A reader has pointed out to me that the neoconservative thinktank I wrote about last night, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is intimately connected to the illegal colonization of the West Bank. As I reported, Tony Gelbart–the board member listed in FDD’s 2005 report who is not listed on the website–is co-founder of Nefesh b’nefesh, whose mission is revitalize Zionism in the U.S. by getting more American Jews to move to Israel (too few are doing so now, the group says). The organization’s website shows that many of these emigrants are being directed to communities in the Occupied Territories, where they can have comfortable professional lives, they are assured.
This organization is a 501c3 "public charity," with tax benefits. New York Times columnist Bill Kristol is associated with this thinktank. Neocon=neocolonial. And as I wrote yesterday, even liberal American Jews have close connections to these apartheid-like projects. Why, when we are blowing up Muslim countries, isn’t this a scandal in the American press?
