WATCH: Israeli gov't pouring billions into settlements via secret budget, Stav Shaffir tells Haaretz

When Israel's youngest lawmaker joined the Finance Committee she was shocked to discover huge sums of money being allocated without Knesset oversight.



Stav Shaffir at a reception following the swearing-in ceremony of the 19th Knesset, Jerusalem February 5, 2013. Photo by Emil Salman


Israel has two budgets, according to MK Stav Shaffir (Labor): one that is passed legally, on the Knesset floor, and another "secret budget" that is transferred in the Finance Committee, sometimes without any Knesset members being present and with no supervision of where this money goes.

In an interview for "The Candidates," Shaffir tells Aimee Amiga that "in the last year and a half, the government transferred 1.2 billion shekels as a bonus to the settlements, on top of the budget that they got at the beginning of the year."

Watch the highlights here and the full interview below:



http://www.haaretz.com/video/.premium-1.643817

The settlement are illegal under international law and stop the peace process. If they are getting that amount of money no wonder they are happy to shoot the legal owners, stone their chldren and fire bomb their homes.