next round ?

[AlicetheKurious]

AD -- You find that cartoon problematic because it portrays the zionist state as "a stereotypical Jew"? You think it makes Jewish people look bad? Why? Because the cartoon character wears a black hat and has a big nose? Perhaps you think people hate the zionist state because they think zionists wear black hats and have big noses. If so, you're wrong. First, Arabs are stereotypically portrayed with big noses too, including in Arab cartoons. More to the point, no cartoon published by Al Ahram could ever compare in sheer ugliness, to the actions that Jewish soldiers and Jewish politicians commit in the name of the Jewish people.

Around a dozen homes in this small area were destroyed, no more than piles of rubble in the sand yesterday. Helmi Samouni's two-storey house was one of the few left standing, despite the gaping hole from a large tank shell that pierced his blackened bedroom wall. During the invasion it had been taken over by Israeli soldiers, who wrecked the furniture and set up sand-bagged shooting positions throughout.

They left behind their own unique detritus: bullet casings, roasted peanuts in tins with Hebrew script, a plastic bag containing a "High Quality Body Warmer", dozens of olive-green waste disposal bags, some empty, some stinking full - the troops' portable toilets.

But most disturbing of all was the graffiti they daubed on the walls of the ground floor. Some was in Hebrew, but much was naively written in English: "Arabs need 2 die", "Die you all", "Make war not peace", "1 is down, 999,999 to go", and scrawled on an image of a gravestone the words: "Arabs 1948-2009".

There were several sketches of the Star of David flag. "Gaza here we are," it said in English next to one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ja ... uni-family

In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Indeed it is. Here, have a few:



















The international Terror Warriors, and their multitude of sycophants, worship war: it thrills them, it arouses them, it imbues them with a sense of power and purpose and righteousness and superiority. Whatever their professed faith -- and almost all of them make a great show of their devotion to a great benevolent deity in the sky -- their true god is Moloch: earthbound, blood-steeped, ravenous for sacrifice. And his devotees -- our elites, our "leading citizens," our "great and good" -- are happy to obey, eagerly offering up their god's favorite dish -- innocent flesh -- on his blazing altars.

Moloch's Altar and Child Sacrifice in the War on Terror


The New Nazis

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:03:56 GMT
By Alan Hart

Knowing the documented truth about the creation of Israel by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing, and watching - mainly thanks to Al Jazeera and Press TV live feeds - the war on Gaza, Israel's latest display of state terrorism, I have come to a conclusion. It is time to give Israel's hardcore Zionists their real name. They are the New Nazis.

Europeans and Americans could have stopped the original Nazis and prevented the extermination of six million Jews. If Europeans and Americans do not stop the New Nazis, it is likely that their end game will be the extermination of millions of Palestinians.

In his book An Ethical Tradition Betrayed, The End of Judaism, Dr. Hajo G. Meyer, a Nazi holocaust (Auschwitz) survivor, compared Israel's policies - as of 2007 when the book was published - with the early stages of the Nazi persecution of Germany's Jews.

He stressed that he was not seeking to draw a parallel between Israel's current policies and the Nazis' “endgame” - the slaughter of six million European Jews (and also the mass murder of many non-Jews).

He was merely trying to point out, he wrote, “the slippery slope” that eventually led to that catastrophe, and the necessity of “foreseeing the possible consequences” of a policy that oppresses and marginalizes the Palestinians in their own homeland.

The Gentile me is privileged to have Hajo Meyer as a dear friend and I have just talked with him. In the light of what Israeli forces are doing over and in the Gaza Strip, I asked him if he was still not seeking to draw a parallel between Israel's policies and the Nazis' endgame.

He replied, “It's becoming harder and harder not to draw that parallel.” And he agreed that it was now time to describe Israel's hardcore Zionists and those Israelis who follow their orders as “Nazis”. ...

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=8 ... id=3510303


Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009 06:37 EST
Iraq War and Bush still popular in some foreign venues

As George Bush leave offices, there is a perception that both Bush and the Iraq War remain deeply unpopular throughout most of the world. That may be true, but fairness compels one to note that there are foreign countries which continue to appreciate and admire both:

Peres to Bush: If only what you did to Saddam was done to Hitler

Outgoing US President George Bush telephoned [Israeli] President Shimon Peres bidding him farewell on the occasion of the end of Bush's term as president Tuesday.

Peres said to Bush, "If the world had acted against Hitler the way you acted against Saddam Hussein, the lives of millions would have been saved." The [Israeli] president added, "You made a historic contribution to the entire world and to the Jewish people in particular. We will treasure this forever and will never forget it."

The New York Times' Bill Kristol echoed those sentiments earlier this week. In his column exploring all of the various successes and glories of the Bush years -- Kristol struggled to choose, among all the numerous possibilities, which "has been Bush’s most impressive achievement" -- Kristol recounted that at his synagogue service last weekend, his rabbi led "a prayer for the state of Israel," which caused Kristol to turn inwards and solemnly contemplate:

As we recited this on Saturday, I couldn’t help but reflect that a distressingly small number of my fellow Jews seem to have given much thought at all to the fact that President Bush is one of the greatest friends the state of Israel — and, yes, the Jewish people — have had in quite a while. Bush stood with Israel when he had no political incentive to do so and received no political benefit from doing so.

Here we have, yet again, the claim that American Jews should and do base their political assessments on what is best for Israel: a claim that is allowed to be made when it comes from those (and there are many of them) who make this blatantly tribalistic appeal in order to manipulate support for their right-wing agenda, but is deemed offensive and even anti-semitic when the very same claim is advanced by those wishing to explain why U.S. policy is so one-sided in its blind support for Israeli actions.

Beyond that, as Daniel Larison points out, Kristol's claim that an American political leader is doing something politically courageous or costly by supporting the Israeli government may be one of the most laughably false assertions ever to make it into a major media venue, even if one includes Bill Kristol's entire oeuvre. If Kristol's claim is true, then every American President for the last several decades, not to mention virtually every current member of the U.S. Congress, are stalwart, courageous, fearless, self-sacrificing leaders who lend full and blind support to the Israeli Government despite the grave risks to their political careers, because -- as Kristol put it with regard to Bush's politically courageous support for Israel -- "he thought it the right thing to do."

Other than Bill Kristol, is there anyone who actually believes -- or is even willing to say in public -- that the politically difficult posture for an American politician to take is to support whatever the Israeli government does, that that takes political courage (of all things) to do, and that, conversely, the safe and easy thing for a politician to do is to criticize or oppose Israeli actions? I genuinely wonder if there is anyone who actually believes that.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/ ... index.html

I wonder if you agree with William Kristol, that the unanimous, unconditional support for the most extreme zionist objectives that characterizes the highest level of political power in the U.S. and elsewhere, is based on moral convictions.

European NGOs defy EU secrecy on Jerusalem
Joint Statement, ECCP, 21 December 2005



European organisations today defied the refusal of EU Ministers to publish a report compiled by their own diplomats regarding Israeli violations of international law with regard to East Jerusalem. Over 30 Jewish, Palestinian, peace and anti-poverty groups from around Europe will publish the suppressed Report on their websites.

The report, which states that "Israel's activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap obligations and international law" was shelved by EU foreign ministers at their 12 December Foreign Affairs (GAERC) meeting in Brussels, for fear of alienating Israel and reducing the EU's influence.

Yet, protesting groups point out, only one day after the report's suppression, Israel announced the building of 300 new homes in the Maale Adumim settlement, the largest in the occupied territories, in violation of the Road Map and international law.

Pierre Galand, Senator in the Belgian Parliament and Chair of the European Co-ordinating Committee on Palestine (ECCP) said: "European diplomats had the courage to stress the alarming situation in East Jerusalem. In order to force the EU member states to respect their own commitment to International Law and Human Rights, we will publish the report on East Jerusalem on our websites, despite the EU refusal to do so."

Dan Judelson, Secretary of European Jews for a Just Peace said "The EU are burying their heads in the sand and are thus co-responsible while East Jerusalem residents face repeated violations of international law and of simple standards of humanity, all at the hands of the Israeli state. If the EU sits on this report, we see it as our duty to make it as widely available as we can."

Nick Dearden, Senior Campaigns Officer at War on Want said: "The desperation of Palestinians across the West Bank now threatens those who live in East Jerusalem, as Israel inflames and intensifies its Occupation. By suppressing the truth, which their own diplomats have made clear to them, European governments have sent a clear message to Israel that its aggression will be met only with silence."

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4357.shtml


"On Monday, 16 June 2008, the European Union and Israel agreed to upgrade their relations within the framework of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. This starts a process to end in April 2009 with the definition of a common Action Plan that involves the adoption of initiatives and the creation of stronger ties in a broad spectrum, including economic, trade, academic, security and diplomatic fields. ...

