Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Police anti-corruption ou anti-juive? Le grand rabbin ashkénaze d'Israël, qui remerciait Bush pour la guerre en Irak, arrêté pour fraude et blanchiment d'argent



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Le grand rabbin Metzger démis de sa fonction rabbinique
Israel Hayom
Le Grand Rabbin ashkénaze d’Israël Yona Metzger est suspendu de ses fonctions en attendant l’enquête de la police. Metzger passe le week-end en résidence surveillée suite à des soupçons de pots de vin pour des centaines de milliers de shekels, engagés dans la fraude et le blanchiment d’argent.

Metzger steps down from chief rabbinical duties
Israel Hayom
Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger suspends himself from duties pending police probe • Metzger spends weekend under house arrest following suspicions that he took bribes of hundreds of thousands of shekels, engaged in fraud and money laundering.(Read the rest)

Israël: un grand rabbin accusé de corruption assigné à résidence
(...)"Le rabbin Yona Metzger a été assigné à résidence pour les cinq prochains jours après avoir été interrogé pendant plus de 10 heures par les enquêteurs de la brigade antifraude de la police", a précisé à l'AFP le porte-parole de la police Micky Rosenfeld.
"Il sera interrogé à nouveau si nécessaire", a ajouté le parole.
Le rabbin Metzger, qui représente les ashkénazes, a été la cible d'une enquête discrète de plusieurs mois qui a également visé trois autres suspects, selon la police.
Les enquêteurs le soupçonnent d'avoir reçu des pots de vin, de vol, d'abus de confiance, et de blanchiment d'argent, a ajouté la police dans un communiqué.
Israël compte deux grands rabbins, un ashkénaze et un séfarade, qui gèrent notamment les tribunaux rabbiniques et la régulation du code alimentaire prescrit aux croyants juifs et ont la haute main sur les mariages et les divorces entre juifs, la séparation entre la religion et de l'Etat n'existant pas.
En 2005, la police avait recommandé l'ouverture de poursuites judiciaires contre lui, une première dans l'histoire du rabbinat d'Israël, dans le cadre d'une enquête concernant des faveurs personnelles dont il aurait bénéficié de la part de la direction d'un grand hôtel de Jérusalem.
Le procureur général avait décidé de ne pas le poursuivre, faute de preuves, mais l'avait appelé à démissionner.
Le grand rabbin séfarade Shlomo Amar a lui aussi eu maille à partir avec la police en raison de l'agression et la séquestration par son fils d'un jeune qui courtisait secrètement la fille du rabbin. Il n'avait pas été inquiété bien qu'il ait été au courant, mais son fils avait été condamné en 2006 à 32 mois de prison.



As chief rabbi elections near, allegations against Metzger reflect rot in the Rabbinate
(...) The Chief Rabbinate has its share of decent rabbis and employees, but it’s a lawless, shameless system. That’s not just the view of the man in the street; it’s been detailed in official reports by the state comptroller and court documents in recent years: the appointment of cronies, the collection of illegal fees and payments, the granting of unearned rabbinical ordination certificates, the lack of rules and procedures.
Metzger may continue to provide work for his lawyers through the end of his term and beyond, but the problem isn’t just Metzger, or even the corruption in the system. The problem is that this corrupt culture has direct victims: Jews who live in Israel and need the rabbinate’s services. And that is almost every Jew in the country − both those who fly to Cyprus to get married and those who seek to marry in accordance with religious law; anyone who wants to eat kosher food or be buried when he dies; and especially the thousands of converts and the couples, above all the women, who come before the rabbinical courts to seek a divorce.
If the rabbinate had clean hands, perhaps it would find time to tend to the important goals for which it was established and take its responsibilities seriously, toward Jews in Israel and also toward those living overseas.
The upcoming election of the next chief rabbis − who will serve for a 10-year term − is a major drama in the religious world. But this drama will be a missed opportunity as long as the debate revolves solely around the question of who the next chief rabbis will be rather than around the question of what the next Chief Rabbinate will be.
The biggest waste of opportunity, however, is the apathy of secular Jews toward the rabbinate − the unwritten agreement under which secular politicians let the religious do whatever they please with it and thereby waive their ability to have an impact on Jewish life. That’s precisely how Metzger managed to get elected last time around, with the support of secular elected officials. Instead, this should be the moment for all Israeli politicians, religious and secular alike, to join hands and foment a revolution. 

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Metzger arrest latest in long string of chief rabbi scandals

(...)Metzger’s arrest last week on accusations that he embezzled money meant for nonprofits led the rabbi to suspend himself from his position until the investigation is completed.
Following 10 hours of questioning on Thursday by police with the National Fraud Unit, Metzger was placed under house arrest until Tuesday, the date of his first court hearing. Three of his associates also were brought in for questioning.
The scandal is the latest in a string of accusations against Metzger and the most recent allegation of wrongdoing against Israel’s chief rabbis.
In 2003, the year Metzger was elected to his 10-year term, he was accused of sexual harassment. New sexual harassment allegations have come to light in the days since his arrest.
Two years later, Metzger was investigated on charges that he received preferential treatment at the David Citadel, a luxury hotel in Jerusalem. Metzger maintained his innocence throughout the probe, which was dropped in 2008 for lack of evidence.
Past chief rabbis also have weathered allegations of misconduct.
Yisrael Meir Lau, Metzger’s predecessor, also was accused of sexual harassment. And Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi from 1993 to 2003, is on trial for issuing fake rabbinic ordination certificates to security guards so they could secure pay raises.
For many Israelis, such sordid tales are an unfortunate and all-too-familiar sideshow.(...)


