ISRAEL: WHOREHOUSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
By Rev. Ted Pike
8 Nov 06
My article “Israel: On
the Way to Empire in the Mideast” documents
from Scripture an astonishing fact: Israel today is the symbolic “Mother
of harlots” described in Revelation 17 and 18. Ancient Israel
was first to be spiritually “married” to God and first
to prostitute that unique relationship. Her forehead was branded “mother
of harlots,” an epithet which has never been removed.
Today, Israel lives up to her name as an international hub of prostitution
and white slavery in the Mideast.
Amnesty International, in its 2005 Report
on Discrimination Against Women in Israel says:
Trafficking of women for forced prostitution has occurred over
a number of years but appears to have been compounded in the past
15 years by several factors, including increased links between
traffickers in Israel and former Soviet republics, in the wake
of the large wave of immigration of citizens of these countries
to Israel…
…Many women are lured to work in Israel under false pretense
and are then forced into the sex industry. While many are reportedly
aware that they will be working as sex workers, they are not aware
they will be subject to violent and exploitative environments, working
seven days a week and up to 18 hours a day for extremely low salaries
or no salaries at all. Many are subjected to other serious human
rights violations, including rape, deprivation of their liberty,
and debt-bondage. Women forced to work as sex workers are reportedly
also frequently subjected to threats of abuse and even murder. Half
the women interviewed by the Hotline for Migrant Workers were effectively
incarcerated by their “pimps” and, according to a 2003
survey, almost half of all women “sold” to pimps reported
that policemen were among their clients.
According to a report by the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry
on the Trafficking in Women (Summary Report) issued in early
2005, some 3,000 to 5,000 women are brought annually into Israel
and forced to work as sex workers and some 10,000 were estimated
to be currently in the country…
Most of the women known to have been trafficked into Israel are
from Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Russia, and are brought
into Israel through the Egyptian-Israeli border. In the course
of their journey, many are reportedly raped before traffickers
sell them for $8,000-$10,000… 1
Jewish Michael Specter, in his article, “Slave Traders Lure
Slavic Women,” confirms Amnesty’s report:
[In Israel] police officials estimate that there are 25,000 paid
sexual transactions everyday. Brothels are ubiquitous…Once
they [the women] cross the border [into Israel] their passports will
be confiscated [by pimps], their freedoms curtailed, and what little
money they have taken from them…The Tropicana in Tel Aviv’s
bustling business district, is one of the busiest bordellos. The
women who work there, like nearly all prostitutes in Israel today,
are Russian. Their bosses, however, are not. ‘Israelis love
Russian girls,’ said Jacob Golan, who owns this and two other
clubs, ‘….They are blond and good-looking and different
than us…And they are desperate. They are ready to do anything
for money.’ 2
Israel: Slow to Correct Problem
Prostitution and white slavery constitute a billion-dollar-a-year
industry in Israel that expands virtually unrestrained.
About two to three thousand women from FSU (Former Soviet Union)
countries annually enter Israel’s brothels. The US State Department,
in its 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report, described Israel as among
the very worst international offenders in allowing white slavery.
They classed Israel in Tier 3, a group described as “not making
significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the
standards of the Dictums of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act
of 2000.” Israel was grouped with Albania, Gabon, Kazakhstan,
Malaysia, and Pakistan, who also received an “F” for
failing to protect human rights.
After this scathing 2000 report, Knesset finally passed a law criminalizing
white slavery. 3 Enforcement programs and lesser statutes have been
enacted, with increased police attention to the problem. In 2004,
the courts actually handed down 28 convictions to white slavers.
Such efforts caused the US State Department to elevate Israel’s
offender status to Tier 2. 4
However, recent reports by Amnesty and the state department are
full of criticisms of Israel: While laws against sex slavery are
now on the books, Israel shamelessly neglects to protect and encourage
ex-prostitutes in their attempts to testify against their oppressors.
Victims are largely denied full legal education, rights, services,
and protection against vengeful pimps. Without victims’ testimony,
laws against white slavery can’t be enforced.
