By Gilad Atzmon
In the photo, The IDF’s Chief Rabbi, OC Chaplaincy Brig. Gen. Avichai Ronzki and OC Medical Corps Brig. Gen. Nachman Ash both signed up for an organ donation card during a ceremony in the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv. One wonders if they are aware that, if the claims are true, their very own IDF has at least on several occasions been involved in obtaining younger organs from Palestinians they have killed, returned to their families after five days and had buried in a regime of a night-time blackout under Israeli-enforced Palestinian curfew.
There is an old Jewish joke that tells the story of a dying Jewish merchant who calls his son to his sickbed just before he perishes. He tells him, “Listen to me Moisha’le, life is not just about money… you can also do gold and diamonds.”
Monitoring Israeli and Jewish news reveals a devastating fact, it is not ‘just’ about money. It may also be about human organs. A few weeks ago we learned about a ring of American Rabbis who had been arrested in New Jersey upon suspicion of human organs trafficking (amongst many other crimes). Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, we read, enticed “vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he would turn around and sell for $160,000.” Not too bad, I thought to myself then. We are living in hard times, financial melt down, credit crunch, Wall Street is licking its wounds, the car industry is evaporating. Seemingly, kidney trafficking is still booming.
In fact, the ring of the Rabbi in New Jersey didn’t take me by complete surprise. For years we have been hearing about Palestinians claiming that Israel is “deep into organ trafficking.” We also learned that the family of Alastair Sinclair, a Scottish tourist who hanged himself in an Israeli jail, “was forced to bring suit for his return with missing body parts.”
In 2002 the Tehran Times reported: “The Zionist state has tacitly admitted that doctors at the Israeli forensic institute at Abu Kabir had extracted the vital organs of three Palestinian teenage children killed by the Israeli Army nearly ten days ago. Zionist Minister of Health Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by Arab member of the Zionist Parliament ‘Knesset’, Ahmed Teibi, on Tuesday that he couldn’t deny that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out for transplants or scientific research.”
But now the news about Israeli trafficking of human organ is spreading to Western mainstream media. Ynet, the biggest Israeli online newspaper, reported today that “Leading Swedish daily Aftonbladet claimed in one of its articles that IDF soldiers killed Palestinians in order to trade in their organs.”
A few weeks ago we had a debate here on PTT whether Zionism is a colonial apparatus or not. One of the Materialist arguments against the perception of Zionism as a colonial practice was that Palestine has never been too attractive economically; it lacks oil, gold or minerals. However, this may change now. People who specialise in organ theft may find Palestine to be heaven on earth. In the light of the latest vastly spreading accusations, the Jewish national project maybe is colonial after all.
Though the Israeli government denies the accusation, and I myself far from being qualified to know what the truth of the matter is, one cannot deny that we are facing here a shift of consciousness within the Western discourse. At the end of the day, after watching the Israeli army dumping great quantities of white phosphorous on a civilian population in broad daylight, after seeing Israelis gathering gleefully en masse on the hills around Gaza just to watch their military spreading death and physical suffering in a genocidal manner, after reading that 94% of the Israelis supported the IDF military campaign against the elderly, women and children, most of whom were refugees with nowhere to escape and seek further refuge, organ theft seems to be a ‘light crime’.
Whether or not the Swedish paper’s accusations are genuine is yet to be revealed. However, one fact has already been established: after so many years of Western inclination to dance to the relentless crying violin of the Jewish melancholic victim serenade, the Western media is now changing its appetite, it is willing to confront Jewish institutional crime.
Rather than talking about the rise of anti-Semitism, we better discuss the growth of Jewish institutional crime.
NOTE: WE WILL HAVE THE TRANSLATION FROM SWEDISH INTO ENGLISH AVAILABLE LATER IN THE DAY
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article5652583.ab
David said,
August 19, 2009 at 20:21
OK, I’m a VERY vociferous critic of Israel, but I have found this “kidney libel” story from Aftonbladet to be over the top, bordering on if not falling squarely on anti-Semitic rumor. Your article continues this Fox News quality “journalism” by speculating further. There is a difference between spreading rumors about Jews and doing serious investigative journalism on mobbed-up organized crime, such as the organ trafficing ring in New Jersey. But until you dig up some real facts of your own, go easy on the rumor. If not anti-Semitism, it’s at least Lashon Hora.
