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And not only that, financing was also obtained from Diakonia (90% financed with Swedish tax aid money) and Forum Syd (100 % financed with Swedish tax aid money). It seems the entire Swedish foreign aid industrial complex is deeply involved in this antisemitism affair, which really shouldn't surprise anyone as the oversight is extremely weak and the institutions populated by typical extreme left aged 1968-people.
But not only did this project recieve money from the then social democratic government, but also directly from different branches of the wealthy soc dem labour movement, namely:
* Grafiska Fackförbundet (labour union of printers) * Grafiska Fackföreningen Stockholm ((labour union of printers, Stockholm) * Broderskapsrörelsen (Christian soc dems, though in recent years seems to be mainly a front for anti-israeli and pro-islamic influence, like arguing for sharia law for muslims IIRC) * TCO (labour union of mid level professionals) * Frikyrkliga Studieförbundet (more christian leftists)
Interestingly if unrelated, the right wing minister of foreign aid recently harshly critisiced the aid infustry for inefficiency and corruption, which was widely seen as the first step in a battle against this powerful and entrenched special interest group... Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Starvid:
It seems the entire Swedish foreign aid industrial complex is deeply involved in this antisemitism affair
Carl Bildt
has expressed understanding for Israel's "sensitivity about insinuations or allegations that could give open anti-Semitism air beneath its wings". But that has so far not been enough for the Israeli government.
there are matters that one should and must act against, such as Holocaust denial or antisemitism. But this has nothing to do with either of these two things, even though our ridiculous foreign minister would die for it to be connected to the Holocaust and to antisemitism. ... ... if Israel had admitted to the awful inhuman things that were done during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, and had supported the soldiers that had the courage to admit to the awful things they witnessed or participated in ...
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... if Israel had admitted to the awful inhuman things that were done during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, and had supported the soldiers that had the courage to admit to the awful things they witnessed or participated in ...
And what would a conservative newspaper doing carrying water for a supposed far-left international aid establishment? Helping a fellow antisemites? - Haaretz reports
But the liberal Sydsvenskan - southern Sweden's major daily - had harsh criticism for the rival paper, running an opinion piece under the headline "Antisemitbladet" (a play on the name Aftonbladet).
Oh, and does the Israeli blogger who assumes the organ harvesting story is true have his opinions published in English by Haaretz, too? Or is introspective criticism only carried in the Hebrew edition while the English edition for the consumption of foreigners have a different content and editorial slant? En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
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.
I don't see any Israeli blogger claiming this story is true.
if Israel had admitted to the awful inhuman things that were done during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, and had supported the soldiers that had the courage to admit to the awful things they witnessed or participated in
WTF? Is anyone writing in good faith in this whole story? En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Welcome to the Middle East... ;) 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.
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.
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. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
Interesting, do you have a link? Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
Family: We didn't tell foreign media organs were stolen | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
The mother denied that she had told any foreign journalist that her son's organs had been stolen. However, she said that now she does not rule out the possibility that Israel was harvesting organs of Palestinians.
The mother denied that she had told any foreign journalist that her son's organs had been stolen.
However, she said that now she does not rule out the possibility that Israel was harvesting organs of Palestinians.
One of them confirmed that the rumor was and is circulating and supported the need for an inquiry:
Jalal and other members of the family said that "rumors" about Israel killing Palestinians to steal their organs have been circulating for a long time. "I can't tell you if these rumors are true or not," the brother said."But in light of the investigative report in the Swedish newspaper, we are demanding an international commission of inquiry into the case."
Jalal and other members of the family said that "rumors" about Israel killing Palestinians to steal their organs have been circulating for a long time.
"I can't tell you if these rumors are true or not," the brother said."But in light of the investigative report in the Swedish newspaper, we are demanding an international commission of inquiry into the case."
If I understand the JP article correctly, the family lives in Imatin and is probably not the "relatives from Nablus" that is quoted in the AB-article.
So the conclusion at this point would be that the journalist did not talk to the direct family, who confirms that the rumor exists but they have no proof in the case. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
So the conclusion at this point would be that the journalist did not talk to the direct family, who confirms that the rumor exists but they have no proof in the case.
In a way this goes beyond my original point, which was the unwillingness of the news media to referee a controversy by actually reporting the facts. Now it seems that a fact isn't worth reporting unless someone is prepared to deny it.
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.
A Swedish blogger has found out that the journalist who published the article in Aftonbladet apparently published essentially the same text in 2001 the book Inshallah, which was financed by among others, get this, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs!
"Israel is under assault," said Daniel Seaman, director of Israel's Government Press Office. The Aftonbladet article, he said, was part of a "premeditated campaign to vilify the State of Israel." He added that anti-Semitic blood libels had led in the past to pogroms and attacks against Jews. "We cannot afford to turn the other way." The article, by the Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, ran on an inside page of the newspaper on Aug. 17. It was based on accusations Mr. Bostrom heard from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1990s, and which he published in a book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2001. Mr. Seaman said Mr. Bostrom last worked here in 2006. Mr. Bostrom apparently revived the allegations by linking them to the July arrests of 44 people in New Jersey in a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy that included several assemblymen, mayors and rabbis. One of its members, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, faces charges of conspiring to broker the illegal sale of a human kidney for transplant.
The article, by the Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, ran on an inside page of the newspaper on Aug. 17. It was based on accusations Mr. Bostrom heard from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1990s, and which he published in a book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2001. Mr. Seaman said Mr. Bostrom last worked here in 2006.
Mr. Bostrom apparently revived the allegations by linking them to the July arrests of 44 people in New Jersey in a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy that included several assemblymen, mayors and rabbis. One of its members, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, faces charges of conspiring to broker the illegal sale of a human kidney for transplant.
Al Roth, the Harvard economist whose work on matched-pair organ donations has started to transform the organ-transplantation scenario, told me he found the accusation unbelievable because of the logistics of organ harvesting itself. "Organs don't last very long and have to be matched rather particularly," he said, "so it would be hard to take them on spec for an international market. So I think black market organs must mostly be from live donors. Live donors can take blood tests well in advance and travel to where the patient is. Deceased organs have to be put on ice, and the clock starts ticking immediately and fast."
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.
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