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GERTLER’S BLING BANG TORAH GANG

Israel and the Ongoing Holocaust in Congo

(part one)

keith harmon snow

www.allthingspass.com

7 February 2008

Maurice Templesman is one of the top funders of Barrack Obama and Hillary

Clinton and the Democratic Party. Templesman was the unofficial ambassador to the

Congo (Zaire) for years, but a new Israeli-American tycoon has replaced him. In the world

of bling bling and bling bang, some things change, some stay the same. The CIA, the

MOSSAD, the big mining companies, the offshore accounts and weapons deals—all

hidden by the Western media. The holocaust in Central Africa has claimed some six to ten

million people in Congo since 1996, with 1500 people dying daily.1

 But while the Africans

are the victims of perpetual Holocaust, the persecutors hide behind history, complaining

that they are the persecuted, or pretending they are the saviors. Who is responsible?

For Israeli-American Dan Gertler, business in blood drenched Congo is not merely

business, it is a quest for the Holy Grail. Young Dan Gertler goes nowhere—does

nothing—without the spiritual guidance of Brooklyn-born Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Leibovitch,

a personal friend of Condoleeza Rice.2

 Gertler and Leibovitch are two of the principals

behind a diamond mining company, Emaxon Finance Corporation, involved in the

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Gertler and gang won the majority rights to the

diamonds from the state mining company, Société Minière de Bakwange, MIBA, found

near the government-controlled town of Mbuji-Mayi, the rough diamond capital of the

world.

 1

 In January 2008 the International Rescue Committee, who is also discussed in this article,

released its second survey of mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo, estimating that

5,400,000 people have died, or some 1500 people every day. Mortality in the Democratic Republic

of Congo: an Ongoing Crisis, International Rescue Committee, January 2008,

<http://www.theirc.org/special-report/congo-forgotten-crisis.html>. However, IRC statistics are

highly biased and politicized. See: keith harmon snow, “Over Five Million Dead in Congo?” All

Things Pass, January 3, 2008, <http://www.allthingspass.com/journalism.php?catid=71>.

2

 Personal interview, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2006.

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Emaxon Finance Corp. has apparently out-maneuvered diamond competitors, especially

the big rivals Energem and De Beers. Energem is one of the many shady mining

companies connected to Anthony Teixeira, a Portuguese born businessman now residing

in South Africa whose daughter married Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba. The

warlord’s deadly battle in Congo in March 2007 was a bid between rival agents—JeanPierre Bemba and Joseph Kabila—to be the black gatekeeper for the mining cartels run by

dynastic families like Templesman, Oppenheimer, Mendell, Forrest, Blattner, Hertzov,

Gertler and Steinmetz, and for companies like NIKANOR, whose stock prices rose early in

July 2006 in expectation of a July 30th “win” for Joseph Kabila.3

 Africa Confidential called

President Kabila’s 2003 visit to the Bush White House a “coup” for the Israeli diamond

magnates Dan Gertler and Beny Steinmetz.

Canadian-based Energem, formerly DiamondWorks, is owned by British mercenary Tony

Buckingham and its director/shareholders include Mario and Tony Teixeira, J.P. Morgan,

and Gertler’s partner Israeli-American Beny Steinmetz (50%).4

 Through subsidiary Branch

Energy, the Energem-DiamondWorks gang has perpetuated war in 11 African countries.5

In December 2007, Energem re-launched itself on the London Stock Market with the newly

laundered image of a renewable energy company. Regarding diamonds, it said only it “had

decided to give up exploration rights in the Central African Republic.”6

 The Energem

spokesman explained that Tony Teixeira “had a clean bill of health” etc., etc. Of course,

Energem “quit” the C.A.R. because Jean-Pierre Bemba marched his troops into C.A.R.,

where they raped and pillaged widely.7

 Energem is still operating in Congo, but Dan

Gertler is the new, unofficial ambassador to the Congo for the George W. Bush gang.

Gertler and partners like Beny and Danny Steinmetz, Nir Livnat, Chaim Leibovitz and

Yaakov Neeman run a hornet’s nest of companies involved in African hotspots, including:

Dan Gertler International (DGI), Steinmetz Global Resources, International Diamond

Industries, NIKANOR and Global Enterprises Corporate.

“Dan Gertler is ‘the new kid on the block,’” writes Yossi Melman in Israel’s Haaretz news.

“Bold, sophisticated, brutal, he is an adventurer with a short fuse.” Haaratz confirmed that

Dan Gertler owns a complex network of interconnected companies, often registered in

 3

 keith harmon snow, “Warlord’s Deadly Battle, Toward Freedom, 2007.

4

 Officers: Antonio Teixeira, President & CEO; Robert G. Rainey, CFO; Brett Thompson, COO,

Mining; Dimitri (Jimmy) Kanakakis, Vice President, Corporate & Legal Affairs; Bernard Poznanski,

Corporate Secretary; Board Members: Brian Menell, Richard Dorfman, Bruce Holmes, Robert

Rainey, Antonio Teixeira, <www.energem.com>.

5

 See: “Africa/Diamonds: Rough diamonds,” Africa Confidential, 5 March 2004, Vol. 45, No. 5; and

“Equatorial Guinea: All Theft is Property,” Africa Confidential, 17 Nov. 2006, Vol. 47, No. 23: p. 12.

6

 Tim Hoare, the head of the advisers that launched it, Canaccord Adams, sits alongside rock star

and champion of Africa Bob Geldof on the board of the television-production company Ten Alps.

See: Ben Laurance, “Energy firm link to blood diamonds,” The Sunday Times, December 30, 2007.

7

 See: keith harmon snow, “A People’s History of Congo’s Jean-Pierre Bemba,” Toward Freedom,

September 18, 2007.

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offshore tax havens and involved in India, Russia, Belgium and the United States, and that

Dan Gertler is looking to God for guidance. 8

THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

“In the diamond industry,” Melman wrote, “Gertler is considered something of an odd bird.