Top Sweden newspaper says IDF kills Palestinians for their organs said,
August 19, 2009 at 21:25
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Michael Pyshnov said,
August 20, 2009 at 05:23
Let’s say this: the so-called blood libel (alleged to be true stories by extreme anti-Semites), is nothing comparing to reality.
Anon said,
August 20, 2009 at 06:14
Being swedish I have a better insight into Aftonbladet than most foreigners, its translated name is Evningpaper and is just short of being a sensational tabloid.
Yes it does have news in it but it focuses more on celebs and sensation stories than on serious news.
As for organ theft… I have no idea, I have seen similar stories and rumors from multiple sources but as no international unpartisan investigation has been made thus far all I can say is that the story is out there.
I do however find it odd that the burials is done so hush hush and is done by the Israelies but its naturally possible that there are other reasons for this.
The problem with exhuming a few bodies to examine them is that if organs are missing then Israel can always claim they were removed later and if they are all there the rumor people can claim only non harvested bodies were examined…
As for the article itself, I cant really see the big deal, its a story about a rumor, suported by inuendo and a rather grim photo and the article clearly states that the organ harvesting angle is what the paletinian families believes what is going on, its not claiming that it actually is going on.
NotAnObot said,
August 20, 2009 at 07:26
If they can do it in Jersey, they can do it in Palestine.
Moshe said,
August 20, 2009 at 12:51
Organ trafficking is business as usual for the chosen, look here or just google it, its the Talmud that made them this way.
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98972/Rabbis_and_organ_trafficking
Sherri Munnerlyn said,
August 22, 2009 at 05:30
I just found some fascinating articles about the New Jersey case, and allegations that the intl crime ring with which the Rabbi was involved was centered in Israel. There are other allegations made, such as that the Israeli government was involved.
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/zionist-regime-involved-in-organised-organ-theft/
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/07/butchers-hidden-truth-about-israels.html
http://www.publicanthropology.org/TimesPast/Scheper-Hughes.htm
Sherri
Joseph Cannon said,
August 23, 2009 at 21:10
There was nothing anti-Semitic about Bostrom’s article. He accurately reflects the arguments and perceptions of the Palestinians back in 1992, and he also presented the counter-argument made by a spokesman for the Israeli army. Apparently, it is now considered “anti-Semitic” to quote a Palestinian, even if one is also presenting both sides of the story.
David Yallop, a respected author, was in the same part of the world at the same time, and he told much the same story. I provide links in my piece.
brian said,
August 23, 2009 at 22:59
‘OK, I’m a VERY vociferous critic of Israel,’
i doubt it,dave…and the vociferous cries of the zionist jews and israels govt only only serves to raise the idea: are they hiding something?
Sherri Munnerlyn said,
August 24, 2009 at 08:49
Joseph,
Did you already find the articles about the prior investigation at Abu Kabir?
Wow!
“Abu Kabir Operating Organ Warehouse.
Date: Friday, January 4 2002
By IsraelNationalNews.com
State Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein ordered police to launch an investigation against Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the nation’s senior pathologist and director of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
Hiss is accused of a long list of charges from inappropriate behavior 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.
Allegations made against Hiss in some cases include his taking organs without consent, placing the cardboard center of toilet paper rolls and metallic rods in their place to fill the voids in the body and hide the theft of the organs.
A court-ordered search of the institute revealed large supplies of stored organs taken illegally from bodies. Over the past years, heads of the institute appear to have given thousands of organs for research without permission, while maintaining a “storehouse” of organs at Abu Kabir.
Organs belonging to soldiers killed in various circumstances were found in the institute during a surprise search this week.”
http://www.allbusiness.com/middle-east/israel/102662-1.html
http://www.israelfaxx.com/webarchive/2003/07/3fax0730.html
Sherri
LanceThruster said,
August 26, 2009 at 16:39
Thank you so much, Sherri, for those links. I think it clearly puts to rest the charges that any speculation of desecration of bodies and organ harvesting is in the same league as “blood libel.”
These are documented abuses with at least a preliminary investigation. I like the part in the allbusiness.com link that indicated that the organs were put back for burial so as to make it a case of “no harm, no foul.”