Welcome
to the Rogues Gallery, our weekly to semi-weekly foray into the totalitarian
world of Jewish crime, rancor, and depravity. Here we examine the darker
instincts of Talmudic/Judaic ipseity, whether it be in the form of Wall Street
pilferage and rapacity, the subversion of democratic government by Jewish
lobbies, or the ongoing problem of Jewish pedophilia and sexual perversion.
If it seems to you, gazing at today’s world, that what has come to be referred
to as “Jewish power” has surpassed even that that of sovereign countries,
there’s a good reason for this—it has.
Certainly the global banking system was key in bringing this about, and to be
sure Jews are prominent players in the latter. But it has to be stated, in all
honesty, that the cooperation and confederacy of slippery, two-faced Gentiles,
commonly known as Shabbes goyim, has certainly helped to facilitate the present
horrid state of affairs.
And today we are proud and privileged to add to our Rogues Gallery the
president and prime minister of Croatia. Yes, folks, occasionally we do throw some worthy Gentiles into our
hallowed gallery, and in our humble opinion Croatian President Ivo Josipović…
as well as the country’s Prime Minister, Zoran
Milanović…
are more than deserving of the honor. I shall now try and explain why. It’s a
long story, but please bear with me.
Take a good close look at Josipović, the guy in the top photo. The poor man
looks like he’s near tears, doesn’t he? That photo was made in February of 2012
on the occasion of a state visit Josopović made to Israel. While in the land
stolen from the Palestinians, the Croatian president gave a speech before Israel’s
Knesset in which, very somber-faced, he issued a thoroughly groveling apology for
his country’s alleged guilt in crimes committed during the Nazi era. Here in
part is what he said:
We need to look into our hearts, and to come to terms with the darkest stain in
our history. Here I am, standing before the parliament of the Jewish state, and
more importantly, in front of people born in Croatia, and with no ambiguity, I
apologize and I ask for forgiveness from all the Holocaust survivors and all
the victims.
I mentioned Josopović’s state visit in an article I wrote in August of last
year entitled Swindler’s
List: A Brief Look at the Holocaust Reparations Racket. In that article I discussed the
concerted efforts of Jewish organizations, such as the Claims Conference and
the World Jewish Congress, to extort greater and greater sums of holocaust
“reparations” not only from Germany (for the past 60-plus years), but more
recently from other European
countries as well, and I noted that at
least some of the sharks have Croatia in their cross-hairs now as well.
In his address to the Knesset, Josopović went on to say he felt convinced that
amendments to his country’s “compensation law” would soon be passed providing
for payments to “Holocaust survivors, private individuals, their inheritors or
local communities,” but apparently this wasn’t enough to placate Stuart Eizenstat, a former
undersecretary of state in the Clinton administration who has played a leading
role in reparations negotiations. Eizenstat said he wanted to see EU officials
“leverage” Croatia’s desire to join the European Union to get even greater
concessions from the tiny country. “Now is the time for the European Union to
exact the maximum amount of leverage,” he said, adding that “once they’re in,
the leverage is lost.” So apparently it wasn’t enough for Eizenstat that
Josopović had made pilgrimage to Israel or that he had issued a pleading
entreaty for forgiveness along with a promise to change his country’s law. No. Apparently
Eizenstat desired even more than that.
Josopović gave his speech to the Knesset on February 15, 2012. Interestingly, we
come to find out that just eight days
later, on February 23, Zoran Minanović, the Croatian Prime Minister, issued
a call for Croatian companies to withdraw
from Syria,
citing violence in the country as justification. The Croatian state oil company
was to cease operations there as well, a shut down that would reportedly result in the loss of “hundreds of millions of euros,”
but according to a Croatian government official, the exit from Syria was in
keeping with the EU’s embargo and would remain in effect supposedly until “democratic
order” is implemented in Syria.
Now let’s fast forward one year, to February 25, 2013, when a report appears in
the New York
Times detailing
a rather large influx of weapons from
Croatia into Syria and into the hands of NATO-backed terrorists. It seems
that videos posted to YouTube have been the means by which observers, including
apparently the Times reporter, have noted the Croatian arms shipments:
YouTube has also been instrumental in allowing analysts to follow certain
arming trends, including the arrival of shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles to
rebel possession last year and the influx in 2013 of weapons previously unseen
in the conflict. This in turn provides an opportunity for traditional
investigation. In short, during the past several weeks scores of videos have been uploaded to YouTube
that provide evidence of a seemingly distinct flow of new weapons to the
country, which The New York Times has now
identified as a
Saudi-financed flow of arms from Croatia.
