Sex trade in Israel

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[JAWs]

We should have bombed that conference.

Why? It bombed well enough on its own.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Allow me to share some information with all of you.

This is from the U.S. Department of State web site, you can find it here or if that doesn't work then try http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/traffic/crs0510.htm

This is the heading of the document, and a relevant paragraph.

Congressional Research Service Report 98-649 C

Trafficking in Women and Children: The U.S. and International Response

May 10, 2000

Francis T. Miko Specialist in International Relations Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

With the Assistance of Grace (Jea-Hyun) Park Research Associate, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

(End of heading, beginning relevant paragraph.)

Middle East. The sexual exploitation of women and children in the Middle East tends to involve the import of women from other regions. The exploitation of Middle Eastern women tends to have less of a commercial dimension.(17)

Women and children, mostly from Asia (Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia), are trafficked as prostitutes or brides to the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates). Women from the former Soviet Republics are sent to Israel. According to the Israel Women's Network, every year several hundred to 2000 women from Russia and the former Soviet Union are brought to Israel by well-organized criminal groups. Israel has no specific law against trafficking and prostitution is not illegal.(18)

Now, this is the US Department of State talking here. This document is dated May 10, 2000. Now I understand that Israel is doing something about this problem. Good. About damn time. However, it does seem like it took international arm twisting to do it, and it appears that Israel was less than eager to do anything about the problem.

If you want, I can go to google and find some stories from the Jerusalem Post about the sex trade in Israel, but I trust that this official document from the Department of State might help to make my point?

[Billy_bob_bob]

What the heck, here is an article from the Jerusalem Post, dated 8-24-2000. If the link doesn't work then try this: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/08/24/Features/Features.11329.html

Here is an excerpt from the article.

"Particularly troubling has been the growth in recent years of international trafficking. Women are taken across borders - often unaware of the real purpose of their trip - and end up virtual slaves to the pimps who have purchased them. About 1,000 of the 8,000 or 9,000 estimated prostitutes in the center of the country are victims of such trafficking, according to Amnesty International's Israel section director Yael Weisz-Rind, a figure she established from interviews with women awaiting deportation in Neveh Tirtza prison.

While many were recruited in bars and pubs abroad and knew of their fate, about a third did not realize they were being hired to work as prostitutes or were misinformed of the conditions that awaited them, Eilam says. Some are brought with phony immigrant visas. Others come as tourists and stay on illegally, and some are even smuggled over the Egyptian border on camels.

The women have to work for months to pay off their "debts" to traders who buy and sell them for about $10,000 each, Weisz-Rind says. Often the women are beaten or raped by their pimps or the pimps' friends, and their passports are confiscated to ensure they do not flee the country.

They are let out of the brothels in groups for short walks, under guard. An Amnesty report on the situation here, released in May, sparked an international outcry.

It also prompted law-enforcement authorities, who until now have jailed and expelled the women while largely ignoring the role of the traders, to take the matter more seriously, Weisz-Rind says. A move to toughen sentences for trafficking passed a first reading this spring, and a comprehensive law on the issue is in the pipeline at the Justice Ministry, according to Weisz-Rand."

This is the story as reported by the Jerusalem Post. Just thought you might find it interesting. There's lots and lots more out there, just go to google and enter "Israel" and "slavery".

[Neophyte]

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. Billy darling, I wonder, are you really so silly not to distinguish between journos' metaphor (such as sex slavery and trading in flesh) and the reality which did exist in the USA? Something tells me that you're pretending to be naive, your goal is indeed just Israel bashing. Actually, "Christina" and lots of others also to some extend pretend to have been naive when lured to Israel, or Italy, or anywhere else to become prostitutes. Do you believe an excellent anthropology (or medical, or engineering, or IT, or...) student has no brains to understand what she's signing for? It's just that a girl has to be a little bit slut in order to choose it... Otherwise, prostitution is a decent old profession, a very useful one. Punters of prostitutes aren't all rotten lechers; most of them are folks for whom the choice is to have sex in this way or not to have at all. A charitable business, I would say.

[American in Israel]

What the heck, here is an article from the Jerusalem Post, dated 8-24-2000.

And todays date is? Defense rests your honor...

[Satadru]

I can use some of that charity.

[XBob]

you might wish to research the sex-slave trade in the US, which was exposed a few years ago, in Los Angeles, I think, where they held illegally imported thai women as prisoner/prostitutes. I think they uncovered at least at dozen places like this. It was covered on 60 minutes or something like that a few years ago (like 3 or something)

[XBob]

24 - bump - "...prostitution is a decent old profession, a very useful one. Punters of prostitutes aren't all rotten lechers; most of them are folks for whom the choice is to have sex in this way or not to have at all. "

Anyone who works is a prostitute, in one way or another.

I knew personally of an operation which brought British bar girls to Germany in the 1970's, to service the GI's.

[XBob]

7 - "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."

They officially abolished slavery in Saudi Arabia in 1964, I think. I met a girl in Jordan in the 70's, who had just escaped, after 4 years of Saudi (concubinage)?, and slipped across the border to Jordan. She was awaiting the arrival of her parents from the US to bring her home, and check about a local lawyer.

[xm177e2]

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!

Shame on you for pretending the trade in Israel is any different than in most nations. If you want a better ourlet for all that SHAME you're slinging, go look at Japan which only recently (in the last few years) outlawed child pornography.

The "slave trade" in Israel has ALWAYS been illegal, they have just now started stepping up enforcement and adding harsher criminal penalties.

[sickandtired]

its just that many sheeple believe that jews are pure as driven snow since they are supposedely chosen what naivety who is it that is pushing the sex and violence on our screens? hello wake up people

[xm177e2]

Most Jews don't claim that all Jews are perfect.

Israel has murders, rapes, robberies, and even organized crime. All it means is that Israel is like every other nation on the face of the earth.

[sickandtired]

exactly why then we are so supportive and no one can dare say a word bad about it