- "Israel is at the top," she states. "It
has tentacles reaching out worldwide. (It has) 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." -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes. UC Berkeley Professor
of Medical Anthropology
-
- On January 15, Haaretz reported that:
-
- "The Israel Defense Forces' aid mission to Haiti
left Israel overnight (January 14) with equipment for setting up an emergency
field hospital. Around 220 soldiers and officers (were) in the delegation,
including 120 medical staff (to) operate the hospital in the Haitian capital,
Port-au-Prince."
-
- According to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it
includes "40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children's
ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an internal department
and a maternity ward (able to) treat approximately 500 patients each day,"
including in two surgery rooms.
-
- On January 20, Lebanon's Al-Manar TV reported on the
mission, citing a damning You Tube video posted by an American named T.
West from a group called AfriSynergy Productions.
-
- "The video presents something to think about while
exploiting the horrible tragedy that has befallen Haiti where Israeli occupation
soldiers are engaged in organ trafficking."
-
- Israel faced these charges before. In November 2009,
Alison Weir's article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs headlined,
"Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine."
She cited an August Donald Bostrom article in Sweden's Aftonbladet suggesting
that Israel illicitly removes body parts, including from Palestinians.
-
- She stated:
-
- "....Israeli organ harvesting - sometimes with Israeli
governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent
Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries - have been documented for many
years. Among the victims have been Palestinians."
-
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a UC Berkeley Professor of Medical
Anthropology, founder of Organ Watch, author of scholarly books and articles
on the subject, and "unflinchingly honest in (citing) the Israeli
connection."
-
- "Israel is at the top," she states. "It
has tentacles reaching out worldwide. (It has) 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."
-
- They pay "the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle
their bodies" or simply take what they want from fresh corpses. Body
parts are commodities, to be harvested and sold to the rich, even though
organ sales are prohibited in most countries, but not in international
law.
-
- Relevant International Law
-
- The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
calls organ extraction for profit human exploitation. In 2008, Israel banned
the practice, but it persists.
-
- On October 13, 2009 at a UN press conference on the subject,
Marja Ruotanen, Director of Cooperation of the Council of Europe, stated:
-
- "We have legislation and definitions covering the
trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal, but the study
points out that there is a legal vacuum for the traffic in organs, tissues
and cells (OTC)."
-
- Human trafficking for any purpose is a crime. Global
instruments cover OTC trafficking, but missing are "internationally
agreed-upon definitions within an international convention." One is
needed that clearly defines the practice, protects donors, but prosecutes
brokers, medical staff, and others engaging in it.
-
- Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics of the University
of Pennsylvania, Arthur Caplan, and Austria's Public Prosecutor, Carmen
Prior, say many nations are taking steps to address the issue, emphasizing
that OTC material should only be gotten by "voluntary altruism."
In other words, donated, not sold for profit.
-
- Caplan explained that "money for parts" violates
"basic human dignity and medical ethics." It also exploits the
poor, and they stay poor after the sale. Also, their organ quality is usually
low, and procedures used to extract them often harm buyers and sellers.
-
- UN Secretary-General Special Adviser on Gender Issues
and Advancement of Women, Rachael Mayanja, didn't predict when the world
body will begin work on a convention, but she hoped it would be soon. Discussions
to this point are "just the beginning," she said, "and it
gives us an impetus to go forward."
-
- Kawther Salam - "The Body Snatchers of Israel"
-
- Salam is a West Bank-based Palestinian journalist, active
in reporting on human rights abuses by the Israeli military (IDF). In 2003,
she was one of 28 writers in 13 countries to receive a Hellman/Hammett
Grant from Human Rights Watch "in recognition of (her) courage in
the face of political persecution."
-
- On August 24, 2009, her above titled article presented
what she "witnessed, saw, observed and heard during (her) 22 years
of journalistic work under the Israeli military occupation in the West
Bank and Gaza."
-
- She states that from the early 1970s, the IDF kept bodies
of Palestinians they killed, then later buried them in secret, numbered
graves. In other cases, Israel's civil administration and military commanders
returned corpses to families on condition they be buried immediately, late
at night, for "security reasons."
-
- They followed funeral processions in "armored grey
cars," monitoring them through burial. Why so, asked Salam? "If
the burial is normal, and the organs of the victims were not stolen, then
why should they be buried in the dark of the night? The families of the
victims all knew that they were receiving empty bodies, filled with cotton,
to be buried in the middle of the night."
