Palestinians are punished by $200m cut in aid from US

Donald Macintyre
The Independent
Oct 1, 2011

The United States Congress has blocked nearly $200m in aid for the Palestinians, threatening projects such as food aid, health care, and support for efforts to build a functioning state.

The decision to delay the payments runs counter to the wishes of the Obama administration and reflects Congressional anger at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s so far unrealised pursuit of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation and statehood recognition at the UN.

The freezing of the funds, which were to have been dispersed in the US fiscal year that ends today, is the most tangible sign yet of the seriousness of Congressional leaders’ threats of an even wider halt to funding in the coming year if Mr Abbas continues with his actions at the UN. It was strongly condemned yesterday by the Palestinian Authority. There have been persistent demands in Congress to withhold up to $600m – the average amount given by the US in bilateral assistance to the West Bank and Gaza every year since 2008 – in the next financial year over the issue.

The administration remains, as does Congress, opposed to the Palestinians’ application for full UN membership, which Mr Abbas submitted last week. But it argues that assistance to the Palestinian people is what a US official described as “an essential part of the US commitment to a secure future and two-state solution for Palestinians”.

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45 Responses to “Palestinians are punished by $200m cut in aid from US”

  1. About Time Shut Down The UN NOW Get The F OUT Now Shut down Trade with China and Russia and any Commie country We do not Need Venezuala OIl Rise Up and Tak back Their Own Country.

    If The Mexican Country can’t control their borders then a Napom Patrol is needed The Game is Over. Start Investigating American Co’s Hiring Mexicans Over Whites it is real simple to do the Ratio of white and blacks to Mex All Americans are saying so just go to the Unemployment offices.

    If You aint an Americanised born and raised and sound English Slang no matter what race in America and work and pay taxes and raise a family then you can bet your britches we have a problem. I have a wright to say speak English or shut Up Period. LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY’s WAY OF LIFE BEHIND YOU GOT IT OR LEAVE ! LIBERALISUM SUCKS DONKEY DICK!

    • …and I have the “right” to correct your shitty grammar.

  2. I can’t believe they WANT to join the U.N. They should be in the streets reaming Abass’s ass.Abolish the U.N. Yea,thats the ticket!

  3. We shouldn’t be sending our $$$ overseas in the 1st place! Why the fuck should I be upset about this?

  4. Can someone please tell me why alex has given next to zero coverage of the wallstreet protest? PLEASSE TELL ME CUZ IT BOGGLES THE MIND how he is not supporting the peopl e that really are trying to take this fight to a new level rather than just talking about it, we all know the corruption exists, all we are doing in this site is arguing about useless issues in this time.
    And no the protesters are not cia, micheal moore is not cia , your mother is not cia.

    • and before the aqusations fly i am not a fucking troll or a government agent you fucking tards that are thinking that.

      • Shucks, I wasn’t thinking that and I’m a first class tard….

    • BECAUSE THE THIER BRAINDEAD ROBOTS TOWING THE COMMUNIST PARTY LINE. THEY DONT STAND FOR FREEDOM OR LIBERTY! WHY WOULD ALEX SUPPORT THEM?

  5. The PLO can afford to pay the fine, after all they have suckered this Nation (USA) out of millions for years.

    • Yeah and the Israelis have suckered us out of TENS OF BILLIONS idiot

      • Not to mention that we fight all our wars for them so really it’s trillions. Oh but the Palestinians are the problem.

      • This country is in the moral cesspool. The only reason we still exist is our support for Israel. Almighty God said about Israel, those that bless you I will bless, and those that curse you I will curse(Genesis 12:3). Everything is on the prophetic timetable.

        • You sir are a comedian!!!

