Boy, are you biased.
Look at the precious young faces. Don't you see what George Bush sees: peace?
Hamas' summer camp boys march and shout slogans in a Gaza City street. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Posted on 07/17/2005 8:01:07 AM PDT by SJackson
Sharon's plan to use American aid to develop the Galilee and Negev to attract Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria faces opposition in the U.S., which may insist the money be used for Arabs.
Israel has asked the Bush administration for $2 billion to finance the government’s plan to dismantle more than 25 Jewish communities, compensate the residents and transfer them to other communities in Israel. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promoted development in the Galilee, where Arabs are half the population, and the Negev, where Bedouin are more than half the population outside the city of Be'er Sheva.
The Jewish National Fund has also stepped in, and is negotiating a land swap with the government wherein it would relinquish valuable coastal land to the government in return for land in the Galilee. The JNF claims that as a non-government agency, it can develop the area for Jews without being subject to legal suits accusing it of discrimination.
But the American government now wants Israel to use the money for Jews and Arabs alike. "America is not the Jewish Agency nor is it the Jewish National Fund, and considers it important that the aid serve all sectors of the Israeli population," one American official said.
He said the U.S. wants most of the money spent on public projects, such as extending Highway 6 from the center of the country to the Negev.
Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, whose office is coordinating the Negev plan, wants to use the money on better education for the burgeoning Bedouin population.
President George Bush is to ask Congress to approve the aid by December. Officially, the administration supports the package, but Israel may be punished financially for last week’s leak to reporters of details from a National Security Agency meeting. They said that the talks were positive and "constructive."
The New York Times reported that Israel has received $100 billion in American aid since 1948, and the CNN conducted a poll that revealed American voters almost unanimously opposed financing the expulsion.
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is trying to drum up support in Congress for the aid package, but the Victims of Arab Terror International organization has launched a campaign against it. It plans to purchase newspapers ads encouraging Americans not to allow their tax dollars to be used as ‘blood money’ for the expulsion plan "which rewards Arab terrorists for their continuous murderous atrocities.”
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The last thing Israel should be considering is accepting aid from the US for the expulsion. It will only be used as leverage to force Israel back to the 1949 lines.
"Israel has received $100 billion in American aid since 1948"
And we got the bible in exchange (a pretty good deal).
Besides, Israel has actually done something with the money--it developed the country.
Most countries used aid money to build palaces for the rulers, and put the rest of it into Swiss bank accounts.
(Where did Arafat's money go?)
Israeli rulers don't even own a good suit.. .
why aren't they making the same demands on the Palestinian Authority?
I don't mind helping Israel, but I do mind paying to help Sharon execute this traitorous withdrawal.
I would not pay one cent for Israel's withdrawl from the Gaza strip. Yes, the Jews did give to us the bible, and it was a very good bargain. Now we can act civilized, and not like the Muslim world.
because they're programmed, apparently, not to take a stand against palestine. It gets old watching peace talks between israel and palestine that do absoltely nothing. I's ready for the U.S. to start making demands from palestine, including ousting terrorists in their midst and leaving israeli lands alone, maybe even to find an arab state that will put up with their s@@t. This land does not exist and has been causing strife for 56 years too long, so give them the nagasaki treatment if they don't comply.
I think the palestinian authority thinks america and israel are just screwing around with them; they don't take us seriously. Especially with sharon leading israel, they don't think were gonna do anything to them. I say end it now.
correction: absoltely=absolutely and I's=I am
my apologies, I am a horrible typer.
Those 19 refugee camps that house these people since 1948 exist on welfare over 70% of which has been supplied by the United States.
Even when Israel pulls out of Gaza they are still required to supply the water and electricity for all of Gaza and it's citizens.
The Palestinians receive more aid than any other group of people on the planet.
They even have their own separate aid organization in the U.N. They get monthly checks for every head in each camp.
This has been, is and will be nothing but one giant terrorist training/ staging area that exists on the welfare supplied almost totally by it's victims.
If we, and Britain had not financed it for sixty years, it would not exist.
How stupid can we continue to be?
BTW most of that money we gave to Israel has been spent back in this country to help keep our defense industry that we need strong.
If the article is correct, we won't, we'll be paying to improve the lot of the Arab population.
Because as a matter of policy, we accept the concept of a Judenrein state. They're some of our best friends, in fact.
"They get monthly checks for every head in each camp."
There is an entire industry in dead Palestinian ID cards. I expect their is quite a lot of inflation of the number of "refugees" by now. A Palestinian on the welfare roles never dies.
God did not have in mind refugee status when he said unto the third and fourth generations.
According to U.N. to qualify as a refugee/Palestinian and be eligible for benefits is to live in one of the camps for eighteen months.
You are then forever a displaced Palestinian refugee.
The fact that you where born and lived in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon or wherever doesn't matter.
Unless the WH and company are severely mentally challenged, such that they are unable to tie their own shoes, they know perfectly well how to send a message. The question is, why are they sending this kind of message?
If that goes through, it would be even worse. But my basic objection is that I resent having to pay for a misbegotten withdrawal plan. Withdrawing the settlements will only encourage the terrorists and make things worse.
Nor does it encourage the terrorists to live peacefully when you pay them huge annual subsidies so none of them need to do productive work. You're paying them to sit around and make bombs.
Boy, are you biased.
Look at the precious young faces. Don't you see what George Bush sees: peace?
Hamas' summer camp boys march and shout slogans in a Gaza City street. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
So now the NYTimes is spreading the false 100 Billion figure originated by the Wahhabi lobby?
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