Posted on 04/21/2006 7:06:05 AM PDT by SJackson
Humanitarian aid is universally understood to provide “assistance to victims of natural disasters, war situations or other catastrophic events.” However, now this definition is expanding to include aiding a terrorist regime. Under the guise of “humanitarian aid,” money is beginning to flow to the HAMAS government.
To date, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar have given the HAMAS led Palestinian Authority $192 million; the Saudis gave $92 million, and Qatar and Iran $50 each. Russia gave another $10 million, bringing total aid to the new PA administration to just over $200 million. The U.S. says it has authorized of $245 million for “Basic humanitarian assistance -- including health, food and education.”
In addition, the U.S. “will also provide $42 million to strengthen civil society and independent institutions.” UNRWA will distribute most of this aid. Since when do “education” and “strengthen[ing] civil society and independent institutions” qualify as “Humanitarian aid”?
HAMAS clearly has a different view of education and civil society: Culture minister ‘Atallah Abu Sabah announced, on April 8, the HAMAS government “would “work to reinforce the culture of resistance [i.e., violence and terrorism directed against Israel] and to instill it in the hearts of our boys and girls so that they may continue down the same path to the liberation of the Palestinian lands.” Surely, this is not the kind of education that the Administration, or the American public should aid.
Moreover, according to Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S) the daily international Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, reported on April 7, “the movement intended to continue operating its social, educational and charity institutions (the da'wah ).” The da’wah, the most effective tool in inculcating and indoctrinating its worldview among the Palestinian people – is first and foremost, hate propaganda and incitement.
Despite the very clear HAMAS statements about its agenda, aid money continues to flow. It seems the international donor community learned from HAMAS how to speak out of both sides of its mouth. While saying they refrain from funding the “terrorist” regime, they funnel money through alternative routes to HAMAS, but call it “humanitarian aid.” But as Gertrude Stein said: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Indeed, the terrorist organization Hamas, would not have won the election if, in the first place, the world community had refused to allow it to run. However, HAMAS was able to run because it addopted the name “List of Change and Reform,” just for the election. That was enough for the international community to allow HAMAS to run and to delude itself. Clearly they continue to do so.
The EU declared earlier this month that although $600 million of funds earmarked for the PA would be cut now that HAMAS has assumed control, some of that money “would now be channeled via humanitarian aid organisations.” French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, said on April 19, 2006, "It is absolutely out of the question ... to cut off humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Territories," And the French President Jacques Chirac declared that he supports “pursuing the aid on humanitarian grounds."
Yet, the money, according to the Palestinian Minister for Detainees Affairs Wasfi Qabha, will be used not to feed the Palestinian people, but first to pay the salaries of the Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons. Many were sentenced to life for murdering Israeli civilians and organizing suicide attacks on Israel.
On April 19, 2006, Qabha announced plans for his office to transfer PA funds, first, directly to Palestinian prisoners. Moreover, he said that the salaries for all prisoners will be raised to the level of the highest-paid among them.
Further, Detainee Minister Qabha criticized PA treasury officials who, during the transition following the January PA election, transferred salaries to the Authority’s civilian workers before paying the prisoners. In addition, he declared that the new PA government is investigating means of raising international demands to liberate Palestinian prisoners.
Yet the ranks of those governments willing to delude themselves and fund the HAMAS-led PA continues to grow. The latest to step forward is Britain. As British foreign secretary Jack Straw put it in on April 19, “we would like to have normal relations with them.” He further stated that the U.K. is “looking for ways to ensure that all of Britain's £56 million (over $100 million) contribution continued to reach Palestinians.”
NO foreign aid for any nation. If we want to give them money, hire them out to fight our battles, and pay the troops well. If the govt needs money, we will allow our companies to build plants to employ the citizens. Sell us your raw goods, or finished goods, otherwise starve. The exact same solution would apply to people in the States that are able, but unwilling to feed themselves, work or starve. Sounds cruel, but it is what was considered normal a short 50 years ago. Kudos to the Johnson administration, and special thanks to that most compassionate conservative too.
You know, we've been trying to reason with the Palestinians for over sixty years now. If it takes starving half of them to death for them to see the value of pursuing peace, then perhaps that's what we should be thinking about instead of easing the pain of those who wish to exterminate others.
Now, do I like that prospect? Hell no. Is it the reality we have to recognize. Shaking my head, but I believe it is.
We simply cannot allow folks to vote in terrorists and then rescue them from the downside of having done that.
Lol...not what I meant, but that is pretty funny.
Bump, when the WOT started I figure Yasar Arafat and Hamas would be at the top of the list. THat what I get for believing ANYTHING coming out of D.C. All D.C. knows how to do is tax/tax/tax spend/spend/spent and ignore/ignow/ignore.
Disagree. There is a time and place for foreign aid. This (Hamas) is clearly not one of them.
If you want to feed hungry people, fine. Send them food, not money.
Money buys guns, bullets, rockets, explosives, and money for the Imam at the Mosk who in turn preaches even more hate into their minds.
Send them food aid only.
I can't believe how insane our government is. They get enough money from other islamic terrorist countries.
When they come to kill you and your family don't ask who let them live.
You just don't seem to get it, do you. They want only ONE thing, to make the whole world for "allah". That includes killing everyone who doesn't convert and believe.
Besides, Genocide it isn't. Islam is is not a race. And there is no such thing as a race of "Palestinians" either. Islam is a blood cult with membership steming from all "races".
Why is the US the food stamp org of the world? Why isn't starving to death a future terrorist considered the humanitarian thing to do? By preventing their starvation, is not the US and other nations aiding and abetting terrorism? Are not the humanitarian needs of the victims of palestinian terror more worthy? Do not the victims of palestinian terror suffer more pain?
It occurs to me that starving future generations of terror is the humanitarian and the right thing to do...and could eventually lead to world peace...
Just In Case Your Blood Pressure Wasn't High Enough Already Ping!
Help me I don't want to work need all I can get Soon or I might die.
That is all for now.
I wonder why we in the west are so stupid to keep funding those who hate us.
"I wonder why we in the west are so stupid to keep funding those who hate us."
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No idea. I would hope our leaders think greater stability means less of a threat to our interests. But it doesn't make any sense to fund a group that creates massive amounts of instability.
Go figure.
Is it any wonder that Muslims see terrorism as an effective tool in the war against western culture? We and other non Muslim nations pay them to do it. Who would have guessed that our own politicians would be our worst enemies? The world is indeed a strange place.
I would not willingly give the Palestinians one dime. If they are not given hand outs . they just might go some where to get a job.
If they ain't willing to work, and their good buddy allah won't meet their needs, why should American taxpayers?
LAME
RIGHT ON! I'm sick and tired of helping these ungrateful, lazy moslem bastards. The only way they'll reform is if we break their stuff and leave it broken!!! NO MORE HANDOUTS
islam is garbage.
Nice try! They have called for our extermination or conversion. There is no other middle ground when it comes to mudslimes.
I don't have to defend myself for calling for the elimination of any group that has stated that is their objective first.
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