The USA (or Obama) has not given Hamas in Gaza any money or arms. Wherever you got that information ... you better go back and double-check that info, because it’s wrong.
Look here ... :-) ...
http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
Look here ... :-) ...
http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
I stand corrected.
The Obama Administration did not provide funds directly to Hamas. They are a terrorist organization and are not eligible for American foreign aid.
The Obama Administration did provide the funds for infrastructure development in Gaza as a humanitarian aid package for economic development of the Gaza Strip.
The funding provided to Gaza for infrastructure development was awarded to Gaza based companies controlled by Hamas. Hamas then diverted the aid money to their vision of economic development in Gaza - underground tunnels into Israel for terror attacks and for launching systems for rockets.
Ironically, Israel also provided the cement to build the tunnels free to Gaza from Israeli economic aid funding to Gaza
Source
http://www.tradeaidmonitor.com/2012/01/usaid-contracts-750-million-palestinian-project.html
The stated goal of this U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project is to award program contracts solely to West Bank and Gaza-area vendors, according to presolicitation notice released today.
The Local Construction Program, or LCP, as it is known, will seek out non-governmental entities to carry out a variety of initiatives involving “local construction or rehabilitation of roads, buildings, water, wastewater, public buildings including health facilities, schools, and other infrastructure.”
USAID said it expects to release a formal Request for Proposals around September 3, and will not accept bids until that time. The agency revealed few other details.
As U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor reported earlier this year, USAID began awarding contracts in a separate Palestinian project worth upwards of three-quarters of a billion dollars (see: USAID Contracts Start Flowing in $750 Million Palestinian Infrastructure Project; Monitor, Jan. 14, 2012).
The money has been distributed and I will leave it to you to determine how much of the funds were actually used for the initiative goals of building, expanding or repairing , “local construction or rehabilitation of roads, buildings, water, wastewater, public buildings including health facilities, schools, and other infrastructure.”, in Gaza in the last 18 months
FWIW Gaza strip is about 25 miles long and 5 miles wide on average or about 125 square miles or 8 million dollars of infrastructure development per square mile in the year or so just from that one project and 8 mega bucks goes a long way in Gaza