In the parliamentary vote on Monday, the finance committee approved nearly $22 million for housing projects, and lawmakers said almost all the money was likely go to settlements, primarily in the West Bank.
The group is also calling on the U.S. government, Ben-Ami said, to "examine how it can eliminate funding" to Jewish settlements in the West Bank by taking a closer look at how government agencies provide funding to Israel and the way the IRS views donations going to settlements.
Mr. Kerkorian said at the end of the day: "We were told by counsel that if we call them, we would go to settlement talks.
Since most serious home buyers have already done the research to make sure they will not have to default, PMI can be just another expensive extra when responsible buyers go to settlement.
Most of the money it has received in settlements goes to pay pollution monitoring and "modeling" consultants and, of course, the lawyers.
Credit for final settlement goes to Mayor Wagner and his two advisers: Theodore H. Kheel, labor expert, and Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., the city's AFLCIO chief.
"If the settlements are illegitimate, the least you would expect is that the aid the United States gives to Israel would cut that part that is going to build settlements.
In the early days, "we would go to poor settlements, take a projector and show films to the working people," she said.
"These are controversial, and a lot of people advised me not to go to the settlements," he said "But I thought it was important for me to go because I needed to understand the movement.
Fingers go to pointing, settlements get paid and the issue is over.
Meanwhile Israelis have been forbidden to enter the West Bank unless they are going to Jewish settlements.