He maintains few ties with the other merchants and is not very sociable... Alongside his

business affairs, most of his energy is channeled into matters of faith. He is a donor to

religious institutions and from time to time makes a pilgrimage to the rabbi he most

admires, Rabbi David Abuhatzeira, from Nahariya, in order to consult with him and receive

his blessing. Gertler is surrounded mostly by religious people and laces his speech

liberally with praise to God.” 9

In 2003, Condoleeza Rice, then Assistant to President Bush for National Security Affairs,

introduced Dan Gertler and Chaim Leibovitch to U.S. official Jendayi Frazer, a Harvard

Kennedy School affiliate and former National Security Council agent focused on Africa. On

December 6, 2006, Frazer, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was one of

seven special Bush delegates sent to the inauguration of Congo’s newly installed

President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa.10

When Dan Gertler and Chaim Leibovitch and their friends visit the luxury Gertler villa in

Lumumbashi, the capital of Katanga, Congo’s large southern province, their kosher meals

arrive by private plane from Kinshasa. The special executive jet that flies their kosher

meals a few hundred miles over the roadless Congo costs some $US 23,000 per trip.11

The average income for Congolese citizens each year—if they survive it—is about $95.

Shootings at mining facilities and diamond mines are common, land is stolen from

Congolese people, strikes are crushed by security forces that companies are partnered

with, and black overseers of state terror routinely arrest and torture any vocal

opposition—and sometimes disappear them—in support of white bosses. The Société

Minière de Bakwange—MIBA—and the diamond fields of Mbuji-Mayi in Congo have a long

history of bloodshed backed by Western powers, including Israel, from the beginning.12

Amnesty International points out that not a single state agent has ever been prosecuted for

the extrajudicial executions of suspected “illegal” miners in Mbuji-Mayi.13

 8

 Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel, “Diamond in the rough,” March 24, 2005, <www.haaretz.com>.

9

 Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel, “Diamond in the rough,” March 24, 2005, <www.haaretz.com>.

10

 See: keith harmon snow, “Congo’s President Joseph Kabila: Dynasty or Travesty?” Toward

Freedom, November 13, 2007, <http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1171/1/>.

11

 Private interview, Kinshasa, August 2006.

12

 See: “Terror in the Diamond Fields: Excessive Force and Impunity in the DRC,” Amnesty

International Canada, <http://www.amnesty.ca/realsecurity/DRC.php>; Democratic Republic of

Congo: Government should investigate human rights violations in the Mbuji Mayi diamond fields,

Amnesty International, October 22, 2002;

13

 Making a Killing: The Diamond Trade in Government Controlled DRC, Amnesty International,

2002, AFR 62/017/2002 22/10/2002.

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After a century of exploitation and slavery, we find MIBA consistently withholding payment

of salaries to starving Congolese laborers and middle managers for months at a time. April

and May 2007 saw strikes and protests leading to the Kabila government’s arbitrary arrest,

detention and torture of trade union organizers like Leon Ngoy Bululu; police have also

shot protestors.14

 So-called ‘illegal’ diamond workers—disenfranchised local Congolese

people forced into “criminal” activities to survive—were summarily executed on MIBA

concessions in Mbuji-Mayi. MIBA security guards have also been sniping unemployed

diamond miners.15

Meanwhile, Dan Gertler’s kosher meals depart Kinshasa, the capital of the big Congo,

through the arrangements of Rabbi Chlomo Bentolila, high priest of the Chabad of Central

Africa. Rabbi Chlomo Bentolila has been a Kinshasa Rabbi since 1991, and he was a

spiritual force who survived the terrorism of the old dinosaur, Mobutu Sese Seko, the way

most elites did: by working with him. Rabbi Bentolila is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch

Global Emissary Network, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and his wife Miriam is the

sister of Rabbi Mena’hem Hadad, a high priest in Brussels.16

“Kosher does not mean that a Rabbi blesses the food,” Rabbi Betolila corrected me, “but

rather that the food was supervised by a Rabbinical Thora [sic] authority who sees that the

ingredients were in accordance with the laws of Kashrut expressed in the Bible (Leviticus

and Deuteronomy).” 17

Dan Gertler often flies people into Congo, on his private jet, for sacred Jewish rituals. For

the Bar Mitsvah of Rabbi Chlomo Bentolila’s son Binyamin Avrahim in June 2005, guests

included eminent Rabbis, Hassidic singer Yoni Shlomo and special orchestra Yossef

Brami, all arriving in “special flights” from Israel, New York and Brussels. The reception

was held at the luxurious and exclusive Memling Hotel. Joseph Kabila sent a sizeable

delegation but did not attend: his closest advisers provided a blessing on his behalf.18

The Gertler, Steinmetz and Templesman interests are advanced in part through the

support of the Committee of the Jewish Community of Kinshasa—le Comité de la

Communauté Israélite—that is tightly coordinated with the power structure in Kinshasa to

exert influence and assure control of Israeli-Belgian-Anglo-American interests over the

geopolitical arena.

 14

 See: “ICEM protests Congo’s Transport, Diamond Injustices,” International Federation of

Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Worker’s Union, May 7, 2007, <http://www.icem.org/en/78-

ICEM-InBrief/2243-ICEM-protests-Congo%E2%80%99s-Transport-Diamond-Injustices>.

15

 “Diamond miners killed in DR Congo,” BBC News, 7 August 2006,

<http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:z9WCcOGeL8MJ:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5254006.stm

+%22MIBA%22+%22illegal+miners%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4>. 16

 See: <http://www.jewishafrica.com/> and

<http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.htm/aid/117894/jewish/Chabad-of-Central-Africa.html >.

17

 Private communication, Rabbi Chlomo Bentolila, August 16, 2007.

18

 “Lag Baomer in Kinshasa,” June 2005, <www.hassidout.org/page_derniere26.htm>.

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From June 26-30, 2007, the Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa received a visit from the

Israeli Ambassador Yaakov Revah, director of the Africa Department of the Israeli Ministry

of Foreign Affairs; Revah also flew to Lumumbashi for meetings with Dan Gertler and his

agents, including Moishe (Moses) Katumbi, the Governor of Katanga, and they most likely

enjoyed a lovely, $23,000 kosher meal sent from the Chabad in Kinshasa.19

 The

Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa maintains very intimate political relations with

President Joseph Kabila’s PPRD party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and

Democracy. On March 1, 2006, in a formal ceremony, the President of the Communaute

Israelite de Kinshasa, Ashlan Piha, was awarded the Congo’s Medal of Civil Merit.

