LIAR-LIAR

Media propagandists ignore that 20 million.... Christians and non Jews died at the hands of communists in the soviet union and Jews did the killing..... I cite and quote the writing of Jews and the Talmud, statisics from the various governments....Deal with it sheep boy/girl....I mean Goyim

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

MORE ANTISEMITES......

George Washington
( in Maxims of George Washington by A. A. Appleton & Co.)"They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America

Thomas Jefferson
(18th century American statesman)
"Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in."



Benjamin Franklin
(This prophecy, by Benjamin Franklin, was made in a "CHIT CHAT AROUND THE TABLE DURING INTERMISSION", at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. This statement was recorded in the dairy of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina.)


"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty.If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country, if permitted entrance and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention."

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

SUPRESSED NEWS.....

Mum's the Word on Gay Rape and Murder
Dan Frisa Thursday, March 22, 2001 With few exceptions, there has been virtually no coverage by the mainstream media of the horrific case in Arkansas where 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising was raped and murdered, allegedly by a gay couple.
Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, was prosecuted on charges of rape and murder in a case that was sent to a jury today to begin deliberations. His lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 39, is scheduled to stand trial on the same charges in May.
Both could face the death penalty if convicted on the murder charges.
Brown confessed to having sexually penetrated the youth with various objects after binding and gagging him. His lawyer pathetically stated that ''I think we can all agree that Josh didn't knowingly cause his death.”

Hard as it is to even begin to contemplate such a heinous crime, it is even somewhat more difficult to understand how such a case has been kept under wraps by the media. What are they hiding and whom are they trying to protect?

If it was good journalism to report on the murder of Matthew Shepherd – and it was – then why is it not equally good journalism to report on this murder of young Jesse?
Shepherd was gay and was brutally killed by some sick and vile straight men. Dirkhising was a 13-year-old boy who was brutally killed by some sick and vile gay men.
Where is the difference? Well, there is none. And that is the problem.

The public is left with only one possible conclusion: that there is an agenda among the media elite (JEWS) who control the flow of our news.

If it was fine to give overwhelming news coverage to the Shepherd murder, but unacceptable to give equal coverage to the Dirkhising murder, what conclusion is possible?
Why is it that news demonstrating intolerance of gays gets top billing while news showing the dark side of the gay lifestyle is ignored?
Such treatment is nearly as confounding as the crimes themselves and serves no purpose but to promote an alternative lifestyle
That this is true is obvious, while a sound reason for doing so is obscure.
Nothing is to be gained except, perhaps, to curry favor with a vocal pressure group whose influence far exceeds its numbers while depicting a distorted view of reality.
That, ultimately, doesn’t serve anyone well.

JEWS in the news......again


The following is from the Columbus Dispatch, February 14, 1991.by Bruce Cadwallader, Dispatch police reporter


The president of a gay rights organization was charged yesterday with the rape of a homosexual date.
Russell A. Stalk, 32, was elected president of the Stonewall Union in September. The homosexual advocacy organization recently received federal and local grants to fight anti-gay violence.
Columbus police arrested Stalk of 1224 Summit St. in an adult bookstore he manages on Harrisburg Pike. A Newark, Ohio, man said that on Feb. 5 he was bound with a necktie and raped repeatedly by Stalk, police reported.
Stalk was held in the Franklin County jail pending a court hearing today.
Police detectives said the case is rare because it involves two men, but it is being treated like any other "date rape" case. Detectives said they were seeking information on a 1979 case in Lima, Ohio, in which Stalk pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old boy. Stalk said the boy was a teen prostitute (12 isn't a TEEN), police said.
Ohio prison records say Stalk served four years of a 6- to 25-year sentence for the rape. He was released from parole in November 1985.
In October, Stalk and his lover applied for a marriage license. Franklin County Probate Judge Richard B. Metcalf refused to grant it. He said Ohio law prohibits the legal marriage of people of the same sex.
More recently, Stalk criticized news media coverage of gay issues and helped his organization receive $12,000 in federal and local grants to aid gay crime victims and increase public awareness of bias crime. An Ohio Department of Health official said yesterday the grants will be honored because they were issued to Stonewall Union.
Rhonda Rivera, a professor of law at The Ohio State University and former Stonewall president was shocked to learn of the rape charge. She hoped it would not cast a bad light on the agency's work.
"It's going to come as a gruesome shock to them (Stonewall board members), and they are going to be appalled," Rivera said. "The gay community is appalled by any kind of violence, and certainly rape is one of the most heinous crimes I can think of."
Holly Featherstone, current Stonewall vice president, declined comment on the charge. She said the board will meet in an emergency session today.
In an interview about the grants last month, Stalk told The Dispatch, "This is something Stonewall Uniion has always worked on ... encouraging people to come forward" with reports of violence.
The 24-year-old man who filed the charge against Stalk told The Dispatch he wanted to do just that, in case others with a similar experience were afraid to report a crime.
"If I don't say something, I have to carry it all my life and secondly, he gets away with it," the man said. "I never in my wildest nightmares imagined he'd do what he did."
The official charge against Stalk is that he forced the man to perform oral sex. THe victim said the attack was much more.
The victim said he has known he is gay since he was 13. A friend suggested he go to the Columbus Eagle Bar at 232 N. 3rd St. to meet new friends. He said it was his first time at such a bar.
A man who identified himself as Stalk approached him and began making conversation and, the victim said, tried to gain his confidence because of his affiliation with Stonewall. They had several drinks.
THe victim said he agreed to go to Stalk's house but only to talk.
Once there, Stalk made him put on a tie and then choked him with it, bound his hands with another tie, poured hair-styling gel into him and commited sexual acts, the victim said.
THe victim said his face was burned with a chemical snuff and that he was forced into a bathtub, was doused with barbecue sauce and sexually assaulted again.
Later, Stalk told him to shower and drove him back to his car, the victim said. He said he returned to Newark and later sought medical attention.
A police detective persuaded him to report the incident.



From the February 15, 1991 Columbus Dispatch Rape Suspect Resigns Post in Gay Groupby Mary Stephens, Dispatch staff reporter
Russell A. Stalk, 32, accused of rapist, [sic] resigned yesterday as president and a board member of Stonewall Union, a gay advocacy group, the new president said last night.
Stalk was elected president of the group in September, replacing Chris Cozad. Cozad said last night the group's board elected her to fill the remainder of Stalk's one-year term.
Stalk is accused of tying up and raping a Newark, Ohio, man. The victim says he met Stalk in a bar Feb. 5.
Judge Guy L. Reece II of Franklin County Municipal Court set Stalk's bail at $75,000 yesterday.
"Obviously, it's quite a shock," said Michael Scarce, vice president of the OSU Gay and Lesbian Alliance. "We in the gay community are targets of violence often enough, and to have it happen in our own community is even more disgusting."
Most gay leaders said they have always known Stalk to be a committed and dependable organizer. They stressed he has not been found guilty of raping the Newark man.
Some, however, said the charge is not as disturbing as the revelation that Stalk pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old boy in Lima, Ohio, in 1979 and served four years in prison.
"That is the most unnerving thing," said Rhonda Rivera, an Ohio State University law professor and a past president of Stonewall Union.
Past and present leaders of Stonewall Union met last night to decide how to respond to the rape accusation.
Background checks are not routine for Stonewall Union members who, like Stalk, begin as volunteers and work their way up to leadership positions. Rivera said. Only the group's treasurer, who must be bonded, is usually checked she said.
She expressed some doubt about the current charge against Stalk and said she worries that the alleged crime will inflame anti-gay sentiment.
"I'm sure there are people who will seize on this opportunity," she said. "People who don't like gay people will find any excuse to say something bad about them." (Like it's not true?)
Jerry Bunge, a lawyer and chairman of the Gay / Lesbian Rights Project of the Ohio American Civil Liberties Union, said he hopes people will not jump to the conclusion that violent gay rape is common.
He objected to the inclusion of bizarre details about the alleged attack in a Dispatch story. "That's so far beyond what most gay people think of as normal sex," Bunge said. "(Heterosexual) people may assume that's normal gay behavior, and it's not."
Before going to police with his accusation against Stalk, the victim repeatedly asked Stalk for money to pay hospital bills related to the attack, Columbus detective Mike Spencer said yesterday.
The man had first- and second-degree burns on his face from a liquid chemical some homosexuals use as an aphrodisiac, Spencer said.
Stalk promised to give the man some money but never did, Spencer said the man told him.
Stalk has called for greater awareness of hate crimes against gays. Stonewall Union recently received $12,000 in federal and local money to address the problem.
Cozad said a coordinator has been hired for the anti-violence program, and a 24-hour hot line for victims is to be set up soon.
The grant money also is for self-defense and rape prevention classes that begin next week she said.

The following is from the February 16, Columbus Dispatch.Gay Leader Says Group to ContinuePresident accused of rape resigns, new leader namedby Robert Albrecht, Dispatch staff reporter
"We are still a functioning healthy organization and intend to go on with business as usual," Chris Cozad said of Stonewall Union after resuming duties as its president yesterday.
The advocacy group for homosexuals lost Russell A. Stalk, 32, as its president Thursday night when he resigned, a day after being arrested on a rape charge.
A 24-year-old man from Newark, Ohio, has accused Stalk of raping him Feb. 5 after they met in a bar on N. 3rd Street. Stalk remained in the Franklin County jail in lieu of a $75,000 surety bond.
Evidence in the case is being considered by a grand jury, a worker in the Municipal Court clerk's office said yesterday.
Stalk resigned voluntarily, Rhonda Rivera, a former president of the group, said at a news conference.
Cozad said Stalk made no requests for legal assistance. Stonewall Union is not equipped to offer that kind of support, she noted.
Cozad was Stalk's immediate predecessor in the Stonewall presidency. He was elected head of the group, with 700 dues-paying members, in September.
"Stonewall Union does not condone criminal activity," Cozad said in a prepared statement. "We hope sensationalism will not obscure the presumption of Mr. Stalk's innocence or jeopardize his right to a fair trial."
Douglas Whaley, another former Stonewall Union president, said, "We hope we can persuade the Columbus community that this is an aberration and not business as usual."
The charge comes at a time when the gay community is calling for help in quelling violence against homosexuals. (Which homosexuals say don't exsit)



A case in which both the victim and the alleged assailant are homosexual plays to the (confirms) beliefs of the wrong people, according to Stonewall leaders. "This is every homophobe's dream," Whaley said.


Ohio prison records indicate Stalk served time in prison after pleading guilty in 1979 to raping a 12-year-old boy.
"The organization had absolutely no knowledge," of Stalk's criminal record, Rivera said.
"Women Against Rape supports Stonewall Union," members of that group said in a news release yesterday. "The recent developments and charges against Russell Stalk do not change that in any way," spokeswomen for the group said.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Israeli war crimes


According to international law, war crimes are violations of "the laws and customs of war" that are committed by states during war conditions. They could be classified into three categories: (a) crimes against peace, (b) war crimes and (c) crimes against humanity.

(a) Crimes against peace are defined by international law as including the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of
aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing".(4)

(b) War crimes are defined by international law as including "but not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labour, or for any other purpose, of civilian population of the occupied territories or in the occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity".(5)

(c) Crimes against Humanity are war crimes committed by state armies against civilians. They include, according to international law, "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war "(6)

Throughout the period 29 March-14 April the Israeli army carried out a number of violations inside Palestinian cities that clearly show distinctive features of war crimes. The Israeli army murdered an unknown number of Palestinian civilians, security personnel and armed Palestinians. Some were shot and killed in the streets or inside their houses, while others were killed as a result of fire by heavy machine guns, antitank rockets, bombardment and explosions. Israeli tanks bombarded at least one hospital in Jenin for two hours on 4 April. Its oxygen, water and electricity supplies were devastated to a point where it could not function as a hospital any more. In addition, an Israeli army bulldozer ploughed the street that leads to the hospital, making it inaccessible.(7) Other hospitals in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, Bayt Jala and Hebron were encircled with tanks and frequently had their water, electricity and telephone networks cut by the Israeli army. Moreover, Palestinian and Red Cross ambulances were denied the freedom to provide their emergency service to the wounded. Despite that, some Palestinian ambulances tried to provide medical help. Some of these ambulances were run over by tanks, others were expropriated by the army, while others still were shot at, sometimes stopped, searched and kept waiting for over one hour while carrying wounded civilians. The only ambulance owned by the Jenin Hospital was put out of order. For 12 days Red Cross and Palestinian ambulances were denied access to Jenin and Jenin refugee camp. Obviously, the army wanted to deny medical treatment for the wounded, making them bleed to death.

In addition, for the past 12 days the Israeli army has been laying a tight siege around the Jenin area and preventing the entry of relief agencies, medical and food supplies, journalists, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and anti war demonstrators.

This systematic policy by the Israeli army logically leads us to conclude that the army is very anxious and determined to hide something from Israeli and world public opinion. It also reveals that the Israeli army aims, as a matter of policy, to maximize the Palestinian death toll. The murder of civilians and the systematic denial of medical treatment to the wounded and the sick lead directly to the murder of civilians. These are war crimes that are deliberate, highly immoral and brutally inhumane, and cannot be justified under any circumstances.

Plunder and wanton destruction
Other types of war crimes as defined by international law are the " plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity". During clashes and after the cessation of fire, Israeli tanks and Apache helicopter gunships bombarded and rocketed residential quarters in Nablus, Jenin and Jenin refugee camp. Tanks, military bulldozers, explosives and helicopter gunships demolished the old city of Nablus and the al-Yasmina quarter.

After the cessation of clashes, the Israeli army began a campaign of searches, devastation and plundering. Numerous private vehicles were either run over or damaged by passing tanks. Many commercial enterprises such as supermarkets, stores, banks, customers' safes, hotels, companies, workshops, money exchange bureaux and factories were devastated, ransacked and plundered by Israeli tanks and soldiers. In addition, cultural centres, Ramallah's only theatre, the Sakakini Cultural Centre, sports centres and human rights centres were also ransacked. Hospitals were encircled with tanks, besieged and bombarded. Tanks bombarded water sources and electricity grids. Tanks deliberately knocked down traffic lights, electricity and telephone poles. Underground networks of water pipes were dug out and cut by army bulldozers. The windows of offices and private houses were shot at and shattered. The doors of residential buildings and private houses were forcefully opened, mostly at night, through either the use of heavy hammers or dynamite. Owing to the daily rumbling of tanks, the city roads, pavements, trees, greenery and flowers were absolutely devastated.

In addition, a number of Palestinian ministries were ransacked and devastated, such as the ministries of education, agriculture, industry, health and social welfare.(8) Prior to destruction, the Israeli army expropriated documents, data and the computer servers of ministries and government offices. This destruction is in addition to the initial destruction of security centres and the Interior Ministry, which were rocketed and demolished inside the PNA compound.

Of course, war means devastation, destruction and a lot of rubble, and there has never been a "clean and noble" war. But, devastation and wanton destruction that takes place after the cessation of clashes cannot be justified by military necessity. On the other hand, it may have been necessary for a hidden agenda that the army wanted to implement.

It is imperative to observe that most of the wanton destruction inflicted by the Israeli invasion on Palestinian cities was systematically carried out to cause maximum damage to the civilian infrastructure. The Israeli army wanted to cause the maximum damage to the civilian infrastructure and to eliminate any economic enterprises that could provide employment and income to Palestinian civilians. The army intended also to lower the starting level of Palestinian independence, economic- and nation-building. The Israeli colonial bourgeoisie may also have had in mind the possible benefits to the Israeli economy that might accrue in the process of post-war reconstruction.

Deportation and ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing and genocide against an indigenous population are considered by the United Nations to be war crimes. Although a campaign of slow ethnic cleansing has been carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip throughout the tenures of the Barak and Sharon governments, the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing was carried by the Sharon government in the Jenin refugee camp.

After occupying Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Nablus and Jenin, the Israeli air force began carpet bombing the old city of Nablus and the Jenin refugee camp. In both the old city of Nablus and, especially, the Jenin refugee camp, the Israeli army met fierce Palestinian resistance that led to the killing of 13 Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp, in addition to two more dead soldiers in Nablus and Dura.(9)

On 9 April the Israeli army asked for a truce in the Jenin refugee camp in order to remove an unknown number of dead and wounded Israeli soldiers.(10) After getting the truce, the army went berserk. It began a massive campaign of demolishing refugee houses in the Jenin refugee camp, using in the process 30 army bulldozers.(11)

On the same day, it was reported that the residents of the old al-Yassaminah neighbourhood in Nablus were threatened by the army and forced to evacuate their houses "because it intends to demolish the entire neighbourhood".(12) On 11 April Israeli television showed an old Palestinian woman in Nablus who emotionally told a foreign television reporter: "They bulldozed the martyrs and threw them inside the sewage system so as to prevent the press from seeing and photographing."(13) On 14 April Abu Dhabi Television showed how a group of Palestinians were pulling out a woman from inside a sewage hole. She was still alive.(14)

On 10 April Palestinian sources confirmed that over 130 dead Palestinians were under the rubble of the Jenin refugee camp.(15) Then news began to filter out of the besieged Jenin refugee camp that the army began to carry out a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing. According to one source, the army evicted from the Jenin refugee camp "around 10,000 Palestinian refugees, out of a population of 15,000".(16) The evicted refugees were forced to go to the village of Rumana and other unknown locations. They resided inside schools, mosques and private houses, while other refugees slept in the open.

