JERUSALEM – Israeli musician Idan Raichel has shared a chilling story about how a baby he once helped save through a humanitarian program later grew up to join Hamas and was killed as a terrorist.
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Raichel recalled his involvement with Save A Child’s Heart, an Israeli initiative that provides lifesaving cardiac treatment for children from around the world, including many from Gaza. Years later, an IDF soldier fighting in Khan Yunis sent him a photograph taken from a Palestinian home. The image showed Raichel as a young man, standing beside a Gazan father and his infant child.
According to the soldier, the child in the photo later became a Hamas operative and died as a “martyr.” His father, too, was linked to the terror group.
Raichel described the discovery as deeply disturbing, drawing a parallel to what an elderly Austrian woman once told him about the Holocaust: even without full knowledge of the camps, people bore guilt for ignoring the disappearance of Jews around them.
Emotionally, he concluded: “Seventeen years later, I can say with pain — not one person in Gaza has stood up as a righteous figure against this culture of death.”
Looks like Idan needs a new “project”. Perhaps it should involve helping his fellow brethren.
This singer is at least finally understanding that aiding your own nation’s murderous enemy is horrendously wicked. The rotted leftists who are still screeching in the streets of Tel Aviv for a deal with the cursed palestinians, (mostly only because they hate Bibi) have rivers of Jewish blood on their filthy hands
Save a snake — kill the snake’s future victims.
The only innocent people in Gaza are the poor hostages.
While I can understand all the Idan bashing, I might remind you that Hashem saved Yishmael, fully knowing that his offspring would go on to slaughter our people. We read this portion of the Torah on RH because of the words “B’Asher Hu Sham.” When Idan saved this child he was as innocent as Yishmael was when Hashem saved him. His family and society later corrupted him. The day us Jews stop showing compassion for sick children, of any denomination, is the day Hamas will truly win the war. None of you would stand by and watch a Hamas child drown or choke to death; your kind Jewish heart would never allow that so a bit of understanding for Idan should be in order.