DC Watson examines CAIR's request that the US deny Israel any aid for those evicted from Gaza.
August 16, 2005: The Council on American Islamic Relations calls on the Bush Administration to deny Israel's request for financial aid, which would assist in paying for the "withdrawal of illegal settlements on Palestinian territory in Gaza."
News Releases
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
CAIR: No U.S. Tax Dollars for Israeli Settlers
Their statement reads as follows: "American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the relocation of settlers who, supported and defended by successive Israeli governments, chose to live illegally on land that was not their own. Such funds could be better used to improve conditions for ordinary Palestinians whose lives have been devastated by decades of brutal occupation."
First, I'd like to make it crystal clear to the Council on American Islamic Relations that as an American citizen and taxpayer, I do not, and will not ever, need an organization with a record like theirs to speak for me. If the government wants to use my tax dollars to help these people who have been uprooted, I'm OK with that. If all of this bothers them, then I like the idea even more. It seems that nearly every day this organization is "calling on" someone to act upon their concerns.
Regarding this claim of Israel's "illegal occupation" of Gaza: U.N. Resolution 242 never called for Israel to withdraw from all of the territories that it won, and to return to the 1967 borders. Although Israel wasn't required by this resolution to hand over all the land it won when it easily defeated Muslim aggression during the Six Day War, it did hand over most of it when it withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula. That just wasn't good enough for the Muslims, however, was it?
Who started the Six Day War? It appears that although Israel launched a preemptive strike on Egypt, it was Egypt -- which had a military pact with Jordan and Syria, and which before the war had blocked two of Israel's major shipping ports. Before this war began, Israel was being surrounded by Muslim militarization. Once again, the Muslim sect has turned this situation back to front, portraying themselves as the poor victims of Israeli aggression and occupation. In truth, it was Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser who was pushing the buttons that escalated a minor border skirmish into the Six Day War. Before the Six Day War ever came to pass, Nasser had made his intentions clear with this statement: "Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight."Well, they wanted to fight, they got their chance, and their defeat was resounding.
"The Meaning of 242" - June 10, 1977
Lord Caradon, author of the draft resolution that was adopted as U.N. Resolution 242, U.K. Ambassador to the United Nations (1964-1970):
"We didn't say there should be a withdrawal to the '67 line; we did not put the 'the' in, we did not say all the territories, deliberately.. We all knew that the boundaries of '67 were not drawn as permanent frontiers, they were a cease-fire line of a couple of decades earlier... We did not say that the '67 boundaries must be forever." MacNeil/Lehrer Report - March 30, 1978
Additional comments include: Eugene V. Rostow, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1966-1969):
"Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338... rest on two principles, Israel may administer the territory until its Arab neighbors make peace; and when peace is made, Israel should withdraw to 'secure and recognized borders', which need not be the same as the Armistice Demarcation Lines of 1949."
"The Truth About 242" - November 5, 1990 Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. President (1963-1969):
Read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai
If the 242 Resolution rested on Israel's Arab neighbors making peace, then Israel's Arab neighbors have failed to fulfill their responsibility. In fact, since late 2000, Israelis have been the victims of over 25,300 Islamic terrorist attacks.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/337862p-288516c.html
Thirty-eight years later, in yet another attempt at peace, Israel has agreed to uproot its people from Gaza. Now along comes CAIR, "urging" the government not to provide financial aid to help pay for the Israeli withdrawal from an "illegal occupation."
Again, from their statement: "Such funds could be better used to improve conditions for ordinary Palestinians whose lives have been devastated by decades of brutal occupation."
Earth to CAIR: The G8 has already pledged at least $3 billion to the Palestinians.That pledge will, at least in part, be fulfilled with American tax dollars. Everyone has a right to an opinion, even the members of CAIR. However, they have never been, and never will be the voice of reason. Israel has now offered peace, again. If the Muslims in this part of the world attack them again, should Israel not then be allowed to do what it should have done long ago to secure its own existence?
