Israelis, Funding Israel’s Destruction
A motion to investigate the New Israel Fund (NIF)by Israeli MK Otniel Schneller was withdrawn because of “intense pressure.” Other MKs may try to hold hearings, but if anyone does take up the issue, it won’t be easy. Investigating the NIF will expose not only Kadima, Labor, and anti-settlement and anti-Israel organizations, but their connections to Israeli politicians — especially President Shimon Peres, his Peres Center for Peace, and its supporters.
The Peres Center has quietly backed NGOs through a network of relationships and meetings. It organized a conference of Palestinians and anti-Israel NGOs in Florence in June 2007, which included B’Tselem, Rabbis for Human Rights, Israeli Committee Against House Demolition, Yesh Din, Peace Now, and others. Ron Pundak, president of the Peres Center, was the host. Former MK Avrum Burg, a founder of Peace Now who recently urged Israelis to acquire foreign citizenship, gave the keynote.
The Peres Center supports a host of NGOs, like the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum, and other organizations that demonize and delegitimize Israel. Peace NGO organizes demonstrations against Jews living in eastern Jerusalem, like those in Sheikh Jarrah.
The NIF works with the Council for Peace and Security, a small but vocal group of anti-settlement former IDF officers and prominent Israelis, including former Justice Aharon Barak.
Of the 123 NIF grantees, half are Arab or pro-Arab organizations with political agendas.
The NIF is funded by many foundations (in addition to multi-million dollar Ford Foundation grants). These include Bronfman, Cummings, Blaustein, Dorot, Kaplan, Sandler (ex-owners of Global West banks and major supporters of Human Rights Watch), Arnow, and others.
The NIF International Council — composed of prominent individuals, most of whom oppose Israeli settlements — includes former U.S. Secretary of State Martin Indyk; Yoram Peri, former advisor to Yitzhak Rabin and ex-editor of Davar; Yehudit Karp, former deputy attorney general; Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, VP of the Israel Democracy Institute; and former Minister of Justice David Libai.
PM Netanyahu may or may not order an investigation, but this would be limited, since his coalition and their supporters include some of the very people who would be exposed.
After Israelis found out that the wife of Ehud Olmert, Aliza, was a founder and active member of a group calling itself Machsom Watch, their taste for Ehud Olmert suddenly became less appealing. In case non Israelis don’t know what a Machsom is, it is an IDF roadblock or passage point for checking the ID’s and personal belongings of the Palestinian enemy in order to prevent them from smuggling bombs,guns, knives, or suicide belts into Israeli areas. The ultral Left wing women who comprise Machsom Watch deliberately interfere with the activities of the soldiers at the roadblock by either yelling at them, asking them questions, or physically trying to prevent them from searching Palestinians trying to cross over. More and more Israelis realize that groups like these are financed by and large by European governments directly, or by European government grants to Left wing Israeli institutions who then finance these spin off groups. Israelis also realize that they cannot directly influence these institutions like the Peres Peace Center and that the local Left wing media as well as the government supported Left wing media largely supports these group’s activities and efforts and do everything they can to protect them. Indeed, the military affairs reporter for the government owned and operated Israel Broadcasting Authority, a woman named Carmella Menashe, has stated publicly several times that she fully supports Machsom Watch and the other anti Israel Left wing Jewish and Arab groups and would join them but it would cost her job. This is why the Netanyahu government is now in power, Israelis now realize that we have been lied to and cheated on for decades by our intelligentsia, our elite business community, and all of our media regarding our country, our morality, and our right to even exist, and we have decided not to listen to these idiots any more and vote for Right wing Nationalist governments from now on.
Well maybe this is a little far-fetched. The New Fund is indeed a very stupid and dangerous group. But saying that Kadima, Peres and the Labour Party want to destroy Israel isjust as stupid. They mostly want to be in power and earn money, that’s all. And they are Zionists. They just don’t care about anything now.
The post-zionist influence is much smaller than you think. Almost nil on the general public and even in the elites, they are a small minority. They do a lot of noise but everybody hates them. Even the left-wing media criticizes them (not including Haaretz which is far-left).
Don’t worry. These people are slowly losing all power. They know it that’s whay they go crazy.
Shimon Peres has been complicit in anti-Israel activity for decades. He has become a millionaire doing it.
As an outsider who loves Israel this explains allot even if it’s not as bad as Mr. Dann has described. I could never understand why Israelis seemed to be their own worst enemies. But then the same can be said of the United States, the current administration has done more damage to the US than the Soviets ever did.
Nothing new here: Italy’s worst enemy is the Italians, Spain’s worst enemy is the Spaniards, etc, etc. All of us have heard it before.
