US to provide Palestinians additional $50 million in aid

I wouldn't give them a penny until Arafat is tried for the murder of two American diplomats.

The United States does not provide any financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization, or affiliated groups. US financial assistance is provided to contractors and non-governmental organizations in the West Bank and Gaza for specifically identified projects and initiatives.

Anybody believe those Arafat's thugs don't grift off every project in their little terrorist feifdom?

Hmm, $50 million will buy Old Uncle Yasser a hell of a lot of male prostitutes.

Note to Palestinians: lock up your sons.

I've read here that of the around $2 Billion Dollars the United Nations has allocated for refugee relief, that around 90% of it goes to the PA. The article had deplored this distribution of funds, saying that the most needy refugees in the world were those North Koreans trying to escape into China..... where about 250,000 live in upper North Korea under terrible circumstances, and the article suggested it was a crime that the UN was not providing support to these refugees. Instead, the polotics of the UN has most all of their funds going to the PA, and it sure isn't being used to build anything..... just lining pockets of Arafat and his croonies.

So, why do we, the USA, give MORE aid to the PA (through whatever sources), when there is a ton of money flowing in there. And in a related thread here today, there is a revealing statistic that the oil-producing states pulled in $180 Billion last year alone. How about we let them "invest" in funding construction and the like in the PA rather than funding their continued building of Mosques and educationing their young in the ways of hatred.

I'm not happy were continue to aid people who are NOT our friends.... like North Korea (with food that just goes to the military, much less oil and whatever else), and other countries that seems to hate us and vote against us in the UN and do everything they can to undermine our inherent goodness in this world. Let's donate more to Poland and Spain and Italy and the entire Eastern European bloc where are dollars can buy us actual good will and support and allies.

THe PA, PLO or whatever name you choose to call it, isn't even a country!!!! And they came form Jordan anyway. And their conditions were brought about by all the arab nations waging wars (STARTING wars) with Israel what.... 4 times?....... and losing.... and losing some land in the process (as wars then to do. We gave back land when peace treaties are made (the Sinai tback to Egypt for example). So when the terror states in the region decide to make peace and rid their countries of terrorist support, then perhaps we can help - but not now, when Israel fight terrorism just as we've learned the past couple years that WE have to do. ANd soon, I think, some European countries are about to learn the same lesson and even more actively join our fight against terrorists.

Sorry for the rant, but it's MY tax dollars going to the PA after a couple more homicide bombings? No thank you..... time to email my congressmen.

Not one dollar should grace the people of the Palestinian territories until they forsake their blood lust of Israel. The Good Book says you reap what you sew. That was before the US and the UN decided to reward actions that would normally place a group like the Palestinians at the bottom of the human rights and civilized societies list.

The Palestinians could have their own nation, but no, they choose not to. They could have jobs, but they choose war instead. They could feed and cloth their children, but have opted to wage terrorism and hate.

Despite all the evidence, it is astounding to me that we continue to pump funding into a territory hell bent on destroying a nation.

The UN finds so little to criticize the Palestinians over, and so much to criticize the US for, that it is beyond belief that we could find a reason to remain a member. Anyone involved in the decision making process that sees the PLO given hundreds of millions of US dollars despite their treachery, is unfit for office.

The only expenditure I want my hard-earned taxes to fund in Palestine is for bulldozers to push that whole putrid mess into the sea and start over. It's impossible to respect a people whose religion is hatred, whose heroes are homocide bombers, whose men are cowards who sacrifice their children and not themselves, whose women let them behave this way, and none of whom seem to be employed as they raise hell in the streets day after day. Of what use are these people to the world? And why should we be giving them one red cent? It obviously only goes to the leaders of this tribe and makes the commoners hate us more.

So whose budget is this coming out of? Foggy Bottom's maybe?

May I remind you that 50 $ millions are NOTHING compared to the BILLIONS of tax Dollars, destroyed by the IDF when they razed Gaza International??

That was a crime, by nothing justified, only to insult the EU and to weaken the Palestinian independance!

Um...Are you being facetious?

Surely not, I´m a EU citizen. So horrible the suicide attacks are, they do not justify to destroy airports, harbours or the residence of the Palestinian president. I would sue Israel for compensatory damages.

I´m a EU citizen

That explains a lot, Michael...

What's a little murder when we're talkin' building destruction,right,Mike??

Always a pleasure hearing how the other side thinks.

Thanks for writing.

