My god. This country. What is more complicated than this goddamn country?
This is a news segment on Channel 10 [Hebrew] profiling a father of a Makor Chaim schoolmate of the two 16-year-old kidnapped boys. He is also Dr. Dudi Mishali, a 20-year Tel HaShomer baby heart surgeon. He opens the chests of infants to cure them of heart conditions.
He does this for any baby that comes through hospital doors. That includes Jewish babies, Israeli Arab babies, Palestinian Arab babies, refugee babies.
So the father of a schoolmate has to contend with the fact that he’s now operating on the 4 month old of Arab Hevron residents while his son’s schoolmates are likely being held captive – assumed alive – somewhere in the very same area.
The parents are terrified of what will be with their baby. The parents are… parents. Like Dudi. Like the three sets of parents waiting to hear the fate of their kidnapped children.
Of course he operates. Of course he goes about his business. Of course it tears him apart that this is the way he has to work right now.
Who – who – can look at a child and not save his life?
But he, and his wife, raise painful points, torturous questions.
This video is uncomfortable.
It’s kind of just life here at the worst of times.
Whadya got: