White Women Enslaved in Israel
Shalom Peres
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Sex slavery thriving in Holy Land
By Megan Goldin NEVE TIRZA PRISON, ISRAEL
Christina, an 18-year-old university student from Moldova, has been bought
and sold so many times she has lost count.
Christina, who declined to give her real name, studied classics and
anthropology and played basketball as a hobby before she was lured from a
rural town in one of Europe's poorest countries to sex slavery in Israel.
She is not alone.
Hundreds of thousands of 'Christinas' have been bought like merchandise,
beaten, raped and chained in Western brothels in a 21st century form of
slavery.
Christina received top marks in her anthropology studies but couldn't scrape
together enough money to pay for photocopies, let alone buy textbooks.
Her dire economic situation made her fair game for women hired by criminal
gangs to lure young, naive girls from Moldova and other financially-strapped
Eastern European countries into prostitution with promises of large sums of
money.
"I never thought I would actually have to do it," Christina said in
bewilderment. "I thought once I arrived I would find a way to escape and
find other work, as a waitress or something."
Christina was flown to Egypt where along with 20 other Moldovan and Russian
women aged between about 18 and 24, she was escorted across the Sinai desert
into southern Israel by a Bedouin smuggler.
They walked over dunes, eventually crawling under a barbed-wire border fence
in the middle of the night.
Rolls of money changed hands between the Bedouin and the Russian-speaking
men who bought the women. Christina doesn't know how much they paid, but the
market price for a woman like her in Israel is around $8,000.
Frightened, an illegal alien, unfamiliar with Hebrew or Israeli geography,
Christina had no real hope of escaping.
Instead she was taken to a brothel in northern Israel where she was forced
to have sex with around 15 men every day, raped, beaten and threatened with
death if she ran away.
Eventually she did and is now a witness in a court case against the pimp who
bought and mistreated her under a new Israeli law that makes human
trafficking punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
"It's very easy. You just put them on a plane, walk them through the desert
and you have slaves," said lawyer Nomi Levenkron, who represents women like
Christina who are locked in a special wing of the Neve Tirza prison near Tel
Aviv while they wait to testify or to be deported for entering Israel
illegally.
Sex slavery, or white slavery as it was called in the 19th century, is
almost as old as prostitution itself. But it has had a sudden resurgence
since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 devastated many eastern
European economies.
Women who earn around $20 a month in Moldova are promised $1,000 a month
abroad to work as prostitutes. It is a tempting offer for young women with
bleak futures in their home countries or burdened with supporting a large
family.
Sometimes the women don't know they are being sent to work as prostitutes
and are told they will be waitresses or secretaries. Others are simply
kidnapped.
Almost always they are trafficked by the local Mafia, frequently on a forged
passport and threatened that if they don't behave, their family back home
will suffer the consequences.
"They come from a place with no money, a very poor family in a poor village,
looking for a better future," said Levenkron, a legal adviser to the Hotline
for Migrant Workers, the only organization in Israel that helps former
sex-slaves.
"These women are so naïve, they don't realize people are lying to them," she
said.
Israel is a popular destination for the human trade. It is not difficult to
smuggle and hide Russian-speaking women in a country where almost a million
people originate from the former Soviet Union.
"It's very easy for them to disappear between all the Russian-speaking women
in Israel," Levenkron said. "It's very easy for traffickers to bring women
here and when you have the supply, you have the demand."
A recent U.S. State Department report on human trafficking put Israel on a
list of countries where the phenomenon is rampant. It has until 2003 to
implement "minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking" or face
stiff economic sanctions.
According to Zahava Gal-On, who heads an Israeli parliamentary committee on
trafficking, that means deterring traffickers with hefty prison sentences
instead of a few months in jail, the usual punishment handed down by Israeli
courts.
It also means putting women like Christina in safe houses instead of jail,
thereby encouraging them to stay and testify.
In the past the victim has been locked up, sometimes for as long as six
months, while the pimp is let off with a small fine or a brief stay in jail
although under the law, it is the brothel owner, not the woman, who has
committed a crime.
Like most former sex-slaves, Christina is penniless. Those lucky enough to
be paid a paltry sum, usually a few dollars, by their pimps save the money
to buy themselves freedom from their brothel-prisons. Often they are sold
before they can do so.
"They are slaves and slaves of the worst kind," Levenkron said. "They are
disposable people because it's so easy to buy a person."
Human trafficking is becoming a modern day scourge, said Tal Raviv, an
advocate for the International Organization for Migration who works in
Kosovo where trafficking is widespread.
"This has become a huge phenomena in the last decade," said Raviv during a
visit to Israel. "The estimates are between half a million to 700,000 women
trafficked every year just to the West, but the global figures are for
millions."
Law enforcement officials say human trafficking is almost as rampant as drug
and weapons smuggling. Many of the women being trafficked are forced to work
in brothels.
In Africa and Asia, men are often sent to sweatshops and children forced to
work in cocoa plantations in West Africa. Some of those trafficked are
slated to be unwilling donors for black market organ transplants, Raviv
said.
"Trafficking people is much easier than trafficking drugs and weapons," she
said.
"It's easier because if you find drugs or the arms, there is no question
something illegal has happened. But if you find a person with a passport,
how do you know this person is not traveling out of their own free will?"