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Ex-chief rabbi: I warned against Metzger

L’ancien grand rabbin d’Israël Yona Metzger inculpé pour corruption L’ancien leader religieux ashkénaze est accusé d’avoir reçu 10 M de shekels en pots de vin, dont il aurait gardé la plupart pour lui

Ex-Israeli chief rabbi Yona Metzger indicted for corruption Former Ashkenazi religious leader accused of taking NIS 10 million in bribes, most of which he allegedly kept for himself

Follow the money - and those rabbis Rabbi Nachman Berland, son of fugitive Shuvu Banim leader Rabbi Elizer Berland, is suspected of transferring funds to colleagues and relatives.


L’ancien grand rabbin d’Israël arrêté pour corruption
L’ex-grand rabbin ashkenaze d’Israël Yona Metzger, soupçonné de corruption, a été arrêté lundi, a indiqué la police.
"L’ancien grand rabbin d’Israël Yona Metzger a été arrêté ce matin dans le cadre d’une enquête pour corruption, pots-de-vin, fraude, abus de confiance, subornation de témoin et entrave à l’exercice de la justice", a détaillé un communiqué de la police.
"La police soupçonne que la totalité des sommes liées à cette affaire serait de plusieurs millions de shekels (des centaines de milliers d’euros)", précise le communiqué.
Interpellé une première fois dans le cadre d’une investigation policière en juin dernier, le rabbin Metzger avait été assigné à résidence mais les enquêteurs ont découvert de nouvelles preuves, qui conduit à son arrestation lundi.
En 2005, la police avait recommandé l’ouverture de poursuites judiciaires contre lui, une première dans l’histoire du rabbinat d’Israël, dans le cadre d’une enquête concernant des faveurs personnelles dont il aurait bénéficié de la part de la direction d’un grand hôtel de Jérusalem.
Le procureur général avait décidé de ne pas le poursuivre, faute de preuves, mais l’avait appelé à démissionner, ce que le rabbin n’a pas fait.
Yona Metzger, 60 ans, a été le grand rabbin ashkenaze d’Israël jusqu’en juillet 2013 après dix ans à ce poste.


L'ancien grand rabbin d'Israël arrêté
Par Le Figaro.fr avec AFP
Mis à jour le 18/11/2013 à 14:23Publié le 18/11/2013 à 14:20
L'ex-grand rabbin ashkenaze d'Israël Yona Metzger, soupçonné de corruption, a été arrêté aujourd'hui, a indiqué la police."L'ancien grand rabbin d'Israël Yona Metzger a été arrêté ce matin dans le cadre d'une enquête pour corruption, pots-de-vin, fraude, abus de confiance, subornation de témoin et entrave à l'exercice de la justice", a détaillé un communiqué de la police. "La police soupçonne que la totalité des sommes liées à cette affaire serait de plusieurs millions de shekels (des centaines de milliers d'euros)", précise le communiqué.Interpellé une première fois dans le cadre d'une investigation policière en juin dernier, le rabbin Metzger avait été assigné à résidence mais les enquêteurs ont découvert de nouvelles preuves, qui conduit à son arrestation aujourd'hui.En 2005, la police avait recommandé l'ouverture de poursuites judiciaires contre lui, une première dans l'histoire du rabbinat d'Israël, dans le cadre d'une enquête concernant des faveurs personnelles dont il aurait bénéficié de la part de la direction d'un grand hôtel de Jérusalem. Le procureur général avait décidé de ne pas le poursuivre, faute de preuves, mais l'avait appelé à démissionner, ce que le rabbin n'a pas fait. Yona Metzger, 60 ans, a été le grand rabbin ashkenaze d'Israël jusqu'en juillet 2013 après dix ans à ce poste.



Former chief rabbi Metzger arrested for taking bribe, fraud

LAST UPDATED: 11/18/2013 20:21

Metzger suspected of defrauding charities of millions of shekels. CHIEF RABBI Yona Metzger

