* Collaborazione tra Israele e la Croazia: l'interesse imperialista
israeliano alla frantumazione della RFSJ e' stato anteposto alla memoria
storica del nazismo!
(Sulle forniture di armi da Israele alla Croazia suggeriamo la lettura
del libro "Traffico di armi" di Gambino e Grimaldi, Editori Riuniti)
* Storico israeliano contesta la politica antiserba della NATO
* Avvocati ebrei in Israele e Svizzera in prima linea nella battaglia
per la restituzione da parte del Vaticano dei beni della vittime dei
clerico-nazisti ustascia
* Appello della Zionist Organization of America contro la politica
antiserba di Israele e delle principali organizzazioni ebraiche
Sulla politica "umanitaria" delle lobby sioniste in Jugoslavia si veda:
http://www.jdc.org/programs/yugoslavia.html
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc.
Per la puntata precedente si veda:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/193?&start=175
Introduction to the Vatican Bank Claims
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Zagreb's VINA 3/7/00: "Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister
Goran Granic and Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh
agreed in Zagreb on Tuesday [7 March] that the two countries
should start intensifying their cooperation immediately, the
Government said in a statement. In that regard, the two
officials agreed on a visit by a Croatian government delegation
to Israel."
Taken from:
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ISRAEL NEWS CONNECTION
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Actually its funny that you should have noticeed the Israel-Croatia
cooperation story...This isn't just politics, according to an edition of
GLOBUS (Croatian magazine) dated April (Travnja), 2nd, 1999 (No.434) on
pages 26-28 we are told that the HV (the Croatian Army) should be
equiped in
two years time with Israel's "Galil" automatic weapon [Israel's version
of
the M-16] for Croatian infantry. The magazine points out the "Galil's"
compatibility with NATO weapons but then goes on to make a huge fuss of
the
fact that Croatia is buying Israeli weapons instead of serializing the
"made
in Croatia" APS 95 which is produced by the arms-manufacturer "ARMA".
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
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After the Rain - How the West Lost the East -
http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/after.html
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/israeli.htm
Israeli historian slams NATO policy
Edited by The Emperor's New Clothes - www.tenc.net
Tel Aviv, February 24th 2000 (Tanjug) - NATO's attack on the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia is similar to Hitler's W.W.II onslaught argues
historian Anat Peri in her article, "Let the truth be heard", published
today in the eminent Israeli paper Haarec.
Along with the creation of the Independent State of Croatia under the
clerical-fascist Ustashi and the handing over of Kosovo to a fascist
Albanian regime, Hitler ordered that all the Serbs opposing Nazism be
expelled. According to Peri, Germany and the US have encouraged the
secession of Croatia and the expulsion of the Serbian population from
Croatian territory, just as Hitler did.
The US provided the fascistic, secessionist Albanian army with arms,
encouraged it to attack the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to take
control of parts of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and to
attack
Serbian soldiers. America supported ethnic Albanian gangster-terrorists
and accused ethnic Albanian intellectuals from Kosovo of cooperating
with
the Serbs, according to the Israeli historian.
Anat Peri states that Ibrahim Rugova, a leader of Kosovo ethnic
Albanians,
fears for his life because of the US-backed KLA terrorists. Under the
patronage of the US government, these terrorists have become the
murderers
not only of Serbs, but also of Albanians opposing their violence.
According to Peri, NATO's policies very much resemble Hitler's.
NATO's interest lies in provoking violence between the small nations
that
comprised Yugoslavia in order to enforce submission, says the Israeli
historian.
In contrast to its claims, NATO aggression wasn't to protect ethnic
Albanians; rather the purpose was to attack Russia's last ally in
Europe.
After the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, the majority of the Serbian
population has been expelled from Kosovo, the remaining Serbs are being
murdered daily, while KFOR representatives are unconcerned, says Ms.
Peri.
***
Further reading
Some Jewish leaders have actively engaged in Serb-bashing and even
trivialized the Holocaust by comparing Yugoslavia's defense of its
soveriengty to Hitler's attempt to create a nightmare world. But other
Jewish intellectuals and leaders have spoken out in defence of truth and
against anti-Serbian (that is, anti-Slav) racism. Here are some
interesting examples:
Yugoslav Chief Rabbi on Serbophobia by Danon Cadik, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/danon/YugoRabb.html
Hijacking the Holocaust by Todd Emoff at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/emoff/hijack.html
'A flimsy pretext of humanitarianism' by Michael Mandel, at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/mandel/aflimsy.htm
Unveiling Similarities: Anti-Serbism & Anti-Semitism by Jared Israel, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/debates/Blitz.html
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current
>status of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all victims of the Ustasha
>(Croatian Nazis). If you or your family was victimized by the Ustasha
during
>the Second World War, the plaintiffs' attorneys named below would
appreciate
>it if you would contact them. They are collecting testimony regarding
>Ustasha atrocities against Jews, Serbs, and Roma.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
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>Vatican-Nazi Lawsuit/News: CLASS PLAINTIFFS OF FIRST AMENDED CLASS ACTION
>COMPLAINT -- FILED JANUARY 21, 2000; PAPERS SERVED ON VATICAN BANK AND
>FRANCISCAN ORDER; NEW ATTORNEYS ON LEGAL TEAM; CROATIAN NEO-NAZIS NAMED IN
>LAWSUIT; SWISS NATIONAL BANK NAMED IN LAWSUIT
>
>
>Vatican Bank Claims website: http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com
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>
>Law Offices of Thomas Dewey Easton
>
>Jonathan H. Levy
>P.O.B. 6080
>Cincinnati, OHIO 45206
>Office Tel: 513-528-0586
>Email: resistk@...
>
>Tom Easton
>1335 Pebble Beach Drive
>Crescent City, CA 95531
>Office Tel: 707-464-4513
>Office Fax: 707-465-5389
>Email: tomeaston@...
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>Crescent City, California, Yom Shishi (Sixth Day - "Friday"), 14 Iyar, 5760
>(Gregorian Date: May 19 2000) (Hijri Date: 14 Safar, 1421), Root &
Branch:
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>
>CLASS PLAINTIFFS OF FIRST AMENDED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT -- FILED JANUARY
>21, 2000
>
>
>We are still gathering testimonies of World War Two Ustashi atrocities.
>All testimonies are important because they demonstrate to the Judge the
>importance of our cause. If you would like to write your testimony for us,
>and sign it as a Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury for our eventual use
>in federal court and to be added to the next pleading, we will be very
>appreciative. Your support is very important to the success of this case.
>
>Please send an original copy of your testimony by regular mail to: Tom
>Easton, 1335 Pebble Beach Dr, Crescent City CA 95531-3350.
>
>If you would NOT like your testimony to be publicized by any media, please
>make a notation at the end: DO NOT USE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.
