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Israelis are criminals! Heartless murderers and are committing worst crimes against humanity, ever committed in human history: 1 - Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs) - By Alison Weir 3 - Wall Street's Stranglehold on the Economy Is Choking Americans - By Shah Gilani, 4 - Why is China foolishly lending the US so much money ? (Video) 5 - The Real Reason for the Cancellation of the 9-11 Trial - By Christopher Bollyn 6 - Dr Mahathir Explains the History of Palestine and the theft of Arab Country for the European Jews 7 - Salim Nazzal - Zionists can threaten but can not intimidate me 8 - Why We Petition For Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon - By Franklin Lamb 9 - Foreign Policy Journal : Rogue State - Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions - By Jeremy R. Hammond http://www.wrmea. com/component/ content/article/ 321-2009- november/ 6602-israel i-organ-trafficking -and-theft- from-moldova- to-palestine. html Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 2009, Pages 15-17 Special Report 1 - Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine By Alison Weir In August Sweden's largest daily newspaper published an article containing grisly evidence suggesting that Israel had been taking Palestinian internal organs. The article, by veteran photojournalist Donald Bostrom, called for an international investigation to discover the facts.1 In this photograph taken March 22, 2007, Vasile Dimineti holds a picture of his 24-year-old son, who died a year after selling his kidney. The family lives in the impoverished Moldovan village of Mingir, where about 40 of its 7,000 residents are thought to have sold a kidney. AFP photo/Daniel Mihailescu/Files Israel immediately accused Bostrom and the newspaper of "anti- Semitism, " and charged that suggesting Israelis could be involved in the illicit removal of body parts constituted a modern "blood libel" (medieval stories of Jews killing people for their blood). 2 Nmerous Israeli partisans repeated these accusations, including Commentary's Jonathan Tobin, who asserted that the story was "merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel hate. "3 Others suggested that the newspaper was "irresponsible" for running such an article.4 The fact is, however, that Israeli organ harvesting-sometime s with Israeli governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries-has been documented for many years. Among the victims have been Palestinians. Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Chancellor's Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the founder of Organ Watch, and the author of scholarly books and articles on organ trafficking. She is the pundit mainstream media call upon when they need expert commentary on the topic. 5. Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection: "Israel is at the top," she states. "It has tentacles reaching out worldwide. 6. In a lecture last year sponsored by New York's PBS 13 Forum, Scheper- Hughes explained that Israeli organ traffickers, "had and still have a pyramid system at work that's awesome.they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they've got recruiters, they've got translators, they've got travel agents who set up the visas." Lest this sound simply like a successful international concern, it's important to understand the nature of such a business. As Scheper-Hughes describes it, organ trafficking consists of "paying the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle their bodies." Organ traffickers prey on the world's poorest, most desperate citizens- slum dwellers, inhabitants of dying villages, people without means or hope. Traffickers promise them what seem like astronomical sums of money (from $1,000 to $10,000)-which they frequently don't even deliver-in return for vital internal organs. For traffickers, human body parts are commodities, to be cut out of the bodies of the poor and sold to the rich. The organ "donors" receive no follow-up care and end up worse off on many levels-physically, financially, psychologically, socially-than even their original tragic situation. Sometimes they are coerced into such "donations." Organ sales have been illegal in most countries for years. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which covers prevention, enforcement and sanctions in trafficking of humans, includes in its definition of human exploitation the extraction of organs for profit. 7 Israel finally passed legislation against organ trafficking in 2008.8, 9 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.'" Scheper-Hughes says that she "even heard doctors saying that." For many years Israelis in need of an internal organ have gone on what experts call "transplant tourism"-traveling to other nations to obtain internal organs. Sometimes body parts are obtained from those freshly dead; more often from the desperately needy. While affluent people from numerous countries and ethnicities engage in this practice, Israel is unique in several significant ways. First, Israelis engage in this at an extraordinarily high rate. According to a 2001 BBC report, Israelis buy more kidneys per capita than any other population.Second, Israelis have the lowest donor rate in the world-one-fifth that of Europe, according to BBC. This is in part because there has been a widespread impression that Jewish religious law prohibits transplants as a "desecration of the body."10 The Israeli news service Ynet reports, "the percentage of organs donated among Jews is the lowest of all the ethnic groups. "11. Third, the Israeli government has enabled the practice. For many years the Israeli health system subsidized its citizens' "transplant holidays," reimbursing Israelis $80,000 for medical operations abroad. Much of the remaining costs could often be obtained from government-subsidiz ed 12 Israeli insurance plans. 