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JERUSALEM Israel admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel's attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.
Hiss became director of the institute in 1988. He said in the interview that the practice of harvesting organs without permission began in the "early 1990s." However, he also said that military surgeons removed a thin layer of skin from bodies as early as 1987 to treat burn victims. Hiss said he believed that was done with family consent. The harvesting ended in 2000, he said.
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JERUSALEM Israel admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel's attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.
Hiss became director of the institute in 1988. He said in the interview that the practice of harvesting organs without permission began in the "early 1990s." However, he also said that military surgeons removed a thin layer of skin from bodies as early as 1987 to treat burn victims. Hiss said he believed that was done with family consent. The harvesting ended in 2000, he said.
Right, so because they lied all these years we're suppose to believe they don't do it now?
Thoughts?
I'm thinking we'll have a pro/anti semite debate here shortly.
I'm thinking we'll have a pro/anti semite debate here shortly.
Whatever gave you that impression?
Of course the filthy bastards did it. It was obvious when they denied Sweden's allegations so vehemently -- methought they didst protest too much.
No matter, the pro-Israel crowd will be along shortly to remind us that Israel is the freest and most moral nation in the Middle East, if not the entire world.
I'm thinking we'll have a pro/anti semite debate here shortly.
Opposing Israel doesn't necessarily involve being anti-Semitic; it involves being pro-human rights.
I'm thinking we'll have a pro/anti semite debate here shortly.
Opposing Israel doesn't necessarily involve being anti-Semitic; it involves being pro-human rights.
Too bad being pro human rights somehow takes a back seat when discussing the governance of the PLO or Hamas, or any other dictatorship in the ME.
Do you think anyone's human rights were violated when Hamas operatives dragged Fatah workers out of their offices and machine gunned them in the streets?
Too bad being pro human rights somehow takes a back seat when discussing the governance of the PLO or Hamas, or any other dictatorship in the ME.
Do you think anyone's human rights were violated when Hamas operatives dragged Fatah workers out of their offices and machine gunned them in the streets?
Too bad being pro human rights somehow takes a back seat when discussing the governance of the PLO or Hamas, or any other dictatorship in the ME.
Do you think anyone's human rights were violated when Hamas operatives dragged Fatah workers out of their offices and machine gunned them in the streets?
To be sure. To refresh my memory, how often is Hamas hailed as America's best ally? How often does America deny Hamas' obvious human rights violations merely for the sake of preserving an unneeded alliance? How many terrorist attacks has America suffered as a consequence of allying itself with Hamas?
I tend to side with Israel more often than not, and I think their invasion of Gaza totally justified given they gave it back with no preconditions only to see it become a base of rocket attacks for months.
But "if" this is true, it is wrong.
You don't take organs from the dead without their relatives permission.
Here and now let me just declare, from this time and place, that you may, upon my death, use my penis as a bridge to the 22 century.
I was really hoping my penis donation would impress you Ms California.
I was really hoping my penis donation would impress you Ms California.
Why, Mr Frogen, whatever kind of girl do you think I am?
penal servitudeI was really hoping my penis donation would impress you Ms California.
Why, Mr Frogen, whatever kind of girl do you think I am?
I was hoping one that has a fondness for large penis'.
What is the plural for penis? Other than gang bang?
