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on 27/6/02 06:27, Miroslav Antic at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > > Switzerland Pay Off Nazi Victims > > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > Nazi victims you said? Hmmm!!! Have a look and enjoy, that is if you can ;-) >> >> Bankers and Robbers > � >> By Israel Shamir >> >> "Swiss Holocaust cash revealed to be myth", announced the Times this Saturday >> (October, 13), lowering curtain on one of the bizarre and obnoxious dramas of >> extortion and robbery. It began in 1995, as two important gentlemen, Edgar >> Bronfman, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, and Abraham Burg, a rising >> star of Israeli politics, visited Swiss banks on a humanitarian mission. "You >> have billions of dollars deposited by the Jews before WWII, they said. - We >> want the moneys repaid immediately, whilst the survivors of the Jewish >> holocaust are still alive. Let them enjoy the last years of their life in >> relative comfort', they said. Bronfman and Burg were the men banks and >> insurance companies wake up and listen to. >> >> Edgar Bronfman inherited his billions from his father Sam, a Mafia boss. Sam >> made his fortune by the illegal trafficking of booze into the US: he blended >> the stuff in Canada and smuggled it across the lake through his network of >> gangsters during the Prohibition period. Sam Bronfman made even more money as >> a loan shark. Shortly before his death, he was asked by a journalist, what is >> the greatest invention of mankind? True to form, he replied, interest on >> loans. >> >> The capitals earned by crime and squeezed from debtors could help in >> politics. >> In Jewish politics as well, as you do not have to be elected to become an >> important figure. You can always rent two rooms in an office building and put >> a sign of World Jewish Association, Survivors' Forum or Jewish Liberation >> Organization, and you are in the business. There is no copyright to such >> titles. Bronfman's World Jewish Congress was exactly such a tiny body with >> such a grand title. Before Bronfman, it had this or other nice Jewish >> fatherly >> figure in the chair, such as his predecessor Nahum Goldmann, but it pulled no >> strings and cut no ice. With vast capital of Bronfman, it became a power >> structure. >> >> Avrum (Abraham) Burg, the speaker of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and a >> candidate to the leadership of Israeli Labour, was the son of an important >> Israeli politician, a leader of the National Religious Party, Dr Burg, who >> served all governments of Israel as a Minister for 40 years until his demise. >> Avrum provided a good sound-byte on ABC Nightline on 2.8.01, when he >> described >> Palestinians as `people you do not want your daughter to get married to'. >> Avrum needed a sponsor to get forward in politics, while Bronfman needed a >> reliable Israeli partner for his plan. >> >> No bank or insurance company could refuse such important gentlemen. After >> short resistance, the Swiss gnomes gave in, and the titular heads of Jews >> walked away with large pot of cash. `These Jews want to rob our banks and >> insurance companies in the name of their holocaust', the Swiss probably >> fumigated. But they were mistaken. >> >> While this story began as Elders of Zion Revisited, its continuation followed >> the script of the Sting. Six years passed by, but almost no money left the >> benevolent grasp of international commissions created by Bronfman and Burg. >> Practically nothing was given to the survivors of the Jewish holocaust. The >> moneys were misappropriated by the same people that demanded justice for the >> victims. >> >> Recently the authoritative LA Times [on this site] stated: "An international >> commission created to resolve Holocaust-era insurance disputes has reportedly >> spent more than $30 million on salaries, hotel bills and newspaper ads while >> distributing only $3 million to claimants". The members of the commission >> turned it into a high class travel agency and entertainment spot, LA Times >> wrote: `The documents show that since 1998 the commission has held at least >> 18 >> meetings with up to 100 participants at hotels in London, Jerusalem, Rome, >> Washington and New York'. As to the slave labour settlement, The Independent >> [on this site] reported, `while the victims of the Holocaust will receive >> (maybe) between USD 2,500 and USD 7,500, the <Jewish> lawyers who negotiated >> the settlement will collect fees well in excess of 1 m each'. >> >> Now, the Times reported that Swiss banks checked the dormant accounts and >> found that they did not even belong to the Jewish victims of Holocaust. They >> belonged mainly to `wealthy non-Jewish people who forgot about their money'. >> The Swiss haven't not paid $1.5 b to Bronfman and Burg, because they became >> convinced in their claims. They paid because they had no choice, Bronfman >> (together with Mark Rich) was an important supporter of President Bill >> Clinton, and Clinton would do his asking, probably stopping just short of >> bombing Switzerland. >> >> Some parts of the story began to surface in CUNY Professor Norman >> Finkelstein's best-selling