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Used in another context, it is perfectly harmless: waters of a river, for instance, may be diverted to prevent flooding.
In an editorial titled "No Choice But New Elections," the respected daily Ha'aretz said Levy was right to have resigned over the budget's stinginess on welfare, because "much funding has been diverted to settlements in the territories, to the ultra-Orthodox sector and to various political pressure groups."
(This conclusion does not exclude the likelihood that charities with significant Saudi government sponsorship diverted funds to al Qaeda.)
In 1936, Mussolini diverted attention from the worsening economic climate at home with an invasion of Ethiopia and proclamation of the Italian Empire.
The gambit is called "pagejacking," and the one used to force the diverted surfer to click through numerous pages at the porn site before escaping is known as "mousetrapping."