I don’t know how the writer, simply from looking at the videos, can be so sure
the armaments are “Saudi-financed,” but of course it only takes someone with a
knowledge of weaponry to identify the types
of arms, and if the Times reporter doesn’t have such knowledge himself, he
could easily ask some in the military who does. In any rate, the weapons showing up in the videos
have been positively identified. For instance…
The M79 Osa is an antitank weapon originating from the former Yugoslavia.
Rather unusually the rockets come in separate pods that are attached to the
rear of the rocket launcher. Dozens were present in the first video, and two in
the second. Markings visible on rocket pods in both videos indicate that they
were manufactured between 1990 and 1991.
We then have the M60 recoil-less gun, seen on the far left of the picture,
below left, alongside dozens of M79 Osa rocket pods. Again, the M60 is a weapon
originating in the former Yugoslavia and has continued to be used in Serbia,
Croatia and Macedonia since Yugoslavia’s breakup.
These and other weapons have shown up in more than 60 videos uploaded to
YouTube in January alone, according to the Times report, while another report, here, notes that Croatia is now in
essence “breaking the arms embargo
against Syria.” How much of all this is being done at the behest of Israel
and world Jewry we can only speculate, and of course that’s a subject the
mainstream media will never address or broach, but if we go here we can find a spreadsheet
cataloguing a large number of videos now on YouTube that show “foreign weapons
in Syria” (a total of 131 listings as of this writing), and here is one of the actual videos—showing a group of witless
Western-backed hooligans firing a Croatian M60 and screaming the prescribed
“Allahu akbar” that invariably accompanies such occasions.
Now let’s fast-forward three more days,
to February 28, 2013. We have an announcement from Josopović and Milanović
that Croatia will be withdrawing its 100 or so “peacekeeping” troops from the
Syria-Israel border. The reasoning behind this decision? The two leaders fear
their soldiers, in the wake of the published report in the New York Times,
could become the targets of Syrian government forces. And oh yes, they also deny having armed the NATO terror gangs,
but of course by now “everyone has read those reports” and so of course “our
soldiers are no longer safe.” Incidentally, they do admit to having sold,
oh, perhaps a few armaments to Saudi
Arabia (which of course has been supplying the Syrian opposition, as most
of the world knows), but they insist that never, ever would they even think
of violating the international arms embargo against Syria, heaven forbid.
Croatian military analyst Igor Tabak told the Associated Press that Croatia — slated to enter the European Union this
summer — would not risk breaching an international arms embargo by directly
arming the rebels.
But he did not rule out the possibility
that the rebels got the Croatian weapons through a third country, possibly
Saudi Arabia, which purchased the arms from the Balkan state.
"We do have a surplus amount of
weapons," Tabak said. "It would be reasonable to sell something
considering Croatia's economic crisis."
Fueling the arms deal reports were the sightings
of Jordanian-registered cargo planes flying in and out of Zagreb's
international airport earlier this year.
Western countries have mostly refused to arm the rebels, but the United States
said Thursday it would start providing noncombat aid to the Free Syrian Army.
So now, discretion being the better part of valor, Croatia has decided to
withdraw its troops from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Too bad they can’t
also “withdraw” the stockpiles of weapons they sold to the Saudis, the Free
Syrian Army, or whomever they sold them to, but I guess it’s a bit late for
that.
On Wednesday, February 27, I put up a post entitled Syrian
Women Train to Defend Their Country…As US Moves to Arm Their Enemies. If you haven’t seen it, go
check it out. The post included a quote from Secretary of State John Kerry, who
said, “We are determined that the Syrian
opposition is not going to be dangling in the wind wondering where the support
is or if it’s coming, and we are determined to change the calculation on the
ground for President Assad.” The same post also discussed Syria’s new
civilian National Defense Forces, which includes large numbers of women, who
have taken up arms to help defend their nation from the hooligans and foreign-backed
invaders.
I also included three videos showing scores of these women marching, drilling,
etc. in preparation for the day when they meet the enemy head on. How many of
these patriotic Syrian women will be
shot down by the weapons supplied by Croatia?
How many of them
will still be alive a year from now?
Ivo Josopović and Zoran Milanović, welcome to the Rogues Gallery!
Step right in, gents! Make yourselves at home!
