10.21.2009
Juniper Cobra starts today
Israel and the United States will kick off a large-scale joint military exercise on Wednesday in a bid to enhance interoperability of their air defense systems, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Tuesday.
"In accordance with long-standing bilateral agreements, the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) will be participating with the IDF in an air defense exercise, known as Juniper Cobra 10, between October 21 and November 5, 2009," said the IDF.
Approximately 1,000 EUCOM personnel and a similar number of IDF troops will participate in the fifth biennial Juniper Cobra maneuvers, which are "part of a routine training cycle designed to improve the interoperability of both air defense systems," added the Israeli army.
During the drill, which was originally scheduled to start last week, Israel's Arrow missile defense system will be tested together with three U.S. systems, namely THAAD, Aegis and PAC-3, which will be deployed in Israel temporarily for the exercise, reported local daily The Jerusalem Post.
While the IDF said that "this exercise is not in response to any world events," the joint drill is widely seen as a response of the two allies to Iran's alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons, and as a precaution against a possible showdown with the Islamic republic.
Iran insists that its nuclear programs are purely for civilian purposes, yet Israel has so far refused to rule out the option of taking military action against Iran's nuclear sites.
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CONTRAST TO EARLIER INFORMATION AT A JEWISH NEWS SOURCE:
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1289139
TEL AVIV — A major missile defense exercise between Israel and the United States has been delayed. Officials said the exercise has been postponed from Oct. 12 to Oct. 20.
They cited logistics issues with the U.S. contingent, which has been transporting a range of missile defense systems for the exercise, titled Juniper Cobra. "This is quite routine," an official said.
Officials said the U.S. European Command has been sending 17 ships and more than 2,000 personnel for Juniper Cobra. They said Eucom and the U.S. Navy´s Sixth Fleet would transport PAC-3, Aegis and the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense systems to Israel.
Israel would contribute the Arrow-2 and PAC-2 missile defense systems. Officials said the biannual exercise would simulate an Iranian ballistic missile salvo toward Israel.
"This will be the most advanced and largest Juniper Cobra edition yet," the official said.
Officials said U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet commander Adm. Mark Fitzgerald would oversee Juniper Cobra. The Israeli side would be led by the Air Defense Command. (Copyright © 2009 East West Services, Inc. 10/14/09)
AND HERE IS A THIRD VERSION OF EVENTS:
Tel Aviv - Israel and the United States are to hold a joint, 16-day air defence exercise, described as the largest drill ever by the two countries in Israel, Tel Aviv announced Tuesday. The Juniper Cobra 10 drill, starting Wednesday, aims to test how well the Israeli and US defence systems work together in the event of a missile attack against the Middle Eastern country.
"Small numbers" of US forces normally stationed in Europe will will be temporarily deployed at a number of locations in Israel during the drill, the Israeli military said in an announcement.
Israelis may observe troop movements and a number of roads will be closed for short periods of time, it warned. In total, some 1,000 US Army personnel and a similar number of IDF soldiers are to take part.
Officials in Syria, Iran and Lebanon's radical Shiite Hezbollah movement have been monitoring preparations for the air defence drill with concern, but Israel has made a point of issuing calming messages, saying it had no intention of exploiting the exercise to carry out offensive action.
The drill is the fifth in a series of biennial Juniper Cobra exercises, took 18 months to plan and is "part of a routine training cycle designed to improve the interoperability of both air defence systems," said the Israeli military statement.
"This exercise is not in response to any world events," it stressed in a clear reference to world speculation as to whether Israel is planning a military strike against Iran.
Iran and Syria are said to also be keenly awaiting the results of the exercise. According to Israeli media, they have been making a concerted intelligence effort to uncover Israel's weak spots in its defence against missiles.
The drill is to simulate long-range missile fire at Israel from Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Towards the end, American systems are expected to carry out a "live interception" of missiles.
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US NAVY Bio of Admiral Mark Fitgerald
autumn in shanghai
excerpt:
In my Shanghai visit I stayed in a rather fancy Western hotel. Already on my arrival just after checking in, while attending the tourist desk, a familiar golden Menora * shined at me from one of the tourist brochures. I picked it up, “The Jews in Shanghai”, it said: the story of 30.000 Jews who found shelter in Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. I guess that you can no longer imagine a metropolis on this planet unless it has some relevance to the Holocaust or the Jews. Visitors to Shanghai have a lot to choose from: temples, sight seeing, shopping, new developing markets, food, Chinese folklore and ofcourse even a bit of ‘Shoa business’. I honestly believe that no one, except a few Jews, is interested in the historical role of Shanghai in the Holocaust. And yet, the brochure was there for a reason. Many Israelis and Jews are visiting Shanghai in the last two decades, as China and Shanghai are the future and the Israelis know it very well.
In my Shanghai visit I stayed in a rather fancy Western hotel. Already on my arrival just after checking in, while attending the tourist desk, a familiar golden Menora * shined at me from one of the tourist brochures. I picked it up, “The Jews in Shanghai”, it said: the story of 30.000 Jews who found shelter in Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. I guess that you can no longer imagine a metropolis on this planet unless it has some relevance to the Holocaust or the Jews. Visitors to Shanghai have a lot to choose from: temples, sight seeing, shopping, new developing markets, food, Chinese folklore and ofcourse even a bit of ‘Shoa business’. I honestly believe that no one, except a few Jews, is interested in the historical role of Shanghai in the Holocaust. And yet, the brochure was there for a reason. Many Israelis and Jews are visiting Shanghai in the last two decades, as China and Shanghai are the future and the Israelis know it very well.
In the breakfast at the hotel I could hear a lot of Hebrew. They were not Israeli tourists. They were actually ‘selling and buying’. They were meeting local businessmen already at 8.00 am. But it wasn’t just business. The Israeli infiltration is noticeable on every possible level.
senior broadcasters on cocaine 'praised for creative genius'
Broadcasting executives addicted to cocaine are routinely praised by bosses for their “creative genius”, a former BBC producer told MPs.
Sarah Graham, who worked on children’s programmes for the corporation and took cocaine for nine years, said use of the drug remained widespread among senior media executives and taking it helped to boost their careers.
Appearing before a Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the cocaine trade, Ms Graham, 40, said that she had been offered the drug on her first day at the corporation by a Radio 5 Live presenter. “The producer and presenter took me to a Soho media watering-hole after the show. I had a few glasses of champagne,” she said. “They asked if I wanted to go to the toilet and do some cocaine. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know much beyond the hype and glamour about the drug and I said yes.”
Ms Graham, now an addiction counsellor, said that many television executives continued to use the drug beyond their 20s. But as it warped their character, and their behaviour became more erratic, they were often praised for their off-the-wall brilliance. “As your addiction progresses, certain behaviour that would not be tolerated in a normal job can be spun as part of your creative genius or extraordinary personality,” she said.
“Their off-the-wall behaviour is tolerated and people bow down to them. It’s similar with City traders whose cocaine addiction combines with a gambling addiction, causing them to take incredible risks.”
Ms Graham, who went on to use heroin and crack, said: “I worked at MTV in 1997 and there was very much a cocaine drug culture existing at that time. If you wanted to be a top director, that’s what you did. It was very easy for a young person to get pulled into that.”
She added: “Some companies I worked for were worse than others. It tended to be from the top down — if you had somebody who owned the company who was a heavy cocaine user or if the bosses used cocaine.”
Corporate media, SPLC setting up Oath Keepers to be a scapegoat next?
Yesterday I posted a story from the Las Vegas Review Journal about the Oath Keepers, in which the author a Mr. Alan Maimon (a Jewish surname, like Maimonides), presents the Oath Keepers as a controversial organization and offers rebuttal from the Jewish-founded Southern Poverty Law Center.
aangirfan has a piece here about a possible military coup by 2012, an idea perhaps 20 years in the making.
The "terrorists" being run by the US military, natch.
MEANWHILE, Oath Keepers looks to be a legitimate grass-roots organization of people who actually believe in the Constitution.
