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Trump son-in-law's family gave money to illegal West Bank settlements

Kushner family foundation has given tens of thousand of dollars to Israeli organisations that represent West Bank settlements

The parents of Donald Trump's son-in-law have given tens of thousands of dollars to groups in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a Haaretz report on Monday.

Tax forms from 2010-2014 on Jared Kushner’s parents show that their fund – the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation – gave $20,000 to the group American Friends in Beit El Yeshive, an organisation that supports programmes in the arch-conservative settlement of Beit El.

Jared Kushner sits on the board of his parents’ foundation.

Haaretz reported in 2009 that Beit El was built on private Palestinian land without approval. In a Peace Now report, 96.85 percent of Beit El’s land is Palestinian property.

The president of the American Friends in Beit El Yeshive is David Friedman, who advised Trump on foreign policy towards Israel and Palestine. Friedman also works as Trump’s real estate lawyer.

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Re: Trump son-in-law's family gave money to illegal West Bank settlements
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2016, 04:58:24 pm »
hah hah That article is suspect and the so-called "facts" therefore are highly questionable in many regards.

The sole director of M.E.E. Ltd is Jamal Bassasso who was a former director of planning and human resources at Al Jazeera. Note that the caption of the photo in the sourced article mentions only that Trump's wife is Jewish, as if that is the most important thing about them. 

Anti-Semites much?

Middle East Eye editor is David Hearst a far-leftist, former employee of the arch-leftist Guardian.

That being said, the term "illegal" is interesting. Since Palestine is not a nation and any authority they may have derives from the Israeli government which administrates the territory wholly, exactly how does one ascertain that the settlements are illegal?

Maybe the author of the article just happened to leave out the words, "in our opinion" before the word "illegal"?
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Re: Trump son-in-law's family gave money to illegal West Bank settlements
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2016, 05:03:51 pm »
hah hah That article is suspect and the so-called "facts" therefore are highly questionable in many regards.

The sole director of M.E.E. Ltd is Jamal Bassasso who was a former director of planning and human resources at Al Jazeera. Note that the caption of the photo in the sourced article mentions only that Trump's wife is Jewish, as if that is the most important thing about them. 

Anti-Semites much?

Middle East Eye editor is David Hearst a far-leftist, former employee of the arch-leftist Guardian.

That being said, the term "illegal" is interesting. Since Palestine is not a nation and any authority they may have derives from the Israeli government which administrates the territory wholly, exactly how does one ascertain that the settlements are illegal?

Maybe the author of the article just happened to leave out the words, "in our opinion" before the word "illegal"?

I took a little look around at MEE. It is a pro-Palestinian cite with loads of Israel hate articles. 

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Re: Trump son-in-law's family gave money to illegal West Bank settlements
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2016, 05:04:56 pm »
Wait, is TomSea going NeverTrump?


Confused here...  :shrug:

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Re: Trump son-in-law's family gave money to illegal West Bank settlements
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2016, 05:08:44 pm »
Wait, is TomSea going NeverTrump?


Confused here...  :shrug:

First he loses Coulter. Now Tom. This is a big development.