"Nurse, the bombproof screens, please"

June 21, 2005
Tuesday

"Nurse, the bombproof screens, please"

David Carr (London) Middle East & Islamic

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Hospital patients here in the UK are occasionally known to get rather tetchy about the waiting times and the bureaucracy. But, thus far at least, none of them has seen fit to take their complaints this far:

Israel says a Palestinian woman arrested carrying explosives at a Gaza checkpoint planned to blow herself up in an Israeli hospital.
Wafa al-Bis, 21, was stopped on her way to receive treatment for burns at the Beersheba hospital which Israel says was her intended target...

In an interview shown on Israeli television, Ms Bis said her "dream was to be a martyr".

Call me old-fashioned but I reckon that even in this crazy, mixed-up world most people making a trip to the hospital dream about leaving it alive.

Still, I am sure things will return to normal the very moment the Palestinians get their own state.

Comments

That last sentence was sarcastic, right? Just checking:-)

Posted by Alisa at June 21, 2005 08:59 AM

Just think, in the near future thanks to Blair, if you dare to criticise the system of primitive ignorant brain washing that this poor girl was subjected to, you might end up in prison.

Posted by John East at June 21, 2005 11:18 AM

Alisha,

What do you think? :-)

Posted by David Carr at June 21, 2005 02:00 PM

most people making a trip to the hospital dream about leaving it alive.

I have the same dream here in the UK!

Posted by ernest young at June 21, 2005 02:51 PM

ernest young, so you go private then?

I wouldn't go anywhere near any MRSA'R'Us facilities now I can afford not to.

Posted by Rob Read at June 21, 2005 10:55 PM

what if you are wrong?

Posted by EO at June 22, 2005 02:59 PM

According to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, she is now claiming that someone must have planted those bombs on her body while she was unconscious, and she didn't notice.

Posted by Verity at June 23, 2005 02:15 AM

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