Posted on 06/26/2023 4:44:38 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the Biden Administration on Sunday for its decision to prohibit US agencies from funding scientific research and development projects in the West Bank.
“Joe Biden and Biden administration officials are pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel,” Cruz said in a statement. “Since day one of their administration they have launched campaigns against our Israeli allies that are granular, whole of government, and done in secret. This new boycott of Israeli Jews is yet another example. The State Department is telling the entire U.S. government not to cooperate with Jews in Judea and Samaria. And of course it was sent to Congress in secret, and only revealed because reporters found out.”
Cruz contrasted the ban on funding in the West Bank with the administration’s defense of now-halted funding for research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and described the West Bank research ban as “antisemitic.”
Arabic-language outlet Asharq News first reported on Friday that the Biden administration had informed Congress on 16 June that it was reversing a 2020 Trump administration agreement that permitted three US-Israeli binational research agencies to fund projects in the West Bank. A State Department spokesman told Asharq that this was a reversion to a pre-2020 policy that had been in place since the agencies were founded in the 1970s and that the US would continue to support US-Israel scientific cooperation. Since their founding, the three agencies have funded some $1.4 billion in research grants.
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Ugh, sorry for the link-as-source :(
Texas power plants RUNNING HARD this week - very hot weather. Perhaps Ted should hop a flight to nice, cool, Alaska (great cruises, I hear) BEFORE the lights go out this time.
Ugh, Ted, why don’t we fund research projects in the US instead? I sure don’t want my tax money spent in the West Bank or Israel, or Ukraine, or anywhere outside the US.
But at least the "Palestinians" invented missiles that hit their targets at least 5% of the time, and child-equipped suicide bombs.
“Joe Biden and Biden administration officials are pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel,” Cruz said in a statement. “Since day one of their administration they have launched campaigns against our Israeli allies that are granular, whole of government, and done in secret. This new boycott of Israeli Jews is yet another example. The State Department is telling the entire U.S. government not to cooperate with Jews in Judea and Samaria. And of course it was sent to Congress in secret, and only revealed because reporters found out.”
Cruz contrasted the ban on funding in the West Bank with the administration’s defense of now-halted funding for research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and described the West Bank research ban as “antisemitic.”
Thanks Right Wing Vegan.
Well, if they don’t destroy Israel their Moslem pals (owners) will go after them, personally.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can’t say that! Waddya want, the Holocaust to happen again? Israel is our staunchest ally!
Omg, how dare they want to build houses for their families.. what a “crime”...
Slavery, germ warfare research, tech theft, preparations for a world war. What’s not to like? But poor Palestinians? AOOOGA! AOOOOGA! WEEEEOOOO! WEEEEEOOOO!
The only thing they produce is sweat, mass murder, and (the good one) ‘work accidents’.
Actually, I don’t think that’s accurate. But banning research would hurt the Palestinians, too. There are many Palestinian doctors and nurses being trained in Israeli hospitals and clinics, and depriving them of opportunities for research will not make them better doctors or nurses. It’s purely destructive virtue signaling.
Or rather, lack-of-virtue signaling.
LOL.
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