World Vision is a Christian charity on an anti-Israel mission.
This can clearly be seen in its
fraudulently biased website description of Israel and what they call the West
Bank, properly known as Judea & Samaria.
They claim that the unemployment and poverty rate of
Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza is apportioned to Israeli wrong-doing. Surely
a large proportion of the blame must be directed at the corrupt and violent
political overlords, namely the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
Not according to World Vision
who point an accusing finger only against the Jewish state. They write that
“children experience harassment and violence from soldiers and settlers." The
lack of adequate educational facilities is not due to Hamas using schools to
store rockets or to aim them at Israeli civilians but, according to World
Vision, it is due to demolitions. They do not mention which schools, if any,
have been demolished by Israel.
World Vision also make mention of
long commutes to school due to what they call “settler bypass roads.” These bypass roads have been constructed so
that Jews living in Judea & Samaria can detour away from the Arab towns and
villages that harbor the terrorists that assault and kill Israelis, including
women, and children, on a daily basis.
They refer to checkpoints, road
blocks and a security barrier (they call it a “separation wall”) without
mentioning the reason they are there in the first place. Their explanation is that they are there
simply to “impede and restrict movement within the Palestinian territory.”
No mention on their website
page about the decades old violence perpetrated against Israelis by the people
they are funding that has resulted in checkpoints and other essential security
measures.
Neither have World Vision
anything to say about Gazan children spending their summers attending military
and terror training camps. Many are recruited to dig terror tunnels for Hamas.
We now know, due to the recent
revelations coming out of Israel, that World Vision has been funding the
military wing of Hamas, known to most of the world as a terrorist
organization.
This came about with the arrest of Mohammad El-Halabi, a senior figure in the Hamas terror organization, who is the Director of Operations for World Vision in the Gaza Strip.
This came about with the arrest of Mohammad El-Halabi, a senior figure in the Hamas terror organization, who is the Director of Operations for World Vision in the Gaza Strip.
World Vision is one of the world’s
biggest charities with an annual budget of three billion dollars. It includes
Justin Bieber, Scarlett Johansson and Bill Clinton among its celebrity donors. It also receives funding from foreign
governments and claims stringent oversight and transparency, but it took the
Shin Bet, Israel’s top security and intelligence service, to break into the
organization and arrest its key employer.
Mohammad El-Halabi, a lifelong
Hamas member in Gaza joined World Vision in 2005 and rose to the position of
its director with total control over its budget and allocation. This included
putting terrorists on its payroll and issuing tenders for fictitious humanitarian
projects. He also transferred construction equipment and building material to Hamas
which went to build terror bases and tunnels that reached into Israel for the
purpose of terror attacks like the ones we saw during the 2014 Hamas terror war
against Israel.
A Shin Bet official said that the
humanitarian aid went almost exclusively to Hamas terrorists and their families
and not to the non-terror associated residents of the Gaza Strip.
El-Halibi was arrested on June 15
and was held for fifty days before Israel announced the indictment against him
on Thursday August 4th.
Shurat HaDin, the Israel law center, has been warning World Vision for years that their money was being used for terrorist activities. They were rebuffed by the Christian aid organization.
In 2012, Shurat HaDin informed the Australian government that its aid money, administered by World Vision, was being diverted into front organizations of Hamas. Both the Australian government and World Vision rebuffed the warnings.
Then, in 2015, Shurat HaDin warned that World Vision was acting as a arm of the PLFP and other terror groups. World Vision's chief executive, Tim Costello, denied the charge.
With the arrest of El-Halabi and the evidence collated by Israel's Shin Bet, World Vision's denials are no longer valid and we have to look deeply into the motivations of this organization to concentrate its donations into the coffers of Hamas.
As Shurat HaDin's president, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said, "For years we have been warning that World Vision is funding Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. World Vision had repeatedly denied our charges and refused to seriously investigate where its funds are going. They assured us that the organizations they fund have been vetted and were not engaged in terrorism. Who knows how many of Hamas's missiles and stabbing attacks were funded by World Vision after they were put on notice that they were financing Palestinian terror. The assistance to Gaza by foreign aid organizations is directly responsible for the murder of scores of Jews in Israel."
Shurat HaDin, the Israel law center, has been warning World Vision for years that their money was being used for terrorist activities. They were rebuffed by the Christian aid organization.
In 2012, Shurat HaDin informed the Australian government that its aid money, administered by World Vision, was being diverted into front organizations of Hamas. Both the Australian government and World Vision rebuffed the warnings.
