Very urgent that the Palestinian Authority has a balanced budget, doncha know. The U.S. doesn't need one, but the P.A. must have one. Won't you sleep better tonight, American taxpayer, knowing that you have worked to help fill an urgent Palestinian budget shortfall? I mean, Qassams aren't cheap. "US accelerates funding to PA with $150 million transfer," by Hilary Leila Krieger for the Jerusalem Post, November 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):
WASHINGTON - The US sped up delivery of $150 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority Wednesday, citing the need to fill an urgent budget shortfall."This figure underscores the strong determination of the American people and this administration to stand with our Palestinian friends even during difficult economic times," declared US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in announcing the aid, which was taken from the $200 million the Obama administration plans to allocate to the PA in 2011.
"We need to work with the Palestinian Authority to support their efforts to build toward a future Palestinian state that is able to govern itself, uphold its responsibilities to provide for its own people, and ensure security," Clinton said at the State Department Wednesday, with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad participating by video conference. "Progress on this second track gives confidence to negotiators, removes excuses for delay, and underscores that the Palestinian Authority has become a credible partner for peace."
Senior administration officials pointed to a year-end shortfall in the Palestinian Authority's budget as the driving factor behind the timing of Wednesday's announcement.
"Given the significant budget gap that the Palestinian Authority faced, we were looking ... to do all that we could to close their budget gap for this year," one official said, noting that the EU and some Arab states has also recently made allocations. "We obviously wanted a number of things here, including encouraging others to do more as well on the funding."...
No comment. Unable to type for laughing.
We're sooooo sorry Israel is building more family homes. Please take this jizya with our sincerest apologies.
We should have fired the rockets ourselves.
"US accelerates funding to PA with $150 million transfer"
Hmm. Well I like the word "transfer." As to the rest of the headline, meh.
HA HA 150 Million that comes out of our taxis oh no we got to pay interest on it another 2 Billion for Pakistan so they could train more Jihadis for us then another 2 Billion expense on Home Security Dept for protection- Great country Us
I say Mark for president and Pamela for vice President Yes yes yes O GOD O ALLAH yes.
with hussein at the helm and freulein hillary manning the sails... this ship is heading for very rocky shores...
it is time for the mutiny on the w.h.
col. a.w.? please make these two walk the plank...
"Senior administration officials pointed to a year-end shortfall in the Palestinian Authority's budget..."
It's hard to balance the books when aid money keeps disappearing into the pockets of ....well you probably have guessed who already. Of course the US, fully aware of the missing aid money will jump to the rescue under the management of the anointed one and correct the uh hum, "budget shortfall" for them.
Is anyone actually as naive to believe a) it's a budget shortfall and b) it will actually move the "peace" process along?
Obama doesn't care what he spends or what he does or says to apease the Islamic supremacists. He doesn't care that the US economy is in the tank. He doesn't care about the recent election smackdown wake up call. He doesn't care because he's got two more years and after that the Republicans have got nobody to go against him but the unelectable bubblehead Palin. Why should he care?
Seriously, why isn't this guy being impeached?
hahaha do you people even know where your goverment puts its money, 150 million is pennies if you compare it to the financial aid towards Israel:
http://www.rense.com/general31/rege.htm
and for people that know like (know) how to read:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGZiADiw10
"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes!"
-Aesop
As a kid I had heard "Don't bite the hand that feeds you"... now I'm taking new lessons from the US. "The more you bite, the more I feed you.." (good work Pakistan, Palestine...)
hahaha do you people even know where your goverment puts its money, 150 million is pennies if you compare it to the financial aid towards Israel:
http://www.rense.com/general31/rege.htm
and for people that know like (know) how to read:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGZiADiw10
hahaha Joris
You are using disgraced nutjob paranormal radio host Rense for figures.
hahaha Joris
Think on this, most money that Israel has ever gotten from the US is in the form of LOANS. These are LOANS to an actual country. A good deal of it goes to buying US goods. And Israel has never failed to pay back a LOAN from the United States taxpayer. Ever.
hahaha Joris. hahaha
Should I repeat posting this a couple of times, or do you all think that Joris will get it with one posting?
i have read your comment, i also saw your post in the 'netanyahu response to obama' thread.
it is really not that difficult to come up with a diagnosis of your condition.
judging from your ineffective use of the english language and the plethora of gramatical errors and misspellings...you do not appear to be the sharpest crayon in the box.
this might be attributed to the fact that you were just born like that (shit happens) or you just got off the boat (seeking a better quality of life i presume).
as my jw posters would advise, i will not waste ammo on you. instead, i will ask you to go back to the abovementioned thread and read the reply of dumbledorsearmy to you (have a dictionary ready at hand, 'cause some words, not to mention concepts, might elude you)
Ahh... a new troll has crawled out from under the bridge! Call in the billy goats!
Fifteen millions to line the pockets of some of the most corrupt politicians to walk the face of the earth and support the families of suicide bombers? What is this world coming to? Seeing all the candy and cigarettes they give out every time some bozo blows himself up, surely they can come up with revenue of their own somewhere.
"No comment. Unable to type for laughing."
