Posted on 06/20/2002 7:00:16 AM PDT by Elkiejg
| The U.S. gives financial aid to friends AND enemies. That we taxpayers give money to our nation's friends is easy to understand. That we give it to those who hate us, despise us and who cheer when airliners crash into our buildings is not.
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from Brooklyn and Queens, is saying it again. The U.S. should cut off financial aid to Yasser Arafat's band of hoodlums. We should stop feeding the dog that bites us at every opportunity.
As the Congressman points out, American taxpayers gave Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority a Billion dollars in the last ten years. 100 million dollars on average every year. What have we gotten in exchange? Zip. Nada.
Security has not gotten better in the West Bank and Gaza. Not even in Jerusalem. In fact, it's gotten worse because there is a systematic campaign underway to kill Israeli children in schools, worshippers in synagogues and soldiers on patrol. Some say this war is sponsored by Arafat and his murderous minions. Clearly, he's paid only the most transparent lip service to "condemnation" of terror attacks against Israelis. His Fatah organization has sponsored and conducted many of these attacks, including some of the most recent.
The U.S. is scheduled to send Arafat and the Palestinian Authority $282 million this year. We sent nearly 279 million last year.
He thinks Americans are truly stupid.
Nearly 119 million the year before. And almost 80 million in 1999. Each year the number of Israeli citizens killed by Palestinian terrorist has gone up from 3 in 1999, to 244 this year, at this writing.
Arafat says U.S. aid does not pay for terrorism.
No. U.S. aid goes to pay for everything else. That way the Authority can use its own money to buy the bombs.
The Bush Administration should listen to this particular Democrat, Anthony Weiner. And until there is peace, that money should be used to help pay for the war against terror.
The cut-off of aid to Arafat et al, should be immediate and complete and any restoration of aid should be tied to proven performance for peace, and substantive movement forward in the peace process. Let Arafat's hand be on the money switch. The hand that allows civilians to be attacked is the hand that turns off the flow of money.
Like turning off the lights.
Why hasn't anyone thought of this to get that animal to truly stop the attacks?
He sends suicide bombers (if anyone truly thinks that he isn't tied into Hamas and what they are doing, I've got some swampland prime real estate to sell), one after the other, and once Israel jumps up and sends in the troops, ol' Yassir screams like a stuck pig. "We didn't know about that! I call for an end to this practice!"
They quit for a while, Israel lets up, and the cycle starts all over again. What the heck are we doing financing this crap!?
I believe Arafat is going senile, but it appears he still has a few brain cells still functioning properly.
Why send all this money there at all, let alone send it for military use.
When did taxpayers become responsible for the worlds welfare checks? Heck, we even tried to get rid of our own!
Taxes are too high. We few labor so the world can live off the other half of it.
*sigh* The ants are beginnibg to tire.
A new muffler.
Also, from what I was able to find, the money to the Palestinians does not go to the Palestine Authority as the author states, but through NGO's for specific projects. Does someone have proof that Arafat gets a check from the US? I'm not a Pali supporter, I just want the facts.
Lastly, to ask what we've gotten in exchange for this money is real chutzpah. What have we gotten in exchange from Israel?
We send money to everyone. We support the world.
(Tax break? Sorry, we can't afford it.)
The cost of bomb-making has gone up recently, I guess.
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