-
- Salam said she "personally....witness(ed) Israeli
soldiers and military vehicles kidnapping the bodies of dead Palestinians
from (hospital) emergency rooms. In other cases, (she) saw the soldiers
following the Palestinians to the cemetery, to steal the body from the
family before burial. This practice became so widespread that many people
started carrying the bodies of the murdered to be buried at home, in the
garden, under the house or under trees, instead of waiting for the ambulance
to take them to the hospital."
-
- She said "everybody in Palestine" knows that
Israel steals bodies for their organs. It was common IDF practice to "kidnap"
Palestinians from emergency rooms in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, and
most everywhere throughout Occupied Palestine, then transfer them to an
Israeli hospital.
-
- Her article lists names of IDF commanders and civil administration
officials involved in the practice. "Everybody knew" they were
doing it, yet their families were told sincere efforts were made "to
release the bodies of their relatives from the military headquarters,"
calling it a favor, when, in fact, their organs were stolen.
-
- Perhaps "thousands of bodies and even people known
to have been alive were transferred to the Abu Kabir" Forensic Institute
near Tel Aviv, Israel's only autopsy facility involved in organ trafficking,
a matter that became a scandal inside the country. Its director, Dr. Yehuda
Hiss, admitted doing it, never was held accountable, and until recently
remained the institute's chief pathologist.
-
- In 2002 and 2005, he was investigated over the large
scale theft of body parts, the practice Yediot Aharonot journalists broke,
saying he had "price listings" for organs sold to universities
and medical schools.
-
- On January 4, 2002, Israel National News.com headlined,
"Abu Kabir Operating Organ Warehouse," saying Hiss was:
-
- "accused of a long list of charges from inappropriate
behavior as a medical professional to criminal acts such as the illegal
sale of and dealings in organs and body parts, removing organs from deceased
persons without consent, and misrepresenting organs in returned bodies."
-
- Other allegations were that:
-
- "in some cases (organs he took without consent were
stuffed with) toilet paper rolls and metallic rods in their place to fill
the voids and hide the theft of the organs. A court-ordered search of the
institute revealed large supplies of stored organs illegally taken from
bodies," thousands taken without permission.
-
- During the first Intifada and other times, Salam said
she "personally witnessed how the Israeli military were kidnapping
Palestinian bodies and gravely injured people from the emergency room of
Princess Alia hospital in Hebron (and dead bodies from) Al-Ahli hospital."
The area was declared a military zone, the hospitals surrounded and invaded,
and no one was allowed to move inside them.
-
- Israeli organ harvesting is a longstanding practice,
well known by "most if not all the Israeli medical establishment (who)
keep silent because they either get money, or they are rewarded in other
ways...."
-
- Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights Director,
Salim Khalleh, said JDCHR documented 270 cases of "reserved"
Palestinian bodies, buried in numbered graves in secret cemeteries, or
in numbered compartments of cooling facilities.
-
- According to the Palestinian National Authority (PA)
Director of the Department of Statistics, Abed Al-Naser Ferwana, many Palestinians
were murdered in detention during the second Intifada, their bodies kept
in secret Israeli cemeteries, some released weeks later. He calls this
more proof that their organs were harvested illegally.
-
- Israeli "Transplant Tourism"
-
- Rich Israelis take advantage, availing themselves of
what's called "transplant tourism," traveling wherever a needed
organ can be found, sometimes from fresh corpses, usually from the desperately
poor.
-
- The Israeli government acts as facilitator, providing
subsidies of up to $80,000 for "transplant holidays." According
to Scheper-Hughes, Israeli officials exhibit "amazing tolerance....toward
outlawed 'transplant tourism.' "
-
- She said the Israeli Ministry of Defense is involved
in a practice by which "bodies are broken, dismembered, fragmented,
transported, processed, and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged
population....," Israel engaging in more of this globally than any
other nation.
-
- Its medical teams apparently are doing it in Haiti, exploiting
fresh corpses and the living. The Manar TV cited You Tube said "there
are people operating in Haiti who do not have a conscience and are members
of the search and rescue teams, including the Israeli occupation forces,"
far from home harvesting Haitian organs, and the pickings are plentiful.
-
- Apparently, the publicity about providing humanitarian
aid is cover for this illicit operation, another crime against humanity
among Israel's growing list, matched and exceeded by its Washington benefactor
with generations more practice.
-
- Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre
for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
-
- Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
listen to the Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday
at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished
guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy
listening.
-
- http://republicbroadcasting.org/Lendman
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- Israeli Organ Stealing - Harvesting Haitian Body Parts?
