dinsdag 22 december 2009

Israel geeft toe dat vroeger orgaantransplantaties zonder toestemming familie werden uitgevoerd

 
Gefundenes Fressen voor antizionisten. De verdere feiten en details doen er niet meer toe. Om hoeveel mensen ging het, waren dat vooral Israeli's, wat waren de beweegredenen? Het schijnt er niet toe te doen. De titel van dit artikel in de Guardian, niet bekend om zijn evenwichtige berichtgeving, is natuurlijk al zeer misleidend. Het ging om Israelische burgers en soldaten, en ook om Palestijnen, en niet alleen om Palestijnen. Ze werden ook niet om deze reden gedood. Een van de beweegredenen was het grote tekort aan donors in Israel. Dat is nogal wat anders dan mensen doden om hun organen te stelen en die dan voor veel geld door te verkopen, zoals Aftonbladet beweerde.
 
However, there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as the Swedish paper reported. Aftonbladet quoted Palestinians as saying young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli forces and their bodies returned to their families with missing organs. The interview with Hiss was released by Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who had conducted a study of Abu Kabir.
 
Het volgende is raar:

She was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected, she felt the interview must be made public, because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, [is] something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."

Wat voor symboliek? Tijdens de tweede intifada hebben Israeli's en Palestijnen elkaar bloed gegeven en hebben Israelische doctoren het leven gered van Palestijnen die mogelijk uit waren op de dood van hun stadgenoten. Dat is pas symboliek. Het is nogal suggestief om een dergelijke 'symboliek' als voorwendsel te gebruiken om een verhaal openbaar te maken waarvan je weet dat het zal worden gebruikt om een heel volk en land te delegitimeren.

En laten al die antizionisten niet vergeten dat er in bijvoorbeeld Iran en Pakistan een levendige orgaanhandel is, met medeweten en goedkeuring van de staat. Wat minder geld uitgeven aan een peperdure atoombom en dat aan het creëren van werk en een sociaal vangnet besteden zou het probleem oplossen.
 
RP
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Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 December 2009 21.46 GMT
 
 
Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend.

The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "antisemitic".

The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV tonight reported the story, illustrated with photographs of dead or badly injured Palestinians.

Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the Israeli army.

The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.

Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."

Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas ... whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."

However, there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as the Swedish paper reported. Aftonbladet quoted Palestinians as saying young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli forces and their bodies returned to their families with missing organs. The interview with Hiss was released by Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who had conducted a study of Abu Kabir.

She was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected, she felt the interview must be made public, because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, [is] something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."

Israel demanded that Sweden condemn the Aftonbladet article, calling it an antisemitic "blood libel". Stockholm refused, saying that to so would violate freedom of speech in the country. The foreign minister then cancelled a visit to Israel, just as Sweden was taking over the EU's rotating presidency.

Hiss was removed from his post in 2004, when some details about organ harvesting were first reported, but he still works at the forensic institute.

Israel's health ministry said all harvesting was now done with permission. "The guidelines at that time were not clear," it said in a statement to Channel 2. "For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law."

 

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