    • Dear Watching as it all unfolds,

      Since Israel was created from Smoke and Mirrors back in 1948 they have cost America

      TRILLIONS….(not to mention all the dead and wounded) I’m an atheist but I will pray to

      your SKY God that when you have your next bowel movement HE will allow you to, not only

      evacuate your bowels, but also the excrement that has built up between your ears….. Peace…

      • Israel become a nation overnight as God told the prophet(Isaiah 66:8) and they will NEVER be ousted from their land. I don’t have the faith to be an atheist as my head is too big to fit into the toilet.LOL

        • If God founded Israel let him write them a check.
          Maybe he can cash in one of those side streets made of gold.

      • I don’t mind being a comedian for laughter is good like medicine(Proverbs 17:22). But, the fool has said in his heart there is no God(Psalm 14:1). The Bible is the MOST DOCUMENTED book…EVER. To dismiss the Bible, you have to dismiss EVERYTHING ever written. The second most documented work is the Ilad by Homer with a mere 643 manuscripts. You don’t have to believe in God to be judged by him or believe in hell to go there.lol

  6. I know that people will say ‘Good, we should stop funding everyone’ but guess what, they’re not going to stop Israel EVER. All this funding that Palestinians get, a small fraction of what the Jews get, goes to repairing the damage that we paid for via Israel. They are not ‘on the dole’, if it weren’t for U.S. support for Israel they wouldn’t need aid.

    • they’re not going to stop *aiding* Israel ever

  7. We need to stop funding both sides of every conflict in the world, I’m sick and tired of our money getting sent to the other side of the world to rebuild shit our government blew up or helped blow up (monetary and weapons aid) while the infrastructure of our country crumbles. Peace in the Middle East will never exist until the U.S. stops meddling and lets these idiots kill one another off completely.

    • You people who think it’s an even conflict have no realistic concept of what Zionism actually is.

    • this is ALL due to the military industrial complex.
      They make weapons, they arm two countries, they cause shit and both countries buy more weapons, without war someone woulnt be making billioons per day on weapon sales, does this profit go back to the people of the u.s ?
      you guessed it. yes they end fireign aid all over the place fstraioght from your pockets so these people have some good hard cash but it is all spent on weapons that are bought from the same place.

  8. Another Dispatch from the United States of Israel

    The Palestinians are terrorists and the Jews are god’s Chosen People… Plus, they were

    given their land by the god of the Book of Fairy Tales known as the Bible… Plus, like more than

    a million of them were killed off by the Nazis….. Jesus Christ, we killed off like 3 million

    Vietnamese in that fucked up War in Vietnam and ya don’t hear them whining

    about that 24/7…. Where’s their goddamn museum in DC…????

  9. For the life of me, with all of the hard core NWO attacks on the American People, the British Run-CIA even now killing American Citizens, regardless if you think that the Yemen Pentagon Employee (Al Malawki) was really killed, these people are still showing that Americans will be targeted for simply making a Youtube Video and all you people do is fall into this Israel/Palestinian scripted mess. This isnt real. The facts remains that each time the PA (Palestinian Authority) came close to solving this, they walked away.
    All of these people are following a script and its time that the US stopped ALL foreign aid.

    Israel was not carved out from Palestine, being that there was no Palsetine before The Roman Empire, those jews have ALWAYS been there even when Rome said it was Palistine, in one form or another, and the real home land for the so called Palestinians was and is Jordan.
    The West Bank, is also a matrix scam that Jordan came in, stole and being that Jordan and other Arab Nations, have begun to colonize Europe all the way deep into Africa-the Palestinian Issue is such made up UN Drama thats its sickening.

    • Well said.

      Read our post on this issue for an in-depth analysis:

      essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/08/century-of-hegelian-conflicts-in-middle.html

    • Call them what you want, but there were lots of different peoples living in what was referred to as Palestine until 1948.

      Regardless, the Zionist state will destroy itself eventually

    • The Israelis are EXTERMINATIONISTS. They’ve killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians, many of them and their ancestors were the ones killing NON-ARAB whites in the Soviet Union decades before. A ‘goy’ or a non-Jews is the same to them and stupid right wingers support them just because their skin is lighter.

