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Al-Ahram Weekly 5 - 11 August 1999 Issue No. 441 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 5 - 11 August 1999 Issue No. 441
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God's children
Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Profile Focus Interview Features Travel Living Sports Time Out Chronicles People Cartoons Letters Sir- I was very moved by Amany Abdel-Moneim's article in Al-Ahram Weekly (issue 428). I have been living in the United States for the past 25 years, although I am originally from Cairo. I am a physician (obstetrician/gynaecologist) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I will be visiting Egypt with my wife and my two sons in June. I would be very interested to visit one or some of the orphanages that Ms Abdel-Moneim mentioned in her article. I would like to contribute something professionally and financially, and to be part of the hope we can give these unfortunate children. They are truly God's children.
Youssef Ragheb
Pennsylvania
USA
Terrifying negligence
Sir- Until when will we let negligence rule our lives -- negligence on our trains and buses, roads and highways? We don't need statistics to realise that accidents are increasing markedly in both magnitude and number.
Sadly, they are all due to negligence of one sort or another, claiming or maiming innocent people. Is human life so cheap in our country? Drunk or drugged truck drivers, buses repeatedly flying off bridges, cars going on the wrong side of the road, youth driving as if on a race track in the early hours of the morning.
For example, in Midan Al-Thawra in Mohandessin, young men drive their cars round the roundabout after midnight, so fast that the cars go on two wheels instead of four, endangering lives and disturbing those asleep by the screech of the tyres. What is strange is that no one seems able to stop them.
Besides the increasing number of grieving families whose lives will never be the same, there is the possibility that other countries will sense this sort of self-induced terrorism and will advise their people not to visit Egypt.
We need to take very severe action very fast.
Reine Naggar
Agouza
Out, damn spot
Sir- I read the statements made by Ariel Sharon, interim leader of the Likud Party, in which he expressed his strong objection to the release of thousands of Palestinians detained in Israeli jails because -- as he put it -- their hands are stained with Jewish blood.
I recalled the horrors inflicted by Mr Sharon on innocent civilians in Lebanon from 1982 on, let alone Sabra and Shatila, an early example for Milosevic to follow. I can't imagine what his hands would look like if the blood of Egyptians, Palestinians and Lebanese killed by him personally or through his orders stained them today.
Mr Sharon only remembers Jewish blood, ignoring the killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of Arabs and the miseries of millions of others who were victimised to establish the mighty state of Israel.
Mr Sharon and many of his ilk have made life a living Holocaust for Palestinians and Lebanese by occupying their land, confiscating their possessions, destroying their homes and draining their vital resources.
Mr Sharon, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Khaled Bahaa
Shubra
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