Israeli Gangland Blowing Up!

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Israel police out in force for slain crime boss funeral


JERUSALEM (AFP) — Police deployed in strength on Tuesday for the funeral of underworld kingpin Yaakov Alperon who was assassinated in a Tel Aviv car bombing that has prompted fears of a gangland war in Israel.

Alperon's son Dror, who is on trial on charges of blackmail and extortion, was granted temporary release from custody to attend the funeral in Ranana, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

His father was returning from attending a hearing in the trial when he was killed on Monday.

Since July, police have recorded at least five assassination attempts against gangland bosses using explosives or automatic weapons.

"The mafia continue to carry out terrorist attacks in the heart of our cities in broad daylight," the Maariv daily quoted a former head of the Shin Beth security service as saying.

"It exposes the failings of Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, as well as the essentially criminal design of Israel itself."

Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has been implicated in a variety of bribes, said he was working with police to find "ways of getting tougher in the war against organised crime".

"Currently, the resources at the disposal of the police are not sufficient to meet the challenge," Olmert told public radio.

Alperon's lawyer Shai Nudel insisted his client was a "perfect family man", devoted to his seven children and his wife, who has a doctorate in natural medicine.

"It was a barbaric act," Nudel told Maariv. "They have gone beyond all limits and God will hold them to account. Of course none of us actually believe in any sort of God or supernatural retribution."

Police have been giving little away about their investigation but Israeli newspapers said at least five rival crime families were under suspicion.

A police source acknowledged that some of their members had been brought in for questioning.

Alperon had survived at least nine previous assassination attempts, including one in 2005 when four contract killers were flown in from the former Soviet republic of Belarus.

"It's a miracle that he managed to live to the age of 54," said Yitzhak Aharonovitch, a former assistant police chief who is now a member of parliament.

Israeli underworld families are heavily engaged in all of the usual mainstays of organised crime the world over -- the drug and flesh trades, large-scale car theft, loan-sharking, gambling and protection rackets.

But they have also moved into other more legitimate fields, notably the recycling industry, particularly plastics.

Lawyer Menahem Rubinstein, an organised crime specialist, told AFP that police are facing an increasingly unequal battle with the gangs "because they have now spread overseas and have also succeeded in setting themselves up in legitimate businesses and have even moved into politics."

Several members of Alperon's own family have links with the central committee of the Likud, the right-wing opposition party led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is one of the frontrunners to become prime minister after snap parliamentary elections called for February.


Oh, fun times in the "Holy Land" these days, as the extremely nervous race-state experiment looks forward to the promised felching obeisance of the new Obama administration. From bombing Gaza on election night, to cutting off all supplies, the utterly demented apartheid nightmare lurches day by day--gangsters and racists, what a team!!

"Of course I support Joe Lieberman..."

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

antisemitic drivel - Marty's wit = this crap.

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MIA as usual, M-tyrd, but of course you've got nothing when it counts! :wink:

[smackaholic]

antisemitic drivel - Marty's wit = this crap.

Let's examine this statement mathmatically.

marty's wit = 0

x - 0 = x

therefore,

antisemitic drivel - martard's wit = antisemitic drivel.

So, assuming martard's wit does not equal "this crap", the statement is false.

how do you make the = sign with the line through it?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

antisemitic drivel - Marty's wit = this crap.

Let's examine this statement mathmatically.

marty's wit = 0

x - 0 = x

therefore,

antisemitic drivel - martard's wit = antisemitic drivel.

So, assuming martard's wit does not equal "this crap", the statement is false.

how do you make the = sign with the line through it?

I was told there wouldn't be any math...

:?

[Tom In VA]

how do you make the = sign with the line through it?

<> will suffice to indicate inequality, or !=

[Mikey]

≠

[smackaholic]

thanks, mikey. I thought that was how you did it.

asshole.

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Tel Aviv gangster Ya'acov Alperon liked his violence up close and personal. He relied on his boxer's swift, sledgehammer fists and the blade of a knife to terrorize Tel Aviv's shopkeepers, brothel owners and drug dealers into paying protection money. But in the end, what finally got Alperon was that most impersonal of assassin's weapons: the car bomb.


