A bombshell of a scandal, involving inhuman atrocities has Israeli society in turmoil.
By Martin Mann
Explosive new evidence has come to light -- in part, from dozens of reopened graves - suggesting that the sort of mass atrocities Zionist propaganda has blamed on Germany since the 1940s were, in reality, planned and perpetrated, not by any of Europe's nationalist leaders, but by the government of Israel. Thousands of small children belonging to Sephardic (Oriental) Jewish immigrants were seized -- often wrenched from the arms of their mothers -- on arrival in the ministate in the 1950s and 1960s, a year-long investigation by international refugee administrators has reported.
The children were bundled into trucks and driven off by armed guards. Some were subsequently used in inhuman medical experiments. Others were forcibly relocated and placed in the custody of "superior" European Jewish foster families.
"It's a bombshell of a scandal and it has set Israeli society afire" said Jurgen Liedke, an International Red Cross refugee administrator who has returned recently from a stint in the Middle East. "At first the [Israeli] government just flatly denied the whole thing," he added. "But then a witness from their own ranks stood up and confessed. What he said was more shattering than any suicide bombing."
The witness, identified as Ami Hovev, a former Israeli immigration inspector, told the influential Tel Aviv daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot that "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of children from immigrant Yemenite Jewish families were "taken away" by the authorities. Their parents never saw them again.
Hovev, who also participated in a recent internal investigation into the fate of the kidnapped children, admitted that a "substantial number" of them were secretley consigned for "unmerciful" medical experiments and then buried in lime pits. "I know that they [Israeli physicians in state hospitals] conducted experiments on living [Sephardic] children, extracting phosphorus and bone marrow from the spinal cord," Hovev declared on Israeli TV. The scandals drew reactions of horror and apprehension from the ministate's neighbors. "At last we're seeing the real Israel," wrote Lebanese columnist Emanuel Khouri. "To think that a people capable of such crimes against humanity now also have atomic weapons is terrifying."
The poor and often barely literate Sephardic Jewish immigrants from nations such as Yemen, whose young were seized, were told by Israeli officials that, under standing immigration regulations, it was necessary to hospitalize underage arrivals from the East briefly for "tests" and "examination."
But once taken, the children never returned. All the families received was an official notice that their child had died in the hospital. Now, the Yemenite Jewish community, led by a militant rabbi of its own, is in revolt. Scores of graves dating back to the 1950s and 1960s have been recently dug up at their demand. "Most were found empty," Liedke said.
The children supposedly buried in them had been entrusted, under false names, to European Jewish families who were, in the view of the Israeli government, "superior" to the children's own poverty-stricken parents.
Although the scandal has generated banner headlines throughout the Middle East, in the United States, press coverage has been almost nil. (From the Spotlight, April 1st 1996. * 300 Independence Ave SE., Washington, DC. 20003. USA)
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Is anyone familiar with the GENOCIDE CONVENTION which was ratified by the United Nations in 1951? Was this law accepted by the US Congress and has it been ratified? Has anyone read Jack Bernstein's book: The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel? . . . (Editor)
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S.C.J. FAQ Section 13.3.
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers on Soc.Culture.Jewish
Section 13. Jews as a Nation
Where did the Beita Yisrael (Falashas) come from? First off, know that "Falasha" (Amharic for "stranger") is considered very derogatory. Just say "Ethiopian Jew" if you can't remember "Beita Yisrael." Older reference books will probably list them under "Falasha," i.e. the 1972 article in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Their own legends date them back to Shlomo ha-melech [King Solomon], and ascribe their origin to the tribe of Dan. See the book The Lost Jews by Rappoport.
Researchers also think some of the defeated Yemenite Jews from the Abu Duwas Jewish Kingdom came to Ethiopia, and that some Elephantine Jews migrated south from Egypt. Another Ethiopian legend has one of Moses' sons migrating South and establishing a Hebrew community before King Solomon. [© (c) 1993-1995 Daniel P. Faigin <faigin@shamash.nysernet.org> Last modified: $Date: 1995/06/20 20:22:44 $ $Revision: 1.1 $