Maybe if these palestinian sheilas would have spent their money on improvements of their neighborhoods instead of on twenty five thousand attacks on israel, they wouldn't be in such bad shape.
arafat was surely a thief too. that didn;t help.
DC,
Excellent analysis. You have continued to bring attention to the perfidity of CAIR and others of the same ilk with humor and style. I do believe your writing is improving, actually.
Another fine job,
Rebecca
If CAIR represents the interests of American citizens as they claim, the name of the organization is redundant and presents an interesting paradox. If they represent the interests of non-citizens (or traitors), the name is not redundant and the paradox is resolved. What I'm talking about is the us/them dichotomy of "American" and "Islamic". CAIR divides itself from America with their mutually exclusive identity of "Islamic" which needs to have some "Relations" with the "Americans".
If CAIR wants to have any real impact on American politics they will need to convince man-in-the-street citizens, not the politicians, that Muslims in America really are here to embrace ALL of our values. Good luck with that. The Americans who vote are very patient but when it wears thin and the welcome mat is pulled up when they realize that they have been played for a fool, the Muslim fifth column will understand how profoundly they have erred in their challenge of the American Spirit.
So to the CAIR leaders I say, lobby away. The more noise you make, the more the common American will become aware of you and your lies. For yours is a house of cards that the American People will bring down with a rain of hot steel. Lobby away, lobby away.
Why Palestinians Still Live in Refugee Camps CAMERA August 14, 2005
Well, I have another request, that I think might meet with greater favor from the long-suffering American taxpayer. And that is this:
Stop the Jizyah.
Stop all foreign aid to Muslim countries. If they want such aid, let them get it from rich Arabs, not from Infidels. This means stop the aid to malevolent Egypt, a world center of anti-Americanism. Stop the aid to the self-primitivized shock troops of the Lesser Jihad against Israel, the "Palestinian" Arabs. Stop the aid to Jordan, even if King Abdullah is a perfectly swell fellow, and his wife pretty, and he's trying, somehow, but doesn't himself have a good grasp of Islam, and is not nearly as oily as his father. Stop the aid to meretricious Janus-faced Pakistan, whose generals have been having their way with a succession of gullible Americans, so impressed with their Sandhurst posture and those mustaches and riding-crops, ever since the goddam defense pact that the U.S. and Pakistan signed way back in 1954. More than 50 years of favoritism, and aid, and military equipment and training, and what have we got for it? The Taliban, supported by the Pakistani I.S.I. Al Qaeda, supported by millions of Pakistanis. A country bristling with Saudi-funded madrasas, where Christians are attacked, and "Infidel" Ahmadiyya Muislims (and for that matter Shi'a Muslims as well, since many Pakistani Sunnis regard them as Infidels). And of course Pakistanis have been exported to the United Kingdom and to the United States, and many have carried within them the tenets of Islam which, of course, are dangerous to the health, wellbeing, and civilization of Infidels.
Stop the Jizyah. End Aid to Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, the "Palestinians."
That's a mouthful for a bumpersticker. Possibly then let's just abridge it thus, for the growing number of cognoscenti:
Stop the Jizyah.
Hugh
amen to that ive been saying for years why do we give countries aid for food when they use their money for weapons or luxuries. force them to improve themselves so they can become self sufficient. think about back in the 80's we shipped (dont know exactly how much)all that food to africa. this was a noble but futile thing to do. if back then with each food shipment we would ship engineers to set up irrigation and to teach different methods of farming the same places where we watched skeletonized people on late night infomercials would be well on their way of self sufficience. if tommorow we cut off all aid to sharia based society countries like pakistan and egypt would be forced to spend their military budgets on food or risk general rebellion by the starving masses. yes indeed cut off the jizya disguised as foreign aid
The jizyah is also paid through the influx of trillions of petrodollars we are forced to pay those that are financing and directing our present tribulation. I fault those that, in the interest of the almighty Western-oil-dollar, have shelved and thwarted technologies and alternative fuel development.
Thanks a lot, fellas! We probably wouldn't be so mired in this problem if it weren't for your interference.
