Israel steals from holocaust survivors

I suppose this is all pretty boring now. It is quite well established that whilst the holocaust industry extorted money from various European banks and other companies, Israeli banks have retained the assets of holocaust survivors and those who perished in the holocaust. Now it seems that, apart from the political exploitation of the event that certain zionists collaborated in, the State of Israel has diverted a few million dollars worth of holocaust survivors' welfare money from its promised recipients. Here's Ynet with the headline Holocaust survivors accuse State of stealing their welfare funds:

The Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel welcomed the government's pledge in 2006 to allocate an additional $7.7 million for Holocaust victims the following year. Two separate bodies were to contribute the much-needed funds, with the Prime Minister's Office and Yisrael Beitenu party each slated to give half the final amount.

But Ynet has learned that throughout the course of 2007 – only one payment of $3.8 million was received.

The funds were used mainly to cover medical expenses for thousands of needy Holocaust survivors living in Israel, said officials at the foundation, adding that with the full amount some 5,000 more requests for aid could have been authorized.

But both the PMO and Yisrael Beitenu claim they transferred the entire amount they had pledged to the Finance Ministry during 2007.

'It's a ruse to swindle Holocaust survivors'

Foundation Director Dubby Arbel told Ynet that his organization has no intention of settling for half the amount it was promised. "$3.8 million do not just vanish into thin air. Not only is the government trying to throw sand in the eyes of the Holocaust victims, it is committing a grave violation of trust and the foundation will keep fighting to make sure that the funds meant for the survivors will reach their intended destination. It is shameful that this sort of ruse would be employed against Holocaust survivors," he said.

"Only a certain kind of mind could come up with something like this," said foundation board member Shmuel Reinish of the Finance Ministry's apparent conduct.

The Finance Ministry said in response that according to the State's current budget terms, the foundation was only slated to receive $3.8 million. "This is it, the $3.8 million, this is what they were to receive and that money was transferred to the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel during the year of 2007," the ministry said.

'Thousands will be left without aid'

Meanwhile the foundation announced Sunday that it would no longer be able to provide an adequate response to the thousands of requests it receives from survivors if the government continues to dawdle.

One of the survivors who turned to the foundation for help is 80-year-old Tibor Pearl. "The government cannot fathom what we have been through. Today I am struggling just to survive, to buy medication and

support my disabled son. And yet I am more worried about survivors who cannot even afford to heat their homes in the winter."

And what of the new funds allocated for Holocaust survivors in October? The Finance Ministry said the Knesset has yet to complete the necessary legislative procedures.

Every so often the maltreatment of holocaust survivors by zionists of some stripe or other, American holocaust hucksters, Israeli banks, the State of Israel itself, makes it to some Jewish media or other, the Jewish Chronicle, Ha'aretz, this one on Ynet. And yet when Norman Finkelstein denounced what he first called the holocaust industry, he was denounced as a "Jew who doesn't like Jews". Just what is it that gives some Jews the right to highlight the plight of holocaust survivors and not others? It's all very perplexing.