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Samantha Power, the USAID administrator, at a World Food Program warehouse in Amman, Jordan, being used to prepare aid for shipment to Gaza on Feb. 26, 2024.

Trump is only in power for a little over two weeks, and in addition to the amazing change in direction dealing with our enemies, his administration, thanks to Elon Musk, is already exposing so much corruption that has been part of the Federal government for years, especially from USAID. And wait until you hear about USAID’s disastrous impact on Israel!
For over a year, many Israelis have been grappling with a growing scandal: the realization that the so-called “grassroots” protest movements against the judicial reform before the war, that later miraculously, overnight, morphed into the hostage families protest movement, was not organic at all. Little by little, information was being exposed in Israel showing that it was organized and not grassroots at all.

Now, public records are now exposing how foreign funding—particularly from USAID, a U.S. government agency—was used to create internal division within Israel, ultimately emboldening Hamas and prolonging our suffering. This isn’t just an issue of political interference. This is a clear case of the Biden administration using American taxpayer money to orchestrate a color revolution aimed at toppling the Netanyahu government.

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One of the most shocking revelations involves the Israeli NGO ‘Blue and White Future’. Until 2023, it was largely an inactive association, barely making a ripple in Israel’s political landscape. Then, out of nowhere, something changed. The Kaplan judicial reform protest movement—billed as a grassroots uprising against judicial reform—emerged, bringing hundreds of thousands into the streets, week after week, in what looked like an extraordinarily well-funded and coordinated operation.

The question was: who was paying for it?

According to public records, in 2023 alone, approximately 160 million shekels (around $44 million) suddenly entered Blue and White Future’s bank account. Where did a previously dormant NGO suddenly get such enormous funds? The records show that in that same year, the organization received 14 million shekels (around $4 million) from USAID—an official agency of the U.S. government, controlled by the Biden administration.

This means that the Biden administration, through USAID, was funding and orchestrating the anti-government protest movement in Israel. What they sold as “Israeli democracy in action” was, in reality, a foreign-backed attempt to destabilize the government. Now we know exactly why Secretary of State Blinken made sure to meet the leaders of the protest movement on some of his visits to Israel!

Hamas itself admitted that Israel’s internal division—amplified and funded by these protests—was a major factor in its decision to attack on October 7th. In a speech after the massacre, senior Hamas official Ali Baraka explicitly stated that Hamas ‘watched the Kaplan protests and concluded that Israel was weak and distracted’, providing the perfect opportunity to strike.

In other words, this Biden-backed, USAID-funded protest movement directly encouraged Hamas to attack Israel.

And yet, the damage didn’t stop there.

After October 7th, the anti-government protest movement didn’t disappear. Instead, it morphed into the hostage families movement, using the suffering of our hostages as a weapon against the Israeli government. The same political operatives who ran the Kaplan protests quickly rebranded themselves, hijacking the anguish of families and turning them into a political tool to pressure Netanyahu into dangerous concessions under the slogan “Bring them home”.

Instead of demanding the **immediate and total defeat of Hamas**—which is the only way to ensure the return of our hostages—and pressuring Qatar, Iran, Egypt and international organizations, the movement blamed Netanyahu and his government, pushing for a “deal at any price”, leading to horrific hostage deal that emboldened Hamas and made future hostage-taking more likely. By organizing high-profile protests, sit-ins, and pressure campaigns—again, under the influence of U.S. funding—the movement signaled to Hamas that the longer they held out, the more they could extract from Israel.

This played directly into Hamas’ hands. Every time the pressure on Netanyahu increased, Hamas increased its demands, delaying the hostages’ release and putting Israeli soldiers and civilians at greater risk.

At the same time that USAID money was fueling anti-government protests in Israel, USAID funds were also going to Gaza, where they were propping up Hamas’ war machine. Under the guise of “humanitarian aid,” millions of dollars flowed into Gaza, keeping Hamas alive and enabling it to continue its war against Israel.

So let’s be clear: while USAID was funding protests that weakened Israel from within, it was also sending aid to Hamas, strengthening our enemy.

The pattern is undeniable. The Biden administration, through USAID and other channels, deliberately sought to destabilize Israel, weaken Netanyahu, and empower Hamas. This is not incompetence. This is policy. And this is only the tip of the iceberg of what USAID did to harm Israel.

The ultimate goal? To topple Netanyahu, and install a left-wing government that would be more compliant with Biden’s vision for Israel—one that would retreat from Judea and Samaria, negotiate with terrorists, and ultimately divide Jerusalem.

But thank God, Trump won the election.

With the Obama/Biden/Harris government now out, all of this anti-Israel activity by the Biden administration is being exposed.

This is just one of the many ways USAID was used to waste US taxpayer money.

Americans are waking up to the fact that their hard-earned taxpayer dollars were not being used for their benefit, but instead were funneled into foreign political movements to push the Democratic Party’s progressive and destructive agenda.

With President Trump back in charge, we can finally expect an end to this madness. No more American money will go to destabilizing Israel, funding anti-government protests, or keeping Hamas alive. Israel will be free to fight and win this war without interference, and Americans will no longer have their tax dollars wasted on the Democrats’ reckless foreign policy.
It’s time for Israel to sever its dependence on foreign funding, especially from sources that seek to undermine our sovereignty. USAID’s role in funding these protest movements and keeping Hamas alive must be investigated, and any Israeli organizations complicit in this scheme should be exposed.

The Jewish people have survived thousands of years of enemies trying to destroy us from the outside. We will not allow a foreign-backed political coup to succeed in weakening us from within. It is miraculous that Netanyahu succeeded against all this pressure.

With Biden gone and Trump back, it’s time to take back control of our destiny.


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Avi Abelow is a social media activist for Israel and the Jewish people, Editor of IsraelUnwired.com and the PulseofIsrael.com.