|  Today, Israel lives up to her name as an international hub of
prostitution and white slavery in the Mideast.
Amnesty International, in its 2005 Report on Discrimination Against
Women in Israel says:
Trafficking of women for forced prostitution has occurred over a
number of years but appears to have been compounded in the past 15
years by several factors, including increased links between
traffickers in Israel and former Soviet republics, in the wake of the
large wave of immigration of citizens of these countries to Israel…
…Many women are lured to work in Israel under false pretense and are
then forced into the sex industry. While many are reportedly aware
that they will be working as sex workers, they are not aware they
will be subject to violent and exploitative environments, working
seven days a week and up to 18 hours a day for extremely low salaries
or no salaries at all. Many are subjected to other serious human
rights violations, including rape, deprivation of their liberty, and
debt-bondage. Women forced to work as sex workers are reportedly also
frequently subjected to threats of abuse and even murder. Half the
women interviewed by the Hotline for Migrant Workers were effectively
incarcerated by their "pimps" and, according to a 2003 survey, almost
half of all women "sold" to pimps reported that policemen were among
their clients.
According to a report by the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on
the Trafficking in Women (Summary Report) issued in early 2005, some
3,000 to 5,000 women are brought annually into Israel and forced to
work as sex workers and some 10,000 were estimated to be currently in
the country…
Most of the women known to have been trafficked into Israel are from
Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Russia, and are brought into Israel
through the Egyptian-Israeli border. In the course of their journey,
many are reportedly raped before traffickers sell them for $8,000-
$10,000… 1
Jewish Michael Specter, in his article, "Slave Traders Lure Slavic
Women," confirms Amnesty's report:
[In Israel] police officials estimate that there are 25,000 paid
sexual transactions everyday. Brothels are ubiquitous…Once they [the
women] cross the border [into Israel] their passports will be
confiscated [by pimps], their freedoms curtailed, and what little
money they have taken from them…The Tropicana in Tel Aviv's bustling
business district, is one of the busiest bordellos. The women who
work there, like nearly all prostitutes in Israel today, are Russian.
Their bosses, however, are not. `Israelis love Russian girls,' said
Jacob Golan, who owns this and two other clubs, `….They are blond and
good-looking and different than us…And they are desperate. They are
ready to do anything for money.' 2
Israel: Slow to Correct Problem
Prostitution and white slavery constitute a billion-dollar-a-year
industry in Israel that expands virtually unrestrained.
About two to three thousand women from FSU (Former Soviet Union)
countries annually enter Israel's brothels. The US State Department,
in its 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report, described Israel as among
the very worst international offenders in allowing white slavery.
They classed Israel in Tier 3, a group described as "not making
significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the
standards of the Dictums of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act
of 2000." Israel was grouped with Albania, Gabon, Kazakhstan,
Malaysia, and Pakistan, who also received an "F" for failing to
protect human rights.
After this scathing 2000 report, Knesset finally passed a law
criminalizing white slavery. 3 Enforcement programs and lesser
statutes have been enacted, with increased police attention to the
problem. In 2004, the courts actually handed down 28 convictions to
white slavers. Such efforts caused the US State Department to elevate
Israel's offender status to Tier 2. 4
However, recent reports by Amnesty and the state department are full
of criticisms of Israel: While laws against sex slavery are now on
the books, Israel shamelessly neglects to protect and encourage ex-
prostitutes in their attempts to testify against their oppressors.
Victims are largely denied full legal education, rights, services,
and protection against vengeful pimps. Without victims' testimony,
laws against white slavery can't be enforced.
Amnesty says,
The authorities—and in particular the police—still overwhelmingly
considered trafficked sex workers simply as "criminals" who violated
the Entry into Israel law, rather than victims of grave human rights
violations who should enjoy the effective protection and assistance
from state institutions. Consequently, the authorities have focused
their activities on deporting trafficked women instead of protecting
their rights and addressing their needs.
