1. Denying medical help for Russian immigrants in Israel
2. Killings of children
3. Israeli medical doctors' role in tortures and arbitrary detention
4. Collective punishment
5. Denial or blockage of medical and humanitarian help
6. Utilization of medicine as a terrorist tool: against Russian immigrants
in Israel, against Palestinian people, against critics of Israel all over
the
world
7. Killing people for donor organs
8. Utilization of the Jewish hospitals and medical facilities in the Jewish
areas (North America) for ruining dissidents' and their family members'
health and to incriminate dissidents infectious diseases
9. Wild exploitation of Arabs (Palestinians), East Europeans and new
immigrants from ex-USSR (Jews and non-Jews): treating them
MORE WORSE then slaves
Dear Reader!
You can ask: Why it all has something to do with "medical terrorism"?
To understand, why, you have to go through this part of our work,
reading all, collected with scrutiny, facts.
There is no other way to understand.
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In the beginning of 1990-s thousands of new immigrants from ex-USSR in Israel
have began to tell similar stories. They were brutally denied medical help
in the most dramatic situations, when injured, blooding, having a fever,
or suffering from a tremendous pain. Israeli "doctors Mengele" have accompanied
their refusals by "standard" exclamations as "you, stinky Russians", "Russian
pigs", "go back to Russia", etc. Often Israeli butchers have excused their
cruelty and hatred by the Israeli laws – like a prohibition to serve a patient
from another "medical cashier".
Reading the "Amnesty International" resolution (2002) on Israeli actions
at the occupied Arab territories, when Israeli army have restricted Arab
hospitals and ambulances from providing medical help to the civilian population,
I was recalling hundreds of new Russian immigrants' testimonies; speaking
about the same: how cold blood Israeli so called medical doctors were denying
medical help to immigrants' children, when they knew that without medical
help a child will die.
( ai-index MDE 15/154/2002 04/11/2002 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE== Israel/Occupied Territories: Israeli Defence Force war crimes
must be investigated == The report, Israel and the Occupied Territories:
Shielded from Scrutiny - IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus, documents serious
human rights violations by Israeli forces -- unlawful killings; torture and
ill-treatment of prisoners; wanton destruction of hundreds of homes sometimes
with the residents still inside; the blocking of ambulances and denial of
humanitarian assistance [.......] )
Let's look briefly into typical cases of the denial of medical help to new
Russian-speaking immigrants: based on extracts from Israeli radio and newspapers
in Russian language, published by then in Tel-Aviv. (A compilation of such
a collection have been provided in a huge work "GULAG of Palestine"; I am
quoting this book):
"Medicine in Israel has become not a factor of help, but a factor of discrimination,
violation of civil rights, and other negative phenomena. System of family
doctors, same, as in former USSR, in reality was even more awful: in polyclinics
(besides long waiting lists to visit a family doctor, and - in the day of
an appointment - waiting lines: up to several hours) neither doctors, nor
medical nurses did not show not just any eagerness, but, on the contrary,
viciously mocked at the patients."
(............)
"If the Israelis are receiving medical services, immigrants can hear from
the Israeli doctors only: "You're OK, go home". (Doctors here speak to all
patients "you is", instead of "you are"). Refusal to provide a medical help
to new immigrant was not an exclusive incident here; it became a norm. Roughness,
sadism and mockery, injustice that met immigrants at hospitals and
"medical cash departments" in Israel - were without any limits. Israelis
have money and good lawyers; they are permanently filing lawsuits against
medical institutions, medical doctors, and "medical cash departments"; this
is one of the reasons, why an attitude towards them is perfectly different.
Here is the newspaper "Vesti" ("News"), issue 21, 28.01.1993, page 2, article
"Claims Against Doctors ", where it was underlined: "Israeli doctors, nurses
and medical institutions are widely known all over the world for their negligent
attitude to the patients. Since 1985 20 million shekels have been paid under
the lawsuits against Israeli doctors. Claims for a sum of 100 millions of
shekels were sent on consideration. During last 3 years the number of claims
was this: for each one thousand doctors lawsuits were filed against 19. 40
percents of the complaints were recognized as justified."
"Jerusalem Post" suggested in one of its articles that only 15 percents of
the victims raised claims against the doctors.
