Oh, and does the Israeli blogger who assumes the organ harvesting story is true have his opinions published in English by Haaretz, too?

I don't see any Israeli blogger claiming this story is true. Indeed, even the parents of the Palestinian kid who was killed by the IDF back in 1992 denies that their son had his organs stolen. They even deny ever talking to the journalist Boström, claiming that he just snapped a few pictures of their dead son.

This entire story is classic antisemitism based on the old blood libel story. If you haven't read the article itself, it's here in English. No proof of anything at all, just pure speculation and falsely claimed hearsay connecting different weakly supported dots in classic conspiracy theory manner. It's quite a surprise that he doesn't quote the Elders of Zion papers too...

Of course, none of this is any excuse for Liebermans ridiculous and insulting behaviour.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

Basically it refers to this article:
N.J. corruption probe includes first organ trafficking case - NJ.com

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a "matchmaker," but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.

The alleged scheme exposed this week by an FBI sting, rocked the nation's transplant industry. If true, it would be the first documented case of organ trafficking in the U.S., transplant experts said today.

And connects it with a rumour of organ theft, to reach this conclusion:
"Our sons are plundered of their organs" - English translation of the article by Donald Boström | Kultur | Aftonbladet

The relatives of the dead Palestinians no longer harbored any doubts as to the reasons for the killings, but the spokesperson for the Israeli army claimed that the allegations of organ theft were lies. All the Palestinian victims go through autopsy on a routine basis, he said. Bilal Achmed Ghanem was one of 133 Palestinians killed in various ways that year. According to the Palestinian statistics the causes of death were: shot in the street, explosion, tear gas, deliberately run over, hanged in prison, shot in school, killed at home etcetera. The 133 people killed were between four months to 88 years old. Only half of them, 69 victims, went through postmortem examination. The routine autopsy of killed Palestinians - of which the army spokesperson was talking - has no bearing on the reality in the occupied territories. The questions remain.

We know that Israel has a great need for organs, that there is a vast and illegal trade of organs which has been running for many years now, that the authorities are aware of it and that doctors in managing positions at the big hospitals participate, as well as civil servants at various levels. We also know that young Palestinian men disappeared, that they were brought back after five days, at night, under tremendous secrecy, stitched back together after having been cut from abdomen to chin.

It's time to bring clarity to this macabre business, to shed light on what is going on and what has taken place in the territories occupied by Israel since the Intifada began.

I do not find it antisemitic, it is an article that connects a rumour of organ theft in the occupied territories with organ theft in China, Pakistan, the Phillipines and the US and calls for official probes to bring clarity. If it is true it is horrible but it is the sort of thing that goes on under oppression, so it is not far fetched. And it is reported in the standard way - person A told me that, person B responded, names withold to protect sources - that makes it hard for anyone but the journalist to know if there is any thruth to it.

It then sets of two interconnected debates. One where the government of Israel defends itself by naming critique anti-semitism and thus not discussable at all (not unlike the charge of anti-americanism). That one refered in the diary includes the swedish government (right) trying to distance itself from the article while not doing it, and the soc-dem opposition (left) using any chance to show the government of as weak in its defence of press freedom and as poor administrators in foreign policy (the latter being a long-standing theme).

And the second is the internal swedish Kulturkampf where we now has round 54 or something where the right calls the left antisemitic and the left answers with cries of a double-standard for Israels occupation.

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As for the lack of translation, I'm not sure. I suspect that it's because it's a blog, not part of the main paper, because they certainly have no problem with translating Levy and Haas.

And the salmons, yes, I did laugh at that. ;) A good example on how to behave when you're insulted by newspapers. Lieberman should take heed.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.