Monday, November 3, 2014

Heart Disease & Egypt's Demolitions

We know a young man who was hospitalized this weekend with heart failure. The doctor asked him several questions to find out the reasons for his heart failure. Kids, guess which are the reasons for his heart failure (more than one can apply), why it may cause heart failure, and why this is bad:

  1. He does drugs (cocaine)
  2. He smokes cigarettes
  3. He has an iPhone
  4. He drinks too much wine and liquor
  5. He has a pet dog
  6. (Answers: 1, 2, and 4)

Article: This past week, Egypt has decided to crack down on Islamist militants in the Sinai, operating with the help of Hamas in Gaza. (Kids: find on map the Sinai, Gaza and Egypt; recall what else we have learned about Hamas in Gaza.)

Just last week, such terrorists killed 31 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. Egypt has already destroyed over a thousands tunnels between Gaza and Sinai, used to smuggle weapons and money to terrorists. Seeing that isn't enough, Egypt has now decided to create a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt in the Sinai desert by demolishing hundreds of homes along in the border with Gaza, in the town of Rafah. They hope this wills top Gazan terrorists from enabling terrorism in the Sinai and smuggling things to them. Kids: do you think this will work? People are very upset that their homes are being demolished. Why? (Where are they supposed to live now, etc.?)

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