Whose Lingerie Is It? A New Mideast Secret

By Douglas Jehl - Dec. 25, 1996

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• Amid piles of panties headed for a Victoria's Secret near you, the veiled Palestinian women who stitch them together here say they now know that their workplace is not an Israeli factory.

• But from the day it opened, that is how the biggest garment plant in Jordan has been denounced in this northern city and across a country in which hostility toward Israel is more fierce than at any time since the countries made peace in 1994.

• And it certainly does not help that among the finishing touches the young Arab seamstresses put on each of the 150,000 pairs of panties that make their way to United States each month is a label that reads Made in Israel.

• This is our work, not theirs, protested Samira Melhem, 32.

• Someday, the factory may prove a model of the kind of across-the-border partnership that can bind Israel and Jordan together. But as a dividend of the quest for peace, it has run into unexpected resistance.

• That there is some intercourse with Israel is repulsive to many here in these difficult times, acknowledged Omar Z. Salah, the 30-year-old chairman of a Jordanian company that sought out the joint venture and has found itself tarred with a swirl of wild charges in Jordan's tabloid press.

• Among the stories that found their way into print was that Israeli overseers had ordered the all-female staff of 350 to work as prostitutes by night. Another said young women were being beaten.

• Only by inviting husbands and brothers to visit the factory for themselves did managers begin to put suspicions to rest. As they tried to make clear, they themselves are Jordanian and their partner is not Israeli but the American-based corporate giant Sara Lee.

• The arrangement, conceived by Mr. Salah after Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in October 1994, is based squarely on competitive advantage. With the border between the two countries to be opened, he argued, companies like Sara Lee ought to shift production to Jordan, where costs are about 50 percent of what they would be in Israel.

• As part of a joint venture, Mr. Salah and his partners won a deal that divided underwear production between an Israeli factory and his new one, with fabric cut into patterns in Israel and then trucked to Jordan for stitching by the Palestinian women who work for an average wage of about $100 a month.

• And since the plant opened in February, some 275,000 panties, boxers and T-shirts have taken shape in Jordan each month before being trucked back to Israel, and shipped to the United States to be sold under brands that, in addition to Victoria's Secret, include Donna Karan, J. Crew and Bali.

• But because Israel, and not Jordan, is guaranteed free-trade access to American markets, no mention of Jordan appears on the underwear labels, a practice permitted under United States law. In keeping with that law, a substantial share of production must also remain on the Israeli side of the border, an arrangement that has struck many Jordanians in recent months as increasingly intolerable.

• Since the election in May of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's Prime Minister, King Hussein of Jordan, for two years Israel's loudest champion in the Arab world, has gradually become a critic. And with his warning against Israel's apparent drift from the path toward peace with the Palestinians, the King still sounds effusive when compared with other prominent Jordanians.

• By this month the Jordanian Government had decided to postpone as premature a scheduled trade conference with Israeli officials. And last week, when Israeli diplomats opened their new embassy in Amman, the Jordanian capital, the highest-ranking Jordanian official on hand was the Director General of the Foreign Ministry. Among a handful of private businessmen who attended was Mr. Salah, a member of a wealthy Jordanian family.

• Beginning next month, his company, the Century Investment Group, is to expand its venture to produce up to 150,000 bras a month, pre-cut in Israel and stitched in Jordan for labels including Victoria's Secret and the Gap. Business is pretty good, Mr. Saleh said, but the situation is pretty bad. It grows like a monster every day.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/25/world/whose-lingerie-is-it-a-new-mideast-secret.html

>>10046576

Another link between Israel and Epstein. MC2, the modeling agency that was providing him girls, has an office in Tel Aviv

Anyone knows if its normal for modelling agencies to have office in Israel? Seems a bit on the nose.

