Posted on 08/17/2005 8:56:17 AM PDT by Pikamax
Muslim Group Wants No US Tax Dollars for Israeli Settlers By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor August 16, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group Tuesday called on the Bush administration to deny Israel's request for billions of American taxpayer dollars to pay for "the withdrawal of illegal settlements on Palestinian territory on Gaza."
"American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the relocation of settlers who, supported and defended by successive Israeli governments, chose to live illegally on land that was not their own," according to a statement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"Such funds could be better used to improve conditions for ordinary Palestinians, whose lives have been devastated by decades of brutal occupation," the group added.
The statement from CAIR came after U.S. officials said Monday that assessment teams will be sent to Israel to help determine how much new aid might be offered to develop the areas in which settlers from the Gaza Strip will be relocated.
Israel is reported to be seeking $2.2 billion in additional aid, the Muslim group stated. That request comes "despite the fact that Israel already receives billions of dollars annually from American taxpayers and has a per-capita income far exceeding that of the Palestinians."
However, Ken Jacobson, associate national director for the Anti-Defamation League, called CAIR's release "a classically destructive statement by an organization that should be using this opportunity to think positively about the future of the Palestinians.
"Instead, it's just continuing to disseminate anti-Israel propaganda," Jacobson told Cybercast News Service.
Jacobson called the resettlement of Israelis living on the Gaza Strip "a very difficult and painful process.
"One has a great deal of sympathy for the people's lives that are being overturned," he stated. "Through the governing processes, difficult decisions have been made. Israel, realizing it had no partner for peace, had to decide what was best.
"Now, Israel is showing that it's not interested in holding onto territory," Jacobson said. "And now, this is an opportunity for the Palestinians to demonstrate, if they choose to, that they're serious about living in peace, and we will see.
"The big test is coming up," he added.
And I would like to know what CAIR's tax status is.
Well, for starters, CAIR forgot to identify the brutal occupiers. For my money that would be Arafat and his PLO/Fatah organization which deliberately kept the Palestinian people in brutal conditions to blackmail the world into supporting their cause while Arafat siphoned literally billions of international aid into his own bank accounts.
I actually have no problem having tax money assist Israel as our only real ally in the Middle East. Better there than to continue sinking it into the totalitarian black holes of Africa.
I'm right withya! NO welfare,ADC,Medicaid-NADA for Muslims in this country. As a taxpayer I protest and want this to stop.Not one penny for Muslims here, for any reason. They believe in an ideaology that wants to overthrow our way of life. Danger to the state- cut and dried.
And no- I don't care about their chubby cheeked little future terrorists babies. I care about MINE.
If homelessness and starvation doesn't drive them to the nearest Islamic paradise of their choosing, I suggest mass suicide- a-la Jim Jones.
I'll provide the Kool-Aid.
Want to start a petition,samadams2000? I'll sign it!
OK..how about no welfare for Muslims. Seems a fair trade.
Lets go all the way.
No $ for anybody anywhere.
No military assistance, No tsunami relief, No help of any kind.
Lets face the facts. None of them like us. They spend all their free time cursing Americans. Free time secured with American blood I might add. Lets see how they get along without our help.
Oh you're such a simple thinking man...er...yeah whats wrong with that solution? Can we implement it today?
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