ZGram -10/17/2001 - "Bankers and Robbers"

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

October 17, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

As many ZGram readers know, Israel Shamir, the very courageous and informed
Russian-born Jewish journalist, was recently arrested in Israel and held
for several hours - no doubt because of his writings.  Undaunted, he has
penned another article - this one close to Revisionists' hearts.

Information like this needs to get out.  Of course the story Shamir
unravels here - and which he calls "the greatest robbery ever perpetuated
in the 20th  century" is small compared to the REAL story of the REAl
robbery - that is, the money extorted from Germany and wheedled out of
gullible America in the name of the non-existent "Holocaust".

Nahum Goldman in his "The Jewish Paradox" let it all hang out and told how
it was done.  Tom Segev, the Israeli historian, in his revelatory book,
"The Seventh Million" expanded and corroborated Nahum Goldman's version of
events.  Revisionists have done the rest - by risking life and limb.  The
record is firm and unmistakable.

Today we know that trials of the World War II German leadership were needed
in order to get "confessions" about the so-called "genocide of Jews" and a
finding of "guilt" by the Nuremberg Tribunal.  These confessions,
particularly about "gassings", were obtained via torture, and the "six
million" hoax has been with us and has been plagueing the world ever since.


Let this sink in:  People in Israel, Palestine AND THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
have been dying because of that lie!  People continue to die because of
that lie!

Here is Israel Shamir's latest!

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Jewish solidarity is an expensive illusion, as  a Jewish crook would cheat
a fellow Jew as fast as he would cheat a Goy, and  probably faster. The
Swiss banks robbery gets unstuck.

Bankers and Robbers

By  Israel Shamir

"Swiss Holocaust cash revealed to be myth",  announced the Times this
Saturday (October, 13), lowering [the] curtain on one of the  bizarre and
obnoxious dramas of extortion and robbery. It began in 1995, as two
important gentlemen, Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the World Jewish Congress,
and  Abraham Burg, a rising star of Israeli politics, visited Swiss banks
on a  humanitarian mission. "You have billions of dollars deposited by the
Jews before  WWII", they said. - "We want the moneys repaid immediately,
whilst the survivors  of the Jewish holocaust are still alive. Let them
enjoy the last years of their  life in relative comfort", they said.
Bronfman and Burg were the men banks and  insurance companies wake up and
listen to.

Edgar Bronfman inherited his billions from his  father Sam, a Mafia boss.
Sam made his fortune by the illegal trafficking of  booze into the US: he
blended the stuff in Canada and smuggled it across the  lake through his
network of gangsters during the Prohibition period. Sam  Bronfman made even
more money as a loan shark. Shortly before his death, he was  asked by a
journalist, what is the greatest invention of mankind? True to form,  he
replied, interest on loans.

The  capitals earned by crime and squeezed from debtors could help in
politics. In  Jewish politics as well, as you do not have to be elected to
become an important  figure. You can always rent two rooms in an office
building and put a sign of  "World Jewish Association, Survivors" Forum or
"Jewish Liberation Organization",  and you are in the business. There is no
copyright to such titles. Bronfman's  World Jewish Congress was exactly
such a tiny body with such a grand title.  Before Bronfman, it had this or
other nice Jewish fatherly figure in the chair,  such as his predecessor
Nahum Goldmann, but it pulled no strings and cut no ice.  With vast capital
of Bronfman, it became a power  structure.

Avrum (Abraham) Burg, the speaker of the  Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and
a candidate to the leadership of Israeli  Labour, was the son of an
important Israeli politician, a leader of the National  Religious Party, Dr
Burg, who served all governments of Israel as a Minister for  40 years
until his demise. Avrum provided a good sound-byte on ABC Nightline on
2.8.01, when he described Palestinians as "people you do not want your
daughter  to get married to". Avrum needed a sponsor to get forward in
politics, while  Bronfman needed a reliable Israeli partner for his plan.