Already on 9 April "rumours" began to circulate out of a tight military siege that the Israeli army had dug a mass grave for dead Palestinians that were taken out of the Jenin refugee camp. According to a number of eyewitnesses, the army was seen smuggling out in trucks Palestinian corpses and "Israeli bulldozers began to dig out a mass grave in which over 300 corpses were buried".(17) In response, former Chief of Staff General Dan Shomron fiercely defended the Israeli army. In an interview with Israeli television, he declared: "We have the most ethical army in the world"(18) On 11 April a high-ranking Israeli officer emphatically declared: "There was no massacre. We neither used tanks or air force. If we wanted, we could have done it in one day"(19) In response to a question, the army spokesperson claimed that the reason for the tight siege on the Jenin refugee camp was that the army is busy trying to "neutralize booby-trapped Palestinian corpses "(20)

On 12 April two Arab members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, along with the Adala human rights organization, petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court, which issued an interim order that forbade the army from transporting and burying Palestinian corpses inside Israel.(21)

During the army's campaign against the Jenin refugee camp news began to spread that the army does not take any Palestinian prisoners, that they shoot at anyone moving inside or outside their homes and that a tight military siege had been imposed by the army. During that time Israeli television interviewed a number of Israeli soldiers who took part in the invasion of Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp. One soldier boasted by saying: "We demolished the entire city. Nablus was once a beautiful city"(22) The next day, General Sharon was seen in a meeting with soldiers in the Jenin area. One soldier asked Sharon: "Where will this lead us to?" He added: "When I take out, at midnight, a weeping child from his house, I feel I am creating the next terrorist!"(23) Sharon's response was: "We shall not withdraw from Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin or Bethlehem until we bring about the capitulation of the terrorists". (24)

On 14 April Israeli troops murdered Abu Jandal, a military commander of the Jenin refugee camp resistance who gave himself up along with an unknown number of fighters. Abu Jandal was shot and killed in cold blood inside one of the courtyards of Jenin. A strong fear exists that other prisoners who gave themselves up to the Israeli army would meet the same fate.(25)

Is Sharon a man of peace?
In the course of the Israeli invasion, and for a number of crucial days, antiwar and anti-Israeli demonstrations broke out in many Arab, Muslim, African, Asian, Latin American, European and American cities. Yet the American administration kept silent. When demonstrations in the Arab world began to become more intense and more critical of American support for Israel, the US administration broke its silence.

On 4 April American President Bush delivered a speech in which he severely criticized the beleaguered and captive Palestinian president and demanded from him to be tough on terror and terrorists. Then, President Bush demanded from Israel to stop and withdraw its forces. He concluded by saying that he will dispatch Secretary of State Colin Powell the following week to the Middle East.(26)

The Bush administration carried out what could be best described as political and diplomatic acrobatics that showed pretension of being against the aggressive Israeli invasion but not serious enough to stop it. It sent Powell on a diversionary tour that started with Morocco, then went to Egypt, Jordan, Spain and Israel, in order to provide the Israeli military machine with the necessary time to conclude its aggression.

On 7 April a US White House spokesman described Sharon in clear Orwellian language, as "a man of peace".(27) This was a clear insult to human intelligence and memory. General Sharon's dark history reveal that on numerous occasions he has shown absolute disregard for: human life, human rights, peace initiatives, international law, international treaties, the UN Charter, UN accords and human rights conventions, as well as the laws and customs of war. In the 1948 war Sharon participated in the Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian civilians; in 1953, and as commander of the infamous Unit 101, Sharon demolished several houses on top of their Palestinian residents that resulted in the murder of 53 civilians; in the 1972, as commander of the Southern Region, General Sharon demolished thousands of refugee houses in the Gaza Strip and ethnically cleansed thousands of Palestinian refugees; in 1982, as defence minister, Sharon launched a bloody war of aggression against Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization. In the course of the war extreme brutalities were committed by the Israeli forces, including an 80-day-long bombardment and rocketing of the besieged city of Beirut. But the most appalling of these brutalities was the massacre that was organized by Israel's top military commanders, headed by General Sharon. Today, Prime Minister Sharon is committing similar war crimes - aggression, murder, extra-judicial killings, plunder, devastation and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. How can such a general with such a dark record of war crimes be called "a man of peace"?

A possible Hague tribunal
According to international law, the laws and customs of war, and the United Nations Charter, the individuals who could be charged with war crimes may fall into any of the following categories:

Those who had personally committed some violation of the laws and customs of war;
Those who committed violation of the laws and customs of war under order from a superior;
Those who belonged to an organization declared to be criminal;
Those who planned or ordered "criminal" policies before or during the war;
Those who failed to prevent atrocities or criminal policies;
Those who planned, initiated or waged "illegal" war.(28)
The present Israeli political and military leaders could be charged by the international community and by the Hague tribunal of committing a number of war crimes. However, in order to bring the perpetrators of war crimes to justice, two conditions must be met:

(1) An international, competent and objective committee must be established by the international community. Its mandate must be clear and fully supported by a United Nations Security Council resolution, which will delegate it with the task of investigating the charges of war crimes that were committed by the Israeli army and the Israeli government;

(2) The international community, especially Western Europe and the United States, must realize that Israel cannot be given the chance of freely violating international law. Israel, like other states, must abide by international law and UN resolutions, and Israeli violations and wanton brutality must be prosecutable and punishable and cannot remain camouflaged and justified by the brutal Occidental blanket of "terror and self-defence".

Here, one must ask a question: why has the Israeli army systematically carried out a number of war crimes against the Palestinian civil society? In order to answer this question comprehensively and honestly, one must outline the background that connects the Oslo accords with Sharon's present invasion of the occupied territories. The following is an attempt to address the important issues.

Oslo and after
In 1993 Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo accords, according to which the two sides recognized each other. In 1994 the PLO was allowed by Israel to establish the Palestinian National Authority inside "autonomous zones", namely the cities and towns. Israel also agreed to allow the PNA to bring in about 40,000 security forces that were needed for policing the areas under its rule. According to the Oslo accords, the PNA was supposed to last five years (1994-19). In the beginning of the last year, permanent status negotiations between Israel and the PNA were supposed to take place. For ideological reasons, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu created an impasse in order not to start these negotiations.

In May 1999, Ehud Barak was elected prime minister. He refused to carry out any expansions of "A" as stipulated by the Oslo accords. Instead, Barak opted to go immediately to the permanent status negotiations, which is a stage to follow the interim period of autonomy. The logical consequences of the permanent status negotiations could have been total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, liquidation of the entire illegal colonial settlements inside the occupied territories and the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state. However, Barak wanted only partially to withdraw from the occupied territories, to control a strip of land around Palestinian territories under Israeli control for a limited period, to keep most of the colonial settlers inside three settlement blocks and to keep occupied East Jerusalem under full Israeli control. On the issue of the right of the Palestinian refugees to return, Barak did not yield.

Barak opts for colonial hegemony
The Oslo agreement was a camouflaged colonial solution to a colonial situation that was imposed on the Palestinians. It was definitely neither a peace agreement nor a historic compromise. Yet the ultra-nationalist Israeli Zionist right regarded Oslo as dangerous to the colonial project and was fiercely against it. After the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by an anti-Oslo Israeli rightist, Shimon Peres replaced Rabin. During the election campaign Peres wanted to act tough towards "the Arabs" so as to win right-wing voters. He, therefore, committed a massacre against Lebanese civilians. Israeli artillery bombarded "by mistake" a group of Palestinian refugees who found a temporary sanctuary inside a UN peacekeepers' camp. Over 100 Lebanese villagers were brutally killed by an Israeli shell. A UN video released by the UN secretary-general showed how a small Israeli pilotless plane was seen guiding the Israeli shelling, and so "the mistake" turned out to be a calculated killing of a mass of Arabs.

Peres paid for "his mistake" in the election ballots. The public moved further to the right and the ultra-nationalist Netanyahu was elected. Netanyahu began subverting the Oslo accords, and his right-wing provocations reached a pinnacle when he approved the opening of the tunnel under the al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinians reacted with mass demonstrations; clashes ensued, leading to the death of 14 Israeli soldiers and over 100 Palestinian security personnel and civilians. His procrastination regarding the permanent status negotiations and his imposition of impossible conditions created an impasse with the Palestinian side. Netanyahu's policies led to a deadlock and later to his political demise.

General Barak managed to manoeuvre his way to become the leader of the Labour Party. He projected himself as a "peace candidate" campaigning against the rejectionist, right wing Netanyahu. The Israeli public moved a bit to the Zionist left and the Palestinian voters inside Israel helped defeat Netanyahu and bring a "man of peace" to the seat of Israel's prime minister.

Both Netanyahu and Barak followed policies that continued Israel's retraction from the Oslo process. The right-wing Netanyahu signed the Hebron agreement, which led to the partition of Hebron, giving 80 per cent of the city to the Palestinians and keeping 20 per cent under the army's control. However, Netanyahu refused, for ideological reasons, to start the permanent status negotiations. He withdrew from a small proportion of territory, which was thereby transferred to the PNA. Barak the "man of peace" did not withdrew from one inch but started permanent status negotiations with the PNA that went nowhere.

The demise of the Oslo accords
Camp David II was a Barak-manufactured attempt to impose his colonial conditions on the Palestinians. It offered the Palestinians part of the illegally-occupied Palestinian territories, a fictitious and fractured sovereignty, and colonial subjugation. Barak desired a continuation of the colonial project (Israeli settlement blocks) and a "Zionistan" entity for the Palestinians. After realizing that the Palestinians could not capitulate to his hegemonic colonial conditions, Barak halted the permanent status negotiations and started a war against the Palestinian people. It began with Sharon's provocative visit to al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Accompanied by 2,000 Israeli police, General Sharon marched provocatively inside the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Mosque. This act expressed the ultra-rightist position of colonial monopoly of Jerusalem and rejection of the Oslo accords. It was meant to provoke Palestinian mass demonstrations, a matter that was used as justification by Barak to start the army's onslaught. After this, the Israeli police and border guards reacted with massive firepower that led to the killing near the mosque of eight Palestinian demonstrators in one day. Israeli snipers wounded over one hundred demonstrators. This provoked more mass demonstrations that were met with more firepower. Palestinian civilians were killed inside West Bank and Gaza Strip cities, villages and refugee camps. Israeli border guards and police also gunned down 12 Palestinian demonstrators, citizens of Israel. Barak was determined to impose his conditions through the use of firepower, tanks and an aggressive war.

Palestinian civilians reacted with more demonstrations, and the numbers of those killed by the Israeli army began to increase. Mass demonstrations developed into a popular uprising, which the army did not like. Then armed clashes began to take place between armed Palestinians and the Israeli army. This militarization of the popular uprising was a development that Israel helped to create.

As the political option was liquidated by Barak, and in reaction to the mass killing and maiming of civilians, Palestinian Islamists began to carry out commando operations inside Israeli cities. To which the Israeli army retaliated with maximum firepower. F-16 bombers and Apache helicopter gunships began to target Palestinian security installations. This went on for months, and was escalated more by Barak's government. A hit list of "wanted" Palestinian leaders and activists was drawn up and those on it were targeted for assassination. The Israeli government approved this illegal policy of extra-judicial killings and the army began to implement it. The Israeli policy of targeted killings provoked more Palestinian suicide bombings that resulted in the death of Israeli civilians. The Israeli government retaliated with more air raids and more targeted killings of Palestinian activists. Exploiting the impact of the suicide bombings, the Israeli army began a slow ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip that was implemented through the eviction of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, the levelling of their agricultural land and the demolishing of their houses. Tanks were stationed at the entrances of Palestinian cities and towns.

As is typical of colonial societies, ultra-right-wing nationalism began to engulf the majority of the Israeli people. Racial violence by Israeli Jews aimed against Palestinian civilians began to take place inside Israeli streets. Around 2,000 anti-Arab Israeli settlers attacked one Palestinian neighbourhood of Nazareth, a Palestinian city located inside the state of Israel. Barak and his government was, in the public eye, unable to put an end to the fire it had ignited. Later on it was replaced by the ultra-right-wing General Ariel Sharon.

Concluding remarks
The right wing government of Israel has clearly shown that it is ready to commit war crimes in order to continue its colonial subjugation of 3.2 million Palestinians. It uses the issue of "terror" to avoid paying the price of decolonization. It enjoys outright support from the American administration and the complicity of the European and Arab regimes.

However, the war which is taking place now inside the occupied Palestinian territories is a stage in the conflict between the colonial Israeli army and the Palestinian national movement. It has a history of massive colonial violence aimed at subjugating a nation and its meagre resources to the sole benefit of the colonial Zionist. The Israeli army acted in the past, and acts now, as a tool in defence of colonial hegemony and interests.

The Palestinian national movement embodies the national aspirations and rights of a colonized indigenous people.

The American "mini security agreements" that concentrate on the issues of "terror" and the security of Zionist colonial hegemony and attempt to frustrate Palestinian national struggle cannot camouflage the real issues. For the past 35 years Zionist settler colonialism has been trying to patch up its rule over the indigenous Palestinian people. The Zionist colonial bourgeoisie has continued and expanded its colonial settler project inside the occupied territories. It refuses to pay the price of decolonization and continues to manoeuvre and pretend to want "peace".

The present stage in the Zionist-Palestinian conflict has proved beyond any doubt that Zionist settler colonialism contradicts in absolute terms genuine, true and lasting peace. Settler colonialism cannot coexist with genuine peace because it is a grossly unjust, brutal, racist and militaristic political system. On the other hand, the Palestinian national movement is determined to continue the national struggle. The Palestinian people are strongly determined to liquidate Zionist colonial hegemony, to win their right to self-determination and to establish a fully sovereign and truly independent state of Palestine.

Israel: Cease Attacking Medical Personnel

More news ignored by jew dominated media.....

(New York, March 9, 2002) -- Human Rights Watch today called on the Israeli government to instruct soldiers to immediately refrain from attacking medical personnel in the West Bank and Gaza. During the past week, at least three ambulances have been fired upon, three ambulance staff have died, and nine other medical personnel have been injured.

Human Rights Watch called on the Israeli government to respect international humanitarian law, which stipulates that respect for the safety of medical personnel and ambulances is a basic duty of all forces and individuals involved in fighting. Human Rights Watch called for investigations into all incidents of firing on emergency medical personnel. "Attacking humanitarian personnel and their vehicles is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law," said Joe Stork, Washington Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch. "Israel should take immediate steps to prevent any recurrence of these attacks." Human Rights Watch said that deliberate attacks on medical personnel, vehicles and infrastructure constitute a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. On March 4, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Service (PRCS) emergency medical service in Jenin, Dr. Khalil Sulieman, was killed and another five PRCS staff injured when Israeli troops shot at their ambulances in Jenin refugee camp. Initial explanations from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) indicated that the ambulance was fired on when it was observed to be speeding towards a group of Israeli soldiers. Medical personnel in the area have said that, contrary to these claims, Dr. Sulieman was killed after an IDF soldier fired a projectile at his ambulance as it drove slowly down a narrow street. Oxygen containers in the ambulance then blew up as a result of either direct impact or heat, causing a secondary explosion. Ibrahim Assad, a PRCS driver, and Kamal Salem, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were killed by Israeli fire on March 7 while en route to provide emergency assistance to wounded in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Medical personnel have informed Human Rights Watch that Ibrahim Assad had received permission to move forward from the Israeli authorities. He drove some 750 meters, and was shot in the hand from the machine gun of an Israeli tank. He exited the ambulance, and was then shot in the head. The International Committee of the Red Cross and PRCS have publicly stated that all ambulances were clearly marked and were coordinating their movements closely with the Israeli authorities. "Israel should investigate these deaths in a credible and transparent manner, and discipline or bring to justice those found responsible for any wrongdoing," Stork said. Human Rights Watch expressed further concern that ambulances had reportedly been prevented from gaining access to injured in Tulkarem refugee camp. "Purposely hindering medical access also constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law," said Stork.

Israel: Cease Attacking Medical Personnel

More news ignored by jew dominated media.....


(New York, March 9, 2002) -- Human Rights Watch today called on the Israeli government to instruct soldiers to immediately refrain from attacking medical personnel in the West Bank and Gaza. During the past week, at least three ambulances have been fired upon, three ambulance staff have died, and nine other medical personnel have been injured.

Human Rights Watch called on the Israeli government to respect international humanitarian law, which stipulates that respect for the safety of medical personnel and ambulances is a basic duty of all forces and individuals involved in fighting. Human Rights Watch called for investigations into all incidents of firing on emergency medical personnel. "Attacking humanitarian personnel and their vehicles is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law," said Joe Stork, Washington Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch. "Israel should take immediate steps to prevent any recurrence of these attacks." Human Rights Watch said that deliberate attacks on medical personnel, vehicles and infrastructure constitute a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. On March 4, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Service (PRCS) emergency medical service in Jenin, Dr. Khalil Sulieman, was killed and another five PRCS staff injured when Israeli troops shot at their ambulances in Jenin refugee camp. Initial explanations from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) indicated that the ambulance was fired on when it was observed to be speeding towards a group of Israeli soldiers. Medical personnel in the area have said that, contrary to these claims, Dr. Sulieman was killed after an IDF soldier fired a projectile at his ambulance as it drove slowly down a narrow street. Oxygen containers in the ambulance then blew up as a result of either direct impact or heat, causing a secondary explosion. Ibrahim Assad, a PRCS driver, and Kamal Salem, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were killed by Israeli fire on March 7 while en route to provide emergency assistance to wounded in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Medical personnel have informed Human Rights Watch that Ibrahim Assad had received permission to move forward from the Israeli authorities. He drove some 750 meters, and was shot in the hand from the machine gun of an Israeli tank. He exited the ambulance, and was then shot in the head. The International Committee of the Red Cross and PRCS have publicly stated that all ambulances were clearly marked and were coordinating their movements closely with the Israeli authorities. "Israel should investigate these deaths in a credible and transparent manner, and discipline or bring to justice those found responsible for any wrongdoing," Stork said. Human Rights Watch expressed further concern that ambulances had reportedly been prevented from gaining access to injured in Tulkarem refugee camp. "Purposely hindering medical access also constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law," said Stork.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The Zionist Jewish Role In Causing World War IIThe Heretical Press12-9-3
"In 1941, a Jewish writer, Theodor N. Kaufman, wrote Germany Must Perish. Kaufman set out a plan for the total destruction of the German population by a very simple method: the mass sterilisation of all German men and women between the age of puberty and sixty years."

From a pre-1993 edition of John Tyndall's Spearhead magazine
12-9-3

The powers that emerged victorious from World War I made a second war almost inevitable by the peace conditions they imposed upon Germany. That second war was later made certain, not by the intentions of Hitler but by the determination of his eternal enemies to destroy the new Germany that he had created.