The Rabbi with the Wrestling Fetish
In previous Rogues Galleries I have reported on the ongoing controversy at
Yeshiva University High School for Boys in New York (see here and here ) regarding alleged sexual misconduct by rabbis who
have been employed there as teachers. The problem dates back to at least the
late 70s/early 80s, and causing perhaps the greatest uproar in the community at
present are recent disclosures of how school administrators dealt with the
issue of sexual abuse of students when the concerns were brought to their
attention. Rather than turn the alleged perpetrators over to the police, school
authorities, including the school president at the time, adopted a policy of
allowing them to simply leave quietly and take other jobs elsewhere. This at
any rate seems to be what happened in the case of Rabbi George Finkelstein, who
worked at the school from roughly 1968 until 1995, when, while serving as
principle, he left following accusations of inappropriate contact with
students.
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Yeshiva University High School for Boys where Rabbi George Finkelstein (left insert)
and Rabbi Macy Gordon (right insert) are alleged to have had inappropriate contact
with students. The images are taken from an old yearbook. |
Finkelstein apparently has, or at one
time had, a “wrestling fetish,” if
one might call it that. According to accounts that have been published in the Jewish Daily Forward, he seems to have invited students to
wrestle with him and then, once so engaged, proceeded to press his erect penis
against their bodies while pinning them to the mat or floor. One of our readers
emailed me that such a fetish perhaps has less to do with sex than power, which
may be a valid observation; I don’t know. But at any rate, Rabbi Norman Lamm,
then YU president and who today, at age 85, continues to serve as chancellor,
became aware at some point that there was indeed a problem with Finkelstein. Recalling
the matter in an interview with The Forward, Lamm said, “My question was not
whether to report to police but to ask the person to leave the job.” This Lamm
did not only with Finkelstein but apparently in the case of another teacher at
the school, Rabbi Macy Gordon, who also was accused of sexual misconduct with
students. The Forward additionally quotes Lamm as saying, “If it was an
open-and-shut case, I just let [the staff member] go quietly. It was not our
intention or position to destroy a person without further inquiry.”
And so Finkelstein left YU, in 1995, moved to Florida, and took a job at
another school—the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School, in North Miami
Beach, where he became dean. And consider this: not only did Lamm not notify police, he also failed to inform the Florida school
about why Finkelstein had been obliged to resign, or as he expressed it, “The
responsibility of a school in hiring someone is to check with the previous job.
No one checked with me about George.”
Finkelstein stayed with the Hillel school until 2001, at which point he made
tracks for Israel, where he took a position as director general of the
Jerusalem Great Synagogue. And it was here he remained until resigning abruptly
in December of 2012 after disclosures of his past alleged misconduct became
public.
In its most recent article on Finkelstein, published February 28, 2013, The Forward reports that “the wrestling did not stop after
his (Finkelstein’s) departure from Y.U.”, but rather that it continued at his
next two jobs, i.e. at the school in Florida, and later on at the synagogue in
Jerusalem.
One official with the Hillel school is quoted on record as saying, “We had no
difficulties with Rabbi Finkelstein whatsoever,” but apparently others gave
different accounts.
A former Hillel staff member, who requested anonymity, said: “The kids went to
convention or camp and they met kids from Y.U. and they asked, ‘Did
Finkelstein touch you already?’”
Yudewitz and Maya said Finkelstein often invited boys to stay over at
his house during Shabbat. Such behavior was typical for a Jewish educator
trying to persuade students to become more observant.
It was during one such sleepover that one former Hillel student said
Finkelstein asked him to wrestle.
Even before then, the former student recalled, Finkelstein had taken a
particular interest in him. Finkelstein often told the boy that he loved him
and, when he called him into his school office, he hugged him “a little bit
closer than a normal person might hug.”
“He would lock his feet together and come in close [with his] legs touching
each other and he was flat against me,” the former student said. “I never took
it as he felt anything more than affection in a father-son type way,” he added.
The former student said he stayed at Finkelstein’s house many times. Then, one
time when the two were alone, Finkelstein asked him to wrestle.
“His demeanor changed and he puts on this face like you would do with a kid if
[you were] pretending to be angry,” the former student said. “[He] starts
making a fist and says, ‘We’re going to come to blows.’”
“The whole thing ended with my getting pinned to the ground and he’s on top of
me and I’m thinking, ‘I don’t know what the hell is going on,’” the former
student said. “And he starts tickling me…and he got off [me] and that was the
end of it.”
The man said that he felt uncomfortable enough that the next time
Finkelstein asked to wrestle he refused. But he said that he remained
friendly with Finkelstein.
A few years ago, he discovered a blog where former Y.U. High School students
wrote of what they perceived to be the sexual undertones beneath Finkelstein’s
wrestling. “It made me furious,” the man said. “I realized if he’s doing this
to all these guys he’s either really naive or some kind of predator.”
