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Article: News: International: US set to cut Red Cross cash in row over Israel
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- May 7, 2000
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PRESSURE is growing on the US government to freeze some or all of
its $120 million ( pounds 77 million) annual contribution to the
International Red Cross in protest at the organisation's refusal to
admit Israel as a member.
The move, which would throw the Geneva-based humanitarian body
into disarray, reflects impatience within Congress at the 50-year
exclusion of the Magen David Adom (MDA) - the Israeli equivalent of
the Red Cross - from the international relief organisation.
Last week the House of Representatives approved a near-unanimous
resolution describing the MDA's exclusion as "an injustice of the
highest order", pointing out the scale of America's financial
contribution, and calling ...