Posted on 09/11/2017 3:13:25 PM PDT by Ennis85
The other day, I was sitting at a picnic with several friends when someone referred to Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a “mafia state.”
The other day, I was sitting at a picnic with several friends when someone referred to Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a “mafia state.”
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP A Russian-born woman objected: “That is really offensive. Russia is a country of 140 million people. It is wrong to say they are all mafia.”
“I am not referring to the people,” said the first speaker. “The majority of Russians are good people. Most are victims of the regime they live under. But it is a fact that there is an overlapping corrupt elite that permeates the entire political and economic system as well as all major centers of decision-making. And this elite is connected to organized crime groups.”
With striking similarity, on a recent vacation in Washington, DC, I found myself talking to a Jewish woman who works in the US government. “I don’t understand,” she said with dismay. “In America, Jewish people are upstanding citizens. What is happening in Israel?”
The woman was referring to the massive growth of organized crime in Israel over the past ten years, as well as the fact that Israel has become one of the world’s leading exporters of investment scams, stealing an estimated $5 billion to $10 billion per year from victims worldwide.
Despite the fact that Israeli police recently announced that these investment scams are largely run by organized crime, which has grown to “monstrous proportions” as a consequence of little to no law enforcement for years, the Israeli government, parliament and authorities have to date proved unwilling or unable to shut them down,
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Apologies, for accidently posting the same sentence twice there.
That’s probably the least of their state-worshiping/establishing troubles:
“Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel are the most advanced in the Middle East and one of the most advanced in Asia.[1] Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1988, although the former law against sodomy had not been enforced since a court decision of 1963.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel
perhaps its just to be expected...
the rich get richer and the poor get poorer...
Our mafia state in America has nothing to do with rich and poor, it has everything to do with the leftist media, the democrat party, the rinos in congress, and SJW activist totalitarians.
Israel’s rise in organization has a notable correlation to the rise of Russian immigrants.
Israel took in a lot of Russian Jews and other Russians and not all are good people. Howver, cybercrime is a issue in America too
Agreed.
It was bad 15 years ago when I knew of people going there just to work for the mobs.
Mostly targeting elderly. That’s despicable.
The thing is the mobs here target many Americans.
The mobs there are smart enough to not target their own most of the time so law enforcement pays less attention.
Russian mafia immigrated to Israel.
the problem is, if anything, far far worse in USA these past 8 or 9 years especially
just one glance at our UniParty, which is effectively a dictatorship operating our government for its own private profit..........
plus our rigged elections, ask Bernie...(and SorozNazi, who rigs many of our elections at the state and fed levels both)
and ask DJT what he had to overcome because of all the SorozNazi $$$, SorozNazi Elections Officials, SorozNazi paid ballot site intimidation, Soroznazi paid ballot box stuffing and SorozNazi paid mass media propaganda 24/7. Also, SorozNazi paid voting by zillions of the deceased.
And it is not all SorozNazi, either. The result, tho, is an dictatorial kleptocracy
ripping off working Americans
whatever problems they have in Israel, I am glad they are attempting to address them! We need to seriously address America’s problems now, too.
just saying.
You been hanging out in Brighton Beach lately? :-)
So, are we talking Moe Green (Bugsy Siegel) Mobsters or Meyer Wolfshiem (Arnold Rothstein) Mobsters?
Cherry, do you think a lot of folks get rich without in some way creating jobs and helping other people earn an income?
Sure the rich get richer. An awful lot of people are employed and have better lives too.
Donald Trump got richer, but he had about 25,000 people working for him. Their lives were better, incomes were improved.
This rich get richer and poor get poorer comment is tossed out by Leftists mainly, who don’t get the Capitalist system.
You must know better than this.
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