BUT if something goes wrong, they will make a GREAT SCAPEGOAT for people who don't like the "terrorist" inspired military dictatorship.
And I think that's what this trashing of Oath Keepers is all about, to discredit this legitimate organization in preparation for blaming them and linking them to people like Timothy McVeigh, who was probably a government mind-control tool.
CHRIS MATTHEWS that piece of shit takes it upon himself to sloppily recite while spitting and drooling his "slides" about Oath Keepers, interrupting and misdirecting, avoiding anything pertinent and twisting the conversation down some back alley where legitimate resistance becomes linked to right wing militia groups. Chris ridicules people who worry about the Constitution. Chris accuses Oath Keepers of creating a "state of mind" OMG!!! PROJECT MUCH you lying sack of shit?!?!?!?
Then he sucks up to the pinhead from SPLC who also links them to militia groups and conspiracy theorists and it's all DANGEROUS to our society. LIKE THE GUY WHO BROKE INTO THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND SHOT THE GUARD, LIKE TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, CHRIS MATTHEWS HELPFULLY ADDS.
aangirfan has a piece here about a possible military coup by 2012, an idea perhaps 20 years in the making.
In 1992, General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs, "awarded the prize for his strategy essay competition at the National Defence University to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dunlap for The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.So...a mass casualty "terrorist" event leads to a military coup and this has been envisioned by the Army War College.
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"General Franks, the CENTCOM general who led the military campaign into Iraq, pointed in an October 2003 interview to the role of what he called a 'massive casualty-producing event'." (Coup d'Etat in America?)
According to Franks: "a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event." (Coup d'Etat in America?)
The "terrorists" being run by the US military, natch.
MEANWHILE, Oath Keepers looks to be a legitimate grass-roots organization of people who actually believe in the Constitution.
BUT if something goes wrong, they will make a GREAT SCAPEGOAT for people who don't like the "terrorist" inspired military dictatorship.
And I think that's what this trashing of Oath Keepers is all about, to discredit this legitimate organization in preparation for blaming them and linking them to people like Timothy McVeigh, who was probably a government mind-control tool.
CHRIS MATTHEWS that piece of shit takes it upon himself to sloppily recite while spitting and drooling his "slides" about Oath Keepers, interrupting and misdirecting, avoiding anything pertinent and twisting the conversation down some back alley where legitimate resistance becomes linked to right wing militia groups. Chris ridicules people who worry about the Constitution. Chris accuses Oath Keepers of creating a "state of mind" OMG!!! PROJECT MUCH you lying sack of shit?!?!?!?
Then he sucks up to the pinhead from SPLC who also links them to militia groups and conspiracy theorists and it's all DANGEROUS to our society. LIKE THE GUY WHO BROKE INTO THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND SHOT THE GUARD, LIKE TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, CHRIS MATTHEWS HELPFULLY ADDS.
the hours is coming round at last as surely as it must
I try not to focus on the punishment angle. I believe what scripture reveals about that; “Justice is mine”, sayeth the Lord”. I can’t help myself sometimes when I find myself wishing that a hard rain will fall upon the heads of these demons in human form. I don’t stay there. It’s very momentary and then it passes. It’s a kind of red haze that rims the eyes and dreams of fire. (I’m not a Christian but I am a friend of Christ; if that makes sense.)
The very worst of them are those who pose as the opposite of what they are; men like George Soros whose money went to fund the Iranian Green Revolution; Zionist occupied
behind the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
While the Nobel Peace Prize award has led to a chorus of praise from the Atlantic alliance leaders, it has also raised skepticism around the world. Rather than discuss the reasons that might after the fact justify this surprising choice, Thierry Meyssan exposes the corruption of the Nobel Committee and the ties between its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, and Obama’s associates.
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10.20.2009
Mark Glenn holds it up to the light
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So, with the holocaust magic goose ready to expire, what is the Jewish state to do? Live as an honest, productive, self-sustaining, non-parasite? To earn her daily bread by the sweat of her brow rather than extort money from Gentile nations in the form of foreign aid and holocaust reparations?
Perish the thought. She would (could) no more be inclined towards something like this than the wolf in the Little Red Riding Hood tale would be inclined towards becoming a vegan.
The obvious answer then is simple–find another goose, new and improved, with a different color and different quack but of equal reliability and productivity.
And what would be the golden egg of this new goose? Simple–gratitude and its natural byproduct, indebtedness. Whereas before, it was a case of–
“You horrible Gentile nations…You saw it coming and yet did nothing. He was the product of your 2,000 years of Christian anti-Semitism. Because of you, we suffered and now you owe us, so fork it over…”
it becomes a case of
“You idiotic Gentile nations…WE saw it coming, the threat of Iran upon the whole world but you didn’t. You sat back, just as you did with Hitler and did nothing, but we, the Jews, God’s chosen people, filled with the divine spark, saw the approaching evil and acted when no one else would stand with us. We saved the world and now, as a result, you owe us, so fork it over.”
And then, “wham, bam, thank you ma’am”, WMD’s are “found” in Iran (as they were not in Iraq) along with papers detailing the “final solution” Iran was planning involving nuclear Armageddon for the whole world and–BATTA-BING–the Gentile world is on the hook YET AGAIN for another 50+ years to the Jews, only this time instead it born out of guilt it’s born out of gratitude. The Jews will have fulfilled their messianic aspirations of having saved the entire human race and the Gentile nations will have no choice but to bow down before them as the gods they imagine themselves being and incense (in the form of money flowing to Israel) will be burned in their honor. Whenever Israel decides to relive the glory days of her Old Testament patriarchs by dropping more phosphorus and one-ton bombs on Palestinian or Lebanese civilians the world will remain silent, knowing that the response to any criticism on their part from the Jewish state will be something along the lines of–
“Who are you to tell us anything? You didn’t even have enough sense to stop your own annihilation. We pulled your bacon out of the fire so shut the f*** up and leave our business of genocide to us.”
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*ANOTHER* Mossad spy????? GEEZ where do they all come from?!?!?
Kenny has the roundup:
ABC news gave this story 10 seconds tonight. They had to hurry up and get to the 'Balloon Boy' diversion.
The spin starts early. The FBI is saying that there is 'no wrongdoing by Israel?' Just an out of control spy trying to make a buck on the side?
How much money do we as taxpayers give to Israel each year? How many wars are we fighting for them right now? How long before we bomb Iran for them?
How many other spies/Mossad agents have infiltrated the depths of the U.S. war machine?
Nothing new here. Only a continuation of Israeli spying and stealing. And is the FBI actually making an effort to root out the traitors or is this just some sort of psyops?
We'll see.....
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ABC news gave this story 10 seconds tonight. They had to hurry up and get to the 'Balloon Boy' diversion.
The spin starts early. The FBI is saying that there is 'no wrongdoing by Israel?' Just an out of control spy trying to make a buck on the side?
How much money do we as taxpayers give to Israel each year? How many wars are we fighting for them right now? How long before we bomb Iran for them?
How many other spies/Mossad agents have infiltrated the depths of the U.S. war machine?
Nothing new here. Only a continuation of Israeli spying and stealing. And is the FBI actually making an effort to root out the traitors or is this just some sort of psyops?
We'll see.....
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Saudi princes plead vulnerability and ask for subsidies if oil prices do not escalate
The oil princes of Saudi Arabia became literal beggars at the United Nations climate talks that began at Bangkok on September 28. The oil kingdom demanded that they, along with other OPEC member nations, receive subsidies for revenues to be lost due to potential global warming.
Speaking on October 8, Mohammad S. Al Sabban, who led the Saudi delegation at the talks, claimed that a report by the International Energy Agency on OPEC revenues was seriously skewed. According to the IEA, OPEC revenues would still increase by more than $23 trillion between 2008 and 2030. This is four times the amount revenues increased between 1985 and 2007. Al Sabban said of Saudi Arabia “We are among the economically vulnerable countries,…This is very serious for us. He went on to say “We are in the process of diversifying our economy but this will take a long time. We don’t have too many resources.”
the long knives were also out here last week:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=509103
Petropolitics: If there's a bright spot to greenhouse gasbags curtailing carbon output, it's watching the Saudis squirm. The sheiks worry they may have to make do with one or two fewer yachts.
