Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America talks about foreign aid during tough economic times:
Why should the PA even consider ending incitement against Israel and making concessions for peace when it receives massive, unmerited rewards like this diplomatic upgrade, as well as the huge reward under President Obama of an increase in aid for the Palestinians to $1.3 billion – double the already large sums given to the P.A. under George W. Bush. The P.A. now receives more funding per capita than any other nation or entity on earth. This is even more remarkable and indefensible in a time of huge deficits and strains on the U.S. economy. Abbas and the P.A. are receiving the message loud and clear that extremism pays, involves no penalty or risks and is in fact rewarded.
Does this idiot Klein think that people aren’t going to fact-check him? From the Congressional Research Service, “U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians” January 2010, link to fas.org
back to Chas Freeman, who had the temerity to recite that: US gives more aid to Israel than any nation on earth, and that the per capita income of Israelis is most closely comparable to that of the British.
link to mondoweiss.net
Americans are waking up.
AMERICA’s baby-boom demographic works against the zionist project: all those dirty hippies are retiring — nothin’ but time on their hands, time to relive their glory days of protesting the new/old VietNam war, and using their accumulated wealth and wit to get zionist f*%kers out of US foreign policy panties.
ziocaine: one toke over the line.
Sweet Jesus.
ziocaine: One joke? Over the line!
waitn’ for the train to go home sweet mary hopin that the train is on time.
sittin downtown in a railway station one joke over the line.
Mr. Klein needs some help with his math: “The P.A. now receives more funding per capita than any other nation or entity on earth.”
The US State Department says that the total regular and supplemental appropriations aid for FY 2010 is $502.9 million.
From previous census counts:
There are 2.3 million Palestinians in the WB.
There are 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Roughly, 3.8 million in total, conservatively.
So the per capita is $132.
Israel’s is, what? $3 billion (assuming the lower amount and not the $6 billion in soft funding) in annual aid. 6,000,000 people. That’s $500 per capita.
you go Girl.
As Chas Freeman said, $500 per capita is just the beginning, doesn’t take account of all the special deals Israel gets from US, nor of the stupendous amount of tax free dollars sent to Israel thru Jewish charities in US.
What is the status of the J Street campaign to investigate Jewish charities and their support for illegal settlements?
Also, much, or all, of the u.s. aide sent to the Palestinians goes to those who are puppets of israel, so the aide can be said to benefiting israel, not the Palestinians.
What garbage. The PA is practically Israel’s obedient and obsequious quisling militia carrying out its dirty work. The only thing the PA has yet to do is get its soldiers and police to shine the boots of Israeli soldiers and make them tea while saluting and shouting “Sir”. You should see them in action first hand.
Perhaps Americans should be reminded that since 1949, American has given over $118 billion in taxpayer funds to Israel. Even after the murder of the US citizen (thank heavens he had dual citizenship, and the Turkish President showed he gave a damn about the murder of its citizens by Israelis) Israel will receive it’s 3.2 billion this year with increased funding to follow. Also, the Evangelicals are providing additional funding so that Israel can continue to bull-doze homes and villages, while their contributions are tax-exempt. Whenever questioned about the amount of foreign aid we give, all Administrations say “it’s a miniscule amount”, but I’m sure if Americans know that Israel has a much lower rate of unemployment 6.7% in May, 2010, and we have armed them to the teeth, perhaps Mainstreet would feel we need the “Miniscule amount” more for our unemployed, people who are losing their homes, and our homeless.
Mort Klein doesn’t “talk”, he snuffles. He says this is because he has Tourette’s syndrome. Since we are such a compassionate victim culture, we patiently ignore the snuffles, while he tells us effectively that victim culture is dead, at least as far as jews are concerned, and the time has come for maximum jewish ruthlessness.
One wonder what that creature Morton Klien would say if someone were to use the argumentthat in tough economic times US aid to Israel is a luxury this country can no longer afford, consideringthe zero return on out “investment.’
VERY dangerous argument.
Good eye.
This is the argument which could split the American right on Israel and rightly so. Tea Partiers don’t like giving money away to Israel in a recession. The longer it goes, the more trouble Israel faces.
Let’s see if the like of Sarah Palin give a speech about how we need to give Israel 5B a year. Let’s see that. The bond on the right is thinner than most people think.
It doesn’t matter right or left, tea or coffee partier, …
The whole political system is rigged. Only a few politicians vote anti-oppression/occupation.
Alas, while the Tea Partiers may loathe the welfare state, some of them have no gripes with the warfare state, as evidenced a few days earlier when one of the main Tea Party groupings came out in favor of [a theorethical?] Israeli preventive strike against alleged Iranium uraniun reprocessing facilities.
And there already is a split on the right re this, though most of us would never known it: between the Neo-Conservatives and the Paleo-Conservatives [or, as i like to think of them, the crazy conservatives who at least have the saving grace of getting it right about the US interests in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict].
Or perhaps it was the pre-emptve and presumptive power of The Israel Lobby at work once again? Having been denounced as rascist, The Tea Partiers would hate to have the charge of anti-Semitism added on as well. And Derschowitz and Foxman are a hell of a lot more dangerous and effective than Ben Jealous and the Rev Jackson.
Tea Party? LMAO, it’s more like a Kool-Aid Party!