Pull the Jewish Agency’s US Tax Exemption, and the Settlement Problem Goes Away
by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 2 April 2010
President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton have been uncharacteristically frank about how illegal Israeli settlements obstruct prospects for Middle East peace. General Petraeus went even further, advising a reluctant Congress that Arab perceptions of one sided US support for Israel actually harms US national security and endangers troops. It is now time for President Obama to cut off hidden US funding — private and public — to illegal Israeli settlements.
Until the cut-off of this and other funding then tiresome hand-wringing over the “real or phony crisis” is daftness or complicity in motion.