By the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 and the Treaty of St. Germain on 20 September of the same year, the German people were thoroughly humiliated. The British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, wrote:

'The international bankers swept statesmen, politicians, journalists and jurists all to one side and issued their orders with the imperiousness of absolute monarchs.'

The old Austrian Empire was balkanised without respect to its various cultures and nationalities. East Prussia was separated from Germany by a large area ceded to Poland. The Sudeten Germans were placed under Czech control. The coal mining area of the Saar Valley was to be administered for fifteen years by the League of Nations and then a plebiscite held. The corrupt Weimar Republic was forced upon the German nation and the middle classes were robbed of their savings by corrupt finance. There were millions of unemployed and the Sparticist Jewish revolutionary leaders Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxembourg were stirring up red revolution.

ALIEN CONTROL

The Daily Mail reported on 10 July 1933:

'The German nation, moreover, was rapidly falling under the control of its alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times as many Jewish government officials in Germany as had existed before the war. Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine.'

Dr. Manfred Reifer, a well known leader of the Jews of Bukovina, wrote in the Jewish magazine Czernowitzer Allegemeine Zeitung (September 1933):

'Whilst large sections of the German nation were struggling for the preservation of their race, we Jews filled the streets of Germany with our vociferations. We supplied the press with articles on the subject of its Christmas and Easter and administered to its religious beliefs in the manner we considered suitable. We ridiculed the highest ideals of the German nation and profaned the matters which it holds sacred.'

Resentment and resistance began to build up against the alien horde and in the year before Adolf Hitler came to power Bernard Lecache, President of the World Jewish League, stated:

'Germany is our public enemy number one. It is our object to declare war without mercy against her.'

The National Socialist Party of Adolf Hitler gained 17,300,000 votes in the election and gained 288 seats in the Reichstag. On 30 January 1933 Hitler was legally appointed Chancellor of the German Reich by President Von Hindenberg. On 24 March 1933 the Reichstag elected by 441 votes to 94 to give full emergency powers to the new Reich Chancellor and the corrupt Weimar Republic ceased to exist.

On that same day, 24 March 1933, on the front page of the London Daily Express appeared the main headlines: "Judaea declares war on Germany: Jews of all the world unite", and followed with:

'The Israelite people of the entire world declare economic and financial war on Germany. The appearance of the Swastika as the symbol of the new Germany revives the old war symbol of the Jews. Fourteen million Jews stand as one body to declare war on Germany. The Jewish wholesale dealer leaves his business, the banker his bank, the shopkeeper his shop, the beggar his miserable hut in order to combine forces in the holy war against Hitler's people.'

The German government was removing Jews from influential positions and transferring power back to the German people. This declaration of war by the Jews on Germany was repeated throughout the world. The first boycott of Jewish business concerns came after this Jewish declaration of war in April 1933.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION DEMANDED

Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organisation, wrote in the January 1934 issue of Mascha Rjetach:

'For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community at each conference in all our syndicates and by each Jew all over the world. There is reason to believe that our part in this struggle has general value. We will start a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany's ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand Germany's total destruction, collectively and individually. The German nation is a threat to us Jews.'

Emil Ludwig Cohen wrote in his book The New Holy Alliance, Strasburg, 1938:

'Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.'

Bernard Lechache wrote in The Right to Live (December 1938):

'It is our task to organise the moral and cultural blockade of Germany and disperse this nation. It is up to us to start a merciless war.'

The Jewish newspaper Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederlands printed on 13 September 1939:

'The millions of Jews living in America, England, France, North Africa and South, not forgetting Palestine, have decided to carry on the war in Germany to the very end. It is to be a war of extermination.'

The Toronto Star (26 February 1940) printed a declaration of a Rabbi Perlberg, Director of the British section of the Jewish World Congress:

'The Jewish World Congress is in a state of war with Germany for seven years.'

The Jewish magazine Sentinel of Chicago printed in its issue of 8 October 1940:

'When the National Socialists and their friends cry or whisper that this [the war] is brought about by Jews, they are perfectly right.'

Hitler now put into operation the plan of getting all German areas into one state and all Germans under one German Government. The Germans in the Rhineland, the Germans in Austria and the Sudeten Germans responded willingly. In January 1935 the Saar Valley voted to return to Germany with a 90 per-cent poll in favour. There were also Germans in East Prussia and in Danzig now divided by land ceded to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles. It is interesting to note that between 1933 and 1937 10,000 Jews migrated to Hitler's Germany, 97 of them from Palestine.

THE MUNICH AGREEMENT

An agreement was signed between Germany (Hitler) and Great Britain (Neville Chamberlain) which suggested a peaceful revision of the wrongs committed by the Treaty of Versailles. A four-power conference was suggested which would preserve the peace. The four powers were Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy.

The paper Truth of 5 January 1952 stated that Mr. Oswald Pirow, South African Minister of Defence, was sent on a mission to Germany in 1938 by General Smuts to ease the tension on the Jewish issue. The British Prime Minister told Pirow that pressure of International Jewry was one of the principal obstacles to an Anglo-German accommodation and that it would greatly help him resist that pressure if Hitler could be induced to moderate his policy towards the German Jews. Pirow stated that Hitler viewed this idea with favour and an Anglo-German agreement was in sight; the effect would have been, in the event of war, to limit the conflict to Germany and Russia, with the other great powers intervening to enforce their own terms when the combatants were exhausted.

However, the Four Nations Pact was not to be. The Jews put an end to this, for on 7 November 1938, a few weeks after the Munich Agreement and shortly before the journey to Paris of the German Foreign Minister, Von Ribbentrop, the Polish Jew, Herschel Feibel Grynszpan murdered the German Third Secretary of State, Ernst von Rath, in the German Embassy in Paris. The five bullets fired were the logical result of the Jews' declaration of war on Germany of March 1933 and put an end to the effort being made to explain and extend the importance of the Munich Agreement and the revision of the Treaty of Versailles.

This assassination provoked anti-Jewish riots in Germany, with the burning of synagogues and the looting and burning of Jewish shops. The anti-Jewish riots inflamed public opinion in Great Britain and the USA against Chamberlain's efforts to relieve Anglo-German tension. In the United States Germans were assaulted and persecuted. The Jews began leaving Germany.

The Paris magazine L'Ami du Peuple wrote about them:

'These people fled from Germany because they attempted to set up a rule of fire and blood and to let loose the horrors of civil war and universal chaos.'

The American Secretary of State, James Forrestal, who later died in mysterious circumstances, wrote in his Forrestal Diaries (Cassel and Co., London 1952):

'Have played golf with Joe Kennedy [US Ambassador in Britain, father of President John Kennedy]. According to him, Chamberlain declared that Zionism and world Jewry have obliged England to enter the war.'

The Jew, Schlomo Asch, in a pep talk to French troops in the line in Le Nouvelles Litteraires (10 February 1940) wrote:

'This is our war and you are fighting it for us. Even if we Jews are not bodily in the trenches we are nevertheless morally with you.'
On 8 October 1942 Sentinel magazine stated unequivocally:

'The Second World War is being fought for the defence and fundamentals of Judaism.'


TERROR BOMBING

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had given an assurance that:

'The British Government would never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for the purpose of mere terrorism.'

However, his successor Winston Churchill appointed as his personal adviser the Jewish Professor Lindemann. Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, suggested the bombing of German cities and that working class civilian areas were legitimate targets, and from then onwards the last vestiges of civilised decency in warfare were abandoned. These bombings began on 10 August 1940 with the bombing of the small open town of Freiburg on the Swiss frontier. Fifty-three civilians were killed, including twenty children playing in the park. It was reported by Mr. Taylor of the American Red Cross in the New York Times of 3 May 1940. This was before the Germans began bombing British cities. Mr. J. M. Speight, CBE, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry, wrote in his book The Splendid Decision:

'Adolf Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly after the RAF had commenced bombing German civilian targets... It gave Coventry, Birmingham, Sheffield and Southampton the right to look Kiev, Kharkov, Stalingrad and Sebastopol in the face. Our Soviet allies would have been less critical of our inactivity if they had understood what we had done... Hitler would have been willing at my time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones.'

VENGEANCE

In 1941, long before there was any assembling of Jews for the supposed extermination camps, a Jew, Theodor N. Kaufman, wrote Germany Must Perish. Kaufman set out a plan for the total destruction of the German population by a very simple method: the mass sterilisation of all German men and women between the age of puberty and sixty years. He described the construction of the organisation for doing this. This book was the basis of the Morgenthau Plan for the total destruction of German industry and the enslavement of the German race. Naturally these intentions of Germany's enemy got into the hands of the German propaganda minister Goebbels, and it stiffened the resistance of the German nation to avoid defeat. The Morgenthau Plan formed the basis of discussions between President Roosevelt and Soviet leader Stalin acting through his liaison officer, the Soviet Jew Zabrousky, and also formed the basis of the Yalta Agreement.

From a pre-1993 edition of John Tyndall's Spearhead magazine

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Comment
From Star
12-10-3

Shalom,

It is time for all Non-Zionist Jews to cleanse the world free of Zionism or this suicide machine called Zionism will destroy all Jews.

There is an old saying by the sages, if there is smoke there is fire. First they tried to say Zionism is a lie and yet we are seeing it's results. Second they tried to bully and intimidate those who tried to expose them for what they are while carefully censoring the fact that not all jews are zionists and many jews are in fact against zionism. Third they manipulate other nations to do their bidding while falsely saying it is being done in our name which makes us vomit at their abhorrent behaviour and claim. Fourth they tried all tricks in the book to manipulate the media to spread false news, disinformation, misinformation, divertionary decoys at the expense of others.

And now they want to repeat the same mistakes that took millions of innoccent jewish lives in World War II. How many times does it take to tell these Zionist to stop adding and feeding more jewish lives into their sacrificial suicide machine called Zionism for political gain?

To all Non-Zionist Jews, save your lives by cleansing the world of Zionism before it provokes the world again against all innoccent jews. We have lost so many of our fellow Jews in World War II, we must stop them from adding our jewish and christian and muslim, etc, lives into their death machine called Zionism.

Shalom!

PBS takes up the battle to rewrite history and propagate Jew propaganda..and blames Germany for the start of ww2...which is Bullshit

The jews declared war on Germany in 1933 and by their own words this was a war that was to be prosecuted till Germany was destroyed


In the final hours of his life, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler hastily dictated a Political Testament that he left for the German people. The document was little different from many speeches and articles he had written before. After causing the destruction of huge areas of Europe, demanding the sacrifice of millions of lives in pursuit of his political ambitions, and ordering the murder of millions of others, Hitler showed no remorse. Instead, he blamed the Jews for the war he himself had started. "It is untrue that I, or anyone else in Germany, wanted the war in 1939," he stated. "It was desired and instigated solely by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish descent or worked for Jewish interests." This earliest obsession of Hitler's, a deep loathing of the Jewish people, remained with him to the very end. And he returned to it once more in the final paragraph of his will. "Above all," he urged, "I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry."

Hitler told the truth...what does that say about Jews and Jew run PBS?

The Jews declared war on Germany in 1933. By their own words this was a war that was to be prosecuted until Germany was destroyed.

THE JEWS DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY (1933).
"Judea Declares War on Germany!" - Daily Express headline, March,24th, 1933 "Judea Declares War on Germany! Jews of all the World Unite! Boycott of German Goods!
Mass Demonstrations!" -

These were all headlines in the Daily Express on March, 24th, 1933. "The Israeli people around the world declare economic and financial war against Germany. Fourteen million Jews stand together as one man, to declare war against Germany. The Jewish wholesaler will forsake his firm, the banker his stock exchange, the merchant his commerce and the pauper his pitiful shed in order to join together in a holy war against Hitler's people." - Daily Express, March,24th, 1933 "Germany is our public enemy No.1. It is our object to declare war without mercy against her." - Bernart Lecache, President, Jewish World League "This declaration called the war against Germany, which was now determined on, a 'holy war'. This war was to be carried out against Germany to its conclusion, to her destruction." - Dr. Scheidl, Geschicte der Verfemung Deutschlands "Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in this sacred war should do so now and here. It is not sufficient that you should buy no goods made in Germany. You must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronises German ships or shipping.... we will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends." - the New York Times, on August 7th, 1933. "War in Europe in 1934 was inevitable." - H. Morgenthau, Hearst Press, U.S. September, 1933 "The fight against Germany has been carried out for months by every Jewish conference, trade organisation, by every Jew in the world.... we shall let loose a spiritual and a material war of the whole world against Germany." - M. Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, Natcha Retch, January, 1934 "Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but he will be forced to it, not this year, but later on." - Les Aniles, 1934 "We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany." - David A. Brown, National Chairman, United Jewish Campaign "There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it." - Jewish Daily Bulletin, July,27th, 1935 "Before the end of the year, an economic bloc of England, Russia, France and the U.S.A will be formed to bring the German and Italian economic systems to their knees." - Paul Dreyfus of Mulhausen, 'La Vio de Tanger' May, 15th,1938 By June, 1938, the American Hebrew was boasting that they had Jews in the foremost positions of influence in Britain, America and France, and that these "three sons of Israel will be sending the Nazi dictator to hell." "The Jews, taken collectively, view this war as a holy war." - The Daily Herald, No.7450, 1939 "Even if we Jews are not physically at your side in the trenches, we are morally with you. This war is our war and you fight it with us." - Schalom Asch, Les Nouvelles Litterairres, February,10th, 1940 "This war is our business." - Rabbi Dr. Stephen Wise, Defence in America, June,1940 "In losing Germany, Jewry lost a territory from which it exerted power. Therefore it was determined to re-conquer it." - Louis Marschalko, Hungarian journalist and writer "Joining with Samuel Untermeyer in calling for a war against Germany, Bernard Baruch, at the same time, was promoting preparations for war against Germany. 'I emphasised that the defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her foreign commerce in both volume and profit." - Samuel Untermeyer, The Public Years, p.347

"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was wanted and provoked solely by international statesmen either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests." - Adolf Hitler, April, 1945.

The joke doing the rounds of the British Union of Fascists at this time was that the Jewish national anthem was, 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'

BOYCOTT PBS....AND ANYONE THAT SUPPORTS THEM, OR VOTES THEM FUNDING

JEWS IN THE NEWS..

"BY WAY OF DECEPTION" .. IS THE MOTTO OF MOSSAD

ITS ALSO THE NATURE OF JEWS AS A RACE OF PERVERTS AND CRIMINALS



"An American of Russian Jewish descent, [Robert] Friedman is remarkably well positoned to report on the [Russian] Mafiya, since most Mafiya members are themselves Russian Jews. This curious fact owes its origin to the efforts, during the Nixon administration, of Democratic Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson to link trade concessions with Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union ...

While the Italian Mafia has a singular link between Italy and America, the Russian Mafiya is more international. Ironically, in a Jewish transit camp near Rome, many Russian-Jewish career crirminals met, exchanged information and departed ... The Russians seem crazier than do the Italians. While the Mafia uses violence to punish enemies ... surgically, the Mafiya will kill the enemy, his wife, his children, and his friends, both as a theatrical warning to competitors and for the sheer joy of tyrannical violence ...

Now 30 Russian crime syndicates are operating in at least 17 U. S. cities." Houston Chronicle,5-14-2000, p. 15 "Because the Russian mob is mostly Jewish, it was a political hot potato, especially in the New York area."Robert Friedman,[Houston Chronicle, 5-14-2000, p. 15

In 1994, in Montreal, Canada, Rabbi Meyer Krentzman, a former director of the Canadian Jewish Zionist Federation, former director of the Jewish National Fund of Montreal, and member of the Jewish Educational Council, was arrested for selling cocaine and heroin to an undercover police officer.

Fishkoff, Sue. Montreal Rabbi Arrested on Drug-dealing Charges. Jerusalem Post, p. 1

In 1990, Linda Leary, a former chapter president of the National Council of Jewish Women, was extradited from Austria to stand trial in Indianapolis with her two sons for their prominent role in a drug ring that smuggled at least 250,000 pounds of marijuana into America. Leary "pleaded guilty of charges of racketeering and conspiracy for her part in the ring. She was accused of hiding drug money in bank accounts in the Cayman Islands." Linda Leary Pleads Guilty in Drug Case, UPI, February 22, 1990

Russian Mob?

Russians are offended by the idea because Russian Jews not ethnic Russians are the the mafias membership.... all the kiddie porn and child snuff films from the former soviet block are just more filthy Jews doing what they do...

Totally Jewish, Nov 26, 2001"A chartered accountant, who played a key role in an international plot to launder millions of pounds worth of Israeli drug money, has been told by the judge to expect a jail sentence. Appearing in Southwark Crown Court, Philip Lyons, from Stanmore, pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to converting the proceeds of drug trafficking and criminal conduct between June 1 and March 7 this year. The dad-of-three, who was part of a gang that laundered the proceeds of numerous heroin and ecstasy deals and then sent the money to Spain, was remanded in custody."


The Jewish Laundry of Drug Money, translated from the Hebrew by Israel Shahak, former head of the Israel Civil Rights Association. [This piece, one of the first looks in English at the Jewish/Israeli involvement in the international drug scene, originally appeared in the Israeli magazine Maariv, September 2, 1994. It can be found here at Zionism and Israeli Apartheid, a pro-Palestinian site]"In recent months the [US government] Eldorado agents discovered a new center of operations. It is termed The Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are: Colombian drug barons, Israeli-Jewish money launderers and Jewish-Russian mafiosi. The Colombians funnel the money, the Israelis launder it, the Russian mafiosi (who have recently overrun New York in droves) provide the security and the muscle. A New York journalist recently told 'Ma'ariv'; 'The Israeli Jews are gaining notoriety in the money laundering market. You need only look at the list of arrests and the inditements of the past 3 years, in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli involvement in that field.'"

Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. New York Review of Books, November 16, 2000 [book review, posted at Center for Defense Information/Johnson's Russia List]"Whatever the American laws, a successful campaign against Russian mobsters will require the cooperation of other governments, particularly those of Russia and Israel, the two countries that are now the principal residences of most Russian crime bosses ...'Of all the nations where the Russian mob has established a presence, none has been more deeply compromised than the State of Israel,' [Robert] Friedman writes, adding that the Russian mafia has 'become a grave threat to the stability of Israel.' Although this may be a bit hyperbolic, the Russian mafia does have a strong, safe base in Israel -- a story that American and Israeli journalists have largely overlooked. One FBI report observes, for example, that most members of Mogilevich's criminal organization have Israeli passports. And Jonathan Winer told Friedman (when Winer was still the State Department's crime expert), 'There is not a major Russian organized crime figure whom we are tracking who does not also carry an Israeli passport.

