I've read several pages, it seems like i want to know about this book more, what it's going to tell me... is creeping inside me... here i go....

it's written in such that makes every1 touched
(sad + sympathy=empathy).There are pics..it depicted how the ppl cope with their lives after the israelis invade their homeland..it's writen from the first prsn pt. of view~Dr.Ang Swee Chai..a singaporean doctor..

gwe baru baca buku ini....

memberi inspirasi banget....

kadang bikin gwe sedih bacanya....

cukup membuka mata gwe kalau kita harus mau nolong tanpa liat faktor SARA nya....^_^

hebat

A life changing

This is the story of a doctor that fight with palestine people during the Israel invasion. The story is very touching. The doctor told us the spirit, effort and worries that comes during the war. This books open our eyes what really happen during the war.

Nangis bacanya..

Mencerahkan dan menggelitik rasa kemanusiaan.

"Subhanallah.. membuka pikiran tentang arti kemanusiaan tak bersyarat.."

Yang utama dalam buku ini adalah fakta-fakta yg disampaikan berdasarkan penglihatan DR. Ang Swee Chai sbg saksi pembantaian dan apa yang ada selama tugas disana. Selain daripada fakta yg ia sampaikan, banyak juga diceritakan bagaimana ia berinteraksi dengan sesama dokter yang mempunyai prinsip berbeda dan malah berseberangan dengan ideologi kedokteran yang ia pahami. Sebuah bacaan yang membuka mata.

Membaca versi terjemahan,kisah yang mampu mengalirkan airmata apabila membacanya. Sudut pandang kisah benar perjuangan rakyat Palestin drpd Dr Ang Swee Chai. Membawa kita begitu dekat dengan hidup sebenar dan kesengsaraan rakyat Palestin.

Secara nih buku berbentuk testimoni, seperti buku FOR GOD OR COUNTRY, maka segi bahasa ato penyampaian emang tidak terlalu diutamakan. Apalagi nih buku terjemahan. Tapi isinya, huuu, sangat menyentak dan mengharukan. Bikin mbrebes mili alias nangis sesenggukan. Bikin kita, baik sebagai umat Islam atau sebagai human being, ngerasa marah sama tentara2 Israel yang tak berperikemanusiaan. Pokoknya MUST-READ banget deh!!!!

Utterly inspirational. Dr. Ang, a.k.a. "Doctora Swee" is intelligent, precise, humble, and a person of great compassion (both for the Palestinians and for the Israelis, and the Lebanese and Syrians and everyone caught in between). She’s done so much for the Palestinians, she even received the Star of Palestine from Yasser Arafat. It’s a transformative, universal story because Dr. Ang went into the conflict with no political preconceptions – in fact, she believes God called her to it – and ended up dedicating decades of her life to helping the Palestinians out of an instinctual human response to suffering. Initially it sent her into a crisis of faith because her Church seemed to be telling her different things from what God was telling her, but Ang Swee Chai was born with so much pluck and gumption, the reader delights in seeing how this tiny woman outwits, outplays, and fearlessly charges her way through some of the most life-threatening situations.

The fulcrum on which her story turns is the massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps while she was working at the hospital there. In 1982, Israel had invaded Lebanon in an attempt to "flush out the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) from its bases in Lebanon". After the end of this invasion, under a peace agreement the PLO fighters (mostly men) were evacuated from Beirut, then the international peacekeeping forces convinced the remaining women, children and old folks in Sabra and Shatila camps to disarm themselves, surrendering their pistols, machine guns and other weapons to the Lebanese Army for the promise of peace. Then Israel announced it was "invading West Beirut to flush out 2,000 terrorists left there by the PLO”, giving time for Palestinian hospital workers to leave Gaza Hospital (where Dr. Ang worked), then Sabra and Shatila camps were bombed from overhead for 5 kilometres in any direction around Gaza Hospital, gradually giving way to Northern Lebanese gunmen coming into camp homes and shooting residents. Injured people streamed into Gaza Hospital and Dr. Ang operated for 72 hours straight on the victims, after which she and other foreign medics were escorted out of the hospital by gunmen who were poking her with their machine guns, and saw the camp transformed into heaps of rubble and mutilated corpses. Meanwhile other soldiers went into Gaza Hospital with machine guns and finished off the patients. Dr. Ang soon comprehended the true horror of the situation, and realised that her surgical work had probably not made any difference, saving dozens of people while they were dying by the thousands outside.

One of the most difficult parts of this book for me was a few days after the massacre, when some of these militiamen who had been killing her Palestinian friends and patients had the audacity to come to her hospital and demand treatment. Dr. Ang was so tempted to “get even” and refuse them treatment, but then Azziza, the Lebanese Palestinian hospital administrator, begged her to remember the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s principle of treating everyone equally. I can’t have been the only reader to want to shake Azziza in disbelief. What a saintly capacity the Palestinians have for humanity and forgiveness, instead of justice – the book overflows with examples of this. So Dr. Ang treated their injuries, gained the militiamen's goodwill and saw them as human beings too.

As a Singaporean, it hurts me to know that the country I share with Dr. Ang has exiled her and her husband, but I am so proud of her, and as someone who also fell in love with the Levant the first time I visited, I understand her pain.