  10. How about we quit borrowing money from Red China and QUIT givin ANYONE any aid.

    Git the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US,
    AND
    Git the US out of the ME and the ME out of the US!

    We are BROKE!

  11. This is a significant move because it signals a shift in the previously “bi-lateral” US policy.

    It means that the lines are being drawn up now, dumping diplomacy and laying the groundwork for a future military conflict.

  12. Read our post on this issue to understand why the US-UK tax payers are still being forced by the globalists to continue funding the fictitious entity known as “Palestine” :

    essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/08/century-of-hegelian-conflicts-in-middle.html

    • truthiscontagious.com/2011/06/14/to-all-the-morons-who-say-palestine-never-existed

  13. So what??? Who gives a damn?

    It’s a foreign entity, why should we give any of them money?

    Plus PLO’s official stand is that no Jews shall live in their country. Now why is it bad if Jews want to live in Israel, without being disturbed, but it is ok for Palestinians to say “Jew-free” country. Plus we know how they have maps portraying no Israel on them. Again, if the Israel would have done that, all hell would have broken loose.

    • Fuck you, the Jews come and bulldoze people’s houses down and kick people out of their house and kill them. Don’t think they won’t come for us next.

    • You have to recognize that prior to the creation of Israel, all of these people lived in relative peace with each other (relative meaning there were always minor squabbles).

      There was a far better chance for establishing a nation state of Palestine and giving everyone equal protection under law, rather than establishing a Zionist state where one people have all the rights, and other people have a less rights. That is what came to be known as Apartheid in South Africa and we know how that turned out.

      Israel was the last country in the world to maintain diplomatic ties to South Africa under Apartheid government, and we know why, because they believe in this model for their state.

      It is not up to the Palestinians to solve this problem.

  14. About damn time they cut their aid. Last time I checked it was a federal terrorism charge if you financially supported a terrorist organization. And the PLO and all the other groups running the show over there support terrorism against the RECOGNIZED state of Israel.

    Plaxant.com

    • Israel has killed innocent people in their region for years, israel are the true terrorists. Yet we continue to support them.

      • Can’t argue with that.

      • Agreed, Israel is the real problem.

      • Bingo!! How can a racist state which slaughters innocent people on a flotilla on the open seas or slaughters babies with white phosphorus deliberately or slaughters young Palestinian men to plunder their body organs for profit NOT be terrorists?

        • DO YOU KNOW HOW CRAZY YOU SOUND?

      • MUSLIM RATS HAVE ALSO KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE REGION FOR YEARS. THESE TWO FACTIONS HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH OTHER FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. WE MUST STOP WRITING CHECKS TO ALL SIDES! KEEP OUR MONEY HERE AT HOME, STOP INTERVIENING AND LET THEM BATTLE TO THE DEATH FOR THIER WORTHLESS LITTLE PIECE OF LAND. WE NEED TO STOP GIVING A SHIT ABOUT EITHER SIDE! FUCK EM ALL. WE PROBABLY GIVE A TRILLION $’S AYEAR TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE’NT WORTH THE SHIT I SCRAPE OFF BOOT! LET SOMEONE ELSE FOOT THE BILL FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS OR LET THEM STAND ON THIER OWN TWO FEET AND KEEP THIER THIRD WORLD BANNANA REPUBLICS ALIVE…..OR LET THEM RETURN TO THE DUST FROM WHENCE THEY CAME.

    • DAMN STRAIGHT!

  15. The UN blocked $200m in aid for the Palestinians it is very harmful for the Palestinians.

    • Good.

  16. That should read: He invented the term “Palistinian”…

    The area was called Palestine but there was no sign or a unified nation or unified common cause. There was a collection of small tribal enclaves that often were at odds with one another. The return of the Jews, however, did present a reason to rally round a goal. This conflict has been going on since the late 19th century.

    Read the Hamas charter to get a full appreciation of the Muslim mindset. Then form your opinions based on facts, not emotion.

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