Yardbird wrote:
>
> : Yet another piece of evidence that what Israel does has no connection
> : to Judaism or Jewish values....... A sham idol heresy.
But it does have to do with corrupt elites and the fact that the State has
become totally capitalist and no longer a mixed economy.
Making Unrestricted Capitalism available to Jews, Protestants, Indians (Asian),
Diaspora
ethnic Chinese, and Diaspora Nigerians, is like putting a bottle of fine
whiskey in front of an alcoholic and allowing him only one drink.
Joshua2
PS: Israel is not a sham zionist state. It is a genuine zionist state.
>
> : From:
> : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-06/haven230600.shtml
>
> : How unholy business thrives in the Holy
> : Land
>
> : By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
>
> : 23 June 2000
>
> : Money laundering in Israel has reached
> : colossal proportions in the last few years,
> : fuelled by the rise of Russian
> : organised-crime since the collapse of the
> : Soviet Union, liberal banking laws and
> : bank secrecy policies.
>
> : Billions of illegally acquired dollars from
> : Russia and the former Soviet republics,
> : South America, Africa and Europe have
> : passed through Israel in the last few years,
> : securing its status as one of the world's
> : leading money laundries.
>
> : Israel's police believe Russian gangsters
> : are taking advantage of the money-transfer
> : laws aimed at attracting Jewish people to
> : the country, to deposit profits and launder
> : funds. Their operations include narcotics
> : and prostitution rackets, bribes and
> : cream-offs from government funds and
> : loans. But they also involve the winnings
> : from a massive asset-stripping exercise
> : that began under the former president
> : Mikhail Gorbachev and has been underway
> : since, turning Russia into a kleptocracy in
> : which corruption runs from the top to the
> : bottom of the society. They are helped by
> : the 1 million former Soviet citizens living
> : in Israel who have arrived since 1991.
>
> : Earlier this year a Chechen was arrested
> : for reportedly trying to open an Israeli
> : account with $50m (£33m) in Venezuelan
> : cheques. Last summer an Israeli mobster
> : was convicted in Florida of running a
> : money-laundering business for a
> : Colombian cartel, prompting worries in
> : Israel about recycled cocaine money. The
> : businessman Gregory Lerner notoriously
> : admitted defrauding Russian banks of
> : $48m (£32m), which he used to try to open
> : a bank in Israel. He was fined $5m
> : (£3.3m), not for bringing in stolen money
> : but for local bribery and fraud.
>
> : Banking or spending the profits of illicit
> : offshore enterprises has not been illegal in
> : Israel, although moves are afoot to change
> : this. For this reason, Israel has been
> : considered a launderer's paradise.
>
> : Established as a safe-haven for the Jews,
> : the country has not asked many questions
> : about their riches. Many had fled nations
> : that prohibited them from taking money
> : abroad. The New York Times said about
> : $2.5bn (£1.7m) was brought in from the
> : former Soviet Union in the Nineties, almost
> : no questions asked.
>
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