During recent U.N. talks over global emissions cuts, Saudi Arabia quietly demanded that OPEC states get special financial aid if a new climate pact calls for big cuts in fossil-fuel use.
The kingdom's whimpering comes despite a new International Energy Agency report showing OPEC revenues would still grow $23 trillion between 2008 and 2030 — a fourfold jump compared with the 1985-2007 period — if countries agree to slash carbon output and thereby cut their use of oil.
But trillions more in cartel cash aren't enough for Saudi royalty. Flush with petrodollars from the huge run-up in crude prices last year, they're suddenly crying poor mouth.
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criminals and their money
Market Oracle: Goldman Sachs earnings and bonuses...where's the outrage?
The number of articles and opinions on Goldman Sachs earnings, bonuses, and influence pedaling over the past several days is quite stunning.
Many have pointed out the problems; few have expressed outrage over what is happening in general, not just at Goldman Sachs. Let's take a look.
My take is at the end.
[here follows a bunch of stories about GS, then:]
The Business Insider has posted an image and qualifications of Adam Storch, 29-Year-Old Goldman Guy Who Is Now COO Of The SEC.
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First PREMIER bankcard offers customers 79.9% APR credit card
The number of articles and opinions on Goldman Sachs earnings, bonuses, and influence pedaling over the past several days is quite stunning.
Many have pointed out the problems; few have expressed outrage over what is happening in general, not just at Goldman Sachs. Let's take a look.
My take is at the end.
[here follows a bunch of stories about GS, then:]
The Business Insider has posted an image and qualifications of Adam Storch, 29-Year-Old Goldman Guy Who Is Now COO Of The SEC.
Storch graduated from SUNY Buffalo. During college he did a stint as a summer intern at Neuberger Berman and worked at Deloitte & Touche for two years after graduating.
Storch then went to NYU's Stern School of Business. This lead to a job at Goldman, where he worked for the last five years.
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First PREMIER bankcard offers customers 79.9% APR credit card
It has been reported that many banks are raising their credit card interest rates before new federal regulations come into effect as part of the Credit Card Act of 2009, but First Premier Bankcard of Sioux Falls, SD, took it to the next level and is now offering some of their customers credit cards at interest rates as high as 79.9% APR.
The story first broke when San Diego’s NBC affiliate received a report from a viewer that he had received a pre-approved credit card offer from First Premier Bankcard, LLC at with a 79.9% APR. The viewer, Gordon Hageman, said he couldn’t believe it when he got the credit card mail. In an interview with the NBC affiliate, Hageman said, “My first thought, it was a mistake.”
Hageman called the number on the offer, and gave First Premier Bankcard’s customer service agent the offer code and they verified that he was pre-approved for a “Premier Card” credit card with a 79.9% APR. “I think they’re trying to take advantage of me,” said Hageman in his NBC San Diego interview.
The offer was from First Premier Bank, which operates its credit card division as “First Premier Bankcard.” First Premier says on its website that it’s the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Their website states that their company “focuses on individuals who have less than perfect credit but are actually still creditworthy.”
Hageman has acknowledged that his credit card is less than perfect, but he says that his score is about average. Hageman said that the offer itself didn’t state the interest rate on the card, but he that he had to read the enclosed fine-print disclosure to find that out.
San Diego State marketing professor, Michael Belch, also weighed in on the offer on NBC San Diego’s coverage of the story. Belch stated, “I think you’re beginning to border on deception there They’re just finding different ways to gouge the consumer.”
Although the interest rate that First Premier Bankcard offered Hageman is extraordinarily high, it’s perfectly legal. Credit card interest rates are regulated on a state-by-state basis and South Dakota removed the ceiling on the interest rates that credit card companies can charge in hopes of attracting national banks to the state.
First Premier Bankcard has not yet commented to any media source about the story.
Oath Keepers pledge to prevent dictatorship in US. Some people see that as a bad thing.
Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.
In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find.
Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming "giant concentration camps," a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.
It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.
"The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them.
"We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you."
That type of rhetoric has caught the attention of groups that track extremist activity in the United States.
In a July report titled "Return of the Militias," the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center singled out Oath Keepers as "a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival."
The Patriot movement, so named because its adherents believe the federal government has stepped on the constitutional ideals of the American Revolution, gained traction in the 1990s and has been closely linked to anti-government militia and white supremacist movements.
The movement is blamed for spawning Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.
"I'm not accusing Stewart Rhodes or any member of his group of being Timothy McVeigh or a future Timothy McVeigh," law center spokesman Mark Potok said. "But these kinds of conspiracy theories are what drive a small number of people to criminal violence. ... What's troubling about Oath Keepers is the idea that men and women armed and ordered to protect the public in this country are clearly being drawn into a world of false conspiracy theory."
Oath Keepers got some unwanted attention in April when an Oklahoma man loosely connected to the group was arrested for threatening violence at an anti-tax protest in Oklahoma City. Rhodes called the man "a nut" who had no real affiliation with his group.
Nonetheless, Potok's group now monitors Oath Keepers on its Web site blog "Hatewatch."
Oath Keepers is not preaching violence or government overthrow, Rhodes said. On the contrary, it is asking police and the military to lay down their arms in response to unlawful orders.
Campaign against me by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Kevin MacDonald
The Southern Poverty Law Center has initiated a campaign against me. The controversy started in September, 2006 when someone not connected with CSULB emailed all the full-time people in the Psychology Department — except me — alerting them to a comment about me at the SPLC website. Heidi Beirich of the SPLC came to Long Beach from November 12–15 2006 to interview faculty and administrators about me. During the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years there was also a great deal of discussion and debate about my work and associations on faculty email lists. Eventually several departments issued statements dissociating themselves from my work and, in some cases, condemning my work. I was an active participant in these debates and I have replied to the statement of the History Department (see below). (The History Department statement was the only departmental statement that included specific charges related to my scholarship.) In April, 2008, Beirich returned to CSULB to lead a meeting in which she again denounced me. A speaker from the Anti-Defamation League also participated in this meeting. The following lists various news reports and articles related to these events. read more @ link See a youtube interview of Kevin MacDonald here.
alert for upcoming dates and specific cities
an alert via Steve Quayle's site:
In this climate of possible Banking implosions, potential WW III scenarios, continued destruction of the American middle class, and Martial Law threats against American rights and liberties, the Q-files crew pays very close attention to all information coming from various HAM radio operators monitoring the HF radio frequencies used by the Military, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement groups. Continued monitoring over the last 6 years has produced many telltale heads up warnings and confirmations of other intel from sources that have been brought to you by the Q-Files crew on the Radio programs and in alerts and commentaries posted on this website and in several cases has also provided critical information to Military and Intelligence operators who for whatever reason were not apprised of that information.........including a fumbled handling of an alert of an incoming Russian Bomber Bogey given by a P3 Orion plane to a bumbling, incompetent National Comm Center operator who suggested that the P3 Orion handle the intercept of said Russian Bomber. When in near real time the Q-Files got this word out .......the urgent request by the P3 Orion for an immediate scramble of interceptor fighter craft onto that Bogey........lit up the afterburners on more than one airbase on the east coast and said Bogey was intercepted and escorted back where they came from .
...The Q-Files headquarters received a phone call from a top executive within one of the largest Banking Corporations in the U.S. This source was highly concerned about specific information their Bank Corporation had received regarding .......Probable....attacks upon U.S. cities by terrorists of jihaddist orientation using nuclear devices which may already be in place or that may be delivered by kamikaze style attacks via small aircraft upon centralized target locations of those cities. The cities named by that Banking executive were New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Jacksonville, and Tampa .
