Aide is tied into goods produced in the USA, which goes directly to that country, and there are conditions and strings attached. As I said before, even aide that Reagan sent to the Mujahideen was a bad idea, even though it was meant for our foreign policy of getting the Soviets out of Afghanistan and running down their war machine. It came back to us with the attack on 9/11!!
Likewise now, even though we have that foreign policy if opposing Iran and bolstering others in the region to offset Iran’s hegemony there, it’s something that can come to bite us in the rear end.
But even with that foreign policy and with that aide having to do with goods and material and the strings attached ... it is not the USA supplying arms and money to Hamas.
US blocked Qatari funds intended for Hamas employee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3180818/posts
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-blocked-qatari-funds-intended-for-hamas-employees/
The United States has blocked the transfer of Qatari funds earmarked for the salaries of civil servants hired by Hamas in Gaza, The Times of Israel has learned.
A diplomatic source in the Gulf state, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Qatar had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Arab Bank for the salaries of some 44,000 Hamas civil servants. Those civil servants — employed by Hamas in Gaza since its takeover of the Strip in 2007 – were rendered jobless by the unity agreement with Fatah last month.
But the money was never processed by Arab Bank and delivered to Hamas, the source told The Times of Israel, due to pressure from the Americans, who consider Hamas a terror organization.
“This is strange, since funds from Qatar have never been blocked in the past,” the source said, referring to the $400 million aid package pledged by Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa during his visit to Gaza in October 2012.
Hamas’s deputy political bureau chief Moussa Abu Marzouk lambasted Arab Bank for neglecting to process the funds in comments posted on his Facebook page June 28.
So.... we blocked the funds that were going to pay the salaries of the NEW GOVERNMENT’S CIVIL SERVANTS, but the money for weapons continues to flow unimpeded ?
If anything, these ‘civil servants’ are unlikely to be the CRIMINALS in GAZA that you repeatedly mention.
Why did we need to cut THEM off, deprive them of their paychecks ?
Are you implying, now, that the entire government of Gaza is HAMAS and that is why they should not get paid for their employment ?
“A diplomatic source in the Gulf state, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Qatar had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Arab Bank for the salaries of some 44,000 Hamas civil servants. Those civil servants — employed by Hamas in Gaza since its takeover of the Strip in 2007 – were rendered jobless by the unity agreement with Fatah last month.
But the money was never processed by Arab Bank and delivered to Hamas, the source told The Times of Israel, due to pressure from the Americans, who consider Hamas a terror organization.”
So... if we send funds to the Palestinian government, WHO are we actually sending it to ?
“A diplomatic source in the Gulf state, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Qatar had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Arab Bank for the salaries of some 44,000 Hamas civil servants. Those civil servants — employed by Hamas in Gaza since its takeover of the Strip in 2007 – were rendered jobless by the unity agreement with Fatah last month.
But the money was never processed by Arab Bank and delivered to Hamas, the source told The Times of Israel, due to pressure from the Americans, who consider Hamas a terror organization.”
So... if we send funds to the Palestinian government, WHO are we actually sending it to ?