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September 5, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/perspective/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1062047805138030.xml

Israel's Agony Hits Home

(Newark Star-Ledger) Maida Averbach - The phone call came at 6 a.m. from my son Steve's wife, Julie, speaking very calmly and slowly from Jerusalem. "There has been a bombing on the bus that Steve was on," she said. "He is alive but hurt." Steve's spinal cord was injured, and he had had surgery to remove a ball bearing that entered his neck. I cannot understand the mentality of a culture in which parents raise a child to want to die in such a fashion - bombs strapped to his waist, that teaches its young to hate with such a passion that instead of wanting to grow up to serve others in a productive way, they kill innocent people while dying themselves, in the belief that they will attain a place in heaven with wonderful rewards. Steve is finally out of immediate danger of death, but he remains paralyzed from the shoulders down.

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