>
>Below is the list of Class Plaintiffs in the First Amended Class Action
>Complaint of 21 January 2000 (mailed out on 19 January from Crescent City
>to San Francisco federal court), with the addition of Betsy Lalich's
>declaration of February 8 as an example of how we would like to utilize
>your testimonies as declarations that we can submit to the US District
>Court at a later time.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF EMIL ALPERIN was born June 3, 1922. Prior to the German invasion
>of Ukraine, he resided in Odessa, Ukraine at 63 Sverdlova Street, Apt. 11.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Alperin. Plaintiff
>was held prisoner at Buchenwald Concentration Camp from March 1944 until
>April 1945 where he was prisoner #34646. He currently resides in Kharkov,
>Ukraine. Emil Alperin is Jewish.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF JEWGENIJA ROMANOVA, formerly Petruchina, was born December 7,
>1927. Before the German occupation, she resided in Nikolayev, Ukraine at
>13 Kolodeznaya Street. Germans and allied Fascists, believed to be
>Croatians, looted and destroyed all the household belongings and personal
>property of Romanova. Romanova was held prisoner at Ravensbruck
>Concentration Camp from March 1944 until April 1945 where she was prisoner
>#33543. Romanova currently resides in Kharkov, Ukraine.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF MARIA DANKEWITSCH was born January 29, 1922. Before the German
>occupation, she resided in Sevastopol, Ukraine in the Fudolf District.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Dankewitsch.
>Dankewitsch was held prisoner at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp from
>February 1943 until May 1945 where she was prisoner #17406. Dankewitsch
>currently resides in Kiev, Ukraine.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF VLADIMIR MORGUNOV was born September 2, 1925. Before the German
>occupation, he resided in Mariupol, Ukraine in the 75 Kotovskoogo Street.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Morgunov. Morgunov
>was held prisoner at Buchenwald Concentration Camp from March 1943 until
>April 1945 where he was prisoner #13341. Morgunov's current address is in
>Kiev.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF VLADIMIR BRODICH was born March 1, 1931 in the Kingdom of
>Yugoslavia. As a young Serbian Orthodox boy, Vladimir resided in the town
>of Kostajnica, Krajina. In April, 1941 a German officer came to his home,
>because both of his parents were fluent in German (his father having lived
>in Austria and his mother having received her high school education in
>Salzburg, Austria). The officer showed them photographs of Ustasha
>atrocities, warning them that they should leave immediately for Belgrade
>beyond the reach of the Ustasha. The German officer prepared documents for
>the escape of the whole family. Unfortunately, the town mayor persuaded
>his father to stay. In August, 1941 the Ustasha took away his father
>Nickola, his 24 year old brother Dragomir, and his older sister to a
>detention center. Vladimir's father and brother were tortured, then
>murdered. Before their death, his father asked to embrace his son, and
>thus they were shot together. Five years later, their bodies were exhumed
>and identified because still embracing one another. At the detention
>center Vladimir's sister was gang raped by Ustasha. She only survived
>because of the efforts of a Chetnik partisan (who was later captured,
>tortured, and thrown alive into an oven to die by the Ustasha), and died in
>1997 without being able to bear children. Vladimir and his mother survived
>by escaping to Belgrade. Vladimir's family lost their two homes, and
>because Vladimir's brother was so wealthy, it took the Ustasha more than
>two years to auction all of his murdered brother's property. Vladimir came
>to the United States in 1949, is the only surviving heir to the family
>property, and currently resides in Arizona.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF WILLIAM DORICH was born July 17, 1939 in West Virginia.
>Plaintiff's father, Samuel Todorovic Sr., came to the United States at the
>end of World War One as a "displaced person," (along with plaintiff's
>brother George and their parents) from the village of Vojnic in the Krajina
>region, having been "ethnically cleansed" by Croatians who sided with
>Germany in World War One. Upon becoming a naturalized citizen Samuel
>Todorovic Sr., changed the family name to Dorich just prior to the birth of
>his two sons, Samuel Jr., and William. During World War One, the Ustasha
>burned to death 45 Serbian victims in the Orthodox Serbian church in the
>village of Vojnic, of which 17 victims were relatives of the Dorich family.
> Plaintiff has spent his lifetime speaking out against the Ustasha and is
>the author of numerous books on the Balkans. The only member of
>plaintiff's family still alive is his 83 year-old Serbian-American mother,
>Mary Savage Dorich. Plaintiff resides in California.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF IGOR NAJFELD was born June 28, 1944 in Yugoslavia, on the day
>that his mother, a Yugoslavian Jewish physician, and his father, a Polish
>Jewish physician, escaped from 3 years of forced labor by the Ustasha
>Regime beginning in 1941. Plaintiff's parents had been living in Zagreb on
>April 10, 1941 when the Nazi's invaded Yugoslavia, but by 4 October 1941
>the Ustasha Regime had imprisoned plaintiff's parents who were later sent
>as forced laborers to Bosnia. Plaintiff's grandparents, who were sent to
>Jasenovac and murdered there, owned a department store in Slavonski Brod
>that was looted and taken over by the Ustashi. 56 of plaintiff's mother's
>relatives were murdered by the Ustasha, many of whom perished in the
>Jasenovac Concentration Camp system. Most of plaintiff's relatives were
>prosperous and all lost property to the Ustasha looting. Plaintiff grew up
>in Yugoslavia and eventually emigrated to the United States, where he now
>resides in Vermont.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF UKRAINE ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN ANTIFASCIST RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
>is recognized by Ukrainian Ministry of Justice as an official
>representative of 8,500 former partisans and resistors of the Nazi
>occupation of Ukraine and concentration camp victims.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF UKRAINIAN UNION OF NAZI VICTIMS AND PRISONERS represents over
>300,000 former slave and forced laborers, prisoners, concentration camp,
>and ghetto survivors.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF JASEONVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, established in 1998, is a
>non-profit (503-1) human rights organization and research institute
>registered in the state of Michigan committed to establishing the truth
>about the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and dedicated to the search for justice
>for its victims. The JRI promotes research and activities designed to
>enlighten the world to the crimes of genocide committed at Jasenovac and
>wartime Yugoslavia against Serbs, Jews and Romas and provides assistance to
>all groups and individuals who likewise seek justice for these victims.
>The JRI is also dedicated to fostering unity, justice and the survival of
>the Serbian people and of their cultural heritage worldwide, and it
>promotes cooperation and better relations between all peoples in the
>Balkans.
>
>
>ADDITIONAL PLAINTIFF:
>
>
>DECLARATION OF LIZABETH LALICH IN SUPPORT OF ALPERIN et al. v. VATICAN BANK
>et al., USDC No. C99-4941 MMC
>
>I, Lizabeth Lalich, declare as follows:
>
>1. My paternal family (Lalich): In May 1945, 48 family members, all women
>and children from the Lalich family were murdered and placed in a mass
>grave. They were killed by Croatian Ustasha after they descended from
>hiding in the mountains above their village in Korencia, Lika (Krajina)
>Yugoslavia. The war had just been declared "over" and they thought it was
>safe to return home.
>
>2. My maternal family (Knezevic): Jovan Knezevic, brother of my
>grandfather Stojan Knezevic, was taken from his home and tortured and
>murdered by the Croatian Ustasha in May 1944, in Mutilich, Lika (Krajina),
>Yugoslavia. He was 30 years old.
>
>3. My cousin Dusanka Kovacevic (niece of my grandfather Stojan Knezevic)
>was taken from her home in Dalmatia to Croatian capital Zagreb, along with
>other kidnapped Serbs, and hung to death on Serbian Eastern Orthodox
>Christmas, January 7, 1942. She was a teenager.