CHIEF RABBI Yona Metzger Photo: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters
Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of receiving bribes and illicit payments, and taken to Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court where a judge extended his remand in police custody for nine days.
Speaking at the hearing, Judge Menahem Mizrahi said that “there is reasonable suspicion that the offenses attributed to the suspect were indeed committed [by him],” and added that releasing the rabbi could interfere with the police investigation.
The police representative at the hearing for the extended remand, Asaf Valfish of the Lahav 433 National Crime Unit and chief investigator in the case stated that the investigation was creating a “depressing picture,” according to which Metzger allegedly received bribes and forbidden payments of an “unprecedented scope.”
Valfish said that the amounts allegedly payed to Metzger added up to millions of shekels in cash received by the rabbi over the last 10 years while he was serving as chief rabbi, and also charged the rabbi with breach of public trust.
In the formal police request for extending Metzger’s detention, Valfish wrote that Metzger had been paid hundreds of thousands of shekels to act as an agent in order to direct different parties, in Israel and abroad, to make charitable payments to different organizations and philanthropic groups.
Additionally, the rabbi is accused of taking millions of shekels for “utilizing his authority as chief rabbi, in a variety of different incidents.”
Further, Valfish wrote that Metzger had “worked to hide and obscure his identity as someone who was receiving illegal payments, [and] interfere with the investigation into the case...”
Metzger’s attorney, David Libai, noted that he had not been permitted to see documentation from the investigation and said that he was concerned that someone was seeking to slander the rabbi, since “it is totally unrealistic that he received millions [of shekels] in relation to his job.”
Libai also asked why, if the evidence was so strong, the police were concerned that Metzger could interfere with the investigation.
Speaking in court, Metzger said that the police arrived at his home at seven in the morning, conducted a search and and took him to the police station without prior notice.
“I was in their hands for seven hours... and I was not asked one question which I had not been previously asked.
They are chewing over the same material from every different side,” he said.
“And the Jew who is standing with a kippa on his head enters in the middle of the investigation and says, ‘You’re using your lack of memory; we’ll put you in detention.’ So the detention is supposed to refresh my memory?” Police raided Metzger’s home and offices back in June this year and questioned him under caution for several hours.
The former chief rabbi, along with three other men, are suspected of being involved in the alleged financial crimes.


Gag order lifted || Israel's former chief rabbi arrested on suspicion of accepting millions in bribes
Rabbi Yona Metzger is suspected of accepting bribes from heads of organizations in order to advance their interests during the time he served as Ashkenazi chief rabbi.
By | Nov. 18, 2013 | 1:58 PM | 33
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger in Berlin,  Aug. 21, 2012.
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger in Berlin, Aug. 21, 2012. Photo by AP
Former chief rabbi Rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested Monday morning on suspicion he had received bribes and committed other crimes during the period he had served as Ashkenazi chief rabbi. A gag order was lifted on the case on Monday.  
Metzger is suspected of bribery, money laundering, obstructing an investigation, fraud and other violations.
Police suspect that Metzger had accepted bribes of money and goods from the heads of various nonprofit associations in return for advancing their interests. Police said the amounts involved totaled millions of shekels. 

Israel's religious leadership under investigation
Israel's religious leadership under investigation

The Israel Police National Fraud squad has been investigating Metzger for several months. It was decided to take Metzger into custody because the investigation has made significant progress, with strong evidence available to back the allegations, police said. The police also suspect that in recent months, Metzger had tried to suborn witnesses and obstruct the investigation. Additional suspects have been detained for questioning.
That Metzger was under suspicion was made public in June on the approval of the attorney general and the state prosecutor. Metzger was questioned under caution at the time for 10 hours and was released to house arrest for five days. Metzger, who at the time was in the final weeks of his tenure as chief rabbi, suspended himself from several of his tasks.
Metzger was elected chief rabbi in April 2003, and was also named a dayan (rabbinic judge) on the Supreme Rabbinical Court. In 2005 he was investigated on suspicion he had received tens of thousands of shekels in benefits from Jerusalem hotels that accommodated him and his family during the holidays, even though the state was renting him a luxury apartment in the capital.
In a detailed legal opinion, then-Attorney General Menahem Mazuz decided that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to put Metzger on trial; however, Mazuz called on Metzger to take responsibility for his actions and draw the proper personal conclusions, and also recommended that he be removed from his post. In February 2008, the Rabbinical Court Judge Selection Committee decided not to remove Metzger.
Back in 2003, there were reports that Metzger had allegedly sexually harassed other men. Then-Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein decided not to launch a criminal investigation. Two of the four men who had told the Maariv newspaper that Metzger had harassed them took polygraph tests and were found to be telling the truth. Metzger, however, presented his own polygraph tests that showed he was telling the truth and that no harassment had ever occurred.
A series of documents published by Haaretz in 2003 described how the Chief Rabbinate decided to ignore serious suspicions that had accumulated against Metzger when the latter was a candidate for chief rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1998, in exchange for him dropping out of the race. Then Sephardic Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron was aware, in 1998, of at least one complaint of sexual harassment against Metzger, but despite this, he signed a document in which he committed to drop an investigation of those suspicions.
Thus, the various allegations of Metzger’s violation of halacha and the law that remain open include: sexual harassment, forging signatures on ketubot (marriage contracts), improper conduct toward couples seeking to get married and their families, extortion and threats against Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky and more. According to the documents obtained 10 years ago by Haaretz, Dichovsky had complained in 1998 that Metzger had tried to extort and threaten him so that he should not compete against him for the post of Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Tel Aviv.  



