Israel harvested organs in ’90s without permission
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Mark Lavie, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM – [Palestine] Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, “We started to harvest corneas … Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family.“
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. “This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer,“ the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
In the interview, Hiss described how his doctors would mask the removal of corneas from bodies. “We’d glue the eyelid shut,” he said. “We wouldn’t take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids.”
Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel’s attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.
Hiss became director of the institute in 1988. He said in the interview that the practice of harvesting organs without permission began in the “early 1990s.” However, he also said that military surgeons removed a thin layer of skin from bodies as early as 1987 to treat burn victims. Hiss said he believed that was done with family consent. The harvesting ended in 2000, he said.
And of course, we’re supposed to believe that these Israeli Nazis tell the truth, right?
Complaints against the institute, where autopsies of dead bodies are performed, at the time of Hiss’ dismissal came from relatives of Israeli soldiers and civilians as well as Palestinians. The bodies belonged to people who died from various causes, including diseases, accidents and Israeli-Palestinian violence, but there has been no evidence to back up the claim in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians for their organs. Angry Israeli officials called the report “anti-Semitic.” – Anti-Semitic is such a terrible word! Let’s call is Nazism!
The academic, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, said she decided to make the interview public in the wake of the Aftonbladet controversy, which raised diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden and prompted Sweden’s foreign minister to call off a visit to the Jewish state.
Scheper-Hughes said that while Palestinians were “by a long shot” not the only ones affected by the practice in the 1990s, she felt the interview must be made public now because “the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered.” – The Modern Day Zionist Auschwitz!
While insisting that all organ harvesting was done with permission, Israel’s Health Ministry told Channel 2, “The guidelines at that time were not clear.” It added, “For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law.” Yes, as in “We’re Chosen and you are animals!”
The re-birth of Nazism: these Israeli “terrorist-settlers” have the manners of a Gestapo agent or the attitude of Hitler’s thugs who threw the Jewish bodies in incinerators. If anyone belongs in incinerators today, it would be these terrorist-settlers.
How more infuriating and disheartening conduct and conditions can we expect? And the scum of the earth claim they want peace? Just look at the “protection” the fucking Israeli soldiers provide to Palestinian Children while they allow the sons of pigs and apes to terrorize the Palestinian children.
Palestine will survive and the the Palestinian flag shall rise. These thugs will be the door-mats to Palestinian homes! Oh how pleasurable that will be!!!
I know the word infuriates these pigs.. just like the picture below infuriated me. These pigs deserve to be at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
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One of the settlers thugs throws wine at a Palestinian lady during the Holy month of Ramadan, on the streets of Hebron.
Elsewhere, these apes continue to practices Nazism!
By REUTERS
Published: December 1, 2009
KIRYAT ARBA, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli inspectors trying to enforce a government moratorium on new building starts in Jewish settlements ran into defiance Tuesday at an enclave in the occupied West Bank.
About a dozen settlers challenged several inspectors who had come to halt construction at a building site in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, adjacent to the West Bank city of Hebron.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves,” one settler shouted as an inspector, accompanied by a policeman and an army officer, surveyed the hilltop tract where several red-roofed homes stood next to empty plots.
There was no violence, but also no sign that settlers in Kiryat Arba, who claim a biblical right to the land, would obey the stop-work orders.
Under pressure from the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month freeze on new housing projects last week in an attempt to persuade Palestinians to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks suspended a year ago. [Palestinians have been negotiating for 60 years and all they keep getting is less land, evictions, ethnic cleansing and so on. The Apes and their children want us to believe that they are negotiating peace? Hardly! It's time to take back what was illegally robbed from the Palestinians throw these pigs and apes out!]
The moratorium does not apply to some 3,000 settler housing units already under construction in the West Bank, nor to areas of the territory that Israel annexed to its Jerusalem municipality after a 1967 war.
Settlers at the site in Kiryat Arba argued that foundations had already been laid and since construction had effectively begun, the stop-work orders did not apply.
“It’s a mistake. Call your superiors,” one settler implored.
After a brief standoff, the inspectors got into their jeeps and left to the derisive applause of settlers who lined the sides of the dirt road.
“Go home,” they shouted as the vehicles pulled away.
In East Jerusalem, scuffles erupted between Jewish settlers and Palestinians as the settlers cleaned part of a home an Israeli court has awarded them in what Palestinians say is part of a campaign to drive them out of the city.
An Israeli man suffered a minor head injury after being smacked with a wooden plank, television footage showed. [Amazingly, the issue now is how one thug Ape had been hurt! Not the fact that Palestinians have been thrown out of their homes of 60 years! All in the name of the falsehood of "biblical" right!]
