Mr. Fitzgerald, call your office. As reported in the Jerusalem Post:
The US Congress is moving closer to banning financial aid and restricting ties with a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. The House of Representatives approved a non-binding resolution on this issue Wednesday, and the process of passing a binding bill against ties with Hamas is gaining momentum.The administration has not put any pressure to change the Palestine anti-terrorism act of 2006, but according to congressional sources, such pressure is expected, since the bill puts significant limitations on the ability of the executive branch to deal with the PA.
Apart from stopping direct aid to the PA, if it is led by Hamas, the bill, cosponsored by leading Republicans and Democrats, also restricts aid to non-governmental groups in the PA territories and limits ties with Palestinians affiliated with a Hamas government.
The bill does not include a waiver clause which would allow the president to bypass these restrictions in cases he sees as relating to the national interest. President George W. Bush has used existing waivers in the current law to funnel financial aid directly to the Mahmoud Abbas-led PA.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed, by a 418 to 1 majority, the non-binding resolution on Hamas. The resolution, first introduced by Sen. John Thune (R-S. Dak.), gained unanimous support in a Senate vote on February 1. Though this resolution is non-binding, the support it enjoyed in both chambers can serve as an indication to the way members of Congress will vote when the binding bill is brought before them...
http://www.zipperfish.net/free/yaafm12.php
A nice round up on the cartoon war.
they cant pass this bill fast enough l am sure for most Americans!
All we want is a little taquiyya. Is some deferential lying too much respect for an Infidel to ask?
"the House of Representatives passed, by a 418 to 1 majority, the non-binding resolution on Hamas."
Good. Now, who was the "1" who voted against it?
"they cant pass this bill fast enough l am sure for most Americans!"
I'm sure the Israelis will appreciate it too!
Yes,we need the name of the "1" who voted against it. Whoever it is should be considered an enemy.
finally, lets see how they do without u.s and european aid, now that hamas is refusing e.u aid ( due to the cartoons)
if people starve, i have sympathy, but they've sown the seeds of thier own destruction. they where offered a way out, but they voted for Hamas, like the insolent brat child that they are.
question - why do muslim palestinians claim the whole of that land as there own, when Islam only came to be in the 600's? Jews and Christians where there first! So why do Muslims have preference when they are 3rd in the food chain. No-one should have preference. Isreal only took that land because of the 7 day war.
I say that as an aethist.
BTW- The "1" who voted against it is a guy named Neil Abercrombe. Anyone want to take a guess as to party affiliation?
Abercrombe (D-HI) is the co-sponsor of a bill to reinstate the draft, yet consistently votes against spending money for intelligence operations that could avert terroist attacks.
"The bill does not include a waiver clause which would allow the president to bypass these restrictions in cases he sees as relating to the national interest.
President George W. Bush has used existing waivers in the current law to funnel financial aid directly to the Mahmoud Abbas-led PA.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed, by a 418 to 1 majority, the non-binding resolution on Hamas. "
George! Get over there to the House right now! You tell them not to pass anything until they run it by our board members first!
I know! I know!
They wouldn't dare pass any legislation damaging to our profits without checking with this office first; just the same you remind them that this is NON-BINDING, in case we have any loose cannons over there.
NOW GO!
Abercrombe (D-HI) is the co-sponsor of a bill to reinstate the draft, yet consistently votes against spending money for intelligence operations that could avert terroist attacks.
Somebody's got a humuhumunukunukuapua'a for a brain.
Vital splash of cold water in American faces:
http://www.pmw.org.il/Latest%20bulletins%20new.htm#b140206
what Palestinians really say (on TV, in school etc.)
For instance 65% of Palestinians approve of 9/11. (This before Hamas came to power). It is a bald fact that religious hatred among the Palestinians trumps any foreign aide, goodwill, soothing noises the West can ever make. Not another penny 'humanitarian' or otherwise.
Once the American government, and other Infidel governments, stop paying the Jizyah to the "Palestinians" under Hamas, they may begin to discover that they quite like the new way of doing things, and will fin dnot paying that Jizyah to their liking. One hopes that they will soon realize that the others, Fatah and Co., are merely a rival set of kalashnikovs and salaries, holding precisely the same essential world-view as members of Hamas, and precisely the same ultimate goal -- disappearance -- for Israel.
It cannot be othewise. The members of both Fatah and Hamas consist of Arab Muslims (with a few islamochristians in Fatah, exploited for their use with Western audiences). They have the same canonical texts -- Qur'an, Hadith and Sira. From these texts come, inexoraably, the same set of tenets, the same attitudes, the same atmospherics. There is no non-Arab or non-Muslim background that might cause some softening of the views; it is merely a question of the Fatah Realists, well-versed in Taqiyya and Kitman, and the Hamas truth-tellers, by which one means they tell the truth about their means and ends, with nothing like the slyness (not that sly, but apparently sly enough for Westerners until now) and cunning of Abbas and his crew.
