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JERUSALEM — Israel has admitted forensic specialists harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, without permission from their families during the 1990s.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's main forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. An American academic conducted the interview in 2000, but decided to release it now because of a controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harves
Israeli military admits to organ harvesting
The Israeli military confirmed that skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers had been harvested at Abu Kabir throughout the 1990s,
www.thelocal.se...
Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice 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".
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Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Unbelieavable!!!!
I remember all the responses from the pro-israeli crowd calling this a ludicrous accusation and all.
WOW
[edit on 21-12-2009 by ModernAcademia]
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
I wonder,did the recipients of the organs know their source?
Originally posted by JJay55
Harversting organs is more common in Central and South America. People are kidnapped and organs removed and bodies discarded. The medical practice is ultimately responsible since they are making the demand so high.
My philosophy is that you were born with your organs, if they fail or you ruin them too bad, you don't get a replacement.
Originally posted by crmanager
Sad and pathetic attempt at rabid anti-semitism parading as a "conspiracy."
You are truly frightening people for this hatred you spew.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
I wonder,did the recipients of the organs know their source?
That begs another question doesn't it?
What were these organs used for?
In Judaism you cannot get transplants, it's against their religion.
So were there any recipients to begin with or were these organs used for something else?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by crmanager
Sad and pathetic attempt at rabid anti-semitism parading as a "conspiracy."
You are truly frightening people for this hatred you spew.
And so it starts
Please explain specifically which part of my post was anti-semitic, assuming you understand what anti-semitism is!
Can you actually pinpoint anti-semitism in my post or are you just shooting arrows in the dark?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
What were these organs used for?
In Judaism you cannot get transplants, it's against their religion.
I'm not so sure that's true. Using the organs from another Jew may be out of the question, but from a worthless goyim? After all, we are but cattle to some of them, are we not?
The New Jersey Rabbi only brokered that one kidney after all, didn't he? Or was that just the one he got caught brokering? See, I just don't believe any of the denials any more, after they have been caught lying so many times.
If the evidence is there that they were harvesting organs, for whatever use in the 90's, then who is to say that it ended there?
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, ''We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family.''
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic 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.
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In the interview, Hiss described how his doctors would mask the removal of corneas from bodies. ''We'd glue the eyelid shut,'' he said. ''We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids.''
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The academic, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, said she decided to make the interview public in the wake of the Aftonbladet controversy, which raised diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden and prompted Sweden's foreign minister to call off a visit to the Jewish state.
Scheper-Hughes said that while Palestinians were ''by a long shot'' not the only ones affected by the practice in the 1990s, she felt the interview must be made public now 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.''