Why is the U.S. Subsidizing Israeli Settlements?

by Irn Bru Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:49 pm

An office chair is positioned on the top of Dagan Hill, on the outskirts of Efrat, a thriving West Bank settlement. Someone must like to sit here and take in the changing landscape. Once-bare mountains are losing their shape, carved up by new roads and villas for a growing population of Jewish settlers.

Nadia Matar, one pillar of this community, should be happy. Twenty years ago, as she struggled to make a life on this hill, the success of her mission seemed improbable, if not impossible. Now, from the top of the windy peak, the fruits of her victory are apparent. Yet Matar, founder and leader of the pro-settlement nonprofit Women in Green, doesn’t sound cheerful when I call to ask about the funding of her organization. “Choose which side are you on,” she tells me in Hebrew, “ours, or the enemies who try to destroy us.”

Many from Israel’s far right and the settlers’ community condemn the Obama administration as that “other” side. They should know better: While one American hand opposes development of settlements, the other keeps feeding it.

A few miles away from Efrat sits the pleasant campground of Oz Vegaon, a West Bank outpost built without the required land allocation and planning permits from the Israeli Civil Administration. Campers, tourists and right-wing groups gather here to enjoy the newly constructed facilities. Women in Green helped to build Oz Vegaon last year, naming it after three Jewish teens murdered by Palestinians not too far from there. Some of the money it used on the site traveled some 5,700 miles from the center of Manhattan. Matar’s group is one of many settler organizations fueled with tax-exempt American dollars, of which increasing amounts arrive each year.

This year I conducted a thorough investigation into the complex network of tax-exempt donations helping to finance West Bank settlements. The investigation, published this month in Haaretz, looked at almost 50 nonprofit organizations that raise money in the United States for the settlements.

More to read in the link and the actual investigation

http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/why-us-subsidizing-israeli-settlements

This is the right wing neocon lobby from the likes of Piper, Horowitz, Spencer, Geller, Greenfield and organisations like Camera, Middle East Forum, Front Page Magazine and the Gatestone Institute etc. and their fellows like EDL and Tommy Robinson luvvie Douglas Murray. They’re all up to their eyes in it and those that convey their cherry-picking hate articles are just as bad. No wonder so many of them got a mention in Anders Breivik’s manifesto.

by Irn Bru Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:53 pm

Haaretz Investigation: U.S. Donors Gave Settlements More Than $220 Million in Tax-exempt Funds Over Five Years Also supporting terrorists

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/settlementdollars/1.689683

US tax dollars no less

Why is the U.S. Subsidizing Israeli Settlements?

Why is the U.S. Subsidizing Israeli Settlements?

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