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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has cancelled his upcoming visit to Israel, the Israeli foreign ministry announced on Sunday, amid strained relations between the two countries over a controversial newspaper story.
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Look what the Spanish foreign minister just said yesterday in Sweden, whebn he condemned the interview with Irving- the hollicaust deniger which was published in "El-mundo"- the 2nd largest Spanish newspaper.
That is exactly what our goverment should have done!
Our government can't do that, it's illegal for them to do that. The cartoon thing was, as far as I know legal (it had nothing to do with the press) but the minister still had to leave office for her decision to shut it down.
Israel and the Middle East at this time doesn't need a visit or what?
Here's an interesting spin. Did anyone else notice this subtle bit attempting to subliminally discredit the original whistle-blowing article:
"The newspaper LATER said the story lacked proof."
Er... I we talking about the same article? Because as I remember it, the paper actually NEVER EVER said at any time that they had "proof".
The article in actuality only pointed to speculation amongst the grieving Palestinian families whose children and youths were returned with clear signs of unauthorised and unnecessary autopsies. The article provided photographic eveidence of that and said there were enough credible allegations of this allegation of organ theft to warrant an enquiry.
Er... are we any closer to an enquiry?
No. Thought not. Let's all just keep the pressure on the newspaper to proove something and play the racist card over and over again instead. Good work Isral supporters. The plan is working.
Iranian president use Israel-bashing as a good propaganda tool in order to attract moral support from appr. 1.5 billion muslims all around the world. Swedish stance towards Aftonbladet's news might help Swedish exports boost in those developing markets.
At the same time, Sweden might get some advantage confronting Iran over nuclear dispute therefore seducing Israeli government if they can succeed.
so bildt can go to saudi-arabia or ramallah and speak about peace if he likes but noone will take him for serious in israel.
its simply unimportant what anti-israeli countries like iran, sweden and norway say about israel and middleeast peace.
Did we do something bad?
and
...Sweden and Norway are "anti-israeli countries..."??? :-o
Persecution-complex and victim-complex alert.
You need help, bro.
Israelis prime minister has hired many israelis to spread positive news about Israel and try to justify and hide their crimes.
@mehrdad1111
Type Sweden with Capital S not sweden.
Abu Kabir Operating Organ Warehouse
By IsraelNationalNews.com
State Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein ordered police to launch an investigation against Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the nation's senior pathologist and director of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
Hiss is accused of a long list of charges from inappropriate behavior as a medical professional to criminal acts such as the illegal sale of and dealings in organs and body parts, removing organs from deceased persons without consent, and misrepresenting organs in returned bodies.
Allegations made against Hiss in some cases include his taking organs without consent, placing the cardboard center of toilet paper rolls and metallic rods in their place to fill the voids in the body and hide the theft of the organs.
A court-ordered search of the institute revealed large supplies of stored organs taken illegally from bodies. Over the past years, heads of the institute appear to have given thousands of organs for research without permission, while maintaining a "storehouse" of organs at Abu Kabir.
Organs belonging to soldiers killed in various circumstances were found in the institute during a surprise search this week. After consulting with Chief Chaplain Brig. Gen. Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, it was decided that in concert with the bereaved families, graves would be opened and the organs buried along with the remains of each soldier involved.
> did you check the link provided !!!! If not please please do it to find out.
> you want to tell me that they sell ONLY Israeli organs and NOT Arab organs ?? come on don't make me laugh !!!
I'd sure like to know about all the U.S. penny stocks used for fraud and money laundering through Bawag and Union and Leumi bank over the decades and the scumbag Ukranian Israeli Grin brothers.Also the Iraeli and Avigdor Liarman's I mean Lieberman's ' blood diamond' connections.Maybe he should go back to being a bouncer in striptease clubs......
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6441
Blood Diamond
Doublethink and Deception over those Worthless Rocks of Desire
by Rick Hines and Keith Harmon Snow
Blood Diamond is a Hollywood film depicting horrific bloodshed in West Africa, in 1999, spawned by the lust for diamonds. The film opens with the understatement that "thousands have died and millions have become refugees." But more than 70,000 people died in Sierra Leone's war. The film immediately segues to a palatial boardroom in Antwerp, Belgium, to the G-8 Conference on diamonds. The all-white executives are ostensibly concerned, holding worried discussions about…the fate of people? Africa's people?...