THOU SHALT NOT COVET

Before his assassination on January 16, 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila—the President of the

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—made a deal with the Gertler gang that would play

out in favor of the current President Joseph Kabila and, it seems, be a central factor in

relation to both Congo’s ongoing war and the bloody warlord’s battle in Kinshasa in March

2007.20

Back in 2000, former Congolese president Laurent Kabila offered a monopoly on

Congolese diamonds, and 88% of the proceeds, to Gertler’s International Diamond

Industries (IDI) in exchange for Israeli military assistance to his new government.21

 Top

Congolese military officials apparently flew to Israel in 2000 to negotiate the deal. Gertler

pledged military assistance to President Laurent Kabila through top Israeli officials.22

The original Gertler-Kabila deal fell through after Laurent Kabila was assassinated for not

cooperating with the Great White Fathers of industry (January 2001), but Gertler and

Leibovitch and their disciples formed another company, Dan Gertler International, and

advanced their Congo plan.23

 By 2002 Gertler’s company was the leading exporter of

 19

 “Visite de l’Ambassadeur Revah a’ Kinshasa,” Kadima 010, June-September 2007,

<http://74.52.200.226/~sefarad/kadima/kadima10.pdf>.

20

 See: keith harmon snow, “Behind the Scenes: Warlord’s Deadly Battle in Congo,” Toward

Freedom, August 9, 2007.

21

 Nicole Gaouette, "Inside Israel's diamond trade: a family affair," Christian Science Monitor, 21

February 2002, <http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules6437.php>.

22

 Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals: Israel: Lawsuit claims corruption

in Congo diamonds for arms deal,” Globes (Israel), 18 February 2004,

<http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press269.htm>. See also: “Column One: What

Lieberman Wants,” Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2006.

<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193481395&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FP

rinter>.

23

 Christian Dietrich, Blood Diamonds: Effective African-Based Monopolies, African Security

Review, Vol. 10, No 3., 2001, <http://www.iss.co.za/ASR/10No3/Dietrich.html>.

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Congolese gems, controlling a diamond mining franchise worth about $US 1 billion

annually. 24

In 2003, the mighty Congolese diamond parastatal Societe Miniere De Bakwanga

(MIBA)—which has been forever controlled by the Great White Fathers in Belgium, Israel

and America—signed an exclusive contract with Gertler’s startup company, Emaxon

Finance International. The deal involved Israeli’s Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense

Export Organization (SIBAT), and high-level Israeli defense and intelligence officials.

Gertler and his buddies reportedly bribed Congolese officials and Angolan generals who,

on and off, have commanded Angolan Army troops protecting Kinshasa, Congo’s

capital.25,26

Security for mining operations in Congo is provided by exclusive security companies like

Overseas Security Services (OSS) one of the many DRC interests of Belgian billionaire

tycoon Philippe de Moerloose. A member of the Kinshasa elite, de Moerloose supplies jets

and other presidential toys to DRC President Kabila. In 2006, President Joseph Kabila’s

campaign helicopter was at the centre of a legal battle involving Philippe de Moerloose.27

De Moerloose’s companies operated in Mobutu’s Zaire from at least 1991, backing state

terrorism and Western corporate plunder that was rendered invisible by the Western

media. De Moerloose is also an adviser to European Union (EU) Commissioner—and

diamantaire—Louis Michel.

Dan Gertler and Philippe de Moerloose were, reportedly, the only two white men who

attended the wedding of Joseph Kabila and the two clearly share interests in “security”

provided by OSS at MIBA and elsewhere in Congo. The April 2003 secret agreement

signed between the Gertler/Steinmetz company Emaxon Finance and the Kabila

 24

 Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals: Israel: Lawsuit claims corruption

in Congo diamonds for arms deal,” Globes (Israel), 18 February 2004,

25

 Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals: Israel: Lawsuit claims corruption

in Congo diamonds for arms deal,” Globes (Israel), 18 February 2004,

<http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press269.htm>. See also: “Column One: What

Lieberman Wants,” Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2006.

<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193481395&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FP

rinter>.

26

 See: keith harmon snow, “Behind the Scenes: Warlord’s Deadly Battle in Congo,” Toward

Freedom, August 9, 2007. The Angolan military protected Kinshasa during the so-called “rebellion”

involving Rwanda and Uganda. The Angolans do not like the Rwandans or Ugandans due to their

military and commercial relations with Angolan rebels, the União Nacionalpara a Independência

Total de Angola (UNITA), and because Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers invaded Angola after their

failed bid to control the Congo’s strategic Inga Dam power station and Matadi port between 1998

and 2001. Angola sent troops to Congo in July and August 2006, and there were black Angolan

troops amongst the European Union mercenary forces—EUFOR—sent to quell any possible

rebellions during the “historic national elections.” Angola also sent troops to Congo to back Kabila

during the warlord’s deadly battle of March 2007.

27

 “Presidential Chopper,” Africa Confidential, Vol. 47 Number 23, November 17, 2006.

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government involved MIBA and two de Moerloose companies, OSS-Congo and

Demimpex, and other firms.

Overseas Security Services (OSS) operations are apparently grounded in the experience

of top expatriate security operatives formerly involved with the biggest security firm in

Mobutu’s Zaire.28

 According to OSS public relations materials, “these persons have a not

unimportant experience in the safety of this country.”29

 Providing mine security, bodyguard and protection services, OSS operates in Burundi, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Dubai,

South Africa, Republic of Congo (Brazzavile) and Belgium, placing them in cahoots with all

sides warring and plundering eastern Congo today.30

Emaxon Finance International is a real gem, one of these octopuses of mining tangled up

with interlocking companies and subsidiaries based in specious geographical offshore “tax

havens” that work to shield from prosecution people who are responsible for money

laundering, weapons and drugs operations, assassinations and other terrorism.

NIKANOR is registered as an Isle of Man (UK) company, an offshore tax haven that helps

to conceal criminal activities and maximize profits. NIKANOR directors include Dan

Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel (2001-2005) and Principal Deputy Assistant

Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research under Madeleine Albright. NIKANOR

partners include Mende and Moshe Gertner [sic], Israeli property tycoons with vast

holdings in London who control 22 percent of NIKANOR. Another partner is Israeli-born Nir

Livnat, managing director of Johannesburg-based Ascot Diamonds, a member of the

Steinmetz Group of Diamond Companies, and a principal involved in numerous U.S.-

based businesses from Miami to New York.31

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS

Back in 2001, when the Gertler enterprises surfaced in dirty diamond deals, public

relations was handled by Lior Chorev, the “Special Strategic and Communications

Consultant” to International Diamond Industries (IDI), and Chorev continued in this role to

support Dan Gertler businesses.32

 Today, Lior Chorev is partnered with the brothers Yuval

 28

 See: Overseas Security Services Congo sprl web site, <www.oss-congo.com>.

29

 See: Overseas Security Services Congo sprl web site, <www.oss-congo.com>.

