"I think it's justice deserved! No money for PA! Pennsylvania should have continued with the recounts! They..."
[off camera] "Uh, Emily? 'PA' is Palestinian Authority, not Pennsylvania"
"Nevermind"
Posted on 12/15/2016 6:21:18 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) actions of supporting and promoting terrorism against Israel have finally caught up with it, and the US has completely cut its direct support to the PA in 2016 over its belligerent conduct.
PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah stated earlier this month that the US has completely stopped funding the PA’s general budget. “2016 is about to end, no shekel or agora, or dinar or dollar has been paid,” he said in an interview with the Voice of Palestine Radio, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
Hamdallah’s remark corroborates a statement made by US Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson in April. At a hearing with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress following the release of PMW’s report, titled “The PA’s Billion Dollar Fraud,” Patterson was challenged by committee chairman Ed Royce as to why the US was funding the PA, given documentation that the PA was still paying salaries to terrorist prisoners.
“None of our money goes to this [salaries to prisoners]. It’s not fungible in that respect. Our money goes essentially to pay PA debts to Israel and to other creditors,” Patterson told the committee.
Many other countries have likewise cut off funding to the PA, totaling a loss of 62% – 70%, according to PA government ministers.
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OK! I’ll tell you!!!
The theory goes like this: if you give them money, they’ll be nice.
Stupid a$$ theory, but that’s the theory.
I am reminded of the Barbary Pirates and the scam they had going until the U.S. Navy settled the issue. They took hostages by capturing European and American ships and demanded ransom. Everyone kept paying the ransom, so they kept taking the hostages. Stephen Decatur arrived with a squadron and issued an ultimatum to the Bey (sort of the local Caliph), either hand over the prisoners or we will reduce your city to ruins. The Bey demanded payment. Decatur flatly refused. The Bey came back and said: “OK. You won’t pay money; how about (a certain number of) barrels of gunpowder”. Decatur’s classic reply: “If you insist upon receiving gunpowder as tribute, you must expect to receive (cannon) balls with it.”
I don’t know why we have been giving them any money-—but I have my suspicions. I would stop giving aid to the Israelis and the PA.
No.
The drop in demand for oil has caught up with it.
Blackmailers, extortioners need something to sell that people want.
Give them a choice: if you want to live under the PA, then you go move to Gaza.
If you want to keep calling yourself ‘Palestinian,’ then go move to Jordan.
If you don’t want either of those options, then you can start being a human being again and live under the flag of Eretz Yisrael.
A good chunk of them would probably be DNA tested and shocked to hear the news about their ancestors.
Lol. You slay me. (Figuratively speaking of course). :)
I support aid for Israel, but I do believe there is an argument to be made for stopping. I don’t agree with it.
The United States standing with Israel is essentially the U.S. standing with the Jewish people.
In this old world, with the buzzards always circling over Israel’s head, I am very glad we are on record supporting it.
Ed
DEFUND totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.
Compounded daily at prime rates, plus a few commodity trades that paid off. Take back all the money he stole, and she’d still be filthy rich.
Defunding the Palis means no Christmas bonus for the Swiss Banks who get the money they steal.
Never mind?! Never mind?! Those fascist pigs are starving the PA, just like the Nazis did in the Warsaw Ghetto! Why, terrorist attacks are way down in Jerusalem, because of their racist not funding of the PA! How do you like them apples? Huh?
It was a joke about confusing the acronym. Geez, switch to decaf...
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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It was a counter joke, also channeling a libtardian.
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