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-
- "Israel is at the top," she states. "It
has tentacles reaching out worldwide. (It has) 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." -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes. UC Berkeley Professor
of Medical Anthropology
-
-
-
- By Stephen Lendman
-
- 1-26-10
-
-
- On January 15, Haaretz reported that:
-
- "The Israel Defense Forces' aid mission to Haiti
left Israel overnight (January 14) with equipment for setting up an emergency
field hospital. Around 220 soldiers and officers (were) in the delegation,
including 120 medical staff (to) operate the hospital in the Haitian capital,
Port-au-Prince."
-
- According to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it
includes "40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children's
ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an internal department
and a maternity ward (able to) treat approximately 500 patients each day,"
including in two surgery rooms.
-
- On January 20, Lebanon's Al-Manar TV reported on the
mission, citing a damning You Tube video posted by an American named T.
West from a group called AfriSynergy Productions.
-
- "The video presents something to think about while
exploiting the horrible tragedy that has befallen Haiti where Israeli occupation
soldiers are engaged in organ trafficking."
-
- Israel faced these charges before. In November 2009,
Alison Weir's article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs headlined,
"Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine."
She cited an August Donald Bostrom article in Sweden's Aftonbladet suggesting
that Israel illicitly removes body parts, including from Palestinians.
-
- She stated:
-
- "....Israeli organ harvesting - sometimes with Israeli
governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent
Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries - have been documented for many
years. Among the victims have been Palestinians."
-
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a UC Berkeley Professor of Medical
Anthropology, founder of Organ Watch, author of scholarly books and articles
on the subject, and "unflinchingly honest in (citing) the Israeli
connection."
-
- "Israel is at the top," she states. "It
has tentacles reaching out worldwide. (It has) 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."
-
- They pay "the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle
their bodies" or simply take what they want from fresh corpses. Body
parts are commodities, to be harvested and sold to the rich, even though
organ sales are prohibited in most countries, but not in international
law.
-
- Relevant International Law
-
- The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
calls organ extraction for profit human exploitation. In 2008, Israel banned
the practice, but it persists.
-
- On October 13, 2009 at a UN press conference on the subject,
Marja Ruotanen, Director of Cooperation of the Council of Europe, stated:
-
- "We have legislation and definitions covering the
trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal, but the study
points out that there is a legal vacuum for the traffic in organs, tissues
and cells (OTC)."
-
- Human trafficking for any purpose is a crime. Global
instruments cover OTC trafficking, but missing are "internationally
agreed-upon definitions within an international convention." One is
needed that clearly defines the practice, protects donors, but prosecutes
brokers, medical staff, and others engaging in it.
-
- Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics of the University
of Pennsylvania, Arthur Caplan, and Austria's Public Prosecutor, Carmen
Prior, say many nations are taking steps to address the issue, emphasizing
that OTC material should only be gotten by "voluntary altruism."
In other words, donated, not sold for profit.
-
- Caplan explained that "money for parts" violates
"basic human dignity and medical ethics." It also exploits the
poor, and they stay poor after the sale. Also, their organ quality is usually
low, and procedures used to extract them often harm buyers and sellers.
-
- UN Secretary-General Special Adviser on Gender Issues
and Advancement of Women, Rachael Mayanja, didn't predict when the world
body will begin work on a convention, but she hoped it would be soon. Discussions
to this point are "just the beginning," she said, "and it
gives us an impetus to go forward."
-
- Kawther Salam - "The Body Snatchers of Israel"
-
- Salam is a West Bank-based Palestinian journalist, active
in reporting on human rights abuses by the Israeli military (IDF). In 2003,
she was one of 28 writers in 13 countries to receive a Hellman/Hammett
Grant from Human Rights Watch "in recognition of (her) courage in
the face of political persecution."
-
- On August 24, 2009, her above titled article presented
what she "witnessed, saw, observed and heard during (her) 22 years
of journalistic work under the Israeli military occupation in the West
Bank and Gaza."
-
- She states that from the early 1970s, the IDF kept bodies
of Palestinians they killed, then later buried them in secret, numbered
graves. In other cases, Israel's civil administration and military commanders
returned corpses to families on condition they be buried immediately, late
at night, for "security reasons."
-
- They followed funeral processions in "armored grey
cars," monitoring them through burial. Why so, asked Salam? "If
the burial is normal, and the organs of the victims were not stolen, then
why should they be buried in the dark of the night? The families of the
victims all knew that they were receiving empty bodies, filled with cotton,
to be buried in the middle of the night."
