This story indicates how far a woman can go from understanding her vocation. A 21-year-old woman, Al-Bas, was stopped en route to blowing herself up in the hopes of killing a large number of Jews.
The PA TV interview with Al-Bas' parents, which aired on February 20th, features her mother saying the event was hard for her - not because her daughter was on a suicide mission, but because she was arrested on her way to carry it out.
Al-Bas intended to bomb Be'er Sheva's Soroka Hospital outpatient clinic, where she had been receiving regular treatments for serious burns on 45 percent of her body resulting from a gas stove explosion in her home.
The failed bomber later told Israeli television that her greatest wish was to kill 30 to 50 Israelis, including children. The hospital attack would likely have killed or maimed the very Israeli doctor who had saved her life.
While the mother managed to give life to this child, she also gave her warped values, a sense of ingratitude, and the desire to destroy others -- even those who had helped her in her own need. Rather than building a civilisation of life and love, they each are intent on adding to the culture of hatred and death. What sort of environment creates families that nurture such thoughts? How can we bring the truth to those who prefer darkness -- who revel in it? Oremus.
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