Natasha Sholokhova, a coordinator of the "Help for "Olim" (immigrants) Center"
(centre of the movement RAZ, tel. 5101847) (according to newspaper "Courier",
March, 18, 1992) tells about a humiliating attitude towards Russian children
at schools and medical institutions in Israel.
Radio "RECA", 18 aug. 1993, at lunch time: evaluations of the radio listeners'
letters. Radio host - Alex "Yish Shalom": a story about mockeries on two
legless handicap Russian women (new immigrants), living in a caravan near
Beer-Sheva."
(..............)
"August 29, 1993, 12.50 (or 12.55), radio "RECA": a terrible story told by
a calling to the radio station mother. Her child (10 months old) became sick:
an otitis (inflammation of ears). Their family doctor, she prescribed only
antipyretics, and nothing else! And the child is burning (has fever) already
14 days!!! And the family doctor is categorically denying a reference to
a specialist, an otho-laringologist. Radio's consultant, doctor Sofia Berkovich,
did not know, what to tell. She only commented this case as very grave, and
said that after 2 weeks an inflammation without a special treatment will
spread to the bone, and that it is essential to demand a referral to a specialist.
Will the unfortunate mother given it?! (One of my friends, a medical specialist,
also told me that a 2 week fever in babies could lead to brain damage, and
other non-convertible consequences)".
"On August 26, 1993 (around 17.00), on radio "RECA"; an hour of an advice
giving by doctor - urologist and sexologist (Israel Levi). An incoming telephone
call from somebody, who calls himself "Boris from Petach-Tikva", an old man.
He has told that has an adenoma in him - a tumor of prostate. For a
long period of time he could not get an appointment with the local doctor
at all, and then wasn't given any help or treatment for another long period
of time. Then - finally - he has been directed to an urologist. The last
has prescribed medication (tablets), which at first (seemed) have helped,
and then have caused a sharp deterioration (according to Boris). With hard
difficulties Boris has managed to receive another appointment with the urologist.
And what then? This time the urologist has refused to speak with Boris at
all: under an excuse that does not speak Yiddish or Russian. So, he did not
talk or listen to Boris and did not examine his patient at all, but has prescribed
the same medication again. He might not understand Russian or Yiddish words,
which Boris used to describe a sharp deterioration of his condition, terrible
tormented pains, which he's suffering from, but the doctor, certainly, could
guess (if has wanted!), that Boris was trying to tell him something very
important.
From my neighbors, citizens of Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and USA, I have
learned that in all civilized countries, even in ones, which did not incur
the harsh responsibility to accept such an improbable number of immigrants
from the same country (USSR), who spoke the same language (Russian), (as
Israel did), there were social workers and social help, and a guaranteed
support of the interpreter for those who does not understand the state language.
In one cases and countries it is guaranteed by hospitals or special polyclinics,
in others - by social services. Before directing an immigrant to a medical
expert, an immigrant is asked - as a rule, - whether he needs an interpreter.
Is there though any justification or explanation of the "behavior" of the
state a Israel, all her social, medical, and other services, her administration
of medical institutions, her doctors and medical nurses, except for one:
indifference, boarding with hatred (or both of them together), discrimination
and sadism.
It seems that the reaction of the radio "Reca's" adviser, doctor Israel Levin,
has reflected - as in a mirror - also the reaction of the urologist who has
been "treating" Boris from Petach-Tikva: "Why do you don't know Hebrew?!"
"A sole advice that I can give you, is to learn Hebrew" (!!!) Is that was
an answer, worthy a medical doctor?! Further Boris told that he could not
receive any other consultation, and, if he even will receive an appointment,
he'll not be able to talk to a doctor again, because "they" will give him
cattily (in his despite; and anyway "after waiting very long time") a consultation
with only the same urologist, whom he has already visited.
How many times, standing by a wicket of a registry of any medical institution,
I - myself - had come across roughness, humiliating attitude, or became a
witness of discriminating treatment of other Russians!
I did not received a compensation for a trauma, which I got at work: because
a medical doctor has refused to fill out necessary papers (forms).
