One US family (owner of Duty Free America) responsible for half of Netanyahu's donations

[moderate libertarian]

Although hard to understand why any American would donate to a foreign politician who had said 9/11 was good for Israel but at least it's private business. Hopefully this news will cause Obama's masters and Congress to reconsider foreign aid going to welfare states around the world. I guess I'll never be shopping at "Duty Free America" again.



Published 00:24 16.01.12

One U.S. family is responsible for half of Netanyahu's donations
Owners of Duty Free America, a large chain of duty-free shops that operates in 13 airports, pledged half of NIS 330,000 Netanyahu raised.

By Ophir Bar-Zohar


Members of a single American family have donated half of the NIS 330,000 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised for his Likud party primary campaign in the past few weeks. Four members of the Falic family from Florida are responsible for contributing some NIS 165,000.

Of the nine donors that appear on the political contributions page on the state comptroller's website, seven gave over NIS 41,000 - very close to the maximum of NIS 43,280 that individuals are allowed to donate. Several of the donors have been mentioned in Channel 10's "Bibitours" investigative reports, according to which the prime minister may have allowed donors to finance his trips abroad, and allegedly billed a trip to two different sources.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/one-u-s-family-is-responsible-for-half-of-netanyahu-s-donations-1.407485

[Zippyjuan]

They should be free to do whatever they want with their own money.

For information sake, 165,000 NIS converts to about $43,000 US. (using calculator here; http://coinmill.com/ILS_USD.html ) The maximum per person (NIS 41,000) would be about $11,300 each. Not a really huge amount as far as politiclal contributions go.

And again, these were private, not government, contributions.

[moderate libertarian]

They should be free to do whatever they want with their own money.
For information sake, 165,000 NIS converts to about $43,000 US. (using calculator here; http://coinmill.com/ILS_USD.html ) The maximum per person (NIS 41,000) would be about $11,300 each. Not a really huge amount as far as politiclal contributions go.

And again, these were private, not government, contributions.

Fully agreed.

By the same principle, I'm free to boycott Duty Free America shops everywhere. Amount of money is one thing but as a matter of principle, I don't want to contribute even a single penny to a foreign regime indirectly that I perceive to engage in ethnic cleansing of occupied people and systemic racial extremism under the guise of religious fundamentalism.
I'll offer my fully candid view on parasitic nature of US foreign aid abuse by foreign welfare states after Florida Primary.