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Financing the flames: how tax-exempt and public money fuel a culture of confrontation and terror in Israel
This book pulls the cover off the robust use of US tax-exempt, tax-subsidized, and public monies to foment agitation, systematically destabilize the Israel Defense Forces, and finance terrorists in Israel. In a far-flung investigation in the United States, Israel and the West Bank, human-rights investigative reporter Edwin Black documents that it is actually the highly politicized human rights organizations and NGOs themselves all American taxpayer supported which are financing the flames that make peace in Israel difficult if not impossible. Black spotlights key charitable organizations such as the Ford Foundation, George Soros s Open Society Foundations, the New Israel Fund, and many others, as well as American taxpayers as a group. Instead of promoting peace and reconciliation between Arabs and Israelis, a variety of taxpayer-subsidized organizations have funded a culture where peace does not pay, but warfare and confrontation do. Ironically, several Jewish organizations, scooping up millions in tax-subsidized donations, stand at the forefront of the problem. At the same time, the author details at great length the laudable and helpful activities of such groups as the New Israel Fund; he chronicles a heartbreaking conflict between stated intent and true impact on the ground. In addition to documenting questionable 501(c)(3) activity, Black documents the direct relationship between taxpayer assistance to the Palestinian Authority and individuals engaged in terrorism against civilians. -- taken from Amazon.com
Divided loyalties: Canadian concepts of federation
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In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 89-89
ISSN: 0048-5950
Assured Mutual Survival: The ABM Solution
In: The Journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 141
ISSN: 0278-839X, 0193-5941
Politics on a Microchip
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 675-690
ISSN: 1744-9324
AbstactThe widespread adoption of mainframe computers by all levels of governments is a phenomenon that has been seriously neglected by political scientists. While a few isolated, popular issues have been noticed, little academic attention has been paid within the discipline to the effects of computers on our political institutions and processes. The development of a cadre of data processing specialists is introducing a new and powerful set of values into public decision-making. Interest groups and political parties are scrambling to adjust their mobilization strategies. The growing employment of arcane and often questionable decision models diminishes even further the public's already limited ability to monitor their governments' activities. As a discipline, political science has much to do if it is to meet these challenges to its understanding of governments and how they work.
Politics on a Microchip
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 675
ISSN: 0008-4239
Politics on a microchip [effects of computerization on government activities and policy; emphasis on Canada; address]
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 16, S. 675-690
ISSN: 0008-4239
The Economic Constitution of Federal StatesAlbert Breton and Anthony Scott Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978, pp. x, 166
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 622-623
ISSN: 1744-9324