book, Holocaust Industry and caused major >> controversy. Finkelstein objected to the extortionist methods of the Jewish >> organisations. They presented him as a liar and an anti-Semite. Now, a year >> after his book was published, more unexpected and juicy details of sordid >> dealing begin to leak. If the data will be confirmed, we are looking into the >> greatest robbery ever perpetuated in the 20th century. >> >> Apparently, Professor Finkelstein got some things wrong: to the chagrin of >> the >> Jew-haters, the victims of the robbery were not only the banks and insurance >> companies, but ordinary folk of Jewish origin. To the embarrassment of the >> Jew-lovers, the robbers were the self-appointed Jewish leaders who claimed to >> represent the Jewish people. >> >> II >> >> The man behind this discovery is very different from the New York Professor >> Finkelstein. Martin Stern is a wealthy British businessman, deeply involved >> with real estate, Jewish and Zionist causes. He works in London and spends >> his >> weekends in his spacious apartment in Jerusalem's Orthodox neighbourhood. He >> does not miss a single prayer in his shul, gives to charities and loves >> Israel. >> >> His casual meeting with a Swiss banker in Villars, a prestigious resort in >> the >> Swiss Alps, started the machinery of holocaust claims. The banker told Stern >> an interesting small tale. His bank, Union Swisse (USB), computerised its >> business in 1987 and discovered many accounts dormant since 1939. The bank >> managers came to conclusion that some SF 45 million (30 m USD) of deposits >> probably belonged to the Jews who had died during or after the war. >> >> `We did not want to keep somebody's else money', -- said the honest Swiss >> banker, -- we called the World Jewish Congress and asked them to help and >> find >> the heirs to the funds. The Congress replied: "It is not on our agenda". >> Cold-shouldered Swiss transferred the $30 million to the Red Cross. >> >> Martin Stern was touched by the story and told it to Israeli Radio. Two weeks >> after the broadcast, `coincidentally' Bronfman and Burg knocked on the doors >> of the Swiss Banking Corporation demanding the cash. As we have stated above, >> they got the money but kept it for their purposes. Martin Stern felt he was >> involved and he followed the story in its development. >> >> He became increasingly worried with the way the Holocaust money was handled. >> Beside their own salaries, the Claims conference spent USD 43 m for the food >> parcels for Russian Jews. This subject Bronfman and Burg did not mention when >> they went to the Swiss banks and asked to speed up the payment to survivors, >> to people who owned the money. Had their agenda changed? >> >> Family circumstances led Stern to a connected story of the Generali >> Insurance. >> Before the WWII, the Generali was a big Italian insurance business, owned by >> Italian Jews. `Many insurance companies before the WWII were in the Jewish >> hands, as in those days insurance was a small man's bank', Stern explains. >> The >> Generali had big assets in Palestine, as well as in Balkans and Italy. >> Despite >> the war, Italian fascism and Holocaust, the Generali retained its Jewish >> connection. They did not want to follow the example of Swiss and Germans and >> denied all knowledge of the pre-war policies. Stern investigated at his own >> expense and succeeded to locate the secret storage where the bosses of the >> Generali kept the pre-war policies. He found out that the Generali owes huge >> sums to heirs of their insured. His discovery forced the Generali Assurance >> to >> mend their ways and agree to pay, wishing to make amends to their policy >> holders personally. >> >> III >> >> Now, if the deceased wouldn't be Jews, their heirs would get the value of >> their policies from the relevant insurance company or a bank. But, as you >> have >> been suspected all along, we Jews are different. We are different because we >> are more naive than somewhat. That is why we agreed to have an intermediary >> -- >> the Jewish leaders -- to deal with the (largely Gentile) World. >> >> From 1950s on, Jewish leaders made a fortune as the intermediary, as the >> compensation did not go straight to the heirs and survivors, but went to the >> sticky hands of the leaders. The Israeli Jews were supposed to receive the >> compensation and pension via Israeli channels, while European Jews received >> their money straight from the Goyiim. Astonishingly, the survivors who were >> paid via Jewish hands, always got less, sometimes much less. The Jewish >> state, >> Jewish banks and Jewish organisations earned on every transaction, and they >> did not miss a single trick. When Israel ran high inflation, the pensions of >> the survivors were always under-indexed. Banks did not transmit the funds on >> time. >> >> When the Russian Jews arrived to Israel, the Jewish leaders reached an >> agreement with Germany to provide for the survivors. A lion share of the >> funds >> given by Germans remained in the hands of the Jewish organisations, >> intermediaries and other dealers. >> >> Whoever relied upon our Jewish brothers was screwed up, as robbing >> fellow-Jews >> is a favourite pastime of