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Article: 'Nothing bad from God'
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- Canadian Mennonite
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- October 19, 2009
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Palestinian doctor speaks of justice and forgiveness on World Peace Day
"Just seconds after I left the room, the first shell struck," Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian physician from Gaza's Jabalaia refugee camp, told three different Waterloo authences on World Peace Day, Sept. 21.
As a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology, the Israeli-trained doctor had left his home on Jan. 16 to speak live to Israeli television journalists about women's health issues. The journalists were waiting nearby to interview him, but turned instead to the devastation being wrought by the Israeli military during their much-criticized incursion into Palestine at the beginning of the year. Their live coverage ...