By Lee Fang
A pro-Israel activist group is quietly pushing lawmakers on
Capitol Hill and key officials in the White House to embrace a plan that
would entail paying Palestinian residents in the West Bank to move
abroad. The plan is a bid to reshape the ethnic and religious population
of territories controlled by Israel, according to the head of the
group, called the Alliance for Israel Advocacy.
If all goes according to the group’s plan, legislation will be
released in January, when the new Congress convenes, that will redirect
U.S. funds once dedicated to the United Nations for Palestinian
humanitarian assistance into a voucher program administered by the
Israeli government. A draft summary of the proposal states that the
money will help finance the permanent relocation of Palestinians from
the West Bank to countries such as Turkey, Sweden, the United Arab
Emirates, or the United States.
The effort is being championed by the Alliance for Israel Advocacy, a
lobbying group formed by the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America, a
nonprofit that represents Jews who have converted to Christianity but
who still practice some Jewish customs. The so-called Messianic Jews
broadly share many spiritual beliefs of modern born-again evangelicals.
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Source: The Intercept_
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