Ancient blood libel revived as a rhetorical weapon against Israel. The Swedish-language article, ”Våra söner plundras på sina organ,” (Our sons' organs are being plundered) is in Aftonbladet here. Thanks to Ted Ekeroth for sending this in -- Ted also kindly sent in the Google translation, which is below. If any human being, meanwhile, can translate this and send it in, I will replace this mechanized gabble. Ted notes that "the article is written by the left-wing radical and Israel-hater Donald Boström, and he is given the title of 'journalist.'"
"Our sons plundered for their organs'Palestinians accuse the Israeli army to steal body parts from his victims.
It tells Donald Boström of the international transplant scandal - and how he himself became a witness to the assault on a 19-year-old boy.I am what you might call a "match maker," said Levy Izhak Rosenbaum from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI agent he thought was a customer. Ten days later, at the end of July this year Rosenbaum was arrested in connection with a large tangle of corruption uncovered in New Jersey: rabbis, elected and trusted officials had for years engaged in money laundering and illegal organ, which was now rolling up like a Soprano network. Rosenbaums matchmaking was allltså not about romance but about buying and selling kidneys from Israel on the black market. According to its own statement, he buys bodies from the needy people in Israel for 10 $ 000 and sell them to desperate patients in the U.S. for 160 $ 000. The legal waiting time for kidneys is an average of nine years.
The accusations have shaken the American transplant industry. If this is true, it is the first time organ trafficking documented in the U.S., said experts in the magazine New Jersey Real-Time News.
Asked how many bodies he has sold Rosenbaum responds: Quite a lot. Many. And I have never failed, he brags on. His business has been going on for a very long time.
Francis Delmonici, Harvard Professor of Transplantation Surgery, and a board member of the National Kidney Foundation's Board of Directors, said in the same newspaper that similar organ trafficking in Israel is also under way elsewhere in the world.Roughly, it is 10 percent of the 63 000 kidney transplant in the world made illegal, says Delmonici.
Hot countries for this illegal activity is Pakistan, the Philippines and China, where it is believed that organs taken from executed prisoners. But the strong suspicion is also among Palestinians that their young men were caught in, and as in China and Pakistan involuntary act had body spare before they were killed. A very serious suspicion that has enough questions to ICJ, International Court of Justice, should definitely open an investigation into whether it is about Israeli war crimes.
Israel recurrent ended up in blowing weather for their unethical way of dealing with organs and transplantation. Countries including France, cut off the body cooperation with Israel as early as the nineties, and the Jerusalem Post wrote "to other countries in Europe expected to follow France's example soon."
Half of the new kidneys that Israelis had implanted since the early 2000's have been purchased illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe or Latin America. Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of the business, but do nothing to stop it. 2003 revealed at a conference that Israel is the only Western country whose medical profession does not condemn the illegal organ trade or take any legal action against the doctors involved in the criminal process. On the contrary, the chief doctor at the major hospitals involved in most illegal transplantations, according to Dagens Nyheter (December 5, 2003).
In an attempt to overcome organ shortage in the country was Israel's then health minister, Ehud Olmert, in a major campaign in summer 1992 to get the Israeli population to set up as organ donors. Half a million pamphlets were distributed in local newspapers where citizens were invited to write in to donate their organs after their death. Ehud Olmert was the first to write on.
Already a couple of weeks after the Jerusalem Post wrote that the campaign has given a successful outcome. No less is 35 000 people had written on, usually it is 500 a month. In the same article the journalist wrote Judy Siegel that the gap between supply and demand was still high. Sex for kidney transplants was 500 people, but only 124 people could undergo surgery. Of the 45 persons in need of a new liver had only three people the opportunity to undergo surgery in Israel.
While this body campaign lasted disappeared young Palestinian men who came back at night to their villages five days later, dead and uppsprättade.
Talk about the uppsprättade cells terrified population in the West Bank and Gaza. There was talk of a dramatic increase in young men who disappeared with subsequent nocturnal funerals of autopsy young men.
I was in the area and worked on a book when I several times was contacted by UN staff who were concerned about the development. Those who contacted me felt that body theft actually took place, but that they were unable to act. On behalf of a television company, I then went around and spoke to a large number of Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza, which meant that their sons become bestulna the bodies before they were killed. One of the examples I saw of this eerie trip was the young stone's Bilal Achmed GHANAIAN.
