By Nourah Al-Khereiji
SOME reports in electronic and print media last week exposed the abyss of shame and degradation to which the Arab world has fallen.
I am particularly referring to the footage in Alarabia.net of the humiliating manner and the mortifying circumstances under which several Palestinian youths were sent back by Israeli soldiers to Gaza on Aug.3.
The pictures showed the soldiers delivering 30 Al-Fatah activists at a crossing point in Gaza and being arrested by Hamas police at the Nahil Awaz crossing. The activists were in chains, blindfolded and stripped except for scanty clothes. They had fled the fire of their supposed enemies, Hamas, to the relative safety granted by their real enemies in Israel. Israeli soldiers stripped them of their clothes, an act for which nobody would blame them because they feared that the Palestinians might be carrying explosives under their clothes. However, after a thorough search the soldiers permitted them to put on their clothes.
Why mention Palestine when such things are happening closer home? Last week Saudi newspapers flashed pictures and reports that should shame all of us. They showed the apathy and cruelty with which some government officials in the Kingdom treated the aged, women and the poor. Read more ...
SOME reports in electronic and print media last week exposed the abyss of shame and degradation to which the Arab world has fallen.
I am particularly referring to the footage in Alarabia.net of the humiliating manner and the mortifying circumstances under which several Palestinian youths were sent back by Israeli soldiers to Gaza on Aug.3.
The pictures showed the soldiers delivering 30 Al-Fatah activists at a crossing point in Gaza and being arrested by Hamas police at the Nahil Awaz crossing. The activists were in chains, blindfolded and stripped except for scanty clothes. They had fled the fire of their supposed enemies, Hamas, to the relative safety granted by their real enemies in Israel. Israeli soldiers stripped them of their clothes, an act for which nobody would blame them because they feared that the Palestinians might be carrying explosives under their clothes. However, after a thorough search the soldiers permitted them to put on their clothes.
Why mention Palestine when such things are happening closer home? Last week Saudi newspapers flashed pictures and reports that should shame all of us. They showed the apathy and cruelty with which some government officials in the Kingdom treated the aged, women and the poor. Read more ...
Source: Arab News
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