Let's put a face to the ruthless murderer--and his son.


Here they are in earlier happy days


If you see this guy, run!



Okay, enough of the cheap shots, let's dig into the real dirt that makes the foundation of the ZioNazi nightmare apartheid state--today!

Here's a litte of what you probably suspected, but of which you were never sure.

Israel prides itself as a 'beacon of light,' paving an enlightened path for democracy and human rights in a region of dictators, theocracies, tyrants and human rights abusers. In July 2001, the U.S. State Department placed Israel on a 'third tier' list of countries, or worst offenders, of Traffickers in Persons. In the shadows of the 'beacon of light' lurks a brutal and inhumane abuse - trafficking of women and children for the sex-slave trade. Israel was on the same list as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, Bahrain, Greece, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and 12 others ... 'Elderly Jewish women in the Ukraine often lure the girls into the trade,' Specter said. Or, the girls are recruited through 'an ad or an unexpected meeting on the street, with a proposition to work abroad as a maid, secretary, showgirl, nanny or waitress.' A typical ad, writes Walter Zalisko, 24-year police veteran, authority on Russian organized crime in New Jersey and New York, seeks '... pretty woman, under age 40, slender, educated, to work in modern office setting; $600/month; documents and transportation provided.

And of course you knew that the Israeli state protects its own, regardless of the crime.

"Samuel [Sheinbein, is] the 17-year-old Maryland youth suspected of a brutal slaying and now trying to turn Israel into his land of refuge. According to the 1978 [Israeli] law, passed by Menachem Begin's government, Israeli citizens cannot be extradited for crimes they allegedly committed abroad. Instead, the bill authorized Israeli courts to try such persons here. The impetus for the bill was the case of Reuven Pesahovitz, an Israeli accused by the Swiss of embezzlement and fraud of more than 10m. Swiss francs. Prime minister Begin, then serving also as justice minister, refused to extradite Pesahovitz. Meretz MK Amnon Rubinstein, formerly the dean of Tel Aviv University's Law Faculty, said that Begin's pushing of this legislation was part of his philosophy of not wanting to turn Jews over to non-Jews, because of a concern that they would not get a fair trial. At the time that the law was enacted, another high-profile extradition case, involving Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, was stirring passions in the country. Flatto-Sharon was accused of embezzlement and fraud by France which was seeking his extradition."

And of course you're plenty well aware of the outright theft of good ol' fashioned cash by our Special Friends.

A retired Israeli general is under investigation for allegedly embezzling an estimated $10 million of U.S. foreign military aid. Brig. Gen. (res.) Alex Eyal, a former head of naval procurement in Israel’s Ministry of Defense, allegedly overcharged Israel’s U.S. foreign military aid account in a contract for Panther helicopters supplied to the Israeli navy by the American Eurocopter Corporation (AEC), a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of the Eurocopter France firm ... Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the case to both American and Israeli officials is that this is not the first time America’s generous foreign aid relationship with Israel has been abused. In 1991, retired Israeli general Rami Dotan was indicted for embezzling some $40 million in U.S. foreign military aid with the assistance of Herbert Steindler, an official of the American Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine manufacturer. Dotan was imprisoned for his actions, and in July 1992 General Electric paid $59 million in civil damages and $9.5 million in criminal penalties in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

So, bring out your wittiest quips--they'll keep you from crying!

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

What are you looking for? Reform?


Find a tall bridge and jump off it.

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[quote="Martyred"]What are you looking for? Reform?


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No, tyrd, I'm looking for Inform!

Now whatta ya say we get all get a little more informed, eh?

