Who would have thought... in Israel,... Amerika's "friend"..
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3,000 women a year caught in modern slavery
Ha'aretz Daily
By Gideon Alon
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Elul 27, 5763
Refer: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pa...?itemNo=238653
A special Knesset committee finds that "3,000 women are sold each year in Israel's sex industry, in transactions with an annual volume of $1 billion." Exploitation of sex workers includes imprisonment, and other forms of rank coercion."
The special Knesset committee's interim report is to be released Sunday. It describes the sex industry as a "modern form of slavery."...
...Committee chairperson Zahave Gal-On, MK (Meretz) said the panel's two proposed bills are designed both to reduce abuses in Israel, and to ensure that Israel is removed from the U.S. State Department's list of the second worst group of trafficking offenders.
In a July 2001 report, the State Department included Israel on a black list of states that fail to comply with the minimum criteria enforced by U.S. law to prevent human trafficking. Israel faced a threat of economic sanctions as a result of this ranking. Then, as a result of legislation promoted by the Knesset special committee, and by various public groups, Israel's listing on the State Department's 2002 report improved somewhat being ranked among the second worst trafficking offenders. Members of this category do not comply with minimal criteria enforced by American law, yet have made "significant steps" to reduce trafficking abuses.
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So.. apparently being "The Second WORST group" of slave trafficking offenders on the US State Department's list,
Entitles Israel to approx $3 Billion in foreign aid from the US.
Glad I'm not a US Tax payer.
And why isn't George Bush onto this one ?... or dosen't he know about Israel's Slave trade ? - though I'm guessing Bill Clinton did
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