Labor MK hits back at massive increase in Settlement Division budget
*A Piece Prize should be established..lets see who will win.
Stav Shaffir exposes increase in division's budget from NIS 58 million to NIS 140 million in 2015, says taxypayer money used for political organizations.
Moran Azulay
Published: 11.10.14
The budget for the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division, which was already the subject of public scrutiny, was increased in the 2015 State Budget from NIS 58 million to NIS 140 million, according to Labor MK Stav Shaffir, who raised the issue at a State Control Committee meeting on Monday.
"It is simply absurd that in Israel in 2014 there is a body that receives hundreds of millions from the country and does not have to be accountable to anyone about what they are doing with this money," Shaffir said at the meeting.
"Taxpayer funds of the citizens of Israel that are directed to the division turn into political funds with the help of an extortionist lobby of the extreme right-wing," Shaffir continued. "And this fact does not concern the Finance Ministry, that not only does not put an end to the cash flow that has no supervision, it also gives them a treat."
The State Control Committee held a special meeting on Monday surrounding the exposure of budgets transferred to the Settlement Divison, and to the West Bank specifically - a subject that arouses agitation among left-wing politicians.
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First, he said, the Treasury Department should go after funding of actions prohibited under Israeli law, such as funding of illegal outposts in the West Bank. Then the department should deal with donations to groups like Ateret Cohanim. “I would welcome the Treasury Department also examining closely funding of activities that contravene U.S. policies,” he said.
But Ginsberg’s call to block tax-exempt donations to Israeli Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank has received a lukewarm response, even from dovish Jewish groups.
In an October 15 piece in The Huffington Post, Ginsberg argued that the Obama administration could block many such donations by simply enforcing existing IRS regulations.
In his piece, Ginsberg, who was an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy and a Middle East policy adviser to President Carter, urged the administration to “give a green light to its agency officials to begin turning the screws to these American subsidizers of Israel’s illegal settlement operations.”
But J Street, the dovish lobbying group, was noncommittal when asked to comment on Ginsberg’s proposal.
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Note the bullshit group, J Street..the alleged peace makers to counter AIPAC.
