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Should the US Stop Foreign Aid to Palestinians?

1. 57% of Americans oppose foreign aid to Palestinians, according to a February 2006 Gallup poll.

 

2. Stopping foreign aid to Palestinians would not harm bystanders, because US foreign aid has never trickled down to the Palestinian People. It is evidenced by PA corruption, human rights violations, and by the increasing gap between the have (PA officials and their network) and the have-not (most other Palestinians). US foreign aid to Palestinian NGOs is fully-controlled by the PA.

 

3. Most Palestinians are not innocent bystanders. They identify with Hamas terrorism, as evidenced by the outcome of the recent PA election. At stake is not US foreign aid to a rogue regime, but US foreign aid to a rogue society. The US did not extend foreign aid to the innocent bystanders in Iraq and Afghanistan, as long as they were ruled by a rogue regime and conducted themselves as rogue societies.

 

4. The “Support the innocent bystanders” theory has been crashed by Mideast reality (PA and Hamas terrorism) since 1993. It has failed to moderate the Palestinian rogue society. It has signaled to the PA that it could get away with – and be rewarded for – murder. It has enhanced legitimacy of the rogue PA, thus causing a setback to moderate Palestinians.

 

5. Non-scrutinized foreign aid to the Palestinians facilitated – unintentionally – the creation of the largest terrorist base in the Mideast, closely aligned with Iran, Syria, pro-Saddam elements, Sudan, Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba, a lethal threat to the pro-US Hashemite regime. It has, thus, undermined the anti-terrorist posture of the US, serving as a tailwind to anti-US terrorism. It has bolstered the most oppressive and corrupt Arab regime, with the highest per capita (in the world) internal security personnel. It has constituted an incentive for a systematic and a brutal (yet unpunished) violation of commitments, thus setting the region farther from peace and closer to an all out war.

 

6. Has Abu Mazen’s performance complied with US expectations? Abu Mazen – whose nick name is “Mr. 20%” – has provided a platform for Hamas indoctrination, recruitment, training and terrorism. He is the architect of PA incitement (in PA schools, mosques and media), depicting the US as a blood thirsty occupier in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the engineer of PA’s ties with Iran and Syria (his first two stops following his election in 2005) and the chief negotiator of a series of PA-Hamas understandings since 1993. He has mentored PA hate-education, the manufacturing line of homicide bombers, and has highlighted the “claim of return”, a code name for Israel’s destruction.

 

7. US foreign aid is performance-based. Would the US government extend loans, grants and subsidies to students and farmers who repeatedly flunk school and spend government subsidies on gambling?! Would the US government extend financial aid to hate-educators in the US? Should the US be more lenient on Abu Mazen than it has been on its own citizens?! Should the US reinforce Palestinian assumption that they can get away with murder and, even, be rewarded?!

 

8. Sustaining foreign aid to the Palestinian authority – or to Palestinian NGOs – would constitute disincentive for compliance with commitments and for abandoning terrorism, at the expense of peace and vital US interests.

 




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*General Alexander Galloway, UNRWA Jordan Office Director (April 1952 briefing to the American Christian Palestine Committee):The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.” (Asaf Romirowsky, Middle Eastern Studies, September 2010).

 

*Dr. Benny Morris (Irish Times, Feb. 21, 2008): “…In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29th, 1947, [the Palestinians] launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost…”

 

*15 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displace in 1947 in order to create Pakistan. No right of return…

 

*300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait, in 1991, in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. No Arab or international uproar…

 

*Scores of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan and killed – in 1970 – in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO attempt to topple the Hashemite regime.

 

*The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employs 6,300 persons, resettling gradually 27MN refugees. UNRWA – the largest UN agency – employs 29,000 Palestinians, perpetuating Palestinians’ refugee-status.

 

*The phantom of the Palestinian refugees – just like Abu Mazen’s hate education – constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Vision, aiming to de-legitimize and de-humanize the Jewish State.

 

*The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the existence – and not the size – of the Jewish State.

 

Please read the following Summer 2010 articleThe Nakba Obsession – by Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the City Journal quarterly:

 

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_nakba.html




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