On 10 April 2002, the EU Parliament voted to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the grounds of Israeli violations of human rights; however, the Commission refused to comply with the democratic mandate. Instead, it has voted now to upgrade relations without respecting its own stated human rights conditions, effectively rewarding Israel and granting it full impunity for its war crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. By upgrading this already shameful Association Agreement with Israel, the EU has effectively turned into a willing accomplice and outright supporter of Israeli crimes."

http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/179

The tepid response of world leaders to Israel’s ferocious attack on a defenseless Gaza conveys a helpless feeling to all world citizens -- brutality rules and we are all vulnerable to attack.

European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, commented that “the EU is very concerned by the events in Gaza.” French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as saying he “strongly condemns the irresponsible provocations which led to this situation as well as the disproportionate use of force.”

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... 4175.shtml

[American Dream]

AlicetheKurious wrote:

AD -- You find that cartoon problematic because it portrays the zionist state as "a stereotypical Jew"? You think it makes Jewish people look bad? Why? Because the cartoon character wears a black hat and has a big nose? Perhaps you think people hate the zionist state because they think zionists wear black hats and have big noses. If so, you're wrong. First, Arabs are stereotypically portrayed with big noses too, including in Arab cartoons. More to the point, no cartoon published by Al Ahram could ever compare in sheer ugliness, to the actions that Jewish soldiers and Jewish politicians commit in the name of the Jewish people.

No, Alice, you are completely missing the point- is that deliberate?

The words appended to the bottom of the cartoon are not mine- they were put there by someone on Melbourne Indymedia.

However the concept portrayed by the Egyptian cartoon is essentially similar to your position on "the Zionists" running the U.S Government and/or the World. This belief of yours I find cartoonish, and merely posting increasing quantities of dead baby pictures will never vindicate your more fantastic ideas about the putative "World Zionist Conspiracy".

Perhaps you avoid the point and take refuge in the massacres because you know your argument is weak in this regard?

[tom the mad]

British Nightmare

Name and Shame British “Friends of Israel”

Redress Information & Analysis names and shames members of Israel’s network of stooges in the British Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties; it calls on its readers to challenge these stooges and to help it expose apologists for Israeli murder by supplying it with verified information about other Friends of Israel.

In the 23 days of the Israeli war on Gaza that began on 27 December 2008, 1300 Palestinians have been killed by the Zionist war machine, including 417 children and 108 women, and a further 5320 have been injured. In the same period, 13 Israelis were killed. That is a ratio of 100:1, excluding the injured.

In the meantime, Israel’s network of stooges in the British Parliament have been fighting a rear-guard action to justify the slaughter of Palestinians. You will find them justifying Israeli crimes at every opportunity and prevaricating to avoid action against Israel, such as sanctions in the wake of Israel’s targeting of United Nations compounds in Gaza, for example. They are apologists for murder.

Israel’s stooges in Britain are spread far and wide and can be found at every tier of the British establishment. They include Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and many other serving and former holders of political office.

At the core of Israel’s network of stooges are the “Friends of Israel” groups in the three main political parties:

Labour Friends of Israel

Conservative Friends of Israel and

Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel.

Below is a list of officials of the “Friends of Israel” groups in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties. It is by no means exhaustive. Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, say that about 80 per cent of the party’s MPs and MEPs belong to the group. ...........

http://www.redress.cc/global/redress20090119

Contact the above-mentioned Friends of Israel and ask them to justify their support for Israel’s murder of Palestinian civilians, its occupation of Palestinian territory, its blockade of Gaza in order to bring down the democratically elected representative of the Palestinians, Hamas, and its continuous colonization of occupied territories with American, European, Russian and other Jewish settlers.

Name and shame the above-mentioned Friends of Israel, and other Friends of Israel not listed here, by exposing them to your local media, your friends, colleagues and other contacts – and urge them to expose these apologists for murder to their friends, colleagues and other contacts, and to ask why these agents of a foreign power hold positions of political influence in Britain.

How long will people allow Israel and its elaborate network of stooges in the “Friends of Israel” lobby groups to morally blackmail them into silence over Israel’s crimes by abusing the memory of the Holocaust?

As the Irish philosopher and political scientist Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Do not let evil triumph.

Tom

Please bring a wreath in the colours of Palestine to your local Holocaust Memorial Service.

AD...Why are you in denile.?

[American Dream]

tom the mad wrote:

AD...Why are you in denile.?

Well, I'm definitely not in denial about the crimes of the Israeli State, including plenty of covert ops, but that sure don't prove AlicetheKurious' cartoonish (i.e. "ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, one-dimensional") idea of the "World Zionist Conspiracy" allegedly running the U.S. Government.

[kenoma]

Hindutva, Fascism and Zionism: alliances of convenience?

Related to this, in India today, the chargesheet has been presented against the Hindutva extremists - including a serving Indian army officer, Lt Gen Purohit - responsible for the September 2008 Malegaon bombings. This was the case Mumbai's Anti-terror chief Hemant Karkare was working on when he was assassinated during the 26/11 attacks.
This report on the case suggests the increasingly close ties between Israeli and Hindu fascism:

"The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chargesheet in the Malegaon blast case claims that as per statements from the accused the town was singled out for the blast as “it was the ideal place where the Muslim community crowd was the maximum” and that prime accused Lt Col Prasad Purohit had told fellow conspirators it was time to set up a parallel, Hindu government-in-exile which could operate out of Israel and ensure a completely sashastra (armed) India.
...
According to the ATS, the Abhinav Bharat, a group founded on June 12, 2006 in Raigad where Shivaji was coronated, initially had retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay in the role of working president. Later, under the control of Purohit, it became the “front for an agenda of creating a Hindu Rajya”.

While the “anger and the determination” to create a parallel Government which “gives power to Hindus” can be seen in the records of the many meetings that transpired between the accused, the ATS says that it was at a meeting in Bhopal where the conspiracy for Malegaon was hatched. Purohit was said to have convinced the group that the time had come for a parallel government — and he detailed the idea of a bomb blast. The group, according to many statements of the accused, was told about possible safe houses in Israel from where the conspirators could operate once their ideology took root and their numbers increased."

[Joe Hillshoist]

Hindutva is a very scary movement.

Last month, the New Delhi-based human rights' group Anhad, along with some 90 other organizations, held a two-day national convention on the theme, 'Countering Fascism: Defending the Idea of India'. It was attended by scores of social activists from various parts of the country. Predictably, it received hardly any mention in the so-called 'mainstream' Indian media.

...

‘Hindutva is identical with fascism’, declared the noted social activist and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh. ‘The RSS is the single major source of strife and danger to the unity and prosperity of India’, he announced.

The same point was made by John Dayal, spokesperson for the Catholic Church. He noted how scores of middle-class Hindus send their children to study in Christian schools but yet passionately support, or else remain silent on, Hindutva fascism. Since Hindutva fascism aims also at the suppression of the ‘low’ castes, and the poor in general, the struggle for social and economic justice must form a central plank of popular mobilization against Hindutva, opined noted social activist and former Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University, Rooprekha Verma. Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey pointed out that possible links between Hindutva radicals and certain terror attacks urgently needed to be probed. He critiqued the growing military and ‘counter-terrorism’ collaboration between India, Israel and the United States, as well as the manufacturing of the image of Muslims as ‘terrorists’ which global powers are propagating so assiduously in order, among other things, to boost their weapons industries.

...

The second session of the convention dealt with ‘Fascist Terror Networks in India ’. In her introductory remarks, Shabnam Hashmi, coordinator of Anhad, spoke about the widespread and deep-rooted communalization of not just the political sphere but also of popular consciousness on what she called a ‘massive and unprecedented scale’. The Congress is equally responsible, she said, for the rise of Hindutva fascism as the BJP, and she minced no words in claiming that certain actions and statements of the present Union Home Minister are no different from what one would expect from an RSS-leader. Well-known journalist Subhash Gatade spoke about the involvement of Hindutva terror groups in various bomb blasts that have taken place in different parts of the country. Noted senior Supreme Court advocate and head of the Delhi-based Human Rights Law Network Colin Gonsalves argued that it was crucial to examine the direction in which the courts were moving in India on the issue of communalism and secularism as reflected in their judgments. This would indicate both the ideology of the judges as well as what future judgments might be expected. Providing details of various Supreme Court decisions, he expressed his pessimism in this regard, suggesting that several of its recent judgments appeared to be clearly supportive of the Hindutva agenda and ideology.

here

Israeli Missile Defence for Delhi!Now the AXIS Between the US, Israel and India Works Excellently Galaxy wide!