Former chief rabbi arrested for allegedly stealing millions

Yona Metzger, who gave up his position earlier this year, faces a laundry list of corruption charges
November 18, 2013, 3:26 pm
Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested on Monday at the culmination of a long investigation into a litany of financial crimes involving millions of shekels.
Metzger was brought before the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court and charged with offenses that included fraud, bribery, money laundering, breach of trust, obstruction of justice and tampering with witnesses. Police maintained a partial gag order on some details of the case and although initial news of an arrest broke Monday morning, it was only in the afternoon that Metzger’s name was released.
The police said the investigation was carried out over several months by its corruption and organized crime department, known as Unit 433, and involved the tax authorities and the Jerusalem district attorney.
The court granted a police request to remand Metzger in custody for 10 days.
According to the allegations, various nonprofit organizations connected with the rabbi during his term in office received millions of shekels in donations, some of which Metzger allegedly siphoned off for his own personal use.
In addition, he is suspected of receiving bribes to sway his opinion on matters he attended to in his capacity as chief rabbi.
Police reportedly continued to monitor Metzger following his initial house arrest earlier this year, during which time he allegedly tried to obstruct the investigation against him and tamper with witnesses.
Although the investigation was initially covert it became public in June 2013 when Metzger, who was at the time still the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, was placed under house arrest. While proclaiming his innocence, Metzger, whose 10-year term as chief rabbi was months away from its conclusion, chose to resign his position.

 

November 22, 2013
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Asked Aide To Take The Fall For Him, Secret Tape Allegedly Shows
 
Rabbi Yona Metzger 2“If you take the blame [for stealing millions of shekels] just like Shula Zaken did for Ehud Olmert, I will give you a great deal of money as well as an apartment,” Metzger allegedly told an aide.

Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Asked Aide To Take The Fall For Him, Secret Tape Allegedly Shows

Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

“If you take the blame in this case, I will give you a great deal of money as well as an apartment, just like Shula Zaken did for Ehud Olmert.”

These are the words haredi former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger allegedly said to an aide after police first arrested Metzger last June on fraud and corruption charges.

But what Metzger did not know is that his conversation with that aide was being recorded.

The resulting recording is reportedly only part of the evidence police have against Metzger, who reportedly stole millions of shekels while he was chief rabbi. That aide is allegedly the state’s lead witness against Metzger.

Metzger traveled to foreign countries in his official capacity as chief rabbi.

During those official trips Metzger fundraised for charities, some of which he controlled.

Metzger allegedly took as much as 50% of the money he raised for those charities as his personal commission and did not report that income to tax authorities.

The prosecution reportedly has more than one lead witness against Metzger and a large amount of evidence some aware of the details of the investigation are calling “air tight.”

Metzger has a long string of alleged corruption and sexual harassment allegations against him stretching back to the years before he was elected chief rabbi in a backroom deal orchestrated by then haredi-leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who was fully aware of the allegations against Metzger but backed him anyway.


Update Jan. 2017:


Ex-chief rabbi sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Rabbi Yona Metzger signed a plea agreement in which he admitted to accepting millions of shekels in bribes and committing fraud while serving as Israel's chief rabbi.
Former chief rabbi Metzger confesses to reduced bribery charges in plea
Yona Metzger to become first chief rabbi in Israel to serve jail time
Ex-Israel chief rabbi to serve jail time in plea deal for fraud

Former Chief Rabbi Metzger confesses, is convicted of bribery

Former Israeli chief rabbi gets 4.5 years in prison for fraud, money laundering and bribery

Rabbi Yona Metzger Former chief rabbi given extra year behind bars for severity of crimes

Judge throws out plea deal, jails ex-chief rabbi for 4.5 years

Ex-Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Gets 4-1/2 Years For Fraud

Rabbi Metzger: I'm stunned by the court's decision
 
Rabbi Metzger punishment worsened
 
Le rabbin Metzger condamné à 4 ans et demi de prison








http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Chief-rabbi-thanks-Bush-for-war-against-Iraq

Chief rabbi thanks Bush for 'war against Iraq'

By MATTHEW WAGNER
01/10/2008 00:23

Metzger chosen as one of 12 most influential religious figures in the world for a CBS documentary called In God's Name.

 

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yona metzger hat 298 Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski [file]
During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked President George W. Bush for the US's military intervention in Iraq. "I want to thank you for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a war against Iraq," Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi's spokesman. Bush reportedly answered that the chief rabbi's words "warmed his heart." Metzger's stand on the Iraqi war, while reflecting the Israeli majority and Orthodox Jewry, is not shared with most US Jews. The American Jewish Committee's annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, published last year, found that 70 percent of US Jews disapprove of the Iraq war, with 28% backing it. In a related story, Metzger was chosen as one of the 12 most influential religious figures in the world for a CBS documentary called In God's Name that appeared at the end of December. Newsweek also devoted a story to the documentary complete with pictures of Metzger and the other religious leaders. Metzger was chosen along with figures such as the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and heads of the Sikh and Muslim religions.





03/26/03
This War is for Us
by Ariel Natan Pasko
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2125

[Traduction: Arrêtez-vous et réfléchissez un moment: la dernière Guerre du Golfe en 1991 s'est terminée le jour d'erev -- juste avant -- Pourim. La présente Guerre en Irak a débuté le jour de motzei -- juste après -- Shushan Pourim.]

Stop and think for a moment: the last Gulf War in 1991 ended erev - just before - Purim. This Gulf War began motzei - just after - Shushan Purim. Get the picture? In between, "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor." (Book of Esther 8:16)

Of course this war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein is for us. Even the anti-Semites, like Patrick J. Buchanan and Congressman Jim Moran know it. (...)

