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| Israel hits back over Swedish organ harvesting article |
| 2009-08-24 |
| Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs. I'm willing to bet the dipweed was sort of counting on that. The journalists need the credentials to report from Gaza. "We have no duty to supply them with press cards immediately; (we) have 90 days to decide about their status," said Danny Siman, the head of the government press office. How about "Persona Non-Grata"? The article, "Our sons are being stripped of their organs," appeared Tuesday in Aftonbladet and was an opinion piece written by freelance journalist Donald Bostrom. Why not arrest the guy, strip him of his organs, and leave him on blocks by the side of the road? Or maybe just tell him you're going to do it and tape his reaction. I'd love to see him tell the Israelis to go pound sand. That would tell you how much he believed his own article. Bostrom told CNN he had no proof that Israeli soldiers were stealing organs, and that the purpose of his piece was to call for an investigation into numerous claims in the 1990s that such activity was going on in the West Bank and Gaza. Claims by anonymous Palestinians, no doubt. Even though the Swedish embassy distanced itself from the report, the country's foreign ministry refused to condemn it -- saying Sweden has a "free press." Well, they do after all. I wouldn't expect any president to run around apologizing for every idiot journalist like this one. There are too many. The refusal has rankled Israel, which said it will submit an official complaint. "This is an anti-Semitic blood libel against the Jewish people and the Jewish state. The Swedish government cannot remain apathetic," said Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz. "We know the He continued: "It makes no difference whether this comes from a neo-Nazi organization or from an honorable newspaper. The Swedish government must renounce itself from this anti-Semitic publication." The article centers around the case of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem, a 19-year-old Palestinian man who was shot and killed in 1992, allegedly by Israeli forces, in the West Bank village of Imatin. Bostrom, who witnessed the man's killing, said Ghanem was taken away by Israeli forces while he was still mortally wounded. His body was returned five days later with a cut in his midsection that had been stitched up. Ghanem's family said they believed that his organs had been removed. Brilliant. Effing brilliant. Can't argue with logic like that. After that incident, at least 20 Palestinian families told Bostrom that they suspected the Israeli military had taken the organs of their sons after they had been killed by Israeli forces and their bodies taken away -- presumably for routine autopsies. Bostrom said he balanced those claims in his article by including a reaction from an Israeli military spokesman who told him that the Israel Defense Forces routinely carries out autopsies on Palestinians killed by their troops. But, as he stated in his article, Bostrom said he has doubts about the necessity of the procedures if it is clear how the person died. Because every now and then you get surprised. Such as finding out that the guy was shot by a Hamas gunman or whatever else their twisted minds seem to rationalize in the name of defaming the evil Joooos! Last week Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman compared the Swedish Foreign Ministry's hands-off position to the country's neutrality during World War II. "It's a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene in a case of blood libels against Jews," Lieberman told Sweden's ambassador to Israel on Thursday evening. "This is reminiscent of Sweden's stand during World War II, when [it] had failed to intervene as well." |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #5 Meanwhile, in Albania |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-08-24 18:42 |
| #4 What Ex said...and the Arabic word for valdtag is...? Rape, by any other word. Time to slaak them, 5th Clmn, and all. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-08-24 16:14 |
| #3 Bostrom said he balanced those claims in his article by including a reaction from an Israeli military spokesman who told him that the Israel Defense Forces routinely carries out autopsies on Palestinians killed by their troops. what's embarrassing is that run-of-the-mill autopsies was the first thing that came to my mind whne I first read about paleos families believing in "organ theft" because of "stiched up torso cuts"... wasn't it T-shaped, by any chance? Oh, no, a cross! Now, bilal is going to hell, because he's been christianized! Probably those shifty evangelical-zionist... As a somewhat depressing aside, this was (very unsurprizingly) taken up by a major french wingnut blogs, and all the Usual suspects went apesh*t over it, went something like "jew mob, organ-selling ring from NJ rabbis, white slavery, joooos blackmailing Sweden over freedom of speech, I toldyaso, serbs being victimized by kosovars organ-tiefs, kosovo being stolen by the USA, soon the USA will carpet-bomb Sweden on behalf of Israel, putin save us!, etc, etc... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-08-24 11:11 |
| #2 Israeli rumor mill: "I hear the Swedes all had to turn in their brains. Too many mis-fires." |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-08-24 10:31 |
| #1 Sweden has a free press? Try publishing anything about the rape culture of Sweden's immigrant population. In the West, freedom of the press means freedom to agree to a list of anti-American and anti-Jewish blood libels. Anything counter to this risks fines and/or imprisonment. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2009-08-24 09:26 |