> We've got a home, but thieves have been occupying it for 2000 years.
HOW CAN SOMEONE OCCPY YOUR HOME FOR 2,000 YEARS ARSEHOLE,? YOU MUST HAVE
ABANDONED IT TO START WITH
Time to crack down on white slavery
- By ISAAC HERZOG
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Here is a subject on which we can all be united: the fight against
trafficking in women in Israel.
For a change, everyone from all walks of society, Right and Left, must
demand we uproot this scourge, raise our moral standards and mercilessly
punish everyone involved in this disgusting business. If it were possible,
even hang them. I kid not.
A reminder: in the past few years Israel has been flooded with thousands
of
women who are smuggled into the country in order to engage in
prostitution,
as part of a vigorous trade.
According to current estimates, we are talking about the horrifying number
of 3,000 women, mostly from the former Soviet Union.
In most cases, they are located and brought in under the auspices of
international crime networks by seduction, fraud, coercion and threats.
They
are smuggled into Israel by various routes, the most common one being
through the Egyptian border. Israeli police have been astonished to
discover
hundreds of women over the years marched through the Egyptian desert, by
day
and by night, in cold and in heat. A veritable exodus.
Women who complain of any kind of pain during the taxing march are drugged
with medications and painkillers, and anyone who breaks down and collapses
is abandoned on the roadside in the desert, as if she were a dying freight
animal.
The police have shocking surveillance recordings of scenes you just cannot
believe. This slave trade is taking place on the borders of the Promised
Land in the 21st century.
A SPECIAL parliamentary investigative committee headed by MK Zehava Galon,
who studied the phenomenon, initiated a series of amendments that
substantially increased the punishment for anyone trafficking in women.
But it goes on as severely as ever. Just last week we learned about the
shocking case of a Middle Ages-style isolation cell secured with three
iron
doors which housed two prostitutes smuggled into Israel from the Ukraine
across the Egyptian border. They were sold to a Tel Aviv pimp, who jailed
them for many months in a cage-like, moldy cell. The women served as ***
slaves for 18 hours a day in order to "pay back" their debt to the pimp
for
the deal he made by their purchase. They hadn't seen daylight for months
and
lived in the foul cage under the watch of guards who claimed, of course,
that they were only following orders.
The most amazing part of the story is that not a shred of information
about
those women leaked out for many weeks until one of them, in tears, begged
one of her clients to let her use his cell phone to call her family in
Ukraine. Only then was contact made with the outside world and made its
way
to the authorities. The police officer who found them after a complicated
storming operation that looked more like the conquest of a fortified
military position described a classic scene of slavery, of the kind we
thought had passed out of the world in the 19th century.
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*** slavery: The growing trade
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/women.trafficking/index.html
March 8, 2001 Web posted at: 10:57 AM EST (1557 GMT)
In this story:
Trafficking in young girls
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/women.trafficking/index.html#1#1
Kidnap fears in Britain
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/women.trafficking/index.html#2#2
RELATED STORIES, SITES Downward pointing arrow
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/women.trafficking/index.html#r#r
LONDON, England http://archives.cnn.com/WORLD/maps/england.london.jpg
(CNN) -- The plight of women and children being sold into *** slavery
around
the world is being highlighted as part of International Women's Day.
An estimated two million women and children are sold into the *** trade
every year, the U.S. research group Protection Project states.
Launching a re****t by the group, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski described the
*** trade as "a repugnant and despicable practice that has no place in the
21st century."
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