http://www.mc2models.com/tel-aviv/

>>10046592

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-right-kind-of-continuity/

OVER THE PAST FEW weeks, Wexner—whose retail empire includes Victoria’s Secret and Express—has mostly appeared in the news in response to a persistent question: where did Jeffrey Epstein’s money come from? For a man who owns private islands, Epstein’s assets appear to be relatively meager. The financier seems to have acquired much of his wealth in the 1990s and early 2000s through the largesse of ultra-rich friends like Wexner; Epstein called Wexner his mentor, and the press has often described him as Epstein’s “only known client.” In addition to cash, Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney, which allowed him to perform financial transactions in Wexner’s name. He also gifted Epstein his Upper East Side manse, then handed over the Boeing 727 that Epstein would turn into his infamous party plane. Though Wexner has not been directly accused of wrongdoing, he appears to have tolerated Epstein’s habit of gaining access to Victoria’s Secret models by posing as a talent scout for the company. Wexner claims he knew nothing of Epstein’s abuses against women until the latter pled guilty to solicitation charges in 2008; at that point, Wexner and his foundation say, they ended the relationship.

Within the Jewish institutional world, however, Wexner’s relationship with Epstein is significant in a different way. Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like. Along with Sheldon Adelson, Charles Bronfman, and a few others, he has spent millions of dollars on institutions ranging from Birthright Israel—which has sent over 500,000 young diaspora Jews on free trips to Israel—to the Jewish Theological Seminary, where Conservative rabbis are ordained. The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, a prestigious and often career-making award, sponsors leadership training and graduate school tuition subsidies for an elite cadre of future rabbis, educators, and other Jewish professionals. Epstein was closely involved with Wexner’s charitable giving; together, for instance, the two men helped fund the construction of a new building for Harvard’s Hillel. Tax filings suggest that Epstein spent six years as a trustee of the Wexner Foundation, and that the foundation gave millions of dollars to pet projects of his own. (Epstein also donated to Jewish charities himself, though at a comparatively modest level.)

These ties are now stoking anxiety and division behind the scenes at Jewish institutions led by Wexner-affiliated professionals. Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school’s listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against Epstein. Mechon Hadar’s president, a prominent rabbi (and a stepson to former US senator Joe Lieberman), responded by censuring the student, implying that he would be unwelcome in the Hadar community until he performed teshuvah—repentance—for having “called out” the connections between Wexner, Epstein, and the school in a community forum. Wexner-backed institutions may well hope that any outrage currently directed at their benefactor goes the way of allegations against Michael Steinhardt, the Birthright co-founder and megadonor accused last year of serial sexual harassment—which is to say nowhere. Steinhardt remains on Birthright’s honorary board; his money will likely continue to be welcome throughout the mainstream Jewish world.

>>10046617

Lacking a broad base of support, Jewish organizations are increasingly dependent on alms from an ever older, richer, and more conservative donor class. In this sense, the likelihood that the Jewish world will continue to harbor high-level sexual assailants is simply a matter of odds: the violence of rich and powerful men against women, as we continue to confirm, is staggeringly commonplace. A community reliant on the generosity of such men is thus particularly vulnerable to their abuse.

On another level, though, the problem is even more circular than these practical considerations would suggest. The donors who rose to power in the Jewish community at the end of the 20th century built their philanthropic vision around the promotion of what came to be called “Jewish continuity.” They commissioned extensive surveys of American Jewry and found that the kind of Jews they recognized seemed to be disappearing: synagogue membership and affinity for Israel were in decline, interfaith marriage was up, and Jewish fertility rates were down. In response to this perceived crisis, the Jewish establishment poured millions of dollars into programs intended to reproduce the community “in its own image,” as the sociologist Shaul Kelner put it in an article by that name. Reproduction itself, both biological and social, is at the heart of Jewish continuity programming. The demographer Steven M. Cohen, who produced countless statistical reports on the community at the behest of the donor class, liked to put it bluntly: if institutions wanted American Jewish life to continue, they would have to prioritize the goals of “creating more Jewish marriages and filling more Jewish baby carriages.”