Almost 3 years I am actually denied any medical help. I was illegally expelled
from the polyclinic Ramat-Verber in Petack-Tikva, my medical history and
my medical card was (nobody knows by whom) withdrawn from the polyclinic
Rotschield; several times I've been coming to my family doctor with my sick
child (who had a fever) in a serious condition, in due time (issued in advance):
and she has refused to let us enter into her room ("cabinet") and to examine
my child!"
(..............)
"A similar situation was described by Savely Kashnitsky, in the "New Russian
Word" (newspaper, published in USA, ), in his article called "Russians, Go
Back! : Why I have took my children out of Israel". ("New Russian Word" ("Novoye
Russkoye Slovo"), Russian Daily, New York, Friday, January, 12, 1996) In
this article Savely explains, why he has decided to leave Israel and to return
to Moscow. In his article Savely Kashnitsky wrote among other: "As in the
former USSR, where the statistics was under command of not mathematical,
but, rather, ideological consistencies, in Israel valuable for the government
digits are living by a complicated political life." Naturally, no official
statistics on outraged humiliation over Russian-speaking patients in Israel
was available. In Israel, says Savely Kashnitsky, Russian immigrants were
terrified not by unusual traditions or type of life, but mostly by perverted
moral and ethical norms. Savely describes a typical example. In a kibbutz,
where Savely lived with his family, another Russian-speaking family lived:
Petr and Irina with their children. Their 2-years-old daughter has become
sick. "Parents took their burning (39 degrees fever!) ill child to a "medical
point". A nurse, after studying their document, has declared: "You are registered
with another medical "cashier", so, go to the city's policlinic. However,
a distance between the kibbutz [("Rural Commune" (Communist Farm) - our remark]
village - and the city - is 15 kilometers, and there are no public transportation
(no buses), only an auto-stop [if somebody will give you a lift], and normally
you must change several cars - before coming to your destination. Then -
there is a cruel Israeli heat outside. "Help our child, help only one time
- and tomorrow we will register with another medical "cashier", - begged
the nurse Petr and Irina. In spite of their arguments, the nurse was untouched.
When she has noticed slight Russians' movement toward the doctor, she has
physically blocked them the way". Savely wrote that this time the child did
not die, but it could happen very easily in Israel. "Later I heard about
other cases - when children have been dying - and died - because of the refusal
of a medical help. In one case a child died form appendicitis: because a
medical doctor, a surgeon, did not want to begin a surgery before the end
of Jewish sacre (holy) Saturday ("Shabbat")".
"A year after the incident with the sick girl a similar incident of the "difference
of mentality" has happened to my own family. My both children - Ury, 1 and
a half years old, and Iliyusha, a baby - had became sick simultaneously;
as it was found later - they both had pneumonia. In this alarming day - in
the morning - the kibbutz's doctor wasn't at the "medical point": he worked
only two times a week. We had raced to the city, to a urban policlinics,
where medical help was given, and medication prescribed". However, the kibbutz's
medical doctor has became so angry that has excluded family Kashnitsky from
any medical services. As Savely explains - according to the rules (which
Savely has never seen in writing) that nobody explained to him before this
event: it is forbidden in kibbutz to use urban policlinics, and the procedure
to be served by a medical doctor is to turn to the nurse (remember - the
same, who almost killed another Russian child), who should call the doctor.
A ban on medical services for family Kashnitsky was not only amoral, but
also illegal: they had regularly paid to the "medical cashier".
"Gregory SVIRSKY, a famous writer, whose books were translated into almost
all European languages, and after whose novel "Hostages" a famous American
movie was made, wrote that the medicine in Israel is in the Mafia hands (Gregory
Svirsky. "ПРОРЫВ" ("Breakthrough"). Hermitage, USA. 1983. Page 440)".
"When we spoke with Kashnitsky in Montreal, he told me that has collected
a huge data about Israeli "medical terrorism". However, he told me, no newspaper
will publish it.
I have discussed problems in the medical services for Russian immigrants
with a number of Russian-speaking journalists, who lived in 1990-s in Israel.
