Israel Slanderer and Boycott Advocate Waits for Israeli Lung Transplant - by Mordechai Sones

'Those who choose to boycott the State of Israel should show some self-respect and boycott all the services of the State of Israel.'

Mordechai Sones..
Shurat Hadin/Israel Law Center..
Link: http://israellawcenter.org/israel-slanderer-waits-for-israeli-lung-transplant/

Legal human rights organization Shurat Hadin, joined by 50 IDF reserve officers and soldiers, wrote to the Health Ministry and the National Transplant Center requesting that PA diplomat Saeb Erekat be removed from the waiting list for transplants in Israel.

About 50 soldiers and officers who fought in Operation Defensive Shield and who hold organ donor cards today petitioned the Health Ministry and the National Transplant Center to immediately remove Saeb Erekat from the list of transplants in Israel, due to the fact that Erekat has repeatedly slandered IDF soldiers, called for the boycott of the State of Israel, campaigned for sanctions against it, and led the BDS movement to isolate and harm the State of Israel.

Yesterday the media reported that an application had been filed on behalf of Saeb Erekat, a senior PA official, for a lung transplant in Israel.

In the wake of Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, and the reserve soldiers battle in Jenin in which 13 IDF soldiers were killed, a false propaganda film by director Muhammad Bakri, entitled Jenin Jenin, was released. The film purports to provide prima facie evidence of war crimes committed by the IDF in Jenin which turned out to be wholly spurious, as was decided by the Central District Court.

Erekat took a large part in disseminating the blood libel embodied in the film, which portrayed the story as if a massacre took place in Jenin when noting of the sort occured. Israel lost 13 soldiers in the city which it entered after dropping warnings from the air telling the residents to leave and then refraining from bombing from the air to prevent civilian deaths.. Erekat appeared at the time in the various media, mainly on foreign television channels, and disseminated the lie of the massacre.

In addition, in November 2010, Erekat wrote a letter praising the planner of then Minister Rechavam Ze'evi's assassination, and in December 2015 he paid a condolence visit to another family whose son carried out a shooting attack against IDF forces.

In addition, Erekat is an enthusiastic supporter of the boycott movement against Israel - BDS. He has visited EU representatives in the past because they did not support BDS, and asserted that all their support for the two-state solution is meaningless if they do not support the boycott of Israel.

When Hamas insiders need the best care, guess which Zionist entity they turn to?

...And we wish the people of Gaza a complete and rapid separation from an iron-fisted, ideologically-crazed leadership which never hesitates to impose cruel hardships on their own society while reserving to well-connected insiders the privilege of engaging with the Zionist Entity when it suits them personally.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
18 November '13..

While Hamas and the Palestinian Authority never miss an opportunity to pour official scorn on those who have anything to do with the despised Israelis and the "Zionist Entity", things can be a tiny bit different when their own personal interests are involved.

Some nineteen months ago, Hamas prime minister Ismail Hanieyeh’s brother-in-law was rushed to one of Israel's major medical facilities, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah's Rabin Medical Center, for urgent cardiac treatment. This was reported months after it happened, presumably because of the acute embarrassment that might be expected to result from the sheer hypocrisy on display.

An Al Arabiya article, published 8 August 2012, reported that the husband of Suhila Abed el-Salam Ahmed Hanieyeh, who is Ismail Hanieyeh's sister, had suffered a serious cardiac episode which was beyond the professional capabilities of any Gaza hospital to treat. The well-connected Gazan couple could have placed their fate, the article said, in the hands of medical professionals in a more advanced medical center in Egypt. But they chose to go to the Israeli hospital instead. Presumably no one on the Israeli side had a problem with this. There is no sign that getting approval from the Gazan authorities caused anyone any problems.

A Palestinian ambulance brought the couple to the Erez Crossing. There he was transferred into a Magen David Adom ambulance and taken to Beilinson where he stayed along with his wife for about a week. Once his condition had "stabilized", the couple returned to Gaza. End of story.