For Abbas is not different from, in his ends, Hamas (and how he wishes those hotheads in Hamas would get that through their thick skulls -- they are on the same side, they want the same thing, can't they put up with a little corruption for the sake of that common goal? Just imagine how frustrating it must be to be Abbas, realizing this perfectly obvious thing, and yet being able to say it, for fear that Westerners might be listening). Despite the casper-milquetoast chartered accountant exterior Abbas for decades was the loyal and corrupt and ruthless henchman of a corrupt and ruthless killer -- Arafat. But once the Infidels stop payiing Hamas, they may come to realize that they need not pay Fatah either, that it hard ly matters whether the "Palestinians" vote for Fast Jihad or Slow Jihad -- it is still Jihad, the Lesser Jihad against Israel that, for the sake of Infidels everywhere, and for preventing Muslim tirumphalism everywhere, must be firmly opposed -- opposed even if the Israelis themselves show signs of weakening, or wanting to surrender still further. They must not be allowed to, they must be made to understand that if they give in, far from helping Infidels outside (which is what so many of those Infidels, such as the bureacrats of the E.U., believe themselves and have insisted to Israel so often) will in fact harm Infidels everywhere.
Once you get off the Jizyah, and find you quite like not paying it, and discover that far from being even more dangerous the former recipients of the Jizyah become a little less aggressive, a little more oily in their attempts to extract it yet again. It is a good feeling, seeing those Muslim recipients come to realize that they are not in a position to demand anything, to begin to understand that they are not quite so powerful, and cannot bully quite so much -- in Europe this will be an especially important lesson both for the indigenous, still timid Infidels, and for the millions of Muslims now still under the impression that they can demand and demand and demand, and live off the Infidel societies as if by right. Oh no they can't.
And stop the Jizyah, while we are at it, to Egypt. It has just delayed the elections for two years. That's enough. And it's enough to discover that the controlled Egyptian media offer a nonstop diet of anti-Infidel, and especially anti-American and anti-Israel hysteria, the last in direct violation of the solemn commitments made under the Camp David Accords. And it's enough to know that Egypt managed to spend $7.5 billion on foreign arms purchases in 2004, ranking third (after China and India) for such purchases. And it's enough to know that the Egyptians were involved with Saddam Hussein's regime in secret weapons projects of mutual interest. And it's enough to know that Copts have been under siege in Alexandria. And it's enough to know that the $60 billion in American aid alone that has gone to Egypt has not contributed one whit to a lessening of anti-American fervor, but because it is regarded, correctly, as propping up the corrupt Friends-and-Family Mubarak Regime, it is a source for more anger at the United States, not gratitude (no Muslim state, and no Muslim people, feel permanent or unfeigned gratitude to Infidels -- what Infidels give to Muslims, is for Muslims theirs as if by right).
Stop the Jizyah to Egypt, and then all the other examples as well. We do not owe the Muslims of this world anything, except possibly the chance to come to realize, dimly and slowly, that the source of the misrule almost all of them endure, and of economic paralysis, are both owed to Islam, to its failure to locate the source of a government's legitimacy in the will of the people, and in inshallah-fatalism.
Stop the Jizyah everywhere. Nothing will so improve both the attitude of Infidels (and the now suddenly less militant attitude of Muslims, who will be quick to sense the change in the wind) and their ability to withstand the "wealth weapon" that is such an important instrument of the present world-wide Jihad.
Before 1973, the Jihad as a doctrine existed, but the wherewithal for a large-scale effort was lacking. The OPEC oil revenues changed all that. Work to achieve, in the Muslim world, as close a return to those pre-1973 years as possible.
That's a worthy goal. And along the way, one might just be working, as well, to prevent permanent changes to the earth's atmosphere.
What could be better? The two most important goals to achieve, both to be achieved by doing the same thing: diminishing the use of, the need for, the lives that depend upon, oil and gas.
Take all that money wasted on the Jizyah, and deliberatley plow it, along with other funds, into solar and wind and nuclear energy.
What better use could there be?
please, Congress, please,
don't give my tax dollars away
to the blood stained hands
of hamas and the muslim brothers
and all the others who seek to kill
the infidels and dance on their graves,
let us not be dhimmis or slaves
to these sad souls whose only thrill
is to sacrifice the life of their young
to their prophet and his primitive moon god.
Since all of the previous money was obviously pissed down a well deeper than the Marianas Trench, the time to end this fiscal idiocy (realpolitik attempted bribery/appeasement protection racket money) is now.
Stop feeding the theocratic termites and built your homes of steel.
For the Americans here, you can email your representatives and your senators.
Simply send them an email explaining that you don't want any US tax dollars spent supporting the Hamas government. Don't go on and on about jizyah and so on, just keep it simple.