# Blood Libel **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 21, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-libel/522020 "2009-12-21T02:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 146
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-libel/522020/146 "2010-01-03T13:50:02Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I was responding to two statements: The first, that the Israeli govt was involved, is unknown. You seem to want to give them the benefit of the doubt. I find it odd that the military responded - so they knew it occured, but had no involvement. The military responded because a number of soldiers were among the cadavers whose coreas and other tissue were harvested. > [@leander](#): > > How did they gather the bodies? Who approved the transfer of organs? What was the chain of command? There are many questions that remain unanswered, but I know it’s much easier to hand wave them away. > > The second statement is simply false and should not go unchallenged, lest some simple folks think it was just one sole rogue doctor committing these horrendous acts all on his own. > > Now please provide your proof of the “current status of information [that] indicates that the Israeli government was not aware of the situation”. Has there been a formal investigation? Will there be? Or are you simply accepting “because they said so” as your evidence. To quote someone up thread, go read the links–only this time, instead of reading only the link in the OP, read the subsequent links and posts that detailed the story as it broke nearly ten years ago. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-libel/522020)._