Raviv says the only difference between the 21st century version of slavery
and that of the plantations in the Americas some 200 years ago is that today
slavery is illegal.
"When you buy and sell a person, then it means a person is merchandise and
that is slavery," Raviv said. "The person has no freedom, no control over
his or her fate."
Reuters
http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/sex_slavery_thriving.htm
Batten
Sha...@Israel.org says...
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So were can I buy some of these slaves.
How much does a pretty russian 18yr old cost?
Thanks
Michael A. Riches
on 9/24/01 12:04 PM:
Batten...you've been haunting the binaries toooooo long...take another
pill...
That RatDhuuude...
Shalom Peres
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The White slavery in Israel has gone on for at least two decades and was covered up
entirely for more than a decade by all Western media sources who were quite aware of it.
The "Russian Mafia" is still described by Western media sources as "Russian" with no
mention that it is composed of Jews. This is done not for the bogus reasons given when
confronted but because international crime-the mafia-is a Jewish controlled phenomenon.
Visit the FBI website and peruse the "Most Wanted" lists. Jews are quite prevalent. They
launder the money for Columbian drug lords and import weapons from Russia for the
various communist rebel groups fighting the Columbian government and before long U.S.
soldiers. When they are discovered and arrest warrants issued they flee for Israel where
the Israeli government plays dumb, pretending that they are not in the country. Then
these criminals train other Jews and send them out to continue the enterprise.
Most of the Ecstasy is manufactured in Israel and then smuggled to Europe and America.
It's also interesting to note that in the article the Israeli government is holding
these raped and beaten women-many of whom were kidnapped and brought to Israel-in
prison! When they are done with their bogus show trial of the Jew pimps, rapists and
kidnappers they say without embassassment that these despoiled women will be deported
back to the impoverished countries where they came from. Forget about becoming Israeli
citizens and getting a real job. Israel is an explicitly racist state and these women
are considered to be animals (goyim) by the racist, Zionist state of Israel.
Rich Stern
>covered up
>entirely for more than a decade by all Western media sources who were quite
>aware of it.
>The "Russian Mafia" is still described by Western media sources as "Russian"
>with no
>mention that it is composed of Jews.
Somebody forgot to tell Newsweek about the cover-up. They did an excellent
article on these issues a couple of years ago.
>Most of the Ecstasy is manufactured in Israel and then smuggled to Europe and
>America.
>Israel is an explicitly racist state and these women
>are considered to be animals (goyim) by the racist, Zionist state of Israel.
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The word goyim means "nations" in ancient Hebrew. In Yiddish and common,
spoken Hebrew, it is a term used to describe people who are not Jewish.
It does not mean animal.
If you want to spin crap, at least do some basic fact checking.
-- Rich Stern
JimDandy
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> Thanks
What a pig you are. You must have the brain of a neanderthal to not
feel any empathy toward anybody but yourself.
Gary 'Red' Beckham
"Shalom Peres" <Sha...@Israel.org> wrote in message
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Jason Lucero
What can a person do to stop stuff like this? I have no idea. I can't
joke about it or pretend it is not happening. Those of you out there
thinking that you can be witty about this, answer me this: What if the
woman you loved was sold into slavery? Ever hear, "Do not ask for whom
the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"? I know what this means. I feel it.
I see it when I see a homeless guy, or when I read an article like
this. People like Sister Teresa devoted her life to helping the
downtrodden, but I know that I am not that strong. What is any one
person able to do, but be available and willing to do some small part?
Jason, grief gives me humility, more than I deserve, Lucero
Sally G. Waters
Watch, at http://www.hrw.org/women/ , which has a huge
amount of information on this, including links to lots of
govt. reports (among others, State Department reports
on the US policy on this -- yes, it happens here too.)
Israel is not the only country in which this happens, by far -
according to several reports, the leading "importers" of
Russian women are, besides Israel, Italy, Germany,
Belgium and Turkey. In addition, women are sent to
Japan and other Asian countries (though not all necessarily
the "white women" that the original poster spoke of),
and Mexican women have been kidnapped and brought
into this country as well.
"Jason Lucero" <J...@SamuraiSurfer.com> wrote in message
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Steven Cherry
>For more information on the topic, go to Human Rights
>Watch, at http://www.hrw.org/women/ , which has a huge
>amount of information on this, including links to lots of
>govt. reports (among others, State Department reports
>on the US policy on this -- yes, it happens here too.)
Or you can just go to the US State Dept site itself,
http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/tiprpt/2001/.
The US is on its own list, but as a "tier 1" country ("countries whose
governments fully comply with the Act's minimum standards for the
elimination of trafficking were placed in tier 1. Countries whose
governments do not fully comply with those standards were then placed in
tier 2 if they are making "significant efforts to bring themselves into
compliance" with the standards, or in tier 3 if they are not.")
-steven-
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Leah Rabin
"Sally G. Waters" <sgwa...@gte.net> wrote in message
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> For more information on the topic, go to Human Rights
> Watch, at http://www.hrw.org/women/ , which has a huge
> amount of information on this, including links to lots of
> govt. reports (among others, State Department reports
> on the US policy on this -- yes, it happens here too.)
> Israel is not the only country in which this happens,
Oh so that makes it OK huh? The U.S. taxpayers should continue to send over $6 billion
every year to Israel?