BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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The Geneva-based NGO known as COHRE has joined
BADIL in publishing a highly biased political attack against
Israel. BADIL's agenda and activities have been analyzed in
detail by NGO Monitor
www.ngo-monitor.org/archives/infofile.htm#badil and
COHRE's director, Scott Leckie, is a former staff member at
the PLO's Palestinian Negotiations Support Unit
www.displacement.net/Professional_profiles/Leckie/leckiepro
file.htm . The 2000-2002 biennial report states "COHRE and
BADIL are planning to jointly hire a lobbyist to co-ordinate a
campaign to change policies within various UN agencies and
States with regard to the right of Palestinian refugees to
repossess the properties confiscated by Israel since 1947."
(p. 61) This report is part of that political campaign.
COHRE's donors include The Body Shop, Ford
Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Germany), Canada
(CIDA), Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
(SIDA), United Kingdom (DFID), Smith Richardson
Foundation, UN-Habitat Programme, UNHCR,UNIFEM,
and the World Bank.
www.cohre.org/library/COHRE_Activity_report.pdf
The following item appeared in the mind-numbing Jerusalem
Post on May 18:
World Bank President James Wolfensohn agreed last week
in Washington, DC, to open a contact bureau in Israel, to be
operated by the Israel Export Institute, IEI director general
Yehiel Assia.
Now if the Gush Katif residents want to fight the plotters
against their lives and livelihoods, they would aim their forces
of protest against the hoodlum Shimon Peres, and his
cronies Yehiel Assia and Stanley Fischer.
And they had better start barricading their land and preparing
their properties to be razed to the ground the moment the
soldiers of doom find ways through the barricades. The