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Originally published 29 Mar 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Daniel Doron, ICSEP President
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ICSEP President Daniel Doron is interviewed by fellow Jerusalem Post contributor Ruthie Blum. One quip: “The wages of labor are a function of supply and demand, not of the size of the mustache of a union leader.”
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Is poverty here to stay?
Originally published 5 May 2005 in
The Jerusalem Post
A pack of media mavens, notably Ruth Sinai of Haaretz, savaged Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, claiming his adoption of the Irish model would result – and indeed has already resulted, they claim – in increased, rather than diminished, poverty. Definitely so, if you subscribe to the statistical nonsense that misrepresents the number of the poor by making it dependent on relative rather than real values.
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About deception and decency
Originally published 28 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Equality, freedom, democracy, justice, pluralism and other generalities at the New Israel Fund
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My previous column, “NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda” (14 August 2003) claimed that the New Israel’s Fund website misrepresented its Negev Beduin program as yet another civil rights initiative. I thought it was a calculated effort to radicalize the Beduin and provoke a confrontation between an erstwhile loyal community and Israel.
Through its Shatil executive arm the New Israel Fund has supported Beduin who break Israeli law by seizing strategic government land, apparently with Palestinian Authority help and encouragement. Shatil activists named this project “The Palestinian Project,” even though the Beduin are Israeli citizens, not Palestinian ones. In this way they try further to erode Beduin fealty to Israel and transfer it to the PA.
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NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda
Originally published 14 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
The New Israel Fund’s director, Eliezer Ya’ari, recently denied charges that his fund, and its Shatil subsidiary, are exploiting the single mothers’ protest to promote a radical leftist and anti-Zionist political agenda, and that they have patronizingly imposed the unelected Knafo group as “representative leadership.”
He insisted that the NIF is “an apolitical civic organization” assisting “social change” and human rights, providing a voice to weakened sectors. Ya’ari never defines what kind of “social change” the NIF promotes, but the fact that almost all of the many organizations Shatil has spawned among immigrants and “development-town” residents espouse a radical leftist ideology, while none are centrist or right, makes it clear.
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Poverty persists in Israel because the poor are manipulated
Originally published 31 Jul 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Shatil, established 1982 by the New Israel Fund
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It is now certain. The heart-rending march of Vikki Knafo and the single mothers’ protest were not spontaneous but an effort organized and manipulated by several bodies with a political ax to grind.
One of the chief organizers of the protest, Vered Bracha Steinberg, helped secure for Knafo tents and food from Meretz and from the Histadrut, and transportation from the Modi’in municipality. According to her these bodies, and above all Shatil, the crypto-Marxist executive arm of The New Israel Fund, recognized the political potential of Knafo’s protest, and proceeded to cynically exploit it. By its own admission, Shatil used Knafo to foment a ‘social revolution’ designed at least to undermine Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s economic reforms and perhaps even bring down Sharon’s government.
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