Posted on 05/04/2012 12:06:36 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Triple Play; Obama Blows Off Congress, funds Palestinians, lies about PA stance on Israel
Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare statehood unilaterally last September, in violation of the PA’s treaty commitments.
Obama’s “waiver” of the restrictions on Congress’s Palestinian Accountability Act was first reported in the foreign press (AFP), which is where Americans generally need to go to get news about what the U.S. administration is up to. A report from the Times of Israel is here. [Hat tip, creeping Sharia]. The New York Times, evidently too busy reporting on how much Israel sucks, did not find this story fit to print.
White House spinmeister Tommy Vietor stated that President Obama made the decision to pour American taxpayer dollars into Palestinian coffers in order to ensure “the continued viability of the moderate PA government.” He added the claim that, as the report puts it, “the PA had fulfilled all its major obligations, such as recognizing Israel’s right to exist, renouncing violence and accepting the Road Map for Peace.”
In the real world, the very immoderate PA has reneged on all its commitments. In addition to violating its obligations by unilaterally declaring statehood, the PA has also agreed to form a unity government with Hamas, a terrorist organization that is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The PA continues to endorse terrorism against Israel as “resistance.” Moreover, the PA most certainly does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. Back in November, for example, Adil Sadeq, a PA official writing in the official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, declared that Israelis
have a common mistake, or misconception by which they fool themselves, assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist, and that it is Hamas alone that loathes them and does not recognize the right of this state to exist. They ignore the fact that this state, based on a fabricated [Zionist] enterprise, never had any shred of a right to exist…
In sum, everything Obama is saying about Palestinian compliance is a lie. Even if we were not broke, we should not be giving the PA a dime. To borrow money so we can give it to them is truly nuts.
Will Congress do anything about it? There is a very simple answer to this: slash the executive branch’s budget. That is the weapon the framers gave Congress to rein in a corrupt, spendaholic executive branch. You could start with a treble damages rule: Obama gives $192 million to the PA against Congress’s directive, Congress responds by slashing $600 million out of the State Department’s budget. That would be start — though State would still have $51 billion left over to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and its other favorite Islamic supremacists.
Congress could bring him to heel if they wanted to but it ain’t gonna happen.
Nuff said..........
Congress has willfully given up its place as a co-equal branch of government. Shame on congress.
Would love to see it happen but I'm not holding my breath.
He’s just practicing “Efficiency in Government”.
No Congress needed.
You could have dropped the last two words from the title.
Barack Obama will officially launch his 2012 re-election campaign on Karl Marx’s birthday.
He is shoving our faces in it every minute.
This vermin is the worst person on this planet for America.
Now we hear some people say they’re voting for him because he is a socialist.
Some are voting for him because he isn’t a socialist.
Which it moroons?
I thought you wrote an opus.
Why are you still here if it sucks so bad?
Now, Congress cuts funds on the PA and Zero "waives" it so he can give them money to fight Israel and this isn't a big deal? Well, it is to people who still believe in the Constitution. Zero is seriously overstepping his bounds and the media are silent on their boy-king.
I hope you didn’t sprain anything reaching to find a connection between the Vietnam war and sending money to the PA.
Sad! Very sad commentary on our press!
Sad! Very sad commentary on our press!
bump
...has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress's freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare statehood unilaterally last September, in violation of the PA's treaty commitments.Impeach now.
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