Then, in 2015, Shurat HaDin warned that World Vision was acting as a arm of the PLFP and other terror groups. World Vision's chief executive, Tim Costello, denied the charge.
With the arrest of El-Halabi and the evidence collated by Israel's Shin Bet, World Vision's denials are no longer valid and we have to look deeply into the motivations of this organization to concentrate its donations into the coffers of Hamas.
As Shurat HaDin's president, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said, "For years we have been warning that World Vision is funding Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. World Vision had repeatedly denied our charges and refused to seriously investigate where its funds are going. They assured us that the organizations they fund have been vetted and were not engaged in terrorism. Who knows how many of Hamas's missiles and stabbing attacks were funded by World Vision after they were put on notice that they were financing Palestinian terror. The assistance to Gaza by foreign aid organizations is directly responsible for the murder of scores of Jews in Israel."
World Vision continues to protest
his innocence and their ignorance. They believe the falsehoods
against Israel that appear on their official website, yet they claim to have no
reason to believe the true identity of their Gaza director, or the “allegations” of vast amounts of their donors money
falling into the hands of killers of Israelis by the real oppressors of the
residents of the Gaza Strip.
However,
the Shin Bet has been giving a detailed account of where charity money ended
up.
As an example, $80,000 received
from British donors went to construct a terror base in Gaza called “Palestine,”
and salaries to the terrorists who worked at this base also came out of this
money.
Money was used to buy weapons for
terror groups in the Sinai while Mohammed Morsi was in power in Egypt.
The disguise of emotion-laden
imagery of poor Palestinian children is used to hide what is really at play in
Gaza. It was highlighted by the Shin Bet claim that funds supposedly going to help
injured children actually went to Hamas members who falsely listed their children as
wounded.
Evidence will show that Hamas
diverted millions of dollars for terror purposes. World Vision claims to pump
$12 million annually into Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank. None goes to
Jewish children in need or to Israeli Arab children in need.
Keeping up their defense of
Hamas, World Vision said they would “continue to call for a fair legal
process for Mohammed.”
World Vision is headquartered in
Monrovia in California and describes itself as “a global Christian relief,
development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families
and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.”
Can someone explain to me what is Christian about helping Islamic terrorists improve their deadly potential to kill Jews except, perhaps, by them adopting the replacement theology that requires them to side with, and support, any enemy of the Jewish people?
It also claims that it is “an
international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human
transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom
of God.”
I would like someone to explain how pumping millions of dollars of good Christian money to the radical
Islamic terror regime of Hamas, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood,
whose history is replete with oppressing the people of Gaza and killing all
opposition to its stranglehold and whose founding charter expresses their
desire for a global Islamic Caliphate and for the murder of Jews, advances the
aims of World Vision.
Unless proven otherwise, it seems
to me that World Vision has been so blind to the injustice done to the Jewish
state by Hamas and Palestinian terror that it is deliberately myopic to
the massive misuse of money that has been eagerly used by Hamas in their vain
attempt to attack Israel and kill Jews.
Either Hamas has exploited World
Vision, or World Vision has exploited its global donors. There is no other
explanation for what has been exposed.
Truth be told, the fund-raising appeal
that appears on World Vision’s official website, so full of anti-Israel false
statements, make me feel that the former is true, unless they can convince me
otherwise.
As I write this report, Australia
and Germany have suspended their funding to World Vision for spending on
Palestinian causes. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the
United States.
I hope we will hear that the US Administration and all Americans
will refuse to donate to World Vision until they put their house in order and
return to their original Christian charitable roots.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at
the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
He is also the author of the book ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS and
Anti-Semitism.’
https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Hamas-BDS-Anti-Semitism-violence/dp/1508595534/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470584364&sr=1-1&keywords=fighting+hamas+bds+and+anti-semitism
Even if (IF!) World Vision were simply woefully ignorant of where millions of dollars of the money was going - then wouldn't you say that this is an organisation you would not want to donate to?
ReplyDeleteThey "don't know" where the generously donated funds finish up???? The poor and needy who should have benefited from this money were deprived of it - and we should forgive them for "not knowing"? Sadly we all know that an enormous proportion of money given to charity gets swallowed up in administration costs. Are we now to add on the enormous sums lost to "don't know ... can't account for ... oops!" ???
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For me, this information is worse than the stories of iswas murders of the innocents, as the funders are followers of JESUSCHRIST, as I am. No more money for terror. Bottom line.
ReplyDeleteis it just money that was donated to Palestinian kids, or do our kids in South America get their money chipped from, for Palestine?
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