PALESTINIAN ARABS: They are not our friends. They do not wish us well. They are not democrats. They are not part of the West. They believe that Muslims are the “best of peoples” and non-Muslims “the most vile of creatures.” They support terrorism and honor Palestinian terrorists by using hundreds of millions of dollars annually from America (until stopped by President Trump) to pay the salaries of these terrorists. They hate Jews.
FrontpageMag Yet decade after decade, with both our direct aid, and our generous contributions — we are the largest donor — to UNRWA, we remain the biggest financial supporters of the Palestinians. Why is it our duty, and not, say, that of the rich Sunni Arab states of the Gulf, whose people share a language, a faith, a culture, with the Palestinian Arabs?
The previous administration ended American contributions to UNRWA. It decided to stop funding the farce of ever-longer lists of “Palestinian refugees,” the result of treating the Palestinian Arabs – as distinct from all other refugee groups – as being able to pass down through the generations that refugee status, to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on, world without end. UNRWA claims there are “five million Palestinian refugees.”
But if we apply the normal definition of a refugee, as someone who “is forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster” there are fewer than 30,000 refugees still alive who left Mandatory Palestine and Israel just before, during, and after the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli war.
A second reason for the previous administration ending contributions to UNRWA was the continued appearance of antisemitic passages in the schoolbooks UNRWA uses in its classrooms, despite its repeated promises to revise those texts. The Americans simply got tired of hearing the same false assurances from the practiced liars at UNRWA. They didn’t want to continue to fund antisemitism. Does the Biden Administration think they were wrong?
The Trump administration also decided to end its aid to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinians continue to support the “Pay-For-Slay” program that provides generous subsidies to the families of dead and imprisoned terrorists.
In fact, Washington was legally required to end such aid, as mandated by the Taylor Force Act of 2018, an Act of the U.S. Congress to stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until the PA ceases paying stipends through the Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund to individuals who commit acts of terrorism and to the families of deceased terrorists.
The Biden Administration wants to restart aid to the Palestinians as “quickly” as it can. A report on that misplaced eagerness is here: “Biden Administration Confirms Will Look to Resume Aid to Palestinians ‘Very Quickly,’” i24 News, February 3, 2021:
Since money is fungible, what the State Department spokesman described as “humanitarian aid” will only free up other moneys the PA and Hamas have, to spend on terror tunnels, weaponry, and the Pay-For-Slay program. And some of that aid will also go to fill the coffers of a handful of grasping rulers.
There is a long history of mismanagement and colossal corruption by both Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank. Two leaders of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzouk, have each amassed fortunes of at least $2.5 billion.
The PA’s President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas has accumulated a nest egg of $400 million. Why does the State Department now think it will be abe to prevent such massive diversion of its aid in the future, since it was unable to do so in the past? Has it put in place some new safeguards, given that the Palestinian leaders are world champions at such grand theft?
The cuts in aid, we are assured, “only harmed innocent Palestinians”? Nonsense. That previous cutoff in aid has especially harmed, or harmed to a greater degree, the rapacious leaders who now have less aid money from which to steal.
How does the Biden Administration plan to deal with scandal-ridden UNRWA? Will it contribute to that agency even though its schoolbooks remain full of antisemitic passages? Isn’t withholding funds the best way – the only way – to eventually bring about the removal of texts which would not be out of place in the Third Reich? And does the Administration intend to resume aid to UNRWA without discussing the preposterous definition of a “Palestinian refugee” that has been foisted on the world? How will there ever be an end to the “Palestinian refugee” bloat if their numbers are uniquely allowed to keep growing, for reasons no one can either articulate or understand?
What is UNRWA?
And how does the Biden Administration intend to get around the Taylor Force Act, which forbids the American government from aiding the Palestinians as long as they continue giving subsidies to terrorists and their families through their “Pay-For-Slay” program?
