Posted on 05/29/2013 1:21:52 PM PDT by jocon307
A Wall Street Journal editorial notes the Obama administration gave special scrutiny to the tax-exempt status of certain pro-Israel organizations and cites a front-page, 5,000 word article in the New York Times published July 6, 2010 as a possible signal to the IRS:
“Why the special scrutiny for pro-Israel groups? A New York Times article in July 2010 provided a clue: Tax-exempt groups were donating to West Bank settlers, and State Department officials wanted the settlers out. ‘As the American government seeks to end the four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise and foster a Palestinian state in the West Bank,’ the Times wrote, ‘the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them.’
“Did the T-men take their political cues from such stories, or did Administration officials give them orders? Either explanation would be a violation of public trust.”
Let me provide another possible clue, found in the June 16, 2009 minutes of the Palestinian negotiating unit headed by Saeb Erekat–part of the Palestine Papers published by Al Jazeera in 2011.
At the June 16 meeting, Erekat said Benjamin Netanyahu’s June 14 Bar-Ilan speech had sought to put the Palestinians on the defensive. Netanyahu endorsed a two-state solution and stated that in the meantime, “we have no intention of building new settlements or of expropriating additional land for existing settlements,” but would “enable the residents to live normal lives.” He urged the Palestinians to engage in immediate negotiations, without preconditions. Erekat wanted to respond to the speech with a letter to the U.S. that would cite the number of individual housing units under construction. Dr. Mohammed Shtayyed made an additional suggestion to Erekat:
“We should also focus on the government incentives to settlers: loans without interest, land for free, agricultural subsidies in the Jordan valley. We can’t stop a pregnant lady from having a baby, but look at what we can do. We should look at the 501(c)(3) organizations in the States that make donations to settlers. Let the US administration investigate this.” [Emphasis added].
Shatayyed was wrong about Israeli government incentives, which had been terminated by Israel during the Bush administration, as part of a negotiated arrangement (detailed by Elliott Abrams in Tested by Zion) allowing new construction only within already built-up areas, which permitted normal growth without an increase in the Israeli “footprint” in the territories. Given our evolving knowledge of how the IRS operated under Obama, however, it seems possible the Palestinians followed through on Shtayyed’s other suggestion, asking the administration to investigate pro-Israeli groups.
It would have been at a time when the administration was already reneging on the previously negotiated arrangement with Israel; telling American Jewish leaders that daylight between the U.S. and Israel was an administration goal; and refusing to state whether it considered itself bound by Bush’s April 14, 2004 letter to Israel. Perhaps a Palestinian request to “investigate” 501(c)(3) entities found a welcome response at the highest levels of the U.S. government, even before the New York Times article appeared a year later.
Is there any serious question to this?
Why are Moslems exempt from ObamaCARE?
Why is the Moslem Brotherhood involved in
running the Pentagon and White House?
Why are US taxpayers paying for Mosque rebuilding worldwide,
and arming al Qaeda, and helping those who crucify,
rape and enslave from Egypt to Syria??????
Would surprise no one, least of all me.
Anything hussein can do to undermine Liberty, he will do.
No way. Obombast never EVEN HEARD of anything like this, ‘cept maybe in the newspapers, just like you and me! Remember?
Is there no part of anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Christian activities that this Muzzie thug will not do? This Republic has never, ever, had a president that treated our allies, or our own citizens like enemies like this piece of muzzie scum. I always thought FDR, Klinton, LBJ and Carter were the worse. But, this thug out does all of them added together.
One of the leftists’ favorite attempts at rebuttal is that “only” about 100 of about 300 groups targeted for special attention were Tea Party groups. The more complete truth is of course more damning — that many, if not all, of the other 200 groups targeted were pro-life groups, church groups, and pro-Israel groups.
I did another search today to see if the leftists have come up with any more than the four groups allegedly targeted in the same way the Tea Party groups were, and there’s nothing new.
ask his Saudi royal programmers
Oh yes, I agree. I hope our next president, of whichever party, at least LIKES American.
LOL, reading it at his “kitchen table” a la Eric Holder.
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