US NGOs sued over $280bn tax-deductible aid sent to Israel – reportاز سازمان های غیر دولتی آمریکا(ان جی او) شکایت کرده اند که بیش از 280 میلیارد دلار کمکهائی که شامل معافیت مالیاتی میباشند به اسرائیل فرستاده اند- گزارش
According to a report by Al Jazeera, the donations were "pass-throughs" to support the Israeli army and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories which had been ruled illegal by the UN. Susan Abulhawa, a prominent Palestinian-American writer and human rights activist, has reportedly put her name on the 73-page lawsuit.
The lawsuit reportedly claims that the grants sent over to Israel were filed as part of the US income tax regulations code 501(c)(3).
501(c)(3) stands for a nonprofit organization that has been recognized by the IRS (the US Internal Revenue Service) as being tax-exempt by virtue of its charitable programs.
میلیاردر صهیونیست آمریکائی شلدون ادلسون یکی از این افراد میباشد
Adelson [casino owner/promoter], 82, and several other pro-Israeli businessmen came to be named in the lawsuit as donors but not as defendants, Al Jazeera reported. [Adelson is the zionist billionaire who tried to deny his sneaky purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal: The days since have not gone well for the new ownership of Nevada’s largest newspaper. See this 2012 Rolling Stone piece: Why GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Is Mad, Bad and a Danger to the Republic He's unhinged, unscrupulous, and in the market for a president.]
The Treasury Department has reportedly declined to comment on the suit, saying the judicial process is ongoing.
Israel is the “largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance since World War II,” according to the latest congressional report on aid to the country.
To date, the United States has provided Israel as much as $124.3 billion in bilateral assistance. Almost all US bilateral aid to Israel is said to be “in the form of military assistance.”
In 2007, the Bush administration and the Israeli government agreed to a $30 billion, 10-year military aid package for the period from fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2018.
Israel allegedly made a request for its annual defense aid from Washington to be raised to as much as $5 billion after its current package (worth about $3 billion a year) expires in 2017, congressional sources told Reuters last month. It means Tel Aviv could get a total of $50 billion in military aid over 10 years.
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Thousands demand Facebook ban Israeli settlement ads
هزاران نفر تقاضای ممنوعیت تبلیغات برای شهرک سازی(غیر قانونی-م) اسرائیل از فیس بوک کرده اند
According to sources, Israel says it needs more money to counter threats that may allegedly arise as a result of the international agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
“It’s no secret the security environment in the Middle East has deteriorated in many areas and, as I’ve said repeatedly, the security of Israel is one of my top foreign policy priorities, and that has expressed itself not only in words but in deeds,” Barack Obama said during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month.
“I want to be very clear that we condemn in the strongest terms Palestinian violence against its and innocent Israeli citizens. And I want to repeat once again, it is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right, but the obligation to protect itself,” the US president added.
Benyamin Netanyahu thanked Obama for his “commitment to further bolstering Israel’s security.”
“Israel has shouldered a tremendous defense burden over the years and we have done it with the generous assistance of the United States of America,” he noted.
Earlier this month United Nations experts called for an end to the harassment of human right defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, calling the attacks - which include physical violence and death threats - “unacceptable.”
“Amidst a charged and violent atmosphere over past months in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestinian and international defenders are providing a ‘protective presence’ for Palestinians at risk of violence, and documenting human rights violations,”Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said.
In July 2014, in retaliation against Hamas rockets, Israel launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge.” It claimed the lives of some 2,251 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 72 Israelis, according to the UN.
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Hebrew Charter Schools Teach American Students to be ‘Representatives of Israel’مدارس شبانه روزی عبری زبان به دانش آموزان آمریکایی می آموزد که به 'نمایندگان اسرائیل' مبدل شوندby Drew Franklin on January 3, 2016
That’s how one group described a proposed Social Studies curriculum in its 2012 application for a charter from the D.C. Public Charter School Board, which cleared the way for their Hebrew language school to open its doors to elementary school-aged residents of Washington, D.C. the next year.
Gil Tamary profiled Sela Public Charter School for a story that aired in Israel on Channel 10 last April. In his report, Tamary expresses shock upon seeing a room full of kindergarteners—most of them black—singing and conversing with him in Hebrew.
After noting that the Israeli Declaration of Independence and a map of Israel adorn the bulletin board by the school’s front entrance, Tamary reports that “the majority of the students are from the nearby neighborhoods, from local families, most of whom are not very fortunate.”
Publicly available statistics for charter schools, mandated by D.C. law, show that 74% of students enrolled in Sela PCS last year were African-American.
In the District of Columbia, charter schools are given $3,000 in government funding per child, per school year, while maintaining the freedom to manage their own budget and curricula, according to the Public Charter School Board website. Tuition is free, and because state and federal law prohibits public schools from affiliating with any religion, Sela is open to all students who live in D.C., Jewish or not.
Channel 10’s broadcast shows Shira Ravin, then-Director of Hebrew Curriculum and Instruction, explaining Sela’s appeal to non-Jewish residents by claiming that “in Israel, they teach better,” and that “Israel showcases a culture of good education.”
But, Tamary later points out to her, the kids have no connection to the country apart from Sela. “You’re raising them to be representatives of Israel,” he says.
“Amazing. A wonderful idea. Exactly. Exactly!” answers Ravin. “You never know if these same kids, who are growing up in D.C., will be the next president of the United States or a member of Congress.”
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As previously reported in the Electronic Intifada, HCSC is financed by the hedge fund billionaire and Taglit-Birthright financier Michael Steinhardt, who in 2012 told Max Blumenthal, “There were no Palestinian people.”
The first Hebrew charter school to open in the U.S., the Hebrew Language Academy in New York, was founded in 1999 by Steinhardt’s daughter, HCSC board chair Sara Berman. In an editorial for the Spring 2011 issue of Contact, a journal published by the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, Berman says she envisions Hebrew charter school graduates growing into “a vanguard of understanding for Israel.”
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