ISRAEL: Organ harvesting after slaughtering Palestinians

[digitalzygot]

Swedish newspaper article suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs.The article published on Monday in Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest circulation daily, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the US of an American Jew for illicit organ trafficking.

Headlined "Our sons are plundered for their organs," the story made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood.The article was illustrated with a photograph of a dead Palestinian man with a line of surgical stitches running the length of his torso, apparently taken after an autopsy, as well as pictures of stone-throwing youths and Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a New York resident arrested in an FBI sting last month and charged with plotting to buy a kidney from an Israeli and sell it to an American patient for $160,000.

The writer, Donald Bostrom, based the story on accounts from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza whom he identified only by their first names. It quotes an Israeli military spokesman denying the charges.

Aftonbladet Editor Jan Helin said, "The article poses a question - why has this body been autopsied when the cause of death is obvious? There I think Israeli authorities owe us an answer."Helin also objected to what he called 'the hate campaign that has been expressed in emails to me and the editorial office, but also through Israeli media'

 

[contra]

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/ ... arvesting/
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In defense of Israel ---

Israel hits back over Swedish organ harvesting article

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
The journalists need the credentials to report from Gaza.

"We have no duty to supply them with press cards immediately; (we) have 90 days to decide about their status," said Danny Siman, the head of the government press office.

The article, "Our sons are being stripped of their organs," appeared Tuesday in Aftonbladet and was an opinion piece written by freelance journalist Donald Bostrom.

Bostrom told CNN he had :twisted: no proof :twisted: that Israeli soldiers were stealing organs, and that the purpose of his piece was to call for an investigation into numerous claims in the 1990s that such activity was going on in the West Bank and Gaza.

Even though the Swedish embassy distanced itself from the report, the country's foreign ministry refused to condemn it -- saying Sweden has a "free press." 8-) :P

The refusal has rankled Israel, which said it will submit an official complaint.

"This is an anti-Semitic blood libel against the Jewish people and the Jewish state. The Swedish government cannot remain apathetic :evil: ," said Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz.

"We know the origins of these claims. In medieval times, there were claims that the Jews use the blood of Christians to bake their Matzas for Passover. The modern version now is that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers use organs of Palestinians to make money." :x
He continued: "It makes no difference whether this comes from a neo-Nazi organization or from an honorable newspaper. The Swedish government must renounce itself from this anti-Semitic publication."

The article centers around the case of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem, a 19-year-old Palestinian man who was shot and killed in 1992, allegedly by Israeli forces, in the West Bank village of Imatin.

Bostrom, who witnessed the man's killing, said Ghanem was taken away by Israeli forces while he was still mortally wounded. His body was returned five days later with a cut in his midsection that had been stitched up.

Ghanem's family said they believed :roll: that his organs had been removed.

After that incident, at least 20 Palestinian families told Bostrom that they suspected the Israeli military had taken the organs of their sons after they had been killed by Israeli forces and their bodies taken away -- presumably for routine autopsies. :o

Bostrom said he balanced :lol: those claims in his article by including a reaction from an Israeli military spokesman who told him that the Israel Defense Forces routinely carries out autopsies :geek: on Palestinians killed by their troops.

But, as he stated in his article, Bostrom said he has doubts about the necessity of the procedures if it is clear how the person died. :?:

Last week Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman compared the Swedish Foreign Ministry's hands-off position to the country's neutrality during World War II.

"It's a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene in a case of blood libels against Jews," Lieberman told Sweden's ambassador to Israel on Thursday evening. "This is reminiscent of Sweden's stand during World War II, when [it] had failed to intervene as well."

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Opinion - I think freedom of speech is more important. The article by Mr. Bostrom was at best an opinion piece, not based on facts, as he said he doesn't have any evidence.
But the allegations are serious, especially if they are meant to malign Israel and the IDF.

 

[nabeel117]

FYI (freedom of speech in case of Israel :twisted: )

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2pLo8JV5Y[/video]

 

[taul]

--George Galloway is Quite good in Assessing and Reporting things :geek: I remember watching his Congressional hearing and he simply blasted all the Congressmen Apart :lol: :lol:,,he's very bold and blunt as well as Saying the Truth :geek: which hurts a lot in the Zionists Lobby :evil: as well as their well wishers :oops: :lol:

 

[digitalzygot]

Whatever Israel does, they have a reason, they can occupy palestinian land, they can kill, rape and kick them out of their houses and if anyone says anything they call it it's anti-semitic, loads of bull crap. Amnesty revealed how Israel were targeting civilians on purpose specially women and kids to use them as shields, Israel bombs amnesty international's office in Gaza killing more than 150 people including kids and females. They used white phosphorus and GOD knows whatelse the whole world kept watching it. Israel's defense was they are protecting themselves from home made rockets that doesn't even reach it's territory, end result more than 2000 Palestinina's dead compared to 13 Israeli's.

Israel suffocated palestinians, blocked their food, medicine for years before the build up of gaza war, few weeks back Israeli rabbis were caught red handed selling body parts and money laundering, there was a short story in western media than this swedish article came up. FOX, CNN, BBC all jewish lobby they won't show what Israel's doing if they do they will get hate mails, anti-semitic chants because PROPAGANDA IS WHAT ISRAEL'S KNOW THE BEST.

I feel pitty for you contra, people like you make me feel sick and disgusted who don't have the balls to say what's wrong and what's right. You disgust me by supporting Israel's barbaric acts.

 

[taul]

--Agree, digitalzygot :) ,,Israelis will taste their fate ;) ..even a blind can see even being so Technologically advanced they still fear their doom 8-) they know it,,the writing is on the wall for them to keep living in fear Like thieves and low-level Scums :evil: ...nobody and i mean literally no body can save them from this Humiliation 8-) ...even Ultra-Orthodox Jews are against the state of Israel ;) they can have as many ridiculous supporters :lol: they can even if they may not ask so, but some Desperately want to tag along and show Dying support :lol: for them ;) ...