30

 OSS-Congo owner Philippe de Moerloose communicated with this author after his name

appeared in a prior story mentioning OSS-Congo and offered to meet in Europe and provide the

author with the “correct” information about his companies operations in Congo. Repeated

communications with De Moerloose seeking clarifications and information for this story were not

answered.

31

 See e.g., SEC info on Lenorth Holdings: <http://www.secinfo.com/dsvrw.z14q.htm > and SDG

Marketing: <http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Filings.asp?As=M&Name=incmarketingsdg>.

32

 Lior Chorev, The First [DRC] Diamond Polishing Plant to Move into Full Production, Press

Release, DGI Group of Companies, January 11, 2005,

<http://www.pressemeldinger.no/read.asp?RecNo=8106>.

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and Eyal Arad as director-owners of the Israeli marketing and public relations firm, ARAD

Communications.33

“We do work for Mr. Gertler on some of his business issues,” said Lior Chorev.34

 ARAD’s

many clients include Dan Gertler companies, Los Angeles-based Coral Diamonds and an

Israeli aeronautics weaponry manufacturer producing Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles

(UAVs)—robotic weapons and intelligence platforms like those being used against the

people of Congo today.35

 As a political strategist, Lior Chorev has worked for Israeli Prime

Minister Ariel Sharon and current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.36

 He has also participated

in Israel-NATO defense planning conferences.37

Dan Gertler is close to Israeli politicians, especially Avigdor Lieberman, head of the

right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, and he is very close to diamantaire Beny

Steinmetz, a good friend of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Gertler’s inseperable friend,

Chaim Leibovitz, is also very close to Lieberman, and was “a regular fixture” in Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offices.38

Beny Steinmetz is considered to be one of the richest billionaires in Israel. The Steinmetz

Group, controlled with his brother Daniel, is one of the biggest clients of the de Beers

diamond syndicate. Steinmetz is also involved in an Israeli real estate group that

purchased the assets of the British Haslemere real estate company for $1.46 billion.

Steinmetz’s real estate partners include the billionaire Israeli investors David and

Simon Reuben, and the Saudi Arabian Olayan Group, an investment company that

is deeply connected with Bechtel Corporation.39

 The Steinmetz web site map of

operations hides their involvement in war-torn Congo.40

Seems Dan Gertler’s land grabs and exclusion in Congo have a lot in common with the

current crimes against humanity being committed by Israel through its illegal partition in the

Middle East. On January 3, 2008, the Jerusalem Post reported that Lior Chorev was an

integral part of past Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s advisers, and he was recently quoted to

say that even though Sharon did not get to finalize Israel’s final borders (he suffered a

 33

 ARAD Communications web site,

34

 Private communication, Lior Chorev, January 19, 2008.

35

 See: keith harmon snow, “Over Five Million Dead in Congo?” January 30, 2008.

36

 Private email communication, Lior Chorev, January 19, 2008. See also: Gil Hoffman, “Olmert,

Netanyahu Rivalry Gets Personal,” Israel.jpost.com, March 26, 2006; “Sharon allies and foes joust

over new party as March 28 elections are set,” Associated Press, November 22, 2005,

<http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/7095.htm>;

37

 NATO Transformation, the Mediterranean Dialog, and NATO-Israel Relations, October 23, 2006,

<http://www.nato.int/med-dial/2006/registered_participants_isr.pdf>.

38 Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel, “Diamond in the Rough,” Haaretz.com, March 24, 2005.

39

 The Olayan Group web site: <http://www.olayangroup.com/directory.asp>.

40

 The Steinmetz Group, http://www.steinmetz-group.com/>.

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debilitating stroke in 2006), the route of the security fence—which he decided—would

ultimately serve as the basis for the border and as Sharon's lasting legacy.41

“He felt he needed to set the border because he didn't trust the younger generations,”

Chorev was quoted to say. “He knew the fence route by heart and the reason for every

stretch of land being on one side or the other.”42

In 2003, the U.N. Panel of Experts on war in Congo revealed that Emaxon Finance

International is controlled by Israeli diamond traders Chaim Leibovitz and Dan Gertler.43

Emaxon lists as its address an office in Montreal, Canada, but Emaxon’s majority

shareholder is listed as FTS Worldwide, a nebulous global corporation whose business

address is that of a firm of lawyers, Mossack Fonseca & Company, in Panama City. FTS

Worldwide is registered with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to lawyer Andre

Zolty of Geneva Switzerland. A copy of the MIBA-Emaxon contract was signed on 13 April

2003 by Israeli-Americans Yaakov Neeman and Chaim Leibovitz.44

Yaakov Neeman is a founding partner of Herzog, Fox and Neeman, Tel Aviv, one of

Israel’s top law firms, and he has held Israeli government cabinet and ministerial

positions.45

 Neeman is on the Advisory Board of Markstone Capital Group, a very

influential group of investment bankers, with Eli Hurvitz. On the board of Israel’s Teva

Pharmaceutical Industries with Eli Hurvitz is Northrup-Grumman director Philip Frost.46

Both Philip Frost and Maurice Templesman are top-level councilors for the American Stock

Exchange. Eli Hurvitz sat on the International Advisory Counsel of Harvard University’s

Belfer Center, 2002-2005, during the period when the Belfer Center and their intelligence

operative Robert Rotberg formalized the “Kimberley Process” to officially whitewash blood

diamonds.47

 Yakov Neeman is also a governor of the World Zionist Organization and

Jewish Agency for Israel.

One of the main objectives of the Kimberley Process, and the Harvard Belfer Center’s role,

was to protect the South African Oppenheimer and De Beers diamond cartels and their

leading buyers and agents like Maurice Templesman and Beny Steinmetz.48

 Added to

 41

 Gil Hoffman, “Politics; Unconscious Legacy,” Jerusalem Post, features.jpost.com, January 3,

2008.

42

 Gil Hoffman, “Politics; Unconscious Legacy,” Jerusalem Post, features.jpost.com, January 3,

2008.

43

 United Nations Panel of Experts Confidential Report.

44

 Under the contract Emaxon granted Miba loans totaling $5-million in 2003, and a further $10-

million subsequently. In exchange, Emaxon gained rights to 88% of Miba’s production at a

discount, formally, of 5%.

45

 Herzog, Fox and Neeman web site: <http://www.hfn.co.il/pages/lawyers/neemany.htm>.

46

 <http://www.tevapharm.com/about/officers.asp>.

47

 See: keith harmon snow and Rick Hines, “Blood Diamond: Doublethink and Deception About

those Worthless Little Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine, June and July, 2007.

