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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 09:23 PM
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2. About OP author: Isi Leibler is the single most corrupt and degenerate human
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 09:33 PM by IndianaGreen
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http://mraussie.blogspot.com/
Isi J. Leibler
I simply cannot stay silent any longer.

Mr. Isi Leibler is the single most corrupt and degenerate human being I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. For my part, I will admit that I have an ax to grind. Mr. Leibler and I had a fallout some years ago over business. So, yes, I dislike the man and probably even worse and I am sure that that colors my sentiments. However, that does not take away from the fact that the courts in Australia referred to Mr. Leibler’s conduct in matters of business to be “unconscionable.”

I believe Mr. Leibler’s behavior in his personal life to be unconscionable as well. But most assuredly the manner in which he has conducted his affairs within the Jewish world cannot be imagined. No novelist, no playwright, no twisted mind could invent the progression of his possibly psychotic behavior. How and or why people even permit him to exist within the Jewish world remains a mystery to me.

We are all aware of his recent activities. From Israel to the States to Switzerland and back again, Mr. Leibler has been spreading a tale of woe so great as to warrant the expense of all his time and energy. He is a man obsessed. So enthralled with his own quest for power, martyrdom and legend-hood, this myopic individual has dragged his ignorant seed and henpecked wife into his tangled web.

Just this morning, Mr. Leibler circulated an article published today in a Swiss magazine. Mr. Leibler, incapable of speaking any languages, paid to have the article translated. This is not a surprise since he paid to have the article written in the first place.

Mr. Leibler circulated this article, with a cover note stating that he regretted that the entire story about alleged irregularities at the World Jewish Congress ever became public. Definitely, Mr. Leibler believes that his beloved readership, who care less about his rantings than you do mine, would believe his indulgent, self-righteous lamentation and forget that while in the United States on September 20th, he spent hours going from one Jewish news agency to another spreading his tale. He visited for hours with the Publisher of the Jewish Week, Gary Rosenblatt. He visited with the Jewish Forward. He visited with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

While in Israel, he pursued Haaretz. He pursued Jerusalem Post. He pursued Jerusalem Report. He pursued the Marker. He pursued Maariv. All of course while lamenting the public nature of the information he was providing.

In his delusional quest, Mr. Leibler spread his tale to all those who ears he could steal. From Ministers to lawyers, from academics to organizational hacks, from vacationers to socialites, if you were breathing and Isi Leibler saw you, you were told about how righteous he was and how crooked were his enemies.

http://adamrdavis.blogspot.com/2004/09/teshuvah-for-two.html

On edit, more... Leibler was a great supporter of rightwinger John Howard, former PM.

Aussies quit WJC over Leibler suit

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry quits the World Jewish Congress over its refusal to withdraw a USD 7.5 million libel suit against Australian Jewish community icon Isi Leibler

Peter Kohn Published: 07.27.06, 18:13 / Israel Jewish Scene

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has formally quit the World Jewish Congress (WJC) over its refusal to withdraw a USD 7.5 million libel suit against Australian Jewish community icon Isi Leibler.

An ECAJ ultimatum to the WJC to drop its legal action, the largest of its kind in Israeli history, expired on Tuesday, with the US-based world body refusing to drop its lawsuit against Leibler, a former senior vice-president of the WJC and three-time ECAJ president.

Leibler allegedly libelled the WJC with criticism he made of its governance procedures in a leaked 2004 memo.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282406,00.html

A financial scandal at the World Jewish Congress has exposed deep political schisms and changed the focus from fighting for world Jewry to infighting. Can the house that Edgar Bronfman built be put back in order?

By Craig Horowitz


Leibler, 70, has been involved with the World Jewish Congress as long as Bronfman has. A leader in the Australian Jewish community who turned a local travel agency into a huge, international discount-travel business, Leibler moved to Jerusalem with his family five years ago. He and Bronfman have never really gotten along. In addition to their personal animus, they have passionate, deeply held political differences.

Bronfman, who is closely aligned with Israel's Labor Party, believes peace between Israel and the Palestinians should be Israel's overarching priority. He advocates significant compromise with the Palestinians, particularly on territory and the dismantling of Jewish settlements. Leibler takes a much harder line. He is far less interested in compromise with the Palestinians than he is in Israel's security. Nevertheless, things had been relatively quiet between the two men - until the summer of 2003.

That summer, Bronfman wrote a letter to President Bush, which he got Lawrence Eagleburger to co-sign, urging him to take a more active role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though the letter was fairly evenhanded, it did urge the president to pressure Ariel Sharon to make concessions, and it criticized Israel's construction of a security fence - referring to it, in what the right views as the language of Israel's opponents, as a "separation wall."

"Bronfman sees Singer as his ticket to redemption. He decided rather late that Judaism mattered to him, and Singer has, if you will, koshered him."

Leibler, a senior vice-president of the WJC, went nuts. Though Bronfman wrote the letter on personal stationery, Leibler contended it still carried the weight and the implied imprimatur of the World Jewish Congress. He was not alone in this feeling.

Finally, in what has been his battle cry ever since, Leibler accused Bronfman (he later broadened the charge to include Israel Singer) of running the World Jewish Congress as a "personal fiefdom" to promote his own agenda and argued that the organization was wholly without accountability and proper governance. He called on Bronfman to apologize for his letter or resign. Of course, Bronfman did neither. Instead, he threatened to have Leibler banished from the WJC.

And then it really got ugly. In an exchange of e-mails with Leibler, Bronfman said, "I'm writing this note despite my distaste for getting into a pissing match with a skunk." Two days later, he wrote, "When this is over, the person I will feel sorry for is Naomi, your long-suffering wife."

Bronfman was just as harsh in public. In an interview with The Forward that appeared on August 8, 2003, one day after the "long-suffering wife" e-mail, he called Leibler a "right-wing dog." In the New York Sun that same day, Bronfman was quoted as saying that Leibler is an "arrogant twit" who "has decided that G-d is dead and he is taking his place." In the same interview, he said Leibler is "to the right of Genghis Khan and a fool to boot."

http://www.gwb.com.au/murder/wjc.htm

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