ZGram - 3/8/2002 - "Israeli 'art students'"

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Copyright (c) 2002 - Ingrid A Rimland

ZGrams - Where Truth is Destiny

March 8, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Imagine some Red China, Iranian or - heaven forbid! - Iraqi or Libyan 
"students" had been caught under suspicion of spying, a criminal act, 
hostile to the security of the United States of America.  There would 
have been no end to media uproar and public demands for stiff prison 
sentences.  Yet when it comes to Israelis, what do we get?  Well, I 
am glad you asked.

Double standards are the norm rather than the exception when  it 
comes to the treatment of Israeli misdeeds - document pilfering, 
weapons design stealing, selling illegally obtained technology, using 
weapons for offensive operations given to Israel for defensive 
purposes . . . the list goes on and on.

In this latest scandal below dealing with alleged Israeli "art 
students", there is gross negligence bordering on collusion involving 
an Israeli attempt to once more spy on its greatest benefactor, the 
USA.  In the sanitized, highly condensed article below, only some 
aspects are covered, disgusting though they are.  For a somewhat more 
detailed version of what is going on in America, Americans have to do 
their own investigations.  Use Google and see what you find!

For instance, Al-Ahram! 
<http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/in00.htm>  Even though this 
article suffers from the usual quirks and glitches encountered in 
cobbled-together translations (for instance, transposed dates) the 
thrust of the story is there.  A massive Israeli spy ring was 
operating in some of the most sensitive areas of America - federal 
installations, US Air Force bases etc., the suspected spies 
apparently all having intelligence training and background in 
explosives and munitions in Israeli Armed Forces.

And what to they get - after they've been caught?  Like some naughty 
boys, a slap on the wrist before they're sent home to Big Daddy!

"How long will this be allowed to go on?" your average American 
citizen might want to know.  Is there no one in authority who will 
say, "Enough is enough!" and begin to arrest, try, convict, imprison 
and expose this Jewish Fifth Column Trojan Horse?

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Israeli 'art students' suspected of spying in S. Florida
By Jeff Shields
Staff Writer

March 7, 2002

The United States deported dozens of Israelis on immigration 
violations last year, including at least five from an art school in 
South Florida, after reports they were posing as students to gain 
access to government buildings, federal officials said Wednesday.

Israelis in South Florida, Dallas and San Diego were sent home by the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service last year on visa violations, 
an INS spokesman in Washington said. But authorities were first drawn 
to them based on a suspicion that they were spying, according to one 
federal law enforcement agency.

Thomas Hinojosa of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the 
DEA compiled an internal report after several branch offices 
throughout the country reported "suspicious activities'' by 
individuals presenting themselves as Israeli art students. The 
Israelis were allegedly trying to gain access to DEA facilities, 
Hinojosa said.

The DEA report said the youths' actions "may well be an organized 
intelligence-gathering activity," the Associated Press reported 
Wednesday.

The DEA forwarded the report to the "appropriate federal law 
enforcement authorities,'' Hinojosa said.

The INS deported the individuals a short time later, both before and 
after Sept. 11, when security was tightened.

INS spokesman Russ Bergeron said about 20 Israelis from San Diego, an 
undetermined number from Dallas, and five or six from South Florida 
were deported.

"The general modus operandi was that these individuals were in major 
metropolitan areas selling art at street locations. In some instances 
they were near federal buildings. In some instances they were not,'' 
Bergeron said.

All were deported for either overstaying their visas or working 
illegally while on a student visa, he said.

Rumors about the students have circulated since March 2001.The story 
gained momentum this week when a French Internet site, Intelligence 
Online, reported the United States had broken up a massive Israeli 
spy ring.

None were charged with espionage, and Justice Department spokeswoman 
Susan Dryden said.

The Israelis in South Florida were affiliated with Universal Art, 
which lists addresses in South Miami and Sunrise, according to Rodney 
Germain, the INS spokesman in Miami.

On Wednesday there was no sign of any company called Universal Art 
Inc., at 10873 NW 52nd St. in Sunrise. The address listed in Florida 
incorporation documents came back to a light industrial complex next 
to the Sawgrass Expressway and south of Commercial Boulevard. No one 
answered the door, and several occupants had never heard of the 
company.

The company's officers, Yitzchak Shish and Chava Sagi, are not 
listed. They were not among those who were deported, Germain said.

Staff Writer Christy McKerney and the Associated Press contributed to 
this report.

Jeff Shields can be reached at jshields@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4531.

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