Israel Matzav

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Haaretz claims that some right-wing organizations have decided that if the Left can take foreign funding for its NGO's, so can the Right. According to Haaretz, a group called the Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land has been handing out money to soldiers for refusing to evict Jews from their homes in Judea and Samaria.

The money has been coming from the United States. The Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land, the organization that offered every soldier refusing to evacuate a settlement, and the Kfir Brigade soldiers who publicly demonstrated their opposition to evacuation, NIS 1,000 for every day they spend in military prison, is a registered non-profit organization and has a license to operate.

The group receives donations from a U.S. based group that are tax exempt. No comment was available from the organization.

The Global Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land, established in 2003 and rising to fame during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip, melds positions of the extreme right wing and the messianic Hassidic Chabad sect. The group is headed by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, a Chabad Hassid of the messianic stream, who lives in Kiryat Gat. In recent years the group began offering monetary rewards to soldiers and civilians.

Among the rewards it has given was NIS 20,000 to each soldier who lifted a sign of "The Shimshon Battalion does not evict from Homesh" at the Western Wall a month ago, and gave NIS 1,800 to the soldier Tzach Kortz, who shot a terrorist in Kiryat Arba last week.

The IDF should have given a reward to the soldier who shot the terrorist.

As to the idea of this organization being funded from abroad, see above. If the Left can do it, so can the Right.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:53 PM