The clock was approaching midnight when the engine sounds from the Israeli miltärkolonnen was heard on the outskirts of the village Imatin in the northern West Bank. The village's two thousand inhabitants remained a man wake up and stood as silent shadows in the dark. Some were on rooftops, others were behind their curtains, houses or trees, which gave protection in the dark during utegångsförbudet but still offered a clear view of what would become a graveyard for the village's first martyr.
The military had broken all the electricity around the village and the area was off military area - not a cat could move outdoors without risking lives. Mörkrets deafening silence was broken only by quiet sob and I can not remember if it was the cold or excitement we Hutt total. Five days earlier, May 13, 1992, was an Israeli special force put themselves in ambush in the village craftsmen. The person that special forces had been instructed to destroy the 19-year-old Bilal Achmed GHANAIAN, one of the active Palestinian stone-throwing young people who made life difficult for the Israeli occupying power.
GHANAIAN Bilal was one of the leading stone are called for since a couple of years. This meant that he along with other wanted stone throw guys lived under the sky up in Nablusbergen. To be captured meant death, and all the previous stories about the torture did not improve matters. Thus did they in the mountains. But for some reason took Bilal down from the mountains one day and wandered unchecked through the village past the carpenter house this unfortunate day in mid-May. Why he came down just this day could not even Talal, his older brother to answer, perhaps it was the food end and stores needed refilled.
Everything went according to plan for the Israeli special forces. The cigarette butt, who relinquished the Coca-Cola cans and sieved calmly through the broken window. When Bilal was sufficiently close, only to pull the trigger. The first shot hit in the chest. According to villagers who witnessed the incident, he was then with a shot in each leg. Then ran two soldiers from snickeriet and shot him once again in the stomach. Finally, they took Bilal in the feet and dragged him up the 20 steps snickeriets stone staircase. Villagers tell then that people from both the UN and Red Crescent who were nearby and heard the shots unloading had gone to the spot to take care of the injured. The argument about who would take care of the victim ended up on the Israeli force loaded in the severely injured Bilal in a jeep and drove off to the village's outskirts. It foresaw a militärhelikopter proposed off Bilal towards his relatives unknown destination.
Five days later he came back in the dark, dead and wrapped in green hospital fabrics. When military column as downloaded from Bilal Abu Kabir autopsy center outside Tel Aviv stop at the place of final rest Bilal knew someone again the Israeli military leader of Group Captain Yahya. "The most difficult of them all" the person whispered in the darkness in my ear. When Captain Yahya men loaded the body and changed the green fabric with a light cotton fabric, was chosen a few male relatives to perform the job - to dig soil and mix cement.
Together with the sharp sounds of shovels were heard occasional laughter from the soldiers that until they have to go home came a few jokes to each other. When Bilal spent in the tomb uncovered in his chest and suddenly it became clear to the few currently the abuse he suffered. Bilal was far from the first buried uppskuren from the abdomen up to the chin and speculation about the intention had been taken off.
The affected Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza was sure what happened to their sons. Our sons are used as forced organ donors, said relatives of Khaled from Nablus to me, as the mother of Raed from Jenin and uncles to Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, all of which were missing a number of days and come back at night, kill and dissect.
- Why did they keep the bodies of up to five days before we can bury them? What happened to the bodies in the meantime? And why is the autopsy when the cause of death is obvious, and in all cases against our will? And why will the bodies back at night? And why the military card? And why are closed areas of the funeral? And why break the electricity? The questions were many and outraged by Nafes uncle.
The families of the killed Palestinian men had no longer any question about it.The spokesman for the Israeli army said contrary to allegations of organ theft were fabrications by the Palestinians. All Palestinians who were killed are routinely subject to autopsy, he said.
Bilal Achmed Ghanem was one of 133 Palestinians killed in various ways that year. According to Palestinian statistics were dödorsakerna following: shot in the street, explosions, beatings, tear gas, deliberately hit, hung in the jail, shot in the school, killed at home, etc.. Of the 133 killed persons aged four months to 88 years was the 69 pieces of autopsy, ie only half of the dead. The routine autopsy of killed Palestinians, the army spokesman told is not true in reality in the Occupied Territories. Questions remain.
