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More Evidence May Support Israeli Organ Harvesting Swedish Story

source: http://www.counterpunch.org/weir08282009.html

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Last week Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing shocking material: testimony and circumstantial evidence indicating that Israelis may have been harvesting internal organs from Palestinian prisoners without consent for many years.

(Picture used here is the FBI arrest of several Jewish Rabbis accused of buying and selling human organs and having the money sent to Israel. Courtesy of www.netdor.com)

Worse yet, some of the information reported in the article suggests that in some instances Palestinians may have been captured with this macabre purpose in mind.

In the article, “Our sons plundered for their organs,” veteran journalist Donald Bostrom writes that Palestinians “harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the country’s organ reserve – a very serious accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.”1/

An army of Israeli officials and apologists immediately went into high gear, calling both Bostrom and the newspaper’s editors “anti-Semitic.” The Israeli foreign minister was reportedly “aghast” and termed it “a demonizing piece of blood libel.” An Israeli official called it “hate porn.”

Commentary magazine wrote that the story was “merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel hate.” Numerous people likened the article to the medieval “blood libel,” (widely refuted stories that Jews killed people to use their blood in religious rituals). Even some pro-Palestinian writers joined in the criticism, expressing skepticism.

The fact is, however, that substantiated evidence of public and private organ trafficking and theft, and allegations of worse, have been widely reported for many years. Given such context, the Swedish charges become far more plausible than might otherwise be the case and suggest that an investigation could well turn up significant information.

At the Link are a few examples of previous reports on this topic.
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At first, I was in disbelief as well as "lets wait for more evidence" mode. Now, I am still in this mode, however, I am starting to lean towards the initial story by the Swedish Newspaper. I am cautious to go full tilt on this because this is a serious allegation. I dont want to hurt anyone who is innocent. But tallying up all the human rights violations and bloodshed the Israeli government has committed----besides breaking International laws repeatedly--and the new evidence presented in this story, my feelings are that there is some substance to these allegations. I still want to find more evidence. It is just too hard to believe that humans would do this kind of evil. I don't want to believe it. But like I said, my feelings are starting to lean to 'believing'.

Read the story, and come to your own conclusions. Below, in comments, I posted what evidence and news articles (from known sources) that were used to back up the writers story. I'm still hoping it is not true.
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9 comments // More Evidence May Support Israeli Organ Harvesting Swedish Story

  • bielski
  • maof4brats
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      maof4brats [removed]  

    • they should have their organs taken without meds.Then given to the Palestinians.The ones they shoot at with the white flaggs. Sick and inhuman. They are inhuman.I wish they would go away.

      Arrest them and keep themit Gitmo with all tha Arabs there. How poetic. F them ALL!

    • 2 years ago
  • Alison_Weir
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      Alison_Weir  

    • The story can be read with more complete citations and videos at http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/sweden.html (unfortunately the CounterPunch link left out the .org)

      Some groups are working on a petition supporting freedom of the press in Sweden; check back at the above link Sunday night / Monday morning to see its wording.

      Additional information:

      In 2001, medical anthropologist Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California-Berkeley and Organs Watch gave testimony to House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. She told subcommittee members:

      ... hundreds of kidney patients from Israel, which has its own well-developed, but underused transplantation centers (due to lingering orthodox Jewish reservations about
      brain death) travel in privately brokered 'transplant tourist' junkets to Turkey, Moldova, Romania where desperate kidney sellers can be found, to Russia where an excess of lucrative cadaveric organs result from lax standards for designating brain death, and to South Africa where the amenities in transplantation clinics in private hospitals can resemble four star hotels. ...

      While in Israel for Organs Watch in the summer of 2000 and, again in March 2001, ... I interviewed more than 50 transplants professionals, transplant patients, and organs buyers and sellers involved in commercialized transplants. Most surgeons, while worried about the risk to their patients and the potential for exploitation of both organs sellers and buyers on the part of unscrupulous doctors and their commercial brokers and intermediaries, none were willing to condemn a practice which they saw as 'saving lives'. ...