All of this colors Hanieyeh moderate to mellow in relation to Hamas' relations with Israel, right? Not so right. Some Hanieyeh sound bites:

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Health Care, Israeli-Style: When good deeds don't pay:

P. David Hornik..
American Spectator..
09 August '12..

On Wednesday one of Israel's largest dailies had a scoop: four months ago a man from Gaza received urgent medical treatment at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel. He had had a serious cardiac episode that no hospital in Gaza was able to treat.

Not such a scoop, one might think? The man was the husband of Suhila Abd el-Salam Ahmed Haniyeh -- sister of Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of Hamas in Gaza and an ideological enemy of Israel, to put it mildly.

Haniyeh's movement, Hamas, says in its charter that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"; and quotes the famous hadith: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.'"

And Hamas regularly acts in the spirit of such statements, having killed and injured thousands of Israelis in suicide bombings, rocket firings, and other terror. As for Ismail Haniyeh, you can see him here at Hamas's 24th anniversary rally in Gaza last December 14, bellowing decidedly unfriendly things about Israel such as:

Khaled Abu Toameh - The Hate Business

Khaled Abu Toameh..
Stonegate Institute..
02 March '12..




The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop Palestinians from voicing opposition to a visit by Israeli physicians to Ramallah last week.

The Israeli physicians arrived in Ramallah as part of a tour that was organized by the Palestinian Authority. The physicians visited the Palestine Medical Compound and another clinic to learn about the Palestinians' medical services in the West Bank.

The presence of the physicians in Ramallah drew furious reactions from the workers at the medical compound and many Palestinians, including the Western-backed Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas.

Some doctors and nurses claimed that the physicians were in fact Israeli army officers. Palestinian media outlets quoted "eyewitnesses" as saying that the army vehicles and soldiers accompanied the Israeli doctors during the tour. Attempts by the Palestinian Ministry of Health to explain that the visitors were not army officers have thus far fall fallen on deaf ears.

Fatah activists in Ramallah denounced the tour as a form of "normalization" with Israel. They reminded the Palestinian Authority that its leaders had repeatedly urged Palestinians to resist all forms of "normalization" with Israel.

Siegel-Itzkovich - Blind doctor can see again

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich..
Health & Science/JPost..
06 February '12..



(Kol HaKavod to Kaplan Medical Center and it's staff. Great story! Y.)

A retired Kaplan Medical Center pediatrician who became blind last year can see again thanks to a donated cornea transplanted into his right eye by his colleagues in the Rehovot hospital.

Dr. Vladimir Promovich, who made aliya from Ukraine in 1998, said that in gratitude for his restored eyesight, he will volunteer at Kaplan and examine patients.

The 69-year-old Promovich, a long-time specialist and Ashdod resident, underwent several attempts in 2011 to restore his sight but none of them succeeded.

Last week, after a patient died, the family agreed to donate the cornea, and the operation was conducted by Dr. Arye Markovich and his ophthalmology department team.

A relatively new technology enables doctors to split one cornea in half for transplantation into two recipients while removing only part of a cornea from the recipient.

“In Ukraine, I specialized in lung diseases including tuberculosis in children. When I came to Israel, I wanted to continue working as a doctor,” said Promovich.

PA to Palestinians: Avoid Israeli Hospitals

Jameel
The Muqata
16 August '10

The PA is announcing a new initiative for PA residents to use Palestinian medical services and hospitals, and not use Israeli health care.

The PA Ma'an radio reports:

Minister Fathi Abu Moghli told Ma'an radio that referrals would stop "because our hospitals can cover all medical services qualitatively." Certain patients will still require treatment abroad, he said, but the majority can be treated locally.

"We endeavor to reduce the cases which need referral abroad as long as they can receive adequate treatment locally," the PA minister said, adding that between 2008 and 2009, the number of patients being treated abroad was reduced by 50 percent.

"Referrals for treatment abroad is kind of a culture imposed by the Israeli occupation after 1967 when the Palestinian health system was made dependent on the Israeli system. Even the PA failed to change this culture and officials enhanced it by using their influence to help certain patients get referrals for treatment in Israel," Abu Moghli added.

Last week I was called to a road accident in my capacity as a medic, and I saw Palestinian motorists begging Magen David Adom ambulances to take their severely wounded children to Israeli hospitals, yet the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews said they would take the wounded to a Palestinian hospital in Shechem.

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