BMJ  2004;329:924 (16 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7471.924

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Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes

Does the death of an Arab weigh the same as that of a US or Israeli citizen? The Israeli army, with utter impunity, has killed more unarmed Palestinian civilians since September 2000 than the number of people who died on September 11, 2001. In conducting 238 extrajudicial executions the army has also killed 186 bystanders (including 26 women and 39 children). Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest—the sniper's wound. Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat. These statistics attract far less publicity than suicide bombings, atrocious though these are too.

Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the killing of Asma al-Mughayr (16 years) and her brother Ahmad (13 years) on the roof terrace of their home in Rafah on 18 May, each with a single bullet to the head. Asma had been taking clothes off the drying line and Ahmad feeding pigeons. Amnesty noted that the firing appeared to have come from the top floor of a nearby house, which had been taken over by Israeli soldiers shortly before. Amnesty suspects that this is not "caught in crossfire," this is murder.

Israeli military reoccupation of the West Bank and Gaza—a system of military checkpoints splitting towns and villages into ghettos, curfews, closures, raids, mass demolition and destruction of houses (more than 60 000), and land expropriations—has made ordinary life impossible for everyone, and is driving Palestinian society and its institutions towards destitution. Moreover, Israel has been constructing a grotesque barrier that, when completed, will total over 400 miles—four times longer than the Berlin Wall. Extending up to 15 miles into Palestinian territory, the real purpose of the wall is permanently to lock more than 50 illegal Israeli settlements into Israel proper. This is expansive, aggressive colonisation, in defiance of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the United Nations General Assembly resolution of last July.

Last year a UN rapporteur concluded that Gaza and the West Bank were "on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe." The World Bank estimates that 60% of the population are subsisting at poverty level (£1.12; $2; {euro}1.6 per day), a tripling in only three years. Half a million people are now completely dependent upon food aid, and Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Israeli army has been hampering distribution in Gaza. Over half of all households are eating only one meal per day. A study by Johns Hopkins and Al Quds universities found that 20% of children under 5 years old were anaemic, 9.3% were acutely malnourished, and a further 13.2% chronically malnourished. The doctors I met on a professional visit in March pointed to a rising prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women and low birthweight babies.

The coherence of the Palestinian health system is being destroyed. The wall will isolate 97 primary health clinics and 11 hospitals from the populations they serve. Qalqilya hospital, which primarily serves refugees, has seen a 40% fall in follow up appointments because patients cannot enter the city. There have been at least 87 documented cases (including 30 children) in which denial of access to medical treatment has led directly to deaths, including those of babies born while women were held up at checkpoints. The checkpoint at the entrance to some villages closes at 7 pm and not even ambulances can pass after this time. As a recent example, a man in a now fenced in village near Qalqilya approached the gate with his seriously ill daughter in his arms, and begged the soldiers on duty to let him pass so that he could take her to hospital. The soldiers refused, and a Palestinian doctor summoned from the other side was also refused access to the child. The doctor was obliged to attempt a physical examination, and to give the girl an injection, through the wire.

The wall will isolate 97 primary health clinics and 11 hospitals from the population they serve

Credit: LARRY TOWELL

There are consistent reports of ambulances containing gravely ill people being hit by gunfire, or detained at checkpoints while drivers and paramedics are interrogated, searched, threatened, humiliated, and assaulted. Wounded men are abducted from ambulances at checkpoints and sent directly to prison. Clearly marked clinics are fired on, and doctors and other health workers shot dead on duty.

Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have lambasted the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) for its silence in the face of these systematic violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which guarantees the right to health care and the protection of health professionals as they do their duty. Remarkably, IMA president Dr Y Blachar is currently chairperson of the council of the World Medical Association (WMA), the official international watchdog on medical ethics. A supine BMA appears in collusion with this farce at the WMA. Others are silenced by a fear of being labelled "anti-semitic," a term used in a morally corrupt way by the pro-Israel lobby in order to silence. How are we to affect this shocking situation, one which to this South African-born doctor has gone further than the excesses of the apartheid era.


