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Israel’s war mongers elected with overseas campaign money

Friday, October 12, 2012 9:10
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Haaretz has a thought provoking story at their site today. Writer Chaim Levinson makes the case that the vast majority of campaign financing for Likud and their main coalition partners comes from the diaspora.

Netanyahu himself gets over 96% of his campaign donations from abroad.

Virtually all modern democratic states have strict limits about how much foreign money can be contributed to an election campaign. Not Israel.

When you think about it, it makes sense that the War Party would be financed from afar. Jews in Montreal and New York City don’t have the same kind of immediate interest in peace with the neighbors as those who live in Haifa or Tel Aviv.

Maybe it’s time to tighten up the campaign finance laws.



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