Posted on 01/26/2017 4:49:24 PM PST by granite
The State Department is reviewing a last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million dollars to the Palestinians late last week over the objections of congressional Republicans.
The department said Tuesday it would look at the payment, one of the Obama administration's final acts in office, and might make adjustments to ensure it comports with the Trump administration's priorities.
Kerry formally notified Congress that State would release the money Friday morning, just hours before President Donald Trump's inauguration.
"I was tracking President Obama's 11th-hour moves on the Palestinians, and this issue never came up once ... Most analysts and observers didn't think Obama would or could do this," Dr. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Business Insider.
Congress had initially approved the Palestinian funding in budget years 2015 and 2016, with the US Agency for International Development sending the Palestinians $355 million in 2015.
But at least two GOP lawmakers Ed Royce of California, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Kay Granger of Texas, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee had placed holds on the funds as the Palestinian Authority had pursued "a unilateral tract towards statehood and they were not trying to work with Israel," said Schanzer.
Congressional holds are generally respected by the executive branch but are not legally binding after funds have been allocated. "Most analysts and observers didn’t think Obama would or could do this," said Schanzer.
"The easiest way to sum it up is that Congress had been looking at various behaviors from Palestine — unilateral attempts at statehood, corruption, incitement of violence, and paying salaries to people in jail for terrorism — and that's why the hold has been there," said Schanzer.
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Exactly right, the pretend Palestian is just the most wasteful, inefficient Jew killing machine ever invented. I costs Billions to feed and house those monsters inside Israel.
Every hundred thousand kickback from the PLO to some international Politician costs their home country a couple million and Israel one citizen.
Kerry can buy two whole new cars for every Jew he pays to have killed with the money he steals from American taxpayers.
It is a federal crime to aid and abet terrorists, but as long as we allow our political class to be above the law, our nation will be a Demockery not a democracy.
Well, Barack wanted to kill Jews and this seems like a good way to do it.
Bravo, so well said and dead true.
Has “Palestine” done anything like This?
https://www.israel21c.org/israels-teva-donating-potential-covid-19-treatment-to-us-hospitals/
Why are you posting this article from 2017?
I posted this article on 1/26/2017, 4:49:24 PM. Why are you responding to it now?
Because it showed up in today’s threads.
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