American taxpayers give Israel $7 million every day of the year in aid—and the Israeli government uses a large amount of this cash to build illegal housing settlements in the occupied West bank, in flagrant contravention of international law and human rights.
The huge amount spent by the Zionist extremists on building illegal housing settlements has come to light with the complaint by leftist Zionist Talia Sasso (recently chosen to represent the New Movement-Meretz Party in an election for the Israeli Knesset) that “Israel spends money on settlements in the West Bank that it could use for housing for the poor” in that country.
“Israel shouldn’t waste its money in the West Bank,” she told the RT news service. “When the government is talking about the West Bank the economic problems vanish.”
Sasson strongly criticized the findings of the new Levy report, released in July, which argues that the West Bank is not under occupation and that the Israeli settlements are legal under international law. The report seeks state approval for the still-unauthorized Jewish settlements. The Levy report’s conclusions are contradicted by 45 years of Israeli Supreme Court rulings, Sasson argued.
Sasson’s 2005 report stated that the Israeli government had been diverting money to build West Bank settlements and outposts that were illegal under Israeli law.
In response to a question from RT as follows; “One of the issues of the social protests is public housing. Couldn’t the money that is being used to fund illegal settlements help resolve this issue?”, Sasson answered as follows: “ Of course, I agree with you one-hundred percent. Israel shouldn’t waste its money in the West Bank anyhow, even if every person, every soul in Israel had a house. But of course, when we have such a big problem of public housing for poor people, then we could make use of this money to better the lives of Israelis inside Israel.”
In other words, the Zionist extremists in Israel have actually prioritized the building of illegal Jewish settlements in the Palestine over anything else—and to add to the chutzpah, they are getting American taxpayers to pay for it!
