From Haaretz:
The United States Congress has blocked nearly $200m in aid to the Palestinians, the U.K’s Independent newspaper reported on Saturday.
The aid, which was destined for projects related to food aid, health care, and state building efforts, was to have been transferred to the Palestinian Authority during the U.S. fiscal year that ends today, according to the report.
However, following what the Independent described as an “unpublicized block” imposed on funding to the Palestinians since August this year, in response to the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN, the remainder of the aid allocated to the Palestinian Authority for the current financial year will not be transferred.
The Independent reported that the block by three Congressional committees has been in force since August 18, when it was formally notified that USAID, the U.S. government aid agency, wanted to transfer the remaining $192m funding for the current fiscal year.
Obama’s administration is unable to commit further funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it persuades Congress to lift the freeze, according to the report.
The Independent report adds:
Former President Bill Clinton, among others, this month warned legislators to leave the issue of aid to the administration, adding: “Everybody knows the US Congress is the most pro-Israel parliamentary body in the world. They don’t have to demonstrate that.”
Can there be any more doubt that the US Congress is Zionist-occupied territory?
So, Israel can keep on building settlements, eradicate their supposed ‘democracy’ with their new racist laws, harass & kill peaceful demonstrators, “move” 30,000 Bedouins, arm settlers… all while we support their asses and give billions unconditionally. But the Palestinians look for a little self determination in a world that already recognizes them as a state, and we cut off their aid.
Gee, I’m so proud to be from the US right now…
Just as it intentionally engaged in policies that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, so too, now, with Palestinians. Rome ruled the world. Augustus ruled Rome, but Livia ruled Augustus. So too with Israel and the present, and all likely, foreseeable, U.S. governments.
If we take the total of Palestinians murdered by Israel since 1967 and divide it by the amount of US taxpayer dollars given to Israel to maintain its murder machine, how much has each dead Palestinian cost Americans?
Missing from the expressions of outrage are references to the American citizens that have been crippled, maimed, and murdered by Israeli IDF forces.
Let me reiterate…..
AMERICAN CITIZENS….
CRIPPLED….
MAIMED…..
and
MURDERED.