Amnesty says,
The authorities—and in particular the police—still overwhelmingly
considered trafficked sex workers simply as “criminals” who
violated the Entry into Israel law, rather than victims of grave
human rights violations who should enjoy the effective protection
and assistance from state institutions. Consequently, the authorities
have focused their activities on deporting trafficked women instead
of protecting their rights and addressing their needs.
In addition, the Israeli authorities do not carry out any risk assessment
of the possible dangers which trafficked women who have testified
against their traffickers face after being deported back to their
countries, leaving them and their families vulnerable to further
human rights violations, including reprisals and retrafficking. 5
If a woman files a complaint against her Jewish slave master, as
an illegal alien she will be imprisoned. As a result, an infinitesimal
number of ex-prostitutes testify against their pimps. Consequently,
very few slavers are convicted.
As a result of Israel’s anemic response to the problem of
white slavery, most slavers are able to mock anti-prostitution laws
and white slavery continues to expand.
The government of Israel claims great difficulty in combating this
problem. But Knesset hasn’t even made organized prostitution
a crime. The sex trade enriches Israel yearly by perhaps hundreds
of millions of tax dollars. This may be part of the reason the government
seems in no great hurry to clean up the industry.
History of Oppression
Four hundred years ago, Jewish slave traders dominated the lucrative
business of shipment and sale of African slaves to the new world.
6 For at least the last 125 years, Jews have also overwhelmingly
controlled organized prostitution and white slavery in Europe, the
United States, and South America.
Jewish historian Edward Bristow, in his book Prostitution
and Prejudice: the Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 7 says:
Rooted largely in Eastern and Central Europe where they "dominated
the international traffic out of the area," (p. 2) Jews were
involved in prostitution rings that networked, wrote Arthur Mora
(of London’s Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls
and Women) in 1903, “to almost all parts of North and South
Africa, to India, China, Japan, Philippine Islands, North and South
America, and also to many of the countries of Europe.” (p.
1)
Jewish criminals trafficked women under their control virtually
anywhere, also including the major cities of Bulgaria, Bosnia, Greece,
Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Ceylon, Manchuria, South Africa, Rhodesia,
and Mozambique. (p.181)
“By 1900,” says Bristow, “Jewish commercial
vice was largely incorporated in underworld elements and many of
its participants were predators of the poor. (p. 89)
Jewish pimps, procurers, and traffickers, preyed mostly on non-Jewish
women but even large numbers of Jewish women were a part of their
stables. In 1872, for example, Jewish prostitutes in Warsaw numbered
17 percent of the known prostitution population, in Krakow, 27 percent,
and in Vilna, 47 percent. (p. 23)
Within the Jewish community itself, it was not uncommon for recruiters
to marry innocent Jewish young women and “deposit them in foreign
brothels.”(p. 25)
Many of the Jewish criminal underworld figures apparently saw
no gap between their day-to-day activities and their religious
lives, often maintaining their religious obligations. A Warsaw
thug, Shilem Letzsky, organized a small synagogue for “Jewish prostitutes,
madams, pimps, and thieves.” This criminal community even had
a rabbinical court “to settle disputes between pimps.” (p.
60)
Other authorities say:
In Constantinople, prostitutes contributed money to “have
their pimps called to Torah on holidays.” 8
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Jewish pimp organization, called
the Varsovia Society, “…ostensibly functioned as
a neutral aid society…In fact, the Varsovi, consisted
of pimps who wanted to maintain their businesses and still live
a religious life…Varsovia
associates established their own synagogues on Guemes Street
in the midst of the traditional bordello district.”9
Tradition of Prostitution Continues
In Israel today, the sale of human flesh continues. Jewish pimps
and brothel-owners bring FSU girls to Israel to turn tricks in the
thriving bordellos of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Many of these women, though fair-haired, are undoubtedly Jewish “Ashkenazim.” They
may well have taken advantage of airlifts of Jews out of the FSU,
such as Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein's Wings of Eagles ministry, funded
by idealistic evangelical Christians.