Jewish crooks, leaders and bankers. A cynical man >> would say: the very idea of the Jewish People is the best invention of >> crooks. >> In the days of our grandfathers, it was not working all that well, as the >> Jews >> knew: a Jewish crook would cheat a fellow Jew as fast as he would cheat a >> Goy, >> and probably faster. But now we forgot this important notion. >> >> IV >> >> After Martin Stern found the policies, the Generali Insurance agreed to >> cooperate and pay. But the Israeli and Jewish politicians wanted to remain in >> the play. They negotiated a fixed settlement with the Generali on behalf of >> the Jewish policy holders. It was a crazy idea: whether the Jews are a >> religious or an ethnic group, surely they insured their lives as private >> persons. Moreover, they did not empower Israeli politicians to represent >> them. >> But the politicians negotiated the settlement, received one hundred million >> dollar, called it The Generali Fund, and began to use it as their own. They >> forgot the interest of Jewish policy holders, or, probably, they never >> considered it but a figure of speech. >> >> In June '01, out of 1250 policy information requests, the Generali Fund >> treated only 72. The policy holders were sent there and back, often refused >> for no reason or received no reply at all. In despair, they turned to >> Italians, and they promptly paid. It was an additional proof that we Jews >> need >> Jewish intermediaries as much as fish needs a diving suit. In the same time, >> the Fund trustees made 270 `ex gratia humanitarian payments'. They sent food >> parcels to the Russian Jews, in order to attract them to Israel. I am sure >> the >> Generali insurance would be very happy to feed the Russian Jews and to >> increase their Zionist zeal, but why the Israeli politicians did not say so >> while negotiating the settlement? >> >> Martin Stern discovered that trustees of the GF became frequent fliers to >> Italy on the expense of the Fund, and when it appeared as too small money, >> they did not hesitate to ask the Generali for substantial fees. The problem >> crossed the ocean, and the American claimants discovered that their claims >> were `settled' by the politicians. American Jewish organisations supported >> their Israeli buddies. An important player in the system was Lawrence >> Eagleburger, a former U.S. Secretary of state. This great man chairs the >> commission of Jewish leaders for dealing with Holocaust related insurance >> claims and draws a $350,000 annual salary. In Stern's opinion, the insurance >> settlement money would barely suffice to pay the policy holders. That is why >> he is horrified by ease Messrs Bronfman and Burg waste the funds on other >> worthy things. >> >> V � >> >> While the Jewish organisations gave hard time to the Swiss and the German >> banks, they became much more timid when they came across a Jewish bank. Bank >> Leumi of Israel has probably more funds of the perished Jews than any Swiss >> or >> German bank. You will laugh, but Israeli bankers are not in a rush to return >> the money. As a matter of fact, they stick to the cash like glue. Before the >> WWII, many European Jews deposited their savings in the Anglo-Palestine Bank, >> the main Jewish bank of British Palestine, as Bank Leumi was called before >> 1948. Some of them made deposits, others rented safe boxes. Not only Jews >> used >> the bank -- its cellars stored vast fortunes of Palestinian Christians and >> Muslims as well. >> >> Many Palestinians lost their deposits in the great upheaval of 1948. Israeli >> banks used all ways to block their moneys and let them disappear as the >> inflation soared. But the Jews did not fare better. Apparently, the worst >> place where a Jew could leave his money for safe keeping was Bank Leumi, the >> National Bank of Israel. The Holocaust survivors and heirs of victims were >> met >> with adamant refusal of Bank Leumi to open up its documentation for >> inspection. >> >> In course of privatisation, Bank Leumi became partly owned by the Generali >> Assurance. Migdal Insurance, Generali and Bank Leumi constitute an >> intertwined >> group of businesses and businessmen with dubious record. Same men sit on the >> board of the companies, sharing perks and shifting around funds. >> >> Martin Stern discovered that in 1950s, Bank Leumi staff opened, without >> external control and supervision, even without writing a protocol, all >> dormant >> safe boxes. Their contents were pushed into brown envelopes and stored hidden >> from the public eye. As a colourful detail, he was told of a trunk that stood >> in the offices of Bank Leumi for years, to the chagrin of typists who tore >> their stockings at its corners. When the trunk was opened, they found there a >> real treasure, apparently placed for safekeeping by a Coptic church. Until >> now, the trunk has not been returned to the Church. >> >> Marin Stern could not believe such flagrant breach of banking laws was >> possible. In the course of his struggle for the interests of Holocaust >> survivors and their heirs, he demanded from the Bank Leumi officials to >> publish the names of the safe box owners, whose deposits were removed by the >> bank. At first, the Director General