Red Mafiya, by Robert Friedman. TimeWarner. [sample chapter]"In the 1970s, more than forty thousand Russian Jews settled in Brighton Beach, the formerly stolid working-class Jewish neighborhood that inspired Neil Simon's gentle play Brighton Beach Memoirs. It was under the shadow of the elevated subway tracks on Brighton Beach Avenue, bustling with Russian meat markets, vegetable pushcarts, and bakeries, that the Russian gangsters resumed their careers as professional killers, thieves, and scoundrels. By the time of [Monya] Elson's arrival, Brighton Beach had already become the seat of the dreaded Organizatsiya, the Russian Jewish mob

Russian Organized Crime. PBS/Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) Task Force Report (1997)"To date, U.S. Iaw enforcement officials have established a clear relationship between ROC [Russian Organized Crime] groups and La Cosa Nostra (LCN), the Italian-American criminal network in the United States ... Cooperative efforts between ROC groups and the Colombian drug cartels are centered in Miami, where the local FBI of office characterized the Russian gangsters as 'very brutal...they are very sophisticated. They are computer literate. They hit the ground running.' Miami represents a gateway to both the United States and Latin America ... Two major drug smuggling cases in 1996 illustrate the transnational reach of ROC. The first involved Russians as well as individuals from the Netherlands, Ukraine, Belarus, and African countries in an attempt to smuggle four tons of drugs via Russia. The second case involved ROC operations in five West European countries and Russia; the illicit activities led to a joint operation among the involved governments against a transnational drug trafficking group--and to the confiscation of 2.5 tons of drugs. In testimony before the U.S. Senate, FBI director Louis Freeh stated that some 27 ROC groups had been identified as operating in the United States. The activities of these groups are believed to center primarily around such major U.S. cities as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and New York. One MVD official stated that ROC activities in the United States include money laundering, illegal money transactions, and narcotics trafficking. Other countries with a known and active ROC presence include Germany, with 47 groups; and Italy, with 60 groups. The MVD estimates that over 100 ROC groups are active in at least 50 countries."

US Senate: Russian Mafia Extortion in NHL More Extensive. Sports Illustrated, July 8, 1997"The extent of extortion by the Russian mafia among NHL [National Hockey League] players is greater than previously believed, according to the united States Senate. ESPN, citing a 15-month Senate investigation produced more than 100 interviews with NHL players, officials, owners, team officials and agents, reports that serious conclusions have been made about the Russian mafia's influence among NHL players. There are 50 former Soviet players in the NHL and most of them are Russian ... 'If you add in people who would know firsthand about extortion that occurred, I would venture to say, based upon our investigation, that a significant percentage of Russian hockey players skating in the NHL have been extorted in some way,' Senate investigator Michael Bopp told ESPN. 'Based on the sample of players we spoke to, I would conclude that a third of the players had some direct involvement.'"