Derek Summerfield, honorary senior lecturer

Institute of Psychiatry, London derek.summerfield{at}slam.nhs.uk


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bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: The assault on health and other war crimes
Maha Kamal Hassan
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Some comments on the responses
M. Grant
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
We can not afford to ignore the proplems faced by the Palestinian people! Well done BMJ
Diba Salam
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Zak A JABBAR
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Derek Summerfield
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
SUMMERFIELDS BRAVERY- Speaking the truth and inflaming the Jewish Lobby
A SAEED
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations
Salah Abdel Shafi
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Please address specifics
Steven M Rhodes
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
WHAT IS SEMITISM?
Abdul Salim
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
anti-Israel lobby
Nathan Hasson
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank-You
A B Haji
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Respectful proposal
Adrian S. Blaj
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
You cannot hide the truth!
Yousef Bazian
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Shame
Dr. Tasmina A Goraya
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
It is about time to describe reality.
Safwan Badr
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
attitude to death
harvey gordon
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A HOPELESS SITUATION
John Stone
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The need to see the "OTHER SIDE"
Osman Ahmed
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Tragedy that is Palestine.
James C. Davidson
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Learn to accept the truth
Siraj Malakai
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
In complete agreement with Kenneth Lancer
Andrzej Lozowski
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Christian Aid Backs Up Derek Summerfield
Taalib Shamsuddin
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
the assault on health in palestine
raymond m deane
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Mona Baker
bmj.com, 21 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Heartfel thanks for denouncing Palestinian halocaust vs. Iraeli institutionalised mass terror
Elena Renier
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The "A" Word
Peter N Kovachev
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Israel and Medical Research
Ruth Hutt
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Let us now move on
Simon AP Jenkins
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Dr. Summerfield's Moral Courage to Speak Out
Omar S. Barghouti
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Totally correct and justified
Brian Robinson
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Palestinians are not totally innocent
Robert Eichel
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Anthony Cox
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: Clearly, none of the angry responses are from anyone who has actually lived in the Occupied Territories
Nigel M Parry
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Riyaz Patel
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Biased does not begin to describe it
Jiri Adler
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Ateeq Hussan
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
End the Occupation
Helga A Baumgarten
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Psychosis attributes of a child palestinian suicide bomber
Esther Richman
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Case for Israel
Daniel Goldstein
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Obeying international law: Messrs Klahr, Keller and Hollander
Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Peace and Justice Go Hand In Hand
Walayat Hussain
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The truth please
Farouk Tootla
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Editor, where are you?
Mark Berelowitz
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Why the world is blind when Israel is the aggressor
A Y Al-Samarri
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Hippocratic oath
Esma Izzidien
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you Derek Summerfield
Alice Rothchild
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
See no evil, hear no evil
Khalid M Khan
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ is exposing a medical emergency, not polemics
Rosina J Hassoun
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Kudos to Summerfield
Sylvia Shihadeh
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank You
Jamila Begum
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Paul J Malin
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: The other side of the Palastinian tragedy
Saad O. Khatib
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The palestinian holocaust
Jeffrey A Hassan
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Michael Schachter
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Racism against Arabs is Politically correct
Abdullah Cohn
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Israel, Palestine and the BMJ
Salomon Benzimra
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
War and terror
Nigel Hunt
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Setting things straight
Rita Giacaman
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Summerfield's article and the responses to it
David Blanc
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
"but about who’s suffering worse - there's no argument"
AM Rouse
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
this the truth
mohammed lutfi
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
WELL DONE BMJ & Derek Summerfield
F Jones
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Full marks to BMJ and Derek Summerfield
Said I Zulficar, et al.
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Publication in Quintuplicate
Ian N Ross
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Good and new for BMJ ,
Ehab Hamza
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: The Case for Israel - Dershowitz A.
Tom Marshall
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations on publishing a brave article
Kristin L. Kaul
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Superb article
Imtiaz Muqbil
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Measured Response
Amer Qavi
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
summerfield's diatribe
bernard olsburgh
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
