Where did the money come from? I know, silly question.
The money described here ($576,000) did not come from Obama or the Federal Government. It came from an org called the Ploughshares Fund which pushes the Obama line
The liberal Jewish group, which bills itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace" but which critics say takes solely anti-Israel stances, was paid the money by the White House's main surrogate organization for selling the deal.
The Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile of Obama aid Ben Rhodes,