Posted on 08/25/2018 1:19:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi blasted the United States on Friday, after the State Department announced it would cut $200 million in bilateral assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
"The U.S. administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail as a political tool. The Palestinian people and leadership will not be intimidated and will not succumb to coercion. The rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale,” she said in a statement.
“There is no glory in constantly bullying and punishing a people under occupation. The U.S. administration has already demonstrated meanness of spirit in its collusion with the Israeli occupation and its theft of land and resources; now it is exercising economic meanness by punishing the Palestinian victims of this occupation," added Ashrawi.
The State Department notified Congress earlier on Friday that it would redirect more than $200 million in U.S. to assistance to the PA to "high-priority projects elsewhere."
The White House announced earlier this year that it had decided to re-examine the aid provided by the United States to the PA, in light of the ongoing disconnect between the sides since the decision to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and recognize it as the capital of Israel.
Nine Democratic members of Congress recently sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding he publish whether aid to the PA has been reduced or eliminated without first speaking to Congress.
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PLO says, “We won’t be intimidated!”
Yeah? Well you won’t be funded, either.
LOLOL!
Pretty sure the 200 million wasn’t “bilateral”.
Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi otherwise known from her B Clinton “Peace Initiative” days as Ragheada
Wait a minute.
Not giving somebody money is “intimidation”?
In what universe?
Give the money to the Israel. F’em.
And Congresscritters want to interfere on the not spending of tax dollars outside the country?
Where the heck were they when BHO unilaterally decided to ignore Congress and give the ME terrorists $450M???
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>> PLO official: We will not be intimidated (but we will be obliterated) <<
Yehova Rules! (Rock on!)
Wow....Hanan Ashrawi is still alive I see. Arafat used to have a female rep. She went crazy the day Israel blew up his helicopter. From that day on have been paying attn to Israel new.
I forget her name.
new-news
The U.S. administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail as a political tool.
No, you’ll be broke. The Obama gravy train is ending. PS GTH!
Great! We’ll keep our money and you keep yours.
Then why does Palestine continue to bully and punish Israel? Has the PLO official yet figured this out?
Why should the USA give money to terrorists? Instead of terrorism the PLO should reallocate their very large weapons budget to help their own people instead of spending it trying to destroy Israel.
They should try free enterprise and democracy and become economically successful like Israel. They could make Palestine great!
We should give them rockets, maybe a hundred a day. Just lobthem in from off the coast
Sorry bud, but PDJT just removed your pawns from the chessboard.
Given what the Pali’s, think of us (infidels & Jews), I wouldn’t give them a damn dime.
Good. Then mark it zero.
What coercion? What intimidation?
Taking a wide circle out around a beggar on the sidewalk, to whom previous alms have been dropped into his hat, only to have that same beggar stretch out his foot and trip up his erstwhile benefactor while departing, is only reasonable caution and demonstrating good common sense.
The “Palestinians” are crafty little weasels, and have hoodwinked the world for some time now, but they are still essentially lazy and shiftless beggars, more deserving of scorn than pity.
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