48

 On Neeman and Hurvitz, see Markstone Capital Group,

<http://www.markstonecapital.com/markstone2_5.htm>; on Robert Rotberg, Maurice Templesman

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those diamond industry firms whitewashed by the Kimberley Process are all the Zionist

diamond dealers and cartels that have risen like a phoenix out of the ashes of the

Holocaust.

The Israeli-American enterprises of the Gertler/Steinmetz gang have proliferated and today

are major shareholders or owners of diamond concessions in Congo’s Kasai province and

copperbelt concessions in Katanga. The copperbelt is the big money in Congo. Copper

prices recently hit an all time high due to monopoly control by corporations and new

applications in transportation, aerospace and weaponry. Cobalt is used in dye and paint

processes for manufacturing. More importantly, it is elemental to superalloys used for tank

armor, spacecraft, turbines, ship hulls, ship hulls, blast furnaces, refineries, petroleum

drilling rigs, nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Like coltan, or columbium-tantalite,

cobalt is also used in cell phone batteries. The Katanga copperbelt is also rich in

germanium, a rare metal used in optical fibers, infrared lenses and telecommunication

satellites.49

The entire military-industrial-prisons complex revolves around minerals like cobalt, niobium

and heterogenite (cobalt oxide), yet the truth about what happens to African people in

lands taken over by these mining companies is hidden by the corporate media. More and

more land is being stolen, more and more atrocities committed, with less and less

transparency, and less and less accountability, and fewer and fewer voices for the

voiceless. And, as usual, there are always a lot of empty promises.

THOUGH SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS

Over the past fifty years, elite Israeli nationals have perpetrated conflict and injustice in

Africa, fueled by and for minerals. Operatives associated with the Israeli military or

intelligence services—the Mossad—maintain strategic criminal syndicates in competition

and in partnership with other syndicates involving men like Philippe De Moerloose, Louis

Michel, Viscount Etienne Davignon, John Bredenkamp and Tony Buckingham.

Israeli trained shock troops became Mobutu’s bodyguards, with Mossad advisers.

According to a report by the American Jewish Committee: after 1980 “Mossad agents,

military emissaries, and a small group of private businessmen… replaced diplomats as

Israel’s main interlocutors with African leaders and political (mainly opposition) groups.”

The report cites rising involvement of private defense and security interests, especially in

Angola, DRC and Central Africa Republic, since 1992.50

 

and the Harvard Belfer Center, see: keith harmon snow and Rick Hines, “Blood Diamond:

Doublethink and Deception About those Worthless Little Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine, June and

July, 2007.

49

 Criminal rackets known to the United Nations security were or some time illegally shipping

uranium and cobalt out of Katanga by road to Zimbabwe and Tanzania (private interview, U.N.

Official, 2006).

50

 Israel and Africa: Assessing the Past, Envisioning the Future, The Africa Institute American Jewish

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Israeli operatives and “businessmen” appear everywhere there is egregious suffering and

dispossession. Dan Gertler’s forays into the bloody world of diamonds involve Israeli arms

dealers Yair Klein, who is reportedly wanted by the U.S. for training Medellin drug-cartel

militias in Colombia, and Dov Katz.51

 Klein was convicted by Israel (1991) for his

involvement with groups that targeted and assassinated Colombian politicians, journalists,

and police. Jailed in Sierra Leone in 1999, Klein was a field representative for Gertler in

war-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia. Gertler also mingles with the Russian Military

Brotherhood, a group of “retired Russian generals whom Gertler describes as good

friends.” 52,53

Retired Israeli Defense Forces Colonel Yair Klein reportedly organized arms for diamonds

networks in Sierra Leone and Liberia after President Charles Taylor was deposed. In 1999

Klein was arrested in Sierra Leone on charges of smuggling arms to the rebel

Revolutionary United Front.54

 The U.N. also documented collaborations between Sierra

Leone’ rebels and Lazare Kaplan agent Damian Gagnon; Lazare Kaplan International is

one of the organized crime syndicates of Jewish American Maurice Templesman.55

The Steinmetz Group of companies are also involved in the bloody diamond fields of

Sierra Leone, along with Energem (formerly DiamondWorks), the company described

above that is connected to the white mercenaries depicted in Hollywood’s Blood Diamond

propaganda film.56

 In December 2007, local people in Sierra Leone struggling to gain the

smallest livelihood from their own resources were shot by police during peaceful protests

against the Steinmetz-controlled Koidu Holdings site. It’s the same old local people’s story,

happening everywhere. These were people from communities driven off their own land by

 

Committee and The Harold Hartog School Tel Aviv University, May 2006.

51

 Ron Ben-Yishai and Molly Camprier-Kritz, “The Murder Request Went to the Wrong Address,”

Yediot

Aharonot weekend supplement on 19 September 1999.

52

 Nicole Gaouette, “Inside Israel's diamond trade: a family affair,” Christian Science Monitor, 21

February 2002, <http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules6437.php>.

53

 For a discussion of the veracity of these facts and more on the “Russian Military Brotherhood”

see: Central Africa Minerals and Arms Research Bulletin, Edition 2, International Peace

Information Service, June 18, 2001.

54

 Jimmy Johnson, "Israelis and Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies," Appearing in Israeli

Committee Against House Demolitions USA, 6 September 2006,

<http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:pYAbqkMgTJ4J:www.icahdusa.org/2006/09/06/israelisand-hezbollah-haven%E2%80%99t-always-beenenemies/+%22hezbollah%22+%22congo%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=15>.

55

 Report of the Panel of Experts Appointed Pursuan2t to UN Security Council Resolution 1306

(2000), Paragraph 19, in Relation to Sierra Leone, December 2000, <http://www.sierraleone.org/panelreport-I.html>.

56

 Energem web site: <http://www.energem.com/energem_logistics_industrial.html>; and also: keith

harmon snow and Rick Hines, “Blood Diamond: Doublethink and Deception About those Worthless

Little Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine, June and July, 2007.

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mining companies that promised the world, cajoled the trusting people, and gave nothing

after. The Steinmetz gang called in the local paramilitary, a curfew was imposed and

people were shot; the police, as usual, falsely claimed that protesters were armed.57

Like most mining mafias in Africa, the Israeli octopus—organized crime syndicates,

offshore subsidiaries, interlocking directorships and affiliated mercenaries—has gripped

the very heart of Congo like an octopus grips and stuns its prey. Mining regulates the pulse

of Congo, and foreign mining companies with their black sell-out agents are sucking the

blood out of the people and the wealth out of the land.