The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World. Village Voice [New York], May 20-26, 1998"The enigmatic leader of the [Russian] Red Mafia is a 52-year-old Ukrainian-born Jew named Semion Mogilevich. He is a shadowy figure known as the ''Brainy Don''--he holds an economics degree from the University of Lvov--and until now, he has never been exposed by the media. But the Voice has obtained hundreds of pages of classified FBI and Israeli intelligence documents from August 1996, and these documents--as well as recent interviews with a key criminal associate and with dozens of law enforcement sources here and abroad--describe him as someone who has become a grave threat to the stability of Israel and Eastern Europe ... The FBI and Israeli intelligence assert that he traffics in nuclear materials, drugs, prostitutes, precious gems, and stolen art. His contract hit squads operate in the U.S. and Europe. He controls everything that goes in and out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, a ''smugglers' paradise,'' says [Monya] Elson. Mogilevich bought a bankrupt airline in a former Central Asian Soviet republic for millions of dollars in cash so he could haul heroin out of the Golden Triangle. Most worrisome to U.S. authorities is Mogilevich's apparently legal purchase of virtually the entire Hungarian armaments industry, jeopardizing regional security, NATO, and the war against terrorism."Telling His Story. ABC news, September 23, 2000"The man suspected of being at the center of an alleged plot to launder as much as $15 billion through the Bank of New York by the Russian mob today denied any involvement in the scandal that has rocked the international financial establishment. In an exclusive interview with ABCNEWS’ Gillian Findlay, [Jewish Russian mobster] Semyon Mogilevich — who describes himself as a publisher and consultant to a cereal company — says the allegations have ruined him." The Traffickers. Russian Crime Groups and Syndicates. U. S. Department of State"The Director of Operation Odessa, a Florida task force designed to combat Russian organized crime, believes that individual criminals, not necessarily organized crime, are trafficking Russian women to Florida. He claims that women are being trafficked to Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Jackson, Palm Beach, and increasingly the Florida panhandle. In his opinion, Russian entrepreneurs, with ties to Russian organized crime, are importing women for Florida's sex industry. For example, one Russian, Sergey Skobeltsyn, with alleged ties to the Russian organized crime group Kazanskaya, bought two strip clubs, Pure Platinum and Solid Gold, for $8 million dollars in late 1996. And Ludwig Fainberg [who once served in the Israeli army; Navarro, Mireya. New York Times, 3-7-97, p. A22], a Russian mafia figure with alleged ties to Colombian drug traffickers, was also heavily involved in running a strip club called Porkys, which likely involved trafficked women. FBI headquarters also has information that the following major Russian organized crime syndicates— the Izmailovskaya, Dagestantsy, Kazanskaya, and Solntsenskaya— are involved in the prostitution industry throughout the United States. Given the way these organized crime syndicates operate overseas and the brutality of these organizations, it is likely that this involvement in the US includes trafficking in women through the use of deception, threats, and violence." Russian 'Mafiya' Takes on NY. The Russia Journal. May 15, 2000"Police and investigators in New York told The Observer that they are connecting a sudden string of brutal murders to the mighty Russian 'Mafiya' who are taking over the city's underworld and pose what one source calls 'by far our greatest threat to stability and the rule of law' ... Ex-Bank of New York Executive Lucy Edwards [born Ludmilla Pritzker] and Peter Berlin admitted to masterminding the largest money-laundering scheme in U.S. history involving as much as $10 billion in 160,000 wire transfers, mostly connected to the Russian mob, corrupt Russian banks and their gun-toting clients. Two other murders have been handed over to the crime squad specializing in the Russian mafia. Orthodox Russian Jew Mark Simon's bullet-riddled body was found last month. He was allegedly involved in massive credit card fraud." Russian Jewish Leader Charged with Kidnap. The Independent [Great Britain], January 25, 2001"The deputy head of the Russian Jewish Congress, Mikhail Mirilashvili, has been arrested in St Petersburg and charged with kidnapping two people. The chairman of the congress, Vladimir Gusinsky, a media magnate, is already under house arrest in Spain after Moscow demanded his extradition. Police say the two cases are unconnected, but the Russian Jewish community will be alarmed that the authorities are pursuing two of its most prominent members. Mr Mirilashvili, who holds joint Israeli and Russian citizenship [so does Gusinksky], was due to leave Russia this week with the Israeli President, Moshe Katzav, who is on a state visit. Mr Mirilashvili is a director of the St Petersburg company Russian Video, which was bought by Media-Most, controlled by Mr Gusinsky, in 1997. Mr Gusinsky was later accused of defrauding the state by buying the company for $10m (£6.6m) - well below its real value. Over the past year the Kremlin has relentlessly feuded with Mr Gusinsky and Media-Most, which owns much of the independent media in Russia, because of its criticism of the government." Spain Holds Israeli Drug Lord Wanted by U.S. [Associated Press/Haaretz] May 23, 2001"An Israeli [Oded Tuito] described as a major international smuggler of the drug Ecstasy is in custody in Spain awaiting a court decision on an American request for his extradition ...Spanish newspapers report that Tuito ran a massive smuggling operation in Europe, Israel, and the United States ... Israeli crime syndicates with links to Russian mobs are the primary source of Ecstasy smugglied in the United States, according to the DEA."'Sammy the Bull' Trial Lifts Veil on Israelis in Ecstasy Trade.[Jewish] Forward, January 19, 2001"A celebrated mob informant's trial on drug-distribution charges is opening a window on an aspect of the drug trade that many New Yorkers would rather ignore. According to federal and local law enforcement officials, Israeli criminals have cornered the market on the drug ecstasy, controlling by some accounts as much as 75% of the American market ... According to the Drug Enforcement Agency's web page, 'In recent years, Israeli organized crime syndicates, some composed of Russian émigrés associated with Russian organized crime syndicates, have forged relationships with Western European traffickers, and gained control over a significant share of the European market. The Israeli syndicates are currently the primary sources to U.S. distribution groups." ... 'There are a lot of Israeli criminals in the three major hubs, New York, Miami and Los Angeles, so they didn't have to reinvent the wheel," Mr. Abramovsky said ... In July 1999, after a 21-month investigation, a joint federal-state organized crime-drug enforcement task force uncovered a smuggling operation that relied mostly on carriers of an unexpected nature in the drug business: young chasidic men. ... Sean Erez, an Israeli who according to the authorities ran the ring, is still in Amsterdam, where authorities are weighing a request for extradition to the United States. In February 2000, another ecstasy ring ran by Israeli citizens was exposed in Queens, N.Y. The group, allegedly headed by Oshri Amar, the son of a famous 1950s-era Israeli pop singer, was alleged by authorities to be distributing MDMA in clubs on the East Coast and in California. Some of these clubs made huge headlines in the New York press in the mid-1990s, where they were dubbed 'drug bazaars' ... Drug officials assert that additional side effects include anxiety and depression, and in the long run also permanent brain damage. The ecstasy trade is building a new reputation for Israeli criminal muscle, especially when combined with Russian gangs."Stripper-Hasid Connection Bared by 'Ecstasy' Bust. New York Post. May 25, 2001"An international 'ecstasy' kingpin [Israeli Oded Tuito], busted for smuggling the mind-bending pill into New York, was using leggy strippers, Hasidic teens in yarmulkes, and senior citizens as New Age drug mules, authorities say ... An Israeli national, named Sean Erez, allegedly tutored by Tuito in ecstasy smuggling, had risen through the ranks of Tuito's drug mob ... [Erez] hired Hasidic high-school boys ... These are kids who spend hours a day in the synagogue ... Federal Judge Leo Glasser ... sentenced nearly a dozen local Hasidic men. In March, Miami authorities busted a 71-year old retired Queens tailor ... Machloof Ben-Chitrit." Ecstasy Lord Cops Plea Deal. New York Post, June 28, 2001"An international "ecstasy" kingpin, whose organization flooded the United States with the popular club drug, is facing 17 years in prison after copping a plea in federal court yesterday. Prosecutors charge Jacob Orgad, 45, sold hundreds of thousands of pills to Israeli national Ilan Zarger. Zarger pleaded guilty in January to overseeing a ring that the feds say supplied Salvatore 'Sammy Bull' Gravano."Two Israelis Arrested in Largest Drug Bust in NYC History.Jerusalem Post, July 20, 2001"Two Israeli citizens were arrested Tuesday night in Manhattan on drug possession charges after police seized more than a million Ecstasy tablets, the largest drug bust in New York City history. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik announced Wednesday that David Roash, 25, and Israel Ashkenazi, 28, both of Tel Aviv, were being held in Queens Criminal Court pending drug possession charges. The two face eight and a half years to life in prison if convicted. The pink, blue, and white Ecstasy pills, which weighed a total of 450 pounds and have a street value $40 million, and nearly $200,000 in cash were found in a studio apartment near the financial district."International Ecstasy Ring Smashed By Police. Jerusalem Post, August 2, 2001"An Ecstasy-smuggling ring has been cracked by the Israel Police, in collaboration with its counterparts in the US and Europe. Seventeen Israelis are being held in Spain and the US, and more arrests are expected. The ring is believed to have operated for a year. The investigation began in March, when the Northern District police learned that an Ecstasy ring led by Oded Tuito was still active, although he was under arrest in Barcelona on different charges. The district passed information it had to the various countries concerned, and set up joint surveillance operations. A big break came when three Israelis - Eitan and Erez Noi and Yosef Hotvashvilli - were arrested in Barcelona for several jewelry-store heists, which turned up enough evidence to arrest Michel Elkayam - believed to have led the Ecstasy ring in lieu of Tuito - and his accomplices in North America." A Scourge of Drugs Strikes a Pious Place. U.S.News, March 6, 2000"Over the past year, the number of calls about children abusing drugs in Orthodox communities 'has skyrocketed,' says Benzion Twerski, a physician who runs the substance-abuse program at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, N.J. Among the reported problems: young Orthodox dealers selling drugs such as ecstasy, heroin, and crack cocaine to their schoolmates, and Orthodox drug users stealing from their parents to support their habits. The Drug Enforcement Administration last fall reported that Russian and Israeli organized-crime groups had become the major transporters of the stimulant ecstasy into the United States. Prosecutors say these syndicates sometimes sell to neophyte dealers in New York's Orthodox communities. In January, federal investigators charged a Brooklyn businessman and four other ultra-Orthodox Jewish men with conspiring to sell 180,000 ecstasy pills to an informant, then laundering the money through a local Jewish religious school. Last summer, federal authorities indicted seven people, at least two of them Orthodox teenagers, in a scheme to supply millions of ecstasy tablets to partyers at late-night clubs in New York City and Miami Beach. The feds say dealers recruited young men from ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects in Brooklyn, believing that their black hats, dark suits, side curls, and religious affiliation would throw off cops. And just last week, six Israeli nationals and more than 20 of their alleged buyers and suppliers were arrested for allegedly carrying out a multimillion-dollar scheme using young Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox drug couriers." Israel's Other Export. Moment, August-September 2001"Ecstasy, along with marijuana, hashish, heroin, and cocaine, is heavily used and traded in Israel today, in what some call a sign of the times. Contemporary Israel is an affluent, drug-consuming country—with an estimated 300,000 casual drug users and some 20,000 junkies [from at total man, woman, and child population of about 6million]. There are no reliable statistics on Ecstasy use in Israel, but in 2000 alone, police confiscated 270,000 Ecstasy tablets from smugglers, students, and partygoers in a series of stings. That same year, according to an online report by the Israeli Authority for Combating Drugs, Israeli agents confiscated more than 80 kilograms of heroin, 30 kilograms of hashish, 8,885 kilograms of marijuana, and nearly 8,000 'sheets' (resembling sheets of postage stamps) of LSD ... According to a report of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 75 percent of all crime in Israel is drug-related ... According to a U.S. State Department White Paper on Global Narcotics, issued in 1998, the Jewish State is 'a drug-consuming country with serious marijuana, hashish and heroin use, and a growing problem of cocaine, LSD, and amphetamine consumption.' But perhaps more striking, the report found that Israel is 'no longer just a user nation, but like Colombia, Thailand and Pakistan, it has also now become a trafficking power.' Authorities say Israeli crime groups have for several years had a virtual monopoly on global distribution of Ecstasy ... So how did organized Israeli crime rings become so adept at distributing and marketing Ecstasy globally? According to Antwerp police, Israelis have had smuggling networks in place for years: They shipped stolen diamonds through Brussels and Amsterdam to points worldwide." Heroin Scandal Rocks London's Devout Jewish Community. The Independent [London], [posted here at the Media Awareness Project, a drug policy reform group], July 25, 1998"The Orthodox Jewish community has been shocked by a series of arrests of its members for alleged heroin smuggling. Police and Customs inquiries are centering on a drugs link between Israel, Antwerp and London ... Police in several European countries began to suspect that the diamond area of Antwerp was becoming an international centre for drug smuggling two years ago when an Orthodox Jewish man from Antwerp was arrested at Ramsgate. Dror Hazenfratz ... from Antwerp, was jailed for 11 years for trying to smuggle heroin ... Hazenfratz, who was born in Haifa and holds an Israeli passport as well as a Belgian identity card, appeared in Canterbury court wearing traditional dress and carrying the Talmud ... Hazenfratz said he had been told to meet a Georgian Orthodox Jew at a north London hotel. The ultimate destination of the drugs was reputedly David Santini, a Glaswegian who, at the time, was Scotland's leading heroin dealer ... British drugs officers suspect they are seeing the beginning of a new drug operation involving Antwerp's Orthodox Jews and the Russian Mafia ... Last week, evidence of the violence associated with drug crime surfaced again in Antwerp. A Jewish trader in precious metals in the city, Rachmeil 'Mike' Brandwain, also reputed to be a leading figure in the Russian Mafia, was shot dead."Rabbi Charged with Sneaking Drugs into Prison. Corpus Christi Caller Times [from Associated Press], October 16, 1998"A diminutive 73-year-old rabbi in a rumpled pinstripe suit was released without bail Thursday on a charge he smuggled drugs into a federal prison in the Adirondacks where he ministered to inmates. Eli Gottesman, a former 'Rabbi of the Year,' has pleaded innocent to the charge of attempting to provide contraband, a felony. Authorities say Gottesman tried to smuggle a bottle of Pert Plus shampoo filled with cocaine and marijuana encased in balloons into the Federal Correctional Institute at Ray Brook, in the Adirondack Mountains. 'God knows I didn't do anything wrong. I was tricked,' Gottesman said after his court hearing. Gottesman was arrested by a special agent of the U.S. Justice Department on Oct. 7. Authorities said he had been under investigation for the past several months by prison officials, as well the Justice Department, the FBI, and state police." The Jewish Club in Cell Block 2. The Jerusalem Report, December 20, 1999"Shimon Dahan is doing time ... [in] Bangkok’s Bangkwang Central Prison for the past six years. Dahan is serving a 100-year sentence for smuggling a derivative of the poppy - heroin ... Among the other inmates in his Block 2 are three fellow Jews - all also lifers for drug offenses ... They have pulled together and carved out a life of comparative luxury for themselves. With cash sent in by friends and relatives, they bought themselves into the same cell, then bribed the guards to have only 10 other inmates in their 215-square-foot quarters, not the standard 20, and allow them sleeping mats, bottled water, and a diet of meat, fruit and vegetables. Two years ago, the four 'leased' a $500-a-year cell for their 'Jewish House.' It’s an exclusive club equipped with a table and chairs, bookshelves and a color TV ...The little brotherhood's membership badge is the yarmulkes they wear inside their sanctuary, where they have painted a large Star of David on the floor. Here they hold Shabbat services and eat kosher food sent in by the rabbi ... In his five years there, Stephen Roye has deteriorated from an Emmy-winning American television producer to a fading shadow. As a freelancer who had produced several anti-drug documentaries in the 1980s, he said he volunteered to run heroin from Bangkok to his native Los Angeles. He hoped it would revive his flagging career by getting the inside story of drug smuggling. He got no further than Bangkok airport."15 Most Wanted Fugitive Steven Wolosky Arrested at Bus Stop. U.S. Marshals' Service Press Release, June 9, 2000"United States Marshals Service Director John W. Marshall announced that alleged narcotic trafficker Steven M. Wolosky was arrested yesterday in Manchester, New Hampshire. Wolosky, led a drug ring responsible for the importation of more than 400,000 pounds of marijuana and hashish from Colombia and Thailand. 'He was a top ranking figure in an international maritime smuggling and distribution ring," said Marshall. 'His organization includes another TOP 15 MOST WANTED fugitive, Mark Stephen Gayer. Both men have been sought for more than a decade.' Wolosky and Gayer were indicted in March 1988, and later released on $500,000 bonds. Upon release, the two attempted to fake their deaths in a ruse to convince law enforcement that they had died in a boating accident off the California coast." Mr. Nice. This is the entrepreneurial home page of Howard Marks, a famous British-based drug dealer who is now a performer and drug advocate after his release from an Indiana prison. He served seven years of a 25-year sentence for his role in the international drug trade. "At the height of his smuggling operation, Mr. Marks was reputedly responsible for the majority of the marijuana smoked in the western world in the 1970s and early 1980s." [Hull Daily Mail, 2-7-2000, p. 4] "The head of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami once called Marks 'the Marco Polo' of drug trafficking'." [Dening, Penelope. The Irish Times, September 7, 1996] Information about a Jewish heritage is hard to come by. We may note, however, that Marks' daughter Myfanwy lives in Israel. [Campbell, Duncan. The Guardian {London}.Second Front: Howard's Way ..., April 26, 1995, p.12]Drug Lords Enjoy Mot of George's Kindness. Daily Illini, July 14, 1992"Read about Max Mermelstein (the 'godfather of cocaine') who co-authored the book, The Man Who Made it Snow. This sweetheart did not merely smuggle 56 tons of coke into our country; he also admitted in sworn testimony at the Noriega trial to involvement in a number of murders. He also bribed officials in three different Latin American countries. His possible sentence of 90 years was reduced to time served (2 years, 21 days), and the man walked in return for sticking it to Noriega. Mermelstein did forfeit $1 million in drug proceeds, but made much more that and also cashed in $700,000 in U.S. reward money, plus about that much more from WPP. Why did he get so much from WPP? Because you and I paid for all 17 members of his family and, as he testified, 'some of them had babies' and he's 'not sure where the number stands now.' I will never again claim that George Bush has no child-care policy. You couldn't prove it by looking at the Mermelsteins." Mermelstein was once described by his lawyer as 'just a nice Jewish guy who got into the wrong industry.' [Murphy, Kim. One Man's Word Against the World's Most Dangerous Cocaine Cartel. Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1987, pt. 1, p. 3] The Aaron Cohen Affair. World Corporal Punishment Research.This is an archive (1987-1997) of mass media materials about Aaron Cohen and his mother Lorraine Cohen, New Zealand citizens, caught smuggling drugs in Malaysia in 1985. Ms. Cohen ("a self-confessed prostitute and heroin addict") was originally sentenced to death for trafficking 140.76 grams of heroin. Aaron was sentenced to life in prison, and caning (public whipping), for possessing 34.14 grams. They were both pardoned in 1996.Man Charged in Killing of Former Partner in Crime.Montreal Gazette, May 8, 2001"A Montreal man was charged and police are looking for five other people believed to be involved in a Notre Dame de Grace drug deal that went sour and ended with a homicide. Jacob Cohen-Shiri, 24, of Montreal, appeared briefly in court yesterday to face charges of second-degree murder and attempted murder ... The shooting took place one day after the third anniversary of a court date in which Cohen-Shiri, Khezravani and another man pleaded guilty to committing armed robbery. They had also been charged with conspiracy and weapons charges related to the incident." Family Pleads for Life of Man Who Slew Parents. Forward, 9-8-2000"A Great Neck, N.Y., man who confessed to the gruesome murder of his parents last year has been spared the death penalty thanks to the intervention of his relatives, the prosecutor said. Resolving a case that shone an unexpectedly sordid light on an affluent, largely Jewish suburb of New York City, Adam Roberts, 23, pleaded guilty last week to intentionally killing his mother, Ronna and his father Seth in November, and then setting fire to their opulent Woodstock country home to hide the crime. In a deal offered by the court, Roberts is expected to be sentenced to the maximum of 25 years to life in prison on October 6. Following Roberts's arrest last year, Ulster County District Attorney Donald A. Williams strongly considered seeking the death penalty, but decided not to because of the pleas of his relatives. 'This is a special and unique case, the most critical aspect of which is that the victims' families are unanimous in requesting leniency,' Mr. Williams said. Roberts's defense attorney, Howard Weiswasser, said that at the time of the murder, Roberts was suffering from an intense heroin withdrawal and an adverse reaction to a medication recently prescribed to detoxify him." The 20th Century in Review (1980-89). San Diego Metropolitan"Richard Silberman, San Diego mover and shaker, is busted by the FBI for laundering what he believed to be drug money. Sentenced to 46 months in prison, he and wife Susan Golding [the mayor of San Diego, and also Jewish] divorce." Berezovsky's Daughter Arrested. St. Petersburg Times [Russia], May 15, 1998 "Yelizaveta Berezovskaya, the daughter of [Jewish Russian] billionaire tycoon-turned-politician Boris Berezovsky, who was detained in St. Petersburg last Saturday for cocaine possession, may be released with only a fine despite carrying an amount large enough to be punishable by up to three years in jail, according to the city's police chief. Anatoly Ponidelko told Interfax that because Berezovskaya, 27, handed the cocaine to police voluntarily, she will avoid a jail sentence, in spite of strict new drug laws enacted in Russia just last month." Sacrifical Lamb. Village Voice, February 27, 2001"Toward the end of a recent hearing in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Judge Plummer E. Lott asked Rabbi Yitzchak Fried, who like so many other drug defendants in New York was waiving his right to trial and pleading guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence, if he had any questions about the charges against him. The Brooklyn district attorney's office had charged Fried with selling a total of more than seven ounces of marijuana to a police informant on five occasions in Borough Park. Under the plea, Fried would not serve more than three years in prison ... The judge asked if he had sold the marijuana. Fried answered stonily, 'I sold it. But not for profit.' 'Well, you may be a bad businessman. . . . ' 'I was not doing business,' Fried said. 