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Holocaust survivors accuse State of stealing their welfare funds
Yael Branovsky
Published: 30.12.07, 22:57
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1. Mr. Olmert
ben ,   singapore   (12.30.07)
Excercise You Executive Powers to direct the The Finance Ministry....need not wait for the legislation ! Do It ! for the saek of the poor! And make sure the poor are kept warm in winter. Cut the bills by 56 % ! Rebate ! Rebate! Rebate ! Take care of the poor of Yisrael ! Do iT !
2. So Where is ther ADL and Marvin Hier
Dovy ,   Toronto   (12.30.07)
Aren't the supposed to be screaming bloody murder? If it were Austria or Germany.......
3. disgusting...
yonatan ,   tel aviv   (12.30.07)
what a disgrace it is that holocaust survivors are treated better by the gov't of germany than the gov't of our own jewish country.
4. May this be a lesson...Never ever put your faith in any
Avrom ben Eliyahu HC   (12.30.07)
Jewish run organization. My parents who survived the hell of Hitler, were ripped of first by the Joint in Europe and then by the Lapitutnikas in all the Jewish organizations along the way till they were finally settled in Canada. These sheister ganovim were thieves who were simply looking after their own pocket. G-d is a witness to the suffering of the Kedoshim.He is also a witness to the larceny of these Judenrat dreck who pillaged the survivors. May his revenge be slow.
5. A Corrupt & Petty Regime
Adina kutnicki ,   US   (12.30.07)
It is fair to state that the Israeli gov't spits in the face of ALL things Jewish. The very notion that a Holocaust survivor has to go begging for what is rightfully theirs in the State of Israel should be seen as the blight that it is. The gov't is full of a gang of corrupt, petty, antiJewish leaders. No ifs, ands or buts.
6. Shoah Business As Usual
World Citizen ,   the world   (12.30.07)
The government of Israel has used these peoples misfortune to bilk the governments of European countries out of billions of Euros. Then it hands out some palty crumbs and keeps the rest. Then when these old people die off the Israeli government will claim second and third generation "holocaust survivors" to try to con the world out of more money. And Israeli Jews let them do it to their own grandmothers and. grandfathers! No wonder the civilized world thinks of Israel as a country of money grubbing shylocks.
7. #6 you are a digusting individual
rachel ,   usa   (12.31.07)
8. Olmert must go
Frank ,   Canada   (12.31.07)
Olmert is repulsive, he must go.
9. look for it in olmerts personal swiss nembered accounts!
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10. joint me in protest & outrage
morris eidelsberg ,   jerusalem   (12.31.07)
we have to bring attention to the fact that the survivors aren't getting their promised increase. iits 4 months already. 15 survivors are dying everyday. NU! YAALA! (fyi most survivorts aren't even getting the existing benefits. the govt. gives a thick stack of forms that ae so complicated, only ONE LAWYER IN ISRAEL knows how to feel it out) we must keep the pressure up. we must let the public know what is happening. join me in front of olmert's house.. i'll be in my wheelchair with a huge yellow sign. email me if you want to join me. moishmoish@hotmail.com
11. The Absconding State
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (12.31.07)
Outside of Israel, individual Holocaust victims have received payment directly from the German government. Only in Israel, did these monies go to the State. Presumably, it was to have been redirected to the survivors themselves. It hasn't been. By my estimate, the State has withheld approximately 2/3 of what each survivor should have received. No one has been able to properly explain what happened to the money that should go to these people. In whose pockets did it fall? Why did they have suffer again?
12.  The Holocaust Industry
Tony Greenstein ,   Brighton, UK   (12.31.07)
It is not true that this has only happened in Israel. The Jewish Claims Conference, the major organisation in receipt of reparations, has done this in the US and holocaust survivors have protested there. Rachel is wrong. No. 6, despite his language is in essence correct. European countries, esp. Switzerland, were subject to extortion and the monies then obtained went to fund the lavish lifestyles of people like 'rabbi' Israel Singer, recently dismissed for corruption after pocketting $2in 'expenses' whilst holocaust survivors have to beg for medical expenses to be paid. This is why Norman Finkelstein, whose book Holocaust Industry first shed light on this affair, was the subject of a witchhunt by Zionists in the USA and denied tenure. He had said what others were afraid to say, viz. that what has happened is a disgusting mixture of corruption and cruelty. Noone should be surprised that the Zionist movement, whose record in WW2 was so shocking and which opposed immigration of Jews to anywhere but Palestine should now exploit the survivors in order to fund Zionist educational activities and suchlike. Tony Greenstein
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