We know that the need for organs in Israel is large, that an extensive illegal organ is ongoing, that there has been a long time, that it is done with the blessing of the authorities, the senior doctor at the major hospitals involved, as well as officials at various levels. And we know that the Palestinian young men disappeared, they were back five days later in secrecy at night, uppsprättade and sewn.
Time to shed light on this macabre activity on what is going on and what has passed in the Israeli occupied territories since the intifada started.
Donald Boström
Donald Boström is a journalist, photographer and author of, inter alia reportageboken Inshallah (Ordfront förlag 2003).
Yet another example of the convergence of the Left and Islam to engage in mutual hatred of Jews, Christians, and the West. The Left, with its pathological hatred for all things Western, has sought to put itself into the service of Islam by spreading the most vicious anti-Semitic and anti-American propaganda, while defending the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and even al-Qaeda as either the poor victims of Zionism and Western imperialism, or the revolutionary vanguard against the evil, capitalist, racist West. This is why Leftist figureheads like Noam Chomsky go and break bread with Hasan Nasrullah, or why radical socialist propagandist Michael Moore compares Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the rest of the Iraqi jihadists to the minutemen (i.e. they're "freedom fighters") or how Ward Churchill can praise the 9/11 hijackers and compare their victims to Nazi bureaucrats. The Left hates the West, Christianity, the white race, and Jews and will assist any group, including murderous jihadists, that stands against their enemies.
"Hot countries for this illegal activity is Pakistan, the Philippines and China,"
--from the article
None of these is exactly a center of Zionism.
This is sad. Muslims blow themselves up, what's left?
They seem to be conflating a real story about people selling body parts for transplants with accusations that the IDF is harvesting body parts from dead terrorists. I am not sure if this is just poor reporting or a garbled translation.
Ted notes that "the article is written by the left-wing radical and Israel-hater Donald Boström, and he is given the title of 'journalist.'"
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Well, I find this especially disturbing--and this is why.
For a long time, I have considered liberal and left-wing encouragement of Islam and Jihad to be essentially clueless--either well-meaning multiculturalism, which encourages Muslim norms--or more radical lefty causes which enshrine "issues" such as Jihad against Israel as "struggles against oppression".
Although the communist tinged apologia for Jihad is less innocent than the multi-cultural stuff, it has, in large part, seemed just about as ignorant of islamist aims.
But just in the last couple of days, I have seen two examples of non-Muslims deliberately using false hot-button issues in order to whip up Muslim ire.
The first was reported a few days ago by Mrs. J--a communist group in Birmingham in Britain spread the false rumor that the BNP had burned mosques--and then further claimed that anti-Jihad protesters were themselves BNP. Of course, Muslim violence ensued.
This story above is similar. Infidels *knowingly* spreading falsehoods that are sure to inflame Muslims.
I find this incredibly ugly, and--if it becomes common--extremely alarming in its implications.
The muslim jihadi's have copy pasted the nazi propaganda about Jews.
And the sad thing is that there are many muslims out there who actualy believe this crap.
Another important point--this story didn't appear in some obscure fringe journal--it appeared in Aftonbladet, which is the most widely read newspaper not just in Sweden, but in all of Scandinavia.
Also, Donald Boström's article is full of innuendo--conflating the practice of poor people selling their organs such as kidneys with murdering people for their body parts.
Many people would consider the first rather disturbing--and certainly, it is illegal in much of the world--but to lump this in with the supposed practice of *murdering people for their organs* would be insane.
In addition, any doctor would tell you that, even if anyone were to be so vicious and unscrupulous, that such a tactic simply wouldn't work in most cases. You can't harvest viable organs from corpses--or, in most cases, from people suffering trauma and bloodloss.
Like many Muslim conspiracy theories, it doesn't hold up to even the most elementary logic. But that doesn't seem to matter, here.
Clearly, the Israelis--according to Boström--are pure evil. The statement that for a kid who threw stones at the Israelis "to be captured meant death" is clearly factually ludicrous.