It is time to stop the violence
Nahida H Gordon
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
How the truth hurts!
Asad Hashmi, et al.
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A society in where the sheep have to complain to the wolves
kaleem ullah
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations BMJ!
Safiyah Ahsan
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: The Case for Israel and Alan Dershovitz
Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 22 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: gross misrepresentation of facts
Safiyah Ahsan
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Apartheid indeed - who is in the line of fire now?
A Mariam
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
No justice for Palestinians
Brendan O'Rourke
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ Offbase in Publishing Article
Arthur H. Stampleman
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A little light, I hope!
Patrick Xavier
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Eye opener
t wildan
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Who is the victim?
Labib A Nassim
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The truth hurts
Evalyn F. Segal,PhD
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Truth is always painfull
I Zaybak, et al.
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you BMJ/ Dr. Summerfield
Mary Akashah
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The BMJ and the Search For Truth
Morris I Glassman
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
excellent article
Catherine P Hossain
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations BMJ
Saad O. Khatib
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Response
bint Jabeen, et al.
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Derek Summerfield and the BMJ win
SOM Halileh
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
FINALLY, SOMEONE WITH THEIR EYES OPEN!
k ali
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine; the assault on health and other war crimes
Maha kamal Hassan
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Health: a matter of politics
Anita Abdullah
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Emotive Statistics
Javed Khan
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Adah Kay
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine,the assault on health
Aseel N Hamoodi
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Back to the Route
E-Hub Atif
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestine: An assault on itself
Safa T. Khalidi, et al.
bmj.com, 23 Oct 2004 [Full text]
when science requires courage
Hanna Mohamed Aboulghar
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations for the bravery
Abd. A A. Rahman
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Self-murder
Dua Hamdi Nakhala
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Unacceptable editorship of the BMJ
Michael J Goodman
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
If in doubt, go and see.
Damian D Clarke
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: What was the BMJ thinking of YOUR bias?
Salem S Abdullah
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
thank you for this courage
Gehad Razek
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The truth
I. Ramadan
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Let those who believe in justice arise
Rashed Akhtar
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Why the world is blind when Israel is the aggressor
Michael Cohen
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank You for your critique
Asad Habib Habib
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Doctors to the Fore
Saqib Khan, et al.
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank You!
susan j abulhawa
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you BMJ
N Sarwar
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
re-Personal View Derek Summerfield
stephen m. maynard
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Long live the truth!
Umamah Ahmed
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Response from the British Israel Group
Norman Cohen
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Editorial responsibility?
Dr Max Godfrey
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Hatred only Result in Desctruction
Myra Mahdy
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: "but about who’s suffering worse - there's no argument"
Maurice Naftalin, et al.
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Even the children not physically hurt are terribly traumatized.
Anne Selden Annab
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: a state of despair
Ismail Jalili
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Isreal; a state of terrorism
Gamal Aly
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes.
Elias S. Srouji
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you for raising awareness of the truth
R. Patel
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ has dared to speak out.
Wleed U Haq
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ has dared to speak out.
Wleed U Haq
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Facing the truth
Igor A. Riabtchuk
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
A courageous voice for human rights.
Ismail I. Zayid, MB.BS.; FRCPath.
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Israeli inhumanity and brutality
Joe D Hall
bmj.com, 24 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Dr Summerfield's article and his response to his critics
Paola Canarutto
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Facts on the ground
NADIA T DABBAGH
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
United Nations Day 2004
Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Iraq is similar to Palastine
Bassam H Al-Jarrah
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A Unique Journal - Sadly damaged
Simon AP Jenkins
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The real issue
John R. Battley
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Value of a Life - Medical Ideals and How to Distort Them
Hal I. Rubin, M.D.
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Why deny the truth
Peter Kandela
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Informative Article
Salem Samra
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Courage Is Urgently Needed
Abdulkarim Hani
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The aim of a medical Journal
Serena Marinello
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
think again, or just think
Ricky Burnett
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Dr. Summerfield speaks out
Omar M. Abdul Shafi
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The truth is hard to stomach
Huda S Jawad