I know how El Cid feels, only I was crying. Sometimes the news is so absurd it does leave one speechless. But as nutty as the idea is that the PA urgently needs to balance its books (but we can run our deficits to the moon, with impunity) I found this gem to be the nuttiest: one of the goals is to help the poor besieged Palestinians "ensure security."
Good grief. We know that much of our aid to these Neanderthals is continually diverted to Kassams and IED, but is Hillary letting on that some or all of these funds are earmarked for weaponry with our blessing?
Yeah. Speechless.
Crying too.
That's $150 MILLION. Add another zero.
How many of you Hillary Democrats are sorry that she was bested by the Block Captain in Chief?
Big Mistake, let Saudia Arabia or Iran or Iraq or Lebanon or Somalia fund the worthless beggingass Palistinians.
I'm sure Shrillary will be handing over the jizya payment with willing submission and no doubt receive a big smack in the head from her Fakestinian overlords as is customary in Islam tradition to remind her of her subdued dhimmi status.
She and Obama are giving aid and comfort to the enemy-wouldn't this be grounds for treason? At least it would be in the America I used to know, where such noble and sensible concepts once existed.
How disgusting and repulsive that 9 years after 9/11 our leaders are groveling like beaten dogs before our enemies (of the same ideology that attacked us) and giving them our money to fund their war against us and fellow non-muslims like the Jews.
"you do not appear to be the sharpest crayon in the box."
And you even get a built-in crayon sharpener if you step up to the box with 64 crayons!
Yes, just keep giving them money to keep up the jihad.
The naivete in Washington never ends.
They pray for our demise. We send them checks.
Perfectly said. I agree 100%.
This really pisses me off. No American taxpayer dollars should be given to anyone who pledges allegiance to the child molestor Mo and Allah.
I wonder if accountability for funds transferred to the PA has improved since the days when we used to send Yasser Arafat millions and millions, much of which ended up in his wife's bank account in Switzerland. My bet would be that it has not.
Did the US ask the Palestinians to stop inciting hatred in their schools and on children's television as a condition of such payment? Not bloody likely.
As some clown above compared the money to that given to Israel. Well, Mr Clown, Israel has not incited violence toward its neighbours, neither did it celebrate 9/11 by dancing in the street and shooting guns into the air.At least Mr Clown, democracies have measures to ensure people live and act in a civilized manner - unlike the Palestinians that denounce the US at every opportunity - in the Arab media.
What a great opportunity to clamp down on the Palestinian's hate machine and demand decency. Oh no, the good old US just loves throwing your good money away.
If any of you Yanks are that annoyed, I think you should migrate to Australia - when we toss out the spendthrift labour government and get some accountability going again - in the shape of a Liberal government. It won't be that long, as the way this government spends it we will soon be broke - just like you.
Just when will we in the west get tough and start the civilization of these morons who put their hands out for more and more...
This is sheer MADNESS, especially with our (Americas) current economic crisis!! These corrupt Palestinian "leaders" have been playing the US for years - and we continue to fall for it. Any money paid these crooks should come WITH PERFORMANCE STRINGS ATTACHED!!!!! No 'real' peace process progress - no money.
The correct term for madness in this case is "unbalanced" -- in the gallows humor sense. Another euphemism for madness used to be "bewildered", and in this case, these actions are truly bewildering. Makes one want to sit in the corner muttering and shaking one's head in perpetual disbelief.
As usual the weasel Obowman gets hillery to spring this 150 mil gift to the terror supporting corrupt fakistinians. No , He don't want to tell it himself, and make out like the heel that he is for not giving that 150 mil to needy americans who could really use it to pay rent or mortgage or the car payment or even the higher price of gas caused by his ineptitude. No let Hillery suffer the consequences, he gets off free, while earning more brownie points from the people he loves more than Americans, the muslims.
joris, all knowing wise one sez:
hahaha do you people even know where your goverment puts its money, 150 million is pennies if you compare it to the financial aid towards Israel:"
-just the facts Ma'am-
THe Money going to Israel are loans not handouts..and Israel is very good about making repayments..Israel also "buys" US goods, preferring not to beg for them as the Muslims do. IF the US were wiser, they would send not one penny to any terrorist driven group, organization, individual, or counttry. Let the thieving, self-rightous, egotistical, maniacal, blood thirsty Muslims get money from their mega rich brothers as Saudia Arabia and Iran or Egypt.
The question should not how much we give the Muslims, it should be Why do we give any money at all to them...They are not worthy of free money or aid...That money would be better spent fighting terroism and any ideology that fosters it...
Our model of foreign aid to the Philistines should be King David.
Money we don't have given to the Palestinian Authority to buy more weapons to kill more people. It only makes sense if we have an administration that wants to create chaos thereby laying the groundwork for a government takeover and redesigning of America (fundamentally change, sound familiar).
This is so outrageous. Hillary so easily gives $150 million of other people's money - the taxpayers. Where is the MSM on this? - just ABC online gives a short piece with the quote:
"This figure underscores the strong determination of the American people and this administration to stand with our Palestinian friends," she said.
Friend? She means the people who would do another happy dance on the occasion of another 9/11.
There is not possibility of a peaceful 2 state solution - it's all bunk. What a stupid, cowardly waste of money.
Whoops, Medina, my goof!
Still, I trust we're both of the mind that this is a terrible waste of money.