However, we already knew that this war is for us - i.e., the Jews and Israel. Chazal - our sages - throughout the ages have explained the Torah, telling us that everything that happens in the world is for the benefit of the Jewish People.

As I said earlier, of course this war is for the Jews and Israel, and instead of hiding from the accusation, or crying, "anti-Semitic slur", we should gratefully acknowledge what the Master of the Universe is doing to our enemies for us. Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Bashar Assad, Osama Bin-Laden, and the other dictators, terrorists and mullahs of the region, are the modern day Hamans and Hitlers.(...)

Yes, the war is for the Jews.
But it is also for all decent, peace-loving and freedom-loving people. Just as when the Jews were saved from Egyptian slavery, liberated, given the Torah at Mt. Sinai, and brought into the Holy Land, the world now has a great opportunity to rid itself of the Hamans, Hitlers, and Pharaohs who want to kill or enslave them today. (read the rest...)



Rabbis: Purim, Iraq war linked
by Joe Berkofsky · March 18, 2003
http://jta.org/news/article/2003/03/18/10067/Forrabbisit8217

(...) Blu Greenberg, an Orthodox feminist leader based in New York, supports the Bush administration’s campaign against Iraq as a “preventive war,” much as the ancient Jews defended themselves against Haman’s plot to destroy them.(...)

Rabbi Martin Weiner of San Francisco, outgoing president of the Reform movement’s rabbinical union, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, used Shabbat Zachor to draw a line from Amalek to Hitler to Saddam. A modern-day Amalek, Saddam has attacked four of his neighbors, gassed tens of thousands of his own people and pays stipends to suicide bombers, Weiner said, so “it’s terribly important to remove him.” Last September, Weiner was among those who backed a resolution from the Reform movement’s Union of American Hebrew Congregations urging a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, if Congress supported it and U.N. backing was sought. But for Reform Rabbi Don Rossoff, of Temple B’nai Or in Morristown, N.J., Amalek casts a very different shadow. Rossoff said he has refrained from publicly sermonizing this Purim about the war, which he opposes, because he is “haunted by Baruch Goldstein, who called the Arabs Amalek.” Goldstein, a doctor in an Israeli settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron, shot to death 29 Palestinians praying in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarch on Purim Day in 1994. Saddam is “a tyrannical, murderous dictator” who “ would probably wipe out Israel if he could,” Rossoff added. “But he’s not the only one around. His name just starts with ‘H,’ ” like Haman.(...)





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Une croquée de plus de 50 milliards

Forbes Israël fait des listes de milliardaires juifs... mais aucun Rothschild n'y figure, c'est bizarre non?

Un des journalistes juifs du Watergate, Carl Bernstein accuse les néocons juifs d'être derrière la guerre en Irak

La guerre en Irak était une célébration de Pourim

Le mouvement juif néoconservateur

Les soldats juifs avaient l'ordre de "nettoyer Gaza"

Selon le Grand rabbin orthodoxe sépharade Ovadia Yosef, "les Gentils n’existent que pour servir les Juifs"

Le rabbin Shapira, auteur d'un livre qui approuve le meurtre des non-juifs, est soutenu par une douzaine de rabbins israéliens importants

Le rabbin Dov Lior: « Le sperme des Non-Juifs donne naissance une progéniture cruelle et barbare »

Un mandat d'arrêt émis contre le rabbin Dov Lior pour incitation au meurtre des non-juifs déclenche la colère de centaines de fanatiques

Un rabbin autorise de voler les récoltes et d'empoisonner l'eau des Palestiniens

Rabbi Yosef: il est interdit de soigner un non-juif le jour du Shabbat

La morale juive: un mythe?

La plus pieuse armée au monde

Saint Baruch Goldstein

Propos honnêtes de gens qui ne le sont pas

"Les Palestiniens et leur gouvernement doivent périr", déclare un rabbin orthodoxe israélien influent

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Gog, Magog et le Scroll of Bush

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Rebâtir le Temple, restaurer les sacrifices, pour instaurer l'ère messianique

Jérusalem occupée par l'Anti-Christ

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Les médias juifs désignent Obama comme bouc émissaire du scandale d'écoute électronique par la NSA, pour faire pression sur lui et son administration afin que l'option militaire soit envisagée dès maintenant en Syrie et en Iran

Et hypocritement, qui plus est, puisque c'est Israël qui est derrière ce programme d'écoute électronique de la NSA... Et cela dure depuis des décennies (voir Inslaw, Verint), bien avant que Obama devienne président.


Il apparaît évident que les médias ont décidé que cette nouvelle allait sortir au grand jour, alors qu'ils se sont tus pendant toutes ces années..

