and undergoing dialysis treatment for almost two years, an Israeli Health Ministry official said.

A suitable donor finally became available when Jonathan Jesner, 19, a yeshiva student from Scotland, died on Friday, a day after he was critically wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Tel Aviv

Let us consider these two stories while contemplating the spectacle of Yasser Arafat pleading for mercy for himself and the terror planners sharing his Ramallah headquarters.