of the Bank, Galia Maor, denied the bank >> opened the boxes. When presented with evidence, she replied sternly, `we >> found >> only love letters'. I wonder whether such reply, if given by the Swiss, would >> be acceptable for the Jewish organisations. >> >> The fate of currency deposits was not different from the safe boxes, as the >> Bank Leumi could win both ways. A Mrs Klausner deposited before the WWII in >> Bank Leumi 170 pounds sterling, an equivalent of US$ 25,000 in today's value. >> When she came to claim her deposit, Bank Leumi offered her NIS 13, or US$ 4. >> In order to avoid future embarrassment, the bank officials began to destroy >> old documentation. >> >> The tricks of Bank Leumi attracted attention of the Israeli press and the >> Knesset (Parliament), and a parliamentary commission of enquiry was called >> for. It took six months of intensive negotiations to form the commission, but >> in its charter there was one conspicuous fault. The survivors demanded to >> find >> out the persons responsible for hiding their funds for half a century. This >> demand was not included in the chapter. Even worse, the commission includes >> persons responsible for the present state of things. Zvi Barak was a member >> of >> Bank Leumi management, he also sits in the management of Generali Fund, he >> was >> sent to investigate the Swiss banks and now he is supposed to find out the >> culprits in his own bank. >> >> Michael Kleiner is a right wing MP of Herut party. He wrote to the >> parliamentary commission of enquiry, `the Bank destroys documents in two >> different sections, and now there is deep suspicion regarding the Holocaust >> deposits and especially the brown envelopes of the safe boxes'. >> >> Recently Bank Leumi became known for large scale cash laundering, when the >> fortunes stolen by Vladimir Montesinos and his boss Alberto Fujimori, an >> ex-president of Peru, were traced to the Bank Leumi's office in Switzerland. >> One can't understand the word `laundering' in reference to such a bank, as >> probably it would make a handkerchief dirty if laundered. >> >> VI >> >> >> The biggest achievement of the Jewish leaders was recorded in Germany, in >> 1991, as East Germany joined the German Federal Republic. After 1945, the >> Socialist East Germany did not return property to German pre-war owners, >> whether Gentiles or Jews. Theirs was a good logic. East Germans did not >> subscribe to the notion of the `Jewish people'. They dealt on equal footing >> with the German citizens, Jews or not. They thought that the Nazi idea of >> Jewish separateness was laid to rest in 1945. They were wrong. West Germany >> accepted the feudal concept of Jewry in 1950, when it paid compensation for >> the Jewish property not to survivors or their heirs, but to the state of >> Israel and the Jewish leaders elsewhere. West Germans did it again in 1991. >> >> For instance, two Germans, Moses and Peter, perished in the war, and left >> some >> property in East Germany. Property of Peter the Gentile remained in the hands >> of the German government, until his heir was found. If he would have no >> heirs, >> the property would remain in the hands of German people. But property of >> Moses >> the Jew would pass into the hands of Messrs Bronfman & Burg as the leaders >> and >> representatives of the Jewish People, members of the Conference for Claims. >> Germans transferred the property that belonged to their Jewish citizens on >> the >> territory of the East Germany into the hands of the Conference. >> >> The Conference was a fictitious body of 44 men representing nobody. Some of >> them were sent, for instance, by a grandly named Anglo-Jewish Association, >> whose total membership is about 50. Only two persons `represent' millions of >> Israeli Jews. This Conference was supposed to find rightful heirs of Moses, >> and other Germans of Jewish origin. >> >> However, the Jewish leaders had a better idea. They knew that many owners >> would never come to claim their houses anyway, and the property will be >> theirs. But it was not enough for the greedy bastards. They put a certain >> date >> after which they would not consider the claims of heirs. That was a strike >> worthy of Jewish genius: some thirty billion dollars worth of property became >> theirs as if by right. From now on, they could take easy the claims of >> rightful heirs. And the billions dollars of rent would accumulate on their >> accounts. >> >> American Jewish survivors' organisations began their fight against the Jewish >> leaders. They demand from the Conference to make public full lists of their >> assets, to find real heirs and to give up the assets. They think of suing >> Germany, Italy and other countries and organisations that for some mysterious >> reason subscribed to the medieval idea of `Jewish property'. They say, >> property could be of individual Jews only, not some odd `Jewish property'. As >> this story proved, such ideas are good for the self-proclaimed Jewish leaders >> to keep them in the style they are accustomed to, but for ordinary folks of >> Jewish origin it is the right time to give up the expensive illusions of >> Jewish solidarity. >> --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