>
>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of
>California that the foregoing is true and correct and executed this 8th day
>of February, 2000, in Chicago, Illinois. /s/ Lizabeth Lalich
>
>
>********
>
>
>PAPERS SERVED ON VATICAN BANK AND FRANCISCAN ORDER
>
>The defendants Vatican Bank and the Franciscan Order have been served their
>copies of the lawsuit. We are awaiting their official responses to the
>court.
>
>
>********
>
>
>NEW ATTORNEYS ON LEGAL TEAM
>
>Several attorneys have joined our legal team, each bringing with them
>unique knowledge and resources that will contribute to the success of the
>lawsuit.
>
>
>They are:
>
>
>K. LEE BOYD is an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University Law School
>and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Lee is the author of several
>articles on International Law and does pro bono work in international
>litigation.
>
>
>MILOSH D. MILENKOVICH came to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1954.
>He is the President of a worldwide Serbian organization and an attorney in
>Cleveland, Ohio.
>
>
>JOY ROTHENBERG has been recognized by the Governor of Ohio for her work
>with Holocaust survivors. She writes, travels, and lectures extensively on
>the issue of Holocaust restitution.
>
>
>********
>
>
>CROATIAN NEO-NAZIS NAMED IN LAWSUIT
>
>
>Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
>Serb, Jewish and Ukrainian Holocaust survivors seeking restitution of the
>Word War II Croatian-Nazi treasury, have named as defendants the Croatian
>Liberation Movement and other as yet unnamed Croatian groups in a motion
>filed May 3, 2000 in San Francisco Federal Court. Other defendants include
>the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order of Monks in the class action lawsuit
>filed in San Francisco Federal Court.
>
>A 1998 U.S. State Department report implicated both the Vatican, and Swiss
>National Bank in the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars of
>gold, silver, and money looted by the 1941-1945 Croatian regime known as
>the Ustashe from Serbs, Jews, and others. Plaintiffs originally filed suit
>in November 1999 and later obtained wartime and postwar U.S. government
>documents under the Freedom of Information Act that indicated the
>involvement of Vatican and Swiss banks in concealing and transferring
>stolen gold and money between 1944 and 1952 including cash transfers to
>Croatian war criminals in Argentina.
>
>The Croatian Neo-Nazis known as the Croatian Liberation Movement were
>reestablished in Argentina in 1956 as the successors to the wartime
>Croatian Nazis. The WWII wartime leader of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, the war
>criminal responsible for the deaths of 750,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies,
>served as the first leader of the Croatian Liberation Movement until his
>death in 1959. The Croatian Neo-Nazis committed terrorist acts worldwide
>and acted as hired mercenaries in South America and Africa until Croatia's
>secession from Yugoslavia in 1991. Their activities were funded with the
>remnants of the Nazi era Croatian Treasury. After Croatia's independence
>in 1991, the exiles filtered back to Croatia to engage in yet another round
>of violence and ethnic atrocities. Until last year the son-in-law of
>Pavelic headed the Croatian Liberation Movement while working as a Croatian
>diplomat in Rome.
>
>
>***********************
>
>
>SWISS NATIONAL BANK NAMED IN LAWSUIT
>
>
>Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
>Jewish, Serb and Ukrainian Holocaust
>survivors seeking restitution of the Word War II Croatian-Nazi treasury,
>have named the Swiss National
>Bank and other as yet unnamed Swiss Banks in a motion filed May 3, 2000 in
>San Francisco Federal Court.
>
>A 1998 U.S. State Department report implicated both the Vatican and Swiss
>National Bank in the disappearance
>of hundreds of millions of dollars of gold, silver, and money looted by the
>1941-1945 Croatian regime
>known as the Ustashe from Serbs, Jews, and others.
>
>Plaintiffs originally filed suit in November, 1999 and later obtained
>wartime and postwar U.S. government
>documents under the Freedom of Information Act that indicated the
>involvement of Swiss banks in concealing
>and transferring stolen gold and money between 1944 and 1952 including cash
>transfers to war criminals in
>Argentina.
>
>The allegation filed May 3 reads:
>
>According to the Eizenstat Report, the Swiss National Bank acted as a
>depository for Ustashe loot. The
>Independent Commission of Experts -- Switzerland -- Second World War, known
>as the Bergier Commission, also links Swiss banks with Croatian wartime
>gold transactions (p. 21 of report). United States O.S.S. documents as
>early as 1944 indicate 500 kilograms of gold were deposited by the
>Croatians in the Swiss National Bank along with 2.5 million francs. A 1946
>United Treasury Department report estimates 12 to 16 million francs in gold
>deposits were still controlled by the Ustashi in Swiss bank accounts. A
>1949 C.I.A. document alleges that of 1945, the Ustashi had holdings of 2.5
>million Swiss francs, 1,700 kilograms of gold, and 40,000 kilograms of
>silver in Swiss accounts. A 1948 U.S. Army Intelligence reports confirmed
>that 2,400 kilos of Ustashi stolen gold were moved from the Vatican to one
>of the Vatican's secret Swiss bank accounts. Finally, a 1952 C.I.A.
>document indicates Pavelic, the Ustashi leader, transferred 5 million Swiss
>francs from Switzerland to Argentina.
>
>However, no Swiss bank has yet been named as a defendant. Plaintiffs'
>attorneys have requested
>clarification from counsel in the recently settled 1.25 billion dollar
>Swiss Bank Holocaust class action
>which released Swiss banks from liability for World War II era dealings
>with the Nazis. Plaintiffs however contend that postwar deposits, possibly
>from the Vatican Bank to Swiss Banks may be outside the scope of the
>settlement.
>
>
>********
>
>
>The Vatican Bank Claims website is now working at:
>
>http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com
>
>For further information, please contact:
>
>Law Offices of Thomas Dewey Easton
>
>Jonathan H. Levy
>P.O.B. 6080
>Cincinnati, OHIO 45206
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>Email: resistk@...
>
>Tom Easton
>1335 Pebble Beach Drive
>Crescent City, CA 95531
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>Office Fax: 707-465-5389
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This address here is for the Croatia Mission of NATO in Brussels!!!
--------- Forwarded Message ---------
DATE: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:55:48
From: "Jonathan Levy" <jlevy1@...>
To: <msdarkstar@...>
News for Immediate Release
Easton & Levy, Attorneys
Jonathan Levy (513) 528-0586
jlevy1@...
www.vaticanbankclaims.com
Swiss National Bank faces New Holocaust Lawsuit:
1.25 Billion Dollar Settlement May Offer No Protection
Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
Holocaust survivors seeking restitution of the Word War II Croatian-Nazi
treasury have asked the court for leave to sue the Swiss National Bank
in a
motion to be filed August 1, 2000 in San Francisco Federal Court.
Lawyers for the Holocaust survivors and their families contend that Serb
WWII victims were purposely omitted from the 1.25 billion Swiss Bank
settlement. In WWII Croatia, the Nazi puppet government murdered
upwards of
700,000 Serbs because of their religion and expelled or forcibly
converted
to Catholicism hundreds of thousands of others. The Serbs were
persecuted
because of their Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, which was
considered
heretical by the Catholic hierarchy. Just like the Jews, Serbs were
exterminated in concentration camps or subject to murderous pogroms.
Fanatic Croatian Catholics known as the Ustasha often supervised by
priests
committed the atrocities.