In addition, the Israeli authorities do not carry out any risk
assessment of the possible dangers which trafficked women who have
testified against their traffickers face after being deported back to
their countries, leaving them and their families vulnerable to
further human rights violations, including reprisals and
retrafficking. 5
If a woman files a complaint against her Jewish slave master, as an
illegal alien she will be imprisoned. As a result, an infinitesimal
number of ex-prostitutes testify against their pimps. Consequently,
very few slavers are convicted.
As a result of Israel's anemic response to the problem of white
slavery, most slavers are able to mock anti-prostitution laws and
white slavery continues to expand.
The government of Israel claims great difficulty in combating this
problem. But Knesset hasn't even made organized prostitution a crime.
The sex trade enriches Israel yearly by perhaps hundreds of millions
of tax dollars. This may be part of the reason the government seems
in no great hurry to clean up the industry.
History of Oppression
Four hundred years ago, Jewish slave traders dominated the lucrative
business of shipment and sale of African slaves to the new world. 6
For at least the last 125 years, Jews have also overwhelmingly
controlled organized prostitution and white slavery in Europe, the
United States, and South America.
Jewish historian Edward Bristow, in his book Prostitution and
Prejudice: the Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 7 says:
Rooted largely in Eastern and Central Europe where they "dominated
the international traffic out of the area," (p. 2) Jews were involved
in prostitution rings that networked, wrote Arthur Mora (of London's
Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women) in 1903,
"to almost all parts of North and South Africa, to India, China,
Japan, Philippine Islands, North and South America, and also to many
of the countries of Europe." (p. 1)
Jewish criminals trafficked women under their control virtually
anywhere, also including the major cities of Bulgaria, Bosnia,
Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Ceylon, Manchuria, South Africa,
Rhodesia, and Mozambique. (p.181)
"By 1900," says Bristow, "Jewish commercial vice was largely
incorporated in underworld elements and many of its participants were
predators of the poor. (p. 89)
Jewish pimps, procurers, and traffickers, preyed mostly on non-Jewish
women but even large numbers of Jewish women were a part of their
stables. In 1872, for example, Jewish prostitutes in Warsaw numbered
17 percent of the known prostitution population, in Krakow, 27
percent, and in Vilna, 47 percent. (p. 23)
Within the Jewish community itself, it was not uncommon for
recruiters to marry innocent Jewish young women and "deposit them in
foreign brothels."(p. 25)
Many of the Jewish criminal underworld figures apparently saw no gap
between their day-to-day activities and their religious lives, often
maintaining their religious obligations. A Warsaw thug, Shilem
Letzsky, organized a small synagogue for "Jewish prostitutes, madams,
pimps, and thieves." This criminal community even had a rabbinical
court "to settle disputes between pimps." (p. 60)
Other authorities say:
In Constantinople, prostitutes contributed money to "have their pimps
called to Torah on holidays." 8
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Jewish pimp organization, called the
Varsovia Society, "…ostensibly functioned as a neutral aid society…In
fact, the Varsovi, consisted of pimps who wanted to maintain their
businesses and still live a religious life…Varsovia associates
established their own synagogues on Guemes Street in the midst of the
traditional bordello district."9
Tradition of Prostitution Continues
In Israel today, the sale of human flesh continues. Jewish pimps and
brothel-owners bring FSU girls to Israel to turn tricks in the
thriving bordellos of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Many of these women, though fair-haired, are undoubtedly Jewish
"Ashkenazim." They may well have taken advantage of airlifts of Jews
out of the FSU, such as Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein's Wings of Eagles
ministry, funded by idealistic evangelical Christians.
Most, however, are Gentiles. They may also have hitched a free ride
to Israel on Wings of Eagles. The US State Department says: "In a new
trend, traffickers in Ukraine reportedly have begun exploiting an
Israeli law that allows all Jews to immigrate to Israel by providing
victims with false identity documents." 10
Specter's article says "elderly Jewish women in the Ukraine" were
responsible for forging passports for Gentile prostitutes going to
Israel. Presumably, these Jewish women received kickbacks from Jewish
slavers in Haifa and Tel Aviv. With an FSU prostitute bringing in up
to $100 thousand dollars annually, one suspects many of the "Jews"
who are "ransomed" by gullible evangelical Christians are actually
headed for white slavery in Israel.
The majority of FSU women who do not have the advantage of being
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