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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Is This True?

There is an organization called Amaliah that operates, at least in part, along the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights.  The organization brings sick children and their families from Syria for treatment in Israeli hospitals and then returns them along with relief supplies to their homes in Syria.  To date some 2500 Syrian children have been helped in this way.  This is something which we know to be true.

Here's the latest story making its way on the web, however.  In Syria, some of the families who have taken their sick children for medical treatment by Israelis have been executed by local terrorist forces.  I've read both that the killers were ISIS and also al Nusra (the Syrian version of al Qaeda).  Because this all happens in Syria, it is hard to get verification that the story is true.  Nevertheless, if this is accurate, it is a particularly horrible crime by the terrorists.  Imagine executing a family because the parents tried to get help for a very sick child.

I hope the story is not true, but I fear that it is.

Of course, if this report came from the White House, we would be told, no doubt, that the terrorists who killed these families was a "lone wolf".

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