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A jaw-dropping account of justice, Israeli-style

 

"Must read" (cick pic for link) on the Corrie family's action against the Israeli government

-- a story not even covered by Israeli media (consider what that says about Israel)

-- involves a pathologist called Dr Yehuda Hiss who sounds fictitious but comes right out of the Mengele lab

-- shows courage runs in the Corrie family



"The Corries are saddled with a judge who is said to have never ruled in favor of any plaintiff in a civil rights-related suit. And the defense has claimed unspecified state security concerns in its successful bid to avoid revealing the full contents of the investigation into Rachel Corrie's killing -- the family's lawyers have only been allowed to view a summary . . ."

And this sounds like parody but unfortunately it's not: a pathologist called Dr Yehuda Hiss(!!) carried out the autopsy. Back-note (supplied by the indefatigable Blumenthal): he was the chief pathologist of Israel for a decade and a half, implicated by a 2001 investigation by the Israeli Health Ministry of stealing body parts ranging from legs to testicles to ovaries from bodies without permission from family members then selling them to research institutes . . . Hiss admitted that he harvested organs if he was confident relatives would not discover that they were missing. He added that he often used glue to close eyelids to hide missing corneas.

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