Documents in the plaintiffs' possession show that the Swiss National
Bank
received substantial gold and silver deposits from the Croatian regime
responsible for the genocide of Serbs. The US State Department has
found
that much of the gold and other treasure sent to Switzerland by the
Croatians consisted of loot taken from victims of the Ustasha. Postwar,
the
gold trail becomes confused, although some loot was returned to Tito's
Yugoslavia, a substantial portion found its way to Argentina where with
help
from the Vatican escape route known as the "ratline", thousands of
Ustasha
war criminals and their supporters were resettled.
As late as 1952, the CIA reported Ustasha loot flowed to Buenos Aires
from
Switzerland. Plaintiffs are seeking an accounting and restitution from
the
Swiss National Bank and in particular information about Vatican accounts
in
Switzerland. The Vatican Bank is also accused of laundering substantial
quantities of Ustasha plunder.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Milan B. Milojevic <mailto:milanbm@...>
To: jatich@... <mailto:jatich@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: HOSTILE MEDIA AGAINST SERBIA
Foreign Affairs News Keywords: SERBIA,KOSOVO,ZIONIST,ISRAEL
Source: Zionist Organization of America
Published: March 29,1999 Author: Elyakim Ha'etzni
Posted on 07/04/2000 15:15:24 PDT by
THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA'S ISRAEL NEWS CONNECTION
HOSTILE MEDIA AGAINST SERBIA
by Elyakim Ha'etzni
Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio
Broadcast on March 29, 1999 / Nisan 12, 5759
WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT
It is certainly unnecessary to explain to the listeners of Arutz-7
all about "hostile media." But did
you ever realize that there is another group suffering from
similarly hostile media? The Serbs, for
example?
Without condoning the terrible war crimes no doubt committed by
the Serbs, we and they basically
find ourselves in the same boat. The world press under-states each
of our respective sides, while it
embellishes the Arab-Moslem case, and sweeps under the carpet its
faults, crimes, and inherent
dangers. Both the Serbs and the Israelis are given to
American-European pressure on behalf of the
Moslems.
We were forced in Wye Plantation to give over portions of our
homeland to the Arabs, and the Serbs
are being forced right now to hand over a sovereign region of
theirs, Kosovo, to the Moslem
Albanians.
The Serbs, in fact, call Kosovo their "Jerusalem" - would it be
that we would learn from them how
to stand fast in conviction and determination and strength when
the time comes for us to fight for our
Jerusalem.
[Ed. note: Arutz-7 commentator Rabbi Avraham Wasserman noted that
the Kotzker Rebbe said that
we should learn strong steadfastness even from Pharaoh, who did
not give in for the duration of nine
terrible plagues.]
EVEN IF THEY ALL DIE
The Serbs lost their holy Kosovo to the Turks 600 years ago, and
have dreamt and sung about it ever
since then. They have woven their national identity around Kosovo.
We have pined for Zion and Jerusalem more than three times as
long, and with it all, tell me if there is
one politician amongst us who would say about Jerusalem what
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister
Draskovitch said about Kosovo. Draskovitch, it should be noted,
does not agree with his Prime
Minister, but he and the entire Serbian nation are united around
the Kosovo issue.
Draskovitch said:
"Our faith was born there, as was our language, our nationhood,
our pride. It is incumbent upon us to
defend Kosovo even if we all die." An American reporter asked him
if he does not want his hungry
country to become a part of the West and to share in its wealth.
He answered, "Not if the price is
Kosovo."
THE SERBS FOUGHT THE NAZIS
The hostile press does not tell us who the Serbs really are. From
amongst all the Yugoslavian
peoples, they bore the main brunt of the fight against the Nazis
in World War II. The Croatians
established a Nazi state, and murdered hundreds of thousands of
Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews.
Jews and Serbs are buried together in the Yasenovatz destruction
camp.
0From within Muslim Bosnia, with inciteful encouragement by the
Mufti of Jerusalem,
a Jew-killing SS Division arose. The Serbs kept dozens of German
divisions
occupied in battle, and caused them great losses. Serbia was the
only country in
Europe that threw off the German conquest on its own, paying a
terrible price
along the way: 1,700,000 dead - 11% of its total population.
The partisan army numbered a quarter of a million, including many
Jews, and it
saved thousands of Jews. How could Clinton possibly think that a
people who
went through all this would surrender to an air attack of the type
of which Saddam
Hussein made a mockery?
The hostile media hide from the public the fact that "ethnic
purifications" have
taken place all over Yugoslavia. The Croatians expelled 200,000
Serbs from the
Krajna district. From Kosovo itself, the Moslems - beginning the
moment they
received autonomy there in 1974 - pushed out a half-million Serbs,
while 400,000
Albanians spilled over the border, turning the Serbs into a 10%
minority in their
own homeland.
What are the Serbs fighting about? Milosevich agreed to restore
the autonomy to
the Moslems. He merely refused the NATO demand to bring in 30,000
foreign
troops to his country. What self-respecting country would have
accepted such a
dictate? Clinton had great difficulty explaining why he attacked a
sovereign
country simply because of an internal dispute within its own
borders.
The situation there is not at all the same as Iraq's attempt to
wipe out a foreign
country. If the present attack is justified, why didn't NATO
intervene in China
against the oppression of the Tibetans? What about when Sudan
slaughtered 2.5
million Christian blacks in Khartoum? Why doesn't NATO force its
member state
Turkey to give to the Kurds what it demands for the Kosovo
Albanians? These are
merely a few of the many similar examples all over the globe.
RENEWING THE COLD WAR
In truth, the attack has nothing to do with ethics. Only pure
political pro-Arab interests are at stake
- oil. The U.S. intervened in Afghanistan on behalf of the Moslem
extremists - who are now
engaged in blowing up American embassies and using their
American-supplied Stingers to endanger
aviation all over the world.
Even worse, the Americans, all for the sake of Kosovo, are
themselves endangering
American-Russian relations and the precious gift that Gorbachev
gave the world - the lifting of the
Iron Curtain. Russia and the Serbs are bound by a historic
alliance.
When NATO armed the Croatians and the Bosnians against the Serbs,
and even bombed the Serbs from
the air, Russia renewed its diplomatic and military relations with
Iran, Iraq, and Syria - and we,
Israel, are the victims of the renewal of the Cold War in the
Middle East. This is a direct result of the
defective American policy in Yugoslavia.
American diplomatic failures have left their blood-stained marks
of destruction all over the world:
in Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Beirut, Somalia, Panama, Bosnia, Arafat's
Palestine, and now Kosovo. This
new method of forcing a country to give up parts of its territory
under the threat of international
attack is now being tested. *Are we next in line?*
Israel's media are acting as if this has nothing to do with us.
The contrary appears to be true: just as the
press here is against us and in favor of Arafat, it is also in
favor of the Moslems in Yugoslavia. At the
behest of Yossi Sarid of Meretz, our left-wing government of a few
years ago sent humanitarian aid
to the Bosnians, of all people, and even absorbed Bosnian
refugees.
We, the listeners of Arutz-7, are in favor of the Jews! We will be
alert and attentive to what is
happening in Kosovo, as it may be a general rehearsal for what
could happen here if we don't give the
Palestinian terrorists a state with Jerusalem as its capital.