In preparation for these potential nuclear threats upon these cities, the Banking Corporation has been instructed to set up all means to operate their Banks by executives and other personnel using secure computer systems from remote locations, to provide for potential evacuation of Bank branch employees if needed, and to take every step to protect Bank branch locations and depositors' accounts as possible. This preparation was to be completed prior to 10/23/2009 as that begins the probable time window for these potential attacks by jihaddists or other unknown terrorist operators. This Banking source was verified as to their bonafides, ie. they are who they are. As to the list of cities and type of attacks, as well as the exact date of said probable attacks .........100% guarantees are not possible and these represent the information provided to this Banking Corporation source ostensibly from non disclosed Intelligence Community sources involved with Counter Terror operations.
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Independent from the Banking source, Q-files headquarters received a similar warning about potential nuclear device attacks upon U.S. cities via telephone approximately an hour after the Banking source had called. This warning was unsolicited as well and the deep background Intelligence community source giving it has been known to the Q-Files for over a decade. Their warning stated that from 10/23/2009 onward through 10/25/2009 that a highly probable attack upon some U.S. cities by jihaddist terrorists would be launched using nuclear devices and that Counter Terrorism operators were working to prevent this from happening. Possible in place devices and also possible delivery of nuclear devices by small planes was cited by this Intel Community source. The list of potential target cities were as follows.......New York, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Tuscon, and Miami. 100% guarantee is not possible here though this information is very plausible and since it came in separately but dovetailed with the Banking warning it is being presented here as well in confirmation of the Banking warning.
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I have no idea of the quality of this info, just passing it along FYI. - ed.
In this climate of possible Banking implosions, potential WW III scenarios, continued destruction of the American middle class, and Martial Law threats against American rights and liberties, the Q-files crew pays very close attention to all information coming from various HAM radio operators monitoring the HF radio frequencies used by the Military, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement groups. Continued monitoring over the last 6 years has produced many telltale heads up warnings and confirmations of other intel from sources that have been brought to you by the Q-Files crew on the Radio programs and in alerts and commentaries posted on this website and in several cases has also provided critical information to Military and Intelligence operators who for whatever reason were not apprised of that information.........including a fumbled handling of an alert of an incoming Russian Bomber Bogey given by a P3 Orion plane to a bumbling, incompetent National Comm Center operator who suggested that the P3 Orion handle the intercept of said Russian Bomber. When in near real time the Q-Files got this word out .......the urgent request by the P3 Orion for an immediate scramble of interceptor fighter craft onto that Bogey........lit up the afterburners on more than one airbase on the east coast and said Bogey was intercepted and escorted back where they came from .
...The Q-Files headquarters received a phone call from a top executive within one of the largest Banking Corporations in the U.S. This source was highly concerned about specific information their Bank Corporation had received regarding .......Probable....attacks upon U.S. cities by terrorists of jihaddist orientation using nuclear devices which may already be in place or that may be delivered by kamikaze style attacks via small aircraft upon centralized target locations of those cities. The cities named by that Banking executive were New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Jacksonville, and Tampa .
In preparation for these potential nuclear threats upon these cities, the Banking Corporation has been instructed to set up all means to operate their Banks by executives and other personnel using secure computer systems from remote locations, to provide for potential evacuation of Bank branch employees if needed, and to take every step to protect Bank branch locations and depositors' accounts as possible. This preparation was to be completed prior to 10/23/2009 as that begins the probable time window for these potential attacks by jihaddists or other unknown terrorist operators. This Banking source was verified as to their bonafides, ie. they are who they are. As to the list of cities and type of attacks, as well as the exact date of said probable attacks .........100% guarantees are not possible and these represent the information provided to this Banking Corporation source ostensibly from non disclosed Intelligence Community sources involved with Counter Terror operations.
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Independent from the Banking source, Q-files headquarters received a similar warning about potential nuclear device attacks upon U.S. cities via telephone approximately an hour after the Banking source had called. This warning was unsolicited as well and the deep background Intelligence community source giving it has been known to the Q-Files for over a decade. Their warning stated that from 10/23/2009 onward through 10/25/2009 that a highly probable attack upon some U.S. cities by jihaddist terrorists would be launched using nuclear devices and that Counter Terrorism operators were working to prevent this from happening. Possible in place devices and also possible delivery of nuclear devices by small planes was cited by this Intel Community source. The list of potential target cities were as follows.......New York, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Tuscon, and Miami. 100% guarantee is not possible here though this information is very plausible and since it came in separately but dovetailed with the Banking warning it is being presented here as well in confirmation of the Banking warning.
read more @ top link
I have no idea of the quality of this info, just passing it along FYI. - ed.
10.19.2009
black ops technology used in Iraq?
According to official Pentagon sources, military vehicles equipped with this laser device have been used in Afghanistan to explode mines. According to two reliable military information sites Defense Tech and Defense Industry Daily - at least three such vehicles are being used in Iraq as well and some people report having seen them.
Is The U.S. using new experimental "Tactical High Energy Laser" weapons in Iraq?
A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon.
In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.
On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.
read more and see videos at SOTT
Is The U.S. using new experimental "Tactical High Energy Laser" weapons in Iraq?
A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon.
In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.
On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.
read more and see videos at SOTT
EVANGELICAL CHURCHES involved in torture and murder of thousands of children denounced as witches
Katharine Houreldk
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:02 EDT
Eket, Nigeria - The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him - Mount Zion Lighthouse.
A month later, he died.
Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.
Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
"It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity," said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.
For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed. Poverty, conflict and poor education lay the foundation for accusations, which are then triggered by the death of a relative, the loss of a job or the denunciation of a pastor on the make, said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund.
"When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats," he said. "It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change ... and children are defenseless."
The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.
read more @ SOTT
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:02 EDT
Eket, Nigeria - The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him - Mount Zion Lighthouse.
A month later, he died.
Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.
Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
"It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity," said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.
For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed. Poverty, conflict and poor education lay the foundation for accusations, which are then triggered by the death of a relative, the loss of a job or the denunciation of a pastor on the make, said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund.
"When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats," he said. "It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change ... and children are defenseless."
The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.
read more @ SOTT
dignified beyond losses
What is this Israel talk about making the desert bloom? Seems like the IOF is too busy bulldozing trees and tormenting harmless farmers and murdering families to nurture anything but their own bottomless pits of vanity.
The Palestinian people have had to suffer because too many people here, in America, have been brainwashed into believing that Israel made the desert bloom. Open your eyes and see the truth.
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The Palestinian people have had to suffer because too many people here, in America, have been brainwashed into believing that Israel made the desert bloom. Open your eyes and see the truth.
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Lithuanian dad kills judge for molesting his 3 yo daughter
- A dad who shot dead a judge and a senior politician because they molested his three-year old daughter has become a national hero after going on the run in Lithuania.
- Horrified Drasius Keyds, 37, gunned down the perverted pair on Monday after police turned a deaf ear to his pleas for justice for his tortured tot.
- Now in hiding, Keyds has become a hero on YouTube and Facebook with hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the world pledging support.
- "You are a hero to all of us," reads one Facebook message. "What you did is nothing but justice."
- Mugs and t-shirts with his image on them have begun appearing alongside the logo "Drasius: Lone-avenger".
- Keyds' nightmare began a year ago when daughter Deimantela told him about a meeting set up by his then fiancee with judge Jonas Furmanavicziusa and the Speaker of Lithuania's parliament , Andrius Us. [Based on the way these names have been misspelled, I'd say both men are Jews and the misspellings were intentionally made to make it difficult to prove their ethnicity via a google search - "Andrius is no doubt Andreas, and the proper spelling for the other judge is "Furmanavicius" [26,000 google hits], not Furmanavicziusa [Two google hits]. Jews do this ALL THE TIME, in fact, you should automatically assume that any Jew accused of anything, will have an intentionally misspelled first name, surname, or both.]
- The pair allegedly raped and abused the youngster who reported her ordeal to her father.
- But a year long campaign for a police investigation failed when detectives told Keyds there was not enough evidence to proceed with a case.
