The Donkey’s life are more important than humans in Palestine!
You think I’m kidding? Read on this report from “Reuters TV”:
This former British Airways stewardess gave up her job flying around the world a few years ago to set up a safe haven for donkeys.
Four years on, it’s doing a roaring trade — taking in injured donkeys from Israel and the Palestinian Territories and giving them a safe haven where they can finish their days in peace.
A few years ago, Fensom was a habitue of commuter flights across Europe. Nowadays, the commutes are across the hazardous military checkpoints that separate Israeli-controlled areas from Palestinian ones in search ofanimals that are suffering — from overwork or abuse.
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Donkeys are still a major form of transport in Palestinian areas on both sides of the divide. But they are often the object of considerable cruelty. Fensom says she has rescued donkeys that were set alight, had nailsdriven into them or had been beaten.
At the sanctuary, they are brought back to health and put out to pasture.
The most common form of injury the sanctuary has to deal with are those caused by hobbling: the owner ties the leg with wire or rope to stop the animal from moving. But very often, the restraint bites into the flesh, causing horrible wounds — which occasionally lead to the limb having to be amputated.
At present, Fensom is taking care of 72 donkeys which she has rescued from points as far as southern Israel, and Hebron and Gaza in the West Bank.
Fensom scoffs at critics who question why she is taking care of animals when there is so much human suffering in the region. She says that tragic as it is, human conflict should not deprive animals of their right not tosuffer.
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So just because people are suffering, it means that nothing can be done for animals? By that argument, every single animal sanctuary around the world should close until every hungry (human) mouth is fed and political wrong addressed. How is what she is doing any less commendable than say the Brooke Animal hospitals in Egypt or Jordan
You missed the first line. The question her is, why “The Donkey’s life are more important than humans in Palestine?”
You won’t aid a donkey before the owner gets aid, won’t you!
Of course I would! People have got all the talents and self-control in comparison with animals. Though, often people do not use their capabilities to do anything worthy or at least to maintain themselves. It’s not through animals’ fault, that they are being abused by people. Sure they need help and as a minimum defence from human cruelty.
Kol HaKavod to Fensom. If only there were more like her around. I would like to know where the ‘donkey sanctuary’ is?
Ms. Fenson, I live in the north of Italy where WWI took place and during that time donkeys were used to carry heavy weights up the
montains, many suffers.
One day I will have a donkey as a pet and honer it for all the others
that were sacrified but my question is, I would love to come and help
for two or three months in your santuary this coming winter, can you
please let me know if it is at all possible.
Grazie e ciao. Umberto