'It was medical marijuana.'"Police Tell of Smashing Arms Ring. St. Petersburg Times, June 20, 2000"A joint operation by U.S., Israeli and Colombian authorities may have thwarted one of Latin America's largest illegal arms deals, interrupting alleged plans to ship as many as 50,000 AK-47 automatic rifles, as well as other weapons, to armed groups in Colombia. Police in Colombia and Israel who infiltrated what they described as a $100-million arms smuggling ring say the deal was being underwritten with large sums of counterfeit dollars being manufactured in Colombia, as well as cash from cocaine sales. In coordinated operations police in Israel and Colombia made five arrests last month. Three Israelis were detained in Colombia as part of Operation God of Death, and large amounts of forged dollar notes were seized. Two more Israelis were arrested in Tel Aviv in an Israeli police investigation dubbed Operation Aging Boy ... There is a heavy Israeli presence in both Colombia and Ecuador. Ex-Israeli commandos and security experts are accused of having armed and trained the private armies of Colombia's notorious drug cartels. Israel has also provided official anti-terrorist training for the government of Colombia, as well as legal arms sales." Israelis Nabbed in Huge Hamburg Ecstasy Bust,Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2001"German police on Tuesday arrested two Israelis unloading a truck that contained 1.5 million Ecstasy pills, capping a long drug investigation by German, Dutch, Australian, and Israeli police into international Ecstasy trafficking by Israelis. Police said the infiltration of the drug ring represents the largest and most sweeping action in recent history against international Ecstasy trafficking, in which Israelis are known to be deeply involved. German detectives encountered the suspects unloading a truck with Dutch license plates near Hamburg Port. A search turned up the pills hidden in containers of artificial flowers. The two Israeli suspects, Uzi Gutman, 55, from Elkana, and Yosef Raphaelovitz, 41, from Jerusalem, were arrested, in addition to their Dutch driver." Daughter of Vidal Sassoon Dies of Drug Overdose After New Year Party,Independent [London], January 5, 2002"Catya Sassoon, the hard-living and hard-partying daughter of the celebrity hairdresser Vidal, died of a suspected drug overdose after a New Year's Eve party. Some would call it an almost predictable end to a life riddled with excess. A former actress and model, Ms Sassoon, 33, was born into a high-achieving world in a Los Angeles household ... Her natural good looks, however, proved perfect for the industry and shortly after joining the fashionable Prestige Agency she found success. Standing at 5ft 8ins tall and only eight stone in weight, she had a svelte figure said to be enhanced by cosmetic surgery. As many others have been, she was drawn into the lifestyle the modelling industry offered. By the time she was 21, she was allegedly hooked on drugs and a regular at detox clinics."Accountant Faces Drug Sentence, Totally Jewish, November 26, 2001"A chartered accountant, who played a key role in an international plot to launder millions of pounds worth of Israeli drug money, has been told by the judge to expect a jail sentence. Appearing in Southwark Crown Court, Philip Lyons, from Stanmore, pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to converting the proceeds of drug trafficking and criminal conduct between June 1 and March 7 this year. The dad-of-three, who was part of a gang that laundered the proceeds of numerous heroin and ecstasy deals and then sent the money to Spain, was remanded in custody .... Lyons will only be sentenced after the trial of Abraham Israel, 31, of Cadoxton Avenue, Stamford Hill, who pleaded not guilty to the same two charges and denies assisting another in the retention of the benefits of drug trafficking and criminal conduct." A Country for Sale, Jerusalem Post, October 8, 2001"Israel's growing reputation as a major money-laundering center is threatening to undermine its international financial standing ... In 1997 sources estimated that Israel was attracting some $4 billion to $5b. annually in laundered money - presumably this number has only increased since then. In Israel many people have been quick to blame the influx of Russian immigrants for Israel's recent positioning as one of the money-laundering capitals of the world. Reportedly, the Russian 'mafia' has taken advantage of the country's liberal immigration and banking secrecy laws to introduce the laundered money, using immigrants as couriers or fronts. However, it is wrong to assume that without the Russians there would be no money laundering in Israel, as many South Americans, Israelis and international diamond dealers are believed to have long used Israel as a money-laundering safe haven ...The stereotypes behind some Russian immigrants and their alleged mafia affiliations have been reinforced by a number of high-profile money-laundering investigations, including that of businessman Zvi Ben-Ari (formerly Gregory Lerner), who, in 1998 pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and bank fraud. Recent headlines include the ongoing investigation of well-known businessman Gad Ze'evi, who has been questioned by the police for allegedly involving Russian businessmen suspected of money laundering in his 1999 acquisition of 20% of telecommunications company Bezeq for $630m." 'Israeli Mafia' Members End Up Dead in S.Africa, Jewish Bulletin of Northern CaliforniaThe 'Israeli mafia' has made headlines in South Africa following the recent discovery of the body of an alleged group member. Shai Avishar, 36, disappeared from the trendy Johannesburg suburb of Norwood last October. His body was discovered in a shallow grave some 40 miles away following a tip-off to police ... Avishar allegedly had contacts with a reputed mob leader in Israel, Yossi Harari. Avishar and his former wife, Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, were friends of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who has remained a prominent and influential politician since her divorce from former President Nelson Mandela a few years ago ... Police suspect that Avishar was murdered by another member of the syndicate after an apparent double-cross in a diamond deal. Police have linked an additional two murders to the syndicate, and they suspect a third .. Motti Raz, who came to South Africa in 1996, apparently launched the so-called 'Israeli mafia.' He was later killed and his body found, also in a shallow grave, near Johannesburg. The syndicate has been implicated in various crimes, including illegal diamond dealing, drug trafficking, protection payments and illegal firearms. It is said to operate primarily in the three largest cities in South Africa -- Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban -- where Jews have been the prime targets of the group. The police say that four syndicate members have been killed so far, all by their own people. 'They are powerful, but they are killing their own people because they are too greedy,' the police spokesman said."An Ex-Con With a Rabbinical Calling, Moment magazine, 2002"Mark Borovitz went from the state penitentiary to the rabbinate. Now he helps strung-out Hollywood writers and producers recover from addiction. When Mark Borovitz tells you he was a thief, a con man, a convicted felon, an armed robber, a drunk, a crooked used car salesman (regularly dialing back odometers), and an embezzler, you think, I can believe that. After all, he looks the part. Borovitz is a large man with a scraggly brown and white beard. He walks with a tough-guy swagger and isn't afraid to confront anyone with brutal honesty. He is often loud, and he peppers his conversations with four-letter words. What is hard to believe, at first glance, is that Borovitz has shed his sordid past for a more time-honored profession. Borovitz is a rabbi—spiritual leader of Beit T'Shuvah, a drug rehabilitation facility on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles. Today, he helps strung-out Hollywood writers and producers, among others, recover from drug and alcohol addiction ... Between 1980 and 1988, Borovitz was in and out of state and county prisons—serving a total of six years for armed robbery, insurance fraud, and check kiting ... .Martin Rips, who was producer and chief writer for TV's Coach and Three's Company, credits Borovitz with helping him overcome a heroin addiction. Busted for possession in 1995, Rips was brought before a judge for sentencing. As Rips tells it, Borovitz had received word that Rips was about to be sentenced and literally 'came running down the aisle, coat flying' in the courtroom. He got the judge to agree to turn Rips over to him for rehabilitation through Beit T'Shuvah. Rips says Borovitz is the perfect charismatic leader. 'I've seen Mark get up a 2 a.m. and drive six hours because someone needed his help,' Rips says. 'If there's a Jewish soul in trouble, Mark will be there.' According to Rips, one of Borovitz's strengths is that he is not afraid to deliver tough love, even in a room filled with junkies and ex-cons. 'Mark gets into people's faces and tells them what they're doing wrong,' Rips says. "He senses the con in people—and he's a hell of a salesman.'" Federal Court Misconduct Creates an Incident in Costa Rica,texas-justice.com (from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), November 24, 1998"Israel Abel says the United States violated his rights when it secured his extradition from Costa Rica, and Costa Rican officials agree. They have filed formal charges against a high-ranking Justice Department employee, saying he lied to circumvent Costa Rican law. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette) Federal agents believed Israel Abel was a leader in a major cocaine smuggling ring in the 1980s that imported 3 tons of cocaine from Colombia to Miami. They wanted him so badly that they were willing to go to lengths that would lead another country to file criminal charges against U.S. officials. In 1991, a federal grand jury indicted Abel and several others on drug-smuggling charges, but by then he had been living in Costa Rica for five years and, by most accounts, was no longer in the drug business. But federal agents were so desperate to bring him to trial that they violated his most basic rights and then tried to cover up their actions, Abel's lawyers charge. Because of the magnitude of the charges against him, it seems unlikely any court will intervene, even though the government of Costa Rica has issued criminal arrest warrants against the former deputy attorney general to Attorney General Janet Reno and a former U.S. Consular officer because of their conduct. The U.S. government extradited Abel in 1992. The Justice Department sent Deputy Attorney General Richard Scruggs, a former Miami federal prosecutor, to Costa Rica. Costa Rican police then arrested Abel and turned him over to U.S. agents on an American jetliner. He was brought home, tried and sentenced to four life sentences in prison."Smuggler Sells Out His Lawyer to Strike a Deal, texas-justice.com (from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), November 24, 1998"Charles Goldman smuggled drugs - a lot of them - and he was facing serious prison time when federal agents proposed a deal. They would offer leniency if Goldman would testify against his own lawyer and a South Florida police officer on charges that they had avoided paying taxes on illicit drug income. Since the charges involved tax evasion, Goldman worked closely with an Internal Revenue Service agent, Synda Smith, 38. Attorney David Arnold and Opa Locka Police Officer Armando Coto received 15-year prison terms in February 1993, based largely on Goldman's testimony. What they didn't know, and what they're citing in their request for new trials, is that Goldman and Smith had sex several times while they were conferring about his testimony. The two conducted the affair in a prosecutor's lounge at the courthouse, which is known as 'the Igloo' because of the frigid conditions that the air conditioning system creates there. 'Evidently, these Arctic conditions were no impediment to Agent Smith and Mr. Goldman,' said defense lawyer Michael Tarre in court papers. Smith later admitted the affair to federal investigators. Arnold and Coto say Smith's liaison with Goldman tainted his testimony, that Goldman embellished his story in return for Smith's favors." Israel, OGD (Observatoire Geopolitique Des Drogues)"The Russian mafia is arriving in the luggage of recent migrants and Israeli society is relegating an increasingly prevalent drug problem to the background ... Drugs, whose impact on Israeli society is underestimated, are also used as a political and even military tool when they are distributed to the enemy in order to diminish its combativity. Nevertheless, Israel still periodically accuses Syrian and Lebanese authorities to be involved in drug trafficking ...As far as drugs are concerned, the ties between Israel and South Africa are another example of the adverse effects of Israeli foreign policy. During the international embargo against the regime of apartheid, the traditional warm relations existing between both countries based on the diamond industry gave rise to secret connections through classical diamond trading networks (Antwerp, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, New York). The latter appear to be linking Belgium and South Africa to Israel ever since the Russian mafia has become a significant player in the diamond industry. Many religious organizations, including fundamentalist groups like the Lubaviches, who were widely viewed as the guardians of moral values, do not place much importance on the drug problem. Some of their spiritual leaders, who also lead political parties, are protected by parliamentary immunity while they are wanted by European and American authorities ... The truth is that prostitution, money laundering, drug consumption and trafficking are assuming worrying proportions throughout the land. The inadequate training – indeed, corruption – of neighborhood police is another sign of deterioration. The press reported that three Israeli ministers decided to stroll down the now infamous Allenby Street in Tel Aviv on Friday, August 25, 1996 to observe for themselves the extent of trafficking. They saw dealers distributing bags of cannabis in front of the local police station, and other drugs being sold along the street and in bars. Following this media exposure, the press has reported several scandals in which police have either shaken down dealers or extorted the cash and valuables of suspects when arrested. Other officers have been accused of direct involvement in drugs ... The Israeli banking system, like the one in nearby Cyprus, offers limitless possibilities for recycling dirty money. Israeli banks have off-shore branches and firms in Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada and Southeast Asia, effectively guaranteeing anonymity for deposits in hard currency, free circulation of funds throughout the world, and the possibility of converting them into gold."Six Indicted on Narcotics Charge,USA Today, October 25, 2002"Six men alleged to be members of an international drug gang, including a man who refused to leave a house where drugs were stashed as the World Trade Center collapsed two blocks away, were indicted on narcotics charges. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said the Israel-based gang mostly sold Ecstasy, a popular club-drug that they imported from Holland, but also trafficked in cocaine, hashish and marijuana ... Zwi Haim Harris, 30, was found by firefighters in an apartment house two blocks north of the World Trade Center a few hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack ... 'Despite the fact that the Trade Center towers were collapsing right across the street, he didn't leave his post,' special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan said. Police later obtained a search warrant and seized more than 3,000 Ecstasy pills, hashish, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and two guns and numerous rounds of ammunition ... The gang's leader, Yigal Dobakrov, 37, had 50,000 Ecstasy pills worth $1.25 million, he said. Dobakarov is an Israeli citizen who has an arrest record there ... Also arrested were Michael Brenman, 29, said to be a wholesale distributor in the New York metropolitan area; Allen Agureyev, 48, accused of delivering drugs to dealers and carried payments after Brenman made deals; Lior Hajaj, 28 ..." Mobster's Paradise, The Jerusalem Report, 1995On December 25, 1994, half a dozen men gathered in a hotel suite on the Tel Aviv beachfront to plan the operations of a multi-billion-dollar international concern based in New York. The meeting was held in Russian. The business under discussion was crime. The men were top figures in one of the five 'families' that make up the Organizatsiya - the dreaded Russian underworld that plays a major role in drugs, prostitution, extortion and theft in the U.S. Like other high-level members of the families, all had passed simple requirements for advancement: time served in the gulag, and two murders. The meeting, The Jerusalem Report has learned, was at least the third by top Organizatsiya figures in Israel in the last two years. Israel has become a safe haven and a base of operations for the Russian mobsters. Exploiting Israel's weak connections to international law enforcement, the crime kingpins gather here to make decisions that can include which competitors to rub out, how to invest millions of dollars earned in criminal businesses, and how to channel drugs to Europe. While those meetings have focused on Organizatsiya operations elsewhere, the U.S.-based mobsters and their compatriots in the CIS also exploit Israel's liberal currency and banking regulations to launder money from crime in Russia and syphon it to the West. And Israel also serves as a transit point on a drug route from South America to Europe ...Perhaps the biggest of the Russian 'dons,' says the FBI, is Boris Nayfeld. A burly bodybuilder, Nayfeld allegedly controls an international ring smuggling millions of dollars worth of heroin into the U.S." Russian Ukrainian Crime Groups Set to Corner Global Drug Market,Strategic Forecasting, April 8, 2002"Another possibility is that the Bush administration has not directly addressed the issue of how to deal with these crime syndicates that are supplying weapons to militant groups because the majority of the Russian and Ukrainian crime lords that would be targeted are Jewish citizens of Israel. According to former State Department official Jonathan Winer, all 75 of the top Russian and Ukrainian crime kingpins the U.S. government was tracking worldwide at the end of the 1990s were citizens of Israel. Robert I. Friedman -- a Ukrainian-American investigative reporter who is also Jewish and has written extensively about the Russian and Ukrainian mafia -- claims that efforts by U.S. federal law enforcement officials to investigate suspected mafia leaders have been blocked internally for years by higher-ups in the U.S. government, or have been hindered by negative publicity asserting that the investigations were motivated by anti-Semitism ... In the United States, these groups already have pulled off some the biggest insurance, Medicare and stock frauds in history. They also run sophisticated Internet credit card scams, deal in counterfeit currencies and launder money, traffic narcotics and weapons, run gambling and protection rackets, manage prostitution and sex slave industries, and steal gasoline and other fuels. Ukrainian Jewish mafia kingpins also reportedly laundered about $9 billion through the Bank of New York during Russia's financial meltdown in 1998, and are believed to be fixing games in the National Hockey League. Outside the United States, these crime syndicates are supplying weapons to insurgents, paramilitaries and drug traffickers in Colombia, Brazil and the Andean region. For example, Ukrainian mobsters operating from Tel Aviv and Kiev are believed to have participated in the shipment of 10,000 AK-47s to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 1998 through former Peruvian spy chief Vladimir Montesinos. Mafia groups based in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles and Brighton Beach in New York City have also negotiated strategic partnerships with Mexico's Tijuana cartel in Baja California, and with drug traffickers in Colombia, to ship hundreds of tons of cocaine to North America. In fact, Russian and Ukrainian syndicates have been swapping weapons for drugs with Colombian drug traffickers, guerrillas and paramilitaries since the early 1990s."Red Mafiya / Before Bruno,Americanmafia.com"Robert I. Friedman’s account of Russian organized crime activity is a stunning, eye opening story of the menace facing United States law enforcement agencies today. The author sets the chilling stage for us by revealing in the first paragraph of his introduction that he has been made the target of a murder contract by the people he is investigating. Friedman does an excellent job of introducing the mobsters, giving a thumbnail background on them, and discussing what they are currently involved in (if they are still living of course). In doing so, Friedman also breaks down the various criminal activities that the Russian mob has taken hold of. Of all the recently released books “Red Mafiya” is the only one that is expose in nature, revealing the enormity of this criminal enterprise to many of us for the first time. “Red Mafiya” is not the first book written on Russian organized crime, “Russian Mafia in America,” by James O. Finckenauer and Elin J. Waring, was published in 1998. Among the Russian mobsters Friedman introduces are Monya Elson, Evsei Agron, Emile Puzyretsky, the Nayfeld brothers, Marat Balagula, the Zilber brothers, Semion Mogilevich, and Vyacheslav Ivankov. While these names are not as familiar to us as those of Gotti, Gambino, Anastasia or the Gallo brothers, these individuals have proven to be just as crafty, if not as deadly, as their Italian counterparts. What surprised me, something I had not released before, is that the majority of these criminals are Jewish." Indian Court Acquits 2 Israeli Women Convicted of Drug Possession,Ha'aretz (Israel), May 10, 2002"A court in India acquitted two young Israel women Thursday who had been convicted of drug possession. Ravit Shriki and Berta Cohen will be released from prison in three days. Shriki and Cohen were arrested about a year ago, carrying a bag containing 2.5 kilograms of marijuana. The women claimed they did not know the bag contained drugs, but were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. The two appealed their conviction. The decision to release them was based, among other things, on the fact that the women were beaten by their prison wardens. The judge also found out that they were given long prison sentences by a court that did not have the authority to do so. Shriki's lawyer, Mordechai Tzibin, said Thursday that the Indian authorities probably took into account the media coverage of the affair and the demands for their release by the Jewish press in the United States." 'Lude Behavior,City Paper (Philadelphia), October 3-9, 2002"The 'Matzoh Ball Mafia' is what some police investigators are calling a multistate drug ring which operated in Lower Merion until earlier this month, when 17 people in Miami, New York and Lower Merion were arrested and charged with selling $700,000 worth of Quaaludes. The gang earned its nickname from some cops because a large number of the defendants are Jewish ... [T]he alleged ring leader, Lawrence Weinmann and his chief lieutenant, Neil Smilen, were New Yorkers. Weinmann, investigators claim, was getting some pill shipments from Switzerland ... The two were constantly flying back and forth between Miami and New York City, buying large quantities of Quaaludes and allegedly reselling them to Alan Chernick, a Penn Valley resident. The Montgomery County D.A.'s office alleges that Chernick was a big-time distributor who resold the drugs to other dealers on the Main Line. Chernick has an arrest record and has done state and federal time in prison, according to the indictment. Some of Chernick's associates allegedly involved in the drug ring include: Robert Spear, the owner of several Philadelphia parking garages; Stewart Cohen, a real estate agent; his brother, Fred Cohen, who owns a computer company in Merion; and Craig Ira Yusem, a close friend of Craig Rabinowitz. You may recall that Craig Rabinowitz murdered his wife Stefanie in April 1997. He then tried to disguise her death as an accidental drowning in an attempt to collect a million-dollar life insurance policy that would wipe out his staggering business debts and finance Rabinowitz's clandestine love affair with a Philly stripper who performed under the alias 'Summer' ... 'Most of these guys involved in the lude ring know one another,' a law enforcement source told City Paper last week. 