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Unbelievable - israelis physically enter and rob ramallah banks of $30m cash

panther | 26.02.2004 03:40

Now they sink to actual phyical bank robbery. carry the loot off in jeeps.

This just goes on getting worse.

"Israeli troops and secret service agents raided four Arab banks yesterday and seized $30m (£16m) in cash that they claimed had been sent by Iran, Syria and Lebanese Hizbollah militants to fund Palestinian fighters......
...The raid was directed by the Shin Bet security service, which checked hundreds of accounts with the help of bank computer staff arrested the night before. Agents took the money from the vaults,....."

Did you get that ? they actually
"checked hundreds of accounts with the help of bank computer staff arrested the night before"

please, please, close your eyes, imagine the scene. What are your feelings as a palestinian bank clerk, forced at gunpoint to violate the privacy of your clients and compatriots ? Then watch them physically robbed after you have been forced to open the vaults. By a foreign army. Doubtless revelling in their power to impose maximum humiliation.

Does it not remind you of the Nazis going through jewish bank accounts ?

Then they PHYSICALLY CARRIED $30m out of the vaults !

The report then adds
"Israel said it will donate the confiscated money to Palestinian humanitarian relief projects"

But of course. They don't actually need this money, they get more than $6000m per annum from the US tax payer to fund their own terror activities.

The important thing is to drive the palestinians further into desperation, hopelessness, poverty and impotence.

Lets imagine what sort of perverted Israeli-controlled propagandised "Palestinian humanitarian relief projects" will receive this money, if anyone does.

If this vile illegal robbery is to go unpunished, then at least the sum should be handed to the UN for fair distribution.

Notice how we have been brainwashed. We no longer even expect anything done by Israel to be done within the framework of law as we know it. In other countries, before you violate an individuals bank account, before you confiscate his funds, there is a legal process. There is a hearing - a defence can be put up - an explanation is considered. Not in Israel. In Israel, if you are just suspected of a crime, you are not tried - it is not proved - you are executed by missile in a market place, killing others around you. Then your relatives homes are bulldozed. Even at the height of IRA bombings, the UK never did this.

Notice please, these acts are not carried out by crazed individuals, or by an organisation of fanatics. But by a modern state, in full control of its forces, and claiming to be civilsed and democratic.

Authorised by a leader who can stop or start all these acts with one movement of his finger.

No palestinian can do that.

SOURCE:  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=495175

panther
- Homepage: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=495175

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