Watch what happens here, because most people have absolutely no idea what these residents are protesting. Palm Beach County has invested $1 BILLION of public money in bonds issued by the State of Israel, making the county, by its own account, the largest investor in Israel Bonds anywhere in the world. These are not shares in an Israeli company. They are sovereign debt obligations of the Israeli government. Palm Beach County hands money to the State of Israel, Israel uses that financing for its general governmental purposes, and promises to repay the county with interest. And this was not some tiny diversification play buried in a pension fund. County officials repeatedly increased the permitted concentration in Israeli government debt, eventually allowing it to reach 18% of the investment portfolio before that temporary ceiling expired. At the September 15 public budget hearing, officials ruled that discussion of the Israel Bonds would not be permitted because the bonds were supposedly outside the scope of the budget hearing. Residents who continued trying to raise the issue were removed. So government officials can authorize an investment position so large that Palm Beach County becomes the biggest Israel Bonds investor on Earth but when citizens show up at a public hearing and object to what is being done with public funds, suddenly everyone becomes obsessed with parliamentary procedure and whether they are discussing the proper line item. How convenient. Watch how they treat this Air Force Veteran for opposing an extraordinary amount of public funds being given to a foreign government.