Cut to Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, where, according to the New York Times, the financier intended to have 20 women at a time inseminated with his sperm. Epstein was interested in transhumanism, a theory of human perfection via technological manipulation that—like its predecessor, eugenics—is shot through with racist and reactionary ideas. Allegedly inspired by a defunct operation to stockpile the sperm of Nobel laureates, Epstein cultivated relationships with Harvard scientists whom he believed could help him in this and other transhumanist endeavors: he hoped to improve the human genome, to cut aid to the poor as a bulwark against overpopulation, and to cryogenically freeze his own brain and (allegedly egg-shaped) penis. Donations to Harvard got Epstein, who did not attend college himself, in the door; he was welcomed as a patron and interlocutor by high-profile researchers even as some, like the neuroscientist Steven Pinker, eventually distanced themselves. Dershowitz, who as a Harvard Law professor regularly attended lunches Epstein hosted for the scientists, told the Times he was “appalled” to learn about Epstein’s eugenic ambitions, but their friendship continued.

These revelations suggest that Epstein is not only a sexual assailant on a grand scale, but one who believes, on the basis of bloodlines, in the righteousness of some version of his sexual politics. Clearly, Harvard—even if it knew nothing of Epstein’s predation—should be held accountable for inviting someone promoting these views into a prominent role at a research institution. Is the same true for the Wexner Foundation? No evidence has yet emerged connecting Epstein’s eugenic ambitions to his Jewish philanthropic ones. It should concern us that Epstein long had Wexner’s ear, but then, we were already concerned.

>>10046624

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1396942/victorias-secret-raid-shows-human-trafficking-still-rife

Victoria's Secret raid shows human trafficking still rife

PUBLISHED : 17 JAN 2018 AT 04:00

Last Friday's raid on Victoria's Secret Massage in Huai Khwang district by Department of Special Investigation (DSI), military and local administration officials has exposed suspected offences at the massage parlour in connection with human trafficking and prostitution, in which state officials are believed to be connected.

If they are just normal labourers, the problem is small because agencies have effective measures in place. The problematic areas are human trafficking, prostitution and forced labour, where there must be prevention and suppression.

In the past, beggars from Cambodia were brought here and we succeeded in apprehending the brokers who brought the kids (from Cambodia).

As for the trading of human parts, this has never taken place in Thailand, while forced labour has dropped markedly.

As for human trafficking which concerns children being forced to become prostitutes, the number of arrests and cases has climbed.

What are the key factors increasing the number of child prostitutes?

As prostitution concerns high pay and less-labour intensive work, as opposed to other forms of labour, people secretly come to Thailand to do jobs linked to human trafficking, and this includes children being lured into prostitution.

The DSI has conducted raids and made arrests in border areas with Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, as well as in Bangkok, and there were cases of children being lured or forced into prostitution.

>>10046631

Legal measures need to be enforced to deal with shops or business operators committing wrongdoings.

Have you ever assessed how much revenue prostitution generates?

At various massage venues, the service charge ranges from 2,000 to 10,000 baht, so each venue earns more than a million baht a day.

This could involve tens of billions of baht per year, particularly venues which also offer sex services.

Prison terms for those in violation of the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act range from one to 10 years.

The severe punishment shows we do want this problem to end.

How did the DSI step into the Victoria's Secret Massage case?

The DSI took it up as a special case last year after an anti-human trafficking foundation told us a 12-year-old girl was lured into prostitution there.

After receiving the information, the DSI widened the probe. Over the past year, the DSI gathered evidence before seeking a warrant to search the venue. No one wanted to get involved since it concerns a huge number of people, including state officials.

However, based on the DSI's probe, there are still various places in Bangkok similar to Victoria's Secret.

Has the screening of women and children found to be victims of human trafficking and prostitution been concluded?

