Dr Josef Mengele | Not Everything Was Said to Us

Every single aspect of the modern State of Israel seems to be somehow related to the Nazi regime and its aftermaths. I have commented on the inherent racism of the Israeli identification method and will now analyze the State of Israel’s Illegal Experiments on Humans, which – to some extent – follow the practices of Dr Mengele and his associates.

Nuremberg, 1947

Until 1947 there was no code of conduct governing the ethical aspects of human research, though Germany and Russia, had national policies on the issue. What we call now “Western Democracies” didn't care about the issue. In that year the Nuremberg Code defined ten points regarding the ethic principles for human experimentation. This was a direct result of the Nuremberg Trials that followed the Second World War.

The Nuremberg Code defined the person's consent to be part of an experiment as "absolutely essential," while the Declaration of Geneva issued the following year relaxed the condition to "if at all possible."

The Declaration of Helsinki

Defining the regulation of medical research, the Declaration of Helsinki was adopted in June 1964 by the World Medical Association; since then it has undergone various revisions, the last one in October 2008.

Though not legally binding, it has been codified in local legislation of many countries, including Israel. In such countries, a body usually known as a “Helsinki Committee” regulates research on humans. Israel has such a committee in every hospital.

Important articles of the declaration include:

A5. In medical research on human subjects, considerations related to the well-being of the human subject should take precedence over the interests of science and society.

A8. Medical research is subject to ethical standards that promote respect for all human beings and protect their health and rights. Some research populations are vulnerable and need special protection. The particular needs of the economically and medically disadvantaged must be recognized. Special attention is also required for those who cannot give or refuse consent for themselves, for those who may be subject to giving consent under duress, for those who will not benefit personally from the research and for those for whom the research is combined with care.

A9. Research Investigators should be aware of the ethical, legal and regulatory requirements for research on human subjects in their own countries as well as applicable international requirements. No national ethical, legal or regulatory requirement should be allowed to reduce or eliminate any of the protections for human subjects set forth in this Declaration.

B11 The subjects must be volunteers and informed participants in the research project.

Articles B12 to B17 expand on the issue of consent.

The important point to keep in mind is that since the Nuremberg Code until the last revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, the consent of the human participating in the experiment is an important issue.

What's an Experiment?

In scientific research, an experiment is a method of investigating causal relationships among variables. They are used in used in both natural and social sciences. The last are notorious for field experiments, where data is collected from the general society, in many cases after the environment have been modified to certain subgroups in order to provide control and experimental groups. Invariantly, some individuals must experience the test clause, the hypothesis the experiment is checking out.

Kibbutz and its Principles

Never in the history of mankind such a large and pretentious social (and socialist) experiment was conducted. Kvutzat Degania was established near the Galilee Lake in 1909 as the first Kibbutz. Many followed afterwards and became an important part of the military machine that allowed the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

I wasn't born back then, but I had the rare opportunity to grow up in a kibbutz located not far from Degania in the 1980s. I'll skip the rudimentary socialist ideology preached there; it was overshadowed by other monstrous aspects.

One of the themes repeated to us time and again was that the kibbutz goal was to create a “New Jewish Man in the Land of Israel.” No one was asked his consent about that. One of the problems was that the adults generation was supposedly contaminated with reactionary ideas; they could not be trusted with children. Hence, children grew up separated from their families and were subjected to forced work in the fields since a relatively early age. Weekly meetings with people called “coaches” were used for our brainwashing with socialist and humanist ideas. God, the Bible and the family were reactionary concepts.

Was that an experiment? By itself not. However, the kibbutzim were largely sponsored by the state; they were a way of keeping uninhabited lands under the state control. The large economical help of the state to the kibbutzim – even in the 1990s – testifies of this silent alliance. Thus, they should be seen as part of a larger picture including what is known as “Development Towns” (peripheral towns populated mainly with Sepharadic Jews), moshavim (a settlement similar to a kibbutz but allowing some private property) and regular cities. All of them were designed and studied by the state. In that picture, the kibbutzim were part of a large group study. Social researchers plagued our school and were some of our teachers, they regularly described to us in the classes the wonders of their science and their social studies of us.

Unluckily, I was not asked if I wanted to give up my biological family or not.

I was an unconsentual participant on a large social sciences experiment.

Other Illegal State Sponsored Experiments

“This is old History, what's this person talking about!” some readers may exclaim by now.

That's not true.

In 2006, Four senior doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera were arrested for carrying out hundreds of illegal experiments on elderly patients without their consent.

“That was three years ago!” the same people are saying now.

Well, on March 2009, anthrax experiments on IDF soldiers were declared unjustified by a committee that also severely criticized the "shroud of secrecy" which the experiments' directors implemented and asks whether "that secrecy was geared at hiding the tests from the Israeli public."

The committee also found that the Medical Corps and the IDF did not follow the guidelines of the Helsinki Accords, which has been regulating the procedures of experiments on humans since 1975. According to the report, enlisting soldiers under direct military authority was improper and ran against the principles of the Helsinki Accords.

Oops! Are we witnessing a systematic disregard of human life by Israel? Did these practices originate with that state or are they part of the Jewish culture? It wasn't hard to answer that.

Dr Josef Mengele and Berthold Epstein

Dr Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he supervised the selection of arriving prisoners. He continued his research on heredity in that camp, especially in the field of identical twins. Less prominent in Israeli textbooks is the fact that he recruited a Czech named Berthold Epstein, a Jewish pediatrician to help him.

In the book The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Dr Robert Jay Lifton, it is claimed that Dr Epstein “was indignant that Mengele 'wanted to rob him of his soul'” (page 296). Yet, despite this and that he “had extravagant notions of honor,” (same page) he fully cooperated in the unconsentual experiments on humans carried in the camp.

“Cooperated” is not the exact word to define his actions. He proactively “proposed research on the treatment of noma” (same page) and lead unconsentual research on humans. He couldn't claim being a victim any better than Judas Iscariot. Yet, according to history books, he “had extravagant notions of honor.” Yes, of course he had.

I'll skip other examples.

On Love, Good and God

Jesus summarized religion upon two principles: love of God and of the Other.

"But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Mathew 22:34-40

Being this an inconvenient truth, He was (and still is) attacked by the Pharisees and their descendants with every weapon they can imagine and design. One of them is called "humanism" which is one of the philosophical bases for a method called "science."

Unluckily, humanism rejects love. Moreover, it does not recognize any values as something good. Actually, it doesn't even properly differentiate between good and bad, and everything is subjected to research by a heartless, valueless method named science. Under such circumstances, questioning goodness is useless, everything is allowed in the name of pure research, science and Gold. Blessed be Gold. As such, humanism – as practised by Israel – is just another name for Crimes Against Humanity.

On Honesty

"Atrocious," some readers thought when saw the title of this article for the first time.

Yet, as a subject to an inconsentual experiment held by the Jewish population that founded the State of Israel and that was later actively supported by that state, I feel the blues for Dr Mengele's experiments.

At least, he was honest.

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