13 In addition, Israel's Ministry of Defense was directly involved. Scheper-Hughes discussed Israeli organ trafficking in detail in 2001 in published testimony to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 14 In her extensive testimony, Scheper-Hughes stated that although Israel had become a pariah for its organ policies, Israeli officials exhibited "amazing tolerance. toward outlawed 'transplant tourism.'" She described an international syndicate which was "organized through a local business corporation in conjunction with a leading transplant surgeon, operating out of a major medical center not far from Tel Aviv," and which had forged links with transplant surgeons in Turkey, Russia, Moldavia, Estonia, Georgia, Romania, and New York City. The Israeli Ministry of Defense was directly involved in what Scheper- Hughes called Israel's "'illicit [in other nations] national 'program' of transplant tourism.Members of the Ministry of Defense or those closely related to them" accompanied transplant junkets. In her Forum 13 lecture, Scheper-Hughes said that investigating Israeli organ trafficking over the past decade had taken her "from country to country to country to country." One of these is Moldova, the poorest country in Europe-and homeland of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman-where 90 percent of the people earn less than $2 a day. A 2001 BBC report on organ trafficking described the situation: "Hundreds of Israelis have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney. 15 Another is Brazil, where a legislative commission found that 30 [it may actually have been as high as 60] Brazilians from impoverished neighborhoods had sold their kidneys to a trafficking ring headed by Israelis, with Israeli citizens receiving almost all of the organs, and the Israeli government providing most of the funding. 16 The ring had also begun inquiring about buying other vital organs from poor residents, including lungs, livers and corneas. 17 An Inter Press Service (IPS) news story from the time reported that Scheper-Hughes testified to the commission that international trafficking of human organs had begun some 12 years earlier, promoted by Zaki Shapira, head of kidney transplant services at Bellinson Medical Center, near Tel Aviv. Scheper-Hughes reported that Shapira had performed more than 300 kidney transplants, sometimes accompanying his patients to other countries such as Turkey. The recipients were very wealthy or had very good health insurance,and the "donors" very poor people from Eastern Europe, the Philippines and other developing countries. The chairman of the Brazilian commission, physician Raimundo Pimentel, was outraged at Israeli policies, pointing out that trafficking can only take place on a large scale if there is a major source of financing, such as the Israeli health system. Pimentel charged that the resources provided by the Israeli health system "were a determining factor" in enabling a network that preyed on society's poorest populations. In 2004 there were reports that Israeli traffickers had added China to their target donor populations. 18 In one recent case an Israeli paid an organ broker $100,000 for a kidney transplant in China from an 18-year-old Chinese girl. She received $5,000 and died following surgery. 19 New York Times reporter Larry Rohter pointed out that allowing brokers to operate with few restrictions benefited Israel "by exporting Israel's organ shortage overseas." Rohter cites a kidney specialist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem who explained that patients who go abroad "'save the country a lot of money; not only in terms of what doesn't have to be spent on dialysis, but also by opening places for other people who are on the list. '"20. Many people find governmental complicity in organ trafficking deeply troubling on moral and philosophical grounds. As Scheper-Hughes testified: "The sale of human organs and tissues requires that certain disadvantaged individuals, populations, and even nations have been reduced to the role of 'suppliers.' "It is a scenario in which only certain bodies are broken, dismembered, fragmented, transported, processed, and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged population.. .of receivers." She believes that the risks and benefits of organ transplant surgery should be more equally distributed among nations, ethnic groups, and social classes. Organ theft It is difficult to know how often Israeli trafficking involves outright theft of vital organs from living human beings. It is not rare for the "donor" to receive little or none of the compensation promised. For example, in 2007 Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that two Israelis had confessed to persuading Palestinians "from the Galilee and central Israel who were developmentally challenged or mentally ill to agree to have a kidney removed for payment." According to the Haaretz report,after the organ had been taken the traffickers refused to pay for them.On occasion, people are coerced into giving up their organs. For example, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, the alleged Brooklyn trafficker recently arrested in an FBI sweep in New Jersey, reportedly carried a gun. When a potential organ seller would try to back out, Rosenbaum would use his finger to simulate firing a gun at the person's head. The Rosenbaum case, reportedly part of a ring centered in Israel, is the first case of trafficking to be prosecuted in the US. His arrest and the substantial evidence against him may have surprised State Department Countermisinformati on Director Todd Leventhal, who had characterized organ trafficking as an "urban