Settler leader intervenes as Palestinian loses job for saving terror victims

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Several narrative busters in this one story.

Head of Har Hebron Regional Council urges Israel to issue work permit to man who rushed to aid of slain rabbi’s family

A Palestinian man who saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after a deadly terror attack that killed him has been fired from his job, according to the head of Har Hevron Regional Council. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Yochai Damari said that the man is now unemployed due to Palestinian opposition to his actions and should be assisted by Israel. “I met with him and he asked me to help remove any obstacle preventing him from receiving a work permit,” Damari wrote. Such a permit would allow the man to obtain employment inside Israel.

Rabbi Miki Mark was murdered in the July 1 shooting, his wife Chava was seriously injured, and their two teenage children were also hurt. The Palestinian rescuer and his wife, residents of the Hebron area, helped the surviving members of the Mark family escape their overturned vehicle and administered first aid until first responders arrived at the scene.

Now, Damari wrote, Israel owes it to the couple to help them find work. “This week I wrote a letter to the defense minister [Avigdor Liberman], requesting help in getting a work permit for the two of them. I met with them, I am aware of the difficulties, but I think that in cases like this it is our obligation as the Jewish nation to show our thanks to people who behave as upstanding people and act in a way expected of them in situations like this,” Damari said. “Particularly at this time we must strengthen the positive forces and send a clear message that normal positive behavior will lead us (Israel) to also behave normally and positively,” he wrote.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-loses-his-job-for-saving-israeli-terror-victims/

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1. So this is why more Palestinians don’t speak up

...I thought it was great that the Arab couple helped; ‘great’ in the way that I would think of any human being helping another. But not anything extraordinary in that they were Palestinians. Because I do not assume all Palestinians to be terrorists. I would never have expected one person to be more likely to be a hero than any other person, regardless of their background, color, religion or where they live. And I still wouldn’t.

The following, however, is the piece that I was missing. The Arab man lost his job for helping Jews. He was fired. For. Helping. Jews. He was terminated for daring to help pull terrified and injured children out of a car that had been shot at and had flipped over. For daring to try to save the life of a father who had just been brutally attacked. For daring to help protect innocent people from more would-be terrorists. For daring to show his humanity…

What I was missing is that it’s not that ‘all Palestinians are terrorists;’ It’s that Palestinian society does not tolerate their own people being kind or caring – or human – to Jews or Israelis. They cannot tolerate any kind of normalization, cooperation… or just plain kindness. So yes, there may be many Palestinians who are of the ilk to save the life of a Jew; perhaps even most. But we’ll never know… Because the society – more like a big mafia – does not favor this natural humanity. In fact it suppresses it at every turn.

Yes, I was wrong. And I stand corrected. These Palestinians were absolutely heroes. To every stretch of the word. So please, Israel, let us set an example of how humanity works. Let us reward this true hero and provide him the work permit he needs. It is the least we can do.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/so-this-is-why-more-palestinians-dont-speak-up/

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2. I think that they should go even further

and give the family Israeli citizenship.

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3. Agree 100%. n/t

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4. When Heroism is Punished — Why There is No Peace

....According to the Times of Israel report, what happened to the good Samaritans who rescued who rescued much of the Mark family? The husband lost his job. And he and his wife are never named once in the article, while the photograph is pixilated so that no one can see the husband’s face.

This anonymity is necessary for their protection. Because Palestinian society does not consider those who save lives to be heroes if those lives happen to belong to Jews.

The act of saving Jewish civilians, including children, who were injured in a terrorist attack is considered a betrayal of the Palestinian cause. The hatred of Jews runs so deep that preventing Jewish children from dying is so great a crime that it must be punished, the perpetrator shunned. And if a terrorist finds out who the ‘traitor’ is, saving a Jewish life could cost a Palestinian his own life.

In Palestinian society it is the murderers who are the true heroes ad role models. Streets and parks are named after people whose only accomplishment in life was the murder of Jewish civilians. Salaries are paid to convicted murders in Israeli prisons and to the families of dead terrorists. And Israelis were chilled by the joy expressed by the mother of the scum who stabbed to death 13-year old Hallal Yaffa Ariel in her bed as she slept.

Her words, as translated by Palestinian Media Watch, were “My son is a hero. He made me proud. My son died as a Martyr defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa (Mosque). Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, he (my son) has joined the Martyrs before him, and he is not better than them. Allah willing, all of them will follow this path, all the youth of Palestine. Allah be praised.”

Peace will come when the Palestinian hate for Jews subsides enough that they begin to acknowledge the heroism of people who save lives and the evil of those who murder children. As long as the opposite continues to hold true, there will only be more dead children on both sides.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-heroism-is-punished-why-there-is-no-peace/