There is a legal process in place with health professionals determining whether the women are victims or not. As for the venue's owners, they must be prosecuted for human trafficking.

Officers have widened probes and sought seven arrest warrants for Mr Boonsap, or Pa Kob, who deals with customers. Another offence concerns sex services uncovered during Friday's raid.

As of Sunday, four females aged 18 or below were being treated as human trafficking victims. Another two were found to have been forced into prostitution. We will ask Wang Thong Lang police to transfer the case to the DSI which will treat it as a special case.

Charges will be brought against those involved.

>>10046640

How will you deal with police and other state officials who received discounts for massage services or got them free?

This is the police's responsibility. When there is prostitution, questions must be raised as to whether police were aware of it. As for the names, a probe must be carried out to determine whether officers received money. Some venues provide quotas (to officials), but they do not use the services. The customer relations manager will be asked to implicate them (officers).

When we questioned the list maker and customer relations manager, they did not implicate anyone, making the job difficult.

What kind of measures will the DSI adopt to prevent and tackle human trafficking?

The Justice Ministry (which is in charge of the DSI) is responsible for suppressing graft among state officials. One of the problems with human trafficking is dereliction of duty by officials. If there is a move to prevent them getting involved in trafficking, the problem could decline.

Additionally, efforts must be made to show the importance of why human trafficking must be tackled. Trafficking is linked to the livelihoods of people in neighbouring countries. These people have low incomes and they want to seek more money by coming to work here or offering sex services illegally.

Has the DSI sought cooperation with neighbouring countries to prevent the problem?

The DSI has attended meetings with representatives from neighbouring countries in the Mekong River basin.

We have sought cooperation with Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to lay out guidelines to jointly prevent human trafficking and all the countries understand Thailand.

Cooperation has taken place and is ongoing to prevent and suppress the problem through information exchange, which has so far led to people involved in human trafficking networks being arrested.

>>10046641

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/international/2017/05/26/sex-traffickers-took-hundreds-thailand-us/

By

Associated Press

May 26, 2017 10:34 am

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be “modern day sex slaves,” according to an indictment unsealed Thursday that charges high-level members of what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that concealed millions of dollars in earnings.

The indictment brings the total number of people charged to 38, making it one of the largest sex-trafficking prosecutions in the U.S., said Acting U.S. Attorney Gregory Brooker. Authorities say the operation lured Thai women to the U.S. with promises of a better life, then forced them to work as prostitutes until they could pay off often insurmountable bondage debts.

Women were rotated through several prostitution houses around the U.S., forced to work long hours, and “forced to have sex with strangers, even if the men were abusive,” Brooker said.

The conspiracy began in 2009, according to the indictment, with organizers bringing poor women who spoke little English from Bangkok to several U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Washington, Houston and Dallas. The organization threatened to harm the women’s families in Thailand if they escaped.

>>10046654

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1021193-police-hands-over-victoria-secret%E2%80%99s-human-trafficking-case-file-to-dsi/

Posted January 20, 2018

Police hands over Victoria Secret’s human trafficking case file to DSI

The Royal Thai Police on Friday (Jan 19) handed over the human trafficking case file involving the Victoria Secret massage parlour raid on Jan 12 to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) for investigation.

But Wang Thong Lang police station, where Victoria Secret is located under its jurisdiction, will still handle investigation of persons who had sex with the underage at the massage parlour as it is not categorised as human trafficking.

>>10046661

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1021193-police-hands-over-victoria-secret%E2%80%99s-human-trafficking-case-file-to-dsi/

Posted January 20, 2018

Police hands over Victoria Secret’s human trafficking case file to DSI

The Royal Thai Police on Friday (Jan 19) handed over the human trafficking case file involving the Victoria Secret massage parlour raid on Jan 12 to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) for investigation.

But Wang Thong Lang police station, where Victoria Secret is located under its jurisdiction, will still handle investigation of persons who had sex with the underage at the massage parlour as it is not categorised as human trafficking.