Most, however, are Gentiles. They may also have hitched a free
ride to Israel on Wings of Eagles. The US State Department says: “In
a new trend, traffickers in Ukraine reportedly have begun exploiting
an Israeli law that allows all Jews to immigrate to Israel by providing
victims with false identity documents.” 10
Specter's article says "elderly Jewish women in the Ukraine" were
responsible for forging passports for Gentile prostitutes going to
Israel. Presumably, these Jewish women received kickbacks from Jewish
slavers in Haifa and Tel Aviv. With an FSU prostitute bringing in
up to $100 thousand dollars annually, one suspects many of the "Jews" who
are "ransomed" by gullible evangelical Christians are actually
headed for white slavery in Israel.
The majority of FSU women who do not have the advantage of being
labeled Jewish arrive in Israel through Cyprus and Egypt. Israeli
customs police allow them to travel unhindered to slave auctions.
Many are raped by pimps (testing the goods) and bought for $6 to
$20 thousand dollars. In about 250 Israeli brothels, mostly in major
cities, they satisfy the lust of Jewish businessmen, soldiers, tourists,
etc. Servicing an average of 15 customers per girl per day, even
a small brothel can make more than $8 thousand dollars per month
from each woman. 11
Now virtual slaves to their Jewish pimps, these women pocket only
a tiny percentage of their proceeds, most of which often go to support
their families back in eastern Europe or Eurasia.
Double Standards
How can such vice and human bondage exist in what Christians consider
God’s “Holy Land?” How can Orthodox Judaism, the
official position of the state of Israel, tolerate such egregious
human rights violations?
In my latest e-alert, “Talmud:
Wellspring of Jewish Pornography Industry,” I document how the Talmud, the highest religious
authority for observant Jews, sanctions adultery with Gentile “bondmaids” or
slave girls. The Talmud gives Jewish men the right to rape them if
they are found sleeping, or while they are awake if the rape is performed
in a perverted manner, or if withdrawal occurs before climax is finished.
Judaism’s loopholes for adultery are nothing new. Both Christ
and St. Paul accused the Pharisees and their followers of claiming
to uphold God’s laws against sexual sin, yet violating them
at the same time. (Matt. 12:39, Romans 9:22)
Judaism and Islam: Darkened Religions
Does Judaism alone among the world’s great religions provide
moral exceptions to God’s laws against sexual vice? Of course
not. Islam gives similar license. Many Moslems believe they can be “married” for
as short as a minute or as long as 99 years. The brothels of Tehran
are daily filled with “righteous” Moslem men involved
in 20-minute “marriages” and “divorces” with
prostitutes! 12
But there’s a big difference between religiously excused
sex trades in Iran and in Israel: Islam does not claim to be part
of the hallowed “Judeo-Christian” moral tradition. Most
evangelicals believe rabbinic Judaism shares Christianity’s
essential ethics. Indeed, it is their confidence in shared moral
values that prompts their unconditional support of Zionism.
They have been massively deceived. Orthodox Judaism’s values
could not be more distant from Christianity’s. In the streets
of Israel’s major cities, sex slaves are brazenly flaunted
and their pimps and slave masters go virtually unprosecuted. Why?
The Talmudic ethics underlying the state of Israel endorse such degeneracy,
especially with “goyim” women. The Talmud and Zohar regard
Gentile women as chattel for Jewish men; they are “beasts of
the earth,” not fully human. 13 (See, "Have
You Read the Talmud Lately?")
Talmudic denial of the humanity of Gentile women causes many Orthodox
men in Israel to take advantage of the Talmud’s rationalization
that sex with the Gentile “shiksa” (whore, abomination)
is morally neutral.
Moment magazine, the “Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion,” says
paid sex with blond Russian girls is a “national institution.” Even
rabbis, says Moment, visit these “shiksas” in whorehouses.
A good percentage of the customers or johns, in the lingo, are
ultra-Orthodox Jews, pious men whose lives are guided by halaka
(religious law), which tells them when they can or cannot have
sex with their wives. So, on Thursday afternoons (boys’ night out in Israel), busloads
of Orthodox Jews travel from Jerusalem, Haifa, and points beyond,
to Tel Aviv, for a few precious moments of passion in a massage parlor,
behind a sand-dune, or in an alleyway. Other customers are accountants,
lawyers, policemen, and politicians. “The entire spectrum of
Israeli society is keeping the hookers in business,” claims
detective Shackar, a cynical veteran of the Tel Aviv vice detail… 14
Israel does not vigorously enforce its new law against white slavery
for a simple reason: The Talmud repeatedly upholds the right of rabbis
to sexually violate their “designated bondmaids” or sex
slaves, free of punishment or moral guilt. The government of Israel
can’t effectively enforce a law forbidding what the Talmud
permits.