He happily conflates the routine practice of autopsy--seldom performed in the backward Muslim world--with organ harvesting.
But why not? He even makes an organ donor drive in Israel seem sinister. [Like Ehud Olmert, I have an organ donor card, as does my husband.]
That Israel and the rest of the West save tens of thousands of lives with organ transplants--a great humanitarian achievement--can't stand up in the face of dark Muslim conspiracy theories. That this is being abetted in the West itself is suicidal madness.
This is not the first time a calumny of this sort has been propounded. A few years ago the odious Turkish film “Kurtlar Vadisi Irak” (“Valley of the Wolves Iraq”) depicted an American Jewish doctor harvesting organs from dead Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib for sale to rich clients in New York and Tel Aviv. A number of Hollywood Z-list actors actually "starred" in that vile production.
Jews have done many wonderful things for Muslims and others. Now evil behind minds are gain trying to cause Jews to be hated. Since Arabs are Semitic, the things they say about Jews need to be referred to Arabs. But then Arabs are not smart enuff to even remove a splinter.
Funny I thought it was the so called "Palestinians" who taught their children how to strap on a belt of explosives to commit murder by suicide.
Aren't they the ones who like to say:"We love death" and "Allahhu Akbar" then go boom.
They missed the real story. The IDF harvests the teeth of Palestinian children to make teeny tiny pianos for their cappuccino monkeys to play while the Jews enjoy a cup of hot Muslim baby blood. Woops I forgot my own rule. Never make jokes of the 'logical extreme' variety as today's logical extreme joke is tomorrows Arab headline.
I read this thinking surely it must be a hoax...but I know it is not. Sad, sad days.
I will attempt to translate some of the words missed by Google (I am better with Norwegian language).
Mörkrets = the darkness
utegångsförbudet = curfew
militärhelikopter = military helicopter
dödorsakerna = cause of death
"Sex for kidney transplants was 500 people, but only 124 people could undergo surgery."
This should probably read "Demand for kidney transplants...". It caught my eye!
Yet another one for the extensive file that I have entitled "Nonsense and Lies Department".
So many lies and deception about the Jews have gone on down the centuries which has led to much persecution and movement of the Jews to find safe places to live, so no wonder they want to go back to their homeland Israel which God gave them thousands of years ago.
God said He would bring them back at the end of the age!
It`s happening!!
Mr. Spencer wrote: “If any human being, meanwhile, can translate this and send it in, I will replace this mechanized gabble.” Unaware of Mr. Spencer’s travelling plans I sent him my human, though naturally also flawed translation from the unsavory Swedish original, by e-mail. In order for it to benefit those readers who do not read scandinavian texts with ease, I place my translation at their disposal here, although it is not a comment. Google’s most amusing feat, reminiscent of a certain Hungarian-English Phrase Book, was selecting a translation of the Swedish noun “Kön”, i.e., Sex in the sense of Gender, rather than one for “Kön” as the definite form of the Swedish noun “Kö”, i.e., (The) queue or in this case more appropriately, (The) waiting list.
“Our sons stripped of their organs”
Palestinians accuse the Israeli army of stealing body parts from its victims.
Donald Boström reports on the international transplant scandal - and how he himself became a witness to the assault on a 19-year-old boy.
I am what you might call a "matchmaker," said Levy Izhak Rosenbaum from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI agent he thought was a customer. Ten days later, at the end of July this year, Rosenbaum was arrested in connection with the uncovering of an extensive web of corruption in New Jersey: rabbis, elected and trusted officials had for years engaged in money laundering and illegal organ trade, which is now being rounded up like a Soprano network. Rosenbaums matchmaking was thus not about romance, but about buying and selling kidneys from Israel on the black market. According to his own testimony, he buys bodies from less well-off people in Israel for $ 10,000 and sells them to desperate patients in the U.S. for $ 160,000. The average waiting time for legal kidney transplants is nine years.
The accusations have shaken the American transplant industry. If this is true, it is the first time organ trafficking has been documented in the U.S., said experts in the New Jersey Real-Time News.
Asked how many organs he has sold, Rosenbaum responds: Quite a lot. Many. And I have never failed, he brags on. His business has been going on for a very long time.
