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Related: About this forumCrossing Religious Lines in an Israeli Hospital
(originally posted by rug in the Religion forum)
Crossing Religious Lines in an Israeli Hospital
By SOUAD MEKHENNET
Published: July 10, 2012
JERUSALEM There are no empty beds this day in the recovery room at the Hadassah-Ein Kerem hospital. Doctors and nurses hover over patients. Manar Igbarya, 25, is giving a woman an injection and inspecting a bandage on her right leg. The Orthodox patient is absorbed in talking to her visiting husband. Everyone is chatting in Hebrew; nothing in this scene seems unusual, except that Ms. Igbarya is a Palestinian Muslim.
Muna al-Ayan, 22, who works as a secretary in the same hospital, wears a hijab; everyone recognizes her as a Muslim. She said it had been hard for her to find a job in the past because of that, but she was accepted at the hospital because all they cared about was how I do my job. Every so often, she said, smiling, a patient is surprised to see a Muslim working here.
Ashgan, 35, who asked not to be identified by her family name, works in the operating room as a nurse. We all speak Hebrew, and all we do here is our job, though we all carry our Palestinian identity inside us, she said, looking at the other two women. No one can forget their identity.
While more traditional Palestinian women marry in their early 20s, the members of this trio are all single. Each of them characterized the world inside the hospital as very different from that outside its walls, where Arab and Jewish Israelis live -- at least in some places --side by side but barely interact.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/world/middleeast/11iht-letter11.html
Bradlad
(206 posts)It's good to see a comment like this that shows that deep down we all share a common humanity.
henank
(800 posts)None of the stuff in the article is new. Israeli Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, have been working in all Israeli hospitals for years. They are also treated equally as patients in all Israeli hospitals. Only because this has been ignored by the MSM for so long does the NYT consider it news.
You will also find Israeli Arabs in all other professions in Israel too. People just need to open their eyes and stop looking at Israel as such a one-dimensional cartoonishly evil character.