Posted on 01/30/2009 10:10:37 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
A U.S. official says President Barack Obama has authorized more aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to help them recover from damage caused during a recent Israeli offensive.
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Friday in Jerusalem that Mr. Obama has approved $20 million in emergency food and medical assistance for Gaza.
Fighting may cause more setbacks
Mitchell says it is important to consolidate a durable and sustainable cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers while immediately addressing Gaza's humanitarian needs. He also says fighting in the region may cause more setbacks to peace efforts.
Mitchell says Washington remains committed to, "actively and aggressively seeking a lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors."
US envoy meets with Israeli opposition leader
The U.S. envoy continued his first official tour of the region Friday by meeting with Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Mr. Netanyahu is a front-runner in the race to become Israel's next prime minister after elections next month.
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Kinda hilariously tragicomical, too, in that Obama was created and placed into office by Jews [George Soros, David Geffen, David Axelrod, Cass Sunstein, Rahm Emanuel, etc etc etc].
We give money to the Israelis to help them keep their country secure. Money they use, in part, to conduct military operations against palestinian Arab terrorists. We then send money to the palestinian Arabs who use it to fight the Israelis. Seems like everyone would be in the same place, and it would be a lot cheaper, if we stopped giving money altogether.
$20 million should buy a lot of rockets from Iran.
We shouldn’t be sending money to anyone outside of this country until we get back on our feet. This is crazy.
They’re aware. It doesn’r phase them. I work with a Jewish lib, trust me he’ll never see the obvious. He’ll think the boxcars are taking him somewhere he can work with dignity.
“We give money to the Israelis to help them keep their country secure. Money they use, in part, to conduct military operations against palestinian Arab terrorists. We then send money to the palestinian Arabs who use it to fight the Israelis. Seems like everyone would be in the same place, and it would be a lot cheaper, if we stopped giving money altogether.”
It does seem to be an enormous waste of money. Good point.
How many jobs would this create at 50K. He just put 400 more people on the unemployment line.
Is it just me or is anyone else seeing and/or listening/getting the rising undercurrent of RAGE in this country???
Its not ‘just you’.
The next time one starts in with the "six million ...." I'm going to stop them and make them explain their logic in supporting zer0.
Don’t twist the point you know I was making. Your tagline is silly. We are in no agreement.
Doesn’t that violate the Foriegn Assistant Act’s provisions on funding terrorist organizations? Arrest him.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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$20 million in humanitarian aid is far better than $100 million in arms.
Actually, I wasn’t sure. Glad we cleared it up, though....(chuckle)
Its no big deal, lots of day traders are looking for work these days. Soon as it warms up, he’ll be out on the streets, squeegee in hand.
Uh, I thought that we were in a depression? Money for terrorists? Wtf. We are in serious trouble.
Kill Israeli children, win 20 million dollars.
Remember, this is the guy who was hijacking the Presidential seal and talking and acting like he was Pres before the election ended. He has been chomping at the bit for a long time. He is definitely in a hurry; has a timetable to follow, I'm sure.
Uncle Sam, in the words of Jesus: "...what you are going to do, do quickly."
Just like illegal aliens, if at least 20 million Americans did so, is the IRS going to put 20M of us in jail??
Dear Barry Zer-O:
Cocerning the $20MM in fuding you just provided to the Palistinians for “humanitarian” purposes:
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on.
This is an epiphany of stupid for me.
He’s only refunding their contributions to his campaign...
I thought the same thing
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