No  bank or insurance company could refuse such important gentlemen. After
short  resistance, the Swiss gnomes gave in, and the titular heads of Jews
walked away  with large pot of cash. "These Jews want to rob our banks and
insurance  companies in the name of their holocaust", the Swiss probably
fumigated. 	[Zundelsite comment:  Shamir probably means "fumed" - but
his quirky English adds a funny touch...	]  But  they were mistaken.

While this story began as Elders of Zion Revisited, its continuation
followed the script of the Sting. Six years passed  by, but almost no money
left the benevolent grasp of international commissions  created by Bronfman
and Burg. Practically nothing was given to the survivors of  the Jewish
holocaust. The moneys were misappropriated by the same people that
demanded justice for the victims.

Recently the authoritative LA Times stated: "An  international commission
created to resolve Holocaust-era insurance disputes has  reportedly spent
more than $30 million on salaries, hotel bills and newspaper  ads while
distributing only $3 million to claimants". The members of the  commission
turned it into a high class travel agency and entertainment spot, LA  Times
wrote: "The documents show that since 1998 the commission has held at
least 18 meetings with up to 100 participants at hotels in London,
Jerusalem,  Rome, Washington and New York". As to the slave labour
settlement, The  Independent[ii] reported, "while  the victims of the
Holocaust will receive (maybe) between USD 2,500 and USD  7,500, the Jewish
lawyers who negotiated the settlement will collect  fees well in excess of
1 m each".

Now, the Times reported that Swiss banks  checked the dormant accounts and
found that they did not even belong to the  Jewish victims of Holocaust.
They belonged mainly to "wealthy non-Jewish people  who forgot about their
money". The Swiss haven't paid $1.5 b to Bronfman and  Burg, because they
became convinced in their claims. They paid because they had  no choice,
Bronfman (together with Mark Rich) was an important supporter of  President
Bill Clinton, and Clinton would do his asking, probably stopping just
short of bombing Switzerland.

Some parts of the story began to surface in  CUNY Professor Norman
Finkelstein"s best-selling book, Holocaust Industry,  and caused major
controversy. Finkelstein objected to the extortionist methods  of the
Jewish organisations. They presented him as a liar and an anti-Semite.
Now, a year after his book was published, more unexpected and juicy details
of  sordid dealing begin to leak. If the data will be confirmed, we are
looking into  the greatest robbery ever perpetuated in the 20th  century.

Apparently, Professor Finkelstein got some things wrong: to the chagrin of
the Jew-haters, the victims of the robbery were  not only the banks and
insurance companies, but ordinary folk of Jewish origin.  To the
embarrassment of the Jew-lovers, the robbers were the self-appointed
Jewish leaders who claimed to represent the Jewish people.

II

The  man behind this discovery is very different from the New York
Professor  Finkelstein. Martin Stern is a wealthy British businessman,
deeply involved with  real estate, Jewish and Zionist causes. He works in
London and spends his  weekends in his spacious apartment in Jerusalem's
Orthodox neighbourhood. He  does not miss a single prayer in his shul,
gives to charities and loves  Israel.

His  casual meeting with a Swiss banker in Villar, a prestigious resort in
the Swiss  Alps, started the machinery of holocaust claims. The banker told
Stern an  interesting small tale. His bank, Union Swisse (USB),
computerised its business  in 1987 and discovered many accounts dormant
since 1939. The bank managers came  to conclusion that some SF 45 million
(30 m USD) of deposits probably belonged  to the Jews who had died during
or after the war.

"We  did not want to keep somebody's else money", - said the honest Swiss
banker, -  we called the World Jewish Congress and asked them to help and
find the heirs to  the funds. The Congress replied: "It is not on our
agenda". Cold-shouldered  Swiss transferred the $30 million to the Red
Cross.

Martin Stern was touched by the story and told  it to Israeli Radio. Two
weeks after the broadcast, "coincidentally" Bronfman  and Burg knocked on
the doors of the Swiss Banking Corporation demanding the  cash. As we have
stated above, they got the money but kept it for their  purposes. Martin
Stern felt he was involved and he followed the story in its  development.