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Knee jerk responses to a complex issue
Yitzchok Dukesz
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Interesting set of responses
Asad Khan
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Israel' s self defence
Isabelle E Tran- Diamond
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A tragedy 50 years in the making
H M Hassan
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: BMJ has dared to speak out.
Abdullah Cohn
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestine: "war crimes"
Fikry B. Salib
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The truth may alarm you.
Douglas J. Willbanks
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Support for Derek Summerfield
Marcia Bernstein
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you Mr. Summerfield
Mohsen Rifaat, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Solution To The Problem
Salvador Minioreta
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Courage and Truth
Ahmed Fouad ElAwadly, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: BMJ: Summerfield's fictions and agenda of hatred
Mahmoud G Rateb
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Please end this diatribe
Dr C. Holmes
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ should campaign on this issue
William Pradly
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations to Derek Summerfield
Chalres E. Alverson
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestinian deaths
Judith P. Brown
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
well done.
John Isaac
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Telling it like it is.
Farid Ali
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
WELL DONE BMJ & DR SUMMERFIELD
A Nasaar
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Original Sin
Usameh F. Jamali
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMJ hijacked
Ian N Ross
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
WELL DONE BMJ & DR SUMMERFIELD
A Nasaar
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The silence surrounding the Palestinian issue
Rolla W. Khadduri
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Other Voices
Jared Dreyfus
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Halleluiah
Lory smith
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you, Derek Summerfield
Jack Tobin
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations from Canada
Paul Lévesque
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
DOCTORS SAVE PEOPLE
DIALA AL JABRI
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Action and Reaction
Rima N. Merriman
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Not a symmetrical conflict
Jacques P. Moser
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
First, do no harm
Miriam R Woodward
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
It is about time
Linda Langwell
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Ethnic Cleansing?
Yitzchok Dukesz
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Courage to tell the truth
Laila A Al-Marayati
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Summerfield: An assault on truth and the BMJ
Michael D. Cohen
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Same Blood
Hermila Fernandez, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Return to Auschwitz please....
Michael Markiewicz, et al.
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
politically incorrect FACTS
Malak B Bokhari, MD MPH
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Israel Builds for Nobel Prizes, Arabs Build for Suicide Bombers
Farid Ghadry
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
When truth can no longer be concealed
Fowzan S Alkuraya
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
health professionals human rights Palestine Israel
Asha S George
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Need more coverage on such issues
Fatima Al-Nammari
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: BMJ: Summerfield's fictions and agenda of hatred
Jiri Adler
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
For Shame
Marion Daitzman
bmj.com, 25 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Welldone Dr. Summerfield
Saima Ahmad
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Summerfield's article does the bmj a disservice
Barry I Hoffbrand
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
It's the Occupation s....
Tal Badrawi
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A disgrace
Robert Pokroy
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
honest reporting . com?
m d mohammad
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations to BMJ. Do not bend to pressures.
Rachad Antonius, et al.
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Look for the Conflict's Root Cause
Ahmed Baqer Hassan
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: The real issue
Saad O. Khatib
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
NOT A BALANCED OR EQUAL CONFLICT
Rayyan Mirza
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Obedience to international law
Craig R James
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Congratulations
saima patel
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Truth Hurts
Gulam Lorgat, et al.
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
THE TRUTH HURTS
Amna ali
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: The real issue
John R. Battley, et al.
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Six days, sixty years
Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Health in the Gaza Prison
Nancy Murray
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Further response from author
Derek A Summerfield
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Courage
Laleh Khalili
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Namechange from BMJ to PPJ (Pro-palestinian Journal)
K Livingstone
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
War Crimes in Palestine
Mike Dedat
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
E-copy of an Open Letter to the Acting Editor of the BMJ
Jonathan Hasleton, et al.
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Lets move on
Denis glaser
bmj.com, 26 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Let's not talk of UN resolutions, please...
Robert M. Wolfe
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Eyewitness
shahira o hafez
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
We are tired of violence to achieve political goals
Hatim Zaghloul
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Ethnic cleansing
Paola Canarutto
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
If only thing were that simple
Martin S Wolfson
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
One-sided nonsense
Daniel J S Youngerwood
bmj.com, 27 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Missing the point?
K Dajani