Now the AXIS Between the US, Israel and India Works Excellently Galaxy wide!At first glance, India and Israel seem like improbable allies. India has long championed Palestinian rights, and the country’s large Muslim population makes cooperation with Israel politically dangerous. But 11 years after New Delhi established full relations with Tel Aviv, the two countries share increasingly strong ties based on a common desire to defeat violence rooted in Islamic fundamentalist extremism. Facing terrorism in the state of Kashmir and elsewhere, India has been buying a lot of weapons, recently becoming the largest single destination for Israeli defense exports. And both countries, who share intelligence often, are interested in developing an anti-ballistic missile system to protect against a perceived nuclear threat from Pakistan. Still, none of these topics is likely to be discussed publicly when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits India this week. The two sides want to keep their public agenda focused on tourism and trade; but as for their deepening military alliance, confidentiality is still a strategic priority.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) will reportedly deploy an Israeli-made aerostat radar system to help protect New Delhi from low-flying hostile aircraft.

with both nations experiencing a convergence of interests on a range of issues. Indeed, a number of Indian firms have signed lucrative deals with Israeli defence companies. For example, the omnipresent Tata recently agreed to jointly develop missiles, UAVs, radar and electronic warfare systems with IAI.

The Indian government has also purchased a number of Tavor assault rifles, Galil sniper rifles, and night vision equipment from Israeli Military Industries (IMI). In addition, Israeli counter-terrorist training is viewed by both the political and military echelons as having made a significant impact on the effort to curtail terrorist infiltrations along the Jammu-Kashmiri line of control.

here

[AlicetheKurious]

AD said:

This belief of yours I find cartoonish, and merely posting increasing quantities of dead baby pictures will never vindicate your more fantastic ideas about the putative "World Zionist Conspiracy".

Perhaps you avoid the point and take refuge in the massacres because you know your argument is weak in this regard?

First, I posted the photos in order to highlight your hypocrisy in posting a cartoon to illustrate your spurious accusation of racism, and to contrast it with what REAL racism looks like. Mind you, I could have simply responded in kind, with this cartoon published by AIPAC:



Or any number of similarly racist cartoons, but who gives a flying poop about cartoons when children are being burned alive, shot in the head and otherwise sadistically tortured?

Second, I have posted quite a lot of information, which you for some reason have ignored, other than to accuse me of "lots and lots of selective filtering of information to lead towards specious conclusions."

Great. For the record, my conclusions are that:

1) Zionists invariably support and nurture anti-democratic, fascist and/or terrorist movements globally through their network of agents using corruption, blackmail, assassination and espionage, and therefore pose a global threat to free people everywhere, and not just in the Middle East;

2) The zionist state is a hyper-militarized garrison strategically located at the geographic crossroads of Europe, Africa and Asia, with the additional advantage of embassies and consulates providing diplomatic cover for espionage or criminal activities in various countries. To that extent it represents a very important asset for the zionists, but hardly the only, or even the most important one. Other assets include vast media holdings, global financial instruments such as the World Bank and IMF among others, the organized crime network euphemistically called the "Russian" Mafia, zionist agents embedded in foreign governments, and a number of high tech firms headed by zionist operatives.

Since you don't seem to have a clue how to intelligently respond to my conclusions, I'll help you.

Really, it's quite simple. All you have to do is point to even one example of the zionist state's or its agents' support for genuinely democratic or social-justice movements anywhere in the world, and then we can get a genuine debate off the ground, rather than me and others listing facts and supplying evidence, and you and others throwing back thinly-veiled insults and accusations.

Secondly, you can easily respond to my argument that the higher you look in terms of global power, particularly in the self-described "Free World" of the West, the less tolerance you will find for any effective deviation from the most extreme right-wing zionist agenda. Just point to any exception to this rule. I'm leaving it wide open, so knock yourself out.

[Joe Hillshoist]

the organized crime network euphemistically called the "Russian" Mafia

WTF?

[AlicetheKurious]

WTF?

Check the embedded link, Joe! Or this:

http://www.mtl911truth.org/?p=922

or this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_repo ... /69521.stm

Or how about one little quote you can scan without tiring your finger?

Abramoff—who has been described by his spokesman Andrew Blum as, "an especially strong supporter of Israel" and by another associate as "a super-Zionist"—diverted "money meant for inner-city kids" to Jewish settlers occupying the Palestinian West Bank in order to help them "fight the Palestinian intifada."[27] Tribal donors were outraged by Abramoff's diversion of funds to Israeli settlers. " 'This is almost like outer-limits bizarre,' says Henry Buffalo, a lawyer for the Saginaw Chippewa Indians who contributed $25,000 to the Capital Athletic Foundation at Abramoff's urging. 'The tribe would never have given money for this.' "[27]

Investigators believe that more than $140,000 of Capital Athletic Foundation funds were actually used for "purchases of camouflage suits, sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, a thermal imager and other material described in foundation records as 'security' equipment."[27] US Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearings revealed that the Capital Athletic Foundation "paid a monthly stipend and Jeep payments to a high-school friend of Abramoff" to conduct sniper workshops for Israeli Defense Force members in Israel's [sic] West Bank."[28][29]

Wikipedia

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail
Nonprofit Group Linked to Lawmaker Was Funded Mostly by Clients of Lobbyist

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 31, 2005; A01

The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group.

During its five-year existence, the U.S. Family Network raised $2.5 million but kept its donor list secret. The list, obtained by The Washington Post, shows that $1 million of its revenue came in a single 1998 check from a now-defunct London law firm whose former partners would not identify the money's origins.

Two former associates of Edwin A. Buckham, the congressman's former chief of staff and the organizer of the U.S. Family Network, said Buckham told them the funds came from Russian oil and gas executives. Abramoff had been working closely with two such Russian energy executives on their Washington agenda, and the lobbyist and Buckham had helped organize a 1997 Moscow visit by DeLay (R-Tex.).

The former president of the U.S. Family Network said Buckham told him that Russians contributed $1 million to the group in 1998 specifically to influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the collapsing Russian economy.

A spokesman for DeLay, who is fighting in a Texas state court unrelated charges of illegal fundraising, denied that the contributions influenced the former House majority leader's political activities. The Russian energy executives who worked with Abramoff denied yesterday knowing anything about the million-dollar London transaction described in tax documents.

Whatever the real motive for the contribution of $1 million -- a sum not prohibited by law but extraordinary for a small, nonprofit group -- the steady stream of corporate payments detailed on the donor list makes it clear that Abramoff's long-standing alliance with DeLay was sealed by a much more extensive web of financial ties than previously known. ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 80_pf.html

[American Dream]

AlicetheKurious wrote:

I posted the photos in order to highlight your hypocrisy in posting a cartoon to illustrate your spurious accusation of racism, and to contrast it with what REAL racism looks like.

Hmm. Let's look at what I actually said there:

No, Alice, you are completely missing the point- is that deliberate?

The words appended to the bottom of the cartoon are not mine- they were put there by someone on Melbourne Indymedia.

However the concept portrayed by the Egyptian cartoon is essentially similar to your position on "the Zionists" running the U.S Government and/or the World. This belief of yours I find cartoonish, and merely posting increasing quantities of dead baby pictures will never vindicate your more fantastic ideas about the putative "World Zionist Conspiracy".

Perhaps you avoid the point and take refuge in the massacres because you know your argument is weak in this regard?

[Joe Hillshoist]

I've actually spent most of the last however many hours reading Friedmans blog or book, if thats it.

I dunno how you tie international criminals to your zionist plot tho, cept that like all criminals they make alliances of conveinience. But there is no loyalty to causes in there. There is loyalty to making money and while holding passports and working with spooks can be useful, and nothing comes for nothing, its not part of some plot... well not in the way you mean.

Those links you provide don't make a case for any long term "Zionist" element of thr "Russian" mafia. They show there is a relationship developing between them, but the Russian mafia are using Israel to their advantage as much as the other way, probably more cos they are a far more fluid organisation than any nation state.

Perhaps asset is a fair term, but only just. The way you use it implies an overarching web of control. Its unlikely to be the case. As if Israel would give orders to those gangsters. They might do what it asks while it suits them, thats about it.

[AlicetheKurious]

Thank you for your thoughtful response, Joe.

Those links you provide don't make a case for any long term "Zionist" element of thr "Russian" mafia. They show there is a relationship developing between them, but the Russian mafia are using Israel to their advantage as much as the other way, probably more cos they are a far more fluid organisation than any nation state.

Actually, the relationship between the Mossad and the Russian mafia has roots that go back at least to the collapse and subsequent looting of the Soviet Union in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm not about to do an indepth research project here, but what I will do is give you an outline of what I based my conclusions on, and you can use that as a starting-point for your own research if you like.

