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80, not only 45 [as reported Motaz too]. Maybe will be 100.

Georger Soros donate and supports Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International – groups that regularly chastise and criticize Israeli policies.

Most of the groups supported by Soros have been the targets of Netanyahu’s NGO law, passed a year ago, which mandates special reporting requirements for organizations that get most of their funding from foreign governments. The Israeli law specifically cracks down on donations from foreign governments – not individual foreigners or their foundations.

It’s somewhat of an improbable alliance. Jews overwhelmingly identify as Democrats. And as the Republican Party came to embrace a more populist brand of politics that vilifies “globalist” corporate interests and wealthy liberal businessmen like George Soros — something many see as coded antisemitism — Fox News hosts and guests promoted those views.

In a 2007 Financial Times op-ed, Soros chastised the Bush administration’s commitment to Israel, calling on the US and the Jewish state to work together with Hamas, whose forces killed more than 900 people across the Gaza border [2007].

A year after Hamas won an election to govern Gaza, Soros said it was wrong for the US to align itself with Israel in refuting the terrorist group’s authority and installing a blockade around the Palestinian territory.

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Hollywood podcaster "reporting" on Hamas & IDF from L.A. while real journalists like Plestia covering actual war. Yet podcasters narrative more--even as they blame "MEDIA" for real reporting.

“Israel, with strong US backing, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf,” Soros wrote, suggesting the move was a blunder that only caused Israeli-Palestinian relations to worsen. 

Yes, today Palestine - Israel is the worst ever. 6k - 6.5 Palestinian killed by Israel.

“If Israel had accepted the results of the election, that might have strengthened the more moderate political wing,” he added. “Unfortunately, the ideology of the ‘war on terror’ does not permit such subtle distinctions.” 

 Soros claimed it was necessary for the US and Israel to negotiate with Hamas, and to only engage in talks with those in the West Bank would be wrong.

“Defenders of the current policy argue that Israel cannot afford to negotiate from a position of weakness. But Israel’s position is unlikely to improve as long as it pursues its current course,” the liberal donor wrote.

Soros went on to cite the decades of violence that have engulfed Israel and Palestine, calling on Israel to forego future military action and for America to support that idea.

“Demonstrating military superiority is not sufficient as a policy for dealing with the Palestinian problem,” Soros wrote. “It would be tragic to miss out on that prospect because the Bush administration is mired in the ideology of the war on terror.”