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

Beyond the intriguing Jewish rivalry for diamonds in the heart of darkness, this tale takes a

chilling turn with the involvement of certain German firms and New York City lawyers.

NIKANOR, another Gertler/Steinmetz company of dubious origins operating in DRC, has a

subcontract with the notorious ThyssenKrupp conglomerate, a company comprised of two

former Nazi weapons manufacturers linked to the New York law firm of Sullivan and

Cromwell, to Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Lehman Brothers, Chase Manhattan Bank,

J.P. Morgan, DuPont and IBM, in the great Nazi-American money plot.58

These companies were all behind the Jewish Holocaust. The infamous German Krupp firm

is the industrial corporation that collaborated with former CIA director Allen Dulles and

former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Clients of the Dulles brothers’ law firm

Sullivan and Cromwell included Adolph Hitler.59

 Ted Terry, one of the senior counselors of

the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell today, is also a director of a philanthropy called the

Harold K. Hochschild (HKH) Foundation, named for the mining magnate behind AMAX, a

company operating in the copperbelt in Zambia, but whose parent company, Phelps

Dodge, operates in Katanga, Congo. Harold K. Hochschild was close to the CIA, and he

appears to have backed the Katanga succession in the 1960’s just as Dan Gertler in

recent years backed the reorganization of power in Congo by force. Sullivan and Cromwell

was also the law firm for AMAX. 60,61

Brown Brothers Harriman & Company (BBH) was the primary Wall Street connection for

German companies and the U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, an early financial

backer of the Nazi party. BBH bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, steel, fuel,

 57

 Mineweb, <http://www.mineweb.net/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page37?oid=42572&sn=Detail>.

58

 Charles Higham, Trading With The Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949,

Delacorte Press, 1983.

59

 Charles Hingham, Trading With The Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949,

Delacorte Press, 1983.

60

 Susan Mazur, “Deeper Into the Dillon-Euphronios Nexus with David N. Gibbs,” SCOOP, April 26,

2006, <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00323.htm>.

61

 David Gibbs, The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money and U.S. Policy

in the Congo Crises, University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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coal, and U.S. treasury bonds to Germany. These were used to build Hitler's war machine,

and the ties proliferated even after the Nazi concentration camps began churning out

skeletons. The horrors of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Birkenau and

Buckenwald became public knowledge long before they became public outrage. It is the

same story for Congo.

A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD

There are no records or statistics of the numbers of people brutalized or killed in the

diamond or cobalt mining areas, like Kolwezi, Mbuji Mayi, Tshikapa, Banalia, or Kananga

in DRC, or Ndola in Zambia, and many of the victims of security abuses will never be

known.

When Gertler and Steinmetz and their buddies came to Congo it was soon clear that they

had to challenge Zimbabwean tycoons John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach—two

cronies of dictator Robert Mugabe involved in pillaging Congo and Zimbabwe for decades.

The United Nations Panel of Experts on DRC named both men for plundering copper and

cobalt from Katanga, and both deal globally in weapons. Bredenkamp is one of the fifty

richest men in England and he reportedly owns a mansion several doors down from

Margaret Thatcher’s residence in London.

On November 7, 2007 it was reported that Dan Gertler was instrumental in putting together

a deal in which Katanga Mining Ltd. would buy rival NIKANOR for $2.1 billion and merge

their adjacent mine projects in Congo to form the world’s largest cobalt company. Also

announced was a joint venture between the Central African Mining & Exploration Company

(CAMEC) and another Gertler-controlled firm called Prairie International Limited.

The CAMEC/Prairie joint venture will exploit DRC’s Luita copper processing facility,

develop the Mukondo Mountain cobalt mine—called the world's richest cobalt mine—and

work on “other” exploration properties. Prairie is majority owned by the family of Dan

Gertler. CAMEC is connected to Zimbabwean/South African/British tycoon Billy

Rautenbach.62

 The DRC government effectively banned controversial Zimbabwean

businessman Billy Rautenbach from the country by declaring him persona non grata in

July 2007, but this doesn’t seem to stop him from getting what he wants. Rautenbach is

also wanted in South Africa on 300 charges of fraud, corruption and theft.

Rautenbach is a former motor car rally driver who controls a business empire in Southern

and Central Africa through a British Virgin Islands company called Ridgepoint Overseas

Development Limited. In 1998, the short-lived President of Congo, Laurent Kabila, named

Rautenbach the managing director of La Générale des Carrières et des Mines

(Gécamines), one of Africa's biggest cobalt mines, the Katanga properties of the Union

Miniere de Haut Katanga formerly developed by the Belgian colonial government.

 62

 Eric Onstad, “UPDATE 2-CAMEC shares soar after agrees Congo joint venture,” Reuters, Nov.

7, 2007.

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Rautenbach today is one of the Africa's largest exporters of heterogenite (cobalt ore) from

the DRC through his Congo Cobalt Company (CoCoCo), but he also has shares in two

other lucrative DRC mining firms—Boss and Mukondo—which reportedly earn over

US$100 million a month.63

While there has been a lot of Western media fanfare over the Kabila governments’

supposed “independent” review of mining contracts, little substantive change can be

expected.64

 Structural factors exploit the Congolese people and lands and benefit white

businessmen, arms dealers, bankers, and their embraceable black agents. Big business

benefits from perception management articles well-placed in media to give the impression

that the international system is just, that there are watchdogs, checks and balances.

However, while the DRC and the World Bank present a propaganda front about their

ostensible attention to mining reform and the new mining code, NIKANOR—Mining Journal

reports—“is in the advantageous position of having entered into a post mining-code

contract, ‘which makes us [NIKANOR] relatively comfortable’” 65

 In other words, the mining

review is a sham, it may force some changes, but it will be cosmetic at best.

Dan Gertler and the Steinmetz Group’s partner Jewish-American Nir Livnat is also a

director of Anglovaal Mining with Rick and Brian Menell and Basil Hersov of the South

African Menell and Hersov dynasties.66

 Hersov has been named as a beneficiary of fraud

and racketeering involving British BAE Systems weapons deals with shady offshore

companies.67

The octopus of South African connections is a story in itself, with links to top officials from

Britain to Canada, like Canadian Senator J. Trevor Eyton, and offshore mining companies

involved in all the big money (diamonds, gold, petroleum, cobalt) and big corporations with

interlocking directorships: Coca Cola, Nestlé, General Motors, and the Bush-connected

Barrick Gold Corporation. Barrick, of course, is partnered up with the Oppenheimer/De

Beers firm Anglo-American Corporation at six sites in Africa, including Congo.

