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July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Israel, Palestine, Policy

The evidence of US government support for Israeli policies that it publicly opposes continues to mount.

While we throw people in jail for collecting money to assist organizations deemed terrorist, we give tax deductions to those who donate to fund illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. See the article below from Der Spiegel.

Separately, if you want to learn about how we got to the present situation Cialis Professional and to see beyond the myths that populate the public discussion, I highly recommend Palestine, Israel, levitra buy cialis tablets brand vs generic and the lasix to buy US Empire, by Richard Becker.

I heard an hour radio talk by Mr.

Becker, and I learned more than I could have believed about the history of the Middle East and the various nefarious political deals that led to the current situation. Mr. Becker must have devoted his life to learning about this history and spreading the truth to counter all of the lies that many of us have accepted as truth.

 

Making a Mockery of the Moratorium

US Cash for Israeli Settlements

By Gregor Peter buy generic levitra Schmitz and Christoph Schult

Der Spiegel
07/23/2010

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Settlers are receiving contributions from American foundations that enjoy tax breaks, including Christian groups that see Biblical prophecies being fulfilled.

A gray pick-up truck speeds up to the metal gate viagra sales at Cialis Professional the entrance to Shilo, a Jewish settlement halfway between the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Nablus and which is home to 2,500 people.

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Dror Etkes, 41, puts on sunglasses and a blue cap. He is hoping not to be recognized. Settlers in the West Bank consider Etkes, who has spent more than nine years making note of every new house built in the more than 120 Israeli settlements here, their number one enemy. A settlers’ newspaper once printed his picture with the caption "Dror Etkes, head of the peace movement’s intelligence Cialis Jelly service."

So Etkes employs various tricks to gain admittance to the settlements. Nearly every one of them, for example, contains a minimarket.

When the guard where can buy viagra at the Shilo gate asks where he’s headed, Etkes replies, looking bored, "To the minimarket." The guard believes him and opens the metal gate.

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‘A Bad Joke’

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Just a Levitra Professional couple hundred meters on, Brand Levitra Etkes finds what he’s looking for — a "For purchase levitra online Sale" sign advertising "10 family homes." From the top of a hill, Etkes watches Palestinian workers who are using wooden slats to prepare a framework for concrete. "The foundations are from December," Etkes Brand Viagra states knowledgeably and clicks his camera amoxil buy shutter button.

Now Etkes has further proof that there has not in fact been a "freeze" on settlement building since best viagra online November, as buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra Israeli Prime Minister buy cialis pill Benjamin Netanyahu would have the world believe. In any case, the Israeli cabinet also made exceptions in the moratorium for public buildings such as synagogues and preschools, as well as allowing private homes already under diflucan buy construction to be completed.

The settlers’ administration of Samaria in the northern part of the West Bank thus issued permits 0nline pharmacy for 1,600 housing units — nearly 10 times as many as in the levofloxacin buy proscar previous year — before the moratorium began.

Etkes’ latest research shows that settlers have also buy kamagra begun new construction projects since the moratorium took effect. At least 46 of the 120 official settlements are currently carrying out construction, the left-wing activist says. "Talking about a moratorium is just a bad joke."

Praising Netanyahu’s Restraint

US President Barack Obama, on the other hand, praised Netanyahu for his "restraint" on the settlement Buy zoloft online question during the Israeli prime minister’s visit to Washington two weeks ago. That comment struck Palestinian leaders in Ramallah as buy amoxil online mockery, especially as it emerged around the same time that many of the settlements have the American tax system to thank for their development.

According to research by the New York Times, pro-settler groups have raised over $200 million (€155 million) in the last 10 years. Such foundations in the United States can be exempted from taxes as long as they benefit "educational, buy amoxicillin religious or charitable" causes.

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This raises some important can you buy viagra in stores questions. Do foundations deserve Order Generic Cialis Online without Prescription tax breaks even while pursuing clear foreign policy aim

s? And what happens when their aims run contrary to those of the US government

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Representatives of the foundations in question offer placating words. purchase viagra online | where to buy cialis | order online levitra Sondra Baras from Christian Friends of Israel Communities (CFOIC), for example, says that her organization "does not have a political agenda." The organization, which is based in Colorado Springs,

is tax exempt. "CFOIC does not advocate any particular political solution to the problems in the Middle East," she told SPIEGEL.

"The support is ideological and Biblical in nature, not political."

‘Humanitarian in Nature’

Steven Orlow, president of the One Israel Fund, another tax-exempted pro-settler group buy viagra online discount based buy cytotec generic in Hewlett, New York, makes similar comments.

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"The activities of the One Israel Fund are exclusively limited to affecting ‘quality of life’ issues, the primary stress being on preventing the loss of Jewish life," he says. "The perception from our side of the Atlantic is that Europeans may well find the effort to save Jewish lives as political.

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In reality, though, these foundations are unwilling to condone a separate state for Palestinians.

"CFOIC does not have a political agenda, but it does support the right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel," Baras says. "For thousands of years, this land has been called the Land of Israel and the Jewish people are the only people on this earth who have ampicillin online prayed and yearned for centuries to return to this land."

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