Tuesday, 19 February 2008

When Norman Finkelstein wrote the book ‘The Holocaust Industry’, I’m sure he did not take into account that the ‘industry’ would continue to grow and branch out.

To profit from the suffering of the victims is a crime, a despicable one. But, what is to be expected from a man living in Israel, a country built on the very foundations of the holocaust, the ’showcase’ of the industry.

Another Yiddish word that worked it’s way into the English language is ‘shyster‘, a word we have all heard and used. But, have any of us actually met one?

There is another Yiddish word that has not yet gained enough popularity to be used in English, it is the word ‘mamzer‘, which simply means bastard…
The following report is about a ’shyster mamzer’, a good combination of the two words….

By Ofra Edelman, Haaretz Correspondent

The Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday sentenced attorney Yisrael Perry to 12 years in prison, for embezzling 320 million German marks’ worth of insurance premiums from Israelis who claimed German retirement benefits.

He was also fined NIS 21.75 million and sentenced to five and a half years of suspended imprisonment.

Perry announced last week that he intended to appeal to the High Court, but if the latter decides to reject his appeal, he will reimburse his clients for the extraneous premiums they had been charged.

To this end, Perry has already transferred NIS 50 million to a trust he established.

Perry also announced that his clients could cash the payments they are owed via various insurance firms, and urged the court to consider his gesture while making a decision on his sentence.

In 1983 Perry learned that according to an agreement signed by the Israeli and the West German governments, any person who had been a citizen since 1953 and resided within the 1967 borders, was eligible, with a down payment of DM 100,000, to join the German pension scheme and receive full benefits.

Perry decided to set up a firm to represent applicants and sort out the joining procedures, including applying for loans in international banks.

The defendants made their clients sign contracts that would enable them to claim insurance premiums on their part. Justice Zecharia Caspi said the clients were made to believe they signed an agreement with established insurance firms as third party, whereas in fact they were all under Perry’s control.

Caspi stated that a firm Perry set up in the Cayman Islands, called Britannia, cannot be recognized as an insurance firm, and that the defendant deceived his clients to draw additional profits.

The judge said that Perry and his associates “did not purchase an insurance firm as had been promised, even though they charged their clients for that purpose, and the premiums were fraudulently calculated. The defendants are therefore guilty of deceitfully handling and embezzling the claimants’ money.”

In Gaza Strip, children, elderly men and women are being killed day by day. All people are suffering from the Israeli collective punishment.


Two young Palestinians live under the siege made this song to tell the world some of the hard conditions facing Palestinians in Gaza. The disastrous outcomes of this siege are obvious violations of international charters, human rights conventions and the 4 Geneva protocols in particular in addition to the international declaration of human rights

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