Rick Menell is a director of Bateman Engineering—owned by Benny Steinmetz—the junior

partner of the NIKANOR projects in Katanga. Britain’s Earl of Balfour is a director of both

Bateman and NIKANOR. Menell is also the director of Teal Exploration and Mining, whose

directors include Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique; Murray Hitzman, a

Clinton administration official with the White House Office of Science and Technology

 63

 Brenna Chigonga, “Zimbabwe: Meet Country’s Richest People,” The Herald, July 14, 2007.

64

 See: Maurice Carney, “Congo’s Contract Review,” Pambazuka News, January 17, 2008.

65

 Martin Creamer, “Funded NIKANOR presses on with $1,8bn copper mine, refinery,” Mining

Weekly, September 21, 2007.

66

 Julie Walker, “Hersovs and Menells are in no hurry to yield control of Anglovaal,” Sunday Times,

<http://www.btimes.co.za/98/0517/comp/comp17.htm>.

67

 Evelyn Groenink, “Arms deal: Who got R1bn in pay-offs?” Mail & Guardian, January 12, 2007, <

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=295457&area=/insight/insight__national/>.

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Policy (1994-1996); Hannes Meyer, who worked with Anglo-Gold Ashanti in Congo, 1999-

2006, when militias in Ituri were funded to get the gold out. Teal Exploration also has ties

to Anvil Mining and Anglo-American Corporation.68

Brian Menell, Nir Livnat’s associate on the board of Anglovaal, is on the board of Energem

(formerly DiamondWorks) with Tony and Mario Teixeira. The Livnat connection ties

Teixeira into networks that have supported both Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba in

Congo’s bloody wars. Energem is also involved in the trans-Uganda-Kenya pipeline, along

with Nexant, a subsidiary of the deep intelligence and defense insider Bechtel

Corporation.69

Brian Menell is also on the board of First Africa Oil, which operates in seven African

countries, and First Africa Oil director John Bentley is a director of Osprey Oil and Gas,

whose directors include Carol Bell, a director of the Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank.

Bentley is also on the board of Adastra Minerals—formerly America Mineral Fields (AMF,

AMFI, AMX), a company based in 1995 in Hope, Arkansas—and set up by Robert

Friedland and Max and Jean-Raymond Boulle, notable “friends of Bill” Clinton. Since 1995,

American Mineral Fields has been involved in Brazil, Russia, Norway, Zambia, Angola and

the DRC. A criminal backer of the war in DRC, Jean-Raymond Boulle, who holds 36.4 % of

the company stock, was the former General Director of De Beers in Zaire, part of the

Templesman alliance of terrorism under the Mobutu regime.70,71

The Gertler/Steinmetz interests apparently curry huge favors with Congo’s number two

most powerful man, Augustine Katumba Mwanke, one of Joseph Kabila’s closest allies

and financiers, former Governor of Katanga (1998-2001) and director of Australia’s Anvil

Mining. The UN Panel of Experts (2002) cited Mwanke for illegal arms deals and plunder

of Congo: Mwanke negotiated arms purchases through Belgian banks and the DRC mining

company MIBA.72

 Reportedly, Mwanke personally clears $US 1,000,000 a day through his

interests in Katanga mining deals.73

Anvil Mining has been involved in massacres in DRC.74

 Anvil directors include former U.S.

Ambassador Kenneth L. Brown, who served at U.S. embassies in Brussels, Kinshasa,

 68

 Teal Exploration & Mining web site: <http://www.tealmining.com/tp/brief.asp>.

69

 Press Release: Kenya-Uganda Oil Products Pipeline, Kenya-Uganda Joint Co-coordinating

Commission for Extension of Oil Pipeline, August 17, 2005,

<http://www.energyandminerals.go.ug/Press%20Release_Oil%20PipeLine%20Extension.pdf>; see

also: Energem web site: <http://www.energem.com/energem_corporate_info.html>.

70

 François Misser and Olivier Vallée, “Des matières premières toujours convoitées. Les nouveaux

acteurs du secteur minier Africain,” Le Monde Diplomatique, May 1998, p.24-25; also Wayne

Madsen, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999, Mellon Press, 1999.

71

 Diamond Fields International Management:

<http://www.diamondfields.com/s/Management.asp>.

72

 ‘Inculpations à la Belgolaise’, Le Libre Belgique, 4 June 2004.

73

 Private interview, Kinshasa, DRC, April 2007.

74

 Norm Dixon, “Congo Massacre: Australian mining company's managers indicted,” Green Left

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Congo-Brazzaville and South Africa. Brown was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for

Africa (1987-1989) under George Schultz and George H.W. Bush and Director of Central

African Affairs (1980-1981). The former top internal intelligence and security chief of the

United Nations Observer’s Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) has

been worked for Anvil mining in Katanga since 2006.75

THOU SHALT NOT RAPE AND PLUNDER

Gertler/Steinmetz interests have also been jostling for copper and cobalt concessions with

Kinross-Forrest Group. Gertler has bought up or invested heavily in companies just to

close them down. George Forrest also made the UN hit list of Congo’s looters and Forrest

and his three sons helped bankroll Joseph Kabila’s 2006 election “victory”.76

 George

Forrest’s daughter is reportedly married to the son of Louis Michel. Malta and George

Forrest are controlling directors in Katanga Mining Limited.

Born as Entreprise Générale Malta Forrest, the Belgian Forrest interests have been pillars

of exploitation in Congo since at least 1922, when they launched mining operations in

Katanga. Forrest’s Katanga Mining directors include: three Canadians; Congo’s JeanClaude Masangu Mulongo, a former Governor of DRC and high official at the IMF and

World Bank; and the current Governor of the Central Bank of DRC. The Forrest dynasty

has munitions factories in Belgium and Kenya, and has partnered with OM-Group, in Ohio

[USA], dealing in Congo’s cobalt and coltan. Forrest International also operates in Europe,

Burundi—involving him on both sides of Congo’s bloody war—and the Middle East.77

Forrest interests in DRC include aviation, foods, plantations, construction, logging, copper

and cobalt mining. Forrest companies are enmeshed in the coltan plunder in eastern

Congo.

Katanga is the world’s richest mining metropolis, part of the vast copper belt that stretches

across northern Zambia and southern Congo—and the home to unprecedented human

misery due to state orchestrated repression and communities overrun with toxic mining,

tuberculosis, cancers, immune disorders, racial discrimination and slavery. The Zambian

copperbelt concessions over the border involve many of the same companies and

interests mentioned above, and others.78

 

Review, November 4, 2006 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/689/35790>.

