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an amazing world we will live in! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "G.R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Switzerland Pay Off Nazi Victims [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK][LONG] Date sent: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:16:27 +0900 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > 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 > > --------------------------- 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 ==^================================================================