      Meanwhile, human rights groups in the West Bank complained to me of tissue and organs stealing of slain Palestinains by Israeli pathologists at the national Israeli legal medical institute in Tel Aviv. ...

      The passivity of the Ministry of Health in refusing to intervene and crack down on this multi-million dollar business, which is making Israel something of a pariah in the international transplant world, requires some explanation. First, in the absence of a strong culture of organ donation and under the pressure of angry transplant candidates, each person transplanted abroad is one less client with which to contend. A more troubling phenomenon is the support and direct involvement of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the illicit national 'program' of transplant tourism. Some patients who traveled with the outlaw Israeli transplant surgeon to other countries noted that in each of the organized transplant groups were members of the Ministry of Defense or those closely related to them.

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • Bren589
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      Bren589  
    • WorldPeaceTV:

      Nothing that Israel is involved in surprises me.. This is sick. They have proof that this is going on.Then arrest them all Throw them in a dark cell and leave em . toss the key away..

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • Israel’s chief pathologist removed from post for stealing body parts

      For a number of years there were allegations that Israel’s leading pathologist was stealing body parts. In 2001 the Israeli national news service reported:

      “… the parents of soldier Ze’ev Buzgallo who was killed in a Golan Heights military training accident, are filing a petition with the High Court of Justice calling for the immediate suspension of Dr. Yehuda Hiss and that criminal charges be filed against him. Hiss serves as the director of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute….According to the parents, the body of their son was used for medical experimentation without their consent, experiments authorized by Hiss. (9)

      In 2002 the service reported:

      “The revelation of illegally stored body parts in the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute has prompted MK Anat Maor, chairman of the Knesset Science Committee, to demand the immediate suspension of the director, Prof. Yehuda Hiss."

      much more evidence at the link for this story. Below, next comment---FYI, I am posting the references and links--but do read the rest of the evidence-it is mind boggling!

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • Mysterious Scottish death

      In 1998 a Scot named Alisdair Sinclair died under questionable circumstances while in Israeli custody at Ben Gurion airport.

      His family was informed of the death and, according to a report in J Weekly, “…told they had three weeks to come up with about $4,900 to fly Sinclair's corpse home. [Alisdair’s brother] says the Israelis seemed to be pushing a different option: burying Sinclair in a Christian cemetery in Israel, at a cost of about $1,300.”

      The family scraped up the money, brought the body home, and had an autopsy performed at the University of Glasgow. It turned out that Alisdair’s heart and a tiny throat bone were missing. At this point the British Embassy filed a complaint with Israel.

      The J report states:

      “A heart said to be Sinclair's was subsequently repatriated to Britain, free of charge. James wanted the [Israeli] Forensic Institute to pay for a DNA test to confirm that this heart was indeed their brother's, but the Institute's director, Professor Jehuda Hiss refused, citing the prohibitive cost, estimated by some sources at $1,500.”

      Despite repeated requests from the British Embassy for the Israeli pathologist's and police reports, Israeli officials refused to release either. (5,6,7)

    • 2 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • Above article (and subsequent comments I posted here) was written by: ALISON WEIR
      ------------------------------more of the story:
      Director of forensic medicine on missing organs

      A 1990 article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs entitled “Autopsies and Executions” by Mary Barrett reports on the grotesque killings of young Palestinians. It includes an interview with Dr. Hatem Abu Ghazalch, the former chief health official for the West Bank under Jordanian administration and director of forensic medicine and autopsies.

      Barrett asks him about “the widespread anxiety over organ thefts which has gripped Gaza and the West Bank since the intifada began in December of 1987.”

      He responded:

      "There are indications that for one reason or another, organs, especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the first year or year and a half. There were just too many reports by credible people for there to be nothing happening. If someone is shot in the head and comes home in a plastic bag without internal organs, what will people assume?” (4)

    • 2 years ago
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