Rich Millionaires Funding to Silence Voices of Peace in Israel
source: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1321271743
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http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1321271743
The Funding Prohibition Bill is aimed at peace and human rights orgs. Foreign right-wing extremist millionaires are not touched: Moskowitz can continue financing settler invasion of Palestinian neighborhoods; Adelson - continue maintaining a free daily newspaper, PM Netanyahu's mouthpiece."The bill to prohibit left-wing Israeli organizations from getting funding from foreign institutions, including governments, which Sunday got the backing of the government of Israel, is another link in the chain of anti-democratic legislation which became the hallmark of this government and its representatives in the Knesset. Moreover, government backing for this bill is an act of Chutzpah" says Gush Shalom.
"The initiators of the bill argue that it is designed to prevent outside interference in the internal affairs of the State of Israel - and that while at the same time the government of Israel, through such organizations as the Israel Lobby in Washington (AIPAC) interferes openly and flagrantly in the domestic affairs of the United States, trying to determine who will be elected and who will not be elected to Congress and to the Presidency, and how elected officials should conduct the United States' policy. Until and unless the government announces the dissolution of AIPAC and ceases all interference in United States elections, assertions and complaints of "foreign interference in the affairs of Israel" are the height of hypocrisy.
So why is it OK for Israel to influence US foreign policy but not OK for outsiders to influence Israel? If it smells like BS it must be total BS. This bill needs to be killed.
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The people in Israel want peace...but the leaders are war mongers just like our leaders here in the US.
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