Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals

[cbabe]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-doctors-letter

Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals

"Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility," said a group of doctors in Gaza.

JULIA CONLEY
Nov 06, 2023

Physicians who have been working for four weeks to save as many lives as possible from Israel's "complete siege" of Gaza, even as the healthcare system collapses around them, responded on Monday to a statement by a group of Israeli doctors who over the weekend called for the bombing of a hospital in the besieged territory.

"We as doctors are ambassadors of peace. We save lives," said the doctors, led by Dr. Marwan Shafiq Al-Ham, director of Muhammad Yusuf Al-Najjar Hospital, in a statement. "Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility."

The medical providers called on the World Health Organization and human rights groups that work in the healthcare field to help hold the signers of the letter accountable.

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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which has led protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza and has long called for an end to the country's apartheid policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, said the doctors who signed the letter are "derelict in their duty" to protect human lives.

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[NoRethugFriends]

1. Jvp is not Jewish.

Being specifically non Jewish or Jews for Jesus doesn't make them Jewish. And of course context omitted in the post

[cbabe]

2. Contact the site or author with your correction?

Also please clarify: were the two letters not written? What context is missing from the article?

Thanks.

[NoRethugFriends]

3. your first sentence is a joke

And you can figure out the answer to the 2nd

[ExciteBike66]

4. ADL seems to think they are Jewish...

ADLs website entry about JVP specifically mentions their "Jewish activists."

[NoRethugFriends]

5. maybe read what ADL says about them

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/jewish-voice-peace-jvp-what-you-need-know

And this. Long but very enjoying.

https://www.commentary.org/articles/joshua-muravchik/not-so-jewish-not-for-peace/

[Beastly Boy]

6. I would like to see this endorsement.

I can't find any direct reference to it anywhere other than the pro-Palestinian sources referencing eacg other, all pointing to the same source that doesn't provide a link to the statement they criticize.

Commondreams. Call me skeptical.

[Igel]

7. We know what one group said that another said.

But cutting through the more likely than not biased paraphrase, what, actually, did the first group say?

You want judgment, I want to judge them on what they said, in context, not what an opposing group said they said.

If a (R) group says, "Hey, AOC said, ..." (with paraphrase) i want to know what AOC actually said, in context.

If a (D) group says, "Hey, McConnell said, ..." (with paraphrase) i want to know what McConnell actually said, in context.

Otherwise, it's all just mindless partisan psittacism.