Comments on: Yossi Alpher on NGO Monitor’s partisan agenda and hypocrisy http://coteret.com/2009/12/18/yossi-alpher-on-ngo-monitors-partisan-agenda-and-hypocrisy/ News, analysis and opinion from the Israeli Hebrew print and electronic media Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gabriel Glazer http://coteret.com/2009/12/18/yossi-alpher-on-ngo-monitors-partisan-agenda-and-hypocrisy/#comment-255 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:44:22 +0000 http://coteret.com/?p=895#comment-255 I think that Yossi Alper is correct in saying that NGO Monitor, under Gerald Steinberg’s tutelage, has an agenda that goes beyond mere overseeing of the
proper workings of other NGOs. It seems indisputable that NGOM has become partisan and unreliable,judging from the posture of its reports and analyses.

Having said this, the subject is not exhausted. I suggest that NGOM is not the
problem. The problem remains whether the bill drafted by H.K. Eitan has any policy merits worth discussing or should be rejected totally. Should ALL Amutoth be obliged by law to describe on their letter-heads which States help to support them? Would not this disclosure be good for the public to know? And if not, why not? Perhaps disclosure would inhibit open debate? Etc?

There appear to be public policy issues here which deserve serious attention and debate not least because of the importance of democracy in Israel and the need to strengthen it in the face of increasing pressures from the Right, including the Religious Right.

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