>>10046661

https://www.acq5.com/post/how-jeffrey-epstein-used-the-billionaire-behind-victoria-s-secret-for-wealth-and-women/

From the outset, Mr. Epstein’s role extended far beyond that of a traditional money manager. In the late 1980s, Mr. Wexner started building Limitless, a 316-foot yacht. Mr. Epstein managed its construction and design, said Craig Tafoya, who captained Mr. Wexner’s ships for 15 years.

In meetings with shipbuilders in London, Mr. Tafoya said, Mr. Epstein dove into details about the yacht and cast himself as a tough negotiator. “He didn’t take B.S. from anybody,” Mr. Tafoya said, adding that Mr. Epstein didn’t spend much time on the yacht because he “could look at a glass of water and get seasick.”

Mr. Epstein once owned a 23-room, 10,600-square-foot mansion with a pool and bathhouse, a short walk from Mr. Wexner’s larger estate.

The clearest sign of Mr. Wexner’s nearly limitless comfort with Mr. Epstein came in July 1991. Mr. Wexner signed a three-page legal document, known as a power of attorney, that enabled Mr. Epstein to hire people, sign checks, buy and sell properties and borrow money — all on Mr. Wexner’s behalf. Mr. Epstein, the document stated, had the “full power and authority to do and perform every act necessary” for Mr. Wexner.

“It takes a vast amount of trust to give someone total control,” said William P. LaPiana, an associate dean at New York Law School and a trust and estates expert who reviewed the document at the request of The Times. “Essentially what this means is, I can sign your name to anything.”

For the next 16 years, that document gave Mr. Epstein unmatched authority over Mr. Wexner’s financial affairs — and it corresponded to a period in which Mr. Epstein came to control or own valuable assets that previously belonged to Mr. Wexner or his companies.

Soon, Mr. Epstein’s name appeared on numerous Securities and Exchange Commission filings, listing him as a trustee for a series of ambiguously named entities like Health and Science Interests, Health and Science Interests II and International Charitable Interests, as well as trusts for Mr. Wexner’s children. Mr. Epstein had voting power over those interests, which came to own millions of dollars’ worth of Limited shares.

In Swiss banking documents related to some of Mr. Wexner’s entities, Mr. Epstein’s role was described as “manager of fortune.” The documents were included in an enormous leak of confidential records to the French newspaper Le Monde. They were shared with The Times through a collaboration organized by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Mr. Epstein became ubiquitous in Ohio. His black book of contacts filled up with phone numbers with Columbus’s 614 area code. That included dozens of numbers for Mr. Wexner, his personal staff and L Brands executives — even a couple of local doctors. Mr. Epstein, who would fly in and out of Columbus on his private plane, became a fixture at Mr. Wexner’s parties and an annual fund-raiser for the Wexner Arts Center, which included a luncheon at the billionaire’s home.

When Mr. Wexner celebrated his 59th birthday with a dinner party at his mansion, Mr. Epstein acted like a master of ceremonies, giving toasts and introducing guests, according to a person who attended.

As Mr. Epstein managed Mr. Wexner’s fortune, parts of that fortune ended up in Mr. Epstein’s hands.

Around the same time, Mr. Epstein, through a separate company, spent $7.95 million to buy Little St. James Island in the United States Virgin Islands, which would eventually become one of his primary residences.

Mr. Epstein in 1998 also took sole possession of Mr. Wexner’s stone mansion on East 71st Street in New York. A person with knowledge of Mr. Wexner’s finances said that Mr. Epstein paid $20 million, although there are no publicly filed documents recording the transaction.

>>10046684

About two years later, a business controlled by Mr. Epstein obtained a Boeing 727 previously owned by The Limited. There do not appear to be public records of the transaction, but the person with knowledge of Mr. Wexner’s finances said Mr. Epstein paid $10 million.