- Now the fugitive dad is being offered a safe haven in neighbouring countries like Poland.
- Parliamentary deputy speaker Stefan Niesioowski said: "This is a clear case of incompetent law enforcement on the original crime."
- VIDEO HERE
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiYkIuUkFuI
florida hospitals have triage rationing plans JUST IN CASE
, ProPublica
Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.
The flu causes severe respiratory illnesses in a small percentage of cases, and patients who need ventilators and are deprived of them could die without the breathing assistance the machines provide.
In June, Florida Surgeon General Ana M. Viamonte Ros sent the draft guidelines — which had already undergone a series of internal revisions — to 16 state medical organizations for their feedback.
But the state has not yet publicized the guidelines or solicited input from the general public. The Florida Department of Health released a copy of the draft plan at the request of ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, which provided it to the Sun Sentinel.
The document addresses one of the most heart-rending issues in medicine: What to do if the number of people in need of ventilators and other treatment dramatically exceeds what is available.
read more @ sun sentinal
Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.
The flu causes severe respiratory illnesses in a small percentage of cases, and patients who need ventilators and are deprived of them could die without the breathing assistance the machines provide.
In June, Florida Surgeon General Ana M. Viamonte Ros sent the draft guidelines — which had already undergone a series of internal revisions — to 16 state medical organizations for their feedback.
But the state has not yet publicized the guidelines or solicited input from the general public. The Florida Department of Health released a copy of the draft plan at the request of ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, which provided it to the Sun Sentinel.
The document addresses one of the most heart-rending issues in medicine: What to do if the number of people in need of ventilators and other treatment dramatically exceeds what is available.
read more @ sun sentinal
60 million years of evolution vs big pharma
(NaturalNews) People still don't get it: Vitamin D is the "miracle nutrient" that activates your immune system to defend you against invading microorganisms -- including seasonal flu and swine flu. Two months ago, an important study was published by researchers at Oregon State University. This study reveals something startling: Vitamin D is so crucial to the functioning of your immune system that the ability of vitamin D to boost immune function and destroy invading microorganisms has been conserved in the genome for over 60 million years of evolution.
As this press release from Oregon State University (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...) explains:
The fact that this vitamin-D mediated immune response has been retained through millions of years of evolutionary selection, and is still found in species ranging from squirrel monkeys to baboons and humans, suggests that it must be critical to their survival, researchers say.
"The existence and importance of this part of our immune response makes it clear that humans and other primates need to maintain sufficient levels of vitamin D," said Adrian Gombart, an associate professor of biochemistry and a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.
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As this press release from Oregon State University (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...) explains:
The fact that this vitamin-D mediated immune response has been retained through millions of years of evolutionary selection, and is still found in species ranging from squirrel monkeys to baboons and humans, suggests that it must be critical to their survival, researchers say.
"The existence and importance of this part of our immune response makes it clear that humans and other primates need to maintain sufficient levels of vitamin D," said Adrian Gombart, an associate professor of biochemistry and a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.
read more @ natural news
10.18.2009
a devastating report on organ trafficking
NOTE the following:
Nancy Scheper-Hughes has already testified in 2001 before Congress about this problem. And in 2001, she testified that the problem extended back at least 12 years earlier.
How dare any member of the US Congress block efforts to start an international investigation.
Q: How do they dare do that?
A: OUR CONGRESS IS OWNED BY ISRAEL.
- ed.
Organ theft
Yehuda Hiss, keeper of the morgue
Nancy Scheper-Hughes has already testified in 2001 before Congress about this problem. And in 2001, she testified that the problem extended back at least 12 years earlier.
How dare any member of the US Congress block efforts to start an international investigation.
Q: How do they dare do that?
A: OUR CONGRESS IS OWNED BY ISRAEL.
- ed.
Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine
By Alison Weir - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
In August Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing grisly evidence suggesting that Israel had been taking Palestinian internal organs. The article, by veteran photojournalist Donald Bostrom, called for an international investigation to discover the facts.1
Israel immediately accused Bostrom and the newspaper of “anti-Semitism,” and charged that suggesting Israelis could be involved in the illicit removal of body parts constituted a modern “blood libel” (medieval stories of Jews killing people for their blood).2
Numerous Israeli partisans repeated these accusations, including Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin, who asserted that the story was “merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel hate.”3 Others suggested that the newspaper was “irresponsible” for running such an article.4
The fact is, however, that Israeli organ harvesting—sometimes with Israeli governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries—has been documented for many years. Among the victims have been Palestinians.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Chancellor’s Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the founder of Organ Watch, and the author of scholarly books and articles on organ trafficking. She is the pundit mainstream media call upon when they need expert commentary on the topic.5
While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection:
“Israel is at the top,” she states. “It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.”6
In a lecture last year sponsored by New York’s PBS 13 Forum, Scheper-Hughes explained that Israeli organ traffickers, “had and still have a pyramid system at work that’s awesome…they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they’ve got recruiters, they’ve got translators, they’ve got travel agents who set up the visas.”
Lest this sound simply like a successful international concern, it’s important to understand the nature of such a business.
As Scheper-Hughes describes it, organ trafficking consists of “paying the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle their bodies.”
Organ traffickers prey on the world’s poorest, most desperate citizens—slum dwellers, inhabitants of dying villages, people without means or hope. Traffickers promise them what seem like astronomical sums of money (from $1,000 to $10,000)—which they frequently don’t even deliver—in return for vital internal organs.
For traffickers, human body parts are commodities, to be cut out of the bodies of the poor and sold to the rich. The organ “donors” receive no follow-up care and end up worse off on many levels—physically, financially, psychologically, socially—than even their original tragic situation. Sometimes they are coerced into such “donations.”
Organ sales have been illegal in most countries for years. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which covers prevention, enforcement and sanctions in trafficking of humans, includes in its definition of human exploitation the extraction of organs for profit.7 Israel finally passed legislation against organ trafficking in 2008.8, 9
In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other was somewhat chilling: “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.”
She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her “it’s kind of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We’re going to get every single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to us.’”
Scheper-Hughes says that she “even heard doctors saying that.”
For many years Israelis in need of an internal organ have gone on what experts call “transplant tourism”—traveling to other nations to obtain internal organs. Sometimes body parts are obtained from those freshly dead; more often from the desperately needy. While affluent people from numerous countries and ethnicities engage in this practice, Israel is unique in several significant ways.
First, Israelis engage in this at an extraordinarily high rate. According to a 2001 BBC report, Israelis buy more kidneys per capita than any other population.
Second, Israelis have the lowest donor rate in the world—one-fifth that of Europe, according to BBC. This is in part because there has been a widespread impression that Jewish religious law prohibits transplants as a “desecration of the body.”10 The Israeli news service Ynet reports, “the percentage of organs donated among Jews is the lowest of all the ethnic groups.”11
Third, the Israeli government has enabled the practice. For many years the Israeli health system subsidized its citizens’ “transplant holidays,” reimbursing Israelis $80,000 for medical operations abroad. Much of the remaining costs could often be obtained from government-subsidized12 Israeli insurance plans.13 In addition, Israel’s Ministry of Defense was directly involved.
Scheper-Hughes discussed Israeli organ trafficking in detail in 2001 in published testimony to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.14 In her extensive testimony, Scheper-Hughes stated that although Israel had become a pariah for its organ policies, Israeli officials exhibited “amazing tolerance…toward outlawed ‘transplant tourism.’”
She described an international syndicate which was “organized through a local business corporation in conjunction with a leading transplant surgeon, operating out of a major medical center not far from Tel Aviv,” and which had forged links with transplant surgeons in Turkey, Russia, Moldavia, Estonia, Georgia, Romania, and New York City.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense was directly involved in what Scheper-Hughes called Israel’s “‘illicit [in other nations] national ‘program’ of transplant tourism…Members of the Ministry of Defense or those closely related to them” accompanied transplant junkets.
In her Forum 13 lecture, Scheper-Hughes said that investigating Israeli organ trafficking over the past decade had taken her “from country to country to country to country.”