AID TO BOTH SIDES
But not only our own self-interest is at play here. The
gratefulness that we have to the
Serbs for their actions in World War II also demands that we
listen to both sides,
and to send aid also to the Serbian victims. Sarid is again
insisting that the Foreign
Ministry send aid only to the Moslems. I call upon the listeners
to demand that
Foreign Minister Sharon (fax: (972-2) 530-3506; sar@...)
put an end to
the one-sided leftist aid only to the Moslems, and send aid also
to the Serbs. A
public committee should arise to send aid to the Serbs, as well.
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israeliano alla frantumazione della RFSJ e' stato anteposto alla memoria
storica del nazismo!
(Sulle forniture di armi da Israele alla Croazia suggeriamo la lettura
del libro "Traffico di armi" di Gambino e Grimaldi, Editori Riuniti)
* Storico israeliano contesta la politica antiserba della NATO
* Avvocati ebrei in Israele e Svizzera in prima linea nella battaglia
per la restituzione da parte del Vaticano dei beni della vittime dei
clerico-nazisti ustascia
* Appello della Zionist Organization of America contro la politica
antiserba di Israele e delle principali organizzazioni ebraiche
Sulla politica "umanitaria" delle lobby sioniste in Jugoslavia si veda:
http://www.jdc.org/programs/yugoslavia.html
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc.
Per la puntata precedente si veda:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/193?&start=175
Introduction to the Vatican Bank Claims
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Zagreb's VINA 3/7/00: "Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister
Goran Granic and Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh
agreed in Zagreb on Tuesday [7 March] that the two countries
should start intensifying their cooperation immediately, the
Government said in a statement. In that regard, the two
officials agreed on a visit by a Croatian government delegation
to Israel."
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Actually its funny that you should have noticeed the Israel-Croatia
cooperation story...This isn't just politics, according to an edition of
GLOBUS (Croatian magazine) dated April (Travnja), 2nd, 1999 (No.434) on
pages 26-28 we are told that the HV (the Croatian Army) should be
equiped in
two years time with Israel's "Galil" automatic weapon [Israel's version
of
the M-16] for Croatian infantry. The magazine points out the "Galil's"
compatibility with NATO weapons but then goes on to make a huge fuss of
the
fact that Croatia is buying Israeli weapons instead of serializing the
"made
in Croatia" APS 95 which is produced by the arms-manufacturer "ARMA".
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
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After the Rain - How the West Lost the East -
http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/after.html
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/israeli.htm
Israeli historian slams NATO policy
Edited by The Emperor's New Clothes - www.tenc.net
Tel Aviv, February 24th 2000 (Tanjug) - NATO's attack on the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia is similar to Hitler's W.W.II onslaught argues
historian Anat Peri in her article, "Let the truth be heard", published
today in the eminent Israeli paper Haarec.
Along with the creation of the Independent State of Croatia under the
clerical-fascist Ustashi and the handing over of Kosovo to a fascist
Albanian regime, Hitler ordered that all the Serbs opposing Nazism be
expelled. According to Peri, Germany and the US have encouraged the
secession of Croatia and the expulsion of the Serbian population from
Croatian territory, just as Hitler did.
The US provided the fascistic, secessionist Albanian army with arms,
encouraged it to attack the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to take
control of parts of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and to
attack
Serbian soldiers. America supported ethnic Albanian gangster-terrorists
and accused ethnic Albanian intellectuals from Kosovo of cooperating
with
the Serbs, according to the Israeli historian.
Anat Peri states that Ibrahim Rugova, a leader of Kosovo ethnic
Albanians,
fears for his life because of the US-backed KLA terrorists. Under the
patronage of the US government, these terrorists have become the
murderers
not only of Serbs, but also of Albanians opposing their violence.
According to Peri, NATO's policies very much resemble Hitler's.
NATO's interest lies in provoking violence between the small nations
that
comprised Yugoslavia in order to enforce submission, says the Israeli
historian.
In contrast to its claims, NATO aggression wasn't to protect ethnic
Albanians; rather the purpose was to attack Russia's last ally in
Europe.
After the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, the majority of the Serbian
population has been expelled from Kosovo, the remaining Serbs are being
murdered daily, while KFOR representatives are unconcerned, says Ms.
Peri.
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Further reading
Some Jewish leaders have actively engaged in Serb-bashing and even
trivialized the Holocaust by comparing Yugoslavia's defense of its
soveriengty to Hitler's attempt to create a nightmare world. But other
Jewish intellectuals and leaders have spoken out in defence of truth and
against anti-Serbian (that is, anti-Slav) racism. Here are some
interesting examples:
Yugoslav Chief Rabbi on Serbophobia by Danon Cadik, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/danon/YugoRabb.html
Hijacking the Holocaust by Todd Emoff at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/emoff/hijack.html
'A flimsy pretext of humanitarianism' by Michael Mandel, at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/mandel/aflimsy.htm
Unveiling Similarities: Anti-Serbism & Anti-Semitism by Jared Israel, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/debates/Blitz.html
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>status of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all victims of the Ustasha
>(Croatian Nazis). If you or your family was victimized by the Ustasha
during
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appreciate
>it if you would contact them. They are collecting testimony regarding
>Ustasha atrocities against Jews, Serbs, and Roma.
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>FRANCISCAN ORDER; NEW ATTORNEYS ON LEGAL TEAM; CROATIAN NEO-NAZIS NAMED IN
>LAWSUIT; SWISS NATIONAL BANK NAMED IN LAWSUIT
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>CLASS PLAINTIFFS OF FIRST AMENDED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT -- FILED JANUARY
>21, 2000
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>We are still gathering testimonies of World War Two Ustashi atrocities.
>All testimonies are important because they demonstrate to the Judge the
>importance of our cause. If you would like to write your testimony for us,
>and sign it as a Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury for our eventual use
>in federal court and to be added to the next pleading, we will be very
>appreciative. Your support is very important to the success of this case.
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>Please send an original copy of your testimony by regular mail to: Tom
>Easton, 1335 Pebble Beach Dr, Crescent City CA 95531-3350.
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>make a notation at the end: DO NOT USE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.
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>Below is the list of Class Plaintiffs in the First Amended Class Action
>Complaint of 21 January 2000 (mailed out on 19 January from Crescent City
>to San Francisco federal court), with the addition of Betsy Lalich's
>declaration of February 8 as an example of how we would like to utilize
>your testimonies as declarations that we can submit to the US District
>Court at a later time.
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>PLAINTIFF EMIL ALPERIN was born June 3, 1922. Prior to the German invasion
>of Ukraine, he resided in Odessa, Ukraine at 63 Sverdlova Street, Apt. 11.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Alperin. Plaintiff
>was held prisoner at Buchenwald Concentration Camp from March 1944 until
>April 1945 where he was prisoner #34646. He currently resides in Kharkov,
>Ukraine. Emil Alperin is Jewish.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF JEWGENIJA ROMANOVA, formerly Petruchina, was born December 7,
>1927. Before the German occupation, she resided in Nikolayev, Ukraine at
>13 Kolodeznaya Street. Germans and allied Fascists, believed to be
>Croatians, looted and destroyed all the household belongings and personal
>property of Romanova. Romanova was held prisoner at Ravensbruck
>Concentration Camp from March 1944 until April 1945 where she was prisoner
>#33543. Romanova currently resides in Kharkov, Ukraine.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF MARIA DANKEWITSCH was born January 29, 1922. Before the German
>occupation, she resided in Sevastopol, Ukraine in the Fudolf District.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Dankewitsch.
