This week, three young boys were buried in Israel. The victims of kidnapping, they had been murdered by terrorists from Hamas.
National Review By Rand Paul
The boys, Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and Naftali Frenkel, a 16-year-old dual U.S.–Israeli citizen, were like any other children — their lives ready to be lived, their dreams ahead of them. They grew up in a nation that was at war but desperately wanted peace.
It is a peace they did not live to see, nor will others their age if action is not taken.
The Obama administration responded with its condolences to the families and to the state of Israel, as well it should have. But it also called, as it always does in situations like this, for restraint on the part of Israel.
How many times must Israel hear this call? Children are murdered — please show restraint. Cafés and buses are bombed — please show restraint. Towns are victimized by hundreds of rockets — please show restraint while you bury your dead once again.
I think it is clear by now: Israel has shown remarkable restraint. It possesses a military with clear superiority over that of its Palestinian neighbors, yet it does not respond to threat after threat, provocation after provocation, with the type of force that would decisively end their conflict.
But sometimes restraint can work against you. Sometimes you just have to say, enough is enough.
Nearly six weeks ago, I proposed a bill called the “Stand With Israel Act.” Its purpose was to cut off the flow of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority if it allied with Hamas — the same Hamas that just murdered these three teenagers.
Apr 29, 2014 Sen. Rand Paul introduced the Stand with Israel Act of 2014. This legislation halts all U.S. aid to the Palestinian government until they agree to a ceasefire and recognize the right of Israel to exist. The bill, S. 2265, can be found HERE.
“I introduced legislation to make all future aid to the Palestinian government conditional upon the new unity government putting itself on the record recognizing the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state and agreeing to a lasting peace.”
So let’s be clear: U.S. taxpayer money may soon be going to an entity kidnapping and murdering Israeli and U.S. children.
That is unconscionable, and it must end.
There are those who have said my bill is unnecessary, that current law will allow the Obama administration to cut off the aid money.
I don’t believe that, and no supporter of Israel should believe that. Remember, the Obama administration did not respond to these murders by calling for Palestinian/Hamas aid to be cut off. Instead, they called for “restraint.” The Obama administration chose to lecture Israel instead of punish the perpetrators.
I call for all aid to the Palestinian Authority — every penny — to be cut off. Not one more U.S. taxpayer dollar should flow to Hamas or to the Palestinian Authority as long as it is allied with Hamas.
Some say my position is too hard-line, too strong. To them I say, how many more children must die before it is acceptable to cut off the flow of money to terrorists?
I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting my Stand with Israel Act, and urge the Senate to take action immediately upon its return.
I asked for unanimous consent to pass this bill weeks ago. I will do so again next week. Whoever wants to come down to object will need to explain to the parents of these teenagers why the United States of America is funding their murderers.
— Rand Paul represents Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.
GOOD, even if it doesn’t go through, it’s still a damn clear statement!!
I would not give a bag of moldy dog food if that little bitch in the last picture was starving to death.
Obamination, an AssWhole just like the SandMaggots, will never willingly reduce or end his support for terrorists using our tax revenue. Congress will never pass and he would never sign an effective bill cutting them off without including an escape clause allowing Obamination to keep the flood gates open.
I curse and condemn all calls for restraint and those who make them. There will be neither peace nor security for Israel or anyone else while the world is infested with Muslims. Wiping Gaza and the Judea/Samaria clean would be a good start but woefully insufficient.
good for him but how far will it get? while he’s at it he should ask for defundiing of the FSA
Oh cmon, how else are our tax dollars going to get wasted?
oh wait, obama is still in office
The Pallies are nothing but murderers and savages. They shouldn’t receive another penny.
Gloves off, folks. Time to flatten Gaza and the West Bank and re-take all of Israel. Leave them no place to return to.
Necessary but insufficient. It is necessary to entirely eradicate Isdamn from the face of the earth.