Francis Delmonici, Harvard Professor of Transplantation Surgery, and a member of the National Kidney Foundation's Board of Directors, said in the same newspaper that similar organ trafficking as in Israel also occurs elsewhere in the world. Roughly 10 percent of the 63,000 kidney transplants worldwide are carried out illegally, says Delmonici.
Hot countries for this illegal activity are Pakistan, the Philippines and China, where it is believed that the organs are taken from executed prisoners. But among Palestinians there are strong suspicions that their young men were captured and, as in China and Pakistan, had to act as organ donors against their will before they were killed. A very serious suspicion that has enough question marks to warrant that the ICJ, International Court of Justice, should definitely open an investigation into whether Israeli war crimes are involved.
Israel has repeatedly found itself in a storm over its unethical way of dealing with organs and transplantation. Countries like France broke off cooperation with Israel over organs as early as the nineties, and the Jerusalem Post wrote "that other countries in Europe are expected to follow France's lead soon".
Half of the new kidneys that Israelis have had implanted since the early 2000's have been purchased illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe or Latin America. Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of the business, but do nothing to stop it. In 2003 it was revealed at a conference that Israel is the only Western country whose medical profession does not condemn the illegal organ trade, nor takes any legal action against the physicians involved in this criminal activity. On the contrary, the chief medical officers at the major hospitals are involved in most illegal transplantations, according to Dagens Nyheter (December 5, 2003).
In an attempt to overcome the organ shortage in the country, Israel's then health minister, Ehud Olmert, launched a major campaign in the summer of 1992 to get the Israeli population to sign up as organ donors. Half a million forms were distributed in local newspapers on which citizens were invited to sign up to donate their organs after their death. Ehud Olmert was the first to sign up.
Just a couple of weeks later the Jerusalem Post wrote that the campaign had been successful. No fewer than 35,000 people had signed up, usually the figure is 500 a month. In the same article journalist Judy Siegel wrote that the gap between supply and demand was still high. The waiting list for kidney transplants included 500 people, but only 124 people could undergo surgery. Of the 45 persons in need of a new liver only three people had the opportunity to undergo surgery in Israel.
Simultaneously with this organ campaign young Palestinian men disappeared who were brought back to their villages at night five days later, dead and carved up.
Talk about the carved up bodies terrified the population in the West Bank and Gaza. There was talk of a dramatic increase in young men who disappeared with subsequent nocturnal funerals of young men who had undergone an autopsy.
I was in the area working on a book when I was contacted several times by UN staff who were concerned about the development. Those who contacted me felt that organ theft actually took place, but that they were unable to act. On behalf of a television company, I then went around and spoke to a large number of Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza, who believed that their sons were robbed of their organs before they were killed. One of the examples I came across on this eerie trip was the young stone thrower Bilal Achmed Ghanan.
The clock was approaching midnight when the sound of engines from the Israeli military convoy was heard on the outskirts of the village of Imatin in the northern West Bank. The two thousand inhabitants of the village were wide awake and stood as silent shadows in the dark. Some were lying on rooftops, others stood behind curtains, houses or trees, which offered protection in the dark during curfew but still offered a clear view of what would become a grave for the village's first martyr. The military had cut off all the electricity around the village and the spot was a sealed off military area - not a cat could move outdoors without risking its life. The deafening silence of the dark was broken only by quiet sobs and I cannot remember whether it was because of the cold or excitement we shivered. Five days earlier, May 13, 1992, an Israeli special forces unit had set up an ambush in the village carpenter’s shop. The person the special forces had been instructed to neutralize was 19-year-old Bilal Achmed Ghanan, one of the active Palestinian stone throwing youths who made life difficult for the Israeli occupying forces.
Ghanan Bilal had been wanted for several years as one of the leading stone throwers. This meant that he lived under the sky up in the hills around Nablus along with other wanted stone throwing kids. To be captured meant death, and all the stories about torture going on did not improve matters. So they hid in the hills. But for some reason Bilal came down from the hills one day and wandered unprotected through the village past the carpenter’s house, this unlucky day in mid-May. Why he came down just this day not even Talal, his older brother, could tell, perhaps it was the food running out and supplies needing to be replenished.
