Probe of leftist NGOs sunk after PM lifts party discipline on vote

[LeftishBrit]

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/probe-of-leftist-ngos-sunk-after-pm-lifts-party-discipline-on-vote-1.344869

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has freed his Likud Party colleagues to vote their consciences on two proposals to set up Knesset investigative committees examining the activities and funding sources of certain left-wing Israeli organizations. The withdrawal of Likud support for the bills has all but ended their chances of being passed.

The idea for one of the probes had been promoted by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the Yisrael Beiteinu Party. That bill proposed examining the role of non-governmental organizations in delegitimizing the Israel Defense Forces and would probe their funding sources.

The other bill had been proposed by Likud MK Danny Danon and would have looked into the role of foreign governments in funding these groups and buying land in Israel.

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Yisrael Beiteinu then immediately asked for the vote to be postponed, when Lieberman saw that he would have difficulty mustering a majority without solid Likud support.

It now appears the vote on the matter will be shelved.


(One bit of good news!)