Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman - March 2009
Israel's foreign minister has described the newspaper report as a blood libel
Israel is to lodge an official complaint with Sweden over claims in a newspaper that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians to sell their organs.
The article was published in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet this week.
The Swedish ambassador to Israel condemned the newspaper article as "shocking and appalling".
The government in Stockholm has not issued a similar condemnation, and Israeli foreign ministry officials have reacted furiously.
[This] reminds one of Sweden's conduct during World War II, when it also did not intervene
Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli Foreign Minister
"It is regrettable that the Swedish foreign ministry does not intervene when it comes to a blood libel against Jews," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.
"[This] reminds one of Sweden's conduct during World War II, when it also did not intervene."
In a blog post on Thursday evening, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt wrote that he would not condemn the article, and that freedom of expression is part of the Swedish constitution.
Mr Bildt added that condemnation of anti-Semitism is "the only issue on which there has ever been complete unity in the Swedish parliament".
The story in Aftonbladet - Sweden's biggest-selling daily newspaper - claimed that Israeli soldiers snatched Palestinian youths and returned their dismembered bodies a few days later.
The newspaper claimed that these incidents date as far back as 1992.
The Israeli press is reporting that the country's foreign ministry is considering its options in response to Sweden's position, among them postponing a scheduled visit to Israel by Mr Bildt.
The Swedish foreign minister is due to travel to the country in 10 days.
Remember rabbis selling human organs? Where did those human organs from Israel really come from?
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Proof of Israeli human organ abuse as Israelis deny their involvement:
From a 2002 news report--
"Abu Kabir Operating Organ Warehouse.
Publication: Israel Faxx
Date: Friday, January 4 2002
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."
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