World Medical Association Trying To Destroy Israeli Medical Network, Bleeding Edge Israeli Medical Industry [Video]

By
Omri Ceren
– May 24, 2007Posted in: Anti-Israel Diplomacy, Diplomacy, Israel, Israeli Technology

We’ve been looking for a post to drop this video into. Wouldn’t you know it, the link was latent global anti-Semitism:

American Jewish Congress president Richard Gordon has demanded that the World Medical Association – an umbrella body of national medical associations – dismiss a call for a boycott of Israeli physicians. In a letter sent last week to World Medical Association President Dr. Nachiappan Arumugam, Gordon said the call by a group of British doctors for the expulsion of the Israel Medical Association from the world body was based on both “factual and legal distortions.” The main argument made by the British doctors was that Israel had “systematically flouted the fourth Geneva Convention guaranteeing a civilian population unfettered access to medical services and immunity for medical staff.”

Here’s the thing about that – the ethical questions in this debate are overwhelmingly pro-Israel. When you compare what Israeli doctors are willing to undergo to fulfill their medical oaths – where they treat Palestinian patients who later return to blow up their hospitals – to accuse them of immorality is obscene. But let’s not neglect the actual consequences of the WMA’s sham morality. Israeli medicine routinely makes staggering contributions to the world:

Trying to destroy that network – the robustness of the Israeli medical establishment internally, and its international ties externally – that’s the real violation of medical ethics. When anti-Israel posturing is (a) unjustified, (b) useless, and (c) self-destructive – at that point, do we get to say that maybe it’s not being driven by clear-headed reasoning, let alone by passionate morality?

References:
* AJC calls for fight against boycott of Israeli MDs [JPost]
* IsraelValley.com – High-Tech Medical [israelvalley / YouTube]
* That Can’t Be True – Oh Wait, It Is [MR]

Previously:
* Hey Ireland, Shove It
* British Doctors Don’t Like Israeli Doctors Because… Well, For Some Sort Of Reason
* Arab World: "We’ll Take Your Jewish Stuff, Just Please Don’t Remind Us of How Jewish You Are"

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