In 2003, as the Kimberley Process crystallized, MIBA signed an exclusive contract with Canadian Emaxon, a subsidiary of Dan Gertler Israel (DGI) Group. But the expansion of Gertler companies in Congo began in 2000, when former Congolese president Laurent Kabila offered Gertler's International Diamond Industries (IDI) a monopoly on Congolese diamonds, and 88% of the proceeds, in exchange for Israeli military assistance to his new government.47 The DRC government expelled IDI's competitors from Congo: smuggling and fraud proliferated as thousands of poor artisanal miners suffered increasing coercion, violence and exclusion. 48
Gertler pledged military assistance through retired General Yosi Ben-Hanan, Avigdor Lieberman—Deputy Prime Minister of Israel since November 2006 and leader of Israel's far-right nationalist party Beitenu—and Yossi Kamisa, a former Israeli policeman in the Anti-Terrorism Unit and advisor to the Ministry of National Infrastructures director general.49 Though the deal was revoked in April 2001—President Laurent Kabila was assassinated that January—Gertler formed DGI and partnered with other top Israeli military officials and moved ahead.....
Tony Ryals
16 May 2008 ... Israel PM Ehud Olmert,Menachem Atzmon,ICTS International,Morris ..... Netanyahu first met Mervyn Adelson at that time, and brought him into ...
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A New Evil Leader for THE Evil Country « INCOG MAN: Sick of all ...
Friedman is a close friend of the Netanyahu family; he grew up in Wyncote, ... Menachem Atzmon resigned as president of Friedman's IDF following his 1996 ...
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Another Likud Leader setup in Israel.
Just like Netanyahu and Stephen Friedman founder of Likud
Both from the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Area.
http://incogman.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/a-new-evil-leader-for-the-evil-country/
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3003likud_usgangsta.html
Stephen L. Friedman and Menachem Atzmon: partners in Likud money-laundering, with implications in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
A Philadelphia lawyer, Friedman was the general counsel in the United States for the Likud party of Israel from 1984 (or, officially, 1988) to 1999. Friedman is a close friend of the Netanyahu family; he grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, around the corner from Benjamin and his father Benzion Netanyahu, the senior aide to avowed fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Israeli plutocrat Menachem Atzmon was co-treasurer of the Likud, along with Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, during and after the 1988 Israeli elections. In August 1988, Atzmon worked with Olmert and two other men to collect illegal contributions for the Likud from corporations, against Israel's party funding law, by providing fictitious advertising services to the contributors. Atzmon was later convicted in that campaign finance fraud, while Olmert was acquitted.
Up until his 1996 conviction, Atzmon was president of the Israel Development Fund (IDF), a U.S. tax-exempt foundation funneling money illegally to the Likud. IDF is one entity in a cluster of such false-front Likud money spigots, all run by Philadelphia attorney Steven L. Friedman, a partner in the Dilworth, Paxson firm........
Menachem Atzmon resigned as president of Friedman's IDF following his 1996 conviction for Israeli election campaign finance fraud. But his later U.S. activities would prove to be much more disturbing.
Atzmon and his business partner Ezra Harel are the majority owners (57%) of ICTS—International Consultants on Targeted Security, run by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies" according its Web site. In 1999, Atzmon's Netherlands-based firm took over management of security at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, through ICTS' subsidiary Huntleigh USA.
Israel is a theocracy disguised.
The madness and clamor that surrounds any debate that involves Israel, and only Israel, is still a mistery to me.
Knowing this, it would be certainly better that (serious) journalists bring some acceptable evidence when they launch such huge accusations. Otherwise, for what matters, I can claim that the fire in the T-bana on Sunday was actually a terrorist attack from some muslim cell in Sweden. Why not start an inquiry on this?
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/holybook/articles/stage0.html
I would remind him that the land "occupied" by Israel is Judea and Samaria: not California or Norway. A Jew occupying Judea is more akin to a Norwegian occupying Norway, or a Finn occupying Finland, or an Irish occupying Ulster, or a Swede occupying Sweden than to a Swede occupying Norway or Finland.
Israel has just confirmed that it now going to carry on with it,s settlement construction on occupied land. Many of us see how they justify themselves tis action.........with strong religeous self rightiousness, arrogance and total lack of empathy for those they oppress. A nation run by deep cynics.
In 1992, the year in question, Bostrom says, the Israeli army admitted to him that it took away for autopsy 69 of the 133 Palestinians who died of unnatural causes. The army has not denied this part of his report.
A justifiable question from the families relayed by Bostrom is: why did the army want the autopsies carried out? Unless it can be shown that the army intended to conduct investigations into the deaths — and there is apparently no suggestion that it did — the autopsies were unnecessary.
In fact, they were more than unnecessary. They were counterproductive if we assume that the army has no interest in gathering evidence that could be used in future war crimes prosecutions of its soldiers. Israel has a long track record of stymying investigations into Palestinian deaths at the hands of its soldiers, and carried on that ignoble tradition in the wake of its recent assault on Gaza.
