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Question over Money Raised by Mike Evans for Olmert Charity Foundation
The money was raised on behalf of Israeli survivors of terror attacks, but apparently far less has been spent than was raised. According to the current director of the Foundation, this is because all needs have been met already. The Jewish Week acidly comments on this:
Evans has of recent months become a bitter critic of Olmert, and he has pledged to "do everything in my power" to wreck the Annapolis peace-process. Perhaps his prayers in this regard will be answered, but not in quite the way he had hoped.
Evans was profiled by Bill Berkowitz for Talk to Action a year ago; like John Hagee, he is a prominent advocate of attacking Iran. In the early days of this blog I noted his suggestion that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been struck dead by God for failing to support Zionism. The Jewish Week adds the incidental detail that Rev. Evans...had been strongly criticized for setting up a "Holocaust museum" that purported to give visitors the experience of being "herded into a boxcar [and] shocked beyond your wildest imagination as you find yourself right in the middle of a German concentration camp." The enterprise included appeals for financial support to proselytize Israeli Jews or, as Evans' fundraising literature puts it, "to share the message of God's love with every Jewish home in the entire nation of Israel."
Question over Money Raised by Mike Evans for Olmert Charity Foundation | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
Question over Money Raised by Mike Evans for Olmert Charity Foundation | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)
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