'We call them the Matzoh Ball Mafia. Many of them live in Lower Merion. They come from wealthy Jewish families but wanted to make money the easy way.'"FED ‘BUG' HELPS NAB DRUG RING,New York Post, October 10, 2002"The feds said yesterday they busted three members of an Israeli drug-smuggling ring, derailing a plot to slip 1.4 million 'ecstasy' pills into New York by hiding them in diamond-polishing tables. The scheme began to unravel in August when workers in an Antwerp, Belgium, warehouse spotted two men, Ofer Lebar and Ofer Weizman, putting $42 million in pills into compartments in the tables, which were being stored prior to shipment to New York." Backpackers warned about strict foreign drug laws,Ha'aretz (Israel), October 23, 2002"The War on Drugs Authority is putting a warning booklet on sale cheaply at travel agents outlining the drug laws in 39 countries popular with young Israeli travelers. With examples ranging from India and Thailand to Ecuador and Brazil, the booklet tells in a dry tone what happens to someone caught with drugs in these countries. With drugs ranging from marijuana to cocaine and heroin, there are vast differences between countries in the punishments they mete out for having drugs for personal use and for dealing. Authority chairman Haim Messing says 'on average the Foreign Ministry gets requests to help Israelis in trouble abroad over drugs - we're talking about hundreds of cases a year. We thought it would be appropriate to bring the information about international drug laws to public attention.'" Bust drug money ring. Say Hasidim laundered 1.7M for Colombian gangs,New York Daily News, November 2, 2002"An international money-laundering ring run by New York Hasidim washed millions of dollars in cocaine proceeds for the Colombian cartels, prosecutors disclosed yesterday. The group laundered at least $1.7 million for the druglords, holding secret meetings with the Colombians in Miami and midtown Manhattan, according to papers filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney James Comey. The suspects were brazen - up to $500,000 would be laundered at a time. One of the suspects, Avraham Zaltzman ... Yesterday, FBI and Customs agents arrested Zaltzman and Aaron Bornstein, both of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Bornstein runs an interior design business there, and Zaltzman is a part-time printer who spends most of his time in Israel, officials said. A third man who was believed to be the ringleader, Akiva Apter, remained a fugitive. Three others were named as unindicted co-conspirators. The case came together in April after agents busted one of the co-conspirators - a man who speaks Yiddish and Spanish - and got him to cooperate. The informant agreed to secretly record hundreds of conversations with his partners. He told the agents that between early 2001 and the day they caught him, he had delivered $1.7 million in drug proceeds ... About a half-dozen Hasidim showed up for [Borenstein's] arraignment. His lawyer, Paul Schectman, declined comment, as did prosecutors. Zaltzman was jailed pending a bail hearing next week. He requested a prayer book and prayer shawl while behind bars."Hassidic link to drugs barons. Ultra Orthodox US Jews accused of 'cleaning' Colombian coke cartel cash,The Observer (UK), November 10, 2002"The Observer British and American drug-busting authorities claim to have smashed one of the most bizarre money-laundering services ever operated for Colombian cocaine cartels: a circle of ultra-religious Hassidic Jews in New York. The ring is said to be one of the biggest to be 'cleaning' profits amassed by the Colombian coke barons, with the strange twist that it is run by a group from the Jewish community that acts as moral and spiritual guardian of the Orthodox faith. This is not the first time the Hassidim have been exposed as involved in the big-time drug trade. Last year, the trial ended of a circle run by Sean Erez, a Hassidic who oversaw a massive ecstasy smuggling operation, drawing recruits from the young Orthodox community. In that case, the drug was smuggled in boxes worn either under traditional Hassidic hats or next to the heart, intended to contain prayer scrolls, or else packed into white athletic socks ... [T]he Manhattan District Attorney's office told The Observer that a ringleader is still being sought and that the case may go far wider and deeper than the $1.7 billion [Abraham] Zaltzman and [Aaron] Bornstein are accused of laundering. A warrant is out for the arrest of a third man, Akiva Apter, who remains a fugitive and who sources say might prove to be one of the most important 'cleaners' of drug profits in America ... . Zaltzman spends half his year in Israel ... At their arraignment last week, both men were supported by a small crowd of Hassidim in the public gallery ... The ecstasy smuggling case last year, along with other Hassidic involvements in the drug trade, sent shock waves through the orthodox community, which this case will echo. Erez, a Canadian-Israeli with US residence, recruited young Hassidim to smuggle what they were initially told were diamonds from Amsterdam. Hundreds of thousands of pills and grams of pure MDMA (the active ingredient in ecstasy) were brought in. Arrests of dealers from California to Houston were sourced back to the Hassidic ring ... Wiretaps showed smugglers reluctant to take flights on the Sabbath and one of Erez's agents was picked up in Montreal with a suitcase full of ecstasy because she had refused to take the bus to New York on a Saturday." Dream trip that turned into an Indian jail nightmare, Briton, 22, held for smuggling hashish after carrying friend's case at airport,Guardian (UK), January 8, 2003 "She should, by now, have been relaxing on a beach in Australia. But last night Daisy Angus, a 22-year-old British backpacker, was preparing for another night in a squalid Indian cell after her round-the-world trip turned into a nightmare. Ms Angus, from Bournemouth, Dorset, was arrested in Bombay six weeks ago after agreeing to carry a suitcase belonging to an Israeli friend. As she went though customs, Indian officials, to her horror, discovered 10kg (22lb) of hashish hidden in a secret compartment. They immediately arrested Ms Angus, who is now locked up in central Bombay's grim neo-gothic Arthur Road prison. She is likely to be charged with drug smuggling. If convicted, she faces the prospect of 10 years in an Indian jail .. Her co-accused, Israeli businessman Yoran Kadesh, 37, is in the same prison. Indian officials captured him as he attempted to run away from the airport. Ms Angus's father John - who is in Bombay trying to negotiate her release - said she was utterly distraught. She had contracted malaria within a week of her detention in late November, and was now very sick, and sharing a small, filthy cell with 43 other women inmates. 'Whenever I see her in prison she just says: 'Daddy daddy daddy. You can't leave me here'," he said last night. 'This has absolutely destroyed us. It hasn't just affected me but our three other kids and grandchildren. Daisy is not capable of this. The only thing she has ever wanted to do is help people. She has been set up' ... The backpacker, a trainee fitness instructor, spent her early childhood in India when her parents worked for five years as volunteers in Mother Teresa's home for the destitute in Calcutta ... Ms Angus met Mr Kadesh on an earlier trip. She agreed to fly to Amsterdam with him after he told her it was the only way he could pay back money he had borrowed from her. 'Her rucksack broke,' Mrs Angus [mother] said. 'He gave her a suitcase and asked her to put her clothes inside. She put them in and carried on doing her make-up. "He took the suitcase downstairs and a porter took it to the airport. She never realised how heavy the case was ... Her ordeal focuses attention on India's flourishing drug trade - and on the remote Kullu valley in north India, where Mr Kadesh apparently ran a shop with his 41-year-old brother. The beautiful valley is known for its cheap and plentiful supply of hashish - and attracts thousands of backpackers each year. It also has a sinister side. Some 15 western tourists have disappeared there without trace. Indian police have planted drugs on foreigners and demanded large bribes for their release. A powerful Israeli mafia allegedly controls much of the trade. Last month a British charity worker, Ian Stillman, was released from prison early after being convicted in similar circumstances."
Marijuana Mitzvah? Support Growing for 'Guru of Ganja',[Jewish] Forward, February 14, 2003"To the federal government, Ed Rosenthal is simply a drug pusher, an enemy combatant in the war on drugs. To folks like Jane Marcus, however, the Bronx-born Rosenthal is a hero — a Jewish hero, in fact, whose cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes qualifies as a life-saving 'mitzvah.' Which explains why delegates to last weekend's regional convention here of Reform Judaism's national synagogue body were seen sporting buttons, distributed by Marcus, in support of Rosenthal, who was found guilty on January 31 of felony charges of cultivating marijuana. The case made national headlines when jurors complained after the trial that they had never been informed that Rosenthal was acting within city and state laws protecting medicinal use of the drug. ... Rosenthal and Klein are members of Temple Sinai in Oakland, where Rabbi Steven Chester said the federal government's prosecution, while legal, was clearly 'immoral.' 'Whether or not one agrees with medical marijuana, the way the whole case was tried was just a travesty,' he said, adding that he would be meeting privately with Rosenthal and Klein to strategize how he and the congregation could show their support ... Rosenthal [is the ] author of numerous books on marijuana cultivation and a longtime columnist for the pro-marijuana magazine High Times ... Now, as his lawyers prepare post-trial motions in advance of his June 4 sentencing, he hopes the Jewish community at large will support him. Rosenthal, who dropped out of college in 1967, had a brief stint as a stock broker before becoming interested in marijuana cultivation and helping launch High Times. His books on growing marijuana have sold at least a million copies, and he and Klein — married for 15 years — now operate Quick Trading, a home-based publishing business offering Rosenthal titles such as 'The Big Book of Buds' and 'Marijuana Law: Don't Get Busted.'"
Feds Bust Israeli-U.S. Money Laundering Ring,by Anthony M. DeStefano, Newsday, April 1, 2003 "Federal investigators said yesterday they broke up a ring of U.S. and Israeli nationals suspected of laundering millions of dollars in proceeds from trafficking in the drug Ecstasy. A total of 17 people, as well as one Florida company, face charges in the probe, which involved coordination between federal and Israeli law enforcement agencies in the last year. Among those arrested was Natan Banda, the alleged ringleader of the money-laundering network, which federal agents believe has systematically handled tens of millions of dollars in narcotics proceeds. Banda has U.S. and Israeli citizenship and maintains homes in Williamsburg and upstate Monroe, according to the affidavit for the arrest warrant unsealed yesterday. Others charged include the brothers Zakay and Ezra Sasson, identified in the affidavit as being residents of Florida and citizens of the United States, Venezuela and Israel. The Sasson brothers are listed as officers of National Electronics, Inc., a Florida company that sells consumer electronics in Central and South America, according to the affidavit. Federal investigators allege that the Sasson brothers arranged to launder millions of dollars for Banda."
15 Are Accused of Involvement in a Multinational Drug Ring,by Andy Newman, New York Times, April 1, 2003"Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said yesterday that they had broken up a multinational ring that laundered tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from the sale of cocaine and ecstasy. Fifteen men were arrested yesterday in New York, Miami, Houston and Israel, prosecutors said. Court papers describe an import-export operation with branches in the Netherlands, Colombia, Florida and Texas, and Swiss bank accounts swollen with cash smuggled in and out of the United States in parcels labeled 'jewelry.' The operation was run by Natan Banda, 31, who lives in Brooklyn and in Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic community in Rockland County, N.Y., according to a complaint unsealed yesterday. Drug traffickers would call Mr. Banda on one of two cellphones designated the blue phone and the red phone and arrange to give him money in amounts of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, which he would have converted into numerous small-denomination checks, the court papers say. Mr. Banda and several others were arraigned yesterday in United States District Court in Brooklyn before Magistrate Robert Levy on charges of money-laundering and conspiracy to distribute drugs. The ring members enthusiastically discussed business with one another by telephone, the complaint says. For instance, last June, Mr. Banda received a call from Nathan Weiss, who also was arrested yesterday, asking if certain deposits had cleared. When Mr. Banda confirmed that they had, Mr. Weiss responded, 'Praise the Lord!, It's a great thing!' the complaint says ... The complaint says that Mr. Banda became aware that he was being followed by federal agents and called the local branch of Shomrim, a civilian group that patrols Brooklyn's Hasidic neighborhoods, to complain. He asked the Shomrim official to find out what agency used a car that was following him, but the official declined, the complaint states."
Stories of Recovery. The Debilitating Stigma Behind Addiction,by Kim Schneiderman, Jewish Times, APRIL 04, 2003 "Jerry Sutton often surprises people when he introduces himself as a recovering alcoholic. According to the old Yiddish expression "a shicker is a goy" (a drunk is a non-Jew), he isn't supposed to exist. But Mr. Sutton, executive director of the House of Hope, certainly does, as do countless other Jewish addicts. Mr. Sutton's experience reflects the historical attitude toward addiction in the Jewish community: denial. Denial is a dangerous word in the addiction vernacular. Addicts in denial have been known to succumb to a host of risky behaviors, all the while insisting they don't have a problem. Just as addicts use denial to ward off feelings of guilt, anxiety and shame, many believe the Jewish people are in denial about the prevalence of addiction, with similar destructive results ... Kim Friner, director of Jewish Addiction Services, spends a great deal of time debunking myths about Jews and addictions. Among them, that Jews are immune to chemical dependency due to such factors as the solidarity of the Jewish community, the ritual use of wine, a moral emphasis on sobriety and fear of engaging in attention-getting behaviors that could provoke anti-Semitism. Having helped literally hundreds of recovering addicts in her 20-year career both within and outside of the Jewish community, she knows all too well that addiction does not discriminate. 'Addiction is a disease and a certain percentage are going to develop the disease just like a certain percentage are going to develop cancer,' said Ms. Friner, who cringes every time she hears the old Yiddish expression 'a shicker is a goy.' A 2001 JACS study set out to describe the demographics of Jews in recovery programs predominantly in the Northeast. The results indicated that Jews not only suffered from alcoholism and other drug addictions, but also disproved assumptions that chemically dependent Jews were somehow less educated, poorer and unaffiliated with the religion or the Jewish community. The study also showed that alcohol was the drug of choice among chemically dependent Jews, followed by sedatives and painkillers. Though not necessarily reflected in the study, a 1986 article in Hadassah Magazine quoted the head of an outpatient addiction program in New York as saying that crack cocaine had become popular among Jewish urban professionals in the 25-40 age group ... Denial may explain why dozens of Baltimore-area churches offer 12-step programs, but comparatively few Jewish organizations do. Baltimore Hebrew Congregation (Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon), Shaarei Zion B'nai Jacob (JACS) and Suburban Orthodox (Narcotics Anonymous) are the only Jewish organizations to host 12-step meetings ... Despite the lack of 12-step meetings, Susan Kurlander, director of prevention services at Jewish Addiction Services, reports being flooded with calls from schools and organizations for drug and alcohol education services ... Why the denial? Abbey Millhauser, who has run groups for Jewish women, suggests the stigma associated with chemical dependency conflicts with the idealism and cultural stereotypes associated with being Jewish ... Marc Rosenbluth, executive director of Mid-Atlantic JACS, argued that stigmatization and denial also applies to other addictions such as gambling and overeating, which are rampant in the Jewish community. Whatever the dependence, stigma against addiction is dangerous because it can impede both diagnosis and treatment."
Israelis at center of ecstasy drug trade,by Nathan Guttman, Haaretz (Israel), April 6, 2003"Israel is at the center of international trade in the drug ecstasy, according to a document published last week by the U.S. State Department. In recent years, organized crime in Israel, some with links to criminal organizations in Russia, have come to control the distribution of the drug in Europe, according to a Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs document. The same document also points out that Israeli criminal groups have a hand in the distribution of ecstasy in North America. During 2000, 80 percent of the ecstasy seized in North America originated in the Netherlands, which is the largest production center, along with Belgium and Poland. The State Department is certain that Israeli organizations are linked to the laboratories in the Netherlands and are responsible for the worldwide distribution. 'Israeli drug distribution organizations are currently the main source for distribution of the drug to groups inside the U.S., to smuggling through express mail services, through couriers on commercial flights and, recently, through air cargo,' states the report."
'BUSTED' DRUG LORD HIRED BUSTY STRIPPERS: FEDS,New York Post, April 17, 2003"An international "ecstasy" kingpin, accused of using beautiful, busty strippers recruited from clubs like Scores to smuggle millions of mind-bending pills into U.S. cities, was hauled into federal court yesterday after years on the lam in Europe. Oded Tuito - an Israeli national accused of heading the world's largest ecstasy ring - smiled and frequently interrupted as Brooklyn federal Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollack summarized the charges. 'Everything you told me I know,' Tuito, 41, said through an interpreter. Flown in from Spain after fighting extradition for three years, Tuito pleaded not guilty to the 13-count drug-distribution and money-laundering indictment ... To get the ecstasy here, Tuito's underlings scoped out the country's flesh pits - recruiting at least two-dozen busty beauties from relatively ritzy clubs like Manhattan's Scores and Tens, law-enforcement sources said ... Last May, President Bush added Tuito to the official international 'kingpin' list - making him the only ecstasy peddler among 29 alleged drug lords who have received that designation."
[Who are the Russian oligarchs? What is the "Russian" mafia?]Review: Russia's darkness rising,By Martin Sieff, UPI, May 23, 2003"Washington policy-makers and pundits have shared the comfortable assumption in recent years that Russia Does Not Matter Anymore and that simultaneously it has been Saved for Democracy. They should read 'Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State,' David Satter's vivid, impeccably researched and truly frightening new book published by Yale University Press (314 pages, $29.95, 2003), and think again. To anyone who has covered Russia or visited often over the past decade, most of the case studies, scandals and problems examined in 'Darkness at Dawn' will not come as any surprise. But what Satter has done is to re-examine these individual cases and show their interconnections with each other, like putting together the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. He does so in such a way that both the expert on Russia and the casual reader wishing to be informed can be left with only one conclusion: One of the two major thermonuclear superpowers in the world, and the only one left with Multiple-Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles on its nuclear missiles remains unstable, unpredictable, and is dangerously close to becoming a ruthless, predatory and unpredictable criminal state. Something -- in fact, a lots of things -- went terribly wrong during the early 1990s transition of Russia from State Communism to a supposed free market economy. Many others detailed the problems of transition in detail as they were happening, but Satter maps the contours of the debris that was left. Without any stable legal structure governing the owning and trading of property and wealth or the regulation of business transactions in the decade after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russian society became totally criminalized, not merely in its day-to-day dealings but in the widespread existential consciousness of its people. Russia's newly emergent oligarchs have often been nicknamed 'Robber Barons' after the Gilded Age plutocrats of late 19th-century industrial America, but the term is a misnomer in all too many ways. Industrial titans like John D. Rockefeller in oil and Andrew Carnegie in steel built huge business empires and acquired enormous power. But they did so within an ordered society, built tremendous industrial infrastructures that generated wealth for generations after them, and felt obligations towards it. Rockefeller and Carnegie, like the Ford family after them donated hundreds of millions of dollars to enormous, organized philanthropies that immeasurably boosted education, health and culture, first across the United States and then across the wider world. The Robber Barons of President Boris Yeltsin's Russia really were that. They created an industrial and socio-economic desolation and called it peace ... [Satter] traces the gangster struggles for control of cities, banks, industrial complexes, even entire provinces each of which is larger than any other major European nation. And he vividly documents the casual violence that the protagonists in these -- literal --wars take for granted, making Al Capone and his colleagues look like disciples of Mother Teresa by contrast. Things have stabilized, and somewhat improved since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Yeltsin. But the criminalized, rapacious super-oligarchs, those billionaire modern barons, retain control of the Commanding Heights of the Russian economy. Beneath them, a society of 145 million people stretching across almost one-seventh of the land surface of the planet remain mired in poverty, despair and a moral squalor even more devastating than their physical one. Russia's population continues to implode with soaring death rates and plummeting birth rates. The underlying reason for this, far more than the collapse of living standards in the 1990s was, Satter concludes, that most of those people had lost all hope. They now despaired of things ever getting better."
Marijuana Guru Freed After Day in Jail,Earthlink (from Associated Press), June 4, 2003 "Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed 'Guru of Ganja,' walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to just one day in prison for growing marijuana Rosenthal said was for medical purposes. He could have gotten 60 years behind bars. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Rosenthal genuinely believed that what he was doing was not against the law. 'He was unaware his conduct was not immunized from federal prosecution,' the judge said. Rosenthal's case represented the latest clash between state and federal authorities over the medical use of marijuana. The federal government does not recognize medical marijuana laws in California and the eight other states that have them. Wednesday's decision was met by cheers and applause in the courtroom. Federal prosecutors had asked for a 6 1/2-year prison term ... In January, a jury concluded Rosenthal was growing more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana, and maintained an Oakland warehouse for a growing operation. Rosenthal, 58, had said he was acting as an agent for Oakland's medical marijuana program, an outgrowth of a 1996 measure approved by California's voters that allows sick people to obtain marijuana with a letter from a doctor ... Prosecutor George Bevan said Rosenthal was not simply helping the ill. 'This operation is a cash cow. He put out thousands and thousands of plants,' Bevan said. 'I don't think anyone disagrees with helping sick people, but as far as we're concerned, it was a business.'"
Police find cocaine in German Jewish leader's flat,by Roger Boyes in Berlin, Times Online (London), June 14, 2003"Police said yesterday that traces of cocaine had been found in the Frankfurt apartment of Michel Friedman, the prominent deputy head of the German Jewish community. They searched his apartment after a tip-off from Berlin investigators who arrested a Polish-Ukrainian prostitution gang. One of the arrested women said she was part of a group that supplied sexual services to celebrities, and claimed that she saw Herr Friedman take cocaine. The furore whipped up by the raid on the home of Herr Friedman, a Christian Democrat politician, has shaken some long-standing taboos in German society: since the Hitler years the press has been very cautious about openly criticising members of the Jewish community. Herr Friedman, whose parents were saved from death in Auschwitz by Oscar Schindler, has refused to comment on the accusation. But the mass circulation Bild newspaper, part of the Springer group, which requires its journalists formally to support the state of Israel, said in a headline yesterday, even before the police had tested the white powder found by dogs in the raid, 'Drug-thriller Friedman'."
Expert Says “Liberia Heaven for Mafiosi” and Arms Smuggling,New Democrat, February 27, 2002"On the journalist’s comment that, “Failed states such as Sierra Leone no longer seem an issue of concern to the international community, they have become black holes on the world map. However, there is as much international activity going on as in Switzerland. Intelligence services, spies, international traffickers, and mafiosi of various nationalities are stepping on each other's toes”, he said: “Yes, it is a fascinating snake nest. In the 1980s, Kalmanovitch, an Israeli of Russian descent, obtained an exclusive contract for the Sierra Leonean diamond trade. In his wake, the entire leadership of the Russian mafia settled down as refugees in Freetown: Rachmiel Brandwain, who had been arrested in Belgium for gold smuggling, and Boris Nayfeld and Marat Balagula, the Russian godfathers from Brooklyn. Kalmanovitch was a jack-of-all-trades. He worked for the Mossad, but in 1988, Israel exposed him as a Russian double agent and arrested him. After his release, he went back to Russia. According to intelligence services, he is now working as an intermediary for Mogilevitch in Budapest."