Here goes:

The beginning of the 'Russian' mafia as a global phenomenon, oddly enough, can be traced back to the campaign during the 1970s and 80s to "Free Russian Jews" that was spearheaded by the Jewish Defense League, headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane. In their own words:

The JDL was created by the greatest Jewish leader in modern history, HaRav (The Rabbi) Meir Kahane, zecher tzadik livracha (may the memory of this saint be immortalized).

Rabbi Meir Kahane, the greatest Jewish leader in modern history - His assassination in 1990 was Al Qaeda's first Islamic terrorist attack

Rabbi Kahane’s words are just as true today as they were decades ago - The Arabs of Israel must be removed from the Jewish homeland, he said, lest they become a deadly power controlled by Muslim terrorist leaders - like the newly elected Hamas government - dedicated to bringing about a new Holocaust

In 1969, JDL initiated a campaign to liberate the 2 million Jews who were being held hostage in the Soviet Union. The vast majority of Soviet Jews wanted to emigrate, but the Kremlin Nazi dictators would not let them leave the country.

In 1971, at the age of 14, Chaim Ben Pesach joined the JDL and immediately became involved in the Soviet Jewry campaign.

Eventually, Rabbi Kahane appointed Ben Pesach as National Chairman of the JDL.

In 1986, Chaim Ben Pesach and other JDL members tear-gassed the Soviet Moiseyev ballet at Lincoln Center in New York City - The incident, which made headlines around the world, triggered a cascading series of events which eventually allowed over 1 million Jews to escape the Soviet gulag for the Land of Israel, where their political and demographic presence has been instrumental in preserving the Jewish homeland from its traitorous left-wing Jewish leaders and its ferocious Arab Muslim enemies

...

Rabbi Kahane and Ben Pesach launched an historic and miraculous campaign that led to over 1 million Russian Jews immigrating to the State of Israel.

The JDL bombed Soviet diplomatic targets in New York and Washington. As a result of the bombings, the long ignored issue of Soviet Jewry was suddenly the number one news story on television and radio, and the headline story on the front pages of newspapers throughout the world.

The climax of the Soviet Jewry struggle came on September 2, 1986 when the Soviet Moiseyev ballet concert at Lincoln Center in New York City was teargassed by Ben Pesach and the JDL.

Over 50 Soviet diplomats and performers who attended the concert were overcome by the teargas and had to be hospitalized overnight.

The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations in New York and the Soviet ambassador to the United States in Washington were both among the over 50 Soviets who were temporarily injured and who had to be hospitalized after inhaling the teargas.

Irv Rubin dressed himself in the colors of a patriot while supporting left-wing causes which even today threaten to destroy both America and Israel

This naturally became a huge international incident that severely damaged Soviet-American relations. The Soviets realized that if they continued to hold Russian Jews hostage, it would seriously jeopardize their relations with the United States.

The Lincoln Center teargas attack was the key historic turning point that forced the Soviets to free Russian Jews. Shortly after the attack, the Soviets announced that for the first time since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, all Jews would be allowed to leave.

And indeed, hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews left for Israel in the most momentous and spectacular liberation since the exodus of Jews from ancient Egypt.

http://www.jtf.org/israel/israel.ben.pe ... rt.one.htm

Depending on who you ask, either the zionist state was fully aware that many of the new Jewish immigrants to Israel were not necessarily Jewish, and that many were stone criminals, or it was not. In any case, the Israelis don't seem to have been too fussy about either point. Though they were careful not to say so explicitly, the zionist state seems to have been quite desperate for a new source of settlers to colonize stolen Palestinian land:

The Ha'aretz newspaper's weekend magazine of July 19 carried a cover story about 90 Indians from villages tucked far up in the remote mountains of Peru who had been converted to Judaism in Lima in a record two weeks. They were then flown to Israel where they were sent directly to two Israeli settlements on the West Bank, Alon Shvut and Karmei Tzur, where they will study in yeshivah and pray, at the state’s expense, for the messiah to arrive.

The 90, constituting 18 family units, remarkably, were converted by an official rabbinical delegation sent from Israel with the blessings of Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Lau. Though they cannot speak a word of Hebrew, the 90 were given Hebrew names. Though they have never heard of Theodor Herzl, they are ardent Zionists who do not doubt for a minute that Israel is the Jewish state. And while Israeli politics are a total mystery to them, as is the debate over the future of the territories, that Judea and Samaria belong to the State of Israel is beyond question.

Why the 90 Peruvian Indians wanted to become Jewish was not made quite clear in the piece, other than a general sentiment that Abraham was the father of us all. What is made clear is that the 3,000-strong Peruvian Jewish community told the rabbinical delegation that they could convert whomever they want, as long as the converts don’t remain in Peru. The Jewish community, it was explained, has enough difficulties of its own without having to deal with the "socioeconomic" problems the new converts would have brought with them.

One explanation for this passion to become Jewish, though, may be that a warm mobile home in the Judean Hills was a better propsect than scratching out a living in the Andes. Another is Sigundo Villanova, now Zerubavel Tzadkiya, a former Peruvian Indian who somehow arrived here in 1990 and moved to the radical West Bank settlement of Tapuah with his wife and six children. The children, who now have their own families, all continue to live on Tapuah, as do Zerubavel’s brother and his family. All are now firmly ultra-nationalist, messianic and determined to bring as many other Peruvian Indians over to Israel as possible. ...

http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0285.html

But there may have been an even more compelling reason for zionists to mount such a thunderous campaign to "Free Russian Jews!" than to acquire warm non-Arab bodies to populate Israel's empty illegal settlements. Writing about the rapid emergence over two decades of the new, gargantuan crime syndicate, Misha Glenny, a journalist specializing in the Balkans and author of the new book "McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld," writes:

The reasons for this outrageous blossoming of so many flowers of evil are, according to Glenny, essentially twofold. "The collapse of ... the Soviet Union is the single most important event prompting the exponential growth of organized crime around the world in the past two decades," he writes. A key event in that breakdown was the bizarrely selective deregulation of the Soviet economy. The officials under Boris Yeltsin who executed this "reform," for reasons not entirely clear, liberalized the prices of everything but Russia's natural resources: oil, gas, diamonds and metals. Those lucky enough to get a hold of these commodities at the artificially low, state-mandated prices could turn around and sell them at market rate to the rest of the world. The result was the overnight creation of a generation of Russian oligarchs and "quite simply the grandest larceny in history."

Vast amounts of wealth drained out of Russia and into the pockets of these enterprising, if dodgy businessmen, who in turn deposited the money outside the country in "the biggest single flight of capital the world has ever seen."

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/ ... print.html

Deeply involved in this larceny of the Soviet Union were Mossad agent Robert Maxwell and Semion Mogilevich, who was to go on to become one of the most powerful of the Russian mafia bosses in the world:

Maxwell’s Mossad handler was Rafi Eitan, the same Mossad official who recruited Jonathan Pollard to spy on the USA for Israel. The Pollard recruitment was carried out through Aviem Sella (the famous Israeli pilot who led the air attack destroying Iraq’s nuclear reactor) and Yosef Yagur, the science attache at the Israeli consulate in New York.

It was KGB boss Vladimir Kryuchkov who played a significant role in the looting plan hatched before the breakup of the USSR. He wanted to establish hundreds of business enterprises in the West that would provide cover for the KGB and Communist Party members to transfer their assets abroad with the assistance of organized crime, in a similar secret fashion to what Maxwell was providing to Mossad “katsas”. In the latter case, the authors say Maxwell met and colluded with Russian Mafia bosses such as Simeon Yukovich Mogilevich from the “Rising Sun” (aka Solntsevo) crime syndicate. Other Maxwell contacts included Andrei Lukanov and Ivo Janchev in Bulgaria where Maxwell bought the Bulgarian Cooperative Bank and which had allegedly laundered over $1 billion for the Solntsevo to Switzerland, Gibraltar and Liechtenstein.

...Robert Maxwell and Semion Mogilevich were but two players in such looting schemes. Other authors have described similar players such as Grigori “Lucky Loutchanno” Loutchansky and his Austrian-based company, Nordex, and commodity trader Marc Rich based in Switzerland.

Author Paul Klebnikov wrote that oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Godfather of the Kremlin”, learned from Marc Rich. Marc Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton for his crimes in USA, and like Maxwell, also had links to the Mossad. Many Israeli officials, some linked to the Mossad, sent letters to Clinton supporting Marc Rich’s pardon.

The London Daily Telegraph reported that Robert Maxwell’s son, Kevin Maxwell, worked for Grigori Loutchansky’s Nordex as a consultant for several years, trading in finance and construction in Russia and its satellites. Grigori Loutchansky has been banned from Britain by successive Home Secretaries.