Despite the official denial from the Hillel official, school authorities apparently
at some point did become aware of Finkelstein’s proclivities. A former YU
student reportedly contacted them and “warned the Florida school that
Finkelstein liked to wrestle with boys.” This, as it turns out was in 2001—the same year Finkelstein took off for
Israel.
As The Forward notes, “allegations of Finkelstein’s inappropriate behavior
preceded him when he applied for the job of director general of Jerusalem’s
Great Synagogue, in 2001,” but as before, this didn’t stop him from gaining employment
or from remaining on the job for a number of years. And apparently the behavior
even continued. As The Forward reports, “The most recent wrestling incidents documented
by the Forward were in 2009.”
Finkelstein’s resignation (which, as I noted above, came in December last year)
was tendered only after The Forward
had published its first article detailing the allegations against him, but the
allegations of his sexual misconduct had “trailed him for at least 30 years,
according to dozens of interviews with former students, colleagues and peers in
the United States.”
Thirty years. All in all a rather amazing
story—but perhaps the most astounding
episode of all took place in 1995 at the time of Finkelstein’s resignation from
YU. Here again, as I said above, law enforcement officials were not notified, even
though Lamm, and probably other officials as well, were well aware of his
conduct around students. But hey, not only did the school not have him
arrested, they actually gave him a grand send-off, with a dinner in his honor!
Y.U.’s knowledge of Finkelstein’s problematic behavior did not stop the
school from honoring him upon his departure. At Y.U.’s annual tribute
dinner, held in March 1995 at the New York Hilton hotel in Manhattan, Lamm
presented Finkelstein and his wife, Fredda, with the Heritage Award “for 25
years of dedicated service.”
Asked why Y.U. honored Finkelstein despite forcing him out because of the
wrestling, a Y.U. spokesman said: “As you are aware, everything is being
independently investigated by outside counsel who will make their report when
the investigation is fully finished.” The spokesman did not respond to a
request for details about how the investigation is proceeding and when it
might be complete.
Despite all that has come out, apparently there are those who still think
highly of Finkelstein, or at least who don’t update their websites with a great
deal of regularity. At the site FloridaJewish.com, we find featured an article by the rabbi
entitled, amusingly, Shofetim, “Judges.”
Apparently the piece was written when Finkelstein was still a resident of
Florida—(the words, “Each week we feature a different outstanding Florida Rabbi”
appear at the top of the page)—and I’m assuming it is the same Rabbi George
Finkelstein, since accompanying the article is a photo of the author that looks
very similar to the one above only older.
“The Torah portion of Shofetim begins with a set of guidelines to insure that
we will have a judicial system that is free from corruption and dishonesty,”
Finkelstein starts off with a sort of utopian erudition. The piece also includes
a couple of quotes from the Talmud before closing with the following paragraph:
In contemporary times, with political alliances, media hype, lobbyists,
pressure groups, etc. it becomes more difficult to think objectively and to
have opinions that aren't biased or preconceived. This is not only the
requirement for Judges, but rather for each of us. For, in fact, we are each
called upon to "judge" people, ideas and situations hundreds of times
each day. May the standards of the Torah become our guides and our goals for
living a moral, ethical and truly honest life.
Psychiatrist charged in Wisconsin
I don’t know if this guy’s Jewish or not, but with a name like “David
Israelstam” one might perhaps be forgiven for speculating he might be. At any
rate, we have here an item posted March 1 in the Wisconsin State Journal:
Madison psychiatrist with history of
inappropriate behavior charged with possessing child pornography
By Sandy Cullen
A Madison psychiatrist who has been reprimanded twice in the past for
inappropriate conduct with patients was charged Thursday with two counts of
possession of child pornography.
Dr. David M. Israelstam, 73, was released on a signature bond after an initial
court appearance Thursday morning.
Israelstam was ordered to have no contact with a computer technician and former
patient who discovered pornography on his computer, nor with anyone under 18,
and to not use any device capable of accessing the Internet. He is allowed
contact with his two grandchildren if two adults are present.
Read more
And that’s going to wrap up today’s Weekly Rogues Gallery. I’ll close with a
quote from one of my favorite contemporary poets, Nahida the
Exiled Palestinian:
I have a dream
When they stop bombing
No more shelling
To rush outside
And up a tall tree
To tie a string
Make a swing
Fly up so high
And touch the blue sky
Leave my tears up there
To come down as rain…
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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