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Israel furious over Swedish newspaper article (says soldiers harvesting organs)
AP ^ | 8/19/2009 | MATTI FRIEDMAN

Posted on 08/19/2009 10:50:20 AM PDT by markomalley

Israel and the Swedish Embassy responded furiously Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs. The article published Monday in Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest circulation daily, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the U.S. of an American Jew for illicit organ trafficking. Later the reporter told Israel Radio he did not know if the allegations were true

Headlined "Our sons are plundered for their organs," the story made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood. Daniel Seaman, who heads Israel's government press office, said the article played on "vile anti-Semitic themes."

The article was illustrated with a photograph of a dead Palestinian man with a line of surgical stitches running the length of his torso, apparently taken after an autopsy, as well as pictures of stone-throwing youths and Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a New York resident arrested in an FBI sting last month and charged with plotting to buy a kidney from an Israeli and sell it to an American patient for $160,000.

The writer, Donald Bostrom, based the story on accounts from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza whom he identified only by their first names. It quotes an Israeli military spokesman denying the charges and saying that Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are routinely subjected to autopsies.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: amassagefromsweden; antisemitism; israel; sweden
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(H/T Drudge)

Of course, we all know that the Palestinians are always honest and perfectly objective observers. /s

How many Muslims has Sweden allowed to immigrate in recent years?

1 posted on 08/19/2009 10:50:20 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Related FR thread;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319415/posts


2 posted on 08/19/2009 10:53:12 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: markomalley
"How many Muslims has Sweden allowed to immigrate in recent years?"

Unfortunately for Sweden, too many. That is why, with the Swede's current low birth rate, they will be calling it Swedarabia in 20 years.

3 posted on 08/19/2009 10:55:55 AM PDT by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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To: markomalley

Iknow anti-semitism is on the rise in Europe but this is ridiculous in the extreme


4 posted on 08/19/2009 10:56:09 AM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: markomalley

Isnt it common knowledge that to use donor organs the donor has to be alive.

Dead Pali organs are not usable after the blood stops running through those vital organs.


5 posted on 08/19/2009 10:58:40 AM PDT by Global2010 (Chic Conservative Catholic Thug)
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To: markomalley
The writer, Donald Bostrom, based the story on accounts from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

Bostrom wants to believe the worst about Israel, so he'll gladly accept the most outrageous allegations from the most unreliable of sources as gosepl.

6 posted on 08/19/2009 11:00:37 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: markomalley

Didn’t Gary Busey play a Jewish doctor stealing organs from prisoners at an Abu Ghraib like prison in a Turkish movie called Valley of the Wolves Iraq?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Wolves_Iraq


7 posted on 08/19/2009 11:01:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: markomalley
"How many Muslims has Sweden allowed to immigrate in recent years? "

Too Many, and they are paying the price! Gooey Pinko Socialism only can work with an educated, ethnically similar and law abiding population. Import a radically different population and it is a disaster.

8 posted on 08/19/2009 11:03:04 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: GeronL

Don’t Jews kill children of their enemies to drink their blood? I know it’s true...s/


9 posted on 08/19/2009 11:03:21 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Global2010

That’s not entirely true. You can use a cadaver organ up until two hours afterwards, or maybe longer.


10 posted on 08/19/2009 11:04:06 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: markomalley
“How many Muslims has Sweden allowed to immigrate in recent years?”

- Far too many.

The good news is that Swedes in general are quite upset about it.

I know, because I’m one of them and I get to hear what people in my country from all walks of life actually think about our admirable act of “tolerance” and humanitarianism.

I’ve spoken to successful businessmen, ordinary hard working (and justly well paid) factory of my nation, local politicians, well educated scholars as well as drug addicts dwelling in our concrete, Soviet-like high rise bunkers far from the idyllic, perfect, Swedish SAAB and Volvo paradises the vast Swedish middle class resides in.

Even our former, Social Democratic, PM Göran Persson has said that Sweden has received far to many refugees.

