Iraqis Deny their Sick Children Free Israeli Heart Operations

Here's a vignette on why the Muslim World is mired in so much misery. Israel has been providing life-saving heart surgeries at no charge to hundreds of Iraqi children. Some prefer to watch their children die, and some accept the offers in secret because of fear of violent retaliation.

Hostility towards the Jewish state in Iraq is so strong that many parents refuse to travel to Tel Aviv for free life-saving hole-in-the-heart surgery...."My only fear, which spoils my joy at my son’s escape from death, is the revenge my family can expect when we go back to Iraq."

By the way I changed the title of this story. The UK Times Online headlined it "Iraqi mothers deny their sick children Israeli heart operations," unaware of how ludicrous is the notion that Muslim mothers typically have any say over such things.