In any case, while many of the Soviet 'Jews' who arrived in Israel during the 1980s and 90s were highly skilled scientists and otherwise valuable professionals, the many criminal elements who accompanied the rest, soon found that Israel was a singularly receptive place for an enterprising money launderer:

Commander Meir Gilboa, chief of the Israeli Serious Crime Unit, has noticed the increasing activity of Russian gangsters.

He says: "They come here because in Israel it's easy to carry out their illegal activities.

"There is no law against money laundering or belonging to an illegal organisation. [Under intense international pressure, Israel finally passed a law against money-laundering in September 2000 -- Alice].

"It's easy for Jews to receive Israeli citizenship. If they are not Jews they are smart enough to forge documents in order to become citizens. They feel much safer here than in Russia." ...

One highly profitable area in which they are thriving is prostitution.

Dozens of brothels and peepshows have sprung up in Tel Aviv and Haifa in the last few years.

Modern form of slavery

Many are controlled by Russian mobsters who recruit Eastern European women who then become trapped and subservient.

Rita Rasnic, of the Israeli Women's Aid Centre, describes it as "modern day white slavery".

The Russian mafia is making a fortune in Israel
Women are often traded between gangsters for £6,000 ($10,000) to £9,000 ($15,000) and routinely have their passports taken away by their pimps.

Detective Toni Haddad of the Haifa vice squad says: "They are sold like slaves.

"Nobody cares. I don't think it's life for them," as the prostitutes have to do whatever their bosses want. The woman are "not free to do anything."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_repo ... /69521.stm

And here:

Human rights groups have long demanded actions against the trade in women in Israel. These women many from the former Soviet, are working as prostitutes in a condition of virtual slavery. Many of the Russian women who have ended up in Israel's brothels, some smuggled into the country from Egypt on the back of camels, expected to find jobs a cleaners and or working in childcare. There are certain places where auctions are taking place. The Israeli police well know the names. They are nightclubs or regular bars. The women are brought there, buyers come and look at their bodies and their teeth, then the bidding starts. They are held by the pimps, beaten and totally isolated

Dozens of brothels and peepshows have sprung up in Tel Aviv and Haifa in the last few years. There are over 20,000 women in prostitution in Tel Aviv. Their customers pay for 45,000 acts of prostitution every day. Women are held in apartments, bars and brothels where they are bought by up to 25 men a day. They sleep in shifts, four to a bed. (Police officials, Michael Specter, "Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women, "New York Times, 11 January 1998, They cannot walk freely. They cannot leave the apartment as they wish. Usually the passports have been taken.

Amnesty International investigation of the trade in Russian women suggests Israel's police and government officials have largely ignored the abuse.

The arrest of prostitutes is frequent, as illegal workers, the men who brought them to Israel many of whom are Israelis are not arrested. The Justice Ministry spokeswoman Etty Eshed (1998) said the government would think about making legal changes to address trafficking in the "near future" but had no date or plan for doing so. (Elisabeth Eaves, "Israel not the promised land for Russian sex slaves," Reuters, 23 August 1998)

The Israeli police say they are powerless to stop the flow of trafficked women until the laws change. "They (trafficked women) are very much afraid to come to the police and complain, so the police really can't do anything," said a police spokeswoman Linda Menuhin. "Israel has no law against trafficking people, and no law against prostitution."

Israel also appears to have acted as an excellent incubator for the global ecstasy trade:

According to a report issued in 2003 by the U.S. State Department, Israel is at the center of international trafficking in Ecstasy and Israeli crime organizations, some of them linked to similar organizations from Russia, achieved a dominant status in the Ecstasy market in Europe, and went on to control the drug's distribution in the States. "Israeli drug-trafficking organizations are the main source of distribution of the drug to groups in the U.S, using express mail services, commercial airlines, and recently also using air cargo services," the report states. The authorities do not provide official data on the scope of the Israeli trade in Ecstasy, but the most commonly heard estimate is that Israeli criminals control no less than 75 percent of the Ecstasy market in the U.S. ...

Two classes of players can be distinguished among Israelis involved in the Ecstasy scene: the directors of the networks, who usually also have connections to crime organizations in Israel and come from the underworld, and the couriers, who are responsible for getting the drugs from Europe to the States. The couriers are recruited in Europe or the U.S. in return for the promise of big profits and for the most part carry out similar missions many times.

The numerous charges against the late Oded Tuito cast some light on how the Israeli networks operate. Tuito was suspected of having ties with Ecstasy suppliers in Europe and of being a major recruiter of couriers in the U.S., who were carrying millions of tablets into the country from Europe. The prosecution alleged that Tuito developed a fondness for strip joints in New York during his visits to the U.S. and hired strippers to fly to Europe in return for a payment of $10,000 to bring back suitcases filled with tens of thousands of tablets. The luggage the women took with them to Europe contained tens of thousands of dollars in cash - Tuito's earnings from previous drug deals.

In addition to the strippers, Tuito also made use of young ultra-Orthodox Jews, whom he recruited by word of mouth in New York yeshivas. He believed - and rightly so, as it turned out - that the U.S. authorities would not suspect yeshiva students dressed in the traditional black garb and therefore would not check their luggage at the airport in New York. Hundreds of thousands of Ecstasy pills reached the U.S. this way. Later he also started to recruit elderly ultra-Orthodox, again in return for thousands of dollars per delivery.

Tuito was initially detained in France, but was released by mistake and got to Spain, from where he was extradited to the U.S. after a years-long legal battle. In testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee last March, DEA administrator Karen Tandy stated that Tuito "was known as the world's largest trafficker of MDMA [Ecstasy]." Tuito, she added, was responsible for the importation of over 7 million tablets of MDMA into the U.S. during his period of activity. The investigation against him completely "dismantled Tuito's MDMA trafficking organization and seriously impacted the ability of Israeli organized crime groups to distribute MDMA into domestic consumer markets," she stated in her testimony.

Alexi Schacht, Tuito's lawyer, believes that the description of his client's exploits in the Ecstasy market was greatly exaggerated. "The government behaved as if Ecstasy is the same as cocaine and heroin, as if he is one CEO that runs the operation, but it doesn't work that way. With Ecstasy, people buy and sell to everyone."

Schacht adds that it was unreasonable to place his client on the "drug kingpins" list. One way or another, the lawyer maintains, the effect of the arrest and lengthy incarceration of Oded Tuito - who was known to investigators as "Fat Man" - on the trafficking of in Ecstasy in the U.S. was no more than marginal, as most of the activity attributed to him took place years ago and he had been out of the game since being arrested in France and Spain. "He was a very nice and friendly man, he spoke several languages and even though he had no formal education, he was very smart," Schacht says, summing up his opinion of the person who was called the world's greatest trafficker in Ecstasy.

The new Israelis who are active in the Ecstasy market in the States are different from Tuito, not only in the scale of their trafficking but also in their methods of operation. When Ecstasy came onto the drug market it was a new phenomenon. It was manufactured in the underground and penetration of it in the U.S. required mainly thought, boldness and a great deal of money. In recent years the picture has changed: The federal authorities in the U.S. have greatly stiffened the punishment for trafficking in Ecstasy so that in practice, it is now comparable to the punishment stipulated for dealers of addictive hard drugs. As a result, the Ecstasy industry has passed into the hands of the organized crime bosses, who are willing to take the risk and who have the connections and the wherewithal to cope with the hard hand of the law-enforcement agencies.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShAr ... &listSrc=Y

To sum up what we have so far: a vast, coordinated campaign of corrupt KGB operatives associated with the Yeltsin regime, the Mossad, American Jewish activists, the Israeli government and the JDL, leading to nearly a million new settlers for Israel and a massive influx of looted Soviet wealth, to the money-laundering, drug and human trafficking paradise of Israel. The engineered collapse of the Soviet Union was truly a bonanza for the Mossad: stolen riches beyond imagining, an unlimited supply of sex slaves, drugs, weapons and truly coldblooded murderers, torturers and spies...

There was plenty to go around: many of the smaller hoods were able to set themselves up in their new Promised Land before re-locating to the even bigger Promised Land in the U.S., helping to prop up the largest global crime syndicate ever seen, a process that took less than two decades. If pimping was their bag, they were able to do this in a state that luckily for them, had no law against human trafficking. Also luckily, there were no laws against the drug 'ecstasy', which was most likely developed by Israeli scientists for use in psychotherapy just in time to become a veritable goldmine for the embryonic 'Russian' mafia. Luckier still, as I mentioned before, there were no laws against money-laundering, making it possible for the profits from these two profitable businesses to be invested in Israeli real-estate and other deals, and emerge freshly-washed out the other side.