One of these is Moldova, the poorest country in Europe—and homeland of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman—where 90 percent of the people earn less than $2 a day. A 2001 BBC report on organ trafficking described the situation: “Hundreds of Israelis have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney.15
Another is Brazil, where a legislative commission found that 30 [it may actually have been as high as 60] Brazilians from impoverished neighborhoods had sold their kidneys to a trafficking ring headed by Israelis, with Israeli citizens receiving almost all of the organs, and the Israeli government providing most of the funding.16
The ring had also begun inquiring about buying other vital organs from poor residents, including lungs, livers and corneas.17
An Inter Press Service (IPS) news story from the time reported that Scheper-Hughes testified to the commission that international trafficking of human organs had begun some 12 years earlier, promoted by Zaki Shapira, head of kidney transplant services at Bellinson Medical Center, near Tel Aviv.
Scheper-Hughes reported that Shapira had performed more than 300 kidney transplants, sometimes accompanying his patients to other countries such as Turkey. The recipients were very wealthy or had very good health insurance, and the “donors” very poor people from Eastern Europe, the Philippines and other developing countries.
The chairman of the Brazilian commission, physician Raimundo Pimentel, was outraged at Israeli policies, pointing out that trafficking can only take place on a large scale if there is a major source of financing, such as the Israeli health system. Pimentel charged that the resources provided by the Israeli health system “were a determining factor” in enabling a network that preyed on society’s poorest populations.
In 2004 there were reports that Israeli traffickers had added China to their target donor populations.18 In one recent case an Israeli paid an organ broker $100,000 for a kidney transplant in China from an 18-year-old Chinese girl. She received $5,000 and died following surgery.19
New York Times reporter Larry Rohter pointed out that allowing brokers to operate with few restrictions benefited Israel “by exporting Israel’s organ shortage overseas.” Rohter cites a kidney specialist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem who explained that patients who go abroad “‘save the country a lot of money; not only in terms of what doesn’t have to be spent on dialysis, but also by opening places for other people who are on the list.’”20
Many people find governmental complicity in organ trafficking deeply troubling on moral and philosophical grounds.
As Scheper-Hughes testified: “The sale of human organs and tissues requires that certain disadvantaged individuals, populations, and even nations have been reduced to the role of ‘suppliers.’
“It is a scenario in which only certain bodies are broken, dismembered, fragmented, transported, processed, and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged population...of receivers.” She believes that the risks and benefits of organ transplant surgery should be more equally distributed among nations, ethnic groups, and social classes.
Organ theft
It is difficult to know how often Israeli trafficking involves outright theft of vital organs from living human beings.
It is not rare for the “donor” to receive little or none of the compensation promised. For example, in 2007 Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that two Israelis had confessed to persuading Palestinians “from the Galilee and central Israel who were developmentally challenged or mentally ill to agree to have a kidney removed for payment.” According to the Haaretz report, after the organ had been taken the traffickers refused to pay for them.
On occasion, people are coerced into giving up their organs. For example, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, the alleged Brooklyn trafficker recently arrested in an FBI sweep in New Jersey, reportedly carried a gun. When a potential organ seller would try to back out, Rosenbaum would use his finger to simulate firing a gun at the person’s head.
The Rosenbaum case, reportedly part of a ring centered in Israel, is the first case of trafficking to be prosecuted in the US. His arrest and the substantial evidence against him may have surprised State Department Countermisinformation Director Todd Leventhal, who had characterized organ trafficking as an “urban legend,” stating, “It would be impossible to successfully conceal a clandestine organ-trafficking ring.” Leventhal called such reports “irresponsible and totally unsubstantiated.”
More often organ theft involves dead bodies—or those alleged to be dead.
Israel’s very first successful heart transplant, in fact, used a stolen heart.
In 1968 Avraham Sadegat unexpectedly died two days after being hospitalized in Beilinson Hospital in Israel’s Petah Tikva for a stroke. When his family finally was able to retrieve his body (the hospital initially refused to release it) they found his chest covered with bandages; odd, they thought, for a stroke victim. Upon removing these they discovered that the chest cavity was stuffed with bandages and the heart was missing.21
During this time, the Israeli press was heralding the historic heart transplant, performed by a team of surgeons who were to become some of Israel’s most celebrated physicians, among them Dr. Morris Levy, Dr. Bernardo Vidne, and Dr Jack Solomon, who harvested the heart.22
When the family began to ask questions, the hospital denied any connection. After the man’s wife and brother had raised a media furor, petitioned three cabinet ministers—and agreed to sign a document that they would not sue—the hospital finally admitted it was Sadegat’s heart that had been used.
Haaretz quoted Sadegat’s tearful wife: “They treated him like an alley cat. From the moment he entered the hospital, they apparently saw him only as a potential source of organs and not as a man in need of treatment. They only thought about how to do the deed without us knowing.”
Sadegat’s medical condition before his heart was removed has not been made public. It is possible—perhaps probable—that up until his heart was removed it was still beating; according to an Israeli media report, “once a heart stops beating, it is no longer fit for transplantation.”23
Even if he was what is now termed “brain dead,” the general view is that family members should at least be a party to decisions regarding the patient: first, whether to “pull the plug,” and, second, whether to donate an organ. At the time, however, Israeli law allowed organs to be harvested without the family’s consent.
Forty years later the hospital held an anniversary celebration of the transplant, despite the fact that, according to Haaretz, the heart had been obtained “through deceit and trickery.” The festivities, which honored surviving members of the transplant team, featured balloons and a red, heart-shaped cake.
In this incident of organ theft (and from a possibly living body), the family was Israeli. Had the wife and brother been Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza, they would not have possessed the power to force a confession from the hospital, and it is likely that those individuals today calling the Swedish article a “blood libel” or “irresponsible journalism” would have applied the same epithets to journalists reporting questions concerning the historic Israeli heart transplant—if any reporters even bothered or dared to do so.
Yehuda Hiss, keeper of the morgue
Perhaps one of the most long-term and high-level cases of organ theft—and one that involves Palestinian as well as Israeli organs—concerns an extraordinarily high official: Dr. Yehuda Hiss, Israel’s chief pathologist and, from 1988 through 2004, director of Israel’s state morgue, the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir.
An early indication of malfeasance came to light in 1998 and concerned a Scottish man named Alisdair Sinclair, who had died under questionable circumstances after being taken into custody at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport.
The Israeli story, as reported by the Israeli news magazine Jerusalem Report, is that Sinclair had confessed to transporting drugs, even though none were found, although he was in possession of 9,000 German marks ($5,000). He then, the police claim, hanged himself by looping his shoelaces and T-shirt around a towel bar about a meter off the ground and slipped the improvised noose around his neck. From a squatting position, the police story goes, he repeatedly threw his bodyweight downward, choking himself.
Sinclair did not die, however, and medics were able to restore a heartbeat. He was transferred to a hospital where, according to the magazine report, the hospital’s associate director, Dr. Yigal Halperin, said that Sinclair “had suffered irreversible brain damage, and there was little doctors could do for him. Left in a corner of the emergency room, he died at 7 p.m. [It’s unknown whether he had been put on life support.] His corpse was transferred to the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir for an autopsy.”
Afterwards, Israeli authorities located Sinclair’s family and gave them three weeks to dispose of the body. They suggested that he be buried in a Christian cemetery in Israel, pointing out that this would be one-third the cost of shipping the body back to Scotland. However, the grieving family scraped up the money to bring him home.
They had a second autopsy performed by Glasgow University, only to discover that Sinclair’s heart and a small bone in his throat called the hyoid were missing. The British Embassy filed a complaint with Israel, and a heart was sent to Scotland. According to the Jerusalem Report, the family “wanted the Forensic Institute to pay for a DNA test to confirm that this heart was indeed their brother’s, but the Institute’s director, Prof. Jehuda Hiss, refused, citing the prohibitive cost.”
