So does that mean they are not going to accept our $3 million in foreign aid each year that they pay the families of suicide terrorists?
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There is a LOT more than $3 million going to the PA .... how about $325 million in 2016, just through UNRWA, & through USAID averaging $400 million a year. They also pay Palestinian creditors (Israeli energy companies and East Jerusalem hospitals, for example) ....$75 million in 2017.
Here’s a good write up on this issue with many details:
U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians (dtd 12-16-16)
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf
Here’s part of the “summary” at the beginning:
Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion in bilateral economic and non-lethal security assistance to the Palestinians, who are among the world’s largest per capita recipients of international foreign aid.
From FY2008 to the present, annual Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance to the West Bank and Gaza Strip has averaged around $400 million, with much of this going toward
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-administered project assistance (through grants and contracts), and the rest toward budget support for the Palestinian Authority (PA)
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Annual International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) non-lethal assistance for PA security forces and the criminal justice sector in the West Bank has averaged around $100 million. In line with Obama Administration requests, baseline funding levels for both ESF (including ESF Overseas Contingency Operations, or ESF - OCO) and INCLE have declined since FY2013, with FY2017 requested annual assistance amounts of $327.6 million for ESF and $35 million for INCLE. Because of congressional concerns that, among other things, U.S. aid to the Palestinians might be diverted to Palestinian terrorist groups, the aid is subject to a host of vetting and oversight requirements and legislative restrictions.
In addition to bilateral aid, the United States is the largest single - state donor to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Sure the PA has gotten $5B in aid from the US since 1993, but only $3M of that goes to suicide terrorists every year, since they just haven’t been blowing themselves up much lately, and they’ve had to include the occasional moron who pulls a knife on armed police or soldiers as “suicide terrorists” for taking a knife to a gun fight, just to keep the item in their national budget. If you don’t use it, you lose it.