Of even greater concern for the Palestinian families is the fact that at around the time the bodies of their loved ones were whisked off by the army for autopsy, the only institute in Israel that conducts such autopsies, Abu Kabir, near Tel Aviv, was almost certainly at the centre of a trade in organs that later became a scandal inside Israel.
Equally disturbing, the doctor behind the plunder of body parts, Prof Yehuda Hiss, appointed director of the Abu Kabir institute in the late 1980s, has never been jailed despite admitting to the organ theft and he continues to be the state's chief pathologist at the institute.
Hiss was in charge of the autopsies of Palestinians when Bostrom was listening to the families' claims in 1992. Hiss was subsequently investigated twice, in 2002 and 2005, over the theft of body parts on a large scale.
Allegations of Hiss' illegal trade in organs was first revealed in 2000 by investigative reporters at the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, which reported that he had "price listings" for body parts and that he sold mainly to Israeli universities and medical schools.
Apparently undeterred by these revelations, Hiss still had an array of body parts in his possession at Abu Kabir when the Israeli courts ordered a search in 2002. Israel National News reported at the time: "Over the past years, heads of the institute appear to have given thousands of organs for research without permission, while maintaining a 'storehouse' of organs at Abu Kabir."
Hiss did not deny the plunder of organs, admitting that the body parts belonged to soldiers killed in action and had been passed to medical institutes and hospitals in the interests of advancing research. Understandably, however, the Palestinian families are unlikely to be satisfied with Hiss' explanation. If the wishes of a soldier's familiy were disregarded by Hiss, why not Palestinian families' wishes too?
Anti-Semites in various human and political guises have this in common : they either do not want Israel or do not want a strong Israel and it is against this backdrop that world history is to be understood as it pertains to the Jewish people and enemies of God and the Jewish people.
This Sabbath's Torah portion contains what I intuit is the quintessential reason for anti- Semitism among the anti-Semites and anti- Zionists, the two sides of the same coin. It is this sentence from Parashas Ki Savo at the beginning of Chapter 28 of Deuteronomy:
" It shall be that if you hearken to the voice of HASHEM , your God, to observe , to perform all of His commandments that I command you this day, then HASHEM your God will make you supreme over all the nations of the earth."
Carl Bildt is a strong European and a former Prime Minister of Sweden. During the cold war he kept Swedish foreign policy on the right side - outside of the Iron Curtain; he was a great admirer of George Bush the first ( according to Kajsa O's DN parody); he succeeded Lord Owen and fulfilled this mission in the Balkans. There is no doubt that he is a very able Swedish foreign minister and as Swedish foreign Minister his main interest is Swedish (plus a little bit of oil) and not necessarily Jewish or Israeli interests. His reasoning about the timing of his visit is plausible and the Aftonbladet article is not necessarily the centre of gravity to Sweden - Israel relations: nor is such a relationship going to founder on that article. From my point of view it's not a storm in a teacup either - when just taking a diplomatic distance in so many carefully crafted words could have resolved the whole issue from the very beginning. But who knows better and who knows best what is in the best Swedish interests ? Perhaps a hot exchange of words right there in Jerusalem could have only exacerbated the situation --- and on Israeli home turf too, a ticking off from Avigdor Lieberman before or after the obligatory, heart-cooling visit to Yad Vashem would not have helped matters any. It's difficult for me to imagine a compliant or a bowed Carl Bildt or a Carl Bildt after all that he has already said, not continuing to take cover - adamantly - behind the Swedish constitution - until perhaps al-Aftonbladet is emboldened - God forbid - to come out with their own version of " The Muhammadan Cartoons" or something similar or even worse, that could make us watch our foreign minister squirm, say something even behind the iron curtain of whatever constitution that could prevent him speaking out should Sweden be a terrorist attraction/destination in response to such inaction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112574.html
No palestinian university was founded under the turcs, the Brits ( 1917-1949), the Egyptians and the Jordanians (1949-1967). But 12 palestinian universities were created in Judea and Samaria under israeli occupation.
Examples: Al Aqsa university was founded in 1991. Bir Zeit University started giving diplomas only in 1975, and received the name "university" only in 1975 (but it was giving the 2 first years of university education --insufficient to receive a university diploma-- since 1961) .
Israel has nothing of a fundamentalist state. Kooritze must be confusing with Gaza, Saudia Arabia, etc...
founding their fools 'paradise' or hell on earth as I see it.Should there be a law against fraudulently impersonating
a semite ?