We all agreed that the main problems for Russian immigrants with a tough
financial and (or) social situation (99% of new immigrants) in Israeli medical
institutions were next:
1) Often medical doctors didn't want to see a Russian-speaking immigrant
patient:
Someone has an appointment, comes in exact time, but his family (or another
MD) doctor refuses to see the patient, refuses even to speak with the last
one. In cases where there is no language barrier - an MD doesn't want to
listen to patient's explanation and complains about the reason, why he came
to the doctor, and says that an examination will "show everything". In many
cases a medical doctor forbids a Russian-speaking patient to speak at all
- under a threat that he will never admit the patient if he's (or she's)
going to speak to him. A language barrier is often an artificial one: one
of my friends has spoke a very primitive Hebrew, and has communicated with
his medical doctor with difficulties. Occasionally he discovered that his
family doctor is a Russian-speaking "vatik" (an "old immigrant" - an immigrant,
who's been living more then 15 years in Israel) from USSR! However, when
he - after finding this out - has tried to speak with his doctor in Russian,
the doctor has stopped him by such an exclamation: "rack ivrit" ("just Hebrew"),
please!
2) A complete ignorance of the medical treatment, which Russian-speaking
patients had received in their native country, before coming to Israel.
3) Refusal to send a patient to a specialist. Ignorance of all patient's
complains like pains, dramatic deterioration of the health situation, high
fever (even if 40: patients are just sent home).
4) Refusal of medical doctors, and another medical personnel of policlinics.
hospitals, etc. - to provide even the most simple information: like location
of this or another medical facility (or a room), a procedure of a request
to be seen by a specialist, how to do this or another test. In contrary,
Israelis are often misleading Russian-speaking immigrants, for humiliation.
Typical examples of humiliation: a) There a new immigrant wrote his family
name in Hebrew with a mistake, or simply in English or Russian (there is
also known that some non-Hebrew names are double-readable in Hebrew: because
written Hebrew has no vocalic letters): and Israelis, waiting in line, do
not allow him to go to the doctor; and the medical personal (a nurse, secretary
and medical doctor) supports the Israelis against a new immigrant; b) Here
an handicap with only one leg was given a appointment for Friday, 3 p.m.,
when the clinics is already closed; he, a "simple man", sweating as hell,
arrived there on his one leg. May be, it was a random mistake? If it was!
This way basic things - to get an appointment with a doctor, call an ambulance,
medical tests, getting a referral to a specialist, any of the medical exams,
prescription and receiving medications, - became a serious obstacle for new
immigrants in Israel, often - an inextricable difficulty. Immigrants don't
receive any special social help related to these problems."
"Comparing to policlinics, hospitals are providing medical help for new immigrants;
in the same time, it is difficult to be admitted at the hospital. This is
why only people with neglected illnesses are getting there; many of them
are already doomed. However, in the hospitals new immigrants are exposed
to something extremely horrible, which can not be imagine in countries, where
there is no local GULAG: rooms (where mostly immigrants are sent to) are
for 20-30 people, the medical personnel refuse to bring a night (hospital
(lazaretto) chair, medications or the pain-killing pills, in pre-surgery
rooms men and women are kept together, and they are forced to take off all
their clothes before each other, in the hospital rooms the patients do not
have any covers or screens, and many of them are put on the corridors. Next
say after almost any surgery people are thrown out of the hospital. Even
people, who had a stomach surgery just 1 day ago, having a fresh incision
with - consequently - pains from them, are thrown out, and are not provided
with even a wheelchair to get down: from the high floors to a car or a taxi.
Because hundreds of thousands of new arrivals from ex-USSR experience tremendously
dramatic social problems and have no money for a taxi, post-surgery patients
must return home by overcrowded Israeli buses".
"Treatment of wealthy Israelis and foreigners in Israeli medical institutions
is completely different from the treatment of new immigrants from ex-USSR,
while they pay as much as the new immigrants. In stalinist Russia there was
a "Stakhanov movement": organized by the communist authorities "socialist
competition" between workers (who will faster finish a norm). Israeli hospitals
- with their policy of throwing out their ill patients - are a similar Stakhanov
movement".
"Israely "Stakhanovers" from hospitals like "Bailinson", "Soroka", and others,
consume the lion's share of the governmental subsidies, charity and other
financing resources, which leads - besides unimaginable (in new immigrants'
situation) expensive payments to the "medical cassias" (medical insurance
plan) - to an absence of less complicated, conventional, elementary medical
help for the most of the patients, and - as a result - later an operation
becomes inevitable. According to the words of 2 known to me medical doctors
(and many others, who expressed the same opinion in a softer form), 90 percent
of those, who lived in Israel several years and had a complicated surgery
- are people, who did not receive medical help in good time at the policlinics
or post-surgeon hospital departments".
