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Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair

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I have been waiting years, no decades for a full length book on Yemenite Jews. It is a pity is had to be published in US rather than in Israel. Among the things I learned were a) the Yemenite Baby Affair was really a Mizrahi baby affair, as one third of the kidnaped babies were non Yemenite b) many Yemenite artefacts were stolen in Israel, such as ancient hand written Bibles and jewelry c) the Israeli press coverage has been complicit in an ongoing coverup that prevents admission and closure of what really happened fifty years ago.

The Israeli investigative bodies either did not have or use the right of subpoena. The investigations were stonewalled by individuals who include Shimon Peres and Aharon Barak, among others. Yehuda Hiss, the state pathologist, falsified a genetic test in 1997 contradicting a Hadassah Hospital test showing a 99.9 % certainty of maternity involving an LA woman and her Yemenite mother from whom she was kidnaped almost 60 years ago. Hence the coverup continues.

The basic journalist questions of who, when, where, what, why and how, that I learned in ninth grade, never ever appear in the Israeli press accounts of what happened. There remains no admission of obvious fact, no apology, and continued stonewalling. The many contradictory defenses of potential parties to the crimes (which have never been called such) more or less amount to a confession.