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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html

Dead Palestinians from Israeli Jewish bombing and machine-gun fire.

In the middle ages, it was commonly thought that certain sects of Jews, captured and killed Christian children for their blood and hearts.....but ofcourse no-one would believe that now, because Jews are nice people.................."Since it happens occasionally that some Christians lose their Christian children, the Jews are accused by their enemies of secretly carrying off and killing these same Christian children and of making sacrifices of the heart and blood of these very children. It happens, too, that the parents of these children or some other Christian enemies of these Jews, secretly hide these very children in order that they may be able to injure these Jews, and in order that they may be able to extort from them a certain amount of money by redeeming them from their straits.

And most falsely do these Christians claim that the Jews have secretly and furtively carried away these children and killed them, and that the Jews offer sacrifice from the heart and blood of these children, since their law in this matter precisely and expressly forbids Jews to sacrifice, eat, or drink the blood, or to eat the flesh of animals having claws. This has been demonstrated many times at our court by Jews converted to the Christian faith: nevertheless very many Jews are often seized and detained unjustly because of this. We decree, therefore, that Christians need not be obeyed against Jews in a case or situation of this type, and we order that Jews seized under such a silly pretext be freed from imprisonment, and that they shall not be arrested henceforth on such a miserable pretext, unless-which we do not believe-they be caught in the commission of the crime. We decree that no Christian shall stir up anything new against them, but that they should be maintained in that status and position in which they were in the time of our predecessors, from antiquity till now."

In Tierney, Middle Ages, Vol 1, 259-60.

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FBI sting exposes scams to rival any 'Sopranos' plot

FBI agents lead arrested suspects from their headquarters as part of a corruption investigation in Newark, New Jersey. The mayors of three New Jersey cities, two state legislators and several rabbis were among more than 40 people arrested on Thursday in a corruption investigation. Photograph: AP Photo/Louis Lanzano

AMERICA: The scale of a corruption and money laundering investigation in New Jersey is unprecedented, writes DENIS STAUNTON .

THE STATE that was the setting for The Sopranos is no stranger to political corruption scandals but even New Jersey was shocked on Thursday when three mayors, two assemblymen and five rabbis were among 44 people arrested in a massive FBI sting.

An investigation into an international money laundering racket involving everything from fake Gucci handbags to human kidneys grew into an inquiry of public officials who accepted cash bribes in diners, living rooms and car parks where the money was sometimes stuffed into breakfast cereal boxes.

There were so many defendants that the cars carrying them to Newark’s FBI headquarters were parked four deep outside and buses were laid on to transport them to court.

Acting US attorney Ralph Marra, the prosecutor in charge of the case, said it highlighted the enduring grip of political corruption on New Jersey, where 130 public officials have pleaded guilty or been convicted of corruption since 2001. “For these defendants, corruption was a way of life,” he said.

“They existed in an ethics free zone. And they exploited giant loopholes in the state’s campaign contribution rules.”

The man at the centre of the sting was Solomon Dwek, a property developer and philanthropist who was a prominent member of the small, Syrian Jewish community in Deal, on the Jersey Shore. When he was arrested in 2006 for passing a bad cheque for $25 million (€17.5m), Dwek agreed to wear a wire for FBI officers investigating a money laundering operation involving a group of rabbis in Brooklyn with links to Israel and Switzerland.

According to court documents, criminals wishing to launder money from the sale of fake luxury goods and other scams could write a cheque to charities run by the rabbis. In return, they would receive an equivalent sum in cash – minus a “handling fee” of 5 or 10 per cent.

Dwek allegedly used his links to the rabbis to launder $3 million in cheques between June 2007 and July this year.

In the course of the investigation, Dwek came into contact with Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who allegedly ran a trade in black market human kidneys.

According to prosecutors, Levy bought each kidney for $10,000, usually from vulnerable donors in Israel and sold them in the US for $160,000.

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The Deadly Trade of Child Organ Trafficking By Prakriiti Gupta Srinagar, Asharq Al-Awsat- The horrific killings of 19 children and women in the Indian slum of Nithari, close to the affluent area of Noida on the outskirts of India’s capital, Delhi, has brought into focus the horrific trade of human organ trafficking that is claiming the lives of thousands of children worldwide. There is huge demand and a market for body parts especially eyes, hearts and kidneys belonging to children. Estimates indicate that at least one million children have been kidnapped and killed in the past 20 years for organs. A kidney or eyes can fetch up to US $10,000 and a heart could cost US $50,000 or more. Estimates further indicate that money laundering in this deadly trade accounts for up to 10% of the world's GDP, or as much US $5 trillion. As a result, the black market for children's organs is expanding and more and more children are kidnapped and killed. While victims are primarily from Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa, trafficking also takes place in developed countries. Those who take part in this trade make false promises about employment opportunities for the children and give money to the parents. Children are also stolen from orphanages, or handed over through a fake adoption process and killed for their organs. The intermediary may earn between US $50 and US $20, 000 per child according to the source countries. In many cases, impoverished parents are sometimes persuaded to sell their children's organs for as little as US $500. According to Dr Sam Vaknin, the Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International (UPI), a kidney fetches US $5000 in Turkey. A kidney from an Indian or Iraqi child, however, would cost a mere US $2000. Such amounts are pitiful in comparison to the thousands of dollars that wealthy individuals would pay for an organ. A recent report of a retired Italian couple, who had been arrested for buying a five-year-old Albanian boy to provide organs for a transplant for their grandson and who paid US $6000 to the trafficking gang, is a clear indicator to this trade. In Russia in late 2000, a grandmother was arrested for trying to sell her five-year-old grandson Andrei. With the help of the boy's uncle, the child was handed over to a man in exchange for US $90,000 who would then take him to "the West," where his kidneys and other organs would be removed and sold.