"According to a survey, taken by almanac "The First Free Word", from 500
new immigrants (3 and less years in Israel) no one was treated in a hospital,
in non-surgeon departments. Age of the questioned people was between 32 to
80.
Now, we need to underline that many of the new immigrants simply don't have
money to pay for the medical insurance plan ("medical cassias"), and they
(I know such people) have no - even formal - medical help at all. We can
only guess, how many of such people are in Israel.
A monthly payment to a "medical cassia" is from 190 shekels - and higher.
Most of the Russian-speaking immigrants' salary (1992-93) is normally from
1000 to 1550 shekels per month. The cost of the rent in the central part
of the country (from Ashdod to Haifa) is 1000 - 1700 (and higher) shekels
per month. And this - on top of the very expensive life in Israel in general!"
"I heard many times that the doctors-Israelis promise to provide medical
help to Russian-speaking women (or their parents, or children) - if they
will agree to a sexual intercourse. If a Russian-speaking women is mentally
ill, she's going to be raped by a doctor-Israeli for sure. In her article
"Entrance Is Banned for Non-Married" Dorit Ben (newspaper "Hadashot", 27.07.1992)
wrote: "In Israel a rape of a female patient by a doctor is an ordinary thing,
especially in psychiatry." So, for example, on July 3, 1992, psychiatrist
Ricardo Kidron was arrested for raping a 20-years-old female patient. In
one of his works, wrote Dorit Ben, a professor of psychology of the Haifa
University, Dr. Emmanuel Berman, insists that rapes of patients is an extremely
typical event in Israeli medical institutions".
"In a special supplement in Russian language newspaper "Yidiot Achronot"
("7 Days", 10-25.12.1991) wrote: immigrants from ex-USSR have no money to
buy birth-control pills and condoms, which provokes an abnormal number of
aborts, and Israeli law and discrimination of women from ex-USSR leads to
a big number of illegal aborts."
"An indication of new Russian speaking immigrant's lawlessness in the domain
of medical services is the emergency and ambulances' treatment of Russians.
In his article "Night Call" ("New Gazette", 27.07.1993) Alex Prilucky wrote:
"Ambulance?.. Till the last day of my life I'll never forget this word."
Why? The author describes hardship of trying to get an ambulance, his "hobble
run from one public phone to another one". "A style of how the ambulance
service is running tells very much about the country and the nation, about
its rights and values. In the civilized world it is a symbol of security
and reliability, and confidence that you'll not be sent away, but will be
helped ... in a bad time. After arrival to Israel, many of us, especially
people with a weak health, had felt them completely non-defendable. If by
day an ambulance can be somehow "beat out" from a "kupat holim" ("medical
cassia"), at night ... a horrible fear overwhelms you - who will help?"
"Even in this article the author is afraid to tell the whole truth. Because
the truth is even more horrible. The most tremendous problems for Russian
immigrants in calling an ambulance are next:
1) Objectively bad work of the ambulance service in Israel - comparing to
all European countries, including European part of the former USSR.
2) Tremendously high, unjustified, payment for calling an ambulance, which
most of immigrant just can not afford (Alex Prilucky also writes about this).
3) A language barrier. (Alex Prilucky: "Situation is even worsen by the language
barrier between a patient - and a doctor, - thinks medical doctor Yigal Muller,
a former doctor of an ambulance in Moscow, and now - in Israel. - In the
same time it is very important to understand a patient, and to diagnose him
correctly".
4) A big difficulty for Russian immigrants to formulate and justify a call
to ambulance in Hebrew.
5) According to the law, an insurance society ("kupat holim") must cover
a part of the ambulance's and medications' cost, but they deny this to new
immigrants.
6) If a dispatcher hears a Russian accent, he (she) does not sends an ambulance.
I was denied an ambulance just like that: when both of my children became
ill at night, and we had no car. Later we discovered that if you came to
emergency without calling an ambulance, it costs even more!"