 DEPUIS QUAND EST-CE QUE LES MÉDIAS JUIFS SE PRÉOCCUPENT DE L'ANÉANTISSEMENT DE NOS LIBERTÉS CIVILES PAR LE GOUVERNEMENT?
MEME LES NÉOCONS JUIFS DÉNONCENT, COMME ILS L'ONT FAIT AU DÉBUT DE L'AFFAIRE LEWINSKY



U.S. should be the world’s policeman
When there is no effective alternative, democratic countries have an ethical and humanitarian duty to threaten to use military force and, if there is no other option, to actually use it.
HAARETZ By | Sep. 23, 2013 | 6:08 AM | 15
The United States should not be the world's policeman, or so U.S. President Barack Obama argued in his address to the nation on September 10, in which he explained his position on military intervention in the Syrian civil war. The president is wrong. In light of the history and doctrine of the use of force and military intervention, the United States, along with other enlightened democracies in possession of military might, should and must be the world's policeman.
The horrors of World War II taught us certain lessons. One led to the formation of the United Nations, for the purpose of preserving world peace and creating a mechanism for dialogue among states. Another resulted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which eventually gave rise to binding international treaties meant to protect human rights. But some questions remain: Do the lofty goals that inspired the establishment of the United Nations mean that the international community has a duty to intervene and raise the alarm in the event of the commission of war crimes or the use of weapons of mass destruction? (...)
It is legitimate to question whether intervention might lead to international escalation. Nevertheless, isolationism in cases where intervention is a moral necessity is supposed to be a thing of the past, of a time when states did not want to get bogged down in distant countries even in the event of war crimes. If this attitude becomes prevalent once again, it will be to the detriment of the entire world. It goes without saying that diplomacy, itself a form of intervention, is preferable as long as it is effective and not a kind of Munich Pact, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry noted in reference to Syria.
At the end of the day, America, together with other strong democratic countries, is indeed supposed to be the world's policeman - insofar as it is acting on behalf of the fundamental principles on which the United Nations was founded, even when political exigencies preclude obtaining UN approval. When there is no effective alternative or pressure must be exerted to kick-start diplomacy, democratic countries have an ethical and humanitarian duty to threaten to use military force and, if there is no other option, to actually use it. Proportionally, of course, but also effectively, in compliance with the two leading criteria of military law.
The writer is a former legal adviser to the Defense Ministry.

The Ugly Truth Broadcast June 15, 2013

Tonight–the latest ‘Obama is spying on Americans’ scandal as an Israeli operation meant to pressure a reluctant and recalcitrant American president into moving forward with the next phase of Eretz Israel–the destruction of Syria. 2nd hour–continued reading of USS LIBERTY survivor Phil Tourney’s book ‘What I Saw That Day’.

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TUT Broadcast July 1, 2013

On the eve of America’s Independence Day, we recall that it was the alliance with the French that led to the defeat of the British, underscoring the similar need on the part of all people of good will, irrespective of race or color, to align themselves against their common enemy today.
Also–the reaction on the part of organized Jewish interests to Putin’s recent statement concerning the Jewish character of Bolshevism in the early days.
Also–the Snowden leaks and how they are being used by the Jews against Obama and to aggravate tensions with Russia.
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TUT Broadcast July 3, 2013

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Michael Collins Piper joins the program to discuss the recent NSA spying ‘revelations’ and how this is an Israeli operation aimed at pressuring Obama into launching military actions against Syria, Iran and Russia.



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Why real whistleblowers can no longer exist
Sott.net --- This NSA-whistleblower-government-spying scandal is hard for many to digest. On one level, I am an idealist too. I would like to believe that a lone whistleblower can pull a fast one on the NSA/CIA/Mossad axis. But I know that it cannot be. People find it hugely difficult to accept that the world is now so unrelentingly corrupt that the true extent of this corruption cannot be exposed and overturned by any whistleblowing.

Venerable leftist weekly demands president’s impeachment over mass surveillance

VIDEO - Mark Glenn: Snowden’s Leaks are ‘Political Atomic Bomb’ for Obama

NSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
ed note–pay attention to the discussion that begins at the 9 minute mark, underscoring what we have said here from the beginning–THE SNOWDEN CASE IS NOTHING NEW–so WHY NOW has the JMSM decided to push this big time?

The ‘Guardian’ would never print something this sensitive without U.S. approval, which means also U.K. approval.      NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden’s story?

Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?
By Jon Rappoport
July 8, 2013
www.nomorefakenews.com
This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them, but it hits the high points…
Let’s begin here: If you absolutely must have a hero, watch Superman movies.
If your need for a hero is so great, so cloying, so heavy, so juicy that it swamps your curiosity, don’t read this.
If you can’t separate Snowden’s minor revelations from the question of who he is, if you can’t entertain the notion that covert ops and intelligence-agency games are reeking with cover stories, false trails, and limited hangouts, you need more fun in your life.
NSA? CIA? These guys live for high-level bullshit. They get down on their knees and worship it. They fall into a suicidal funk if they aren’t lying on at least three or four levels at once.
Okay. Let’s look at Snowden’s brief history as reported by The Guardian. Are there any holes?
Is the Pope Catholic?... (read the rest)



FLASHBACK 2008:  Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?
Author of 'The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America' says the NSA thinks so.

FLASHBACK 2013: NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel


Lest We Forget–Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA

ed note–remember as we go through all the media induced convulsions over ‘Obama’s spying program’ that it was ISRAEL that was primarily involved with this.

NOW, a mere few days after this story ‘broke’ (despite being old news as far back as 9/11) suddenly the US government has ‘decided’ that Syria–the country Israel is screeching for the United States and NATO to invade and destroy–used chemical weapons against its citizens, thus crossing the ‘red line’ which Obama set months ago.
‘By Way of deception, thou shalt do war…’



PRISM for your Mind: NSA, WikiLeaks and Israel

prism (przm) n.

