a real examination for the heart
In a West Bank village, Mas'ha, a modest house was turned into an improvised clinic, where doctors from our group provided medical care alongside their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts. A draconian system of "internal closure" (under which no one can leave a village or city without Israeli permission) and checkpoints has closed off all access to regular healthcare. Mobile clinics bring some minimal medical attention to the beleaguered population.
Eighty-two-year-old Pnina Failer, a former nurse, is a regular volunteer for the PHR/UPMRC Saturday clinics. She is the mother of Dror Failer, a 52-year-old saxophonist-composer married to the Swedish artist Gunilla Skold-Failer. The Failers's installation in Stockholm, Snow White and the Madness of Truth, made international headlines last January when Israel's ambassador to Sweden physically attacked the artwork, claiming that it glorified Palestinian suicide bombers.
There's layers in this story, too many for TV. Communists and Arabs and Jews and Fascists and Poles and doctors and nurses and artists and diplomats and kids...and
"The extremists on one side give fuel to the other side."
