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Up to - 20,000 trafficked women in Israel
and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv ...
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What a Country! What behavior for God's "Chosen Ones"! - By Julie Lesser
- Tribune Correspondent
MONTREAL - Calling human trafficking one of the greatest human rights abuses of
our time, Canadian journalist and social activist Victor Malarek addressed the
Jewish community at a Montreal synagogue last Thursday.
Promoting a book he has written on the subject, Malarek said destitute Third
World and Eastern European females as young as 12 are tricked into leaving
their homelands with promises of wealth and prosperity in the West, as well as
Israel. Instead, they are sold into the sex trade by organized crime, gangs,
pimps and brothel owners.
"Newspaper ads from modelling and employment agencies promise exciting jobs,
but the women are duped," Malarek told the Jewish Tribune. "They must submit,
or they are raped, beaten and tortured. There are between 5,000 and 10,000
trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv alone. It is
a human rights issue the Jewish community knows about. They have a voice and
they must use it."
The United Nations has cited human trafficking as an international crime
generating more than US $12 billion worldwide. More than 800,000 people are
trafficked annually, forced into prostitution and threatened with death should
they attempt to escape the clutches of their captors. Canada is both a means of
access to the United States, as well as a final destination for approximately
2,000 women each year.
"Governments should be held accountable," said Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, who
also addressed the crowd. "It is a very serious problem in Israel, and Canada
has been inadequate in the protection of victims of trafficking. It is a global
slave trade."
As the previous federal justice minister, Cotler aided in the implementation of
several bills addressing the protection of vulnerable individuals, yet he
openly admitted there have never been any prosecutions made for human
trafficking. He focused on raising the public's awareness of trafficking as a
method to prevent what he called the fastest rising criminal industry in the
world today. Responding to an audience member's question, he said the problem
of mistakenly granting Canadian visas to people who should not obtain them is
"an issue for the immigration department."
As customers' demands for slave trade workers who do not have HIV or AIDS
increases, the age of victims proportionally decreases. UNICEF has determined
that approximately 1.7 billion children are victimized annually. Ironically,
Malarek didn't realize the gravity of the situation until he personally
witnessed how many young girls were trafficked into Kosovo to service troops
sent by the United Nations.
"There is both national and international indifference," said Malarek. "The
public looks at the victims with apathy or scorn and foreign women are not the
priority of most governments. Governments are complacent because the sex
industry brings in money."
Cotler noted that governments must work together in prosecuting oppressors
while protecting their victims. He said the RCMP is part of an international
trafficking unit that reflects cooperation among a number of governments. Human
trafficking should be a priority on international policy-making agendas, he
added, and complimented the United States on taking the lead in exercising what
he called moral leadership.
"Most people don't know how big this problem is," said Larry Sakow, who
attended the public event. "As a Jew, I am upset about the trafficking in
Israel. It is surprising that Jews have gotten into it and are making money."
Victor Malarek's book, The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade, is
currently available.
Sex Slavery - The Growing Trade in Israel
Sex slavery: The growing trade in Israel, thousands of Eastern European and
Russian girls lured to TelAviv and enslaved into prostitution
Commercial for attracting people to Israel: -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vblux0g4ouE
Up to - 20,000 trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel
Aviv ...
As customers - demands for slave trade workers who do not have HIV or AIDS ...
Similar pages
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/sexisrael69690531.html
"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them
you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living
among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become
your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can
make them slaves for life....." (Leviticus 25:44-46)
There are an estimated 20,000 female sex slaves forced into prostitution in
Tel-Aviv each year. According to a report released in 2005 by the Knesset
Subcommittee on Trafficking in Women, between 10,000 and 15,000 women had been
smuggled into Israel over the previous four years to work as prostitutes.
According to the report, the women, who were mostly from the former Soviet
Union, were sold at public auction for as much as $10,000 and forced to work up
to 18 hours a day. On average, the women received only three percent of the
money they earned from prostitution, and many were raped and beaten. Most of
the women had been smuggled over the Egyptian border and lured from Russia and
Eastern Europe on false promises of secretarial jobs.