1. A solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.
2. A transparent body of this form, often of glass and usually with triangular ends, used for separating white light passed through it into a spectrum or for reflecting beams of light.
3. A cut-glass object, such as a pendant of a chandelier.
4. A crystal form consisting of three or more similar faces parallel to a single axis.
5. A medium that misrepresents whatever is seen through it.

[Alternatively...]

prism noun ˈpri-zəm

[...]

4. a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it
The ongoing 'NSA surveillance scandal' has many parallels, and some direct links, with the disclosures made by WikiLeaks, the organisation its leader Julian Assange described as the "the intelligence agency of the people".

While we took satisfaction in seeing government and corporate crimes come back to haunt their perpetrators, SOTT.net remained cautious about lauding Assange or the WikiLeaks organisation as heroic. What did any of the 'Iraq War Logs' or U.S. State Department 'diplomatic cables' reveal that was not already publicly available information? Obviously some details were new, but they didn't change the fact that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal under international law and that everyone involved had either committed or were ancillary to war crimes. Nor did anything so damaging come out to bring the perpetrators to justice or to catalyse real political change that would actually improve ordinary people's welfare.

Things, as you may have noticed in recent years, have only gotten worse for the masses.

So is Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower currently 'on the run' after disclosing 'top secret documents' to major media outlets, a hero or traitor? Is he neither? We discussed this and more in last Sunday's SOTT Talk Radio show on the NSA leaks. Have a listen:

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PRISM pour votre esprit : NSA, WikiLeaks et Israël 
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Prisme : [przm] - nom

1. Une figure solide dont les bases ou les extrémités ont les mêmes taille et forme et sont parallèles, et chacun de ces côtés est un parallélogramme.

2. Un corps transparent de cette forme, souvent fait de verre et généralement avec des extrémités triangulaires, utilisé pour séparer la lumière blanche qui passe à travers le spectre ou pour refléter des faisceaux de lumière.

3. Un objet de verre coupé, comme un pendentif ou un chandelier.

4. Une forme de cristal qui consiste en trois faces parallèles à un seul axe ou plus.

5. Un médium qui déforme tout ce qui est vu à travers.

[Alternativement...]

Prisme : [pri-zəm] - nom

[...]

4. Un médium qui déforme, biaise, ou colore tout ce qui est vu à travers.
prisme
© Inconnu

Le « scandale de la surveillance de la NSA » en cours a plusieurs parallèles, et quelques liens directs, avec les révélations faites par Wikileaks, l'organisation que son leader Julian Assange a décrit comme « l'agence de renseignement du peuple ».

Bien que nous ayons été satisfaits de voir les crimes gouvernementaux et corporatifs revenir hanter leurs auteurs, SOTT.net est resté prudent pour ce qui est de qualifier Assange ou Wikileaks d'héroïque. Qu'est-ce que les « Journaux de la guerre d'Iraq » ou les « câbles diplomatiques » du Département d'État américain ont révélé qui n'était pas de l'information déjà disponible au public ? Évidemment, quelques détails étaient nouveaux, mais ils n'ont pas changé le fait que l'invasion et l'occupation américaine de l'Irak étaient illégales selon la loi internationale et que tous ceux qui ont été impliqués ont soit commis ou ont été impliqués dans des crimes de guerre. Il n'y a rien eu non plus qui soit sorti qui était assez nuisible pour traduire leurs auteurs en justice ou pour catalyser de vrais changements politiques qui pourraient réellement améliorer le bien-être du peuple.

Les choses, comme vous l'avez peut-être constaté ces dernières années, n'ont en fait qu'empiré pour les masses.




Israeli high-tech firms Verint and Narus have had connections with U.S. companies and Israeli intelligence in the past, and ties between the countries’ intelligence agencies remain strong.