>Dankewitsch was held prisoner at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp from
>February 1943 until May 1945 where she was prisoner #17406. Dankewitsch
>currently resides in Kiev, Ukraine.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF VLADIMIR MORGUNOV was born September 2, 1925. Before the German
>occupation, he resided in Mariupol, Ukraine in the 75 Kotovskoogo Street.
>Germans and allied Fascists believed to be Croatians looted and destroyed
>all the household belongings and personal property of Morgunov. Morgunov
>was held prisoner at Buchenwald Concentration Camp from March 1943 until
>April 1945 where he was prisoner #13341. Morgunov's current address is in
>Kiev.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF VLADIMIR BRODICH was born March 1, 1931 in the Kingdom of
>Yugoslavia. As a young Serbian Orthodox boy, Vladimir resided in the town
>of Kostajnica, Krajina. In April, 1941 a German officer came to his home,
>because both of his parents were fluent in German (his father having lived
>in Austria and his mother having received her high school education in
>Salzburg, Austria). The officer showed them photographs of Ustasha
>atrocities, warning them that they should leave immediately for Belgrade
>beyond the reach of the Ustasha. The German officer prepared documents for
>the escape of the whole family. Unfortunately, the town mayor persuaded
>his father to stay. In August, 1941 the Ustasha took away his father
>Nickola, his 24 year old brother Dragomir, and his older sister to a
>detention center. Vladimir's father and brother were tortured, then
>murdered. Before their death, his father asked to embrace his son, and
>thus they were shot together. Five years later, their bodies were exhumed
>and identified because still embracing one another. At the detention
>center Vladimir's sister was gang raped by Ustasha. She only survived
>because of the efforts of a Chetnik partisan (who was later captured,
>tortured, and thrown alive into an oven to die by the Ustasha), and died in
>1997 without being able to bear children. Vladimir and his mother survived
>by escaping to Belgrade. Vladimir's family lost their two homes, and
>because Vladimir's brother was so wealthy, it took the Ustasha more than
>two years to auction all of his murdered brother's property. Vladimir came
>to the United States in 1949, is the only surviving heir to the family
>property, and currently resides in Arizona.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF WILLIAM DORICH was born July 17, 1939 in West Virginia.
>Plaintiff's father, Samuel Todorovic Sr., came to the United States at the
>end of World War One as a "displaced person," (along with plaintiff's
>brother George and their parents) from the village of Vojnic in the Krajina
>region, having been "ethnically cleansed" by Croatians who sided with
>Germany in World War One. Upon becoming a naturalized citizen Samuel
>Todorovic Sr., changed the family name to Dorich just prior to the birth of
>his two sons, Samuel Jr., and William. During World War One, the Ustasha
>burned to death 45 Serbian victims in the Orthodox Serbian church in the
>village of Vojnic, of which 17 victims were relatives of the Dorich family.
> Plaintiff has spent his lifetime speaking out against the Ustasha and is
>the author of numerous books on the Balkans. The only member of
>plaintiff's family still alive is his 83 year-old Serbian-American mother,
>Mary Savage Dorich. Plaintiff resides in California.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF IGOR NAJFELD was born June 28, 1944 in Yugoslavia, on the day
>that his mother, a Yugoslavian Jewish physician, and his father, a Polish
>Jewish physician, escaped from 3 years of forced labor by the Ustasha
>Regime beginning in 1941. Plaintiff's parents had been living in Zagreb on
>April 10, 1941 when the Nazi's invaded Yugoslavia, but by 4 October 1941
>the Ustasha Regime had imprisoned plaintiff's parents who were later sent
>as forced laborers to Bosnia. Plaintiff's grandparents, who were sent to
>Jasenovac and murdered there, owned a department store in Slavonski Brod
>that was looted and taken over by the Ustashi. 56 of plaintiff's mother's
>relatives were murdered by the Ustasha, many of whom perished in the
>Jasenovac Concentration Camp system. Most of plaintiff's relatives were
>prosperous and all lost property to the Ustasha looting. Plaintiff grew up
>in Yugoslavia and eventually emigrated to the United States, where he now
>resides in Vermont.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF UKRAINE ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN ANTIFASCIST RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
>is recognized by Ukrainian Ministry of Justice as an official
>representative of 8,500 former partisans and resistors of the Nazi
>occupation of Ukraine and concentration camp victims.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF UKRAINIAN UNION OF NAZI VICTIMS AND PRISONERS represents over
>300,000 former slave and forced laborers, prisoners, concentration camp,
>and ghetto survivors.
>
>
>PLAINTIFF JASEONVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, established in 1998, is a
>non-profit (503-1) human rights organization and research institute
>registered in the state of Michigan committed to establishing the truth
>about the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and dedicated to the search for justice
>for its victims. The JRI promotes research and activities designed to
>enlighten the world to the crimes of genocide committed at Jasenovac and
>wartime Yugoslavia against Serbs, Jews and Romas and provides assistance to
>all groups and individuals who likewise seek justice for these victims.
>The JRI is also dedicated to fostering unity, justice and the survival of
>the Serbian people and of their cultural heritage worldwide, and it
>promotes cooperation and better relations between all peoples in the
>Balkans.
>
>
>ADDITIONAL PLAINTIFF:
>
>
>DECLARATION OF LIZABETH LALICH IN SUPPORT OF ALPERIN et al. v. VATICAN BANK
>et al., USDC No. C99-4941 MMC
>
>I, Lizabeth Lalich, declare as follows:
>
>1. My paternal family (Lalich): In May 1945, 48 family members, all women
>and children from the Lalich family were murdered and placed in a mass
>grave. They were killed by Croatian Ustasha after they descended from
>hiding in the mountains above their village in Korencia, Lika (Krajina)
>Yugoslavia. The war had just been declared "over" and they thought it was
>safe to return home.
>
>2. My maternal family (Knezevic): Jovan Knezevic, brother of my
>grandfather Stojan Knezevic, was taken from his home and tortured and
>murdered by the Croatian Ustasha in May 1944, in Mutilich, Lika (Krajina),
>Yugoslavia. He was 30 years old.
>
>3. My cousin Dusanka Kovacevic (niece of my grandfather Stojan Knezevic)
>was taken from her home in Dalmatia to Croatian capital Zagreb, along with
>other kidnapped Serbs, and hung to death on Serbian Eastern Orthodox
>Christmas, January 7, 1942. She was a teenager.
>
>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of
>California that the foregoing is true and correct and executed this 8th day
>of February, 2000, in Chicago, Illinois. /s/ Lizabeth Lalich
>
>
>********
>
>
>PAPERS SERVED ON VATICAN BANK AND FRANCISCAN ORDER
>
>The defendants Vatican Bank and the Franciscan Order have been served their
>copies of the lawsuit. We are awaiting their official responses to the
>court.
>
>
>********
>
>
>NEW ATTORNEYS ON LEGAL TEAM
>
>Several attorneys have joined our legal team, each bringing with them
>unique knowledge and resources that will contribute to the success of the
>lawsuit.
>
>
>They are:
>
>
>K. LEE BOYD is an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University Law School
>and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Lee is the author of several
>articles on International Law and does pro bono work in international
>litigation.
