Giladi's confict of interest - - - - by Duane

I found this great article exposing Eival Giladi, the man in charge of the Disengagement, and his personal business interests in the Palestinian development in Gaza.

Eival Giladi maintains a personal business stake in the Palestinian economy, with an obvious conflict of interest that may interfere with his performance as an official of the office of the Prime Minister of Israel

As head of the coordination and strategy team in the Prime Minister's Office, HaArtez on June 4th, 2005 described Giladi as "one of the architects of the disengagement plan. Giladi is the thinking man in the Sharon administration, the behind-the-scenes advisor to the advisor and ultimate mystery emissary, Dov Weissglass"

Giladi, meanwhile, has found a way to supplement the meager income of an Israeli civil servant.

Giladi has been named as the pioneer of a business venture for Palestinians in Gaza: The Portland Trust.

Giladi has been placed in charge of the Portland Trust's $500 million business development fund, which would help Palestinians moved 150,000 housing units in place of the Katif homes and farms that Giladi is about to destroy.
Katif farming communities produce $62 million in export of food products for the state of Israel per annum.

In other words, Giladi maintains a clear personal and financial business stake in the decimation of the thriving Jewish communities of Katif.

It will be instructive to see if the Israeli Attorney General, the Israel State Comptroller and the Israel Civil Service Commission take any action to question the role of Eival Giladi in the planning and the execution of the Prime Minister's policy, which has been described as a "disengagement plan".

Israel's mainstream media outlets have publicized Giladi's direct personal financial stake in this process.None of the media in Israel have called into question the clear conflict of interest.

How can this be allowed to happen?