Rethinking Palestinian Aid

IBD Editorials ^ | November 11, 2010 | Staff

[Kaslin]

Middle East: Washington is handing out $150 million in direct aid to help the Palestinian Authority with its budget deficit. This would be asinine even if we didn't have profound budget problems of our own.

The funds will come out of a $200 million aid package — part of an even larger $900 million lump of aid — that the Obama administration plans to send the PA during the fiscal year that just began.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday proudly said that the advanced aid shows the U.S. is standing "with our Palestinian friends even during difficult economic times as we have here at home."

Or maybe the White House is just trying to shuttle to the West Bank as much aid as it can before the House turns Republican in January and the GOP starts asking the administration questions about its Palestinian aid plans.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from Florida has a record of opposing aid to the Palestinian Authority, which she considers a terrorist sanctuary, and is likely to be the next chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ros-Lehtinen sees the Palestinian problem with a clear eye. Instead of talking emptily of America's "Palestinian friends," she thinks the U.S. should demand that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah party "reform their charter, renounce and combat violent extremism, stop using Israel-free maps, and recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state."

[livius]

Or maybe the White House is just trying to shuttle to the West Bank as much aid as it can before the House turns Republican in January and the GOP starts asking the administration questions about its Palestinian aid plans.

That's exactly what it is. Seeing him do something this brazen sort of takes your breath away, though.

[hal ogen]

The best aid package for the so-called “palistinians” would be $150.000.000 worth of bombs dropped on them from 20,000 feet.

[Carley]

Sickening in the extreme.

[Trod Upon]

Better yet...free chemical sterilization for the women tired of being brood mares.

[onedoug]

islamist planning murder with islamists.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Earth to our government !!

WE ARE BROKE

we can't afford to give a DIME to ANYONE!

STOP ALL FOREIGN AID NOW!!

[cameraeye]

What the h$ll did they do with the $900 billion dollars they/we gave the last year? Tell me they spend it all already Hillary? Stop picking my pocket you witch!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Just a Muzzie lovin Commie bein a Muzzie lovin Commie. Nuff said.

[dr_who]

Thanks so much Hillary for throwing good money after evil.

[Ciexyz]

this crap makes me want to puke.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I never thought about it the first time, hence “rethinking” it is something I can’t do.

I’d like to know why in BLOODY HELL the Arabs cannot support their Pali brothers? I mean with anything except weapons.

Actually, I couldn’t care less. Why we are giving them a dime is beyond stupid.

[SJackson]

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