It does not when you imply with that comment, that the EU is antisemitic or one-sided pro-Palestine. I don´t think that we differ on the issue that Palestine must become a sovereign state. Therefore Palestine has the right to have its own infrastructure. When Israel destroys the Palestinian infrastructure, this is an aggressive illegal act.

So, little Mozart, the great difference between the murderer and the IDF is, that IDF destroys things which do not belong to Israel (and I don´t even talk about the killed children and mothers) on behalf of the Israeli government, and the murderer is not led or engaged by the Palestinian Authority.

May I remind you that 50 $ millions are NOTHING compared to the BILLIONS of tax Dollars, destroyed by the IDF when they razed Gaza International??

That was a crime, by nothing justified, only to insult the EU and to weaken the Palestinian independance!

Oh please, most reports here placed the value at $60 million, not billions. Read the article, instead of funneling the aid to Switzerland, Yasser can build a new house. Not to worry, he won't waste it on the population.

The airport was destroyed in retaliation for attacks on Israel and her population, as was President Yasser’s compound. Perfectly legitimate.

It’s telling you react to retaliation for the murder of Jews as by nothing justified, indicative of an attitude many here think is gaining currency, along with the accusation it’s only to insult the EU, a rather eurocentric reaction, don’t you think?

I do agree it’s the wrong reaction. The Grand President should have been taken into custody, along with the terrorists he’s sheltering in the compound and made to pay for their crimes.

I’d prefer Yasser was extradited to the US to answer for the murder of our diplomats. After all, we have the death penalty here.

Well, now that Saddam's cash cow is no longer producing, the U.S. is paying in advance for 2,000 suicide bombers.

It does not when you imply with that comment, that the EU is antisemitic or one-sided pro-Palestine. I don´t think that we differ on the issue that Palestine must
become a sovereign state. Therefore Palestine has the right to have its own infrastructure. When Israel destroys the Palestinian infrastructure, this is an aggressive
illegal act.

Oh I don't think we need to make any implications Michael, the EU has made it very clear what it's agenda is. It sends hundreds of millions of dollars to a terrorist organization who's leadership steals the lion's share, leaving little for the public it's supposed to benefit. Arafat has a few billion in his personal accounts. I'm sure you haven't any idea where that came from. How much has the EU sent Isreal? I only ask since you seem to think the EU is unbiased and treats both sides equally.

Has it every occured to you that Israel doesn't enter the West Bank or Gaza until after terrorist bombings take place? No, I'm sure it hasn't.

You talk of Israel raising Palestinian infrastructure then conveniently forget that much of what has been raised has been terrorist bomb manufacturing facilities and havens for terrorist activists. You saw what took place on 09/11 and still can't fathom a reason why Israel might not want an operating airport on Palestinian territory.

Tell me, do you think that Israel teaches it's children that Palestinians are dogs or monkeys? Does Isreal teach it's children that Palestinians should be wiped from the face of the planet? No Michael, it's the Palestinians who teach their children that these are facts about Jews and Israelis.

Do Synagogues teach their parishoners that all Palestinians should be destroyed? No. Mosques teach this about Israelis and Jews.
Do Israeli newspapers print articles advocating a holocaust against the Palestinians? No. The Palestinian papers advocate this against the Israelis and Jews.
Do Israeli schools teach children to think of Palesinians as dogs or monkeys? No. The Palestinian schools, newspapers and clergy do teach their children to think this way of Israelis and Jews, and train them in grade schools to become suicide bombers and to destroy Israel by any means possible.
Does the Israeli government preach the utter destruction of the Palestinians? No. It is the Palestinian leadership who still advocates the utter destruction of Israel.

Listen bud, if you want to be taken seriously, try some meditation over these simple facts. Next time you come to the forum perhaps you'll have something remotely intelligent to say regarding the PLO and it's leadership.

As for the EU, it is rife with folks who think as you do and haven't a clue. They think Israel is the root of all evil, and terrorism within it's borders is it's just rewards for having the audacity to keep on breathing.

The EU is fast becoming a vast moral wasteland with a citizenry so ill-equiped to recognize truth, that they actually rebuked the US for ousting a dictator responsible for over one millions deaths, the gasing of his own populace and the continuing torture and killing of thousands of his own people, not to mention the near starvation he foisted upon millions of others.

What urks me most about the EU these days, is that it gleefully donates money to an organization that is hell bent upon completing the task Europe sought to finish in the 1930s and 40s, namely the destruction of the Jewish race.

Thanks for confirming for us the sad state of public awareness in the EU Michael.

More likely a thousand suicide bombers and $25 million for Suha and Zahwa.