He  became increasingly worried with the way the Holocaust money was
handled. Beside  their own salaries, the Claims conference spent USD 43 m
for the food parcels  for Russian Jews. This subject Bronfman and Burg did
not mention when they went  to the Swiss banks and asked to speed up the
payment to survivors, to people who  owned the money. Had their agenda
changed?

Family circumstances led Stern to a connected  story of the Generali
Insurance. Before the WWII, the Generali was a big Italian  insurance
business, owned by Italian Jews. "Many insurance companies before the  WWII
were in the Jewish hands, as in those days insurance was a small man's
bank", Stern explains. The Generali had big assets in Palestine, as well as
in  Balkans and Italy. Despite the war, Italian fascism and Holocaust, the
Generali  retained its Jewish connection. They did not want to follow the
example of Swiss  and Germans and denied all knowledge of the pre-war
policies. Stern investigated  at his own expense and succeeded to locate
the secret storage where the bosses  of the Generali kept the pre-war
policies. He found out that the Generali owes  huge sums to heirs of their
insured. His discovery forced the Generali Assurance  to mend their ways
and agree to pay, wishing to make amends to their policy  holders
personally.

III

Now, if the deceased wouldn't be Jews, their  heirs would get the value of
their policies from the relevant insurance company  or a bank. But, as you
have been suspected all along, we Jews are different. We  are different
because we are more naive than somewhat. That is why we agreed to  have an
intermediary - the Jewish leaders - to deal with the (largely Gentile)
World.

>From 1950s on, Jewish leaders made a fortune as  the intermediary, as the
compensation did not go straight to the heirs and  survivors, but went to
the sticky hands of the leaders. The Israeli Jews were  supposed to receive
the compensation and pension via Israeli channels, while  European Jews
received their money straight from the Goyim. Astonishingly, the  survivors
who were paid via Jewish hands, always got less, sometimes much less.  The
Jewish state, Jewish banks and Jewish organisations earned on every
transaction, and they did not miss a single trick. When Israel ran high
inflation, the pensions of the survivors were always under-indexed. Banks
did  not transmit the funds on time.

When the Russian Jews arrived to Israel, the  Jewish leaders reached an
agreement with Germany to provide for the survivors. A  lion share of the
funds given by Germans remained in the hands of the Jewish  organisations,
intermediaries and other dealers.

Whoever relied upon our Jewish brothers was  screwed up, as robbing
fellow-Jews is a favourite pastime of Jewish crooks,  leaders and bankers.
A cynical man would say: the very idea of the Jewish People  is the best
invention of crooks. In the days of our grandfathers, it was not  working
all that well, as the Jews knew: a Jewish crook would cheat a fellow Jew
as fast as he would cheat a Goy, and probably faster. But now we forgot
this  important notion.

IV

After Martin Stern found the policies, the  Generali Insurance agreed to
cooperate and pay. But the Israeli and Jewish  politicians wanted to remain
in the play. They negotiated a fixed settlement  with the Generali on
behalf of the Jewish policy holders. It was a crazy idea:  whether the Jews
are a religious or an ethnic group, surely they insured their  lives as
private persons. Moreover, they did not empower Israeli politicians to
represent them. But the politicians negotiated the settlement, received one
hundred million dollar, called it The Generali Fund, and began to use it as
their own. They forgot the interest of Jewish policy holders, or, probably,
they  never considered it but a figure of speech.

In  June "01, out of 1250 policy information requests, the Generali Fund
treated  only 72. The policy holders were sent there and back, often
refused for no  reason or received no reply at all. In despair, they turned
to Italians, and  they promptly paid. It was an additional proof that we
Jews need Jewish  intermediaries as much as fish needs a diving suit. In
the same time, the Fund  trustees made 270 "ex gratia humanitarian
payments". They sent food parcels to  the Russian Jews, in order to attract
them to Israel. I am sure the Generali  insurance would be very happy to
feed the Russian Jews and to increase their  Zionist zeal, but why the
Israeli politicians did not say so while negotiating  the settlement?

