• Knesset orders NGOs to disclose foreign funding;Senate finds that Obama paid NGO to oust Bibi
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[URL="http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-hours-of-debate-controversial-ngo-bill-passes-into-law/"]http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-hours-of-debate-controversial-ngo-bill-passes-into-law/[/URL] [QUOTE]Formally titled the “Transparency Requirements for Parties Supported by Foreign State Entities Bill 5766-2016,” the new law passed its third and final vote Monday by 57-48. The law dramatically ups transparency requirements for those Israeli NGOs, numbering fewer than two-dozen, that get most of their funding from foreign governments. Critics say the law unfairly targets left-wing NGOs critical of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, and seeks to brand them as agents of foreign governments. The law’s defenders argue that the mere fact that so many left-wing advocacy groups are funded primarily by foreign governments is an important public-awareness issue. Funding creates dependence, they say. In its explanatory preface, the authors of the law say such groups “work in Israel in the name of foreign state entities.” The preface explicitly accuses the relevant NGOs of foreign allegiances. The law seeks “to deal with the phenomenon of NGO’s who represent in Israel, in a non-transparent manner, the outside interests of foreign states, while pretending to be a domestic organization concerned with the interests of the Israeli public.”[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/"]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/[/URL] [QUOTE]The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday. Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report. In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official, Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them. [I]He said he regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records.[/I][/QUOTE]
I'm sorry I am I supposed to be shocked? The US is so far up Israel's Ass right now, we cannot even scold them for the fucking Warcrimes they are doing. Sounds like Obama tried to get a election to get Netanyahu out so maybe warcrimes won't be commited.
If you read the actual article, you'll see the headline's sensationalist as hell. In fact, it's an outright lie. Svinnik needs to change that. The government gave money to a group that was supposed to use it to campaign for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, but they used it for an anti-Nehtanyahu campaign instead. Which some would argue is virtually the same thing, since Nehtanyahu's basically human trash who could be said to be actively working against peace by continuing the expansion of illegal settlements.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars? We're talking grains of sand on a beach here in terms of taxpayer money.
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