By Sarah Stern | February 4, 2022 | Published in JNS

Up on the Golan Heights with my family, I can see Mount Hermon and know that just on the other side of that sits the despotic, failed state of Syria. I am reminded of the days that the governments of the United States and Israel both believed that a lasting peace with Syria was attainable, if only Israel gave the Golan Heights to Syria. I cannot help but realize how tiny and fragile the land of Israel is, or how incredibly dangerous it can be to base foreign policy on hope and wishful thinking rather than on a sober assessment of reality.

But as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated, “We in the West make a great mistake when we transpose our values on the rest of the world.”

Not every leader actually wants peace and stability. Not every leader is a Jeffersonian democrat that must answer to his people. Not every leader actually has compassion for his own people—let alone for foreigners, especially if they happen to be Jews.

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She is the author of the widely cited “NGO Lawfare: Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” co-author of Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-finding, and co-editor of The Goldstone Report ‘Reconsidered’: A Critical Analysis and Filling in the Blanks: Documenting Missing Dimensions in UN and NGO Investigations of the Gaza Conflict.

Anne’s articles and op-eds have appeared in many publications, including the American Journal of International Law, Ha’aretz, the Jerusalem Post, YnetNews, and The Wall Street Journal.

Palestinian children are still forced to enlist and fight for armed terrorist groups such as Hamas, the Jihad and the PFLP." The focus of this year's campaign is to expose charities that allow the funneling of funds to NGOs with terror ties and thus leading to more child soldiers. One such example is DCI-P connection with CAF America.

Without funding, terrorist organizations could not recruit child soldiers. Charities have an integral role in funding and facilitating access to funding for terrorist organizations, intentionally or unintentionally. ​

CAF America must stop providing a financial platform to NGOs affiliated with terrorist groups exploiting Palestinian children. These organizations that profit from private money funneled through CAF America, exploit children for political purposes. CAF America provides, by association, a financial safe haven for "retired" PFLP, PIJ and Hamas terrorists. They are guilty by omission, affiliation and direct action in the incitement to violence, recruitment and training of Palestinian children for military purposes. ​

The financial contribution to these NGOs facilitated by CAF America, is an essential part in the upkeep of the brutal systemic use of Palestinian children by terrorist organizations in the Levant. Using children as combatants, terrorists, riot skirmishers, couriers, spies, lookouts, munitions smugglers, military laborers, as well as the militarized and radicalized education that facilitates recruitment has to STOP!