Anti-pullout Evangelicals may try to block US aid

JERUSALEM POST ^ | Aug. 12, 2005 | Herb Keinon

[Sabramerican]

Anti-pullout Evangelicals may try to block US aid Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 12, 2005

A coalition of pro-Israel Evangelical groups is to meet in Washington in the near future to discuss whether to actively oppose US financial aid for Israel tied to disengagement, according to Richard Hellman, head of the Christians' Israeli Public Action Committee.

Israel and the US are currently talking about a $2.2 billion package, spread over four years, to offset disengagement costs and facilitate development of the Galilee and Negev.

Hellman, head of a small Christian-based pro-Israel lobbying group who brought a group of CIPAC members here this week, said he was not sure Evangelical groups could support such aid and may even actively oppose it.

If so, they would not be alone. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged that a leading member of the so-called Likud rebels opposed to disengagement went to Washington last week and lobbied an influential congressman against military aid for Israel tied to the plan.

Hellman said that there was opposition among Evangelicals to aid to the Palestinians "because they have not accounted for tens of billions of dollars they have already received," and opposition to disengagement-linked aid for Israel because it would mean the US is "inadvertently funding something that may be bad for US national security."

Hellman said his group was asking the administration and Congress to "look twice before supporting disengagement because of what it would mean for US security interests."

"If Israel, with all respect, is so foolish as to do this – pull its settlers and troops out of Gaza, and thereby give Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad reason for cheering and exultation that they defeated you again – that is your decision. But we say that America should not endorse this, police it or possibly pay for it," Hellman said. He said that while his organization has supported foreign aid "for the defense of Israel, and surely to bring Jews home from Russia, Ethiopia and any place they are in peril, we cannot support spreading US money around just to take the sting out of the evacuation of Jews from Gaza."

On the organization's Web site, CIPAC members and friends are urged to have their US representatives ask if a $60 million increase in foreign military aid to Israel is "really for the Gaza retreat planned for mid-August."

If so, they are asked to oppose it "because the pullout is bad for US security, runs counter to the war on terror by rewarding terror and will bring more terror and attacks on US forces and personnel."

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Kuehn12]

This is a internal Israeli matter, butt out NGOs.

[Sabramerican]

Even if the President is too blind to see it (or just doesn't care), this surrender to terror is not in the interest of the US and the US should not pay a dime.

[Sabramerican]

Your list may be interested

[SJackson]

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[familyop]

We should give aid but not tied to the expulsion. And BTW, aid is going to the "Palestinians" from many different kinds of organizations, and much of that is coordinated by our USA. ...terrible shame on us.

[MoJo2001]

Money being sent to terrorists is our problem. We have no business seeking out and destroying terrorists if we're on the other hand helping them destroy an ally.

[Salem]

"If so, they are asked to oppose it "because the pullout is bad for US security, runs counter to the war on terror by rewarding terror and will bring more terror and attacks on US forces and personnel.""

Bull's-eye!

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[Lijahsbubbe]

Money being sent to terrorists is our problem. We have no business seeking out and destroying terrorists if we're on the other hand helping them destroy an ally.

Especially when the terrorists are the very ones we're fighting against.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

If Bush would only have followed his very own "Bush Doctrine," that he spoke so clearly following 9/11, the war of terrorism would be a war on terror. Bush said he's pursue terrorists wherever they were, but insanely makes one big exception for the Palestinian Arab terrorists in Israel. If the disengagement from Gaza does take place, God forbid, the PA area will emerge as the most major breeding ground for international terrorist training in the world.

The U.S. will bitterly regret the day President Bush said he supported a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel. The world does not need another terrorist country.

How foolhardy of the U.S. to throw good money after bad at corrupt, murderous leaders who do not and have no intention of stopping the incitement to terrorism. Only after terrorism stops should there be talk of providing money - as a reward for peaceful behavior.

The U.S. has just committed to the Palestinian Authority yet more hundreds of millions that will be used to kill U.S. citizens.

Congress is being encouraged to monitor more closely how the money to the PA is spent. The chances of doing this are as big an impossibility as was catching the "oil for food" thieves in the U.N.

[familyop]

Here's something older on the proposed funding for the Palestinians.

President Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership
The Rose Garden
June 24, 2002
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html
Excerpt:
"The United States, the international donor community and the World Bank stand ready to work with Palestinians on a major project of economic reform and development. The United States, the EU, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund are willing to oversee reforms in Palestinian finances, encouraging transparency and independent auditing."

[SJackson]

We should give aid but not tied to the expulsion.

Hopefully Sharon's successor will refuse it. It comes with strings, and at this point America is no friend in these negotiations.