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CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said on Monday that he'll veto any casino legislation that comes to his desk.

The announcement made by the governor took both sides by surprise as Lynch rendered the gambling debate moot for the rest of his administration.

In late October, a committee of the New Hampshire House gave its approval to expanded gambling legislation, but the victory was short-lived.

"I do not believe that the potential monetary benefits from expanded gambling outweigh the risks to our quality of life, to our businesses and to our economic future," Lynch said.

In addition to the impact on quality of life, the governor said he is worried about the proliferation of gambling in the state and the current lack of regulatory structure for legal gaming.

"I think what the governor has failed to really recognize in this bill, which is quite different than some past bills, is the fact that what we're doing here is creating jobs," said Rep. Stephen Stepanek, chairman of House, Ways and Means.

Stepanek said he wants to put gaming revenues toward a decrease in business taxes.

"Now that we're going to have all the problems, we need to have the benefits of gambling as well," Stepanek said.

Even with the veto threat, House Republicans said they plan to move forward. But anti-gambling activists said they're ready to fight them.

"The next step is the House floor in January -- the two casino monopoly bill that will suck jobs and money out of our state to the Las Vegas gambling monopoly. We will work our butts off to defeat it there," Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling Chairman Jim Rubens said.

The Israeli Twittersphere reacted strongly to the decision of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation in the Knesset, approving two bills that would heavily tax foreign donations of human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and would severely limit the amounts the organizations are allowed to receive funding.

This legislation was supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and due to Israel's parliamentary system, once the coalition endorses the bill, it is most likely to pass in the plenum, where the coalition holds the majority of seats. The votes in the plenum regarding these two pieces of legislation are expected in the coming weeks. If the law passes, human rights NGOs are expected to appeal against it at the Supreme Court, demanding that the law be struck down.

The Israeli Attorney General and the Ministry of Justice have warned the committee that the law is unconstitutional (opposes Israel's Basic Laws) and is “very likely” to be struck down by the Supreme Court.

Hagai El-Ad, the Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, one of the organizations that would have their funding cut as a result of these bills, wrote that the bills do not reflect the will of the Israeli public, which spent the summer protesting for social justice:

The summer passed, the Knesset’s recess was finally over. Hardly a week or two passed. Has the Knesset opted to now devote its time to what had preoccupied the public all summer, or rather return to anti-democratic-business-as-usual?

So far, the answer is quite clear, and it is a slap in the public’s face. Social legislation? The coalition votes against. Anti-democratic legislation? The coalition is vigorously pursuing this agenda, as if the summer never happened.

Ziv Pug also pointed out the disconnection between the social justice protests in Israel and the government's actions, listing the bills the Knesset has turned down since returning from recess [he]:

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