Mr. Epstein assumed leadership positions in Mr. Wexner’s foundations, according to tax records. Two of those foundations contributed a total of about $21 million in stock and cash to a charity that Mr. Epstein had set up, called C.O.U.Q.

Mr. Epstein’s charity contributed money to a variety of organizations, including the Palm Beach, Fla., police department, a Florida ballet group and the Clinton Foundation.

In the summer of 1996, Maria Farmer was working on an art project for Mr. Epstein in Mr. Wexner’s Ohio mansion. While she was there, Mr. Epstein sexually assaulted her, according to an affidavit Ms. Farmer filed earlier this year in federal court in Manhattan. She said that she fled the room and called the police, but that Mr. Wexner’s security staff refused to let her leave for 12 hours.

When Mr. Wexner was informed about what Mr. Epstein was doing, he promised to take care of the issue, the two executives said.

She said she went to the police the day after Mr. Epstein attacked her, worried that he could be using his connection to Victoria’s Secret to hurt other women. A week later, when she could not stop thinking about what had happened, she returned to the police station to put her report on the record.

That police report, reviewed by The Times, is one of the earliest known police records of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Mr. Epstein.

Nearly a decade later, in early 2006, Florida authorities charged Mr. Epstein with multiple counts of molestation and unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

It wasn’t until 18 months later that Mr. Wexner cut ties with Mr. Epstein.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/06/wexners-pledge-additional-6-3-million-to-center/

https://larouchepub.com/other/2001/2844mega_bios.html

https://vocal.media/theSwamp/epstein-and-junkermann-september-1-2002-the-secret-senators-and-the-wexner-war-on-iraq

very important article

>>10046690

https://docuri.com/download/neil-bush39s-massive-usa-pedophile-networkpdf_59a8d5edf581719e12ad7210_pdf

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury heard several

agents testify in April that the “Watergate

, Ritz

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Carlton and Sheraton

Hotels in Washington, DC were used to compromise legislators and

news

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people with prostitution services, the financing of which is

directly linked to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee

(AIPAC), former Israeli Prime Mi

nister Benjamin Netanyahu, Marc

Rich and Abramoff,” said national security expert Thomas Heneghan

The corruption and crimes surrounding the indicted Republican

lobbyist were widespread and far

-

reaching enough to cause

Fitzgerald to impanel a separate grand jury, oft

en referred to by

intelligence officials as the “Franklin grand jury,” which is hearing

testimony and examining Abramoff linked evidence tied to the Iraq

War, September 11 and related issues.

Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was arrested for leaking classi

fied

U.S. government information to AIPAC officials Steve Rosen and

Keith Weissman who reportedly leaked information to Israel

concerning a controversial proposal by Department of Defense

hardliners to destabilize Iran.

The federal source wishing to remai

n anonymous said that additional government officials

are currently testifying this month before the Franklin grand jury about Abramoff, the GOP

-

linked prostitution ring and its ties to AIPAC.

“Photographs of politicians in compromising positions have rep

ortedly already been used

as blackmail to silence politicians who would speak the truth about the 2000 election fraud

in Florida, 9

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11, Iraq/yellowcake/WMD and how Jack Abramoff and Netanyahu were the

pimps for the operation,” said Heneghan.

Fitzgerald is reportedly convinced that the Bush administration wanted Valerie Plame

-

Wilson’s identity as a CIA official leaked because her intellige

nce team had identified

Israeli Mossad operatives inside Iran who were to receive weapons of mass destruction

(WMD) to be delivered through Turkey and planted in Iraq to further the president’s case

for war, said the intelligence expert.