This ethnocentrically based hate isn’t well understood though. It seems that at the base of this edifice is a fundamental difference in ideology, as in the case of Israel is so evident because it has been extensively studied: radical leftist, atheist, marxist ideology vs. a religiously based conservativism. But I’m sure it’s more complicated than that.
Professor Dann has encapsulised, with his usual conciseness, exactly how Israeli society is manipulated from the left. According to Yoel Meltzer (see article in Ynet), Israeli society is undermined and run by the media, the academia and the Courts. Add to this, the business elements as Professor Dann suggests and then we know why we feel so powerless. The NIF, then, is an all-encompassing body which appears to connect disparate elements all of which have in common a leftist agenda for Israel. On the surface, this isn’t a threat in a democratic society except for the fact that it (the NIF) is funded by many foreign elements including, but not limited to, Arab funded agencies.
To follow upon GHT’s thoughts. I think you have to go beneath ideology to more basic emotions, like ego. If you scratch underneath most of these leftists you find a person deeply impressed with their own moral superiority and willing to sacrifice others. That so many people repeatedly fall for it, is always the riddle, both here in the U.S. and in Israel.
Humorous cartoon on how the White House treated both Netanyahu and the Dalai Lama at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/netanyahu-and-the-dalai-lama-discuss-their-white-house-visits/
…not that humourous. I do think they were let in and out through a back / side / servants entrance. It least the pictures I saw indicated that.
These comments are just sad. There’s “Rancher,” a clueless born-again who thinks the Bible wants Palestinians roughed up every time they go for a drive. And Ken Besig, who’s convinced that everyone, including all Israelis with an IQ in triple figures, is involved in a plot against Israel.
Those are your last remaining allies, PJM Israel-fanatics: silly American hicks and feral Likudniks. Good luck with that.
It is hard for may addicted ‘peaceniks’ to wrap their minds around it, but Peres has for MANY decades been a dangerous influence in Israel, to the point of causing the nation grave damage-domestically and internationally.
Peres is wedded to a philosophy which places all other interests before our own. He not only babbles about ‘risk for peace’-as does his cohort in crime DM Barak-but he has MANY financial conduits in which to cause us grave harm-all in the name of ‘peace’. His ties to Euro elitists, to the Vatican, and to a host of Arabists is enough to fill ones (Jewish) nightmares. He has a way of ‘eliminating’ his opponents, in the same manner as Clinton’s ghosts just ‘disappeared’-think Vince Foster.
Most people only see him as an octogenarian presiding over this confab or the other, believing that he is just a harmless peace advocate who only wants the best for Israel. Let me put it this way – he wants the ‘best’ for Israel in the same way that BHO wants the ‘best’ for America.
Many Israelis too are clueless about his dangerous alliances.
Moshe Dann has hit a bullseye.
Thee are internal forces in Israel that are so powerful they can stop an investigation that is so obviously necessary.
When the New Israel Fund gives money to the forces that want to DBS,DELEGITIMIZE,BOYCOTT AND SANCTION ISRAEL and are not investigated there is a serious stenchy odor.Adding the Peres Center to the mix is suicidalfor Israel.
Enemies of world peace: Peres,Obama, US, EU, liberals and their warped press, are being used by the Jihadists to ruin their own. People of goodwill should go back to basics and resist this elitist, selfish psuedo intellectul atheists until the God of Abraham deals with them. – The Idiotic left.
Guys, if you had a neighbor who had attacked you many times and had repeatedly declared his intention to kill you, you would want to put some space between the two of you so you could have time to respond effectively to his next attack. Such is Israel’s position. But they have undermined their position by allowing palestinians to constitute about twenty percent of their population. Thus, eventually, palestinians(arabs) will reproduce themselves until they are a majority. Their political takeover wil include a gigantic pogrom, making the AD70 fall of Jerusalem look like a Sunday School picnic!
And many of their first victims will be the judas types from the Left who now oppose the Netanyahu cabal.If not, why not?
I’d like to know more. Which European organizations are funding which Israeli organizations? How were contacts built? What was the process that led to the proposal to investigate the NIF? What was the process that led to not investigating? Is Netanyahu actively considering ordering an investigation? Who in his coalition stands to lose? How would the exposure of these anti-Israel Israeli MKs effect the political landscape? Etc.
What’re the anshei emunah to do in the meantime? … We need navi’im – people intimate with God, who can articulate Torah so the People understands.
Ein od milvado.
Don’t forget Ehud Barak in this mix. Also USAID. People don’t realize that it has been rumored in the Past that the Ford Foundation was funded by the CIA especially in the 50′s. What better way to influence a countries politics than to fund these groups.