75

 His name is known, but he threatened to track down and break the author’s legs if he is

revealed.

76

 See: Barry Sergeant, “NIKANOR’s Quandry: Meet Dan the Man, King of the Congo,”

MoneyWeb, 4 April 2007, <

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page1329?oid=84351&sn=Detail>; “Congo Kinshasa:

After the Election" Africa Confidential, Vol. 47, No. 23, 17 Nov. 2006; and United Nations Security

Council Report to the Secretary General, S/2003/1027, 23 October 2003.

77

 George Forrest International, <http://www.forrestgroup.com/uk/home.html>.

78

 Personal investigation, Ndola, Zambia copperbelt mines, 2000.

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Workers and communities in and around these mines suffer all the standard treatable

maladies (typhoid, malaria, tetanus, polio, malnutrition) as well. However, such stories are

off the agenda for the North American, European, Japanese, Australian and Israeli media

corporations providing the mainstay of English language indoctrination meant to instill

racial superiority and a vast ignorance and obliviousness that leaves westerns populations

shaking their heads and wringing their hands and clicking their tongues, while all the while

wondering “what is to be done?” It does not cross people’s minds that their own hands are

dirty, that their own consciousness has been falsified, as all the raw materials from Congo

enrich the lives of people in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.

The immediate capital investment required for just one Gertler project in Katanga—the

Komoto Oliveira Virgule (KOV) project—is reportedly $US 1.8 billion dollars, income to kick

start billions of dollars of unused equipment mothballed in the middle Mobutu era. There

are rumors that Bechtel is involved, but the KOV project involves ThyssenKrupp AG as a

minor player.79

The Krupp firm is one of several German firms involved in the plunder in eastern Congo,

exploitation which involves the DeutscheGesellschaft für technische

Zusammenarbeit—GTZ—a “German technological cooperation agency” whose

Supervisory Board has representatives of four Federal [German] Ministries.80

 Krupp

industries use coltan and cobalt for superalloys.81

 Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard D. Schultz, a

ThyssenKrupp director, is also a director of Bayer AG, the Germany firm whose subsidiary

H.C. Starck was named for its involvement in the ongoing illegal plunder of coltan and

cassiterite (tin) in eastern Congo. NIKANOR director Jay Pomrenze is also a consultant for

the Deutsche Bank.82

 Certain German and U.S. firms benefit from the military occupation

of Rwandan-backed warlord Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, DRC, where Nkunda controls

the Lueshe niobium mine “owned” by Gesellschaft fuer Elektrometallurgie GmbH, a

subsidiary of New York-based Mettalurg Group.83, 84

HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER

Dan Gertler’s grandfather, Moshe Schnitzer (d. November 2007), was known in Israel as

“Mr. Diamond;” in youth he joined the pre-state underground organization Etzel (Irgoun),

an Israeli military cell self-defined as an “untra-nationationalist Jewish militia,” but one that

 79

 http://www.nikanor.co.uk/default.asp?page=15

80

 These are: the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Federal

Foreign Office; Federal Ministry of Finance; and Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor. Since

1998 the Supervisory Board Chairman has been State Secretary Erich Stather from the BMZ.

81

 Karen Hayes and Richard Burge, Coltan Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How

tantalum-using industries can commit to the reconstruction of the DRC, Fauna & Flora Int’l, 2003.

82

 NIKANOR web site.

83

 Metallurg Group <www.metallurg.com>.

84

 See keith harmon snow, “Three Cheers for Eve Ensler? Propaganda, White Collar Crime, and

Sexual Violence in Eastern Congo,” Z Magazine on-line (Z-Net), October 24, 2007.

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committed acts of terrorism in service to the Israeli cause.85

 Moshe Schnitzer assumed a

major role in the Africa-Israeli diamond trade in the 1950’s in a partnership business called

Schnitzer-Greenstein. Schnitzer later founded the Israel Diamond Exchange in Tel Aviv in

1960, which today brings Israel $14 billion annually in blood business, and is the country’s

second-largest industry, but Israel’s top export. King Leopold III of Belgium decorated

Schnitzer in recognition of his activities favoring the close relationship of Belgium, Israel

and the DeBeers diamond cartels, and Schnitzer was also President of the Harry

Oppenheimer Diamond Museum in Israel.86

The diamond jewelry trade in the United States is more than $30 billion annually, and

99%—everything that is not synthetic or artificial diamonds—involves blood diamonds and

the above organized crime syndicates. Israel buys more than 50% of the world’s rough

diamonds, and the U.S. buys two-thirds of these. The diamond factories are located in

Nethanya, Petach Tikvah, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Jerusalem, and other cities around the

country, but most of the offices were in Tel Aviv in the financial district on Ahad Ha'am

Street.87

 Dan Gertler’s father, Asher Gertler, and his uncle, Shmuel Schnitzer, manage the

original family business, and Shmuel is Vice-Chairman of the Belgian-based World

Diamond Council—the entity that spends more money promoting the false image of

“conflict-free” diamonds than it does helping any of the people dispossessed or brutalized

by the diamond industry.88

On August 16, 2007 Rabbi Bentolila in Kinshasa received a communication asking: “What

does the Torah say about men exploiting other men for vast profits while other men are

starving and dying all around them? Is there some hierarchy to the Torah that suggests, for

example, that black people or Africans are lesser beings, and therefore not to be a concern

where profound profits are being made?”

There was no reply from Rabbi Bentolila, he was apparently busy readying for another Bar

Mitsvah in Belgium. Unfortunately for Dan Gertler and his spiritual advisers, the Torah says

that a Jew can keep a slave, but a Jew kept as a slave must be redeemed, and that—an

empty, foolish justification for exploiting innocent people—is how religion falsifies

spirituality. ~

 85

 Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel, “Diamond in the Rough,” Haaretz.com, March 24, 2005.

86

 “Moshe Schnitzer: Un Legende s’en est Allee,” Kadima 010, June-September 2007,

<http://74.52.200.226/~sefarad/kadima/kadima10.pdf>.

87

 “The Israel Diamond Exchange - Kiryat Moshe Schnitzer”, Diamond Key, 2002,

<http://www.diamond-key.com/diamonds-newsletter/>.

88

 Nicole Gaouette, “Inside Israel's diamond trade: a family affair,” Christian Science Monitor, 21

February 2002, <http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules6437.php>.