- This is a special bulletin whose information is of such
historic impact that other tasks were left behind. My apologies to readers
who requested address updates and changes. Other essential items will be
left until the next real article as well. But I'm still going to plug my
new book, Save Israel! since it, almost alone, will finance information
such as this. Now hold onto your kipas because we now report:
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- The setting: There was a fine casino in Jericho until
two years ago. It was supposedly majority-owned by the Palestinian Authority
in a limited partnership with a group of experienced Israeli casino owners
led by Reuven Gabrieli. But Shimon Peres' special envoy to the PA, Yossi
Ginosar got wind of the plan and had a few ideas of his own. He convinced
his buddy Jibril Rajoub, the PLO warlord of Jericho, to stop construction
of the casino complex, and what better way than to shoo off the construction
workers at gunpoint? Now a new group of owners took over and they reportedly
understated earnings by at least a billion dollars a year. The casino became
a hub of extremely lucrative money laundering. Arafat would pillage the
PA's treasury, while Ginosar and his cronies would hide the money. In 1997,
Ginosar opened a Swiss bank account for Arafat and around $350 million
stolen from Arafat's peasant class found a safe haven there. Ginosar's
cut for his trouble was around $10 million. For full details of the Ginosar
scandal, contact me and I'll send a package of my five previous investigations.
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- INTERIOR - DAY - BANQUET HALL BAT YAM JANUARY 8
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- I am sitting at a table at a brit mila celebration. To
my right is Likud candidate Moshe Feiglin. To his right, Herut Knesset
member Michael Kleiner. The Likud has been victimized by still another
scandal and is on the way to losing the elections. Watch out for Prime
Minister Mitzna. The latest scandal concerns a $1.5 million loan Sharon's
sons took from a businessman named Cyril Kern. It looks like the knockout
punch. I explain the Ginosar scandal in depth to Feiglin and Kleiner, up
to the murder of Wayne Owens. I point out that Barak and moreso, Peres
are up to their ears in Ginosar and the money involved will make the Kern
loan seem like loose change.
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- But they pretend not to hear. Feiglin tells me the country
isn't ready for this kind of scandal. Kleiner changes the subject and talks
about when we first met some fifteen years ago. What is going on? Why are
they ignoring Ginosar and taking all the punches to the jaw with fatalistic
abandonment?
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- On my left is Prof. Hillel Weiss. He says, "Don't
you know Sharon is deeply involved in the Ginosar affair? Who do you think
negotiated the deal for Arafat's casino?"
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- HATSOFE, Jan. 10, Item From The Weekend Magazine:
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- "The Ginosar Affair has been forgotten. Could
there be a connection between the government's neglect of the scandal and
the fact that a high ranking official of Sharon's office conducted negotiations
with the same Palestinians involved with Ginosar? This is even more serious
than Ginosar's role, because he wasn't an official government employee,
while the one we speak of holds a very high-ranking position in Sharon's
office."
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- A BIT LATER - DAY - BANQUET HALL
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- Hillel Weiss turns to me and answers his own question;
"Dov Weisglass and Omri Sharon were the assigned Israeli negotiators
with the Austrians who ran the casino."
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- The blow was immediate. Weisglass is Sharon's Office
Director and his son Omri is his special emissary to the PLO. And they
were getting a cut of the stolen Arafat money too!
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- Haaretz, Jan. 10, Page 1B
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- "It is not clear why $1.5 million were transferred
from South Africa to somewhere else, to a bank in Austria via a bank in
New York, until they finally landed in a branch of Discount Bank in Tel
Aviv. Why this circuitous route?
- "What is known, however, is that Omri Sharon
and attorney Dov Weisglass (the director of the Prime Minister's Bureau)
visited both Austria and the United States together this past year. Austria
is the domicile of Martin Schlaff, one of the owners of the casino in Jericho
and a partner in the Bank of Austria. Schlaff is a client of attorney Weisglass."
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- Which Answers A Lot Of Questions
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- Like why Arafat permitted the constructon of the casino
despite the murderous protests of his religious opposition. Like why other
Ginosar beneficiaries like Barak and Peres used all their political influence
to keep Arafat solvent no matter how many Jews he ordered murdered. Like
why Omri Sharon was so buddy-buddy with Arafat and his hoodlums. And like
why Ariel Sharon is using all of his political influence to keep the lid
on Ginosar and cover up the murder of another gang member, former congressman
Wayne Owens of Utah.
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- *****
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- The Plug:
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- And finally, I undertook a bigger print run of my new
book, Save Israel! I can reduce the price to $25, including postage for
at least another month. So order while the price is as low as I can arrange.
Just e-mail me at chamish@netvision.net.il and a book is on the way to
you.
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