Reply #34: The Romans .... the original "New World Order"

[theSaiGirl]

(or maybe that was Babylon ?)

In any case, we are living in times of a a huge global traffic in human beings, the post-modern equivalent of the old Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade.
Especially trafficking in sex slavery, using young women and boys from poor and suffering economies. Children are trafficked in as well.

Unfortunately, the Middle East seems to be thick with this kind of exploitation and profiteering from human misery.
It's not just in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf sheikdoms either .. it appears the brothel trade in young girls has moved in big-time in Israel.
Most of the exploited girls are from Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
It's a serious enough problem that you can read about it in the Israeli media (Ha'artz, Ma'ariv, Yehdiot Arhanot) and see it dealt with in excellent films like The Holy Land.
But it would appear that some elements in the Israeli establishment are not bothered by the anti-semitism this might stoke in Eastern Europe and Russia. They evidently feel that would force more Jews to emigrate out of those areas and into Israel.
(This sentiment was hinted at by Sharon about two years ago, when he responded to the growth of anti-semitism in France, by seriously urging all French Jews to leave for Israel.)
Obviously, Israeli politicians are subject to the same pathologies that infect our own. They will manipulate any tragedy to advance one or another parochial agenda.
Meanwhile, the suffering and explotiation persist and worsen.
Just one more way that corporate globalization (neo-slavery and human traffic) has proven to be a disaster for the planet.
What a tragedy for civilized people to allow this kind of cruelty.