Martin Stern discovered that trustees of the GF  became frequent fliers to
Italy on the expense of the Fund, and when it appeared  as too small money,
they did not hesitate to ask the Generali for substantial  fees. The
problem crossed the ocean, and the American claimants discovered that
their claims were "settled" by the politicians. American Jewish
organisations  supported their Israeli buddies. An important player in the
system was Lawrence  Eagleburger, a former U.S. Secretary of state. This
great man chairs the  commission of Jewish leaders for dealing with
Holocaust related insurance claims  and draws a $350,000 annual salary. In
Stern's opinion, the insurance settlement  money would barely suffice to
pay the policy holders. That is why he is  horrified by ease Messrs
Bronfman and Burg waste the funds on other worthy  things.

V

 While the Jewish organisations gave hard time to the Swiss and the German
banks, they became much more timid when they  came across a Jewish bank.
Bank Leumi of Israel has probably more funds of the  perished Jews than any
Swiss or German bank. You will laugh, but Israeli bankers  are not in a
rush to return the money. As a matter of fact, they stick to the  cash like
glue. Before the WWII, many European Jews deposited their savings in  the
Anglo-Palestine Bank, the main Jewish bank of British Palestine, as Bank
Leumi was called before 1948. Some of them made deposits, others rented
safe  boxes. Not only Jews used the bank - its cellars stored vast fortunes
of  Palestinian Christians and Muslims as well.

Many Palestinians lost their deposits in the  great upheaval of 1948.
Israeli banks used all ways to block their moneys and  let them disappear
as the inflation soared. But the Jews did not fare better.  Apparently, the
worst place where a Jew could leave his money for safe keeping  was Bank
Leumi, the National Bank of Israel. The Holocaust survivors and heirs  of
victims were met with adamant refusal of Bank Leumi to open up its
documentation for inspection.

In  course of privatisation, Bank Leumi became partly owned by the Generali
Assurance. Migdal Insurance, Generali and Bank Leumi constitute an
intertwined  group of businesses and businessmen with dubious record. Same
men sit on the  board of the companies, sharing perks and shifting around
funds.

Martin Stern discovered that in 1950s, Bank  Leumi staff opened, without
external control and supervision, even without  writing a protocol, all
dormant safe boxes. Their contents were pushed into  brown envelopes and
stored hidden from the public eye. As a colourful detail, he  was told of a
trunk that stood in the offices of Bank Leumi for years, to the  chagrin of
typists who tore their stockings at its corners. When the trunk was
opened, they found there a real treasure, apparently placed for safekeeping
by a  Coptic church. Until now, the trunk has not been returned to the
Church.

Marin Stern could not believe such flagrant  breach of banking laws was
possible. In the course of his struggle for the  interests of Holocaust
survivors and their heirs, he demanded from the Bank  Leumi officials to
publish the names of the safe box owners, whose deposits were  removed by
the bank. At first, the Director General of the Bank, Galia Maor,  denied
the bank opened the boxes. When presented with evidence, she replied
sternly, "we found only love letters". I wonder whether such reply, if
given by  the Swiss, would be acceptable for the Jewish  organisations.

The  fate of currency deposits was not different from the safe boxes, as
the Bank  Leumi could win both ways. A Mrs Klausner deposited before the
WWII in Bank  Leumi 170 pounds sterling, an equivalent of USD 25,000 in
today"s value. When  she came to claim her deposit, Bank Leumi offered her
NIS 13, or USD 4. In order  to avoid future embarrassment, the bank
officials began to destroy old  documentation.

