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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (2702)	10/23/2003 4:25:07 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Insofar as the hypocritical Jewish groups have bamboozled U.S. taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars in behalf of Israeli racism, and Jewish American businesses pour money into the "terrorist" Jewish state left and right all the time, this prospective lawsuit is morally criminal. The state of Israel is a massive "terrorist" monolith. And the whole "sue" scenario is apparently yet another Jewish in-house game. Both Aaron Back and Peter Edelman are Jewish. Jewish group considers legal action following revelations about Ford funding. By Edwin Black, Jewish Telegraphic Agrency, October 21, 2003 "In the wake of revelations that the Ford Foundation is spending millions to fund organizations engaged in anti-Israel agitation, the American Jewish Congress is considering legal action against the Ford Foundation or relevant government agencies to enforce charitable financing laws. "Congress should examine the tax-exempt status of organizations such as Ford Foundation," AJCongress´ executive director, Neil Goldstein, said in a news release. The AJCongress statement cited the JTA series "Funding Hate," which documents the Ford Foundation´s extensive funding of radical Palestinian non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. "The purpose of the tax-exemption cannot be to finance terrorists and terror-related activities," Goldstein said. No evidence has emerged linking Ford´s grant making to terrorists, although one of several Ford-funded Palestinian Web sites, www.palestinereport.org, linked directly to the Web sites of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups on the State Department´s list of Palestinian terrorist groups. Within hours of the publication of JTA´s four-part series, www.palestinereport.org removed both the links to terrorist groups and its section "From Revolution to Revolution," both of which were cited in the JTA investigation. "We have only begun to look at the implications raised by this series," said AJCongress´ general counsel, Marc Stern. Stern said he was studying the possibility of filing a lawsuit. "Was this funding in compliance with the government anti-terrorism regulations?" "A more important set of issues," Stern pointed out, is that the Ford Foundation board "represents a fairly small sliver of American society. Yet they control huge monies, huge prestige and engage in protected action which does not represent the American consensus. They refuse to answer questions, they are not accountable to anyone but themselves — and all this raises important issues of public policy. Those issues are raised in spades." Stern said his group was still "down the road before making up our minds, but we are examining the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Ford or the government to enforce relevant laws. We are examining that right now" ... The Ford-NIF partnership calls for the newly created "donor-advised" peace and social justice fund to be overseen by Aaron Back, Ford´s program officer for Israel, who just left the foundation to become a consultant to the NIF-Ford partnership. Asked if NIF would be a conduit for Ford´s designated recipients that have engaged in anti-Israel activity, NIF board president Peter Edelman said, "No, because the grants will be made under our supervision and we will only approve grants to organizations that are not opposed to the State of Israel as a democratic Jewish state" ... We are a fervently pro-Israel organization," Edelman said. "We will be giving money to groups who are Israeli and which are seeking a Jewish democratic Israel."

To: steve kammerer who wrote (2702)	10/24/2003 5:03:16 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The crux of the Arab-Israeli mess: However, it is difficult to say that this applies to the Israeli outlook on the conflict, in spite of appearances. The secular cloak worn by the official Zionist movement appears to me to be only that: a cloak, concealing beneath it actions and positions dictated by religious, more than political, considerations. Herein, I believe, resides the primary cause for the failure of the peace process so far. There is an enormous gap between the Arab and Israeli frame of reference for a settlement, with that of the Arabs located in the political domain while that of the Israelis is a fundamentally religious one. Excerpted from: weekly.ahram.org.eg