“The financing fo

r these whorehouses is linked directly to AIPAC, Benjamin Netanyahu,

Marc Rich and Jack Abramoff; and the money trail ties back to American International

Group (AIG), Hank Greenberg and Doug Alexander

>>10046694

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former British Minister of E

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Commerce,” said Heneghan

MSNBC

host and former congressman Joe Scarborough, subject of a

rec

ent

TomFlocco.com

story

, “is now cooperating with federal investigators in the

Abramoff matter which has led the probe to the doorsteps of the AIPAC whorehouses now

operating in Washington, DC,” said Heneghan.

The intelligence expert told us “Scarborough

told federal investigators that he now

believes his female staff member was murdered in his congressional office to silence her

regarding knowledge of Alexander, Sembler, Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush and the Florida

election 2000 coup d’ etat.”

https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/news/the-wexner-network-in-full-force-at-aipac

https://www.wrmea.org/009-november/israeli-organ-trafficking-and-theft-from-moldova-to-palestine.html

In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other was somewhat chilling: “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.”

She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her “it’s kind of ”˜an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We’re going to get every single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to us.’”

One of these is Moldova, the poorest country in Europe—and homeland of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman—where 90 percent of the people earn less than $2 a day. A 2001 BBC report on organ trafficking described the situation: “Hundreds of Israelis have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney.

>>10046706

Another is Brazil, where a legislative commission found that 30 [it may actually have been as high as 60] Brazilians from impoverished neighborhoods had sold their kidneys to a trafficking ring headed by Israelis, with Israeli citizens receiving almost all of the organs, and the Israeli government providing most of the funding.

It is difficult to know how often Israeli trafficking involves outright theft of vital organs from living human beings.

Israel’s very first successful heart transplant, in fact, used a stolen heart.

In 2004 there were reports that Israeli traffickers had added China to their target donor populations.18 In one recent case an Israeli paid an organ broker $100,000 for a kidney transplant in China from an 18-year-old Chinese girl. She received $5,000 and died following surgery.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB958516516682768066

Sex Trafficking: A Dark Side To the New World Order

By

Gerald F. Seib

Updated May 17, 2000 11:59 pm ET

www.haaretz.com › …

Dec 12, 2001 - Romania Probes Israeli Adoption Agency Link in Organ Trafficking … The Romanian Embassy in Israel has asked for, and received from the Labor and Social …

>>10046714

https://nymag.com/news/features/41826/

Dec. 7, 2007

The Fantasist

By Philip Weiss

His claim that he’d given a total of $100,000 to Ballet Florida for massage was absolutely true. “The massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us. It’s part of a dancer’s life to have daily massages,” says the ballet’s marketing director, Debbie Wemyss, who notes that Epstein’s generosities preceded his public troubles. Police were not impressed. They interviewed a licensed deep-tissue masseuse whom Epstein frequently employed. She said she got $100 an hour, and there were no happy endings.

The police complained that private investigators were harassing the family of the 14-year-old girl before she was to appear before the grand jury in spring 2006. The police said that one girl had called another to say, “Those who help [Epstein] will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with.”

By then, the case was politicized. The Palm Beach police had brought stacks of evidence across the waterway to the Palm Beach County state attorney’s office, but the state attorney apparently saw the main witnesses as weak. One had run away from home, lied about her age, and bragged about her ass on MySpace. Another had a drug arrest and had stolen from Victoria’s Secret. The police wanted numerous felony charges against Epstein as well as charges against Haley Robson and Sarah Kellen. Then they heard that the state attorney was preparing a deal with Epstein giving him five years on probation and sending him for psychiatric evaluation. The police chief, Michael Reiter, accused the state attorney of bending over backward for a rich man and then turned the matter over to the FBI.

Maybe it was inevitable that religion would come into the case. Peggy Siegal says Epstein’s two big charitable causes are science and Israel.

Epstein’s activities seem to have devolved in recent years. Juan Alessi, his longtime houseman, told police that toward the end of his employment, the girls were “younger and younger,” and he often had to wash off vibrators and “a long rubber penis” left in the sink. The next houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez, said that he found the sex toys he had to wash “scattered on the floor.”