Posted on 01/25/2017 2:29:31 PM PST by Eleutheria5
ormer US President Barack Obama, in his waning hours, quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which Congress had been blocking.
The Trump administration announced it is freezing the move.
The State Department is reviewing the last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million dollars to the Palestinians late last week.
Kerry formally notified Congress that State would release the money Friday morning, just hours before President Donald Trump took the oath of office.
The funds supposedly intended for reconstruction in Gaza and good governance programs for the Palestinian Authority were being blocked by at least two Republican lawmakers Ed Royce (R-CA), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Kay Granger (R-TX), who sits on the House Appropriations Committee in response to Palestinian attempts to join international organizations, from which it intended to launch more international campaigns against Israel and before a peace deal with Israel.
Such holds are generally respected but are not legally binding.
When asked about the transfer by a reporter during Tuesdays press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that [Trump] is very concerned about how taxpayer money is spent, whether its sent overseas and what we get for it in terms of the relationship or our support for a democracy or aid to another country for their defenses. But hes going to be examining all aspects of the budget
(Excerpt) Read more at unitedwithisrael.org ...
And others in government are following his lead.
But Hamas was counting on that money for new tunnels and missiles.
Obummer was aiding and abetting the enemy.
WOOHOO!!! GO President Trump GO!!!
This is the way things should be done, and we have a F5 Tornado in the White House cleaning the ‘SWAMP’!!!
Wonder how many rockets Hamas was counting on buying now that Trump stopped it. Someone gonna be mad.
Every day Trumo does good it just makes me angrier at what this nation has been enforced to endure the past 25 years
I imagine the Undo key is getting a lot of work. The Queue is pretty long.
I am not tired of winning yet.
Just a rhetorical question. Where does John Kerry get the authority to send money to anyone? I understand the Obama Shuffle with the Pen and the phone. Doesn’t Obama have to sign off or does anyone in his Admin feel free to steal $221Mil?
REAL AMERICANS understand this...WOOHOO
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But how will Hamas meet it’s obligations to the Clinton Foundation? That’s how the game is played.
Obummer is the enemy.
Nothing about a Freeze in this source article.
Misleading.
Spicer in this report does not confirm any freeze.
Reportedly, other sources are claiming a freeze, but not the White House, according to the WH Press Briefing.
Love it. I guess it would have been smart for them to cash THAT check fast! Ooops.
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September 7, 2016.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israels Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR.
According to Channel 1s foreign news editor Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, revealed that Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983.
The documents obtained by Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez purportedly show that Abbas, code-named Krotov (mole), was involved with the Soviets while Mikhail Bogdanov, today Vladimir Putins envoy to the Middle East. was stationed in Damascus.
Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, who both claimed a willingness to meet while decrying the other for allegedly refusing. ..."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/soviet-documents-said-to-reveal-abbas-was-kgb-agent-in-syria/
-—Such holds are generally respected but are not legally binding.-—
perhaps nothing happened except a press release the money was stopped
As Trump told the Jewish community after Obama’s failure to veto the UN vote on Israel, “Things are going to change on January 20”
They sure have!!!
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