As the 'Russian' mafia emerged as a powerful international entity during the mid to late 90s, it became more difficult to distinguish between its criminal activities, those of the Israeli state and those of Israel's international supporters. One man who represented the increasingly interlocking ties between all three, was Ariel Sharon:


What Are Friends For?

by Uri Avnery

January 13, 2003

Uri Avnery Sharon ’s election campaign started like the triumphal march of a Roman emperor returning from victorious battle. The imperator stood in his carriage accepting the roars of adulation, while the chained captives (the Labor Party leaders) shuffled behind.

But the march hit a mud pit. And with every step, it sinks more.

It started with the primary elections in the Likud party. They were conducted on a pure business basis. Since the public opinion polls promised the Likud a third of the 120 Knesset seats, it was worthwhile to invest money. The politicians paid the vote-traders, some of them known criminals, who hired more than a hundred thousand “new members.” These stuffed the 3,000-man Central Committee. The newly elected Committee members sold their votes to the highest bidders among the various candidates for the Likud Knesset list. Pure business.

All this would have passed quietly, if the direct connection between some of the candidates and organized crime had not been apparent. A scandal broke out, and the police were compelled to start an investigation.

In the uproar about the role of organized crime in the ruling party, a much more severe phenomenon was ignored: Among the candidates about to enter the new Knesset is a former senior Security Service officer, who has killed with his bare hands a handcuffed Palestinian captive, bashing his head in with a rock. At the time, he was quickly issued a presidential pardon. The coveted place on the Likud list was given him mainly for this act of heroism.

The highest place on the list went to Tsakhi Hanegbi, who became famous, at the start of his political career, for organizing pogroms against Arab student on the Tel-Aviv University campus. In order to attract votes, he published a list of 80 Likud functionaries whom he had provided with jobs in his Ecology Ministry.

The appointment of party hacks to positions in the civil service and government-owned corporations is a glaring violation of public trust. Not only do these functionaries live off the taxpayer’s money, but the appointment of party apparatchiks, instead of qualified experts, does immense harm to the public interest.

(It was not by accident that Hanegbi achieved such an elevated place on the party list. Some years ago, the Likud Minister of Education asked the 3,000 members of the Central Committee: “Have we come to power in order to distribute jobs to party members?” Her rhetorical question was answered with a thunderous: “Yes!!!”)

The Likud election list started to stink. But the party stalwarts could at least comfort themselves with the thought that at the top of the list stood a knight of impeccable honor.

Until last week, when a scandal exploded around Ariel Sharon himself.

It started with the disclosure of an official document: a request by the Israeli Ministry of Justice that the South African government allow the interrogation of a South African millionaire concerning criminal suspicions against Ariel Sharon . Who leaked it? Some suspect the Foreign Office, headed now by Binyamin Netanyahu, Sharon ’s bitter rival and nemesis.

The story, in brief, is that during the last elections, Sharon received a huge, illegal donation from a mysterious company whose owners were unknown. The State Comptroller demanded that Sharon return the money. He was compelled to do so, because otherwise he would have had to pay a four-fold fine. Miraculously, he received a huge loan from a mysterious source. He states that he got the money from the South African millionaire. But everything was done in an opaque and suspicious way; the money reached him by a circuitous route through several countries. The South African millionaire himself refuses to talk about it, behaving as if he had committed a crime. When Sharon was asked about it by the police, he shifted the responsibility to his two sons, Omer and Gilead , answering questions with “I don’t know” and “I am not sure.” As if anybody can believe that he did not ask his sons before the interrogation.

One has to know the background in order to understand the story. This is not the first time that the relationship between Sharon and Jewish millionaires in several countries has caused people in the know to raise their eyebrows, but these things were never brought up in public.

In 1973, when it became clear to Sharon that he would never be appointed Chief of Staff, he resigned from the army. Within a few months, he became the owner of the biggest private farm in the country. A major general does receive a handsome salary (more than a cabinet minister), but how does one acquire a huge farm with that? In Hebrew slang, such questions are answered with “What are friends for?”

One of Sharon ’s best friends is the American ex-Israeli billionaire Meshulam Riklis, who made it possible for Sharon to acquire the farm. Riklis is also the patron of the Jewish American ex-Israeli billionaire Aryeh Genger, who is now acting as Sharon ’s unofficial emissary to the White House. Genger’s legal council in Israel is Dov Weisglass, now Sharon’s cabinet chief. The South African millionaire, who is playing now a central role in the Sharon scandal, is Richard Kern, who served in the IDF in 1948. All these millionaires know each other.

This week it was not clear at all which millionaire gave Sharon the money (some $1.5 million) and who served only as camouflage. What is the real source of the money? Is it black or white? The more Sharon denies, the more suspicious it looks.

The connection between Israeli generals and Jewish millionaires from abroad is an arresting subject by itself. It is a two-way deal: the generals receive generous support from the millionaires, the millionaires acquire dignity. Generally, these are millionaires who thirst for recognition and believe that they are not accorded the honor due to them by the “goyish” society in their homelands. They mention at every opportunity “my friend, the general,” have their photos taken with him at state events, entertain him at their home and are guests at his. When General Ezer Weitzman was the President of Israel , it became known that he had been supported by a friendly millionaire for many years. He was not the only general who was helped by an admiring millionaire.

The admiration of the millionaires for the generals is real. Some of them are ashamed of the fact that they had emigrated from Israel without serving in the army, facts which at the time were considered shameful. Yitzhaq Rabin once gave them a Hebrew title that can best be translated as “refuse of cowards.” They believe that their proximity to Israeli war heroes gives them back their lost honor.

But the proximity to generals is not only a matter of honor. When the generals become ministers in the Israeli cabinet, they are expected to be generous to their generous benefactors. The fact the Genger is received at the White House as Sharon’s confidante is not hurting his financial status in the United States, nor does it necessarily induce the authorities in Haifa to remove his accident-prone big chemical enterprise from the densely populated Haifa Bay area, where it endangers, according to some experts, the lives of many thousands. Friendship with the Prime Minister has never yet hurt a captain of industry or finance.

All this is not new. What is new is the glare of light that suddenly illuminates dark corners. The connection between some of the Likud leaders and organized crime is exposed more and more, and the personal scandal involving Sharon, that also brings new disclosures every day, can do what the intifada, the bloodshed, the economic crisis and the social breakdown could not do: to undermine the foundations of the Likud government. The party already has gone down in the polls from 37 to 27 seats.

A satirical column has offered the Likud a new slogan: “The whole world is against us, except the underworld.”

http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/ ... ery13.html


So, is all this just another story of standard government corruption in Israel? Or is something else going on?

First, there are the intriguing hints from that infamous FOX news report by Carl Cameron that on some occasions at least, there has been coordination between drug/credit-card fraud criminal elements and Israeli high-tech companies with incredible espionage capabilities:

It turns out that Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America; information of great value even if one does not listen to the calls themselves. Amdocs, Inc. the company which sub contracts billing and directory services for phone companies around the world, including 90 percent of American phone companies, is owned by Israeli interests. Yet another company, Comverse Infosys, is suspected of having built a "back door" into the equipment permanently installed into the phone system that allows instant eavesdropping by law enforcement agencies on any phone in America. This includes yours.

Concerns about allowing an Israeli company such intimate access to the infrastructure go back many years. As reported by Fox News, the Israeli company Amdocs was implicated in the leaking of police phone data that resulted in the collapse of on investigation into a massive drug and credit card fraud operation with Israeli connections.

In a telling repeat of the Los Angeles drug case, investigators looking into the attacks on the World Trade Towers are again reporting that confidential telephone information is again being leaked in a manner that is interfering with the investigations. Again, Amdocs was implicated.

Not content with the phones of ordinary citizens in the United States, evidence has surfaced that Israel compromised the telephone systems at the highest levels of the US Government.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICL ... kmail.html


The joint Mossad-Russian Mafia operations appear to have not been limited to engineering the collapse of the Soviet Union and looting its assets in the early 1990s:


MOSSAD AND THE RUSSIAN MAFIA – AND HIGHLY EMBARRASSING CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL HAS BEEN TRYING TO BUY PLUTONIUM AND OTHER NUCLEAR MATERIALS ALLEGEDLY TO STOP IT FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF TERRORISTS

by Gordon Thomas

Scientists at the European Trans-Uranium Institute at Karlsruhe in Germany, tracking the movements of all fissionable material from the former Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal, have raised suspicions that Mossad has purchased some of the material to allegedly stop it falling into the hands of Islamic and other terror groups.

But there is also the real possibility that Israel has gone into the nuclear black market to buy fissionable material to bolster its own huge nuclear arsenal.

Israel already has one of the world’s largest arsenals – more than capable of decimating all its Arab neighbours. Its 200 nuclear bombs and missiles are stockpiled in the Negev desert.

The suspicion that Israel has also started to buy material stolen from the former Soviet Union surfaced a year ago when a quantity of Uranium-235 was found in the Paris apartment of three criminals known to broker arms deals with terror groups like al-Qaeda.

