Jewish Studies

by Saira Soufan

"Rabbi Ginsburgh asked rhetori-cally: 'If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to dave him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value', he explained. 'There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life'."

(Prof. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel", Pluto Press, London 1999, page 62)

The latest face of Israeli terrorism was revealed during a live interview with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat by Al Jazeera Television.

President Arafat has accused the Zionist apartheid regime of murdering Palestinian infants, children, and youths and extricating their vital organs for transplants.

"They murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts` Why is the whole world silent? Israel takes advantage of this silence to escalate it's oppression and terror against our people," stressed President Arafat.

During the interview on Monday, January 14th, President Arafat held up photos of the mutilated bodies of the children. "I'm not worried about myself", as the President is under house arrest, "I'm worried about the Palestinian people who have been under siege for the past 15 months."

Israel admitted that doctors at the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir had harvested the organs of 3 Palestinian youth killed by the Israel army near Khan Younis. Attempting to cross the border between Palestine and Israel , the 15 and 17 year old boys were struck down by tank missiles courtesy of the Israeli militia.

Palestinians are in need of border crossing in order to find any menial work for pay with which to feed and support their families. The bodies of Khan Younis boys were not immediately returned for burial by the Israeli Occupation Authorities.

After 10 days the bodies were returned to their families for burial but with their organs and even their eyes removed.

This is not a new act of terrorism inflicted upon the Palestinian people. The illegal harvesting of the organs of Palestinian soldiers and freedom fighters has been documented since before the 1990's.

Upon return of the soldiers' bodies to their mourning families, the pillage of body parts is discovered during the burial process. The empty cavities have been filled with garbage such as cotton wool, garden hoses, and broomsticks, then sewn up as a result of a so-called" autopsy"

In an unusual and unpublicized event in 1998, a Scotsman, Alistair Sinclair, died under mysterious circumstances in the Ben-Gurion Airport lockup. Mr. Sinclair's parents sued the Israelis upon finding their son's heart and other organs missing. A replacement heart and organs were sent to his mother, who does not believe that these are those of her son's.

The Health Ministry officials said on January 3rd, that they have no intention of taking action against Professor Yehuda Hiss, Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir over the retention of the harvested vital organs and body parts of the innocent children and soldiers.

Furthermore, the Health Ministry Associate Director-General Yitzhak Berlovich has displaced the investigation over the mutilation of the dead using the funds instead to renovate the building of the Institute.

The Israeli Authorities have made no apologies or in depth investigations into these incidents or others as this would appear as an admission of guilt of their terrible atrocities. Illegal harvesting of organs is an international crime and pure and simple terrorism toward humanity.

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From: Palestinian_Diary@h...

Date: Thu Apr 18, 2002 1:46 am

Subject: "Come on, dogs!"

In October 2001, Harper's magazine published the "Gaza Diary" of journalist Chris Hedges. Hedges' entry for June 17, 2001 provides even more shocking evidence of the wanton and deliberate killing of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers at Gaza's Khan Yunis refugee camp.

Hedges writes: [an extract]

<< "... And then, out of the dry furnace air, a disembodied voice crackles over a loudspeaker.

"Come on, dogs," the voice booms in Arabic. "Where are all the dogs of Khan Younis? Come! Come!"

I stand up. I walk outside the hut. The invective continues to spew:

"Son of a bitch!" "Son of a whore!" "Your mother's cunt!"

A percussion grenade explodes. The boys, most no more than ten or eleven years old, scatter, running clumsily across the heavy sand. They descend out of sight behind a sandbank in front of me.

There are no sounds of gunfire. The soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children's slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos.

Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen.

Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered -- death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo -- but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport ..." >>