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Justice for Palestinians
Ruth Tenne
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: If only thing were that simple
Serena Jones
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Questions of Slow Genocide
Floyd W. Rudmin
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Tragedy of suffering
Najib M Rahman
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Let's not talk of UN resolutions, please...
E Crampin
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The Truth Sometimes Hurts
Mike McCurdy
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Although unbalanced, there are crimes of war and massive human rights violations
Michaël Lessard
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Grotesque Comparison to 9/11
N Jess Barmatz
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Hijacked with impunity
Peter Kandela
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
A TWO-WAY STREET INDEED
James E. Moore
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Shame on the BMJ editors
Saul Yanovich
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Health of Palestine debate: a double tragedy
Christopher J Burns-Cox
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Politics, not health concern
Marcia Karon
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank God someone has courage to tell the truth
JOANNE MOSTON
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine and Israel: Both the UK and the USA are the most powerful backers of this continuing conflict!
Dr. Naseem A. Qureshi , MD, IMAPA, LMIPS
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Misuse of the BMJ
Howard J Klass
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Illegal abuses of Palestinian human rights
Fouad F Majdalawi
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
"Ethnic Cleansing"
Jacob Amir, M.D., F.A.C.P.
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Let's not talk of UN resolutions, please...
Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., FACP
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Joseph B. Freeman
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Evidence-Based Medicine, but not Evidence-Based Personal views!!
Dan Crespi
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
How could this article have passed bmj scrutiny for scientific integrity?
HW Freedman
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
BMA responsibility toward Palestinian tragedy
Amin El-Hihi
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Jumping to unwarranted conclusions
Sonia H.J. Goldrein
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: The real issue
Rita Giacaman
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Support for Dr Summerfield
Averil Parkinson
bmj.com, 28 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Medicine or politics
Isaac Brajtman
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
The usual responses from forgetful people
Robert J Lorimer
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Defending the indefensible
David S Halpin
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Support for Dr Summerfield
Elly Van Reusel
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Indoctrination of Palestinian children to seek death
John R. Battley, et al.
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thanks for your brave article
Zahrah Awaleh
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The hopelessness of Palestine
Pervez Ghaus
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Silence to human misery
Jean B. Hopson
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re: Further response from author
Yitzchok Dukesz
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The big 'WHY'
Philip A Margolis, et al.
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Politics Aside
Haliza Abd Rahim
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Solute to Derek Summerfield
Mahera Amir
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
In support of the Truth
Sana javed
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Support for Derek Summerfield
Waheed Asghar
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Boycotting Israel's Apartheid
Christopher John Burns-Cox
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
DEJA VU
Karl Sabbagh
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Homosapiens
Fahd Al-Mulla
bmj.com, 29 Oct 2004 [Full text]
it is the time for the world to wake up
Saad A. Alsaedi
bmj.com, 30 Oct 2004 [Full text]
well done
naila suleman
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
A predictable backlash but should we care?
Shamil Haroon
bmj.com, 30 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Praise for Derek Summerfield and the BMJ
Ben Alofs
bmj.com, 30 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Medical profession = feeling for humans
Hibah O Awwad
bmj.com, 30 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thankyou
Mohammad Davdani
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Praise for Derek Summerfield and the BMJ
Brian Robinson
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Re : Speaking Out on the Occupation
Abe Hayeem
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The moral arc
Jill Donnelly
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Thank you for publishing Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
Jennifer C. Fisher-Siddeek
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Posterity's Verdict: BMJ Publishes the Truth
Floris W.T. Vermeulen
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
The BMJ should publish more, not fewer, political articles!
A Rouse
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Disguising bigotry and polemics as medicine
Michael D. Gershon
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Summary of criticism
Brian J Murray
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
Doctors need to know...
Ghassan B. Alami
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
use evidence base rather than attack the BMJ or the author.
Media masters
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
IMPARTIALITY
EDWARD BOWMAN
bmj.com, 31 Oct 2004 [Full text]
THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING A PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF CHILD MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
Jameela Kari
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Brave BMJ
MAZHAR CHAUDRI
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
The BMJ is only partly a sceintific journal according to the managing editor
Michael M Rivlin
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Boycotting Israel's Apartheid
Steven PR Rose
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Keep the discussion going
James Wallen
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Aaahhhhh...
Nazia Kausar