Despite a protest from the British government, Israel refused to supply Hiss’s pathology findings or the police report. According to the British government and a report in the Israeli media, around the time of Sinclair’s death a doctor at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital put in a request for a hyoid bone for research purposes—and eventually received a bill for shipping costs.24 Israel retained Sinclair’s $5,000.
Through the years Hiss and the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic medicine continued to be accused of organ theft. In 2000 the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published an investigative report alleging that Hiss had been extracting organs without permission and then packing the bodies with broomsticks and cotton wool to fill in cavities before burial. The report charged that under Hiss the institute had been involved in organ sales of body parts—“legs, thighs, ovaries, breasts and testicles,” allegedly to medical institutions.
In 2001 a district judge found the Institute had performed hundreds of autopsies and had removed body parts without the families’ permission—and sometimes in direct opposition to their expressed wishes.25 One report described a “museum of skulls” at the institute.
Little was done, however, and complaints continued—often by the parents of dead Israeli soldiers horrified to discover that body parts had been taken from their sons. Finally, in 2004 Israel’s health minister transferred directorship of the morgue itself away from Hiss. Hiss, however, retained his position as Israel’s chief pathologist, a post it appears he holds to this day.26, 27
Hiss had also been connected with two previous national scandals, both of which may have involved powerful people in Israel, which may account for his longevity in Israel’s medical establishment despite years of proven wrongdoing.
The first controversy concerned the “Yemenite Children’s Affair”—a situation, largely from the early 1950s, in which a thousand babies and small children of recent immigrants to Israel had “disappeared.”
When the immigrants had arrived as part of Israel’s “ingathering of the exiles,” babies were immediately taken from their mothers and placed in children’s houses. Many were hospitalized for a variety of ills, and hundreds died, their deaths coming in such large numbers that they were announced over loudspeakers.
The distraught parents often never saw the body or received a death certificate, and there were growing suspicions that not all had died—some, it was believed, had been “given” to Ashkenazi parents. One author writes: “It was a well-known fact within the Jewish community in the United States that if a family wanted a child they could go to [baby brokers, both rabbis] and simply pay the necessary fee.”28
Some Israeli investigators have found considerable evidence for these charges, and indications of complicity at multiple levels of the power structure. In fact, one researcher charges: “People in positions of power at the time that the State of Israel was established profited from the abduction and sale of children from poor immigrant families.”29
Hiss’ connection comes in 1997, when Israel finally had formed a committee to investigate the disappearance of Yemenite and other Jewish children in the years 1948-1954. Among those testifying before this committee was a California woman who had come to Israel searching for her biological mother—and, according to DNA testing by a geneticist at Hebrew University, had found her.
The committee demanded that another DNA test be conducted at the Abu Kabir forensic institute. As at least one observer predicted ahead of time, Hiss’s test came up negative, and the government was allegedly exonerated, despite the fact that the geneticist who had conducted the first tests stood by his results.30
Hiss also plays a role in some conspiracy theories regarding the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, who had begun a peace process with Palestinians. In March 1999 a group of academics presented findings alleging that Hiss had submitted false evidence to the commission that investigated the killing.31
Palestinian Victims
Israelis have also targeted Palestinians, a particularly vulnerable population on numerous levels.
In her congressional subcommittee testimony, Scheper-Hughes reported that before he moved overseas, Israeli hospital transplant head Zaki Shapira had located kidney sellers “amongst strapped Palestinian workers in Gaza and the West Bank.” She said that his “hand was slapped by an ethics board,” and he moved his practice overseas.
For decades numerous Palestinians and others have charged Israel with taking body parts from Palestinians they had wounded or killed.
In her subcommittee testimony, Scheper-Hughes testified that toward the end of the apartheid period in South Africa, “human rights groups in the West Bank complained to me of tissue and organs stealing of slain Palestinians by Israeli pathologists at the national Israeli legal medical institute in Tel Aviv.”
A Washington Report for Middle East Affairs article by Mary Barrett (see “Autopsies and Executions,” April 1990 Washington Report, p. 21) reported “widespread anxiety over organ thefts which has gripped Gaza and the West Bank since the intifada began in December of 1987.”
Barrett quotes a forensic physician: “There are indications that for one reason or another, organs, especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the first year or year and a half. There were just too many reports by credible people for there to be nothing happening. If someone is shot in the head and comes home in a plastic bag without internal organs, what will people assume?”
A 2002 news story from IRNA reported that three Palestinian boys aged 14-15 had been killed by Israeli forces on Dec. 30, their bodies finally being returned for burial on Jan. 6. According to the report: “shortly before burial, Palestinian medical authorities examined the bodies and found out that the main vital organs were missing from the bodies.” In an interview on Al Jazeera, President Yasser Arafat held up photos of the boys, saying, “They murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts.”
Journalist Khalid Amayreh, recently investigating this topic further, found that “several other Palestinians gave a similar narrative, recounting how they received the bodies of their murdered relatives, mostly men in their early twenties, with vital organs taken away by the Israeli authorities.”
Israel has consistently characterized such accusations as “anti-Semitic,” and numerous other journalists have discounted them as exaggerations.
However, according to the pro-Israel Forward magazine, the truth of these charges was, in fact, confirmed by an Israeli governmental investigation a number of years ago.
In a recent story critical of the Swedish article, the Forward actually confirmed its main point, that Israel had been taking the body parts of slain Palestinians. The Forward article reported that one of the governmental investigations into Hiss had revealed that “he seemed to view every body that ended up in his morgue, whether Israeli or Palestinian, as fair game for organ harvesting.”32
Over the years, a great many Palestinian bodies have “ended up” in the Israeli morgue. In numerous cases Israeli occupation forces have taken custody of wounded or dead Palestinians. Sometimes their bodies are never returned to their grieving families—Palestinian NGOs say there are at least 250 such cases.
In other cases the bodies have been returned to the families days later, with crudely stitched naval-to-chin incisions. On many occasions Israeli soldiers have delivered the bodies late at night and required the bereaved families to bury their children, husbands, and brothers immediately, under Israeli military guard, sometimes with the electricity shut off.
In 2005 an Israeli soldier33 described a military doctor who gave “medics lessons in anatomy” using the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces. Haaretz reports: “The soldier said that the Palestinian’s body had been riddled with bullets and that some of his internal organs had spilled out. The doctor pronounced the man dead and then ‘took out a knife and began to cut off parts of the body,’ the soldier said.
“‘He explained the various parts to us—the membrane that covers the lungs, the layers of the skin, the liver, stuff like that,’ the soldier continued. ‘I didn’t say anything because I was still new in the army. Two of the medics moved away, and one of them threw up. It was all done very brutally. It was simply contempt for the body.’”34
While most Israeli investigations into organ theft have largely ignored the Palestinian component, a number of significant facts are known:
- Palestinian organs were harvested during years of an astonishingly lax system in which the body parts even of Jewish Israelis were extracted illicitly at the national morgue by the chief pathologist and exchanged for money.
- Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are largely a captive population. Numerous reports by highly reputable Israeli and international organizations have documented a situation in which Palestinians have few if any real rights; Israeli forces have killed civilians with impunity, imprisoned massive numbers of people without benefit of trials, and routinely abused prisoners.
- Israeli authorities have conducted numerous autopsies of Palestinians without permission of their families, without even a semblance of public transparency, and without, it appears, accompanying reports. For example, the families of those who were taken while still alive are not provided with a medical report stating time and cause of death.
- A very small but significant minority of Israelis, including military officers and governmental ministers, hold extremist supremacist views relevant to organ extraction. In 1996, Jewish Week reported that Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, a leader of the Lubavitch sect of Judaism and the dean of a religious Jewish school in a West Bank settlement, stated: “If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that.” Ginzburgh elaborated: “Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.” [The Jewish Week, April 26, 1996, pp. 12, 31]
While most Israelis strenuously repudiate such beliefs, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, an Israeli scholar on Jewish scriptural views on racism and ethnic chauvinism, has said, “The sad thing is, these statements are in our books.” Greenberg, who was a professor at Hebrew University, pointed out that such Talmudic texts were “purely theoretical” at the time of their writing, because Jews did not have the power to carry them out. Now, he pointed out, “they’re carried over into circumstances where Jews have a state and are empowered.”
