MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2023 at 12:14pm:




BBC News   
Wednesday, 7 April 2010

A retired army brigadier general is among six suspects arrested by Israeli police investigating an organ-trafficking ring, police say.

The organisation offered as much as $100,000 (£65,600) for kidneys, which were transplanted by doctors in poor countries, a sting operation uncovered.

Police said they had been "shocked" by the extent of the smuggling ring.

Retired Gen Meir Zamir, arrested in connection with the trafficking, won a medal of valour in the Yom Kippur War.

'Dream come true'

The trafficking ring came to light after a 50-year-old woman from Nazareth came to police.

She told them she was flown to Azerbaijan where doctors removed her kidney.

On her return to Israel she was expecting to be given $100,000, but she never received the money.

Another 18-year-old man complained to police after he was offered $80,000 and flown to the Philippines to have the operation.

"We ran an undercover investigation and we were shocked by the proportions of this," Police Superintendent Ahron Galor told Ynet News.

"We learned there are many people willing to sell a kidney for just £10,000. These are people who have severe financial difficulties, for whom such a sum is a dream come true."

Forging documents

The traffickers advertised online, suggesting there was another solution for people who had been waiting for kidney transplants for years.

They offered the kidneys for sale for $140,000.

As well as Gen Zamir, two lawyers were among those arrested in the sting operation.

The lawyers are suspected of forging documents which said the recipient and donor were related.

Police said members of the ring tried to cover their tracks by hiding the Israeli medical records of the donors.

This made it hard for donors to be treated if they became sick following the surgery.

Lisa Jones wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2023 at 5:09pm:


Now you still haven't answered question 2. Why?

wombatwoody wrote on Jan 5^th, 2023 at 6:37am:



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Avnery

This guy? Who's all over the place wrt what he believes?

The idiot who believed we should be negotiating with extreme terrorist groups? His entire family disowned and disinherited him for the rubbish he stated! Gotcha!

Ok enough of your rubbish....let's move on. Answer my 2nd question. You keep avoiding it.

Lisa Jones wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2023 at 5:09pm:




by Prof. Israel Shahak

first published in Hebrew in Pi-Ha'aton

(weekly paper of the students in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
11/5/1975

republished in English in The Non-Jew in the Jewish State: A Collection of Documents


The State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in cooperation with the institutions of the Zionist movement. I will prove this view by quoting facts, laws and regulations which have force in Israel (and which are known really to anybody) and are enforced by the government. I will therefore ignore the racism of the individuals in this article and also the declared or undeclared explanations by which this racism is sometimes "justified").

In the State of Israel, one who is not a Jew is discriminated against, only because he is not a Jew, in these areas of life:


1) The right to live, to dwell or to open a business in the place of one's choice. Most of the land in Israel belongs to or is administered by the Jewish National Fund—JNF—which is a Zionist organization, and operates an admitted racist policy: It forbids non-Jews to dwell on its lands or to open businesses and sometimes even to work, only because they are not Jews! This policy not only enjoys perfect legality here (in contrast to similar discrimination against Jews which is illegal in most countries of the world) but it is supported by all the instruments of Israeli rule. In such a manner many whole towns were legally created in Israel which are, as the phrase goes, "clean of Arabs," or as we should say rather, "clean of Gentiles (goyim)." In other towns, like Upper Nazareth, only one special quarter is "devoted" to the dwelling of Arabs. Any attempt by an Arab to buy or rent a flat from a Jew is opposed openly and legally by all the branches of the government (the Ministry of Housing, municipality etc.) and also illegally by opposition of the local Jewish inhabitants which is not challenged by the Israeli police.

2) The "Salvation of the Land," that concept which is pushed into the brains of all the Jewish pupils in Israel from the kindergarten on. What is this? The meaning of this term is that according to the teaching of Israeli Ministry of Education, a land which was "saved"—was to a Jewish ownership. A land which has not yet been "saved" belongs as yet to human beings who were born of non-Jewish mothers, and one has to "save" it. Messengers of the JNF, who enjoy the most forceful support the Israeli government and especially of its "security arms," are employed continually in "saving" land both in Israel and in the conquered territories, and in changing it into an additional area of racism.

3) The right to work. Under the title of "The Israeli settlement authorities are taking action against the leasing of lands to Arabs," Ma'ariv (7/3/75) tells the following racist story: "The Ministry of Agriculture and the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency have recently launched a vehement campaign to eradicate the plague of land-leasing and orchard leasing to Bedouins and Arab farmers in the Western Galilee. The Director of the Galilee area for the Jewish Agency, Mr. Aharon Nahmani said that his office sent a circular notice to all settlements, in which they are warned that the leasing of national lands for cultivation by Arab share-croppers, as well as renting of the orchards for picking amd marketing by Arabs contradicts the law and the regulations of the settlement authorities and the settlement movements. The management of the Galilee area enjoins the settlements to abstain from this practice, and stresses that last year already, the department pressed legal charges against settlements which did not abstain."

4) The right to equality. The right of a citizen to enjoy a government which deals with each citizen according to fixed non-racist criteria. The Israeli Ministry of Housing consists of two parts. Its main part is carrying out a racist policy for the benefit of the Jews alone.

The primary duty of all citizens of Israel, and also of all those Jews in the Diaspora who define themselves as the "supporters of Israel" is to struggle against the racism and the discrimination which Zionism has established in the State of Israel, and which is directed against all the non-Jews who live in it. Such a struggle, which necessarily begins with the explanation of the racist character of Zionism and the State of Israel and the condemnation of their racism is neither anti-Jewish nor anti-Semitic. Only a state which will abolish inside itself all the forms of racism, beginning with those that it enforces itself, can, afterwards, operate a policy which will bring all of us to a stable peace.

It's undeniable that Christians in Europe spent their first few hundred years obsessed with distancing themselves and their new religion from Judaism, as the Romans considered Jews to be a seditious people, (in modern-day speak: terrorists) and harassed them with extreme prejudice.

During the next few hundred years of the Christian era, harassment descended into open persecution and sporadic genocide, interrupted by occasional attempts to convert them to Christianity.

With the rise of Protestantism, Martin Luther was convinced he had the arguments to convert Jews en masse to Christianity. When his arguments failed, he resorted to preaching extreme antisemitism - including mass expulsions, and the ethnic cleansing of European Jews.

From the 17th century onwards, Christian Europe abandoned the possibility of mass conversion and focussed on persecution with extreme prejudice. This sentiment of the period is recorded for all time by Shakespeare's Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice' (even if at one point he toys with the idea that Jews are human).

This era hit its nadir of brutality with the rise of Nazism, the aftermath of which saw even Catholic Popes on their knees begging forgiveness for the Catholic church's culpability in inciting, aiding and abetting in 1700 years of harassment, persecution and murder of Jews.

wombatwoody wrote on Jan 5^th, 2023 at 7:30am:

It's helpful to remember that Jews who remained in the middle east after the destruction of the second temple, practised many heterodoxies of temple Judaism (of which Christianity was labelled as one for its first 200 years in Europe).

Mohammed's perception of the old message (he insisted he was not creating a new religion) was fused with some Christian beliefs (Jesus and Mary are mentioned more times than Mohammed in the Koran), so Mohammed was, in his mind, likely not killing Jews as he was killing heretics to the old message.

athos wrote on Jan 5^th, 2023 at 12:46pm:

That'd be what the CCP security bureau officer tells you when you're on your knees in front of him.