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Thank you for this unprecedented publication
Pete Welch
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
A country above the law
Jawad A Al-Lawati
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
BMJ or BYJ?
Theodore Rafael
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
There is no war crime
emil brook (MSc)
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Disgusting article
David M. Frost
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: IMPARTIALITY
Leonard Sinclair
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: use evidence base rather than attack the BMJ or the author.
Janine P Roberts
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
"Lies, damn lies and statistics"
Rafi Norman
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Shame on the BMJ
Enrico Flossmann
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
We all know it's true
Paul O'Connor
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Answer The Question???
Jarrar Mughal
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Thankyou for the truth!
Allyah Abbas
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Incitement of Racial Hatred
Jonathan Hasleton
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
World Peace
Stuart Shocket
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
From the British Fellowship of the IMA
Alan Naftalin
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
A Glimpse of Hope
Maged Ahmed Sonkor
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Doctor, I have a problem...
Heba Al-Naseri
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
No oil, no Jews, no interest
H Bloom
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: use evidence base rather than attack the BMJ or the author.
Brian J Murray
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Re: Obedience to international law
Nigel M Parry
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Scientific Journal ??
H Schlussel M.D.
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Assaulting health
Philip Lempert
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Palestine - The Hidden Truth of Israeli Attrocities
Kaniza Khan
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Support for Dr. Summerfield
Jake Graham
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
When will it end?
Mona Abu Rayyan
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Unborn Children, Trees and Mindsets.
Gary M Ginsberg, et al.
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
All Blinkered except One
Andrew Fink
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Let Israel Save itself
Hussain Nagodi
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Whose health is assaulted?
Michael D. Cohen
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Well Done, BMJ!
Mark Webb
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Facts on the Ground
Nadia Hijab
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Palestinians' health better than that of many other Arabs
Michael B Rothberg
bmj.com, 2 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Palestinians' health better than that of many other Arabs
Yitzchok Dukesz
bmj.com, 3 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Commendable
Mariam Ahmed, et al.
bmj.com, 3 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Thanks for Dr Summerfield's article
Hasan AHMED
bmj.com, 3 Nov 2004 [Full text]
They kill them for their sport.
michael j mooney
bmj.com, 3 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Anti-Anglo?
Lisa Miller
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: When will it end?
Andrew Fink
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Witnessing with your own eyes
Sue Spilling
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Justice should prevail
Abdalla Y. Bashir
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
re;Summerfield, Neville,Kandela
Hans Shilling M. D
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
congratulations
shazad amin
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Thank you Derek Summerfield and BMJ
Akkas Al-Ali
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Israeli Apartheid via the American Taxpayer
Jon D. Bailey
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: They kill them for their sport.
Gabrielle J Halpern
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
congratulations
M. E. Ba'Ath
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Arafat Desperately Needs Our Prayers . . .
Joseph . C . Obi
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Has BMJ forgotten about EBM when it comes to Israel?
Daniel Kollek
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Of sacred cows and suffering civilians
Donald W Rahmlow
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Its not true!
Neil Bradon
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: Praise for Derek Summerfield and the BMJ
Mary Rizzo
bmj.com, 4 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: BMJ: Summerfield's fictions and agenda of hatred
Henric S Karlsson
bmj.com, 6 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Why Medicine and Politics must mix when it comes to Israel
Mohammed A Chaudry
bmj.com, 6 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Thank you for the courage to publish this article.
Anthony Gratrex
bmj.com, 6 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Palestine: The latest 'Martyr of Fools'
Efy Halperin
bmj.com, 6 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Calm Down
Megan S Mills Mills
bmj.com, 7 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Palestine - effects of Israeli military occupation
Clare M Meiklejohn
bmj.com, 7 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Gratitude
Nabil AL-SHARIF
bmj.com, 7 Nov 2004 [Full text]
The danger of rallying around victimhood
Joseph More
bmj.com, 8 Nov 2004 [Full text]
It's Hard to Argue with Facts
Peter A. Sahwell
bmj.com, 9 Nov 2004 [Full text]
The courage of speaking out
Safwan Qasem
bmj.com, 9 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Biased Personal View
Laurence Chaise M.D.
bmj.com, 9 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Legitimate publication?
John Boyd
bmj.com, 9 Nov 2004 [Full text]
The situation in Palestine
Alistair I Hale
bmj.com, 9 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Wholistic view
Azadul Islam
bmj.com, 10 Nov 2004 [Full text]
$ 6 billion would buy a lot of health care
Peter Flegg
bmj.com, 10 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: $ 6 billion would buy a lot of health care
Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 10 Nov 2004 [Full text]
non political medicine
katharine d marsh
bmj.com, 11 Nov 2004 [Full text]
An American who has seen it all...
sarah karaja
bmj.com, 12 Nov 2004 [Full text]
personal views are personal views
Peter Bruggen
bmj.com, 12 Nov 2004 [Full text]
Re: "Ethnic Cleansing"