[Peace-discuss] Fw: [socialistdiscussion] Israeli organ harvesting

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Reimann" <1999wildcat at gmail.com>
To: "socialist discussion" <socialistdiscussion at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:05 PM
Subject: [socialistdiscussion] Israeli organ harvesting


Now, in the latest atrocity by the State of Israel, there is
increasing evidence of organ harvesting of Palestinians. Here is a
communication I've received:


From: Alison Weir

Following my CounterPunch article
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/sweden.html), the Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs asked me to write a piece for them. In
researching the subject further I found even more, somewhat explosive
information on the topic, largely from Israeli media.

As a result, I have written two new, fully footnoted articles -- a
shorter one that is in the print edition of the November Washington
Report and a longer version that is on their website:
http://wrmea.org/component/content/article/321-2009-november/6602-israeli-organ-trafficking-and-theft-from-moldova-to-palestine.html

EXCERPTS:
...Scheper-Hughes ...is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the
Israeli connection:
“Israel is at the top,” she states. “It has tentacles reaching out
worldwide.”6*  *  *
... In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two
motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other
was somewhat chilling: “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the
Holocaust.”
She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her “it’s kind of
‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We’re going to get every
single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to
us.’”
*  *  *
... For many years the Israeli health system subsidized its citizens’
“transplant holidays,” ... In addition, Israel’s Ministry of Defense
was directly involved.
*  *  *
... “several other Palestinians gave a similar narrative, recounting
how they received the bodies of their murdered relatives, mostly men
in their early twenties, with vital organs taken away by the Israeli
authorities.”
Israel has consistently characterized such accusations as
“anti-Semitic,” and numerous other journalists have discounted them as
exaggerations.
However, according to the pro-Israel Forward magazine, the truth of
these charges was, in fact, confirmed by an Israeli governmental
investigation a number of years ago.
*  *  *
... In 1996, Jewish Week reported that Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, a
leader of the Lubavitch sect of Judaism and the dean of a religious
Jewish school in a West Bank settlement, stated: “If a Jew needs a
liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to
save him? The Torah would probably permit that.”

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Check out:
http://www.iww.org/en/blog/1411
http://www.worldwide-socialist.net/INDEX.html


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