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The Palestinian Charity Trap
(Wall Street Journal) Gerald M. Steinberg - For years, World Vision promoted the Palestinian cause, developed alliances and provided funds to some of the NGOs active in demonizing Israel and promoting boycotts. In publications designed to bring in donations, the brutality of Palestinian terrorism is erased while images of victimization are highlighted. Palestinian corruption is whitewashed, as is the fact that Israel has been out of Gaza for more than a decade. World Vision's troubles in Gaza reflect the broader moral failures of the humanitarian-aid industry. The narrow vision of aid workers contributes to a willful blindness to terrorism. The competition for publicity and donations results in alliances with brutal regimes and corrupt warlords. The writer is professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor.