The NGO funding debate. “Just the facts, maam”
FAQs on Foreign Government Funding for NGOs
| The Israeli public, media, government and Knesset (legislature) are conducting an intense debate on massive foreign government funding for highly political non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Important concerns regarding the manipulation of Israeli democracy by foreign governments through NGO funding, and the role of these groups in political advocacy and warfare, triggered this debate. Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor, was quoted in The New York Times (below) and JTA, and appeared on BBC Radio World News and IBA News to discuss these issues. Today’s Jerusalem Post editorial also referenced NGO Monitor’s research on foreign government funding to NGOs. To provide further clarity in this debate – which has become polarized and often distorted by misleading claims – NGO Monitor has prepared a background sheet of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). We have also compiled a detailed chart of... |
PLO Executive: Full Steam Ahead With Unilateral Track
This is good news. By rejecting land swaps, it is also rejecting the Arab Peace Initiative and Obama’s formula for negotiations. So we are back to Res 242 . It has also rejected the Roadmap which calls for negotiations. Ted Belman
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) announced Monday it would drop the “land swap” formula in negotiations with Israel.
Taysir Khalid of the PLO Executive Committee and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror organizations told Gulf News the land-swap formula was “mere talk” by Israelis and international mediators.
“We have never signed an agreement with Israel which agrees to the land swap formula,” he added. “The land swap formula is hearsay in the negotiation track.”
PA negotiators, Khalid said, must reach an agreement on borders and arrange for the withdrawal of Israeli troops – as well as settling other final status issues – before any...
M.E. truth telling by unlikely sources
By Ted Belman
What follows is an except of an Op-Ed from the National Post by the former publisher of the Jerusalem Post and now American felon serving crime in prison for dubious crimes, Conrad Black.
When former Israeli premier Ehud Barak conceded almost everything PLO leader Yasser Arafat was seeking at Camp David in 2000, Arafat demanded the right of six million Palestinian refugees and (mostly) their descendants to “return” to Israel and thereby swamp the state’s Jewish population. For good...
The End of the ‘Peace Process’ Era
The PA announced today that it is abandoning swaps and negotiations. That means it has formally abandon Oslo and the Roadmap both of which require negotiations. We are back to Res 242.
Khalid also admitted the PA has no interest in reaching a bilateral agreement with Israel – that is, peace – and plans to continue on its current unilateral track.
If this doesn’t mean the end of Oslo, nothing will. When is Netanyahu finally going to pull the plug. Its time to also undo the PA by disavowing all agreements with them.
By Ted Belman
The Palestinian/Israeli conflict has entered a new era. Since the UNSC passed Res 242, it had been focused on the “peace process,” which included the Madrid Conference, the Oslo Accords, The Roadmap, Annapolis and finally Obama’s heavy handed attempts to impose a solution.
One of the reasons that Obama couldn’t get the PA to negotiate after three years of trying is that it was laying the ground work to go another path, a path...
Ramifications of dissolving the Palestinian Authority
None of the opinions below argue that Israel would come out a winner which is my position. Ted Belman
For Obama, Erdogan can do no wrong
Who is Obama’s Favorite Middle East Leader? An Anti-American Radical Who Loathes America and Israel
By Barry Rubin, PC MEDIA
As Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay put it, “The United States and Turkey are on a honeymoon, with President Obama and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan having formed what is probably the best relationship between a U.S. president and a Turkish prime minister in decades…. Obama and Erdogan seem to have really hit it off…. The two leaders speak often… and frequently agree on policy.”
I would also stress that Erdogan is Obama’s tutor on Middle East affairs:
–When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Obama Administration officials claim that Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood are really moderate and will be further moderated by being in power, the only example provided was...
Iran Signals Its Readiness for a Final Confrontation
Since the publication of the November 2011 IAEA report, which explicitly spotlights Iran’s plans to build nuclear weapons, senior figures of the Iranian regime and the state-run media have begun to use threatening, defiant, and sometimes contemptuous language toward Israel and the United States.
From Iran’s standpoint, an ongoing, head-on confrontation with the U.S. and Israel would serve its purposes in the region and build its image as a key actor that stands firm against the West and provides an alternative agenda to reshape the Middle East. Hence, compromise has almost ceased to be an option for Iran.
The current round of the conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel over Iran’s (military) nuclear program should be seen in a much wider context, one that centers on shaping a new landscape in the Middle East. Iran views itself as “the next big thing” in the region and behaves...
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