legend," stating, "It would be impossible to successfully conceal a clandestine organ-trafficking ring." Leventhal called such reports "irresponsible and totally unsubstantiated. " More often organ theft involves dead bodies-or those alleged to be dead. Israel's very first successful heart transplant, in fact, used a stolen heart. In 1968 Avraham Sadegat unexpectedly died two days after being hospitalized in Beilinson Hospital in Israel's Petah Tikva for a stroke. When his family finally was able to retrieve his body (the hospital initially refused to release it) they found his chest covered with bandages; odd, they thought, for a stroke victim. Upon removing these they discovered that the chest cavity was stuffed with bandages and the heart was missing.21 During this time, the Israeli press was heralding the historic heart transplant, performed by a team of surgeons who were to become some of Israel's most celebrated physicians, among them Dr. Morris Levy, Dr. Bernardo Vidne, and Dr Jack Solomon, who harvested the heart.22 When the family began to ask questions, the hospital denied any connection. After the man's wife and brother had raised a media furor, petitioned three cabinet ministers-and agreed to sign a document that they would not sue-the hospital finally admitted it was Sadegat's heart that had been used. Haaretz quoted Sadegat's tearful wife: "They treated him like an alley cat.From the moment he entered the hospital, they apparently saw him only as a potential source of organs and not as a man in need of treatment. They only thought about how to do the deed without us knowing." Sadegat's medical condition before his heart was removed has not been made public. It is possible-perhaps probable-that up until his heart was removed it was still beating; according to an Israeli media report, "once a heart stops beating, it is no longer fit for transplantation. "23 .Even if he was what is now termed "brain dead," the general view is that family members should at least be a party to decisions regarding the patient: first, whether to "pull the plug," and, second, whether to donate an organ. At the time, however, Israeli law allowed organs to be harvested without the family's consent. Forty years later the hospital held an anniversary celebration of the transplant, despite the fact that, according to Haaretz, the heart had been obtained "through deceit and trickery." The festivities, which honored surviving members of the transplant team, featured balloons and a red, heart-shaped cake. In this incident of organ theft (and from a possibly living body), the family was Israeli. Had the wife and brother been Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza, they would not have possessed the power to force a confession from the hospital, and it is likely that those individuals today calling the Swedish article a "blood libel" or "irresponsible journalism" would have applied the same epithets to journalists reporting questions concerning the historic Israeli heart transplant-if any reporters even bothered or dared to do so. Yehuda Hiss, keeper of the morgue Perhaps one of the most long-term and high-level cases of organ theft- and one that involves Palestinian as well as Israeli organs-concerns an extraordinarily high official: Dr. Yehuda Hiss, Israel's chief pathologist and, from 1988 through 2004, director of Israel's state morgue, the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir. An early indication of malfeasance came to light in 1998 and concerned a Scottish man named Alisdair Sinclair, who had died under questionable circumstances after being taken into custody at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport. The Israeli story, as reported by the Israeli news magazine Jerusalem Report, is that Sinclair had confessed to transporting drugs, even though none were found, although he was in possession of 9,000 German marks ($5,000). He then, the police claim, hanged himself by looping his shoelaces and T-shirt around a towel bar about a meter off the ground and slipped the improvised noose around his neck. From a squatting position, the police story goes, he repeatedly threw his bodyweight downward, choking himself.Sinclair did not die, however, and medics were able to restore a heartbeat. He was transferred to a hospital where, according to the magazine report,the hospital's associate director, Dr. Yigal Halperin, said that Sinclair "had suffered irreversible brain damage, and there was little doctors could do for him. Left in a corner of the emergency room, he died at 7 p.m. [It's unknown whether he had been put on life support.] His corpse was transferred to the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir for an autopsy." Afterwards, Israeli authorities located Sinclair's family and gave them three weeks to dispose of the body. They suggested that he be buried in a Christian cemetery in Israel, pointing out that this would be one- third the cost of shipping the body back to Scotland. However, the grieving family scraped up the money to bring him home. They had a second autopsy performed by Glasgow University, only to discover that Sinclair's heart and a small bone in his throat called the hyoid were missing. The British Embassy filed a complaint with Israel, and a heart was sent to Scotland. According to the Jerusalem Report, the family "wanted the Forensic Institute to pay for a DNA test to confirm that this heart was indeed their brother's, but the Institute's director, Prof. Jehuda Hiss, refused, citing the prohibitive cost." Despite a protest from the British government, Israel refused to supply Pathological Report and Police investigation report. Lab Report and Police Report. -- Visit my Blog for a no nonsense, serious discussion of problems facing the humanity: http:\\harbingerblog. wordpress. com