And they are glad money launders and war criminals of Israel 'guarded' Logan Airport on 9/11 leading to the death of 3,000 in American and 1,000,000 in Iraq.They should go back to the U.S.penny stock promotion boards where they came from where they can promote more worthless corporate crimes and money laundering ops for Leumi bank that refuses to pay its own holocaust survivers.As for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Dubai and UAE,THEY ARE THE FAR RIGHT WINGNUTS OF ISRAEL AND U.S.GOVERNMENTS ALLIES PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE FUNDIE
RELIGIOUS POLICE STATES.
But that begs the question of why Bildt and Sweden is supporting them and why the Sheik of Dubai who sent
over $100,000 to Mohamed Atta at Jeb Bush's pal Wally Hilliard's Huffman Aviation in Venice,Florida pre 9/11 was allowed to buy much or all the Swedish stock exchange and what is his cut whenever any Swede now buys shares in Swedish or other companies listed.And what is the connection between the Sheikh and the Zio-Nazis in stock fraud on the U.S. NASQAQ that he was also allowed to buy.You may be assured that had the Iranian government bought into those two exchanges the Zio-Nazis would never let you forget.
MIDEAST: ISRAEL TURNS DUBIOUSLY TO AFRICA...
The Israeli foreign minister(Avigdor Liarman, I mean Lieberman) has a personal strategic purpose, though. He is under threat of indictment for corruption and money laundering, and is under constant international scrutiny for his Yisrael Beitenu party's racist ideology and his own past offensive comments about Arab-Israelis and about Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. He is desperate to find ways to break out of his political isolation.....
Says Melman: "The 'Ugly Israeli' in the guise of the arms dealer (mostly former intelligence and military officials) who promotes weapons sales on behalf of Israeli military industries, with the backing of the defence establishment, has given Israel a bad name on the continent. Israelis have reportedly been involved in civil wars (in Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire) and in aiding dictatorial regimes such as in Equatorial Guinea and the two Congo republics."
The ministry confirms that Liberman will be accompanied by a large retinue of businessmen, many of them arms dealers, as well as security advisers and representatives of state-backed military industries.
Knowing these facts Sweden and Bildt should NEVER go to Israel and Swedish troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan if not NATO ASAP.IT WOULD BE BETTER NOT TO ROB AND RAPE MAIME AND MURDER OTHER NATIONS' PEOPLE (A LA GERMANY'S BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN A SHORT WHILE AGO) THAN TO TRY AND TAKE ALL THEIR REFUGEES(IMPOSSIBLE)OUT OF REAL GUILT LATER.
And it appears it is Israel who has a greater interest in the Afghhan oil pipeline more than anyone else.The CIA is probably only in it for the heroine.Remember white guys from Israel aren't semites and they are out and out liars or under the influence of a dangerous religious cult if they claim to be.
Prosecute American,Isrealis and their war criminal Arab allies in Kuwait,Dubai,Saudi Arabia - don't rape and torture and murder more Afghanis and Iraqs....Iraqi women in Baghdad could the streets in safety without a chador and even weapons searchers and tourists could walk the streets of Baghdad before you brought them 'Shiite Democracy'.Do you all want 'Shiite Democracy' ? You certainly deserve it.
stop stop it cries out the world looks on stop one last time !!!!!
BANG !!!!!!!
Disportinate force
Peace is hard to find.
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If so, what does Mr. Bildt have to worry about, there is no problem! Go to Israel like nothing happened!
Oh, that's right, something DID happen. They hypocrisy of the Swedish state became the larger story out of this ordeal.
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on a Swedish newspaper article accusing the IDF of harvesting Palestinian organs.
It is about time for Sweden to play hardball and demand an appology from Israel for the killing
of Folke Bernadotte in 1948.
A Swede, who was assigned by the UN to mediate peace between Zionists/Israelis and Palestinians. Only a few years before he was killed, Bernadotte was celebrated for negotiating the release of tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi concentration camps.
Just as a reminder :among the decendents of the terrorists of the Stern and
Irgun gangs that killed Bernadotte are Tzipi Livni, the daughter of Zionist guerrillas who has had no problem murdering 1500 people in Gaza and
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ..
Peace
after your vitriolic ranting and slandering look on the bright side of life.
For soon the worst zionist demoghraphic nightmare will come true.
Israel will loose its Jewish majority in an increasingly Arab environment.
That will be the just end of an apartheid state.The world will say amen to that
The zionist state cannot maintain equilibrium and continuity without launching aggression and getting rid of the 'surplus' Palestinian population.
It is morally bancrupt and as the US is nearing bankruptcy uncle Sam is not going to be able to afford to continue massive zillion subsidies of Israel .
PEACE
Afganistan, Iran.. for the sake of an Eretz-Über-Israel without defined borders?
This snake-oil selling of the christian american loony-right-
who are praying for armageddon and the day of judgment so that jews morph into Christians
or go to hell, will never work with Europeans.
Do your math SamZ
pace, salam!