British Doctors Accuse Israel of Medical
Torture Like the Nazis Did
Guest Column by Stephen Lendman
Global
Research, January 22, 2016
Seventy-one UK doctors along with 343 academics want
the Israeli Medical Association and its members expelled from the World Medical
Association.
They want
joint projects with Israeli universities banned. They accused Israeli doctors
of “medical torture” on Palestinian patients.
Thousands of
Palestinians are imprisoned solely for political reasons. Vital medical care
when needed is routinely denied or inadequately provided, pain meds
substituting for treatment, causing needless suffering, at times resulting in
death.
In 2000,
former Israeli Abu Kabir forensic institute head Dr. Yehuda Hiss accused Israel
of killing Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Interviewed
on Israel’s Channel 2 at the time, he said “(w)e started to harvest corneas.
(What) was done was (unethical). No permission was asked from…famil(ies)” of
victims.
The 1990s-aired
Channel 2 report said Abu Kabir forensic specialists harvested skin, corneas,
heart valves and bones from bodies of Israeli soldiers, its citizens,
Palestinians and foreign workers – without obtaining legal authorization.
UC Berkeley
Professor of Medical Anthropology/Organ Watch founder Nancy Scheper-Hughes
earlier said “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.”
“Israel is at
the top” of the organ harvesting racket. “It has tentacles reaching out
worldwide…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.”
“They pay
“the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle their bodies” or simply take what
they want from fresh corpses.”
“Body parts
are commodities, to be harvested and sold to the rich, even though organ sales
are prohibited in most countries, but not (under) international law.”
The UN
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime calls organ extraction for
profit human exploitation. In 2008, Israel banned the practice. It still
persists.
Earlier,
former Council of Europe Human Dignity and Equality director Marja Ruotanen
said:
“We have
legislation and definitions covering the trafficking in human beings for the
purpose of organ removal, (yet) there is a legal vacuum for the traffic in
organs, tissues and cells.”
Organs from
perhaps thousands of Palestinian corpses were harvested, Abu Kabir forensic
specialists are complicit with Israeli authorities in trafficking in human body
parts.
Israeli
physicians involved in medically illegal and unethical practices, along with
state authorities permitting it, should be held fully accountable for their
crimes.
Separately on
Wednesday, the Palestinian Detainees Committee (PDC) said Israel abducted and
detained 130 Palestinians in 2015 for legitimate social media comments.
Over two
dozen face wrongful charges of “incitement and supporting terrorist groups.”
Others are administratively detained uncharged and untried – indefinitely if
Israel chooses.
PDC said:
“(s)uch
arrests and violations are carried out while Israel continues to ignore racist
Israeli social media posts, photos and statements by extremists who openly call
for killing the Arabs, for executing them and for removing them out of their
homeland.”
Anyone
legitimately criticizing Israeli viciousness or expressing solidarity with
Palestinian resistance for justice risks arrest, prosecution, imprisonment or
assassination.
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The original
source of this article is Global Research
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West
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