I’m glad to see I’m not alone…
All support for Rand Paul. We must all write and phone our Senators and our government representatives to urge them, if they want our support in the future to support this Bill to stop all aid to hamas and the palestine savages. Let us give the three fingered saluters our raised middle finger, followed by our thumbs down sign.
“Please show restraint”, damn, I’m so sick of that nonsense! Showing restraint is ‘turning the other cheek’, and it NEVER works!
Tell me, anyone, of one single, solitary time throughout history, when giving in to a bully EVER achieved peace? All it achieves is more of the same–I rest my case.
I sincerely hope Israel hits the muslim filth hard for the senseless, vicious, typically cowardly murder of the three youths, and to hell with all the brainwashed western howls of “Jewish brutality”.
In ancient times, God would have sent David and his armies to wipe out every man, woman, and child of Islam. We should do the same thing. Islam is NOT peaceful. It is an evil political cult and must be stopped. God bless the families of those boys. I don’t know how one endures the murder of a child.
I agree Karen, but in times of old (when men were bold) people were smarter than they are today, in some respects anyway.
islam will NEVER integrate with us, they have said so; nor will we ever willingly be part of that murderous, backward, islamic filth, so the only real solution is to do what they would have done way back then–and there would be peace.
He’s looking better every day for future presidency.
Rand Paul knows that is not going to happen. The Palestinians can’t do it. So it saves us a bunch of money. Good move.
Re the picture “Tens of thousands of Israelis came out to mourn the 3 boys.” Where are the women? Can’t see any. Are they segregated in Israel, too?
It’s possible if they are Orthodox. But you can’t see the whole crowd.
WHAT? Absolutely NO money to Hamas and Absolutely NO money to Palestinian Authority Muslim terrorist organization!
Not another penny to Hamas or PLO/Palestinian Authority TERRORISTS!
The world’s infidel taxpayers are disgusted that for many years they have been FORCED by corrupt, evil Western leaders to finance muslim terrorists.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4384/eu-us-funding-palestinians
EU, U.S., Funding Incentives to Kill Jews
by Guy Millière June 30, 2014
Children living in territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority, funded by Europe and the U.S., are encouraged to kill Jews and destroy Israel. There can be no peace so long as financial incentives to kill Jews and destroy Israel continue to be dangled in front of Palestinian populations. It is this aggression, and not humanitarian relief, that much of the well-intended international funding — with no conditions whatsoever attached — is used for.
The only conclusion one can draw is the EU and the U.S. are actually on the side of terrorism. So long as the EU and the U.S continue to fund entities which openly promote acts of terror, they should be held criminally liable as accessories to war crimes and crimes against humanity… http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4384/eu-us-funding-palestinians
EU and US leaders must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
I’ll write to my congressman today and tell him to co-sponsor this bill.
Good. Write to your Senators too as this is a Senate Bill.
Yes, I did write to the Senators and also to the congressman and asked him to sponsor or co-sponsor the same as a House bill.
Hurrah for Rand Paul! I hope he runs for President in 2016!
I admire Rand not only because he is introducing the “Stand with Israel Act”, but also because he is opposed to “The Patriot Act” and other tyrannical measures by our government to take away our freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.
Benjamin Franklin warned us that if we give up liberty for security, then we deserve neither!
Israel’s response, aside from turning Gaza into a WW II Dusseldorf, should include arrest of all men, women and children making the three finger salute and celebrating the murder of the three. Serious consideration should be given to cutting off the three fingers they show in their salute. Paul’s gesture is well-meant but has no teeth. They will simply apply some of their taqqiah (deception) say they recognize Israel and continue taking the money. Just cut off the flow. Advise them that the murder of the three boys will cost them all aid for three years.
What? Three years? ALL AID MUST BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF FOR EVER!
It is evil, inhuman and anti-God to finance ANY muslim terrorists and that includes both Hamas and the PLO/Palestinian Authority.
No more restraint Gentlemen. Safety’s Off.
Good for Rand Paul. We need more of him.
Yessss…I love Rand Paul!!