French intelligence officers arrested the men in an apartment rented by one, Raymond Loeb. They found documents confirming the uranium was of weapons-grade quality. Air tickets from Kazakstan were found in the apartment.

Loeb’s partners – Serge Salfati and Yves Ekwella were travelling on Cameron passports.

The Karlsruhe scientists established the material came from a nuclear storage site at Chelyanbisk-70 deep in the Ural Mountains.

A major intelligence operation began to trace the route along which the material travelled to the French capital: out of the Ukraine into Poland and across Germany to Paris.

The material was transported by Russia’s top Mafia boss, Semyon Yokovich Mogilevich.

He is a specialist in every major crime: whole scale drug running, money laundering, trafficking in humans and gun-running. Since 1991, he had positioned himself to exploit the collapse of the Soviet Union.
To assist him he had obtained an Israeli passport for himself and 23 of his top associates. The travel documents had been arranged by the former newspaper tycoon, Robert Maxwell, and Edmund Safra, the US-based millionaire banker.

Later Maxwell was murdered by a Mossad assassination team after threatening to expose his links to the secret service. Safra died mysteriously in a fire in his penthouse in Monte Carlo.
Moglivich still runs the largest criminal family in Moscow, the Rising Sun. Its current speciality is smuggling fissionable material.

....

But the Rising Sun is into a much bigger market – supplying Israel with fissionable material that would otherwise end up in the hands of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

That bombshell discovery came to light in the wake of finding the five grams of uranium in Paris. Consisting of 85 percent enriched uranium, it was sufficient to make a “dirty bomb”.

But before Mossad, on behalf of Israel, could buy it “out of the market”, the French had swooped – and the role of Mossad had started to emerge.
The first clues came from Intel-1. This is a smallish and highly specialised unit in Dutch intelligence.

For months before the Paris arrests, it had been investigating Mossad’s role in secretly buying up fissionable materials.

Intel-1’s investigation has been run out of a deep bunker – ironically built to shelter the Dutch Royal Family in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on Amsterdam. The bunker is near the city’s Central Railway Station. The terminus has been journey’s end for some of the nuclear materials which have been stolen from Russian weapons labs including Arzamas-16 in Nizhnii Novgorod, formerly Gorky.

Senior Mossad officers have insisted to Intel-1 that precisely because the deadly materials were stolen, their agents purchased them from the Russian Mafia as “it was the only way to stop the material being sold to Islamic and other terror groups”.

While conceding that the Mossad claim is plausible, Intel-1 investigators have become convinced that the nuclear materials have been secretly shipped out of Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport to Israel to boost the country’s own nuclear weapons manufacturing plant at Dimona in the Negev Desert.

That Mossad has been trafficking with the Russian Mafia has rekindled a nuclear nightmare that has never quite gone away. While the chilling Cold War doctrine of MAD – mutually assured destruction – has gone, in its place has come a more dangerous scenario where nuclear know-how and materials are on sale.

“It is capitalism, Wild East style, in which organised crime syndicates and government officials work in league to create new markets for nuclear materials – a bazaar with some of the world’s most dangerous
weapons on offer,” said an intelligence source.

Much of the work of tracing the origins of stolen nuclear material is done at the European Trans-Uranium Institute. There, scientists use state-of-the-art equipment to track whether stolen materials have come from a military or civilian source. But they concede “it’s like trying to catch a thief who has never been fingerprinted”.

Mossad has been based at El Al’s facility at Schipol for the past six years, in second-floor offices in the complex – known at Schipol as “Little Israel”.

Intel-1 has established that the link between Mossad and the airline is an integral part of the traffic in nuclear materials.

Sources close to Intel-1 insist that Mossad would never have begun the dangerous business of buying nuclear materials unless those materials could be safely and secretly transported to Israel.

A highly efficient organisation like Mossad, supported by the vast resources Israel puts at its disposal, would have little or no difficulty in smuggling nuclear materials out of Schipol.

Intel-1’s interest in such smuggling was first aroused when it was tipped off that the El Al cargo freighter that crashed shortly after take-off from Schipol in October 1992 was carrying chemicals that could be used to produce nerve agents.

Since then, the agency has gathered what an Intel source describes as “at minimum strong circumstantial evidence” that Mossad has shipped nuclear materials through Schipol.

A “mule” – a courier – who in return for his cooperation was given a guarantee against prosecution, has told Intel-1 that he had smuggled nuclear materials from the Ukraine across Germany and finally into Holland.

The courier has claimed to Intel-1 that he was met at Amsterdam’s Central Station. Shown photographs, the courier picked out the person. It was a Mossad officer Intel-1 knew is based at Schipol.

http://www.maroc.nl/forums/archive/inde ... 76131.html


I could go on to discuss the links between Columbia drug cartels, the Mossad and the Russian mafia, or the connection between the Mossad, the Russian mafia and illegal weapons transfers to brutal African oppressors and the diamond industry, but I'm getting tired. I'll leave you with this interesting article by Wayne Madsen, which actually contains quite a lot of data that can be corroborated with a simple online search (I won't bold any of it, because it's well worth reading in its entirety):


The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Jul 11, 2008, 00:19

(WMR) -- The same cancer that bankrupted the Soviet Union and the early Russian Federation, namely the Russian-Israeli Mafia -- the global organized crime syndicate that uses Israeli government protection and passports to cover their illegal worldwide activities -- has so thoroughly permeated the American political and business system that the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are virtually powerless to bring the major perpetrators to justice.

Across the United States, FBI agents have been hamstrung by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, led by two individuals, Michael Mukasey and Michael Chertoff, whose close links to the Russian-Israeli Mafia in New York and New Jersey have seen case after case involving Russian-Israeli mobsters going un-investigated and virtually ignored.

In fact, the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and the military intelligence services have seen their ranks of Russian linguists slashed by the Bush administration. In most cases, Russian-Israeli mobsters use their native Russian language in their telephone conversations and email communications. Only recently, perhaps owing to a shift within the Defense Department led by Robert Gates, has the NSA began re-hiring Russian linguists, although at a very slow pace.

Neo-con outlets such as The Daily Telegraph in Great Britain, which has also witnessed an infiltration of its government, law enforcement, and intelligence services by individuals linked to the Russian-Israeli mob, are now complaining that there are so many Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) agents in Britain that MI-6, MI-5, and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are finding it difficult to battle “Islamist terrorists.” However, the FSB is primarily a law enforcement agency that has been waging battle against the Russian-Israeli Mafia, particularly its major backers like exiled Russian-Israeli oligarch Boris Berezovsky who have been granted protection by the British government while they plan subversive activities against Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

In fact, as seen in the poisoning of Russian ex-FSB and KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, there are solid links between Berezovsky, the Russian-Israeli Mafia, and Islamist guerrillas in Chechnya and abroad. However, British intelligence, which recently suffered a major blow with the strange illness that struck the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Alex Allan, who was found in a coma and covered with blood in his Hammersmith apartment in the London suburbs, has been unable to crack down on the Russian-Israeli Mafia infiltration of Britain since the billions of pounds in dirty money has made its way into the coffers of top Labor and Conservative politicians.

Allan reportedly had plans to return to Freemantle, Australia, where he lived with his Australian-born wife before she died of cancer. Allan had been the British High Commissioner in Canberra before moving back to London to serve as JIC Chairman. As JIC Chairman, Allan coordinated the activities of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. The last high-ranking British spy to take up residence in Australia was the late Peter Wright, whose book “Spycatcher,” detailed past secret activities of MI6 and MI5. Attempts by the Margaret Thatcher government to have the book’s publication banned in Australia were unsuccessful.

The United States is only second to Britain in infiltration by the Russian-Israeli gangsters in the highest echelons of government. The Bush administration has ignored INTERPOL arrest warrants and requests for information issued on behalf of Russia for wanted Russian-Israeli billionaires like Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky, aka Platon Elenin (suspected by Russian authorities of links to the assassinations of Litvinenko and Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya), Arkady Gaydamak, Semyon “Sam” Kislin, Michael Chernoy, and others.

The Russian-Israeli interference in the law enforcement activities of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have hobbled major investigations to the detriment of the national security of the United States. The FBI investigation of the assassination of retired CIA Houston station chief Roland “Tony” Carnaby, who was investigating Israeli Mossad and Russian-Israeli mob activities in the Houston area, has been relegated to a low-level and non-descript national security investigation by FBI higher ups. The DEA and FBI investigations of the activities of Israeli “art students” and “movers” in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks were similarly stymied by the direct orders of then-FBI director Louis Freeh and Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to a major wire service journalist who covered the Justice Department. The Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), funded by wealthy Jewish American private contributors and the Israeli government, “threatened” media outlets, including the Associated Press, who continued to report on the activities of the Israeli art students and movers.