The house was the seventh in East Jerusalem awarded this year to settlers following Israeli court battles.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon “expressed his dismay at the continuation of demolitions, evictions and the installment of Israeli settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem,” a written statement said.
“Provocative actions such as these create inevitable tensions, undermine trust, often have tragic human consequences and make resuming negotiations and achieving a two state solution more difficult,” it added.
(Writing by Jeffrey Heller and Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Paul Taylor)
The Palestinian Authority has called on the public to boycott several large supermarket chains in the West Bank that carry Israeli products.
The decision targets upscale markets in Ramallah, in an attempt to pressure the stores to discontinue the sale of fruits and vegetables grown and processed in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian authorities, customers are not aware that some of the products are produced in one of over 200 Israeli settlements, built illegally on occupied Palestinian land deemed illegal under international law.
Palestinians consider these settlements the most crucial threat to their aspirations for statehood.
As a result, the Palestinian ministry of economy has announced it will aggressively pursue an already existing law that criminalises trading in settlement products, a move that is widely popular among Palestinians.
Israeli settlement products currently enjoy an estimated 15 per cent share of the Palestinian market, according to the minister of economy.
‘Good move’
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, says the move to ban settlement products from the shelves will take time and require awareness among Palestinian consumers.
Many products made in illegal settlements are on sale in Palestinian supermarkets!
“The government argues that it is through this boycott, that they are now striking back at the illegal settlements – product by product,” she said.
Jamal Juma, a Palestinian activist and coordinator of the Stop the Wall campaign, told Al Jazeera: “If the Palestinian Authority insists on implementing this decision, it means the authority will participate in boycotting one-third of the Israeli products that come to the West Bank.
“This is a very good step to support the Palestinian economy. It will provide the opportunity to improve Palestinians products and solve the unemployment problem.
“The decision will allow Palestinians to say: ‘No to the occupation, we are not going to pay for the bulldozers that destroy our houses and for the bullets that kill our people’.”
The stupidity and ignorance of these Egyptians specifically and Arabs in general is just overwhelmingly embarrassing. While the filth of Judaism and Zionism continue to steal, massacre and humiliate Arab Palestinians, Arabs are more concerned with a soccer-match results!
Your Sacred sites are under attack! The NaZionists are about to destroy Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock while you are busy with %$#@ soccer results! Direct your protests to your Palestinian brothers and sisters! Demand your Pharaoh to step down.. his Botox-infested face belongs in a Museum.. next to Hitler!
It’s time for Arabs to annihilate NaZionism and return the land to its rightful owners!
Football protests continue in Egypt
Algeria’s 1-0 victory over Egypt means the largest Arab nation has failed to qualify again [AFP]
Demonstrators have gathered for a second day near the Algerian embassy in Cairo, protesting against attacks on Egyptians during an Algeria-Egypt qualifying match for football’s World Cup finals.
The protest on Friday follows Cairo’s decision to recall its ambassador to Algeria, accusing Algerian fans of thuggery during the match in Sudan on Wednesday – which Algeria won 1-0 to qualify for next year’s World Cup.
The interior ministry warned Egyptians against further protests after 11 police officers and 24 demonstrators were injured in riots near the embassy at dawn on Friday.
Such demonstrations are almost rare in Cairo.
“The police will be forced to take steps it sees necessary in the case of any other contraventions of the law,” the ministry said in a statement.
Violent protest
About 150 demonstrators gathered on Friday in the Zamalek neighbourhood, where many embassies are located.
Police trucks and hundreds of officers in riot gear formed a cordon along the streets to block their way to the Algerian embassy, a witness told Reuters news agency.
Passing cars hooted and some waved Egyptian flags in support of the demonstrators. Stones and broken glass from the previous night’s violence littered the street.
About 2,000 demonstrators gathered during the night and many began throwing bottles and stones after a police charge to break up the crowd. Two police vehicles were overturned.
Sudan hosted the Egypt-Algeria tie amid unprecedented security, deploying thousands of police to prevent trouble.
An earlier match played in Egypt last Saturday also triggered violence, with the Algerian players complaining that their team bus was attacked by Egyptian supporters.
Reprisal attacks reportedly followed in Algeria, with Cairo alleging that Egyptian firms and businesses were targeted in Algiers, the Algerian capital.
A nation built on the premise of Ethnic Cleansing and Terror, yet claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East is proof that it is nothing more than a Nazi state!