"Every one, who will argue that the discrimination of Russian speaking patients
has nothing to do with the government of Israel, doesn't understand the real
situation and doesn't realizing Israeli government's responsibility. According
to international agreements and conventions, signed by Israel, a state, its
government, its politicians are fully responsible for discrimination of ethnic
minorities when such discrimination is taking place on their territory. Such
an outraged discrimination (bordered with genocide) as discrimination of
the Russian speaking immigrants in Israel is a crime for which Israeli government
and Israeli political system are responsible definitely."
"However, there are some special proof that the government of Israel was
directly involved in the politics of discrimination. When a "medical cashier"
has overcharged us as if we were very wealthy family, we had turned to civil
court of Petach-Tikva, and the court has issued a legal decision that our
income is under the poverty line. When we came with this decision to "kupat
cholim" - they refused to change our payments policy! We had turned to the
court again, and obtained a decision, which obliged the "kupat cholim" to
charge us according to our income. And the "kupat cholim" has refused to
obey to the court's decision! Unbelievable! I can not name another country
(if we consider Israel a civilized socially), where it could happen."
"However, there is something more horrible about Israel and Israeli "medicine".
Rumors about Israel as a country, which supports worldwide illegal donor
organs' trade, have been circulating long enough, reaching my ears since
1986-67, back in the Soviet Union. By then I already knew Israelis as very
cruel and harsh people, but I did not believe in such an awful gossip, rejecting
it as an anti-Semitic lie. Another alarming sign has reached me in 1991,
already in Israel. Working with me Arabs knew that I had no sentiments towards
Israeli regime, and they told me that many of Palestinian teenagers have
been killed by Israeli army "because Israelis need their organs". According
to Arabs, many Palestinians were killed by Israelis because their bodies
were used as a source of donor organs."
"In the middle of 1993 Israeli doctors have transplanted organs of killed
by an ambulance Yefim Tzipnis (Cipnis) [in one of 2 articles he was identified
as Naum Tzipnis: probably, to confuse the readers and to discredit the previously
given information] to 3 recipients, without even obtaining a permission from
victim's family or having a written victim's permission, certified when he
was alive. They have also violated all legal norms and regulations concerning
the transplant organs. Yefim Tzipnis was killed by an ambulance when he was
crossing the street in Petach-Tikva. According to an official version, he
was killed instantly, but there are many doubts about that. According to
one version, he (or his body) was taken by the same ambulance to hospital
"Beilinson" ("Bailinson") in Petach-Tikva. Police has never opened any investigation
or criminal case in this matter. This terrible event caused an outraged in
Petach-Tikva's Russian speaking community. A common opinion was that what
happened to Yefim Tzipnis, could not happen to another Israeli citizen, who
wasn't a Russian speaking immigrant. There were rumors that Yefim was an
in advance targeted victim. During several years this possibility was confirmed
from different sources: media, books, conversations, from indirect facts,
etc. Sometimes (as in Yefim Tzipnis's case) authorities' refusal to investigate
outraged, suspicious events is an indirect confirmation of the most horrible
suggestions. So, in the case of disappearance (in Patach-Tikva) of 2 children
- boys - in 1992 (one - from the same hospital "Bailinson", another one -
from "Ha-Sharon" hospital) nobody was punished for negligence or criminal
offence. Newspapers gave very short, censured, information, and children's
bodies were never found. In many similar cases nobody was convinced. Administration,
which gave the green light to transplantation, driver of the ambulance, surgeons
and another personnel, who, knowing that there is no permission from the
relatives, were executing the transplantation - nobody faced criminal charges!
This was like a permission to kill more Russian speaking immigrants by ambulances,
and then to disintegrate their bodies for donor organs.
"Medical institutions are involved by the Israeli government and the religious
authorities in the "goys" (non-Jews) hunting. Israeli government has launched
a wide campaign, with the involvement of police, Ministry of Absorption (Immigration),
Ministry of Interior, and so on - to undercover "hidden non-Jews" and punish
them."
As we can see, Israeli regime has based its medical policy on racism and
violation of all possible moral and ethical norms, as well as on violation
of any international standard for medicine. No wonder that the medicine is
used by Israeli government for punishing its critics and opponents world-wide
(as we will show in the next part). In other words - as a terrorist tool.