From a decade ago, an illustrative scandal to rock Israel's Mossad spy agency involved allegations that an agent fabricated information that may have skewed Israeli assessments of Syria's political and military intentions. It is being called the 'Gil Affair,' named after Yehuda Gil, 63, who was identified as the Israeli Mossad agent who allegedly received some $200,000 for passing along bogus intelligence reports on Syria. The charges brought against Gil included spying and fraud, Israel Radio said quoting a charge sheet. Bit by bit, Israelis have been reading between the lines in newspapers squeezed by censorship about what is being called 'the mother of all intelligence scandals' ... It was revealed that Gil was a former general-secretary in a far-right political party that advocates expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. The disclosure that he was affiliated in 1992 with the ultra right-wing Moledet party has prompted speculation that his concocted reports may have been aimed at discouraging Israeli leaders from making peace with Arab partners.

And lest we attribute all of the current Wall St. calamities to non-Israelis like Greenspan and Fuld, rest assured that all manner of scamming and angling is part and parcel of the Israeli design as this example from '03 illustrates:

Tel Aviv District Court yesterday found three top financial figures guilty of share manipulation. Eilon Tzabari, a former deputy CEO of Gmulot, a portfolio management company owned by Bank Hapoalim; Yoram Nagler, a former manager at the Dovrat-Shrem investment house; and Haim Regev, a former investment manager at Psagot, a mutual fund management company belonging to Bank Leumi were convicted - though not on all charges brought against them. The verdict came seven-and-a-half years after the charges were filed against Tzabari - on July 26, 1995 - following suspicions that arose about dealings in the late 1980s. Judge Oded Mudrik found Tzabari, Nagler, Regev, and other market players had conspired to use insider information and direct investment by their companies to manipulate share prices for personal gain. They did so by using shell accounts in a privately-held investment company run by two other market players, Kobi Ramot and Ron Ben-David, who turned state's witnesses in the affair.

And no surprise that in a small tiny stressed out bunker state like Israel--whose median age is over 40!--there is a high demand for human organs, as this Tel Aviv police blotter report reveals from'03:

The police yesterday asked the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court to remand four people suspected of buying and selling organs for transplants. Judge Hagai Brenner remanded one suspect until Friday and two others until Sunday, releasing the alleged ringleader, Yaakov Dayan, on NIS 5,000 bail. The judge, however, appeared unconvinced by the police's claims. "I could not find any article of the law, nor were the police able to point to any, that forbids dealing in organs," he wrote, adding that the Knesset ought to close this loophole. He also said the police had presented insufficient evidence to indicate that Dayan was the ringleader, nor did he believe that documents that the police had labeled forgeries actually met the legal definition of a forgery. Because at present there is no law against organ dealing in Israel, the remand request listed other suspicions instead, including conspiracy to commit a crime, extortion, false imprisonment, forgery and violations of the anatomy and pathology laws. Police suspect that in at least one case, when a man who had agreed to sell his kidney had second thoughts, two of the suspects, Albert Chernoff and Gennady Mashkis, forced him to undergo the operation by keeping him locked up until it took place. Nevertheless, the main allegation against the four is that they bought organs, mainly kidneys, from needy people - primarily new immigrants - and then sold them to people who required transplants. Dayan yesterday expressed no regret for this. 'I'm proud of my actions,' he said. "A district court judge, two broadcasters, a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and rabbis all received transplants through me. I have saved hundreds of lives." Though the operations took place in Turkey, police said that most of the medical tests undergone by the buyers and sellers were performed by Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv - the country's largest private hospital, which is partly owned by the Maccabi health maintenance organization. The police believe that Assuta doctors actively cooperated with the suspects. 'In the best case, they turned a blind eye, even though they knew a buyer and seller were involved,' said one police source. Assuta, which was harshly criticized by the Health Ministry in 1996 because of the involvement of some of its doctors in organ dealing, responded that it performed thousands of laboratory tests every year, and as long as they were ordered by a doctor, the hospital did not inquire why the doctor needed the information. Police believe the organ-dealing ring also conducted testing at two other Israeli medical centers that will be investigated in the coming days. Other questions they are investigating are whether the recipients knew that the organs might have been obtained criminally and whether the lawyers with whom the ring worked knew that the affidavits they issued, which said the organs were being donated rather than sold, were false.