Doctor Says Israelis Tending
Enemy Arabs Don't Complain
JERUSALEM — Enemy
prisoners of war are being
treated "the same as Is-
raelis" at the Shmuel Haro-
feh Hospital here, according
to one of the staff doctors.
By the beginning of No-
vember, about 600 wounded
Arab soldiers had received
medical treatment and more
than half are still hospital-
ized. Among the wounded
were Egyptians, Syrians,
Iraqis and Moroccans.
A doctor told of how one
Israeli nurse whose son was
shot down over Syria must
make a great effort to walk
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> a wounded Syrian and
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him how he feels and
attend to his needs. Although
it may put a great strain on
her bedside manner, she,
nevertheless. keeps smiling.
Another instance involves
a young Israeli girl who has
to feed an Egyptian soldier,
remembering all the while
that her mother was once
expelled from Egypt.
Many of the volunteers.
uncomplaining, fed and
washed the enemy wounded
and even hauled them'
around on stretchers. One
doctor said they were moti-
vated by the "belief that the
Arab soldiers are people just
like us," and that maybe
"their example will be fol-
lowed by physicians and
civilians in the hospitals in
Egypt and Syria."
One report on the behavior
of the Arabs said that they
were grateful for their treat-
ment. and that only one of
the 600 admitted was hostile.
Archbishop George Apple-
ton, whose jurisdiction in-
cludes Egypt, recently visit-
ed the hospital. One doctor
expressed the hope that he
would report to the Egyp-
tians "that the Israelis have
set an example which they
should emulate."
On the road, Israelis pro-
vide the same medical treat-
ment to the enemy wounded
they meet.
A volunteer reported:
"Once we halted alongside
a group of Syrian prisoners.
I'm a university graduate in
Oriental studies and have a
fairly good knowledge of
Arabic. I asked them why
they were fighting. They re-
plied: 'They robbed our
brethren of their land . .
Someone also said something
about the Palestinians and
the refugees.
"No, I don't hate them.
But I knew that no amount
of explanation and informa-
tion could bridge the gap be-
tween us."
"They looked so forlorn.
Some of them were wounded.
Two medical orderlies and a
d - -1-or treated them. I heard
the radio that a heli-
copter had been summoned
to take them to hospital. For
a moment I thought of ask-
ing one of them: If we had
been wounded, would you
have treated us like this?
But I held back."
Golda Crowned No. 1 Meeting Is Planned by WZO Executive
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—The chairman of the executive.
Over Queen Elizabeth World
The meetings of the Ac-
Zionist Executive has
LONDON (JTA)—In 1971
and 1972, Britons told Gallup
pollsters that the woman
they most admired was
Queen Elizabeth II. This
year, the British public pick-
ed for the No. 1 spot Premier
Golda Meir.
called for an extraordinary
session of the Zionist Actions
Committee which will be de-
voted to the urgent political
and economic problems of
Israel arising from the pres-
ent crisis, it was announced
here by Leon Dulzin, acting
tions Committee are sched-
uled in Jerusalem Feb. 18-21.
All violence, all that is
dreary and repels, is not
power, but the absence of
power.—Ralph Waldo Emer-
son.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Fridoy, Dec. 21, 1973-7
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Gt6 66
The spirit is willing
but the flesh is weak.
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Arab Oil Embargo
Boosts U.S. Dollar
NEW YORK (ZINS)—One
of the beneficial byproducts
of the Arab oil embargo is
the _strengthening of the U.S.
dollar, according to the New
York Times. The price of
the U. S. dollar has risen 4
per cent reflecting the far
stronger position of the U. S.
energy supplies than that of
Western Europe or Japan.
Economist Milton Fried-
man praised the present
monetary system of floating
rates which, he said, absorb-
ed the increase without pain.
The best things are all too
cheaply purchased by a life-
time's toil.—A. B. Alcott.
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