World Vision's terrorism-centered scandal and a toxic ideological background - by Arnold Roth

...Moon goes on to make the case that World Vision's alleged failure to identify the lethal corruption (our term, not his) in their Gaza office stems from three sources: Willingness to overlook terrorist atrocities, institutional antagonism toward Israel, and hostility towards Christian Zionism...

More than just "humanitarianism", World Vision's
engagement in this area includes what it calls
"advocacy". Its partners include "Breaking the
Silence", Btselem and other far-left Israel-based
opponents of government policy. Sabeel is not
named. The word "terror" appears nowhere in
this brochure [check here]

Arnold/Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
07 December '16..

The terrorism-centered scandal at the multi-billion dollar global Christian charity World Vision ["06-Dec-16: World Vision and terrorism: Hazy accounting is the last thing this scandal needs"] has brought some even larger issues out of the dark.

A wide-ranging article seeking to put the current allegations, now under scrutiny in an Israeli criminal court, into a broader context has just been published today. In "World Vision’s Decades-Long Hate Campaign Against Israel" that appears online and in the December 2016 issue of The Tower Magazine, Luke Moon, deputy director at the Philos Project ("the network hub for leaders and future leaders who are committed to promoting positive Christian engagement in the Middle East") provides some background we have not seen elsewhere.

He refers to the criminal charges we mentioned yesterday and to the charity's problematic reaction:

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Palestinian Authority leaders steal their people's future as well - by Dr. Haim Shine

Only the Palestinians continue to sit on their suitcases, which are slowly being emptied of their contents.

Dr. Haim Shine..
Israel Hayom..
04 August '16..
Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16867..

Throughout the years, Western countries and international organizations -- first and foremost the United Nations -- have poured billions of dollars into the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria. They have been so foolish, so negligent, and possibly even so malicious that they never bothered to check what was actually being done with all the money flowing into the swamps of the refugee camps.

Any thinking donor should have asked how the heads of Fatah and later senior officials in the Palestinian Authority, as well as their children and widows, turned into rich people with the world at their fingertips. But the donors took no interest in knowing that the personal and financial situation of millions of Palestinians had not improved, despite the generous money and support transferred to them. We needn't point out that if the donations had been doled out equally among families, all Palestinians could be living out their days comfortably in large homes.

Now it turns out that the leaders of Hamas, who lust after power and violence and supposedly are not greedy like the PA officials, funneled millions of dollars in aid toward building infrastructure from which to wage war against Israel. Instead of building homes, they built attack tunnels. Instead of founding kindergartens, they upgraded weapons. Instead of playgrounds, they built cemeteries. They bought missiles instead of pediatric clinics. In doing so, they sentenced the people they were supposed to have been caring for to atrophy, waste, and death. Heads of aid organizations cooperated with Hamas, and during Operation Protective Edge it turned out that aid stations had been turned into missile launching grounds.

Raising an entire generation on glorification of suicide bombers, jihad and terrorism.

More disturbing is that only a few of the dozens of Western-funded human rights organizations that operate in the Gaza Strip have raised their voices against Hamas's abuse of children. Even the United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], which was created to work for children's rights, their survival, development and protection, has yet to condemn Hamas for recruiting school children to its military apparatus.

Khaled Abu Toameh..
Gatestone Institute..
01 February '13..

Thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren have been receiving military training in the Gaza Strip to prepare them for jihad against Israel.

According to Mohamed Siam, a senior official with the Hamas-run ministry, some 9,000 high school children have already joined 36 camps throughout the Gaza Strip and are being taught how to use various types of weapons and handle explosives. Hamas says that the purpose of the camps is to prepare Palestinian children, both militarily and psychologically, for the "liberation of Palestine, from the Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea," in other words, all of Israel.

How can anyone talk about the two-state solution when thousands of Palestinian children are being trained to use weapons and explosives to replace Israel with an Islamic state? Does Mahmoud Abbas really believe that these schoolchildren will ever accept his strategy of peace with Israel? These are questions the West needs to ask itself before once again pressing for a two-state solution.

The training is being held under the supervision of the Hamas government's Ministry of Education, and the training camps have been named Al-Futuwwa [spiritual chivalry]. According to Wikipedia, Al-Futuwwa was the name of the Hitler-Jugend [Hitler Youth] style of pan-Arab fascistic and nationalistic youth movement that existed in Iraq in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1938, the Al-Futuwwa youth organization sent a delegate to the Nuremberg Nazi party rally, and in turn hosted the Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach. In 1941, the fascistic pan-Arab Al-Muthanna Club and its Al-Futuwwa movement participated in the Farhud attack on Baghdad's Jewish community.