Everything went according to plan for the Israeli special forces. They threw away the cigarette butts, put down the Coca-Cola cans and calmly took aim through the broken window. When Bilal was close enough, it was only a matter of pulling the trigger. The first shot hit in the chest. According to villagers who witnessed the incident, he was then hit by a shot in each leg. Then two soldiers ran from the carpenter’s shop and shot him once again in the stomach. Finally, they grabbed Bilal by the feet and dragged him up the 20 steps of the stone staircase to the carpenter’s shop. Villagers claimed later that people from both the UN and Red Crescent who were nearby and heard the shots had gone to the spot to take care of the injured. The argument about who would take care of the victim ended with the Israeli unit loading the severely injured Bilal in a jeep and driving off to the outskirts of the village. There a military helicopter was waiting, which carried Bilal off to a destination unknown to his relatives.
Five days later he came back in the dark, dead and wrapped in green hospital sheets. When the military column that had collected Bilal from the Abu Kabir autopsy center outside Tel Aviv stopped at Bilal’s final resting place, someone recognized the Israeli commander of the group as Captain Yahya. "The worst of them all" the person in the dark whispered in my ear. When Captain Yahya’s men had unloaded the body and exchanged the green sheets with a bright cotton sheet, a few male relatives were chosen to perform the job - digging soil and mixing cement.
Together with the sharp sounds of shovels occasional laughter was heard from the soldiers who told each other a few jokes while they waited to go home. When Bilal was laid down in his grave, his chest was uncovered and suddenly it became clear to the few present what abuse he had suffered. Bilal was far from the first to be buried carved up from the abdomen to the chin and speculation about the intention began quickly.
The affected Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza were sure about what had happened to their sons. Our sons were used as forced organ donors, said relatives of Khaled from Nablus to me, likewise the mother of Raed from Jenin and uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, all of whom had been missing for a number of days and had come back at night, dead and dissected.
- Why else did they keep the bodies for up to five days before we can bury them? What happened to the bodies in the meantime? And why is there an autopsy when the cause of death is obvious, and in all cases against our will? And why are the bodies returned at night? And why the military escort? And why are areas closed off during the funeral? And why is the electricity cut off? Many and indignant questions from Nafes’ uncle.
The families of the killed Palestinian men didn’t have doubts about the matter anymore.
The spokesman for the Israeli army on the other hand said that the allegations of organ theft were fabrications by the Palestinians. All Palestinians who were killed are routinely subject to an autopsy, he said.
Bilal Achmed Ghanem was one of 133 Palestinians killed in various ways that year. According to Palestinian statistics the causes of death were as follows: shot in the street, explosions, beatings, tear gas, deliberately run down, hanged in jail, shot at school, killed at home, etc.. Of the 133 people killed between the ages of four months and 88 years, an autopsy was carried out in 69 cases, i.e., only half of the dead. The routine autopsy of killed Palestinians that the army spokesman referred to, is not actually true in the occupied territories. Questions remain.
We know that the need for organs in Israel is large, that an extensive illegal organ trade is ongoing, that it has been going on for a long time, that it happens with the blessing of the authorities, that senior physicians at the major hospitals are involved, as well as officials at various levels. And we know that young Palestinian men disappeared, that they were returned five days later in secrecy and at night, carved up and sewn together.
It is time to shed light on this macabre activity, on what is going on and on what has happened in the Israeli occupied territories since the intifada started.
Donald Boström
Donald Boström is a journalist, photographer and author of, among others, the volume of journalism “Inshallah” (Ordfront förlag [Wordfront Publishers] 2003).
Published: 2009-08-17
Captions:
Young Palestinian men throw stones and glass bottles at Israeli soldiers in the north of the West Bank. In this area Bilal Achmed Ghanan was shot and carved up in a hospital. ”Our sons are used as organ supply”, the Palestinians believe.
Photo: Donald Boström
Bilal Achmed Ghanan, age 19, was shot and taken away by Israeli soldiers. His body was returned sewn up from his abdomen to his throat.
Photo: Donald Boström
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum is taken away by FBI-agents. Rosenbaum is alleged to have acted as an intermediary in illegal organ trade.
Photo: AP
Very good translation. Reads so fluently.