The FBI has also ignored the massive thefts of personal data of American citizens. WMR has previously reported that most of the major thefts are part of a covert operation by the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security to pick up where Iran-contra felon Admiral John Poindexter left off with his aborted Total Information Awareness (TIA) system, designed to collect the most personal details of American citizens in a massive database. A February 27, 2008, truck theft of backup data tapes from Bank of New York Mellon Corporation’s Jersey City Shareholder Services unit has the hallmarks of an organized crime heist. Shareholders of the Walt Disney Company, John Hancock Financial Services (a division of Manulife Financial Corporation), People’s United Bank of Connecticut, and the Bank of New York were informed that their stock sale transactions may have been compromised. WMR has learned that Disney stock holders were not officially informed of the theft of their data until June 13, 2008, four months later. Perhaps not coincidentally, a number of Israeli-owned computer services companies are now offering protection against data theft to potential customers. In addition, Kislin was linked to a money laundering scandal involving the Bank of New York, now Bank of New York Mellon. WMR previously reported on the Bank of New York (BONY) scandal and the Russian-Israeli mob:

“Forest Hills has been identified by the FBI as a major center for both the Russian-Israeli Mafia and Mossad and it is a place where the two interests often cooperate. In 2002, OPERATION SPIDERWEB, a joint FBI-EUROPOL operation, resulted in the arrest of 20 Russian-Israeli dual citizens on charges of money laundering. The laundering primarily involved the Bank of New York (BONY), the Russian bank Menatep, and an ‘Internet bank’ called the European Union Bank. More importantly, the money laundering network also included Benex, a firm connected to Bill Clinton-pardoned Mossad figure Marc Rich, who still resides primarily in Switzerland. . . . Benex’s office was located on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills in the same building where Grigori Loutchansky headquartered two of his companies. Loutchansky is a Latvian-born Israeli who laundered billions through his Vienna-based NORDEX firm. National Security Agency (NSA) signals intercepts have reportedly yielded intelligence on Loutchansky’s role in the smuggling of nuclear materials. Loutchansky also was closely linked to Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign through New York real estate magnate and Democratic donor Sam Dombs. . . . Forest Hills was also the hometown of international diamond dealer Yehuda Abraham, convicted in a plot to smuggle surface-to-air missile launchers from Russia into the United States, mere four months after 9/11, and launder the proceeds from the deal through Malaysia. The network was discovered to have links with the Viktor Bout weapons smuggling network and money laundering facilities linked to ‘Al Qaeda’ Southeast Asia affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah. Abraham, an Afghan Jew, was linked not only to Mossad but to the Saudi Royal Family.”

It is now being reported that John McCain has a severe gambling addiction, evidenced by his long bouts with the craps tables in Las Vegas. There are reports that convicted GOP lobbyist and Russian-Israeli mob money launderer Jack Abramoff traded favors with McCain and Alabama Governor Bob Riley, who, through election malfeasance, cost Democratic Governor Don Siegelman his governorship in 2002 and then proceeded to engage in a criminal conspiracy to indict and convict Siegelman on trumped up charges.

A set of emails sent between Abramoff and Tom DeLay’s Communications Director in December 2002, emails that were never produced by McCain’s Indian Affairs Committee, show that Abramoff was conspiring with Riley, a casino gambling opponent, to keep gambling from the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation to benefit gambling on the Coushatta Indian Reservations in Mississippi. The email also describes efforts between Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour and Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich to bring casino gambling to Indian reservations in their states. Ehrlich and his staff were targets of a federal investigation linking them to a prostitution ring involving Pamela Martin & Associates escorts and Shirlington Limousine, which ferried escorts on behalf of individuals and lobbyists linked to Abramoff in the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. That investigation was shut down after George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004.

McCain has also been linked to Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, another member of the Russian Mafia who has been denied an entry visa to the United States. Deripaska, unlike his Russian Jewish comrades, has maintained good links to Putin. Deripaska has also figured prominently as a supplier of aluminum to the European Airbus aircraft frames to be used in the production of the US Air Force tanker plane, a contract pushed hard by McCain and his top campaign advisers, some of whom were lobbyists for Airbus.

The Russian-Israeli mob infiltration of the McCain campaign is only the continuation of a cancerous infiltration of the American body politic that began with the takeover of the Senate office of Washington’s Henry “Scoop” Jackson by anti-Soviet Jewish “neo-conservatives” in the early 1970s and blossomed into the full scale coup witnessed in the presidential election of 2000.

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[American Dream]

None of the above really proves that Russian organized crime should be considered to be a fundamentally Zionist enterprise. The term "Russian Mafia", used so many times in the post above, is itself misleading as the criminal milieu described by that phrase is certainly not organized into any sort of unitary organization, much less a centralized and hierarchical "mafia". Instead, the phrase encompasses a wide assortment of criminal networks and/or organizations, encompassing within their operations an even greater variety of criminal "crews" and/or individuals. Some of these groups are based in a certain region or ethnicity (Georgian, Armenian, Chechen, Ukrainian etc.) but generally not exclusively so, and they are not necessarily tightly organized at all.

While some of the criminals described by the phrase "Russian Mafia" are at least nominally "Jewish", and happy to take advantage of their rights to emigrate to Israel, I don't think it's accurate to say or imply that this subset of Eurasian criminals are generally practicing Jews, and/or ideologically Zionist, nor even culturally very Jewish at all, in any sense of the word .

Some of them no doubt do enjoy ties to elements of the Israeli State, but then again a great many probably also enjoy ties to elements of the U.S. Government, and/or that of Russia, the Ukraine, Georgia, various European governments, and et cetera. I should note that Wayne Madsen is not a reliable source in regard to the crimes of the Israeli State, nor should he be considered to be consistently reliable in a more general sense.

Also, the information about Israeli mafias dominating the Ecstasy trade is outdated. While Israeli/Russian networks still have a place in the world traffic of MDMA, in recent years production and distribution has proliferated, thus greatly reducing the market share for this particular part of the underworld.

So, all the information given in AlicetheKurious' post above, as important and/or accurate as some of it may be, does not logically lead to the conclusion that "the Russian Mafia" is an asset of "the Zionists", as claimed by AlicetheKurious five posts above .

[AlicetheKurious]

American Dream: Nothing to see here!

[Joe Hillshoist]

Alice, AD has a point, but I don't think it makes a functional difference whether "Russian" Mafia criminals are ideologically (ie support zionism) driven or driven by greed and a lust for power.

Some of those Russian emigrants are not Jewish, and judging by some of their actions In Israel, actually anti semetic. And to me that actually shows how corrupt and plain wrong Israel's rulers have been. I agree that Israel needed a population boost, and Russia was one of the places they went.

And it is a damning indictment of the ideology of zionism that they would be so desperate to import people (to displace the Palestinians obviously) that they would allow people into Israel who are actually anti semetic.

Thanks for all that info, it might take me a while to process it all. But a couple of points are worth mentioning straight up.

Back in the early 90s, in the months following Maxwell's death, someone in Pelbourne showed me a whole lot of documentation linking him to P Tech (I think, it was a long time ago). I'm sure it was them or an earlier incarnation of a software company with the same backers and members.

I can't remember if it was US or UK intel that were sposed to be responsible for his death, maybe even a joint operation, tho only one of them carried out the "wet work". I think the guy claimed it was in retaliation for the backdoors in software. Long time ago, but every time someone mentions P Tech here the story seems so familiar. I think the implication was that he was working for MI6 and Mossad, and played MI6 for Mossad.

Its a pity there's no way I can contact him, unless some flukey meeting happens.

Mind you if he was involved in money laundering with gangsters its as likely they got him, (or he just slipped and fell off the boat).

I agree the "Russian Mafia" thing goes back to the 70s/80s, and I am sure that high ranking KGB agents and Red Army brass were involved at least from the invasion of Afghanistan. I have been talking to my friend who was a taxi driver in W Germany in the 80s, and he reckons the people he used to score Hash off were getting it from a well organised pipeline, coming through E Germany from Afghanistan.

I had mentioned them before in a thread about Canadians troops dealing drugs I think, and at the time thought it was an unorganised operation. But we were talking the other week and he reckons it was definitely "orgnised". IE a regular pipeline, more accurately an illegal trade route.

Also if Israeli Intel was responsible for the eckies that flooded the west 20 years ago, good on them, at least they have done one worthwhile thing in their history. I remember some Israeli backpackers who used to get some great Es back in the early 90s, they hung round Australia for about 6 months helping to organise raves in the docks in melb. But Israel Intel didn't invent it, its been around for nearly 100 years. I thought Merke had a patent for it before WW1.

Anyway thanks for all that stuff.