Israel salva criança palestina; mãe diz esperar que ela cometa ato terrorista contra Israel

Em uma recente operação israelense, uma criança de Gaza em estado crítico foi levada às pressas rumo ao território sionista para passar por uma cirurgia que lhe salvaria a vida, já que o mesmo tratamento não é oferecido em Gaza. Judeus israelenses se mobilizaram para custear a remoção e a cirurgia do pequeno Muhammad, filho de uma apoiadora do Hamas que o acompanha ao hospital inimigo. Lá, após a operação, a mãe da criança e o jornalista Shlomi Eldar conversam sobre o pequeno Muhammad, sobre a importância da vida e sobre os valores da mãe da criança, dos muçulmanos e dos judeus. A Jewish Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, tried to raise money for surgery in an Israeli hospital that would save the life of a Gazan Palestinian baby. Many Israelis responded with offers of donations, including one Jewish father who had lost his son in battle with the Palestinians, and offered to pay the entire cost of $55,000 on condition that he remain anonymous. Eldar got to know the mother of the sick baby well. He saw “how intensely she fought for her son’s life ... standing for hours, caressing him, warming him up, kissing him.... The whole time I accompanied her, I saw a caring mother who was at her baby’s bedside night and day. She didn’t eat, she lost weight and she cried. I myself saw to it that she ate. I saw her faint when she was informed there was a small chance her son would get well. ...“ The baby, Mohammed, did not survive, and his death deeply grieved the mother. But while he was still alive and there was still hope for him, she, Raida Abu Mustafa, “launched into a painful monologue about the culture of the shahids -- the martyrs -- and admitted, during the complex transplant process, that she would like to see her son perpetrate a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.“ Eldar has made a documentary film of the story called Precious Life. In it, Raida says: “For us, death is a natural thing. We are not frightened of death. From the smallest infant, even smaller than Mohammed, to the oldest person, we will all sacrifice ourselves for the sake of Jerusalem. We feel we have the right to it. You’re free to be angry, so be angry.“ “Then why are you fighting to save your son’s life, if you say that death is a usual thing for your people?“ he demands to know. “It is a regular thing,“ she says, smiling. “Life is not precious. ... For us, life is nothing, not worth a thing. That is why we have so many suicide bombers. They are not afraid of death. None of us, not even the children, are afraid of death. It is natural for us. After Mohammed gets well, I will certainly want him to be a shahid. If it’s for Jerusalem, then there’s no problem. For you it is hard, I know; with us, there are cries of rejoicing and happiness when someone falls as a shahid. For us a shahid is a tremendous thing.“