Israel Matzav: 'Our friends the Egyptians' promote the organ theft libel

'Our friends the Egyptians' promote the organ theft libel

Yet another example of how little a peace treaty with an Arab Muslim country is worth. Picking up on the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Egypt is promoting the blood libel that Israel steals organs from 'Palestinian martyrs.'

The following are the remarks by the head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate as reported in the PA daily, Al-Ayyam:

"The head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, Dr. Hamdi Al-Sayed, said yesterday that the decisions of the [Egyptian] medical associations were based on a rejection of relations with Israeli doctors, since they took part in grave abuses against the Palestinian people. He stated, in press releases in Cairo, that the Egyptian Medical Syndicate views any type of normalization with the Israeli occupation as a crime.

In response to the Israeli doctors' protest over Egyptian authorities not issuing them permits to enter Egypt for a medical conference, he said: 'We have no regard or respect for the Israeli doctors because the medical community has condemned them due to their participation in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.' He added: 'The Israeli Medical Association has acknowledged having participated in torture, noting that it had done so with the aim of protecting Israeli citizens.' He stated that the Israeli doctors are also guilty of stealing the organs of Palestinian prisoners, and that 'such people will not be permitted to take part in our medical activities."

[Al-Ayyam, Nov. 27, 2009]

By the way, the conference in question was the Susan G. Komen Foundation conference on breast cancer. The Israeli doctors were eventually allowed to attend the conference.

Israel Matzav: 'Our friends the Egyptians' promote the organ theft libel