Posted on 04/27/2024 3:37:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The House of Representatives Israel aid bill is under scrutiny for including more than $9 billion in humanitarian assistance, which is significantly more than the annual gross domestic product of the Gaza Strip, as critics say the U.S. is essentially funding Hamas through the bill.
The Israel bill, which passed in a 366-58 vote Saturday, allocates $26.4 billion in aid to the region, including more than $9.1 billion marked as "Migration and Refugee Assistance" and "International Disaster Assistance," to address the humanitarian needs that arose in the Gaza Strip following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
The aid is more than four times the amount of the annual GDP in the Gaza Strip, which was about $2 billion last year, according to the United Nations. However, the damage done to the infrastructure in Gaza since Oct. 7 is about $18.5 billion, according to a joint World Bank and the United Nations report earlier this month.
While the Israel funding bill calls for the Secretary of State to establish oversight measures to ensure that the aid is not diverted by Hamas, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group, the fact that Hamas is the elected government of the Gaza Strip poses a significant challenge to oversight.
"Biden and this administration knows that almost all of it is stolen by Hamas," Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein told Just the News about funding given to Gaza.
"We are funding Hamas. Do you realize the nightmare of this? We are funding Hamas with this 9 billion. What is wrong with this administration?" Klein also said. Even some Palestinian activists have voiced similar concerns.
Ramzi Awda, the secretary-general of the International Campaign to Combat the Occupation and Apartheid, said during a Palestinian television interview that Hamas has been stealing aid to resell...
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It’s a business model; fund both sides of a war and sell weapons to both sides.
F Gaza
Drive them all into the Sinai
They want to bring the Gazans here.
Do these pecker-woods even READ the @#$%^&* bill before they vote.
Stuff gets slid in minutes before a vote, so it doesn’t matter.
We have a criminal government.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #34: War is good for business.
Wrong choice of names for the bill, which is what Democrats do in order to trick gullible Americans into supporting the bill. $9 billion for Hamas. It should be called the Hamas-Israel Strife bill, because it fosters strife with no end to hostilities from Hamas. If any aid is given, it should strictly be given to Israel! Giving to Gaza/Hamas is pure stupidity.
They have to keep the wars going so they aid terrorists. Then they’ll pretend to care about the carnage they finance
Russian gdp is up something like 50% on the Biden energy policy
may as well quadruple the Pal’s GDP as well.
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meant to add, of the stolen aid,
wondering if it is being stashed in the same French and.or Qatari banks that undoubtedly are holding Ms Arafat’s billions.
NO friggen way!
Another reason Israel needs to finish Hamas. Elements of our government are determined to keep Hamas alive and in power.
I suppose it can be assumed that at least some of that 9 billion will find its way back into administration pockets.
Just the News got most of its hits from Hannity, or Hannity bringing Solomon on.
Ironic because Hannity supports all the crazy Ukraine spending, and all the crap they roll into those Bills.
Wow! The USA is paying to reconstitute the Hamas war machine. Why any country would be an ally of the US from now on is difficult to imagine.
All “humanitarian” aid for the Arabs in Gaza, 100% of it, should come from the wealthy Arab Middle East nations, not Israel and not the U.S.
I think you nailed the key point.
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