-
- Salam said she "personally....witness(ed) Israeli
soldiers and military vehicles kidnapping the bodies of dead Palestinians
from (hospital) emergency rooms. In other cases, (she) saw the soldiers
following the Palestinians to the cemetery, to steal the body from the
family before burial. This practice became so widespread that many people
started carrying the bodies of the murdered to be buried at home, in the
garden, under the house or under trees, instead of waiting for the ambulance
to take them to the hospital."
-
- She said "everybody in Palestine" knows that
Israel steals bodies for their organs. It was common IDF practice to "kidnap"
Palestinians from emergency rooms in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, and
most everywhere throughout Occupied Palestine, then transfer them to an
Israeli hospital.
-
- Her article lists names of IDF commanders and civil administration
officials involved in the practice. "Everybody knew" they were
doing it, yet their families were told sincere efforts were made "to
release the bodies of their relatives from the military headquarters,"
calling it a favor, when, in fact, their organs were stolen.
-
- Perhaps "thousands of bodies and even people known
to have been alive were transferred to the Abu Kabir" Forensic Institute
near Tel Aviv, Israel's only autopsy facility involved in organ trafficking,
a matter that became a scandal inside the country. Its director, Dr. Yehuda
Hiss, admitted doing it, never was held accountable, and until recently
remained the institute's chief pathologist.
-
- In 2002 and 2005, he was investigated over the large
scale theft of body parts, the practice Yediot Aharonot journalists broke,
saying he had "price listings" for organs sold to universities
and medical schools.
-
- On January 4, 2002, Israel National News.com headlined,
"Abu Kabir Operating Organ Warehouse," saying Hiss was:
-
- "accused of a long list of charges from inappropriate
behavior as a medical professional to criminal acts such as the illegal
sale of and dealings in organs and body parts, removing organs from deceased
persons without consent, and misrepresenting organs in returned bodies."
-
- Other allegations were that:
-
- "in some cases (organs he took without consent were
stuffed with) toilet paper rolls and metallic rods in their place to fill
the voids and hide the theft of the organs. A court-ordered search of the
institute revealed large supplies of stored organs illegally taken from
bodies," thousands taken without permission.
-
- During the first Intifada and other times, Salam said
she "personally witnessed how the Israeli military were kidnapping
Palestinian bodies and gravely injured people from the emergency room of
Princess Alia hospital in Hebron (and dead bodies from) Al-Ahli hospital."
The area was declared a military zone, the hospitals surrounded and invaded,
and no one was allowed to move inside them.
-
- Israeli organ harvesting is a longstanding practice,
well known by "most if not all the Israeli medical establishment (who)
keep silent because they either get money, or they are rewarded in other
ways...."
-
- Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights Director,
Salim Khalleh, said JDCHR documented 270 cases of "reserved"
Palestinian bodies, buried in numbered graves in secret cemeteries, or
in numbered compartments of cooling facilities.
-
- According to the Palestinian National Authority (PA)
Director of the Department of Statistics, Abed Al-Naser Ferwana, many Palestinians
were murdered in detention during the second Intifada, their bodies kept
in secret Israeli cemeteries, some released weeks later. He calls this
more proof that their organs were harvested illegally.
-
- Israeli "Transplant Tourism"
-
- Rich Israelis take advantage, availing themselves of
what's called "transplant tourism," traveling wherever a needed
organ can be found, sometimes from fresh corpses, usually from the desperately
poor.
-
- The Israeli government acts as facilitator, providing
subsidies of up to $80,000 for "transplant holidays." According
to Scheper-Hughes, Israeli officials exhibit "amazing tolerance....toward
outlawed 'transplant tourism.' "
-
- She said the Israeli Ministry of Defense is involved
in a practice by which "bodies are broken, dismembered, fragmented,
transported, processed, and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged
population....," Israel engaging in more of this globally than any
other nation.
-
- Its medical teams apparently are doing it in Haiti, exploiting
fresh corpses and the living. The Manar TV cited You Tube said "there
are people operating in Haiti who do not have a conscience and are members
of the search and rescue teams, including the Israeli occupation forces,"
far from home harvesting Haitian organs, and the pickings are plentiful.
-
- Apparently, the publicity about providing humanitarian
aid is cover for this illicit operation, another crime against humanity
among Israel's growing list, matched and exceeded by its Washington benefactor
with generations more practice.
-
- Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre
for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at <mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net>lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
-
- Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
listen to the Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday
at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished
guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy
listening.
-
- <http://republicbroadcasting.org/Lendman>http://republicbroadcasting.org/Lendman
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