Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that the Biden Administration spent more than $1 billion from U.S. taxpayers on “aid” to Palestinians. It proposes sending another $260 million in its FY2024 budget request, but that funding is not yet approved by Congress.
OpentheBooks (h/t Nita) Here’s how the Biden Administration allotted U.S. taxpayer Palestinian-aid through the United Nations: $318.4 million (2021), $363.9 million (2022), and $371 million (2023). Biden’s spending binge is a sharp reversal from President Donald Trump’s August 2018 freeze. Biden started pouring taxpayer dollars into Gaza and the West Bank in April 2021.
U.S. taxpayers have sent nearly $8 billion to assist Palestinian refugees living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon since 1950. Most of these funds have gone through the United Nations (UN).
This humanitarian funding has been sent in the finest tradition of American generosity, but much of its use is now widely understood to have promoted the culture of Jew hate upon which Hamas, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and the beleaguered Palestinian Authority (PA) rely.
2016: The Obama Administration, in 2016, sent $359 million. It was only $39 million less than the all-time high of $398.7 million in 2014.
2018: President Trump saw things quite differently. Disgusted by the diversion of U.S. taxpayer dollars into Hamas, PLO, and PA agendas, leaving needy Palestinians bereft, as well as the fungibility of our support possibly into rocket and arms-trading, he zeroed out the folks who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
Trump cut Palestinian aid to zero. That had never been tried during the previous 71 years of subsidizing Palestinians. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), itself a longtime terror impresario, howled. The PLO said U.S. taxpayers had violated an obligation to fund them and their hatred of every Jew on earth.
Three months after taking office, in April 2021, President Biden sided with the PLO, the PA and Hamas. He restarted aid. Within weeks, Hamas rockets were raining down on Israelis. The region had begun the war we now see at full force.
In 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken even acknowledged that it’s possible the Palestinians could use U.S. aid to restock Hamas’ arsenal of hate.
Recently, after Hamas’ unexpected and bloody attack on Israel, Biden announced $100 million in humanitarian aid being sent to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, as the Department of Treasury announced sanctions on the cryptocurrency exchange that aided Hamas, The Washington Post reported.
The U.S. has been UNRWA’s largest single funder, providing almost one-third of its budget. Created to help the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, UNRWA today subsidizes over five million Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
OpenTheBooks.com auditors found that the UNRWA received more funds from the Obama Administration than any other administration. Congress and President Obama provided UNRWA some $398.7 million in 2014 and $390.5 million in 2015. Funding for 2016 and 2017 hovered around $359 million a year.
In the first fiscal year of the Trump Administration, the subsidies fell to $65 million. And then it went to zero.
In March 2018, Congress suspended economic assistance to the Palestinians, unless and until Palestinian officials ceased payments to convicted terrorists serving in Israeli prisons and ceased paying families of “deceased terrorists …who died committing acts of terrorism.”
The provision, included in the March 2018 consolidated appropriations legislation(Title X of Public Law 115-141), was called the Taylor Force Act.
*The bipartisan Taylor Force Act, passed by Congress in 2018 and named for an American West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv, cuts US aid to Palestinians until PA and PLO until the ‘pay-for-slay’ bureaucracy that funds terrorists and their families for murdering Israelis is dismantled and the laws governing it are repealed. The Taylor Force Act corrected a profoundly immoral policy that had American taxpayer funds being laundered unwittingly through PA accounts to incentivize murder. By restoring the funding, Joe Biden is guilty of money-laundering for terrorists.
“UNRWA perpetuates the myth of the eternal ‘refugee’ status of the Palestinians. The sole purpose is sustaining an illegitimate instrument aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel. @UNRWA is part of the problem, not of the solution. @IsraelMFA”.
The Poster says
All that money, over a USA billion dollars, irrationally spent on the undeserving Palestinians by Joseph Biden Junior could have been used in the USA to spend on building thousands of new jails and prisons in New York, California, Oregon, Illinois, etc., instead of having dangerous evil, harmful; toxic criminals walking the streets of America after being arrested.
The Tasmanian Devil says
When did homosexual Muslim Obama ever let anything like congressional approval stand in his way of anything?
VMS says
Let’s go Brandon !!!