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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.
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