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The Ringworm Children, a Film Review

by Barry Chamish

About Barry

Barry Chamish is a Canadian-born, journalist who emigated to Israel where he received a M.A. from Hebrew University. He served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and participated in the 1982 Lebanon War.
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On August 14, at 9 PM, Israeli television station, Channel Ten, broke all convention and exposed the ugliest secret of Israel's Labor Zionist founders; the deliberate mass radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths.
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In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army.
They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of X-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year.
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The majority of the victims were Moroccan because they were the most numerous of the Sephardi immigrants. The generation that was poisoned became the country's perpetual poor and criminal class. It didn't make sense. The Moroccans who fled to France became prosperous and highly-educated. The common explanation was that France got the rich, thus smart ones. The real explanation is that every French Moroccan child didn't have his brain cells fried with gamma rays.

The film made it perfectly plain that this operation was no accident. The dangers of x-rays had been known for over forty years. We read the official guidelines for x-ray treatment in 1952. The maximum dose to be given a child in Israel was .5 rad. There was no mistake made. The children were deliberately poisoned.

David Deri, makes the point that only Sephardi children received the x-rays:

"I was in class and the men came to take us on a tour. They asked our names. The Ashkenazi children were told to return to their seats. The dark children were put on the bus."
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The Moroccan lady is back on the screen. "It was a Holocaust, a Sephardi Holocaust. And what I want to know is why no one stood up to stop it."

Are Jews supposed to eat pork? There's nothing "Eurocentric" about what I'm saying. Civilisation-centric would be more apposite.

Israel is a westernised, therefore eurocentric country.

The term civilisation-centric when used in this context is in itself eurocentric. Well, bordering on racist, actually.

Is Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan "westernised"?

Also, most don't eat pork in Israel, although it is legal and there is one supermarket that sells pork and some restaurants do prepare it, but it's very much a taboo amongst most Jews in Israel.

a) As if I'm going to listen much to your pronouncements on race or, well, just about anything.

b) Civilisation-centric doesn't have anything to do with being "Euro-centric" or not. Unless you think that people who execute gay people are civilised?

Iran is one of the worlds havens for transsexuals seeking sexual realignment surgery.

...because they hate gays.

What does that tell you about the state of transgenderal rights elsewhere?

The west should sort out its own backyard before it criticises muslim countries. That is all I'm saying.

I think it's good to criticise oppression wherever it is. My criticism doesn't acknowledge national borders.

Try telling that to Tequila and his ideological cohorts. I agree in as far as its good to criticise oppression wherever it rears its ugly head. I do however have a big problem when it comes to concentrating on one source specifically, especially when they are others that are equally pertinent. It is xenophobia and sectarian bullying.

It's a reaction to other people excusing certain types of oppression. I don't think Tequila would give two turds about Israel if there weren't Palestinian supporters out there who make excuses for the likes of Hamas.

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^ That's why Western governments love Israel.

Most British people who take the Israeli side in this argument are doing it to be contrary and to get left-wing ideologues to argue with them. It makes for good, consistently heated Internet.

It's a reaction to other people excusing certain types of oppression.

I don't think Tequila would give two turds about Israel if there weren't Palestinian supporters out there who make excuses for the likes of Hamas.

That kind of hypocrisy is like a red flag.

I'm not saying that's what you do personally.

Most British people who take the Israeli side in this argument are doing it to be contrary and to get left-wing ideologues to argue with them.

I can't speak for the USA but way back when, we had good, socialist heavyweights in the corridors of power like Gerald Kaufmann who echoed more or less what I am saying now.

Kaufmann was a Jew to boot.

Just because there is a very legitimate criticism to make of Israel, doesn't mean that all of the criticism is well made.