> What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?'
> ...
>
> Published: 23 December 2006 by the Independent
> http://news.independent.co.uk
>
> In two days, a third of humanity will gather to celebrate the birth
> pains of a Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem - but two millennia later,
> another mother in another glorified stable in this rubble-strewn,
> locked-down town is trying not to howl.
>
> Fadia Jemal is a gap-toothed 27-year-old with a weary, watery smile.
> "What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today? She
> would endure what I have endured," she says.
>
> Fadia clutches a set of keys tightly, digging hard into her skin as she
> describes in broken, jagged sentences what happened. "It was 5pm when I
> started to feel the contractions coming on," she says. She was already
> nervous about the birth - her first, and twins - so she told her
> husband to grab her hospital bag and get her straight into the car.
>
> They stopped to collect her sister and mother and set out for the
> Hussein Hospital, 20 minutes away. But the road had been blocked by
> Israeli soldiers, who said nobody was allowed to pass until morning.
> "Obviously, we told them we couldn't wait until the morning. I was
> bleeding very heavily on the back seat. One of the soldiers looked down
> at the blood and laughed. I still wake up in the night hearing that
> laugh. It was such a shock to me. I couldn't understand."
>
> Her family begged the soldiers to let them through, but they would not
> relent. So at 1am, on the back seat next to a chilly checkpoint with no
> doctors and no nurses, Fadia delivered a tiny boy called Mahmoud and a
> tiny girl called Mariam. "I don't remember anything else until I woke
> up in the hospital," she says now. For two days, her family hid it from
> her that Mahmoud had died, and doctors said they could "certainly" have
> saved his life by getting him to an incubator.
>
> "Now Mariam is at an age when she asks me where her brother is," Fadia
> says. "She wants to know what happened to him. But how do I explain
> it?" She looks down. "Sometimes at night I scream and scream." In the
> years since, she has been pregnant four times, but she keeps
> miscarrying. "I couldn't bear to make another baby. I was convinced the
> same thing would happen to me again," she explains. "When I see the
> [Israeli] soldiers I keep thinking - what did my baby do to Israel?"
>
> Continues:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/appeals/indy_appeal/article2097790.ece
>
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>
> SHAME on Israel and the USA (for financing Israel's cruel military)!
>
> Please pass this around to others. The truth will set us free (from
> warmongering tyrants in high political offices and their horrific wars
> and occupations) when it is more widely known.
>
> =======
>
> The World Teacher is fulfillling the genuine prophecies of all the
> major world
> religions. He comes NOT as a religious figure, but as a Teacher for
> everyone
> (religious and non-religious alike). He will soon present His
> credentials to mankind
> & inspire humanity to see itself as one family and to rebuild the world
> so that it's a great
> place for everyone. The time for war, political corruption, and
> widespread poverty has
> past. It's time for diplomacy, peace & prosperity.
> Details: http://www.Share-International.org
>