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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:32 PM Jul 2013

US Bill Threatens To Cut PA Funding If UN Grants Statehood

Security money for Israel remains intact under House appropriations bill, but strings attached to Palestinian and Egyptian aid

By ILAN BEN ZION and AP July 18, 2013, 8:03 pm

House Republicans will seek billions of dollars in cuts to US foreign operations, but a spending bill published Thursday maintains security money for Israel and Jordan.

A section of the bill mandates the termination of economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority should it obtain full membership to the United Nations or UN agencies without Israeli agreement.

Moreover, US Secretary of State John Kerry can limit American funding if the PA doesn’t demonstrate “a firm commitment to peaceful co-existence with the State of Israel” or is not “taking appropriate measures to counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza, including the dismantling of terrorist infrastructures, and is cooperating with appropriate Israeli and other appropriate security organizations.”

In addition, the bill puts new restrictions on aid if the Palestinians try to pursue actions against Israel at the International Criminal Court.

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The draft budget will allocate $3.1 billion in military aid to Israel, and another $1.3 billion to Egypt.

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US Bill Threatens To Cut PA Funding If UN Grants Statehood (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2013 OP
So for those playing the home game... Scootaloo Jul 2013 #1
Agreed. n/t Cali_Democrat Jul 2013 #2
+100 kickysnana Jul 2013 #4
And you forgot how much money we have already wasted in Afghanistan reconstruction throuh kelliekat44 Jul 2013 #6
no truer words have ever been spoken n/t Violet_Crumble Jul 2013 #8
that is it!!! Douglas Carpenter Jul 2013 #9
Would granting "statehood" be subject to a Security Council veto? tritsofme Jul 2013 #3
what needs to happen typeviic Jul 2013 #5
I hope the PA go forward with it anyway LittleBlue Jul 2013 #7
I still can't get over the bill of goods we were sold on Iraq mick063 Jul 2013 #10
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. So for those playing the home game...
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:42 PM
Jul 2013

We will equip and arm an oppressive monarchy (Jordan) through billions of dollars
We will equip and arm and subsidize the executors of a violent coup (Egypt) through billions of dollars
We will equip and arm Islamist cannibal terrorists (Syria) through hundreds of millions of dollars
We will equip and arm an aggressively expansionist state in standing violation of many international laws (Israel) through billions of dollars
But we will not provide money for civil affairs or reconstruction for Palestine (even though it's currently budgeted at only three million per annum)

The US is not an honest broker for peace - not just in terms of the Israel / Palestine conflict, but within the region as a whole. In fact evidence points very strongly towards the complete opposite

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
6. And you forgot how much money we have already wasted in Afghanistan reconstruction throuh
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:06 PM
Jul 2013

contractor fraud and other kinds of fraud. Enough to build a reasonable home for every Palestinian in Gaza and the West Bank.

tritsofme

(17,398 posts)
3. Would granting "statehood" be subject to a Security Council veto?
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 08:05 PM
Jul 2013

If so, the WH would obviously exercise that right in such a situation, making the point moot.

 

typeviic

(61 posts)
5. what needs to happen
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:02 PM
Jul 2013

is for Palestine and Egypt to forget about the west and their bribe money, then ally themselves with Russia

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
7. I hope the PA go forward with it anyway
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:10 PM
Jul 2013

Everyone knows the US isn't serious about peace.

Get US influence out of the Middle East. We're like a cancerous tumor over there.

 

mick063

(2,424 posts)
10. I still can't get over the bill of goods we were sold on Iraq
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 02:04 AM
Jul 2013

Bush actually persuaded the majority of America to buy in to the notion that we could implement American style Democracy (read corporate stranglehold) on Iraq.

Thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars later, we can conclude that we have simply deposed a Sunni dictatorship only to create a Shiite Iranian satellite. A country that innovates public policy through mosques, not state houses. Ironically, their "representation" may actually be more representative than our own "representation" regardless if you find theocracy disconcerting or not.

Remember, Iraq was going to relish their new found "freedom" and repay us with cheap oil, but our own corporate wolves couldn't get there quick enough to exploit the situation, soon to lose any semblance of goodwill with the infant "Democracy".

One must consider that we didn't just leave Iraq on our own free will. They literally booted us out the door by implementing policy declaring they would cease granting immunity to US troops for "collateral" damage.

Of course this may seem unrelated to Palestine, but it is related in a way. The entire region believes our interest isn't with helping their people in a genuine way. Certainly, in certain circumstances, the military worked hard to foster goodwill, but a few rogue incidents did much to destroy it. Ultimately, it was our profit-centric policy of corporate exploitation that perpetually alienates them as well as alienating much of the entire world, more recently, our own Southern Hemisphere.

The world was once sympathetic to our 9/11 tragedy. We have since worn out that initial good will with our brazen demands on almost every front, done over an extended period of time. Now, we just can't seem to mitigate our disproportionate 9/11 response because there is so much government infrastructure invested. The world is disliking us more with each passing day. To them, 9/11 has evolved into a convenient excuse for imposing our will upon the world.

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