I buy Sunoco gas as it is one of the few oil companies that DO NOT import any oil from the
Middle East.
Buycott the oil companies that deal with the Middle East (I realize that this will never happen).
There is a lot of blame to go around before one demonizes the oil companies.
Only 30% of the oil is used for gasoline, the rest is for home heating fuel and manufacturing process.
France derives 70% of it's electricity from nuclear energy. We could be heating our homes with electricty, but we haven't built a nuclear reactor in years. The Democrats and the environmentalists are to blame for our failed
energy needs. They have thwarted nuclear and oil exploration in America.
I see the problem, and I think it is us!
"I see the problem, and I think it is us!"
-- from a posting above by "learjet0450"
Yes, the Pogo Party is right -- at least as far as continuing to supply the oil revenues without even inflicting steady, ever-increasing taxes, on gasoline at the pump, and on oil generally. Had this been done in 1973, had the government not been buffaloed into thinking that Saudi Arabia was America's "ally" or "staunch ally" (it is America's mortal enemy, and cannot help but be), the transition out of oil, and the recapturing of oligopolistic rents, would have gone on far more smoothly. We might have spared ourselves past, present, and future pain. But we were ruled by those who ignored reality. And we are still ruled by such people, who cannot bring themselves to offer or impose an energy policy that makes sense.
One question to the poster above: does this imply you have a Lear Jet? Because if you do, you must fess up to yourself: you are part of the problem, and a far bigger part than those of us who try not to whiz about too much, on land, on sea, and on air. And if so, any chance you will change your profligate and Saudi-supporting ways?
What is strange that many who should know better never mention that the Jews living in the region had several 'settlements' in Gaza which were over-run by the Egyptians in the 1948 war.
Those lands again came under Jewish control during the 1967 war.
Amazing how the Egyptian occupation from 48 until 67 became the accepted status while the Israeli occupation is considered illegal.
But then we would not expect Rice to know anything about history.
Hugh:
The nice thing about screen names is I can live
out my fantasies. No, I don't have a Learjet,
but I would like to learn to fly.
I drive a small Ford Escort 4 cylinder and that
will never fly...LOL
RE: "Had this been done in 1973, had the government not been buffaloed into thinking that Saudi Arabia was America's "ally" or "staunch ally" (it is America's mortal enemy, and cannot help but be)...."
Geopolitics makes for strange bedfellows. What
many people don't know is that the Saudis funded
the War against the Russian's in Afhganistan.
It was done at our request and the Saudis used
private money for deniability.
With Russia out of the way, the Saudis can continue to be a major source of funding for their
program of spreading "their" brand of Islam.
The scandal that is seldom spoken of is how the State and Treasury Departments, way back when Truman was president in 1951, arranged to give Saudi Arabia a disguised form of foreign aid. Most likely, Saudi Arabia has been the largest single recipient of US financial foreign aid over time. In 1951, the Saudis wanted more $$$ from ARAMCO. They were getting used to the good life, Cadillacs, air conditioners, etc. But ARAMCO didn't want to pay the kingdom out of their own pocket. So the Treasury Dept made a ruling that the Foreign Tax credit [a law on the books since about 1920 and meant to encourage US companies to invest abroad] could be applied to the purchase of oil. The Saudis would have to do their part by imposing a per barrel "tax" on oil exported from the kingdom by ARAMCO. The "tax" was really a royalty but by calling it an "oil income tax," ARAMCO could pass the increased royalty onto the US taxpayer. Under the Foreign Tax Credit, US firms doing business abroad can deduct the taxes they pay to foreign governments dollar-for-dollar from their US corporate income tax. NOW, the method of payment to the Saudis and other Arab oil exporting states may have been changed in the 70s or 80s. BUT if CAIR or anyone else is really concerned about the poor taxpayer's $$, then he might investigate how Saudi Arabian oil is paid for --as well as the uses that the Saudis put the money to. --authors to consult on this matter are John Blair (Control of Oil), James Ridgway (New Energy), Leonard Moseley (Powerplay: Oil in the Middle East).