World Vision Update By Gary Bauer of American Values
We have reported on the news that funds from the Christian charity World Vision were being diverted to Hamas. The World Vision report has shocked and saddened a lot of people who have been longtime donors to the organization.
It is important to note that the funds in this case came from donor countries, including the U.S., Australia, Canada and some European nations. World Vision does a lot of good work in Africa and elsewhere. But the problem that has been unearthed in Gaza is not a minor matter. And World Vision is the tip of the iceberg in this scandal.
Groups that monitor non-governmental organizations have been warning for years that relief funds going into Gaza are often diverted from schools into terrorist organizations. The money is not used to feed Palestinian children, but the families of Hamas members.
Avi Dichter, an Israeli parliament member who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, warned during a recent interview that World Vision “is only a small example” of a much bigger problem. “The fact that the donating world, which is recruited to help refugees and the needy, doesn’t understand that its cash is being pumped for terror uses. . . it is a naive world to the point of being hideous,” Dichter said.
Proving his point, Israel arrested a U.N. aid worker in Gaza today who was using his position to assist Hamas’s terrorist operations.
We have already reported that U.S. tax dollars being sent to the Palestinian Authority were diverted to pay bonuses to the families of jihadists who killed Israelis and American citizens. U.S. law needs to be strengthened, and Americans who support any aid organization, particularly those operating in places like Gaza, run by Hamas, or Lebanon, run by Hezbollah, need to be very careful when making donation decisions.
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