Ban Israeli blood diamonds

by Someone Sun Jun 06, 2010 23:29

Diamonds in times of crisis? Well done Sean, very switched on you are.

by try to think with . . . your brain Sun Jun 06, 2010 23:47

"Diamonds profits=Funding for illegal Israeli Colonies/'Settlements'"

These diamonds help finance the criminals who help finance the many of the illegal Israeli Colonies/'Settlements'" built on recently stolen Palestinian land

To give but one example from many possible examples:

Lev Leviev is one of Israel's richest men. He built his enormous fortune trading in diamonds with apartheid-era South Africa. His company now buys diamonds from the repressive Angolan government. Leviev uses profits from diamond sales to fuel the conflict in Palestine and Israel by funding the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, undermining the prospects for Middle East peace. Leviev's diamonds are "conflict diamonds" in a broad sense of the term, funding repression in Angola and violations of international law in Palestine.

Belgian-born Maurice Tempelsman has a long and bloody history in Africa. When Congo’s first Premier, Patrice Lumumba, pledged to return diamond wealth back to the newly independent Congo in the early 60’s, Tempelsman, who began with De Beers in the 1950’s, helped engineer the coup d’etat that consolidated the dictatorship of 29 year-old Colonel Mobutu, and the coup against Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah; diamonds were at stake in each.

From then on diamonds would be extensively used to discreetly fund wars, coups, repression and dictatorships, in Africa.

Maurice Tempelsman is Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist pressure group that claims it works closely with the Israeli military. US Securities and Exchange Commision filings show that LKI directors are high-rolling Zionist lawyers and investment bankers: one director belongs to the law firm that once represented President Kennedy—another Tempelsman friend. LKI is also connected to the euphemistically named United States Agency for International Development (USAID) [a probable CIA front]

Maurice Templesman is one of the top funders of Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party [both of whom are refusing to use any useful methods, such as cutting of 'Israeli Military welfare' monies paid every year by the US taxpayer, to pressurise the Israelis to stop stealing Palestinians land and to stop building colonies on that stolen land] Templesman was the unofficial ambassador to the Congo (Zaire) for years

Israeli-American Dan Gertler goes nowhere—does nothing—without the spiritual guidance of Brooklyn-born Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Leibovitch, a personal friend of Condoleeza Rice.

Gertler and Leibovitch are two of the principals behind a diamond mining company, Emaxon Finance Corporation, involved in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Gertler and gang won the majority rights to the diamonds from the state mining company, Société Minière de Bakwange, MIBA, found near the government-controlled town of Mbuji-Mayi, the rough diamond capital of the world.

Dan Gertler is close to Israeli politicians, especially [ultra right wing anti-palestinian racist] Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party. Gertler’s inseperable friend, Chaim Leibovitz, is also very close to Lieberman, and was “a regular fixture” in [right-wing Anti-Palestinian racist] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offices. [So essentially Gertler is funding both of the right wing pro-Colony/'Settlement' Israeli parties, using profits from 'Blood Diamonds']

by Sean Clinton Mon Jun 07, 2010 00:26

duh

by Bazooka Joe Tue Jun 08, 2010 00:07

This is an interesting article on Israeli companies involved in blood diamonds and their links to American political and corporate power.

http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-203BD%20Combd...7.htm

Maurice Tempelsman
http://www.eurasia.org/about/bio_tempelsman.aspx

http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Business_1/The_Ger...shtml

by Israelite. Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:32

The Jews have been involved in the diamond trade for more than a thousand years.

Quaint rules imposed on Christians by Rome made sure that Jews slotted into the trade.

The Rome rules on banking are also the reason why Jews were leading bankers.

If the Jews are the leading diamond dealers today you can blame the Vatican.

by Sean Clinton Fri Jun 11, 2010 19:17

A Kimberley Process intersessional meeting will be held in Tel Aviv between June 21-23. This presents an opportunity for the EU to raise the issue of a review of the process so that all diamonds that fund human rights abuse are regulated by the Kimberly Process and not just rough diamonds used by rebel movements.

Not surprisingly, Eli Avidar, Managing Director of the Israel Diamond Institute, says that the focus of the Kimberley Process intersessional meeting in Tel Aviv will be on Zimbabwe’s diamond trade.

by Jew. Sat Jun 12, 2010 15:22

"This presents an opportunity for the EU to raise the issue of a review of the process so that all diamonds that fund human rights abuse are regulated by the Kimberly Process and not just rough diamonds used by rebel movements".

Let us not forget that Diamonds and Gold helped to preserve a race who were always surrounded by murderous opopsition.

by anti-Zionist Sat Jun 12, 2010 16:24

'The Jews' as you like to refer to them, are not a 'race' - Judaism is a religion shared by a number of separate groups the main ones being :

* Mizrahim (Middle Eastern )
* Ashkenazim (East European/Russian - mainly descended from Khazar-converts to the religion)
* Sephardim (Originally Spanish- probably descended from converts)
* Habashim (Ethiopian - probably descended from converts) -

as any intelligent unbiased observer can see it is utterly implausible that these genetically-disparate groupings could ever truthfully be said to from a cohesive genetic/racial grouping - in fact Mizrahim are more closely connected to modern-day Palestinians than to any other group of humans on the planet and genetic testing has shown this to be the case - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscie...etics

by Historian Sat Jun 12, 2010 16:56

'The Jews' as you like to refer to them, are not a 'race' - Judaism is a religion shared by a number of separate groups the main ones being"

That is being childish.

Race is a general term.

The Irish or English or French are races by name only.

The only pure "race" on earth are the male priests in the Vatican.
There is no chance that females from the outside will contaminate Rome..

Mind you.
Rome itself was founded by:
"The Rape of the Sabine Women".

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women

by Anti-Zionist Sat Jun 12, 2010 17:27

Even if as you say 'race is a general term' it is still utterly meaningless In this context.

When used in this context - when used to equate a religion with a race e.g.: The Christian race, it is nothing but the indication of a racial-supremacist from of thought - anyone using it in such a fashion is in effect a racist, hence my comparison of Zionists with Anti-Semites - they are essentially both sides of the same coin - both are racist

by Historian Sat Jun 12, 2010 18:08

The Irish or English or French are races by name only.

actually Anti-Zionist is correct, (so my apologies to him/her) it is generally true that only racists ever use the terms 'Irish race', 'English race' or 'French race' - they are the thought-products of people for whom racist thinking is second-nature

by Historian Sun Jun 13, 2010 03:19

The only pure "race" on earth are the male priests in the Vatican.

I have no idea how that astoundingly ridiculous sentence quoted above managed to appear under a post bearing my nom de Indymedia - I must have been channeling Opie or something even more bizzare - If any more ridiculous sentences like that appear under my moniker it's probably best to just presume that someone is trying to hijack my chosen identity . . . or else I've been temporarily channeling Opie once again.

by Biologist. Sun Jun 13, 2010 19:50

"I have no idea how that astoundingly ridiculous sentence quoted above managed to appear."

It was meant to be ridiculous.

Catholic priests are forbidden to reproduce themselves.

You would not ask that punishment off a bacterium.
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