The  tricks of Bank Leumi attracted attention of the Israeli press and the
Knesset  (Parliament), and a parliamentary commission of enquiry was called
for. It took  six months of intensive negotiations to form the commission,
but in its charter  there was one conspicuous fault. The survivors demanded
to find out the persons  responsible for hiding their funds for half a
century. This demand was not  included in the chapter. Even worse, the
commission includes persons responsible  for the present state of things.
Zvi Barak was a member of Bank Leumi  management, he also sits in the
management of Generali Fund, he was sent to  investigate the Swiss banks
and now he is supposed to find out the culprits in  his own bank.

Michael Kleiner is a right wing MP of Herut  party. He wrote to the
parliamentary commission of enquiry, "the Bank destroys  documents in two
different sections, and now there is deep suspicion regarding  the
Holocaust deposits and especially the brown envelopes of the safe  boxes".

Recently Bank Leumi became known for large  scale cash laundering, when the
fortunes stolen by Vladimir Montesinos and his  boss Alberto Fujimori, an
ex-president of Peru, were traced to the Bank Leumi"s  office in
Switzerland. One can't understand the word "laundering" in reference  to
such a bank, as probably it would make a handkerchief dirty if  laundered.

VI

The  biggest achievement of the Jewish leaders was recorded in Germany, in
1991, as  East Germany joined the German Federal Republic. After 1945, the
Socialist East  Germany did not return property to German pre-war owners,
whether Gentiles or  Jews. Theirs was a good logic. East Germans did not
subscribe to the notion of  the "Jewish people". They dealt on equal
footing with the German citizens, Jews  or not. They thought that the Nazi
idea of Jewish separateness was laid to rest  in 1945. They were wrong.
West Germany accepted the feudal concept of Jewry in  1950, when it paid
compensation for the Jewish property - not to survivors or  their heirs,
but to the state of Israel and the Jewish leaders elsewhere. West  Germans
did it again in 1991.

For  instance, two Germans, Moses and Peter, perished in the war, and left
some  property in East Germany. Property of Peter the Gentile remained in
the hands of  the German government, until his heir was found. If he would
have no heirs, the  property would remain in the hands of German people.
But property of Moses the  Jew would pass into the hands of Messrs Bronfman
& Burg as the leaders and  representatives of the Jewish People, members of
the Conference for Claims.  Germans transferred the property that belonged
to their Jewish citizens on the  territory of the East Germany into the
hands of the Conference.

The  Conference was a fictitious body of 44 men representing nobody. Some
of them  were sent, for instance, by a grandly named Anglo-Jewish
Association, whose  total membership is about 50. Only two persons
"represent" millions of Israeli  Jews. This Conference was supposed to find
rightful heirs of Moses, and other  Germans of Jewish origin.

However, the Jewish leaders had a better idea.  They knew that many owners
would never come to claim their houses anyway, and  the property will be
theirs. But it was not enough for the greedy bastards. They  put a certain
date after which they would not consider the claims of heirs. That  was a
strike worthy of Jewish genius: some thirty billion dollars worth of
property became theirs as if by right. From now on, they could take easy
the  claims of rightful heirs. And the billions dollars of rent would
accumulate on  their accounts.

American Jewish survivors' organisations began  their fight against the
Jewish leaders. They demand from the Conference to make  public full lists
of their assets, to find real heirs and to give up the assets.  They think
of suing Germany, Italy and other countries and organisations that  for
some mysterious reason subscribed to the medieval idea of "Jewish
property".  They say, property could be of individual Jews only, not some
odd "Jewish  property". As this story proved, such ideas are good for the
self-proclaimed  Jewish leaders to keep them in the style they are
accustomed to, but for  ordinary folks of Jewish origin it is the right
time to give up the expensive  illusions of Jewish solidarity.

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Israel Shamir is an Israeli journalist living  in Jaffa. This article can
be freely transmitted by electronic means and  displayed on internet sites.
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Other articles of Israel Shamir could be seen  on
<<http://www.israelshamir.com/>www.israelshamir.com and  elsewhere.