While it is impossible to know whether any Israelis have ever acted on such religious permission to kill a non-Jew in order to provide body parts to Jews, some observers have considered this a possibility.
Dr. A. Clare Brandabur, a distinguished American scholar who has lived and traveled extensively in Palestine, writes that the information published in the Swedish article “resonates with reports from Palestinians in Gaza which I heard during the first intifada.”
She comments, “When I interviewed Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi, head of the Red Crescent in Gaza, I mentioned to him reports of shootings of Palestinian children at times when there were no ‘clashes’ going on—a solitary 6-year-old entering his schoolyard in the morning with his bookbag on his back. The soldiers abducted the wounded child at gunpoint, then his body would be returned a few days later having undergone an ‘autopsy at Abu Kabir Hospital.’”
She says: “I asked Dr. Shafi if he had considered the possibility that these killings were being done for organ transplant, since (as Israel Shahak notes in Jewish History, Jewish Religion), it is not allowed to take Jewish organs to save a Jewish life, but it is allowed to take the organs of non-Jews to save Jewish lives. Dr. Shafi said he had suspected such things but since they had no access to the records of Abu Kabir Hospital, there was no way to verify these suspicions.”
Scheper-Hughes, in her congressional testimony, describes the danger of “organs got by any means possible including (I was told by one guilt-ridden practitioner) chemically inducing the signs of brain death in dying patients of no means and with access to minimal social support or family surveillance.”
Whether or not there have ever been organ-inspired murders in Israel as it appears there have elsewhere, numerous groups around the world are urging an international investigation into Israel’s handling of Palestinian bodies in its custody.
However, the Israeli government and its powerful advocates abroad, who regularly block investigations into Israeli actions, are doing their utmost to prevent this one.35, 36 Several lawsuits have been filed against the Swedish newspaper, the largest by Israeli lawyer and IDF officer Guy Ophir, who filed a $7.5 million lawsuit in New York against the newspaper and Bostrom. Ophir declared that Israel must “silence the reporter and the newspaper.”37
International investigations, of course, have two results: the innocent are absolved, the guilty discovered.
It is clear which category Israel believes it falls into.
Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew and is on the board of the Council for the National Interest.
An Internet petition calling for an investigation can be viewed at
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/investigateorgantheft/
Footnotes:
1 Bostrom, Donald, “Our sons plundered for their organs,” Aftonbladet, Aug. 17, 2009 , translated by Tlaxcala.
http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=8390&lg=en
(Original Swedish version at http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article5652583.ab )
2 Israel Insider, “Netanyahu to press Sweden to condemn blood libel,” Aug. 23, 2009
http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blogs/netanyahu-to-press-sweden-to
3 Tobin, Jonathan, “Swedish Anti-Semites Dig Up a Blood Libel,” CommentaryMagazine.com, Aug. 20, 2009
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/76522
4 Cassel, Matthew, “Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice,” The Electronic Intifada, Aug. 24, 2009
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10730.shtml
5Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, “The Organ of Last Resort,” UNESCO, www.unesco.org, July, 2001
http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_07/uk/doss34.htm
University of California Berkeley Anthropology Faculty CV: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chancellor’s Professor in Medical Anthropology, Head, Doctoral Program in Medical Anthropology, Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the Body, Director, Organs Watch
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/nsh.html
6 Griffin, Drew and David Fitzpatrick, “Donor says he got thousands for his kidney,” CNN Special Investigations Unit, CNN, Sept. 2, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/01/blackmarket.organs/index.html
7Osava, Mario, “BRAZIL: Poor Sell Organs to Trans-Atlantic Trafficking Ring,” Inter Press Service (IPS), Feb. 23, 2004
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=22524
8 Yeshiva World News, “CNN: Israel a Leader in Organ Trafficking,” Sept. 3, 2009
9Chabin, Michele, “Organ Donation: Legal, But Still Controversial,” Jewish Week, April 9, 2008
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c40_a7588/News/Israel.html
10Rohter, Larry, “Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope,” The New York Times, May 23, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/international/americas/23BRAZ.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
11Shapira-Rosenberg, Efrat, “A mitzvah called organ donation,” Ynet News, June 10, 2007
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388529,00.html
12 Rohter, Larry, op. cit.
13Ibid.
14 “Organs for Sale: China’s Growing Trade and Ultimate Violation of Prisoners’ Rights,” Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, 107th Congress, First Session, June 27, 2001, Serial No. 107–29
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa73452.000/hfa73452_0f.htm
15 Lloyd-Roberts, Sue, “Europe’s poorest country supplying organs to its neighbours,” BBC Newsnight, 9/7/01
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1437345.stm
16 “BRAZIL: Poor Sell Organs to Trans-Atlantic Trafficking Ring,” Mario Osava, IPS, Feb. 23, 2004
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=22524
17New York Times
18 “Israeli organ traffickers shift operations to China,” BioEdge, June 4, 2004
19 “CNN: Israel a Leader in Organ Trafficking,” Yeshiva World News, Sept. 3, 2009
20“Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope,” New York Times, Larry Rohter, May 23, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/international/americas/23BRAZ.html?th
21 “40 years after Israel’s first transplant, donor’s family says his heart was stolen,” Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz, Dec., 14, 2008
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046041.html
22“40 years on, medical staffers from Israel’s first human heart transplant reminisce about the feat,” Judy Siegel, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 7, 2008
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-159077338.html
23“Shas swing vote pushes through organ donor law,” Shahar Ilan, Haaretz, March 25, 2008
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968084.html
“With top rabbis’ blessing, Knesset approves organ donation law,” Shahar Ilan, Haaretz, Aug. 7, 2008
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/967871.html
24 “Scottish Tourist’s Family Rejects Out-of-Court Settlement,” Netty C. Gross, The Jerusalem Report, Jan. 29, 2001
25“Attorney-General lodges complaint against Abu Kabir coroner,” Dan Izenbert, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 11, 2003
26 “Hiss fired for repeated body-part scandals,” Judy Siegel, Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2004
27 “Infamous Chief Pathologist to Once Again Evade Punishment,” Ezra HaLevi, Arutz Sheva Israel National News, Sept. 26, 2005
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/90518
28 “Were the Children Sold?” Yechiel A. Mann, Stop-Abuse.net
29 “The Missing Children,” Yechiel A. Mann, Stop-Abuse.net
30 “Infamous Chief Pathologist to Once Again Evade Punishment,” Ezra HaLevi, Arutz Sheva Israel National News, Sept. 26, 2005
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/90518
31“Infamous Chief Pathologist to Once Again Evade Punishment,” Ezra HaLevi, Arutz Sheva Israel National News, Sept. 26, 2005
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/90518
32“Illicit Body-Part Sales Present Widespread Problem,”
By Rebecca Dube, Forward, Published Aug. 26, 2009, issue of Sept. 4, 2009
http://www.forward.com/articles/112915/
33“Palestinian corpse used for IDF anatomy lesson,” Amos Harel, Haaretz, Jan. 28, 2005
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=533018
34 “The Swedish canard—not only smoke, but also fire,” Shraga Elam, Aug. 25, 2009 (posted Sept. 4, 2009)
(Hebrew: http://cafe.themarker.com/view.php?t=1192567 )
http://shraga-elam.blogspot.com/2009/09/swedish-canard-not-only-smoke-but-also.html
35 “Israeli lawyer sues Swedish paper,” JTA, Aug. 27, 2009
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/27/1007480/israeli-lawyer-sues-swedish-paper
36 “Israeli lawyer sues ‘Aftonbladet’ in NY Court,” E.B. Solomont, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 26, 2009
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145124980&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
37 “Israeli Reservists To Sue Swedish Newspaper,” David Bedein, The Bulletin, August 30, 2009
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/09/04/news/world/doc4a9aa59f46ce3700709743.prt
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