["Russian mafia" is code-word for the Russian Jewish network that dominates it. Brooklyn's Brighton Beach area is a Jewish immigrant community and this is well known and documented.]Investigators Say Fraud Ring Staged Thousands of Crashes,By PATRICK HEALY, New York Times, August 12, 2003"Law-enforcement officials said today that they had cracked an insurance-fraud ring that staged thousands of car accidents and then employed its own network of doctors, acupuncture therapists and fake medical clinics to bilk an insurance company out of $48 million. Prosecutors and insurance experts said the ring was the largest of its kind ever broken in New York State. A grand jury on Long Island has issued 567 indictments, 86 of which were made public at a news conference here today. Those indicted included doctors, psychiatrists, chiropractors, dentists and nearly 20 bogus health-care clinics that were set up as part of the scheme to defraud State Farm Insurance, the Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas J. Spota, said. "It's one of the biggest busts in the nation in terms of its breadth, its scope and the dollars involved," said Robert Hartwig, the chief economist of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group. "We're talking about bringing down an entire network. It's analogous to bringing down a drug kingpin." Mr. Spota said the ring used "runners" and "crash dummies" in cars that would cut in front of other cars, often driven by women with children or by elderly people, slam on the brakes, and cause a crash. The authorities said the investigation dates to 2001, when they received word from insurers who noticed the same names were popping up over and over on insurance claims. One runner was involved with about 1,000 accidents. Although tales of insurance fraud are well known in New York, Suffolk County investigators and prosecutors said this network, which traces its roots to the heavily Russian Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, was especially large and complex. Mr. Spota would not link the series of frauds to Russian organized crime, but an insurance-fraud lawyer familiar with the case said the fingerprints of organized crime appeared to be all over it. Some profits from the frauds were channeled to businesses in Russia, while others were funneled into a Swiss bank account and withdrawn by Russian citizens, the authorities said."
Sympathy for Friedman after he quits public life,by Toby Axelrod, Jewish Chronicle (UK, paper copy), July 11, 2003"German Jewish leaders acted with sympathy and regret to the resignnation of Michel Friedman, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, after a month-long police probe for cocaine possession ... A polished public speaker with a high media profile, Mr. Friedman has been in recent years Jewry's most powerful voice on political and ethical issues ... News of the police investigations early last month, when -- reportedly prompted by allegations from several prostitutes -- officers raided Mr. Friedman's Frankfurt home and law office, confiscating evidence which turned out to be cocaine."
Portrait of a modern slave trader, Ludwig Fainberg."Here's the sketch of of Ludwig Fainberg's criminal career as drawn in Malarek's study of the international sex trade, The Natashas (Viking Canada: Toronto, 2003, pp. 51 - 57), posted November 10, 2003"Focal Point Publications "I wanted to find out just how difficult it is to purchase young Slavic women for the sex trade. It is, as I discovered, really quite easy. All that's needed is a connection and cold hard cash. The meeting took place in an apartment in Ottawa, Canada's capital city, on a brisk, snowy night in early January 2003. I was a bit nervous. The man I was to meet was no ordinary low-level thug. Ludwig Fainberg is a notorious Israeli mobster with a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for extreme violence. According to FBI documents, he was the middleman for an international drugs and weapons smuggling conspiracy linking Colombian drug lords with the Russian Mafia in Miami. Fainberg's claim to fame was that in the mid-1990s, he ventured onto a high-security naval base in the far northern reaches of Russia. His mission was to negotiate the purchase of a Russian Cold War-era diesel submarine -- complete with a retired naval captain and a twenty-five-man crew -- for the Columbian cocaine cartel. The price tag: a cool $5.5 million. The vessel was to be used to smuggle tons of white powder along the California coast. The deal fell through. From 1990 until he was arrested and charged in Miami in February 1997 for smuggling and racketeering, Fainberg ran an infamous strip club called Porky's. The pink neon club on the fringe of Miami International Airport was a magnet for Russian hoods and sleazy East European émigrés with misbegotten fortunes and visions of untapped criminal proceeds. Fainberg's rise through ROC [Russian organized crime] ranks is the stuff of Hollywood B-movies ... He settled in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn, which had become the seat of the Organizatsiya, as the Russian mob is often called. There he linked up with the mob and specialized in arson -- torching businesses competing with those that were Russian owned. 1990 he moved to Miami to run Porky's. Nine years later he was convicted on racketeering charges and sentenced to thirty-seven months in prison. Since he had already spent thirty months in jail awaiting trial, Fainberg was deported to Israel. The next year he turned up in Canada with dreams of making it rich in the flesh trade. ... "You can call me Tarzan," he began as he burst back into the room. With a proud boyish grin, he tossed me one of his business cards. The cover of the custom-made two-fold card sported the caricature of a mop-topped muscular man under the name of Porky's. The inside featured a cartoon of an ample nude woman bending over in knee-high stiletto-heeled boots. Underneath was his name -- "Tarzan Da Boss" -- and on the opposite side "Welcome to Planet Sex, Land of Fantasy." According to Fainberg, he was nicknamed Tarzan because he once sported a wild mane of hair and acted as though he was straight out of a jungle ... Fainberg relishes putting women in their place. In one violent incident in Miami, undercover agents with the FBI and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency watched from a safe distance as he chased a stripper out of Porky's and slammed her head repeatedly against the door of his Mercedes until the car was covered. In another episode, he beat a dancer in the parking lot outside the club and then made her eat gravel ... His Canadian dream was to open a strip club in Gatineau, Quebec. The club, across the bridge from the nation's capital, would feature imported talent -- Russian and Ukrainian strippers and lap dancers. When I met with him he was shopping for a Canadian partner and trolling for an infusion of cash. ... "You don't have a problem with pushing women who are absolutely destitute into prostitution?" [I said] "Look, that's what they can offer. Life is a business. It's a trade. You want to give something for nothing? You can help once or twice. But then ten, twenty or forty times? For that you want to get something in return." "What kind of money are we talking here?" I asked. "How much will it cost to bring a woman over, and what kind of profit can be made?" "If it is run the proper way, the clean way, you can have a good clientele and make a lot of money. You can buy a woman for $10,000 and you can make your money back in a week if she is pretty and she is young. Then everything else is profit."
[Nothing legal here: just more drug world. Norman Mailer's son heads a big marijuana journal.]Who's Smoking Now?,by John Leland, Cannabis News (from New York Times), November 14, 2003"When Forbes magazine splashed a marijuana leaf on its cover last month, John Buffalo Mailer weighed the propriety of flaunting such images in public. Mr. Mailer, who is just starting out in journalism, said he hoped never to run such a cover. "It's a personal thing, but I don't believe we should be throwing that in people's faces," he said. "I don't think that's our role." Mr. Mailer, 25, the son of Norman Mailer and Norris Church Mailer, speaks with the self-assurance of the handsome and intellectually well born. Yet his words begged a little clarification. Looming over him was a blowup of a magazine cover with Snoop Dogg holding a water pipe in each hand, accepting the honor of 2002's Stoner of the Year. Mr. Mailer, you see, is the new executive editor of High Times ... Mr. Mailer's first issue of High Times, which reached some Manhattan newsstands last week and will be available nationwide on Nov. 25, begins a total makeover of the magazine ... In sober and idealistic tones, Mr. Mailer, who smokes marijuana "occasionally," he said, described his plan to wean the magazine off its dependence on "the plant" — not to eliminate coverage, but to make it part of a broader diet of lifestyle articles. "With the new High Times we're using it as a metaphor," he said. "So it's not a magazine about pot, it's a magazine about our civil liberties, and our tag line is `Celebrating Freedom.' Our feeling is it's patriotic to be in High Times." Norman Mailer, reached by telephone, said he had given his son little advice in the new job, but volunteered that he was not unfamiliar with the subject matter. "I used to be a heavy marijuana smoker in the 50's," he said. "I loved it, but one paid a heavy price for it. It could leave you good for nothing for two days afterwards" ... Beneath the talk of bud pictures and outlaw journalism, Mr. Mailer has not given up his theatrical ambitions. Another of his plays, "Crazy Eyes," ran for four days Off Broadway in September, with Mr. Mailer in a leading role; he said he plans to stage a longer run next spring. "I'm still trying to get roles in plays and movies; I'm still writing plays and screenplays," he said. He is currently shopping around a screenplay to his father's novel "The Naked and the Dead." Norman Mailer gave the screenplay his blessing. "John writes better dialogue than I do," he said. Paul Krassner, who founded the satirical magazine The Realist in 1958 and is often called the father of the alternative press, said he was encouraged by the broadening of the magazine. Mr. Krassner has written for High Times since the 1970's (he called his column Brain Damage Report, on advice from Ken Kesey), and said he would continue to do so under Mr. Mailer."
Trio jailed over ecstasy importation,stuff.co (New Zealand), 15 November 15, 2003 "Two Israeli men and an Englishwoman have been jailed in connection with one of the biggest ecstasy importations into New Zealand. Aviv Atias, aged 26, and Ilan Ben-Abu, aged 31, were each sentenced to 8½ years by Justice Rhys Harrison at the High Court in Auckland yesterday. They were convicted of being parties to the possession for supply of more than 53,000 pills and conspiracy to supply the drug in November last year. An Englishwoman, 38-year-old Jane Alison Birak, who pleaded guilty to charges of importing the drug, conspiracy to supply and possession for supply was sentenced to seven years. The drugs were worth between $3 and $5 million. Birak managed to get the drugs through Customs, but suspicions were raised when Atias later came through the airport with a briefcase with a false bottom. Though the hidden compartment was empty, the police tailed Atias after he left the airport. The trio were arrested at a Grey Lynn motel."
[Question: Who dominates the Russian mafia? And, per the story below, what about Jewish crime in former Soviet Georgia? Menachem Amir notes what happened when these Jews from Georgia moved to Israel: "These new immigrants arrived by the thousands in the mid-1970s. In 1980-82 there were repeated reports in the [Israeli] media and in police statements that among the Georgian Jews were 'special' types of criminals, engaged in 'big and serious' crimes, which they had previously practiced in Georgia ... What became a hallmark or specialty of Georgian criminal organizations, however, was their control, by the use of violence, of carting and hauling services at air and sea ports. They used this position for large-scale theft of passengers' luggage, as well as theft from cargo planes and anchored ships. In addition, there were reports of grand scale thefts from warehouses, sophisticated frauds of religious objects and diamonds, counterfeiting of money and documents (drivers' licenses and professional diplomats), and large-scale fencing." [BLOCK, A., 1996, p. 28] Amir further notes formal Israeli anthropological studies into the Georgian Jewish crime community. These investigations concluded that the Georgians' "original normative system" of crime "favored their immediate entrance and persistence into organized criminality and organized crime." The results of fifteen years of Israeli efforts to dissuade Jewish Georgians from crime were a "success" only to the degree that they left Israel and had "continued their criminal activities in their new 'places' while maintaining criminal relations with their brethren who remain in Israel (e.g., contraband goods, drugs, laundering money or distributing counterfeit money, produced in Israel [and] in Europe." [AMIR, M., 1996, p. 29-30]Report exposes criminal connections of Lithuanian president,By Niall Green, World Socialist Web Site, November 25, 2003"The release at the end of October of a state security department report into corruption and breaches of national security by the president of Lithuania and his office has opened up a political crisis in the Baltic state. President Rolandas Paksas and several of his senior advisers have been implicated in involvement with the Russian-based mafia following a massive investigation by Lithuanian and Russian intelligence services. Paksas, a former stunt pilot, was only elected in January this year, on the back of a campaign to end corruption and criminality. On October 30, Mercys Laurinkus, director of the Lithuanian state security department, delivered a large report on the activities of the presidential office to parliamentary speaker Artus Paulauskas, who made public much of its findings. An emergency meeting of the National Defense Council—including the president, the prime minister, the speaker, and top military and intelligence figures—was convened, which announced that the report revealed there had been a “threat to national security.” Prime Minister Algirgas Brazauskas of the Social Democratic Party attempted to play down the report, claiming that there was “no danger to the state” and “no need to panic.” Paulauskas struck a different note: “There should be an answer whether criminal activities took place or not, whether some officials have to be fired.” Included in the dossier were tape recordings that appeared to link the president to suspected mobsters, especially the Georgian-born Russian businessman Anzor Aksentyev Kikalishvili. Kikalishvili heads the 21st Century trading company, founded in the 1990s by notorious criminal Otari Kvantrishvili. The company is widely suspected in the former Soviet Union of involvement in illegal activities such as the smuggling of drugs, antiquities and jewels. The report pointed out that Paksas’s national security adviser, Remigijus Acas, was a close associate of Kikalishvili."
[Israel is third in the world for postal drug smuggling? Israel is a tiny country; it only has somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million Jews. 915,000 Ecstasy hits? 50,000 kilograms of cocaine? No wonder the Israeli army shoots at everything in sight.]Israel ranked third in world in postal drug smuggling,By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz (Israel), February 8, 2004"Israel is third is the world in the smuggling of drugs through its postal system, a Knesset committee dealing with the fight against drugs revealed on Sunday. The committee, headed by MK Ayoub Kara (Likud), visited the customs facilities at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday. The tour was attended by MK Nissim Zeev (Shas), government representatives, the anti-drug authority, the head of the customs authority's drug smuggling division and a representative of the customs authority's administration. The tour participants were explained the sophisticated methods used to smuggle drugs into Israel and were presented with figures on the scale of drug smuggling into Israel via overseas flights. In 2003, 915,000 Ecstasy tablets, 32,000 doses of LSD, 14,500 kilograms of Indian hashish, 50,000 kilograms of cocaine and 2,000 kilograms of marijuana were smuggled into Israel via the air. Eighty tons of cigarettes were also smuggled into the country."
[Context for the following article: U.S. Federal agents have identified, says Kapit, what it calls "the Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are: Colombian drug barons, Israeli-Jewish money launderers, and Jewish-Russian mafiosos ... You need only look at the list of arrests and indictments of the past three years in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli involvement in the field." [KAPIT, p. 3] There are numerous murky criminal interfaces between these Israeli drug dealers, the so-called "Russian" mafia, and some of the most pious Jewish Orthodox religious circles. The link between Israeli weapons dealing and South American underworld organizations is also deep. In 1988, for example, an Israeli paramilitary training company called "Spearhead," directed by a former senior army officer, Yair Klein, was hired to train members of a drug cartel in Colombia. Klein was eventually fined all of $13,000 by Israeli authorities for "exporting defense know-how not covered in his permit." [HIRSCHBERG, p. 13] In 1990 the Jewish Week reported that "three United States officials were in Israel ... investigating possible Israeli connections to the Colombian drug cartel" and that earlier NBC had reported that "Israeli reserve officers.... [were providing] military training to drug-cartel gunmen." [GOLBERG, A, p. 51]Drug dealers got surveillance helicopters sold by Israel,World Tribune, April 15, 2004"Israel has acknowledged that U.S.-origin military helicopters were sold to Colombia and might have landed in the hands of drug dealers. Israeli officials said five MD-500 surveillance helicopters were sold by the Defense Ministry and ended up in the hands of a Colombian national. The helicopters were not transferred to the authorized end-user, they said. The MD-500 helicopters were transferred from U.S. Air Force surplus to Israel as part of Washington's military aid to the Jewish state, Middle East Newsline reported. From there, Israel's Defense Ministry sold the aircraft to the private firm, Globus Aviation. Officials said the end-user for the MD-500 was to have been either authorities in Mexico or Spain. The MD-500 was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing."
Ex-minister may have made other attempts to smuggle drugs,By Roni Singer, Haaretz (Israel), August 31, 2004"Investigators from the Tel Aviv District Police are looking into allegations that former energy minister Gonen Segev tried to smuggle drugs from the Netherlands into Israel prior to his arrest in April on similar suspicions. Segev was indicted some two months ago for attempting to smuggle some 32,000 Ecstasy pills into Israel. Two of Segev's business partners - Moshe Verner and attorney Ariel Friedman - have also been indicted in the drug smuggling affair. In the wake of information that came to the Israel Police recently, Segev was questioned yesterday in connection with an alleged second drug smuggling attempt."
Former minister indicted in drug smuggling affair,By Roni Singer and Zvi Harel, Haaretz, September 1, 2004"Former [Israeli] energy minister Gonen Segev was indicted Tuesday on charges that he and two of his business partners hid drugs in a suitcase owned by a Dutch citizen. Segev, along with his partners, Moshe Verner and attorney Ariel Friedman, had previously been indicted for the possession of dangerous drugs, conspiring to smuggle them into the country, abstruction of justice and destroying evidence. Investigators from the Tel Aviv district police were looking into allegations that Segev tried to smuggle drugs from the Netherlands into Israel prior to his arrest in April on similar suspicions. Segev was charged two months ago with attempting to smuggle some 32,000 Ecstasy pills into Israel. In the wake of information that came to the Israel Police recently, Segev was questioned Monday in connection with an alleged second drug smuggling attempt. In an initial investigation, intelligence garnered by the Tel Aviv police yielded the name of a Dutch resident, "Eric."
[The world Ecstasy ring is known to be in Israeli hands. More on Jews/Israelis and criminal drug rings, here. And here.]Los Angeles police uncover Israeli drug ring,Haaretz (Israel), September 17, 2004"A Los Angeles-area police task force announced it has uncovered a ring of drug dealers, many of whom are Israeli nationals, Israel Radio reported Friday. Police said 29-year-old Israeli Eliyahu Marciano headed the ring. Marciano is also suspected of involvement in money laundering. Police officers confiscated 160,000 Ecstasy tablets worth $7 million from the gang. Five other arrests were made this week and eight others in recent weeks in connection to the case. The arrests were made in California four days ago following a year-long investigation carried out with the cooperation of Israeli, Czech, Austrian, Belgian and Spanish police authorities. The Israelis reportedly among those arrested in the international operation include: Marciano; Nimrod Haim, 27, of Prague, who helped brokered Ecstasy deals; Hillel Shamam, 38, of Woodland Hills, California, who allegedly helped Marciano launder drug proceeds through real estate transactions; Sanny Assoulin, 30, of Sherman Oaks, California, an alleged Ecstasy distributor; and Yossi Moshiah, 46. Los Angeles-area police believe the Israeli-dominated drug ring was importing Ecstasy from Europe with the assistance of dealers in the Czech Republic."
Israeli in NZ gets 9 years for smuggling ecstasy,By Haaretz (Israel), August 27, 2004"An Israeli who was involved in smuggling $3.9 million worth of ecstasy tablets into New Zealand has been jailed for nine and a half years, newspapers reported yesterday. Dan Dora, 23, had earlier been convicted of supervising a courier who tried to get 61,000 ecstasy tablets through Auckland airport. The man was caught but cooperated with police, who arrested Dora when he tried to pick up the drugs at an Auckland hotel. Prosecutor Louise Freyer said it was the largest quantity of ecstasy tablets ever intercepted while being brought into the country by a courier. Justice Panckhurst said a sentence near the maximum had to be considered for Dora. The maximum was 11 years but he said he reduced the term by 18 months because of mitigating factors including Dora's previous clean record and the fact that as a non-English speaker, prison would be harder on him. The judge directed that Dora serve a minimum of four and a half years."
U.S. Seeks Extradition of Top Israeli Crime Boss,by Tshar Rotem and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz (Israel), November 13, 2004"Israel's most wanted underworld boss, Ze'ev Rosenstein, was arrested this week in Tel Aviv, in the wake of an extradition request from the United States. Rosenstein is wanted by the American authorities for allegedly heading a multi-million-dollar business trafficking in Ecstasy between Europe and the U.S. Rosenstein's lawyer, Benny Nahari, was also put under house arrest on charges of attempting to obstruct justice. It is believed that Rosenstein's arrest was facilitated by evidence from four Israelis apprehended since 2001 who had 700,000 Ecstasy pills in their possession. The investigation was carried out by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Miam ... The decision of American and Israeli law-enforcers to cooperate in an attempt to nab the alleged drug kingpin and put an end to organized crime grew out of an international police conference held in January 2001 in Tel Aviv. This cooperation bore fruit some six months later when police in Queens, New York arrested two Israelis, David Roash and Yisrael Ashkenazi, in an upscale New York apartment with 700,000 Ecstasy pills and large sums of money in their possession - one of the biggest hauls in New York's history. The two admitted that they had left Jaffa to carry out a deal at the behest of Rosenstein. Roash and Ashkenazi were later interrogated by a joint team from the DEA and Tel Aviv police. This led to the arrest of a Colombian accomplice. Tel Aviv police then began operating an agent, Motti Cohen, an Israeli living in Madrid who worked for Rosenstein. Cohen told them he had been conscripted by Rosenstein's assistant, Shemtov Mikhtavi, to get Colombian assassins to murder rival mobsters Yaakov and Nissim Alperon. Tel Aviv police detained the two would-be assassins when they landed in Tel Aviv but they left shortly afterward." Four years of cooperation pay off,by Focus / Roni Singer, Haaretz (Israel), November 12, 2004 "For a long time, American law enforcers have been aware that the major cocaine and heroin dealers are located in South America, whereas the kingpins of the Ecstasy trade - a drug manufactured mainly in Europe and particularly in Holland and Belgium - are Israelis."
[Poland? Does that infer "Poles?" It is common knowledge that the drug ecstasy is a world Jewish/Israeli monopoly.]Oz police in biggest ecstasy drug haul,Yahoo! News, November 2004"Australian police and customs officials have seized 820 kg (1,800 lb) of ecstasy tablets and powder stashed inside a bakery oven, in the country's biggest ever haul of the drug. The ecstasy, known chemically as MDMA and valued at about A$200 million (82 million pounds) was packed into bags and hidden in the wall and base cavities of the oven, which was air freighted from Germany to Sydney last month. A customs X-ray revealed suspicious packages and a physical inspection found 62 bags containing about 3 million tablets and 115 kg of powder. Police on Sunday said two people have been charged in connection with the shipment. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said he believed the shipment had probably come from Poland. "Most of the MDMA we get in Australia is in fact sourced from Europe," Keelty told the Nine Network. "In this particular case the air freight came directly from Germany to Australia but we believe the origins are in Poland." Keelty said 1.5 tonnes of ecstasy had been intercepted by Australian authorities this year."