Having Mastered Interfering In Israeli Affairs, Europe Sets Its Sights On The US

Daled Amos
08 October '10

This is developing into quite a trend.

Recently in the news is the uproar in Europe over Israel wanting to pass a law that makes European funding of left wing groups in Israel transparent:

The Israeli Embassy in Brussels issued a statement last week criticizing a European Parliament session devoted to attacking a Knesset bill that seeks greater transparency regarding foreign governmental funding of NGOs operating in Israel.

According to the statement, the government “expresses disappointment over the [European] Parliament’s decision to maintain the issue of Israeli NGOs Bill on the Plenary Agenda, in spite of the major changes that the Draft Law underwent since the Parliament’s original decision....

As a result of these modifications, adopted in the course of the normal law drafting process, the Parliament will be debating tomorrow on a non issue.”

At issue is a behind-the-scenes funding of Israeli left wing groups in the effort to push a specific agenda.

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