I love newspapers. Here’s an amazing story in the Sun-Sentinel about a Florida attorney who, allegedly trying to pull off a Ponzi scheme, seems to have fashioned an exit strategy: I will become an Israeli! This is a story about the horrors of the Law of Return, of course, which is extended to any Jew be he ever so foul, but denied on a racial basis to many people who were born in Israel. Many of the worst Jews go over there: like the alleged Jewish terrorist Jack Teitel.
And bear in mind as you read this, accused spy Stewart Nozette thought about the same thing: allegedly said that because both his parents are Jewish he can get out of town in a hurry:
Noting that “my parents are Jewish,” he [Nozette] says to the undercover FBI agent, “So I have a right, I theoretically have the right of return.” He then adds: “Because if I’m gonna work, I wouldn’t mind having another base of operations.” Nozette was apparently referring to the Israeli Law of Return─in which states that all Jews have the right to citizenship in the Jewish state.
As evidence that Nozette was a flight risk…
And this story is also, in a larger spiritual sense– and I’m getting a little above my pay grade here– about the degree to which the establishment of Israel has served as a dispensationalist concept for American Jewry. We don’t fight; but they massacre children, and that’s hunkydory. We are liberals; they can be racists, and that’s fine. We don’t break the law, but if we do, well, then we go to Israel. I know, I’m straying from a juicy story. Emphasis mine.
Ten days before Scott Rothstein flew to Morocco as his alleged Ponzi scheme was about to implode, he sent an e-mail to every attorney in the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm.
"We have a client that was a United States citizen until about 6 months ago. He became a citizen of Israel and renounced his United States citizenship. He is likely to be charged with a multitude of crimes in the united states including fraud, money laundering and embezzlement," Rothstein wrote on the afternoon of Saturday Oct. 17, in e-mails obtained by the Sun Sentinel….
Stuart Rosenfeldt, who was in a 50 percent partnership with Rothstein at the time, said that he and many of the other attorneys in the firm now believe that Rothstein was talking about his own situation and that another attorney in the firm suggested that Morocco was one destination that did not have extradition agreements with either the United States or Israel.A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., said, "It is against our policy to confirm whether someone is an Israeli citizen." And efforts to confirm whether Rothstein is still a U.S. citizen were unsuccessful Monday.
"Hindsight is 20/20," Rosenfeldt said Monday. "I certainly began to suspect when I learned Scott was in Morocco that he was really talking about himself in these e-mails."
