Netanyahu’s target wasn’t Israeli Arabs, but foreign-funded NGOs | Evelyn Gordon

Netanyahu’s target wasn’t Israeli Arabs, but foreign-funded NGOs | Evelyn Gordon:

Great article by Ms. Gordon. The destructive and corrosive effect of foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) money on Israeli democracy and politics is well-documented. The injection into the US political system by foreigners of billions of dollars, generally tied to a partisan, left wing political agenda, would never be tolerated. And yet European and US government money floods into Israel every day for the same purpose.

As is usual with Western interference into Israel's affairs (or anyones's affairs, for that matter), it achieves the opposite effect than what is intended -- it drives Israel and the Palestinians further from peace.  Israelis are made to feel more embattled and more convinced that the Western world has a disproportionate share of anti-Semites and anti-Zionists hiding behind the Palestinian cause, intent on driving Israel into the Mediterranean, and it encourages and emboldens the Palestinians to be maximalist in their "negotiating" stance (if you can call it that at all), instead of compromising towards actually achieving a functioning Palestinian state.



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