Many Swedish Muslims are moderate and so on, but that doesn’t mean the thousands of morons who are not don’t constitute a severe threat to our nation.

Sweden has around 400 000-500 000 Muslims. Out of these, something like 15-20% don’t wish to have anything to do with Islam, 50-60% or so function rather well in Swedish society and practice Islam as a religion (although many are rather secularized) not a political movement. The rest ought to be sent back, alternatively these guys should be sent in where they live;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IY4eghXF9E

or why not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkeQ1sNUOKE

11 posted on 08/19/2009 11:21:05 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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“Helin also objected to what he called “the hate campaign that has been expressed in e-mails to me and the editorial office, but also through Israeli media.”

Helin is a f’ing hypocrite. He publishes an article designed to provoke hate crimes against Jews and then has the nerve to complain when he receives hate mail himself? He is a septic sewer.

12 posted on 08/19/2009 11:26:47 AM PDT by monday
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To: WesternCulture

Correction;

“ordinary hard working (and justly well paid) factory WORKERS of my nation” I meant.

Sorry.

In most cases, the people who work at our assembly lines deserve to drive their nice cars, have expensive hobbies and so on.

I don’t know how to view well paid American workers, like those employed by the automotive business, but most American members of this forum obviously tend to dislike them and their organizations.

Off topic or not, many of you seem very unpatriotic about American companies in the automotive industry and American made cars.


13 posted on 08/19/2009 11:31:30 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: markomalley

It reminds one of how “neutral” Sweden helped the Nazis in WWII.


14 posted on 08/19/2009 11:32:09 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: monday
“Helin is a f’ing hypocrite”

..who (hardly surprising) lives in an affluent residential area of Stockholm (I found out visiting a certain website), far away from the Muslim ghettos of our capital and even further away from the Middle East.

I wouldn't be surprised if he never has visited the Middle East at all.

Americans are superior to us in all branches of (track and field) athletics and we Swedes don't exactly fear the US national hockey team, but in the game of boasting the most hypocrite Liberals I'd, honestly, call it a draw.

15 posted on 08/19/2009 11:46:41 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: markomalley

What kind of crap journalsim is this? People believing what these psychotic pali’s are spouting? Good Lord!


16 posted on 08/19/2009 11:50:44 AM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: AmericanVictory
“It reminds one of how “neutral” Sweden helped the Nazis in WWII.”

- We had to do trade with them in order to arm ourselves as well as Finland against Stalin.

What was the excuse of companies like Standard Oil and Ford who did the same things?

Although being Swedish myself, I'm not offended or anything. But IMO, we Westerners ought to discuss, internally, what actually went so terribly wrong some decades ago. Just like we, together, ought to debate our present situation.

Don't slander Sweden for the wrong reasons. USA needs Sweden and Sweden needs the US more than most Americans and Swedes, in general, would realize.

The cooperation in the WOT area and our collaboration in the development of superior arms (like the M982 Excalibur, the advanced Bofors/Raytheon 155 mm extended range guided artillery shell) are not the only reasons, but they are reasons enough.

But, by all means, don't hesitate to criticize what truly is wrong about my nation. Intelligent and moral Swedes are likely to agree.

17 posted on 08/19/2009 12:05:17 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Agreed, and your points are well taken, particuilarly about Standard Oil. But fpr is “Americanos” in Mencken’s phrase, the self-rigteousness of many Swedes toward us in matters of race it both usually unjustified and irritating. What’s it like with the Muslim immigrant population in Sweden at this time? How are the leaders of political parties there dedaling with it? Are muslim immigrants being absorbed or are they isolated? The Finns certainly put up a hell of a fight against Stalin.


18 posted on 08/19/2009 1:42:10 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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additional:

Sweden slams paper over Israel allegations
The Local | August 19 | Paul O’Mahony
Posted on 08/19/2009 5:14:30 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2319415/posts


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