Hamas's pipe dreams

Pesach Benson..
Honest Reporting/Backspin..
14 June '12..



BBC and some non-governmental organizations broke out the violins for the Gaza’s children: the drinking water’s contanimated and you know whose fault that is.

The charities Save the Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians say the number of children being treated for diarrhoea has doubled in five years.

They say Israel’s five-year blockade of the territory is preventing crucial sanitation equipment from getting in.

The blockade must be lifted “in its entirety”, they say.

My heart goes out to the sick kids. They don’t deserve this.

That said, Hamas and its Big Media sycophants have a pipe dream that Israel simply lift the blockade of Gaza regardless of the security costs involved. That’s one reason NGO reports like this one attract press interest.

But no conversation about Gaza’s sewage system is complete without some info that goes against the Beeb/NGO storyline:

The Palestinians ripped up their own sewage system to make rockets out of the pipes. And deliveries of Israeli-made pipes were sent to Qassam factories, which is why Israel no longer sends the material.

Of course, Gazans can look across their southern border to Egypt for sewage assistance, advice, and inspiration, right?

Uh, maybe not.

Link: http://honestreporting.com/pipe-dreams/

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Rubin - “Palestine,” The World’s Most Economically and Politically Coddled Entity

Barry Rubin
Rubin Reports
19 July '11

http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/07/19/palestine-the-worlds-most-economically-and-politically-coddled-entity/

SkyNews reporter Tim Marshall points out what other reporters don’t…point out.

“There are well over 200 NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza, and 30% of the GDP here comes from international aid. Palestinians are among the most foreign aid funded people in the world and the place is awash with money….

“The billions that pour in here mean the Palestinian Authority does not need to try very hard to deliver the services expected by voters, it also stifles the private sector, inflates wages and causes an internal ‘brain drain’….

“No Palestinian business can compete with NGOs which routinely triple what a local firm would pay….

“`Palestine is the best-kept secret in the aid industry,’” a medical NGO worker recently told This Week In Palestine, `People need field experience and Palestine sounds cool and dangerous because it can be described as a war zone, but in reality it’s quite safe and has all the comforts that internationals want.’”

So in other words, the NGOs have every interest in continuing this situation, a lot of Westerners are making great money, the Palestinians are subsidized to an extent that much-worse-off Third World people can only dream about, AND they are portrayed as heroic, suffering victims, too!

And what does the Palestinian Authority have to do in exchange for all this loot and free propaganda? Absolutely nothing. Not make peace with Israel. Not reject a deal with Hamas. Not stop breaking all of its prior commitments by ending its drive for unilateral independence. Not cease incitement to kill Israelis or teaching its people that all of Israel is rightfully theirs. Not face a boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. Not worry about having its officials arrested for involvement with terrorism when they visit certain European countries. Not face hate and intimidation directed at its nationals and defenders in the West [In contrast, Jews can no longer go to Belgium's main university without harassment]. Not face public criticism from Western governments. And not even have to negotiate with Israel for the last 2.5 years.

They don’t even have to face an “occupation” as they did between 1967 and 1994-1996.

All of these points are true and demonstrable facts. Yet because of the mass media’s virtual refusal to deal with this framework, they can be ignored by policymaking and intellectual elites.

This is the worst crisis in the world, the greatest oppression, and the greatest suffering?

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Benson - NGOs Strangle Palestinian Economy

Pesach Benson
Honest Reporting/Backspin
18 July '11

http://honestreporting.com/ngos-strangle-palestinian-economy/

And all this time, I thought it was just the occupation.

Tim Marshall of Sky News explains that the heavy flow of foreign aid — particularly through the UNRWA and non-governmental organizations – have addicted the Palestinians, “and as long as you are addicted you are in thrall to your supplier.”

Here’s one example of the thrall unintended consequences Marshall describes:

No Palestinian business can compete with NGOs which routinely triple what a local firm would pay. Many NGOs fork out ‘danger money’ and even ‘hardship payments’ to both local and international staff which further undermines the local private businesses. So the NGOs get the brightest and the highest paid, and the private firms get the rest but without the tax exemptions . . .

This is not to argue that NGOs are not required, many are, but they distort the situation and fundamentally the Palestinians cannot have properly functioning businesses, nor be fully independent until their leaders are partially weaned off their addiction to other peoples money.

But it’s easier to blame the occupation.

