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Israel is Using Palestinians as Livestock
For decades, Israel has used Palestinians as a source of fresh organs for transplant patients and wounded IDF soldiers.
Israel has long been known as a world leader in the area of organ transplants. Tel Aviv famously maintains the world’s largest skin bank.
While many have insinuated that Israel’s apparently high requirements for skin transplants is due to the fact that Ashkenazi Jews are not, after all, native to the sun-drenched Middle East, the truth is that the idea of establishing the “Israeli Skin Bank” emerged after the 1973 war to treat soldiers who were burned during battles. The Israel National Skin Bank (INSB) was founded jointly by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps and the Ministry of Health in 1986.
Today, the expertise and resources that Israel displays in organ transplantation is much more than “skin deep”. After all, soldiers injured in battle are in need of much more than just skin.
Israel dominates the global organ trade
Israel’s massive activity in organ trafficking stared with its inherently arge domestic demand for organs. According to the American Journal of Transplantation:
“Beginning in the early 1990s…
