Thursday, December 20, 2007

There is no moral equivalency between nailing a mezuzah to a doorway and launching a rocket attack against a school.

Oops!!! Peace Now may have done it again according to this Arutz Sheva:
(IsraelNN.com) The Peace Now movement is suspected of setting up a financial scam to mask the European sources of its funding for its reconnaissance work against Israeli Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.

The Non Profit Associations Registrar suspects Peace Now of operating a front organization for improper collection of funds, according to a report on Channel 2 TV by reporter Amit Segal. The radical left-wing Peace Now group allegedly used a non-profit organization (amuta) called Sha'al, which supposedly dealt with educational matters, to receive and disburse millions of shekels over a period of many years.

Some of the organization's donors were exposed in the course of the inquiry. They include the British government, which donated more that 500,000 shekels, Norway (800,000 shekels) and the European Union, which donated 451,000 shekels earmarked for Peace Now's ongoing "settlement hunting" activity: the documentation of construction activity by Jews in Judea and Samaria.

This is not the first time Peace Now has crossed the lines of legality. In 2004, journalist David Bedein revealed and later the Knesset Interior Committee confirmed that Peace Now had received a budget in the amount of 50,000 Euros from the government of Finland to conduct intelligence activities in Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan, Gaza and Jerusalem. The Israel Penal Code for Espionage was distributed to Knesset Interior Committees, with the third clause defining “photography of sensitive areas of Israel for any foreign power” as an act of espionage, punishable by ten years imprisonment if convicted.

It is not clear whether Segal's report was the result of a new investigative web site dedicated to researching and documenting the group's misdeeds. The Non Profit Associations Registrar summoned 'Peace Now' to a hearing and instructed them to reply to the allegations by December 31.

I cannot think of a more deserving ‘human rights’ organization for criminal persecution. Contrast this Peace Now faux outrage at the nailing of a mezuzah to a doorway entrance in Hebron (taken from the Jerusalem Post):
A mezuzah was affixed to a doorway of the entrance to the Casbah in Hebron by a military rabbi, several IDF soldiers and Chabad members, the Ynet web site revealed Thursday. In response, Peace Now has issued a statement condemning the event, "those who participated in this illegal political ceremony should be put to trial."

With their ongoing silence at a kassam attacks launched at a Sderot area schools. The kassam count for this month alone now stands at 165 rockets.

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