Read the whole thing.

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Civilian casualties, Gaza and the political war

Anne Herzberg
Op-Ed/JPost
02 January '11

The writer is the legal adviser of NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institution that promotes accountability and transparency among nongovernmental organizations that claim to protect human rights in the Middle East. She is the author of NGO ‘Lawfare’: Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

The distortion of international law is a primary weapon in the political war attacking Israel’s legitimacy.

During the Gaza War, casualty statistics were used by many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) claiming a human rights agenda to bolster these campaigns.

NGOs issued dozens of publications purporting to document the number of Palestinian civilian casualties. They frequently compared those figures to the number of Israeli casualties, which were lower. To pursue their political objectives, NGOs often deliberately and grossly inflated the Palestinian count, mislabeling combatants as civilians or “children,” and made other false accusations.

NGOs such as B’Tselem, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and Defence for Children International – Palestine Section (DCI-PS) each issued differing reports, alleging that between 70 – 85% of those killed were civilians.

In contrast to these NGO reports, the Israeli military stated that of 1166 Palestinian deaths, 709 “militants” were killed in combat; the Israeli evidence was largely ignored or derisively dismissed. Recently, though, the IDF figures were confirmed and the NGO accounts debunked by the most unlikely of sources – Hamas.

In a November 2010 interview given by Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad to the Al-Hayat newspaper, Hamas acknowledged that 600-700 Hamas members were killed in the Gaza fighting – more than double the number of combatants published by the NGOs’ and Richard Goldstone’s unreliable version of events.

With these new revelations by Hamas, NGOs, media correspondents, UN officials, and others that presented the NGO statistics as authoritative should now issue corrections.

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NGOs admit how they help Hamas

Elder of Ziyon
26 October '10

GANSO is the Gaza NGO Safety Office, run by CARE International, to help NGOs in Gaza stay safe.

Their website describes incidents that jeopardize the safety of internationals in Gaza, both from IDF incursions and from militant actions (like mortars or rockets that fall short.)

Last February, there was an (apparently Islamist) attack on a Red Cross convoy in Gaza, and GANSO wrote a special report about the ramifications.

This report describes, incidentally, how much the NGOs in Gaza help Hamas, and it makes clear that this is considered a desirable political goal.

Here's how NGOs in Gaza think - in their own words:

The presence of the international community in the Gaza Strip is vital to the stability of the de-facto government; over 60% of the Gazan population is food insecure, according to UN sources, and unemployment surpasses 50%; thus, a majority of the population is either partially or entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. The assistance provided by the international community, particularly by UNRWA and WFP. eases the burden on the de-facto government of managing the needs of its impoverished and dispossessed population, enabling the de-facto government to achieve a modicum of legitimacy.

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Hungry or not? Mainstream media's hypocrisy on Gaza

Elder of Ziyon
23 August '10

The mainstream media and NGOs were the the main purveyors of the myth of Gaza was suffering form a humanitarian crisis - a myth that goes back to the early 90s at the very least.

Since the Gaza Mall opened, we have seen on a few occasions the people who have made a living talking about how miserable life is in Gaza take a step back and re-frame their arguments. They cannot deny the truth, but they don't want to retroactively look like liars - which is what they effectively have been for nearly two decades.

So, one by one, they are reframing the Gaza meme to try to save face and make sure that people still blame Israel for Gaza's problems.

Gaza is still miserable, these newly-sophisticated and nuanced journalists are saying, but it is not because the Gazans are hungry, or poverty-stricken, or cannot get basic items. Forget all those thousands of articles over the years that we wrote, forget us uncritically quoting Jimmy Carter about how Gazans are "literally starving" or being "starved to death." No, the problems with Gaza are not so much physical but a state of mind, you see.

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(More) Homes in Gaza destroyed by Hamas

Al-Jazeera English
03 July '10

[Y. How many questions can you think of?

1) Where were the IHH, ISM, or for that matter any "Human Rights" activists to stand in front of the bulldozers?

2) Were these families members of Fatah or any other group other than Hamas, or just without Hamas protection?

3) How many times will Hamas use pictures of this neighborhood as evidence of Israeli destruction and war crimes?

4) If there is a shortage of building material to replace these homes, how is Hamas going to build their new complex on top of the rubble they created?]



In Gaza, around 20 families have had their homes demolished as part of a plan to regulate housing in the strip. The deposed government of Hamas says the houses were built illegally on government owned land and should be torn down.

But the families say they paid for the land.

Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports from Rafah, in southern Gaza.

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