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United States to give Gaza $50 million in aid
Arutz Sheva ^ | 10/5/16 | Ben Ariel

Posted on 05/09/2016 3:34:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

The United States on Monday announced a $50 million aid program for Gaza, reports The Associated Press (AP).

American officials quoted by the news agency said that the money will be used over five years to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs in the coastal enclave.

The money will be distributed by the U.S Agency for International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.

The U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, Donald A. Blume, said the effort is meant to address "the dire needs that are obvious in Gaza", according to the AP report.

Gaza's economy has sharply declined since Hamas took over the coastal territory from its longtime rival Fatah nearly a decade ago. Unemployment there is estimated to be over 40 percent.

In addition, homes and infrastructure in Gaza sustained damages during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

UNRWA has estimated in the past that the homes of more than 96,000 Gazans were destroyed or damaged during the conflict. Despite the Palestinians’ blaming of Israel, the high level of destruction is due to the fact that Hamas heavily entrenched its terrorist network in the civilian infrastructure of Gaza.

Hamas has warned that the coastal territory could become a breeding ground for extremism unless promised reconstruction is accelerated.

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) prime minister Rami Hamdallah recently said that only 40 percent of the money pledged to reconstruct Gaza after the 2014 war was delivered....

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


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To: Eleutheria5

[[American officials quoted by the news agency said that the money will be used over five years to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs in the coastal enclave.]]

Humanitarian assistance = building materials to dig tunnels
Jobs = tunnel builders , bomb builders , stabbers and suicide bombers.

[[The money will be distributed by the U.S Agency for International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services. ]]

If Catholic Relief Services wants to distribute money/goods etc then they should be collecting it from Catholic Churches not the government. This isn’t charity it’s THEFT .

NO US money should EVER be given to these people who hate Americans and hate Israel.


21 posted on 05/09/2016 3:56:13 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Eleutheria5

Let’s reward bad behavior and punish good behavior. Like it’s never been tried before. Let me know how that turns out.


22 posted on 05/09/2016 3:57:55 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Hugin
Words fail.

I know.
The reality is far more obscene than anything we could think to say.

23 posted on 05/09/2016 4:00:00 PM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: EandH Dad

It’ll be on the news soon enough anyway.


24 posted on 05/09/2016 4:00:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Where are the principled conservatives in the Republican majority congress to deny funding this?


25 posted on 05/09/2016 4:03:09 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: BloodScarletMinnesota

Government is not the country. The country is worth defending, though how one can defend the country and its people while taking orders from a government that has turned against both is the real question. Paramilitary organizations might be the only legitimate way now.


26 posted on 05/09/2016 4:03:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Blue Highway

They deny funding it alright.


27 posted on 05/09/2016 4:04:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Our tax dollars going to fund tunnels to destroy Israel. Wonderful. This country is ripe for judgement and it’s beginning now.


28 posted on 05/09/2016 4:06:46 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: BloodScarletMinnesota
"How is it that there are people that willingly volunteer for the current military?
I know I'm risking a ton of ordnance coming my way for saying that, but how can a government like what we have right now be worth defending?

My son wanted to join up. I talked him out of it giving the very same sentiment you're expressing. Obama and his Democrats and his colluding RINO's in Congress aren't worth the bother. And neither are Arabs/Muslims/Afghans and the rest of the parasite heathens on earth. And that goes for Euro NATO countries too.

29 posted on 05/09/2016 4:07:43 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Eleutheria5

Who is Gaza? It ain’t a country. Whose name goes on the check?


30 posted on 05/09/2016 4:09:11 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Check? What’s wrong with cash?/s


31 posted on 05/09/2016 4:12:24 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Lizavetta
I am so happy I work my ass off to fund this shit. Give $50 million to Gaza, let vets die for lack of medical care. He can executive order anything he wants but does nothing for veterans.

Executive Order wasn't even needed from slush funds, Congress appropriated the money to fund this shit.
Just so pissed off.
Every time I think it just can't get any worse, reality corrects me.

32 posted on 05/09/2016 4:14:00 PM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: Eleutheria5

If Trump wins, they better not get used to it.


33 posted on 05/09/2016 4:25:34 PM PDT by cassiusking
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To: Eleutheria5
Government is not the country. The country is worth defending, though how one can defend the country and its people while taking orders from a government that has turned against both is the real question. Paramilitary organizations might be the only legitimate way now.

I tried to keep in mind that distinction between government and the country it rules.
I wholeheartedly agree that those 2 concepts are becoming more clearly seen in separate focus all over the world as an increasingly adversarial relationship, especially throughout what remains of the West.

34 posted on 05/09/2016 4:29:54 PM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: zzwhale

“why ???????”

Because Congress approved the funding.


35 posted on 05/09/2016 4:43:58 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Eleutheria5

We are already living in a dictatorship. As in all dictatorships, the legislative body rubber stamps everything the dictator wants.

Obama just decides to give money to whomever he pleases while congress passes the budget to pay for it.


36 posted on 05/09/2016 4:50:34 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: StormEye
My son wanted to join up. I talked him out of it giving the very same sentiment you're expressing. Obama and his Democrats and his colluding RINO's in Congress aren't worth the bother. And neither are Arabs/Muslims/Afghans and the rest of the parasite heathens on earth. And that goes for Euro NATO countries too.

It's part of the Fundamental Transformation of America.
Communists/Jihadis have a mutual understanding that the only way they can ultimately win worldwide is to keep fundamentally transforming America until the country and Nation founded as a Constitutional Republic is finally destroyed.

The Leftist/jihadis are winning this current world war against civilization in a cake walk, all across the globe.

37 posted on 05/09/2016 4:53:48 PM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: Eleutheria5

Not that I want to give aid to Puerto Rico but why Gaza and not Puerto Rico?


38 posted on 05/09/2016 4:59:13 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I have personally seen some of the 24 bedroom houses built for HAMAS with American tax dollars.

Yep, evil pays well, for a while...


39 posted on 05/09/2016 5:22:51 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Why do we fund terrorism?? Let the Iranians send millions to rebuild tunnels, build rockets, and storage bunkers in UN schools and compounds. Fn unbelievable.


40 posted on 05/09/2016 6:12:46 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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