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Israel's sex trade booming
By Miri Hasson
Published: 23.03.05, 12:44
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1. Shameful Black Mark On Israel
Joshua Waul ,   Jerusalem   (03.23.05)
The fact that this is tolerated in Israel is a sad commentary on how far from G-d we have traveled. There should be a zero tolerance policy, and the slave masters should be given the death penalty. There are no words strong enough to express the evil of this practice, and the fact that we don't prosecute with a vengence to wipe it out makes us as a society complicit. We need to demand that the police and judicial system take responsibility for destroying this trade.
2. That's one way to look at it Joshua
Alex ,   Boston   (03.23.05)
However gut-wrenching this might appear at first, I think it reigns true considering Jews historically, not the prostitution and slave trade by any means, but the open and shameless approach to sex. Certainly this is a horrible crime ring that should be punished severly, not by putting them to death as Joshua expressed, they partake in illegal crime for profits, they don't kill people. I don't think many Jews are shocked by this, the true Orthodox definitely are, but it just isn't surprising when you take a snapshot of our country to see that widespread prostitution has developed.
3. A National Disgrace
Nathan ,   Netanya   (03.23.05)
This is a horrendous scar on the face of the nation. Would that our leaders had the willpower to confront it and eradicate it from the country.
4. is anyone surprised?
david silon ,   van nuys, ca usa   (03.23.05)
Of course such a disgrace would happen in Israel. The anti-Semitic government of that bastard Sharon is OBSESSED with expelling Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria and deliberately ignores more important problems.
5. is any one surprised
moshe kerr ,   ramot bet shemesh   (03.24.05)
2000 years of goyim hating the jewish people and now that our nation stands at the crossroads of civil war jewish goyim call our elected leader a "bastard". Have we no shame?
6. What a lot of sanctimonies responses.
Boaz ,   Ramat,Gan   (03.24.05)
What all the chosen people talk has to do with any of this? It’s a religious concept, just like Christians believe you can only be saved by Jesus Christ, and Muslims believing Islam is the only true faith. All these concepts require the believer for extra duties, (that is until some nut case demagogue twisted it into a philosophy of supremacy). Is this story shameful and disgusting? Absolutely! Are Jews capable of crime? Yes, just as they are cable of crime fighting, exposing crime, (this is an Israeli newspaper site, in case all sanctimonies haven’t noticed) and demeaned action form their government. The way it happens in any other democracy
7. Sex Trade
rivkah ,   USA   (11.19.05)
If these were Jewish women being sold to other countries as sex slaves there would be an outcry but in the eyes of some people they are just Goys so who cares. I know a girl who worked in Tel Aviv near the bus station and she told me a lot of the men who came there were RELIGIOUS! This is a shame. Jewish people are suppose to be a LIGHT to the world. It is really sad. Some of these girls are so young and are in fear. I say a prayer every night for them that G-d will heal their pain.:-()
8. makes me sick
(04.02.06)
If this was happening to jewish women their would be uproar. this is so sadistic, so the next time a hitler shows up do you want the people to come to the aide of the jewish people, or should we turn the other cheek just as the isreal government is now doing. This behavior must be renounced, if not you do not have my support. In fact I am disgusted with the palistinian situation. Everyone has the right to exist, so get over it the world is not your oyster Stop pilfriging everything in sight the chosen people I don't think so-self annointed maybe
9. who is allowing this?
Storge07 ,   Los Angeles, USA   (05.08.06)
Are the Jews themselves trafficing these people or some minority living in Isreal?
10. To 9..
Joshua Shapiro ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (07.31.06)
The Russians are trafficking these woman into Israel and they are barely a minority nowadays..Over a million strong, and growing fast..And NOT Jewish.
11. sex trade
stephen ,   kingston,pa   (11.11.06)
to 6..demand action?what action,been going on for years,no action
12. Sex trade and passing laws
Philip B Kirschner ,   Brooklyn,NY   (10.23.07)
These women are victims, and if they are jewish we should take further steps to get them out of harms way. The police must arrest and the judiciary must order detention for the brothel owners.
13. Really?
Joe ,   New York, USA   (07.24.08)
So if the women are not Jews it's not as bad? Actually, the people trafficking these women are mostly Jews and women are mostly gentiles.
14. Supply and Demand
Lily ,   UK   (08.20.09)
The prostitutes may not be Jewish, but surely the "johns" are. These johns should be persecuted to the fullest extent, if there is no demand, than surely the influx of women being smuggled into the country would decrease. I'd suggest the US to intervene, but the relationship between the US and Israel is as volatile as the sex crimes themselves.
