Israeli Organized Crime

[bluesoul]

By JULIANA FREDMAN and JAMES DAVIS

Ok picture this. A group of masked men, armed with semiautomatic machine guns enter a bank. They lock the employees in a room, cover the surveilance cameras with trash bags, and steal millionsof dollars in cash. On the way in and out they spray bullets injuring 47 people on the street. 5 are critically injured meaning maybe they will never walk again, it may be that they will never wake up. The gangsters leave a manifesto at the scene of the crime, justifying the heist because of unproven claims that this bank holds accounts controlled by their enemies. What do you suppose would be the reaction to such a claim?

But it gets better. What if these bank robbers, eligible in the United States for the federal death penalty should one of the injured die from their wounds, went on to explain that they were going to give the money to charity. Who are these modern day Robin Hoods? Is this the SLA demanding that William Randolph Hearst feed the poor as ransom for his daughter? Pretty boy Floyd turning his loot over to starving dust bowl farmers during the great depression?

No, these are the heroes of the Israeli army who went into Ramallah on the morning of feb. 25 and, employing the expertise of bank computer experts whom they had kidnapped the night before, stole 37 million NIS (approx. 8 mil USD).

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Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/fredman03032004.html

[Resistance]

1. Imagine if

a Palestinian group had gone into Israel and robbed a bank. It would be talked about everywhere, how low and dirty those Palestinians are - how their criminal actions must stop, and how they are the obstacle to peace.

Yet, when Israel does it, the act is defended and praised.

[La_Serpiente]

2. Wag the dog?

Sharon is having problems of his own.

[drdon326]

3. Bluesoul....you're back !!

damn we missed you here.

[Violet_Crumble]

6. Welcome back, bluesoul...

It's good to see you back in the fray :)

Violet...

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. Of course this is silly

The DEA and ATF also hide who their agents are sometimes because of fear of reprisals. All this entailed was a police force impounding cash used in a criminal enterprise.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. The IDF isn't a police force...

If the IDF is taking to hiding who their bank-robbers are due to fear of reprisals, I've got to wonder why all the other troops in the Occupied Territories don't go round wearing masks to hide their identities....

Violet...