U.S. Cuts Some Aid to Palestinians

WASHINGTON -- The United States will cancel or suspend more than $240 million in projects aimed at assisting Palestinians out of concern that the money could go to help the new leadership of the militant Islamist movement Hamas, a senior State Department official said Friday.

At the same time, the United States will redirect some of that money to humanitarian projects for the impoverished Palestinian people. Humanitarian assistance will rise by 57 percent to $287 million over several years, the official said.

Another $13 million will go for new vetting procedures, including a special inspector general, to ensure that even humanitarian aid funneled through the United Nations Relief Agency and approved charities does not end up in Hamas hands, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because no public announcement has yet been made by the State Department. That was expected later Friday.

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Morons. Only Bushelvickis can think impoverishing a population already radicalized will be a good thing.

Sanctions worked so well on Saddam, that we had to invade him.

lots of guns, messanic sense of historical mission and righteous certainity...only thing missing are the black uniforms.