Sex trade in Israel

http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010911/int5.html ^

[sickandtired]

I did not knoe there is sex trade in Israel, supposedly the land of the chosen. these are the people we support and pay 3 billion a year of our tax money click on the link thanks

[veronica]

Children's Sexual Exploitation Underestimated, Study Finds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 — A detailed study of child sexual exploitation in North America has concluded that the problem is far more widespread than has been previously documented.

The study, to be released on Monday by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, relied on interviews with victims, child welfare workers and law enforcement officials in 28 cities in United States, Mexico and Canada from January 1999 through last March.

It also relied on the latest public and private estimates on the number of runaway and homeless youths in the three countries and on estimates by law enforcement officials and child welfare authorities of the number of these children sexually exploited.

The study estimated that in the United States 325,000 children a year were subjected to sexual exploitation, including prostitution, use in pornography and molestation. The study's authors said the number of abused children was much higher than was previously thought.

"The magnitude of the problem is really something that is not understood," said

There are bad people EVERYWHERE who prey on children. In Arab nations too, as the US State Dept has documented.

[Nachum]

Yawn. Old news.

You might try some page breaks though.

[Satadru]

You should read the article carefully. Sex-slave trade is illegal and is being prosecuted there. God knows, what kind of situation are the women in the massage parlors in chinatown and koreatown in this country. It goes on everywhere - here and in the middle east. The difference between Israel and the rest of the middle east is that it is actually being prosecuted.

[troublesome creek]

thank you for adding some common sense amid the hysteria and hyperbole and israel-bashing that goes on in some quarters...

[Billy_bob_bob]

"The difference between Israel and the rest of the middle east is that it is actually being prosecuted."

BZZZZT! WRONG! If you read the article carefully you will find that laws prohibiting trade in human beings have JUST BEEN ADDED and are only now being enforced.

Here in the U.S. we have had laws against trading in human slaves for over one hundred and thirty years now. Israel has been a country for over fifty years, and is now only just deciding to make slavery illegal, largely due to pressure being put upon them by our state department.

Shame, shame on Israel for allowing this heinous trade to continue for as long as it has. Shame on Israel for using charges of "anti-semitism" to silence critics of their shameful slave trade. Shame on U.S. for supporting a slave nation for as long as we have with billions in foreign aid every year. Shame, shame, shame!

I would feel a whole lot better if every one of those brothels over there were evacuated by the authorities and then burned down to the ground! I wonder how many hundreds of building would end up being burned?

[Billy_bob_bob]

s/b "hundreds of buildingS". Oops!

[Satadru]

Maybe it has just been added because it has become a social problem. When you set up a nation, it is impossible to conceive every singe bad things that people can do. The point is they have responded to social ills and are correcting it. The Arab countries still have slave trade going on! I dont think there can even be a comparison to the barbaric practices that are codified by law in the rest of the middle east.

[Thinkin' Gal]

I did not knoe there is sex trade in Israel, supposedly the land of the chosen.

[Billy_bob_bob]

I think its hilarious how those Arab nations joined together with their African and other third world bretheren at the so called "conference on racism" and called us first world European based nations a bunch of names for our supposed "sins" of colonialism.

This from a bunch of nations that practice slavery, female circumcision, ethnic cleansing (Zimbabwe and South Africa) and a host of other delightful practices.

The punchline? When representatives of the first world actually apologize!

[Satadru]

We should have bombed that conference.

[Satadru]

I wonder what else the gentleman does not know.

[Sabramerican]

JUST BEEN ADDED and are only now being enforced.

Whereas the law against blowing yourself up in a Pizza parlor has been on the books for a long time.

[Billy_bob_bob]

What the He!! does that have to do with anything? Yes, Israel and the Palestinians are having a major conflict! Yes, both sides are doing terrible things to each other. However, this has NOTHING to do with the FACT that Israel has been a slave nation for many years now, and is only just starting to enforce laws against slavery.

I guess the name of the game is since Israel has been attacked one can never, ever criticize them. What nonsense!

[Sabramerican]

No genius. It has to do with the fact that prostitution is illegal in Israel as are many other things but the fact that it is illegal doesn't prevent it from occurring.

[sickandtired]

well said bob my goodness u cant say one word negative no matter what geeez

[sickandtired]

sorry osted to wrong person bob see the post for sabramerican

[American in Israel]

Well ole Billy bob, I guess you missed the point. Prostitution has been illegal for years, but the new move by the mafia world wide to spread slavery has shocked the nation. The new laws are directly pointed at slave traders not whores. This is not prostitution, this is slavery and the old laws are not suited.

Your inference that there were no laws against it till now is disengenious. The classic, lets slant a post to slander the Jews stuff. The fact that this story is a year old, and you did not "happen" to post the date as required, or the source to help hide that fact is also the trademarks of a propagandist. Right in the midst of this, someone points out that you are a proArab propaganda type with a bit of sarcasm and you get in the predictable huff, all wounded pride and such. Tisk, tisk, tisk. Tiringly predictiable. You can't find anything to slander them with by their actions, so you try to turn a positive thing into a negative thing by shifting context. Get a life Billy Bob.

[MarkL]

What the He!! does that have to do with anything? Yes, Israel and the Palestinians are having a major conflict! Yes, both sides are doing terrible things to each other. However, this has NOTHING to do with the FACT that Israel has been a slave nation for many years now, and is only just starting to enforce laws against slavery.

HUH??? Israel has been a slave nation for many years now This article says NO SUCH THING!!!!!Slavery is not sponsored or sanctioned by the government, and holding women as prostitutes against their will has previously only been prosecuted as pandering... When it was brought to the attention of the government that this was in effect, a slave trade, new laws were passed, since it is pretty safe to assume, the thought of institutionalized slavery was something that was never thought about by the government...

I still can't get over the phrase you used...

Mark