Israeli doctors sure learned a truckload from Josef Mengele's practices
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you should never die in Israel....
Israel harvested organs without permission, officials say
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel harvested organs from bodies in the 1990s
without permission of family members, the former head of a state-run
forensic laboratory said in a newly released interview.
Government officials acknowledge that the practice happened, but
emphasize that it ended years ago.
In an interview in 2000, which was released to an Israeli TV channel
and broadcast over the weekend, Dr. Yehuda Hiss -- who was once head
of the Abu Kabir forensic institute -- discussed the practice.
"We started to harvest corneas for various hospitals in Israel," Hiss
said in the interview on Israel's Channel 2 network.
"Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from
the families," he said.
Hiss said the harvesting also included heart valves, skin and bones.
He was speaking to an American researcher, who recently gave the tape
to the Israeli network.
An Israeli Ministry of Health spokeswoman, Einav Shimron-Grinboim,
issued a statement saying the practice discussed in the report was "an
old story that ended years ago" and that in the vast majority of
cases, the actions were done to Israelis, including soldiers.
Procedures were not clear at the time and have since been clarified,
she said. None of the practices led to charges, she said.
The report said organs were at times also harvested from Palestinians
and foreign workers.
In the interview, Hiss was asked about the legality of such practices.
"It wasn't clear," he said, adding that he thought families were
supposed to be asked for permission.
After getting permission from family members to perform an autopsy,
"we felt free" to harvest organs, he said.
Organs were not harvested if it was believed relatives might discover
it, he said, adding that in some cases glue was used to close eyelids
to hide missing corneas.
The report included a statement from the military, the Israel Defense
Forces, saying the activity ceased a decade ago.
The report also described how for years the Abu Kabir institute,
"supplied not just tragic passing announcements but also news about
organs donated for transplants which saved the lives of hundreds of
patients."
The report comes four months after a different allegation about organ
harvesting in Israel.
An opinion piece published in a Swedish newspaper in August suggested
the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest
their organs in the 1990s.
The writer, Donald 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.
The article triggered a dispute between Sweden and Israel. While the
Swedish Embassy distanced itself from the report, the country's
foreign ministry refused to condemn it, saying Sweden has a free
press.
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called it "an anti-Semitic
blood libel against the Jewish people and the Jewish state."
It was after hearing about that uproar that American anthropologist
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor at the University of California at
Berkeley, decided to release the tape of the interview she conducted
with Hiss in 2000, Israel's Channel 2 reported.
Scheper-Hughes told the network that she does not believe Israel
murdered Palestinians for organs.
But the admission of harvesting organs, including skin, at times from
Palestinians, struck her, she said. "The symbolism of taking skin out
of a population that is considered to be the enemy and using it for
skin for the military, that's something that -- just in terms of
symbolic weight -- has to be reconsidered," she told Channel 2.
The forensic institute at Abu Kabir, where Hiss still works, received
complaints about improper practices regarding organ harvesting that
culminated in an investigation and a change of management.
The current manager, Assaf Harofe Hospital, issued a statement saying,
"The committee which examined the said matters have determined that
there were purely managerial malfunctions, but as a result of their
findings Professor Hiss lost his position as the manager of the
institute." Managerial responsibility was changed and new procedures
were put in place, the statement said.
Hiss could not be reached for comment.
Earlier this year, there was another unrelated controversy involving
Israel and organs.
In July, U.S. authorities charged a New York man with trying to
arrange the private sale of a kidney from a donor in Israel.
Jamir Quay
> Karnak the Magnificent
How's the divorce coming , fatboi?
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Sheehs, even a Polack dumped your lard ass...