15. Supply and Demand
Baraka Ramadan   (03.03.10)
Lily, I thinkyou mean prosecution not persecution. Talking about Jewish men being persecuted in an unfortunate choice of words. Wiuld you like me to send you a dictionary?
16. 3000 WHAT?
P.R. Jr. ,   USA   (07.28.10)
"Findings showed that some 3,000 and 5,000 women are smuggled to Israel annually..." 3000 WHAT and 5000 women? 3000 girls? 3000 boys? 3000 goats? It seems like an awfully important word is missing from that sentence.
17. US is a whore to Israel
mike honcho ,   ny,usa   (07.28.10)
Everyday Israel rapes americans and there laws
18. nice
PaulB ,   Cairns Australia   (07.28.10)
Classy little nation you've got there.
19. Chosen?
robertsgt40 ,   san antonio tx usa   (07.28.10)
For Israel a buck is a buck. War, prostitution, drug trade, finance. The veil is coming off for the world to see.
20. And Russian-Israeli Mafia Is Responsible
World Citizen ,   the world   (07.28.10)
as they are responsible for the fact that Israel is a major supplier of some types of illegal drugs for much of the world. But those mafia types donate money to the politicians and "religious" charities. And to top it off, dirty money obtained from the misery of millions is laundered through Israeli banks. More and more the civilized world sees Israel as an apartheid criminal state.
21. we are all slaves
USMC 0311 ,   Stafford, Va USA   (07.28.10)
most Americans have no idea
22. right
USMC 0311 ,   Stafford, Va USA   (07.28.10)
that is basically it
23. Slavery
Deborah ,   Eugene, Oregon   (07.31.10)
LOL !! Israel under the Zionist government is NOT a democracy and neither is the U.S. under a Fascist Corporatocracy rule. And I consider putting the blame on the Russian mafia and other groups (without looking inward to one’s own society and civilization) to be a shallow excuse for not doing anything about the continuation of the sex/rape trade. Destroying these sources would produce only small results … it is nothing but a band-aid solution. Until the hard core reason for the enslavement of women and children worldwide is exposed, and everyone has the courage to face that root cause and really do something about it instead of going into denial or hopelessness, then slavery will continue to infest all societies and all nations in one vicious form or another. July 31, 2010 An activist in Amnesty International USA “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.” by Frederick Douglass
24. What's the big deal?
Josh Goldstein ,   Los Angeles, USA   (11.08.10)
Prostitution has been legal in Germany for YEARS but you NEVER see anyone complaining about it. Why point the finger at Israel? The Talmud fully supports this practice, as long as non-Jewish women are being used. I don't see anyone claiming that Jewish women are involved in this, so what's the big deal? Perhaps we need to take a look at the people who are making the complaint?
25. Normal, everyday Rabbinical behavior.
Bear ,   New Madrid   (03.02.11)
Just like the group of yiddish Rabbis busted in Jew Jersey for peddling human organs, this type of thing is just normal yiddish behavior.
26. due to dirty politics
Jewish Whale ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.13.11)
Lack of faith in the Jewish people and dirty politics ushered the flood of immigrants from the Soviet Union...with them came pork, crime, nihilism, and a dramatic increase in the sextrade/human trafficking. the gov't needs to crack down on these bastards and deport those they can, and help those in need.
27. What
Laurent Cohn ,   Sands Point, USA   (06.17.11)
"if they are jewish" Philip B. Are you serious? If they are goy just ignore it? Do you have a moral compass at all?
28. Lies, Slander, Racial Slurs
Matt ,   Detroit, USA   (03.04.12)
Amazing, very clear rules about slander for people making comments yet this entire article is full of slander, bigotry, and lies. If Israel was filled to the brim with sex slaves I would be going there for my vacations instead of Thai Land - don't believe the nonsense people the writer here is clearly a racist bigot.
29. Luckily, this will never be reported in the US media
Bob Roberts ,   New York, USA   (01.22.14)
So you don't have to worry about losing foreign aid money from the United States for engaging in the slave trade over 150 years after the practice was banned in the United States. The "special relationship" between the US and Israel at work. Again.
30. Goyim! How cute!
Bob Roberts ,   Seattle USA   (01.22.14)
That's a lovely word. Especially if you know what it means. So it really is no surprise that Israeli Jews would be kidnapping goyim shiksas and turning them into their sex slaves, now is it.
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