Without strong, vehement, righteous indignation against prostitution
(such as true Christian activism provides) the government of Israel,
from Supreme Court to local police, remains largely powerless to
stop the burgeoning sex slave industry.
What’s Next?
I’ve described the past and present of the harlot Israel.
What of her future?
The book of Revelation tells us Israel, the great harlot, will
continue her spiritual and physical whoredom, until, through Jewish
control of world media, government, finance, and commerce, she dominates
not only the Mideast but the world. Ultimately, she will enter a “covenant” of
spiritual marriage with her false messiah, the one-world leader,
anti-Christ (Daniel 9:2). The “beast” is a substitute
husband for her true spouse, Jesus, whom she crucified 2,000 years
ago.
The harlot will ruthlessly persecute Christianity, being “drunk
with the blood of the saints of Jesus” (Rev. 17:6). The beast
will continue such onslaught against the church, given power to “make
war with the saints and to overcome them…” (Rev. 13:7).
Yet at the apex of Israel’s power, the beast will throw Jerusalem
off his back, and with his confederation of world armies, kill at
least two-thirds of world Jewry (See, “Bible
Prophecy Made Simple”). A remnant, however, will survive until Christ’s
coming in glory. Christ, from the heavens, will judge the nations
who attempted to destroy the Jews. Realizing how Christ has saved
them from extinction, a beleaguered, astonished remnant will at last
understand the magnitude of their father’s apostasy. They will “look
upon me (Christ) whom they have pierced” (Zech. 12:10). In
national repentance and mourning, they will turn at last from their
harlotry.
Thirty-five hundred years ago, Christ rescued Israel from the garbage
heap of Egyptian bondage, choosing her as His bride and washing her
of her blood and uncleanness. In the same way, someday, Christ will
purify these repentant Jewish survivors. He will spiritually remarry
Israel, joining her with His other spiritual bride, the Christian
church. These Jews, at last giving Christ the obedience He demands,
will finally be allowed to legitimately dwell in the land promised
to the obedient descendents of Abraham. It will be a truly holy land.
At that time, He says, “You shall not play the harlot…but
afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their
God, and David their king (Christ) and they will come trembling to
the Lord and to His goodness in the last days” (Hosea 3:5).
Endnotes:
1 Amnesty International, Israel:
Briefing to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, June
2005
2 Michael Specter, New York Times
Newsservice p. 1, January 11, 1998
3 “In 2000, the Israeli Penal Code was amended to explicitly
criminalize traffickers in persons for the purpose of prostitution…” Amnesty,
2005 Report
4 US State Dept. 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report
5 Amnesty International, 2005 Report
6 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 13, in its article on “Jews,” p.
57, says, “In the Dark Ages, the commerce of western Europe
was largely in his [the Jew’s] hand, in particular the slave
trade.” A History of the Jews from Babylonia
Exile to the End of World War Two, published by the Jewish Publication Society of
America, says, “Jews were among the most important slave dealers
[in European society].” Marc Raphael’s Jews
and Judaism in the United States: a Documentary History states, “Jewish
merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all
the American colonies…Jewish merchants frequently dominated.” These
are only a few of many reputable sources establishing Jewish predominance
in the American slave trade.
7 Edward J. Bristow, Prostitution
and Prejudice. The Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 1870-1939, Schocken Books, New York, New York,
1983
8 Susan Wheidman Schneider, Jewish
and Female: Choices and Changes in our Lives Today, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984, p. 225
9 Donna Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos
Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and
London, 1989, p. 22
10 US State Department, op cit p. 1
11 Jerusalem Post, Jan. 13, 1998
12 New York Times, Oct. 4, 2000
13 Zohar, Bereshith 47a says, "….'living soul' refers
to Israel, who have holy living souls from above, and 'cattle and
creeping thing and beast of the earth' to the other peoples are not
'living soul'…"
14 Moment, “Hookers in the Holy Land,” April 1998, p.
45-78
