{"id":21168,"date":"2010-07-16T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2010-07-16T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:43:48","slug":"yisroel-pensack-germany-bans-turkey-based-gaza-flotilla-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21168","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: Germany Bans Turkey-Based Gaza Flotilla &#8220;Charity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried deep down in a story headlined, &#8220;Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey,&#8221; The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/16\/world\/middleeast\/16turkey.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Humanitarian Relief Foundation was founded in the early 1990s, first as a  charity for the poor in Istanbul, and later for Bosnian war victims. It works in  more than 100 countries&#8230;The charity has one branch in the West Bank and another in Gaza&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Germany banned the charity\u2019s offices, citing its support for  Hamas, which Germany considers a terrorist organization. Interior Minister  Thomas de Maizi\u00e8re said the charity abused donors\u2019 good intentions \u201cto support a  terrorist organization with money supposedly donated for charitable purposes.\u201d  The newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung said that from 2007 the charity collected $8.5  million and transferred money to six smaller organizations, two belonging  directly to Hamas and four with close ties to it.<\/p>\n<p>The charity called the ban a \u201cdisgrace\u201d and \u201cmisanthropic\u201d and said it would  challenge it in court.<\/p>\n<p>A June 21 letter signed by 87 United States senators urged the White House to  investigate whether the charity should be designated a foreign terrorist  organization. Israel has accused the charity of bolstering Hamas. It also says  the group has links to <a title=\"More articles about Al Qaeda.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/a\/al_qaeda\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Al  Qaeda<\/a> and has bought weapons, accusations the charity denies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried deep down in a story headlined, &#8220;Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey,&#8221; The New York Times reports: The Humanitarian Relief Foundation was founded in the early 1990s, first as a charity for the poor in Istanbul, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13633,139,37,16759,18818],"tags":[13993,22870,22394,22868,1172,22869,22871,22872],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-germany","category-islam","category-israel","category-turkey","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-al-qaeda","tag-banned","tag-flotilla","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-humanitarian-relief-foundation","tag-i-h-h","tag-terrorist-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21195,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions\/21195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}