Posted on 01/27/2018 7:31:16 PM PST by Lera
A senior Palestinian official’s recent statements fly in the face of decades of US aid to his people, totaling billions of dollars.
In an interview with London-based newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi published Saturday and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud al-Aloul declared that “the entire Palestinian leadership” is of the opinion that American administrations – all of them — “have not given the Palestinians anything of substance but rather worked in order to pull the rug out from under their feet by exerting pressures on them, and that with all their might they support [the Palestinians’] enemy.”
Al-Aloul also discounted any future relationship with the US, saying, “We assessed that nothing good will come from them for the Palestinian people and the nation, and this is completely clear.”
According to the website of the US Consulate General in Jerusalem, the Americans have provided the Palestinian Authority (PA) with over $5.2 billion through USAID since 1994 – the year Israel and the PA signed the Oslo Accords. Among other things, this money pays for infrastructure development, support for debt relief, governance, sanitation, education and essential humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip.
Education and humanitarian assistance are the two main areas in which the US helps the Palestinians through their annual contributions to the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), which assists Palestinian refugees in Arab countries and their descendants, as well as Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
America has been the organization’s largest donor by far, giving approximately $1.5 billion in the last four years alone, although President Trump recently declared a moratorium on America’s largesse until major changes are made in UNRWA policies.
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Instead of funding miscreants we should use those funds to build a wall.
Then fine. We’ll make sure we don’t in the future.
They can sure have less now.
Fork them too!
Clinton kissed Arafat’s ass. Doesn’t that count?
Well good...they won't miss it then when we cut it off.
Give the US the new $50 million plane.
Pelosi would call this ‘crumbs’.
And yet our State Department’s enablers of US enemies will insist on giving them billions more. A US foreign policy establishment capable of funneling billions to Pakistan over the decades is a foreign policy establishment either too stupid to learn or too anti-American to act in our nation’s interest.
Great, you won’t notice if we stop giving you substantial amounts of cash and Aid
Sickening. As usual from the plo pa abbas Fatah hezballah Hamas etc gangs. Sickening. And, There is no such thing as a “palestinian” and the speaker is a murder gang thug -not an “official”. And naturally, he spews propaganda lies as per their modus operendus. Long long past time to (take our money back and get rid of them
Never expect gratitude from a Muslim.
I vote we carpet bomb the cities and towns which are governed by the PLO.
That should impress them as being “substantial”
I love how Trump is just cutting funding to everyone lately.
They all say the same thing.
Didn’t need it anyway....and kick rocks down the street.
Can’t wait to see what Old Moonbeam does when he realizes his sanctuary city bullshit cost California 18 million in LEO funds from the Feds.
They’re simply using the SAME TRICK that has worked for decades, which is to tell the United States that they’re a bunch of RACIST ASSHOLES who won’t lift a finger for the Palestinians.
Typically, when they do that, the result, whether it’s Bush Sr. / James Baker, or Obama/Clinton, or anyone else is to prove that were not racist assholes by beating up and threatening Israel and increasing handouts to the Palestinians.
Depending on how much Trump controls the State Department, versus Deep State will determine the outcome of another round of this crap.
Yes, she probably would. “:^)
Never give them another penny and take everything we’ve ever given them back by any means possible.
You said the magic word: Muslim. Israel, all of it, is Jewish land. There are vast Muslim lands awaiting the arrival of those who hate Israel. They must go.
Oh, they can’t think of any way we’ve helped them? Ungrateful pigs. Obviously educational and humanitarian help are not much valued by these subhuman animals. So, let’s end ANY financial expenditures to these animals, and use the substantial savings on building our wall. NO MORE U.S. MONEY TO PALESCUMIANS!! Build our wall!
Then they won’t miss it when it’s cut off.
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