Or did they merely refuse to bump him to the top of the waiting list?

It sounds like Lukashenko was willing to push everyone else on the list down one spot. The article didn't mention any payment for this preferential treatment. Maybe it was just out of the goodness of Lukashenko's heart.

American and German doctors were asked to perform the operation, but “no one wanted to carry out a liver transplant operation on a former head of the Mossad,” Lukashenko said.

Channel 2 reported that Dagan had been set to undergo the surgery in India, but that the Indian authorities ultimately refused to treat him because of his Mossad past.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-mossad-chiefs-health-in-peril-after-liver-transplant-in-belarus/

You don't really need a BS meter when you're walking through a pasture.

... to fart in Mossad's general direction. Or Hezbollah's. Whoever it is that strikes fear into the heart of every American and German doctor.

"the history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler."

From "Bigotry in Belarus"
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=79095

Dagan doesn't even sound that hardline. He called the idea of attacking Iran stupid. That puts him to the left of a lot of DUers.





This story doesn't make much sense.

"Members of Mr Dagan’s family, contacted by Israeli journalists, refuted Mr Lukashenko’s version of events, stating that the former spy chief had never approached Sweden for a new liver, and that he only chose Belarus because he would have had to endure a lengthy wait in both Germany and the US."

I find it really hard to believe that there would be such a unaniminity of opinions among doctors to refuse to treat him (not to mention the ethical issues involved), even if you do assume Mossad is universally seen as monstrous.