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Were Israeli companies Verint and Narus the ones that collected information from the U.S. communications network for the National Security Agency?
The question arises amid controversy over revelations that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of Americans every day, creating a database through which it can learn whether terror suspects have been in contact with people in the United States. It also was disclosed this week that the NSA has been gathering all Internet usage – audio, video, photographs, emails and searches – from nine major U.S. Internet providers, including Microsoft and Google, in hopes of detecting suspicious behavior that begins overseas.
According to an article in the American technology magazine “Wired” from April 2012, two Israeli companies – which the magazine describes as having close connections to the Israeli security community – conduct bugging and wiretapping for the NSA.
Verint, which took over its parent company Comverse Technology earlier this year, is responsible for tapping the communication lines of the American telephone giant Verizon, according to a past Verizon employee sited by James Bamford in Wired. Neither Verint nor Verizon commented on the matter.
Natus, which was acquired in 2010 by the American company Boeing, supplied the software and hardware used at ATT wiretapping rooms, according to whistleblower Mark Klein, who revealed the information in 2004. Klein, a past technician at ATT who filed a suit against the company for spying on its customers, revealed a “secret room” in the company’s San Fransisco office, where the NSA collected data on American citizens’ telephone calls and Internet surfing.
Klein’s claims were reinforced by former NSA employee Thomas Drake who testified that the agency uses a program produced by Narus to save the personal electrical communications of ATT customers.
Both Verint and Narus have ties to the Israeli intelligence agency and the Israel Defense Forces intelligence-gathering unit 8200. Hanan Gefen, a former commander of the 8200 unit, told Forbes magazine in 2007 that Comverse’s technology, which was formerly the parent company of Verint and merged with it this year, was directly influenced by the technology of 8200. Ori Cohen, one of the founders of Narus, told Fortune magazine in 2001 that his partners had done technology work for the Israeli intelligence.
International intel
The question of whether intelligence communities outside the United States were involved has been raised. According to The Guardian, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain’s intelligence agency, secretly collected intelligence information from the world’s largest Internet companies via the American program PRISM. According to a top secret document obtained by The Guardian, GCHQ had access to PRISM since 2010 and it used the information to prepare 197 intelligence reports last year. In a statement to the Guardian, GCHQ, said it “takes its obligations under the law very seriously.”
According to The Guardian, details of GCHQ’s use of PRISM are set out in a 41-page PowerPoint presentation prepared for senior NSA analysts, and describe a “snooping” operation that gave the NSA and FBI access to the systems of nine Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Skype.
Given the close ties between U.S. and Israeli intelligence, the question arises as to whether Israeli intelligence, including the Mossad, was party to the secret.
Obama stands by spies
At turns defensive and defiant, U.S. President Barack Obama stood by the spy programs revealed this week.
He declared Friday that his country is “going to have to make some choices” balancing privacy and security, launching a vigorous defense of formerly secret programs that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror attacks.
Obama also warned that it will be harder to detect threats against the United States now that the two top-secret tools to target terrorists have been so thoroughly publicized.
“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” Obama assured the nation after two days of reports that many found unsettling. What the government is doing, he said, is digesting phone numbers and the durations of calls, seeking links that might “identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism.” If there’s a hit, he said, “if the intelligence community then actually wants to listen to a phone call, they’ve got to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.”
Tapping thwarted terror attack
While Obama said the aim of the programs is to make America safe, he offered no specifics about how the surveillance programs have done this. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., on Thursday said the phone records sweeps had thwarted a domestic terror attack, but he also didn’t offer specifics.
U.S. government sources said on Friday that the attack in question was an Islamist militant plot to bomb the New York City subway system in 2009.
Obama asserted his administration had tightened the phone records collection program since it started in the George W. Bush administration and is auditing the programs to ensure that measures to protect Americans’ privacy are heeded – part of what he called efforts to resist a mindset of “you know, `Trust me, we’re doing the right thing. We know who the bad guys are.’”
But again, he provided no details on how the program was tightened or what the audit is looking at.
Obama: 100% privacy is impossible
The furor this week has divided Congress, and led civil liberties advocates and some constitutional scholars to accuse Obama of crossing a line in the name of rooting out terror threats.
Obama, himself a constitutional lawyer, strove to calm Americans’ fears – but also remind them that Congress and the courts had signed off on the surveillance.
“I think the American people understand that there are some trade-offs involved,” Obama said when questioned by reporters at a health care event in San Jose, California.
“It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” he said. “We’re going to have to make some choices as a society. And what I can say is that in evaluating these programs, they make a difference in our capacity to anticipate and prevent possible terrorist activity.”
Obama said U.S. intelligence officials are looking at phone numbers and lengths of calls – not at people’s names – and not listening in.
The two classified surveillance programs were revealed this week in newspaper reports that showed, for the first time, how deeply the National Security Agency dives into telephone and Internet data to look for security threats. The new details were first reported by The Guardian and The Washington Post, and prompted Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to take the unusual and reluctant step of acknowledging the programs’ existence.
Obama echoed intelligence experts – both inside and outside the government – who predicted that potential attackers will find other, secretive ways to communicate now that they know that their phone and Internet records may be targeted.




So apparently NSA has been listening to our conversations, and - oy vey! - Israeli companies are involved in this too. Am I surprised? Not one bit. I understand that many, who are still dangerously ignorant and believe that governments have our best interests at heart, find this "revelation" rather shocking and outrageous, but the truth is that this is far from being new. I remember how many years ago I first read about a project called Echelon.
ECHELON, according to information in the European Parliament document, "On the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)" was created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s[...]

Bamford describes the system as the software controlling the collection and distribution of civilian telecommunications traffic conveyed using communication satellites, with the collection being undertaken by ground stations located in the footprint of the downlink leg.[...]

The UK/USA intelligence community was assessed by the European Parliament (EP) in 2000 to include the signals intelligence agencies of each of the member states: UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands.[...]
Echelon was created long before the War [of] Terror and prior to the arrival of the Internet, meaning that back then there was no need for thorough "shaping of the public opinion", no need for media to be an overt whore for the military or intelligence agencies. NSA, CIA, Mossad, MI5, etc. just did their bloody thing and didn't worry much about whistleblowers. Of course, there were always trouble-makers, but everything was manageable (various coup d'états, COINTELPRO projects, assassinations, etc... piece of cake!), not to mention using the wonderfully silver-tongued concept of "plausible deniability", which came in handy, oh so often. In any event, in the public's eyes, intelligence agencies still had an aura of mystique about them. Hey, who wouldn't want to be a secret agent or a spy?