Congressional “Partnership Fund for Peace”: Funding NGOs Not Peace - by Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Using international funds to stop Palestinian Arabs from engaging in terrorism is the standard western response to the conflict. One stark difference is that PFfP funds cannot be made available either to the Israeli government or to Hamas, the Palestinian Authority or the PLO. That’s good. But the primary source through which funding will be distributed is non-governmental organizations (NGOs): that’s not so good.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus..
Saracarter.com..
10 June '19..

What a name: “Partnership Fund for Peace.” What a goal: promoting peace in the Middle East. That should sum up legislation introduced in Congress last week. But what a waste, because the Fund, which will be given $250 million of U.S. taxpayer money for its first five years in existence, is nothing more than a retread of past Middle East projects, so many of which are already being funded and not one of which has moved the peace needle one inch forward.

The stated overarching goal of the bill’s sponsors is to “help create the necessary conditions on the ground to support an eventual two-state solution.”

The bill’s sponsors are Democrats Rep. Nita Lowey (NY) and Senators Tim Kaine (VA) and Chris Coons (DE) and Republicans Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) and Senators Cory Gardner (CO) and Lindsey Graham (SC). They claim the Fund is intended to promote economic health for Palestinian Arab companies and entrepreneurs, to improve the quality of life and stimulate the economy of Palestinian Arabs and to “further shared community building, peaceful coexistence, dialogue and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians by financing people-to-people peacebuilding programs.”

Using international funds to stop Palestinian Arabs from engaging in terrorism is the standard western response to the conflict. One stark difference is that PFfP funds cannot be made available either to the Israeli government or to Hamas, the Palestinian Authority or the PLO. That’s good. But the primary source through which funding will be distributed is non-governmental organizations (NGOs): that’s not so good.

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B’Tselem Tales and Truth: The NGO Definitely has a Problem - by Jonathan Slosser

It is like being in the twilight zone to look at B'Tselem's database and compare it to the Izz al-din al-Qassam Brigade website.

Jonathan Slosser..
Israel National News..
07 June '19..

This tale was taken from the B’Tselem Database and the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades website, Izz al-Din being the military wing of Hamas. It involves five “Qassamis” - five al-Qassam Brigades soldiers - and it is the English translation taken from each of their webpages that forms the factual basis for this tale, “Homebound”.

B’Tselem created the name and the ending.

Homebound

There were five Mujahid Qusamis, five Palestinians who had been engaged in battle, in jihad together when they died, five “Qusamis”, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades soldiers who were martyred together in a house by an F16. Their life stories varied slightly but they all had much in common, most significantly, the exact time and place of their deaths.

The cast of characters:

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Terrorists in Suits: New Study Reveals Extensive Links Between BDS and Terrorist Organizations - by Vijeta Uniyal

The boycott movement is part of the war on Israel: “Terrorist operatives assist NGOs in fundraising, share human resources and jointly promote public campaigns.”

Vijeta Uniyal..
Legal Insurrection..
04 February '19..

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a report titled Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organizations that shows operational and ideological ties between the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, and Palestinian terrorist organisations, including Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

According to the report, at least 30 active and “retired” terrorists were on the payrolls of BDS-linked NGOs. Some of these prominent terror figures cited in the report include Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, former Hamas “military” operative Muhammad Sawalha and convicted terrorist Shawan Jabarin.

Arab and Islamic terror organizations tied to the BDS Movement were “utilizing a network of NGOs promoting boycotts against Israel as an additional tactic in their ultimate goal of dismantling the State of Israel,” the report said.

“Terrorist organizations and the BDS campaign have united in their goal of dismantling the Jewish State, with the former viewing boycotts as an additional tactic to their armed attacks against Israel,” Minister of Strategic Affairs, Gilad Erdan, said referring to the findings of the report. “Following the exposure of the ties linking boycott organizations to the terrorist groups, I urge the governments of Europe to rethink the legitimacy and stop the funding they provide to Israel-boycott organizations.”

Legal Insurrection reviewed the 79-page report. Here are some of the key findings:

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