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Old 12-21-2015, 07:08 PM
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US Tax Breaks Help Fund Israeli Settlements

Within five years, from 2009 to 2013, more than $220 million was sent across the ocean and into schools, synagogues and playgrounds dotting the hills of Judea and Samaria. Millions of tax-subsidized dollars have gone to Jewish settlements in Hebron, helping to sustain a grim reality in the segregated part of the city, where Palestinian movement is sharply restricted and their economic life has been suffocated.

Donations from the United States also were used to support families of Jews convicted in ideologically motivated violence against Palestinians. The spouse of Ami Popper, convicted of murdering seven Palestinians in 1990, received financial help from Honenu, an Israeli nonprofit that drew 20 percent of its income last year from U.S. donations.

The American donors to these groups are entitled to tax breaks on the money they give, and so this flow of funds means U.S. taxpayers are indirectly supporting a policy of settlement expansion opposed by the current administration and every other administration — Democratic and Republican — since Richard Nixon. In 2013, the organizations raised $73 million and doled out $54 million in grants. Initial data from 2014 suggest totals even higher.


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Old 12-21-2015, 07:36 PM
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Let's all watch Ike spin a positive light on this.
That's not the reaction I expect, actually.
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Old 12-21-2015, 08:12 PM
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Let's all watch Ike spin a positive light on this.
I doubt he'll even address it. He'll attack you instead.
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Old 12-21-2015, 08:20 PM
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I doubt he'll even address it. He'll attack you instead.
Almost right.
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Old 12-21-2015, 08:33 PM
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Almost right.
Charges of anti-Semitism flung like cheap Mardi Gras beads.
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And Iranian oil money funds Hamas - to effing bad the world can't keep their noses out
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Old 12-22-2015, 05:57 AM
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And Iranian oil money funds Hamas - to effing bad the world can't keep their noses out
I don't think you'd like the outcome if Iran were to cut Hamas loose and we were to do the same to Israel.
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Old 12-22-2015, 07:51 AM
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And Iranian oil money funds Hamas - to effing bad the world can't keep their noses out
So, you're comparing West Bank settlers to Hamas?
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So, you're comparing West Bank settlers to Hamas?
Not on purpose.
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Our government has an Israel fetish at the behest of American Jews and the Christian Evangelists who want Israeli Jews in place when they deliberately start WW3 to induce the 2nd Coming of a fictional character from their favorite fairytale.

Yes, it really is as insane as that. (IMO.)
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