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Originally posted by Neo-V™
reply to post by Retseh
The following is dated as 1-10-2002
The report says that the Israeli Minister of Health, Nessim Dahhan, tacitly admitted to the horrific practice in an answer to Arab member of the Knesset Ahmed Teibi. Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by Ahmed Teibi, on Tuesday, that he couldn't deny that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out for transplants or scientific research. Ahmed Teibi, according to the report, had received credible evidence proving that Israeli doctors at the forensic institute extracted such vital organs as the heart, kidneys,and liver from the bodies of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli Army in Gaza and the West Bank.
The report explains that the Israeli Army killed three Palestinian boys, ages 14-15 near Khan Younison on December 30, 2001. The army issued conflicting reports on the killing, while Palestinian sources charged that Israeli troops murdered the three unarmed boys in cold blood. The bodies of the three boys were handed over to the Palestinians for burial on January 6, however, shortly before burial, Palestinian medical authorities examined the bodies and found out that the main vital organs were missing from the bodies.
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Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I understand- really I do. I don't believe that all criticism of Israel should invoke the antisemitic defense. It's a lot like the Obama racism accusation that frustrates me. It's not logical to be accused of racism just because you disagree with the president. Likewise, it's not antisemitic to criticize the actions of Israel. It's not bigotry to point out the violence in radical Islam. It's not Anti-Christian to discuss the sex scandal in Christianity, etc.
However, what I am trying to point out is that accusations, especially blood libel, is often an unfounded witch hunt of sorts. In this specific incident of the Swedish newspaper, when he admits to having no proof, it really makes me wonder what his intentions are.
That's what I'm trying to stress. If something is going on- by all means, let's investigate it. But not because a tabloid author goes off on a rant. Irresponsible, sensational journalism like that is only going to cause problems- not solutions.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
In all honesty I wouldn’t expect a Newspaper Reporter to have proof in such a case.
A reporter doesn’t have the power to exhume bodies, conduct forensic medical examinations, subpoena or question Israeli Defense Forces personnel or compel their individual testimony.
Originally posted by AshleyD
It's a lot like the Obama racism accusation that frustrates me.
However, what I am trying to point out is that accusations, especially blood libel, is often an unfounded witch hunt of sorts.
In this specific incident of the Swedish newspaper, when he admits to having no proof, it really makes me wonder what his intentions are.
Turkey arrests Israeli suspected of organ trafficking
Prof Zaki Shapira charged with belonging to black market organ trade ring in private Istanbul hospital. Police make arrest after disgruntled former patients open fire on staff
Lilach Shoval Published: 05.01.07, 21:50 / Israel News
Turkish police on Tuesday arrested an Israeli doctor suspected of being involved in an illegal ring of organ traders operating out of a private hospital in Istanbul.
The man, Professor Zaki Shapira, was arrested in the midst of a gun battle which erupted in the hospital last weekend after four armed men stormed the facility and demanded their money back.
According to Turkish media reports the four men opened fire at the medical staff and police were alerted to the scene, one of the policemen who responded to the call was wounded in the shootout.
After the incident police conducted a thorough investigation and found it had been ordered to close down by a court order more than a month earlier due to illegal organ transplants it carried out. The hospital had received numerous similar warnings in the past. Four patients were waiting in the hospital for transplants at the time of the incident.
Police detained 17 people for questioning – including Professor Shapira. Two Turkish doctors were also arrested
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem confirmed that Professor Shapira, formerly head of the Beilinson hospital transplant unit in Petah Tikva, was arrested. Ministry officials said that the Israeli embassy in Ankara and consul's office in Istanbul are providing the man with the necessary consular assistance.
Ex-Israeli army officer arrested in Brazil charged with illegal organ trafficking
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — A retired Israeli army officer under arrest in Brazil on suspicion of belonging to an international human kidney trafficking ring has told a court the Israeli government financed organ transplants, press reports here said.
Geldaya Tauber Gady told a court that Israel financed organ transplants in other countries, primarily South Africa, through national health services.
Organ transplants are not illegal in Israel. But due to religious objections mainly by ultra-orthodox Jews, there is a critical lack of organ donors in Israel, and patients in need of a transplant are usually obliged to travel abroad.
Gady told the court that an Israeli government official, identified only as Ilan, put him in touch with an intermediary in Brazil, retired military police captain Ivan Bonifacio da Silva.
The police captain was also arrested in Recife in northeastern Brazil.
"The Israeli government is aware of the traffic in organs for patients in its country and pays for all transactions through four health plans," the daily O Globo quoted Gady as telling the court.