Israel Sex Slavery Thrives
Israel and the Ugly Slavery Trade
Human rights groups have long demanded actions against the trade in women in
Israel. These women many from the former Soviet, are working as prostitutes in
a condition of virtual slavery. Many of the Russian women who have ended up in
Israel's brothels, some smuggled into the country from Egypt on the back of
camels, expected to find jobs a cleaners and or working in childcare. There are
certain places where auctions are taking place. The Israeli police well know
the names. They are nightclubs or regular bars. The women are brought there,
buyers come and look at their bodies and their teeth, then the bidding starts.
They are held by the pimps, beaten and totally isolated
Dozens of brothels and peepshows have sprung up in Tel Aviv and Haifa in the
last few years. There are over 20,000 women in prostitution in Tel Aviv. Their
customers pay for 45,000 acts of prostitution every day. Women are held in
apartments, bars and brothels where they are bought by up to 25 men a day. They
sleep in shifts, four to a bed. (Police officials, Michael Specter,
"Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women, "New York Times, 11 January 1998,
They cannot walk freely. They cannot leave the apartment as they wish. Usually
the passports have been taken.
Amnesty International investigation of the trade in Russian women suggests
Israel's police and government officials have largely ignored the abuse.
The arrest of prostitutes is frequent, as illegal workers, the men who brought
them to Israel many of whom are Israelis are not arrested. The Justice Ministry
spokeswoman Etty Eshed (1998)said the government would think about making legal
changes to address trafficking in the "near future" but had no date or plan for
doing so. (Elisabeth Eaves, "Israel not the promised land for Russian sex
slaves," Reuters, 23 August 1998)
The Israeli police say they are powerless to stop the flow of trafficked women
until the laws change. "They (trafficked women) are very much afraid to come to
the police and complain, so the police really can't do anything," said a police
spokeswoman Linda Menuhin. "Israel has no law against trafficking people, and
no law against prostitution." Rachel Benziman, legal adviser to the Israel
Women's Network, said there are a variety of crimes, rape, abduction, battery,
deceit and theft which the authorities rarely bother to prosecute for, even
though they have the power to do so. "It's not a problem of finding the right
section in the criminal code. It is more a problem of finding the women who
will testify and finding the motivation. she said. (Elisabeth Eaves, "Israel
not the promised land for Russian sex slaves," Reuters, 23 August 1998)
Israel does not have a specific law against the sale of human beings. (Michael
Specter, "Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times, 11
January 1998). There is no law related to bringing women from another country
into Israel for prostitution. (CEDAW Report, 8 April 1997) If trafficked and
prostituted women are caught they are deported. Since 1994, not one woman has
testified against a trafficker. (Betty Lahan, director of Neve Tirtsa Prison,
Michael Specter, "Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times,
11 January 1998)
There are no official numbers regarding the extent of prostitution and the
traffic of women in Israel, but there is a general consensus that it is
becoming more prevalent. (CEDAW Report, 8 April 1997). There has been a steady
increase in the numbers of foreign women involved in prostitution who are
arrested for illegal stays in Israel and who are detained before being deported
to their home-countries; in over 95% of the cases, they were from the former
USSR. The average time these women spend in prison is 50 days. The women
themselves are supposed to pay for their expenses to leave Israel, but when
their resources are inadequate, the Ministry of Interior finances their
deportation from a special budget. (Authorities, Neve Tirza women's prison,
CEDAW Report, 8 April 1997)
Traffickers and pimps earned US $50,000 - $100,000 a year from each prostituted
woman, resulting in a US $450 million sex industry. ("A modern form of
slavery," The Jerusalem Post, 13 January 1998). 1,500 Russian and Ukrainian
trafficked women have been deported from 1995-1997. (Michael Specter,
"Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)
Russian women are bought and sold by pimps in Israel for prices ranging from US
$5,000 to $20,000. (Police sources, "'Invisible' Women Shown In Russia's
Demographics," Martina Vandenberg, St. Petersburg Times, 13 October 1997). A
small brothel with ten women can make up to 750,000 shekels a month (US
$215,000). (Michael Specter, "Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New
York Times, 11 January 1998). Article Confirms Israel's White Slave Trade
News/Comment Posted in National Vanguard 2003-12-08
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- By Jeff Hook
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