>
>
>MILOSH D. MILENKOVICH came to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1954.
>He is the President of a worldwide Serbian organization and an attorney in
>Cleveland, Ohio.
>
>
>JOY ROTHENBERG has been recognized by the Governor of Ohio for her work
>with Holocaust survivors. She writes, travels, and lectures extensively on
>the issue of Holocaust restitution.
>
>
>********
>
>
>CROATIAN NEO-NAZIS NAMED IN LAWSUIT
>
>
>Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
>Serb, Jewish and Ukrainian Holocaust survivors seeking restitution of the
>Word War II Croatian-Nazi treasury, have named as defendants the Croatian
>Liberation Movement and other as yet unnamed Croatian groups in a motion
>filed May 3, 2000 in San Francisco Federal Court. Other defendants include
>the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order of Monks in the class action lawsuit
>filed in San Francisco Federal Court.
>
>A 1998 U.S. State Department report implicated both the Vatican, and Swiss
>National Bank in the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars of
>gold, silver, and money looted by the 1941-1945 Croatian regime known as
>the Ustashe from Serbs, Jews, and others. Plaintiffs originally filed suit
>in November 1999 and later obtained wartime and postwar U.S. government
>documents under the Freedom of Information Act that indicated the
>involvement of Vatican and Swiss banks in concealing and transferring
>stolen gold and money between 1944 and 1952 including cash transfers to
>Croatian war criminals in Argentina.
>
>The Croatian Neo-Nazis known as the Croatian Liberation Movement were
>reestablished in Argentina in 1956 as the successors to the wartime
>Croatian Nazis. The WWII wartime leader of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, the war
>criminal responsible for the deaths of 750,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies,
>served as the first leader of the Croatian Liberation Movement until his
>death in 1959. The Croatian Neo-Nazis committed terrorist acts worldwide
>and acted as hired mercenaries in South America and Africa until Croatia's
>secession from Yugoslavia in 1991. Their activities were funded with the
>remnants of the Nazi era Croatian Treasury. After Croatia's independence
>in 1991, the exiles filtered back to Croatia to engage in yet another round
>of violence and ethnic atrocities. Until last year the son-in-law of
>Pavelic headed the Croatian Liberation Movement while working as a Croatian
>diplomat in Rome.
>
>
>***********************
>
>
>SWISS NATIONAL BANK NAMED IN LAWSUIT
>
>
>Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
>Jewish, Serb and Ukrainian Holocaust
>survivors seeking restitution of the Word War II Croatian-Nazi treasury,
>have named the Swiss National
>Bank and other as yet unnamed Swiss Banks in a motion filed May 3, 2000 in
>San Francisco Federal Court.
>
>A 1998 U.S. State Department report implicated both the Vatican and Swiss
>National Bank in the disappearance
>of hundreds of millions of dollars of gold, silver, and money looted by the
>1941-1945 Croatian regime
>known as the Ustashe from Serbs, Jews, and others.
>
>Plaintiffs originally filed suit in November, 1999 and later obtained
>wartime and postwar U.S. government
>documents under the Freedom of Information Act that indicated the
>involvement of Swiss banks in concealing
>and transferring stolen gold and money between 1944 and 1952 including cash
>transfers to war criminals in
>Argentina.
>
>The allegation filed May 3 reads:
>
>According to the Eizenstat Report, the Swiss National Bank acted as a
>depository for Ustashe loot. The
>Independent Commission of Experts -- Switzerland -- Second World War, known
>as the Bergier Commission, also links Swiss banks with Croatian wartime
>gold transactions (p. 21 of report). United States O.S.S. documents as
>early as 1944 indicate 500 kilograms of gold were deposited by the
>Croatians in the Swiss National Bank along with 2.5 million francs. A 1946
>United Treasury Department report estimates 12 to 16 million francs in gold
>deposits were still controlled by the Ustashi in Swiss bank accounts. A
>1949 C.I.A. document alleges that of 1945, the Ustashi had holdings of 2.5
>million Swiss francs, 1,700 kilograms of gold, and 40,000 kilograms of
>silver in Swiss accounts. A 1948 U.S. Army Intelligence reports confirmed
>that 2,400 kilos of Ustashi stolen gold were moved from the Vatican to one
>of the Vatican's secret Swiss bank accounts. Finally, a 1952 C.I.A.
>document indicates Pavelic, the Ustashi leader, transferred 5 million Swiss
>francs from Switzerland to Argentina.
>
>However, no Swiss bank has yet been named as a defendant. Plaintiffs'
>attorneys have requested
>clarification from counsel in the recently settled 1.25 billion dollar
>Swiss Bank Holocaust class action
>which released Swiss banks from liability for World War II era dealings
>with the Nazis. Plaintiffs however contend that postwar deposits, possibly
>from the Vatican Bank to Swiss Banks may be outside the scope of the
>settlement.
>
>
>********
>
>
>The Vatican Bank Claims website is now working at:
>
>http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com
>
>For further information, please contact:
>
>Law Offices of Thomas Dewey Easton
>
>Jonathan H. Levy
>P.O.B. 6080
>Cincinnati, OHIO 45206
>Office Tel: 513-528-0586
>Email: resistk@...
>
>Tom Easton
>1335 Pebble Beach Drive
>Crescent City, CA 95531
>Office Tel: 707-464-4513
>Office Fax: 707-465-5389
>Email: tomeaston@...
>
>
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>
>ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION, LTD.
>
>Email: rb@...
>Web Site: http://www.rb.org.il
>
>To: pmsrev@...
This address here is for the Croatia Mission of NATO in Brussels!!!
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DATE: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:55:48
From: "Jonathan Levy" <jlevy1@...>
To: <msdarkstar@...>
News for Immediate Release
Easton & Levy, Attorneys
Jonathan Levy (513) 528-0586
jlevy1@...
www.vaticanbankclaims.com
Swiss National Bank faces New Holocaust Lawsuit:
1.25 Billion Dollar Settlement May Offer No Protection
Plaintiffs in Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit filed by
Holocaust survivors seeking restitution of the Word War II Croatian-Nazi
treasury have asked the court for leave to sue the Swiss National Bank
in a
motion to be filed August 1, 2000 in San Francisco Federal Court.
Lawyers for the Holocaust survivors and their families contend that Serb
WWII victims were purposely omitted from the 1.25 billion Swiss Bank
settlement. In WWII Croatia, the Nazi puppet government murdered
upwards of
700,000 Serbs because of their religion and expelled or forcibly
converted
to Catholicism hundreds of thousands of others. The Serbs were
persecuted
because of their Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, which was
considered
heretical by the Catholic hierarchy. Just like the Jews, Serbs were
exterminated in concentration camps or subject to murderous pogroms.
Fanatic Croatian Catholics known as the Ustasha often supervised by
priests
committed the atrocities.
Documents in the plaintiffs' possession show that the Swiss National
Bank
received substantial gold and silver deposits from the Croatian regime
responsible for the genocide of Serbs. The US State Department has
found
that much of the gold and other treasure sent to Switzerland by the
Croatians consisted of loot taken from victims of the Ustasha. Postwar,
the
gold trail becomes confused, although some loot was returned to Tito's
Yugoslavia, a substantial portion found its way to Argentina where with
help
from the Vatican escape route known as the "ratline", thousands of
Ustasha
war criminals and their supporters were resettled.
