Most people have kids to love and raise them to be productive, smart adults. Not this Palestinian:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - In the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, Thuraya Eshbear wields a powerful weapon.
Babies.
At 35, this wisp of a woman has 13 children, from 20 years down to 10 months. Though she can't afford to school them all, though she rarely has a minute to herself, she would gladly bear more.
"I have many children so that the Palestinian people will have more than the Israelis," says Eshbear, a $37-a-week cleaner in the maternity ward of Gaza City's biggest hospital. Here, on any given day, dozens of other Palestinian women are doing their part to ensure ultimate victory over Israel.
"I want to have many boys, so we have more people and can get the Jews out."
Perhaps they can ask Jordan for space to spread out with their big families.
Sunday, September 21, 2003
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