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 ...
[[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.
Let’s reward bad behavior and punish good behavior. Like it’s never been tried before. Let me know how that turns out.
I know.
The reality is far more obscene than anything we could think to say.
It’ll be on the news soon enough anyway.
Where are the principled conservatives in the Republican majority congress to deny funding this?
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.
They deny funding it alright.
Our tax dollars going to fund tunnels to destroy Israel. Wonderful. This country is ripe for judgement and it’s beginning now.
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.
Who is Gaza? It ain’t a country. Whose name goes on the check?
Check? What’s wrong with cash?/s
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.
If Trump wins, they better not get used to it.
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.
“why ???????”
Because Congress approved the funding.
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.
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.
Not that I want to give aid to Puerto Rico but why Gaza and not Puerto Rico?
I have personally seen some of the 24 bedroom houses built for HAMAS with American tax dollars.
Yep, evil pays well, for a while...
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.
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