Israel Arrests Men Who Mediated China Organ Transplants
Primary suspect told Israeli newspaper that organs come from Falun Gong among others
Epoch Times Israel Staff - Aug 05, 2007
Four men accused of pocketing millions of dollars that patients had paid for organ transplants in Asia were arrested in Israel this week. The arrests followed months of investigation after the main suspect admitted to an Israeli newspaper that the organs were coming from Chinese death row inmates and prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners.
Yaron Izhak Yodukin, CEO of Medikt Ltd. and its Israeli counterpart, was arrested Tuesday for not reporting millions of dollars in income earned by mediating organ transplants for Israelis in China and the Philippines. In recent years, hundreds of Israelis are reported to have traveled to Asia for transplants.
According to Yediot Achronot, Israel's largest newspaper, the country's authorities began investigating Yodukin's activities after he said in an undercover interview nine months ago that the organs his company was helping to provide in China came from political prisoners, death row inmates and people arrested for practicing Falun Gong.
During the investigation, the authorities reportedly discovered that Yodukin's company had been turning in fraudulent receipts to a national healthcare provider and thereby avoiding tax payments on millions of dollars in earnings.
According to Yediot, the receipts reported costs of organ transplants that were much higher than in reality. By charging Israelis more than what was necessary, Yodukin and his colleagues then pocketed the difference, amounting to as much as six million dollars.
Suspected of aiding Yodukin in his tax fraud scheme are his assistant Peleg Matan, Medikt manager Ilan Perry, and a company lawyer whose name has yet to be made public. All three were also arrested this week.
Adding to the seriousness of the episode have been reports that senior administrators in one of the country's main healthcare providers—Kupat Cholim Klalit—were somehow involved or aware of what Yodukin and his associates were doing.
Originally posted by vox2442
Originally posted by rightuos
wait wait isn't Sweden a neutral country?...
Switzerland is the neutral one. Sweden is all about the easy to assemble furniture.
Oh, and by the way, if you don't know the difference between Switzerland and Sweden, you're probably not qualified to talk about international affairs.
Originally posted by zerbot565
Originally posted by vox2442
Originally posted by rightuos
wait wait isn't Sweden a neutral country?...
Switzerland is the neutral one. Sweden is all about the easy to assemble furniture.
Oh, and by the way, if you don't know the difference between Switzerland and Sweden, you're probably not qualified to talk about international affairs.
as far as i know sweden hasent fougth a war in 450 years + and they where neutral´in ww2 exept for the part where most zyclon B cannisters have the print made in sweden on them ,
so either the holocaust happened and sweden got of the hook quite easily or the zyclon B - holocaust connection is not real.
´But i wouyld say sweden is a neutral country in the same sence that swiss has the world biggest naval merchant fleet.
200 Years Since Sweden Loses Finland
Exactly 200 years have passed since the last military battle was fought on Swedish soil - bloody clashes between Sweden and Russia.
The battles were fierce and numerous -– with field artillery and ship's cannons booming from the shorelines and islands of the southern archipelago up through Finland and to the Swedish northeastern coast - above Umeå – to the small northern towns of Ratar and Sävar where the final skirmishes were fought - the towns obliterated and surrounding forest trees cut to stumps by the shelling.
That Swedish-Russian war was really only a minor rumbling on the fringe of a Napoleonic war machine rolling over Europe.
Over a century has passed since Sweden's super power era had faded – when Protestant Swedish warrior kings had carried their banners throughout the Baltic region and down deep into Catholic Germany - and Sweden had long lost much of its Baltic territory.
By the 19th century, France and Russia dominated the scene, eager to push a weakened Sweden away from its only ally Britain. For its help, Russia would be given Sweden eastern half - Finland.
The Russian army and navy swept over southern Finland, moving north and then crossing the Baltic over into Swedish territory:
For as the battles raged in the north, the political situation down in Stockholm darkened: Swedish King Gustav the 4th who hated Napoleon as the biblical devil himself was blamed for bungled military leadership, was arrested and deposed, and his government dismissed.
The Campaign against Norway, or The Norwegian-Swedish War of 1814 was fought between Sweden and Norway in the summer of 1814. The war resulted in Norway entering into union with Sweden, but with its own constitution and parliament. It is the last war to have been fought by Sweden to date.
Bostrom stressed that he has no proof that Israeli soldiers were stealing organs, and that the purpose of his opinion article was to call for an investigation into numerous claims in the 1990s that such activity was going on.