As late as 1952, the CIA reported Ustasha loot flowed to Buenos Aires
from
Switzerland. Plaintiffs are seeking an accounting and restitution from
the
Swiss National Bank and in particular information about Vatican accounts
in
Switzerland. The Vatican Bank is also accused of laundering substantial
quantities of Ustasha plunder.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Milan B. Milojevic <mailto:milanbm@...>
To: jatich@... <mailto:jatich@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: HOSTILE MEDIA AGAINST SERBIA
Foreign Affairs News Keywords: SERBIA,KOSOVO,ZIONIST,ISRAEL
Source: Zionist Organization of America
Published: March 29,1999 Author: Elyakim Ha'etzni
Posted on 07/04/2000 15:15:24 PDT by
THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA'S ISRAEL NEWS CONNECTION
HOSTILE MEDIA AGAINST SERBIA
by Elyakim Ha'etzni
Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio
Broadcast on March 29, 1999 / Nisan 12, 5759
WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT
It is certainly unnecessary to explain to the listeners of Arutz-7
all about "hostile media." But did
you ever realize that there is another group suffering from
similarly hostile media? The Serbs, for
example?
Without condoning the terrible war crimes no doubt committed by
the Serbs, we and they basically
find ourselves in the same boat. The world press under-states each
of our respective sides, while it
embellishes the Arab-Moslem case, and sweeps under the carpet its
faults, crimes, and inherent
dangers. Both the Serbs and the Israelis are given to
American-European pressure on behalf of the
Moslems.
We were forced in Wye Plantation to give over portions of our
homeland to the Arabs, and the Serbs
are being forced right now to hand over a sovereign region of
theirs, Kosovo, to the Moslem
Albanians.
The Serbs, in fact, call Kosovo their "Jerusalem" - would it be
that we would learn from them how
to stand fast in conviction and determination and strength when
the time comes for us to fight for our
Jerusalem.
[Ed. note: Arutz-7 commentator Rabbi Avraham Wasserman noted that
the Kotzker Rebbe said that
we should learn strong steadfastness even from Pharaoh, who did
not give in for the duration of nine
terrible plagues.]
EVEN IF THEY ALL DIE
The Serbs lost their holy Kosovo to the Turks 600 years ago, and
have dreamt and sung about it ever
since then. They have woven their national identity around Kosovo.
We have pined for Zion and Jerusalem more than three times as
long, and with it all, tell me if there is
one politician amongst us who would say about Jerusalem what
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister
Draskovitch said about Kosovo. Draskovitch, it should be noted,
does not agree with his Prime
Minister, but he and the entire Serbian nation are united around
the Kosovo issue.
Draskovitch said:
"Our faith was born there, as was our language, our nationhood,
our pride. It is incumbent upon us to
defend Kosovo even if we all die." An American reporter asked him
if he does not want his hungry
country to become a part of the West and to share in its wealth.
He answered, "Not if the price is
Kosovo."
THE SERBS FOUGHT THE NAZIS
The hostile press does not tell us who the Serbs really are. From
amongst all the Yugoslavian
peoples, they bore the main brunt of the fight against the Nazis
in World War II. The Croatians
established a Nazi state, and murdered hundreds of thousands of
Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews.
Jews and Serbs are buried together in the Yasenovatz destruction
camp.
0From within Muslim Bosnia, with inciteful encouragement by the
Mufti of Jerusalem,
a Jew-killing SS Division arose. The Serbs kept dozens of German
divisions
occupied in battle, and caused them great losses. Serbia was the
only country in
Europe that threw off the German conquest on its own, paying a
terrible price
along the way: 1,700,000 dead - 11% of its total population.
The partisan army numbered a quarter of a million, including many
Jews, and it
saved thousands of Jews. How could Clinton possibly think that a
people who
went through all this would surrender to an air attack of the type
of which Saddam
Hussein made a mockery?
The hostile media hide from the public the fact that "ethnic
purifications" have
taken place all over Yugoslavia. The Croatians expelled 200,000
Serbs from the
Krajna district. From Kosovo itself, the Moslems - beginning the
moment they
received autonomy there in 1974 - pushed out a half-million Serbs,
while 400,000
Albanians spilled over the border, turning the Serbs into a 10%
minority in their
own homeland.
What are the Serbs fighting about? Milosevich agreed to restore
the autonomy to
the Moslems. He merely refused the NATO demand to bring in 30,000
foreign
troops to his country. What self-respecting country would have
accepted such a
dictate? Clinton had great difficulty explaining why he attacked a
sovereign
country simply because of an internal dispute within its own
borders.
The situation there is not at all the same as Iraq's attempt to
wipe out a foreign
country. If the present attack is justified, why didn't NATO
intervene in China
against the oppression of the Tibetans? What about when Sudan
slaughtered 2.5
million Christian blacks in Khartoum? Why doesn't NATO force its
member state
Turkey to give to the Kurds what it demands for the Kosovo
Albanians? These are
merely a few of the many similar examples all over the globe.
RENEWING THE COLD WAR
In truth, the attack has nothing to do with ethics. Only pure
political pro-Arab interests are at stake
- oil. The U.S. intervened in Afghanistan on behalf of the Moslem
extremists - who are now
engaged in blowing up American embassies and using their
American-supplied Stingers to endanger
aviation all over the world.
Even worse, the Americans, all for the sake of Kosovo, are
themselves endangering
American-Russian relations and the precious gift that Gorbachev
gave the world - the lifting of the
Iron Curtain. Russia and the Serbs are bound by a historic
alliance.
When NATO armed the Croatians and the Bosnians against the Serbs,
and even bombed the Serbs from
the air, Russia renewed its diplomatic and military relations with
Iran, Iraq, and Syria - and we,
Israel, are the victims of the renewal of the Cold War in the
Middle East. This is a direct result of the
defective American policy in Yugoslavia.
American diplomatic failures have left their blood-stained marks
of destruction all over the world:
in Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Beirut, Somalia, Panama, Bosnia, Arafat's
Palestine, and now Kosovo. This
new method of forcing a country to give up parts of its territory
under the threat of international
attack is now being tested. *Are we next in line?*
Israel's media are acting as if this has nothing to do with us.
The contrary appears to be true: just as the
press here is against us and in favor of Arafat, it is also in
favor of the Moslems in Yugoslavia. At the
behest of Yossi Sarid of Meretz, our left-wing government of a few
years ago sent humanitarian aid
to the Bosnians, of all people, and even absorbed Bosnian
refugees.
We, the listeners of Arutz-7, are in favor of the Jews! We will be
alert and attentive to what is
happening in Kosovo, as it may be a general rehearsal for what
could happen here if we don't give the
Palestinian terrorists a state with Jerusalem as its capital.
AID TO BOTH SIDES
But not only our own self-interest is at play here. The
gratefulness that we have to the
Serbs for their actions in World War II also demands that we
listen to both sides,
and to send aid also to the Serbian victims. Sarid is again
insisting that the Foreign
Ministry send aid only to the Moslems. I call upon the listeners
to demand that
Foreign Minister Sharon (fax: (972-2) 530-3506; sar@...)
put an end to
the one-sided leftist aid only to the Moslems, and send aid also
to the Serbs. A
public committee should arise to send aid to the Serbs, as well.
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