Does President Biden think he has found a way to ignore that law? Or is Mahmoud Abbas, who knows full well that, as Muhammad said in a famous hadith, “war is deceit,” planning to disguise those subsidies as something else – say, simply “aid to poor families,” their poverty a result of their major breadwinner being either dead or imprisoned for life? That might get by with some, but it won’t pass muster in Congress. The Taylor Force Act is not an executive order that Biden can easily undo. It’s a law.
Haste, unseemly haste. Makes all kinds of waste. Don’t rush to offer financial solace — sorry, “humanitarian aid” — to Mahmoud Abbas. But do ask him how he’s enjoying his $13 million palace in Ramallah, and his $50 million jet parked nearby, and the $400 million fortune — some say he now has more than $500 million, but who’s counting? — he’s acquired, and the money he continues to receive from foreign donors that is sent directly to his office, and from there is transferred into foreign bank accounts that have been opened in the names of his grandchildren. He’s a doting grandfather. I’m sure he’d love to talk about them.
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MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
UNRWA = United Nations Rocket Warehousing Agency
BareNakedIslam says
Perfect!
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
And how many Jews live in dieverse Gaza? I’ll bet everyone gets the answer in ONE try.
Mudboy says
Why? To get the kickbacks. Duh.
Bubba Grump's Nutz says
Because there’s always 10% for ‘The Big Guy’?
The Educator says
USA President Joseph Biden is a fool who is highly uneducated on the so-called Palestinian and Israeli conflict. USA President Joseph Biden listens to the wrong people regarding the matter. The real problems lie with the government of the Palestinians, not with the government of Israel. Palestinian leaders will not share the land with the Israelis, but the Israelis share the land with the Palestinians. The Palestinian leaders are evil, greedy, anti Semitic politicians that simply want to kill off the Israelis and take; steal their land. The Palestinian leaders want to practise genocide against the Israelis. In regards to the Palestinians’ claim of “the right of return”; Israel has no problem with that, with the returnees who have a real tangible, legal claim of return, and who are not “returnee frauds”, But there are Basic Requirements: Those true returnees must be Pro Israel, Pro Israeli; that is to say that true Palestinian returnees Must Not Want to Hurt Nor Kill the nation of Israel, Not Want to Hurt Nor Kill the Israelis, especially the Jews. Want to live in peace with people different from them, with people of a different religion. Believe in ethnic harmony. With all the Palestinian hatred, physical violence, maiming, and deadly incidents against Israel and the Israelis, who can really; truly even trust the Palestinians if they talk peace? All so-called “peace treaties” made with the Palestinians have failed miserably, fatally, and injuriously with the Israelis. That is the real reason for Israel trying to keep out the Palestinians.
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
How would you go about verifying any given paleswine meets your “Basic Requirements”? After all, lying is sacrilized in their Jew hating, fascist death cult.
Caroleigh says
Because that’s where Muslim Congresswoman Talibe (the crybaby center stage actress) is from and where her mother still lives. And that is where this POS belongs not in United States especially our hollow halls of capitalism.
Linda Rivera says
Two leaders of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzouk, have each amassed fortunes of at least $2.5 billion.
Mahmoud Abbas enjoys his $13 million palace in Ramallah, and his $50 million jet parked nearby, and the now more than $500 million, and the money from foreign donors that is there is transferred into foreign bank accounts that have been opened in the names of his grandchildren.
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Western leaders LOVE MUSLIM TERRORISTS so much they made the terrorists multi millionaires and billionaires with our taxes.
Western leaders also LOVE the terror tunnels terrorists build into Israel, regular rocket attacks and terror incitement to genocide every last Jew.
The Biden-Harris multi millionaire communist administration are eager to seize the tax money urgently needed by millions of frightened, desperate Americans whose businesses, jobs and lives have been completely destroyed by ruthless lockdowns
and give hundreds of millions of tax dollars urgently needed by millions of hungry and jobless Americans to their BIG FAVOURITES — Multi millionaire and billionaire Top Muslim terrorist leaders.
Liz says
Yes, America gives hundreds of millions to the ”poor, starving palestinians”, but we give hundreds of billions to the international banksters every year.
I say we totally defund both.