Gambling with peace: how US bingo dollars are funding Israeli settlements

The Guardian by Chris McGreal | Jul. 20, 2009 (Special Report)
California charity 'a barrier to West Bank resolution'

For the winning punters chancing their luck at Hawaiian Gardens' charity bingo hall in the heart of one of California's poorest towns, the big prize is $500. The losers walk away with little more than an assurance that their dollars are destined for a good cause. But the real winners and losers live many thousands of miles away, where the profits from the nightly ritual of numbers-calling fund what critics describe as a form of ethnic cleansing by ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 19, 2009 - 2:27 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 21, 2009

The article lays out a clear case of U.S. ethnic bias in applying terrorism laws to Palestinians but not to zionists who send money to ethnic cleansing terrorists. A good reporting job.

Over the past 20 years, the bingo hall has funnelled tens of millions of dollars in to what its opponents — including rabbis serving the Hawaiian Gardens area — ... More »

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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Jul. 22, 2009
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 by eileen fleming - Jul. 27, 2009

This story is just ONE of many that need to be known in the USA.

On June 13, 2009, in Occupied East Jerusalem, I was embedded with over thirty USA CODE PINK activists and met with a few of the soon to be 1,500 homeless residents of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, located minutes away from the Temple Mount and the Al Aqsa Mosque, which is downtown Jerusalem. On June 8, 1998, under the cover of darkness, members of the fundamentalist nationalistic settlement group Elad [a Hebrew acronym for: To the City of David] entered four Palestinian ... More »

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