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PA claims it got no US aid in 2016, when it really got $357 million

Dec 17, 2016 9:38 am By Robert Spencer

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad.

“PA claims it got no US aid in 2016. In fact, State Dept. gave Palestinians $357 million. And that’s not all,” by Dov Lieber, Times of Israel, December 16, 2016:

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah claimed last week that his government has received no aid from Washington in 2016, accusing the US of imposing a “financial siege” on the Palestinians. But the State Department has in fact provided Ramallah with over $357 million in financial assistance in the past year, according to information given to The Times of Israel by a US State Department official on Thursday.

Additionally, in 2016 alone, the US contributed $355,177,827 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA), of which $95 million was earmarked for the West Bank and Gaza. UNWRA also operates Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

In total, therefore, the US gave around $712 million in aid to Palestinians in 2016, and is the world’s largest supplier of such aid.

Hamdallah told the official PA radio station the Voice of Palestine on December 8 that his government has not seen any of the aid money approved by the US in 2016. He described this as part of a “financial siege” on the Palestinian government. That allegation against the US of failure to pay, according to figures and explanations received by The Times of Israel, is a cynically skewed misrepresentation of the reality.

“Since last year, there is a financial siege on the Palestinian government… For example, let’s speak frankly, the US approved $263 million in 2016 as aid to the government. Look, 2016 is about to end, no shekel or agora, or dinar or dollar has been paid, if we speak frankly. We hope that this aid money will be paid,” he said, according to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch.

Hamdallah then listed and praised countries that he said have given aid to the PA in 2016, and excluded the US.

“The countries that have given their aid, and we always thank them, are the European Union, which always [gives] consistently and according to what is expected. When we plan the budget we know that the EU will pay. We thank Saudi Arabia, as President [Abbas] said at the Seventh Fatah Conference, and we thank Algeria. These are the countries that actually support our budget,” Hamdallah said.

The largest amount of money given to the PA annually from Washington is channeled through the USAID program.

In 2015, the State Department allotted $290 million to the Palestinians through USAID. This money formed the major part of the overall total of $357 million given to the Palestinians in 2016, and was dispensed after congressional approval. That one year delay between the allotment of aid from the USAID program and the actual transfer of the money to the Palestinians has been in place for over a decade.

The sum of $263 million which Hamdallah said the US approved in 2016 but claimed it has not given, therefore, was presumably a reference to the sum allotted by the State Department for payment in 2017, pending congressional approval. In fact, the actual sum Congress is being asked to approve for dispensation in 2017 is $261 million….

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Filed Under: claiming victim status, Palestinian Authority, United States, War is deceit Tagged With: Rami Hamdallah


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  1. billybob says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 9:41 am

    How ungrateful! They should be cut off immediately.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      Billy bob, I hope POUS Trump reads this!!! Not one F ning dime to these terrorist.. I am tired of being told our military and SS recipients can NOT get a raise,, but these terror freaks get millions… DONE!!!

  2. Tom Thumb says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:41 am

    Geez, it disgusts me no end to know that part of the money I make goes to those bloodthirsty, whiny, parasites that contribute nothing to the world except violence and victimhood. Exactly WHO is it in our government that makes the decision to just hand over our money to these Islamic leeches? And why are WE doing it instead of their rich Muslim brothers in the Gulf states?

  3. Mac-101 says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Easy to fix, ZERO for 2017!

    • Angemon says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:19 pm

      Yup.

  4. dsinc says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:11 pm

    Paid? Pay is what you get in return for something. Given is the right word but the savage “palestinians” look upon the charity they get, but don’t deserve, as jizya. What disgusting parasites they are and the civilized world just keeps on giving. Pathetic morons. I need a blood pressure pill..

    • Tjhawk says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 4:07 pm

      Yep, that guy says ‘paid’ as if he is entitled to all these millions. I’m surprised he didn’t request a representative from the USA to deliver the loot. That way he would have somebody to slap up the back of the head upon receipt.

  5. Dexter L. Wilson says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    We have no business giving a group any aid until they stop justifying killing and maiming Israeli’s. Too bad if it would affect women and children. They like any other Muslim group have permission and are directed to lie to unbelievers. It is time to cut them off so that they have to stop their terrorist activities.

  6. Jack Holan says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    As long as the PA adheres to the PLO Charter(never changed in wring ‘Destruction of Israel) AND encourages through K-12 Education,children’s TV, puppet shows, Mosque Sermons, radio TV Broadcasts In ArabIc VIOLENCE. The PA puts out maps wIthout =Israel, =just =a=greater Palestine then you should =start =receiving funds but as always the Arab lies and you have been =receivIng funds;; albeit not the way you like it; too much oversight.

  7. Blangwort says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    Of course they didn’t get aid. It was Jizya. Aid would have been military in nature.

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    PA claims it got no US aid in 2016, when it really got $357 million
    …………………….

    Well, this should surprise no one.

    And look at his phrasing, in any case–that such charity is “paid”, rather than “given”, and that not giving these demanding Muslims aid is “financial siege”.

    This would be disgusting enough if true–that it is false makes it all the worse.

    We shouldn’t given these ungrateful, murdering creeps another penny.

    • Real McCoy says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 7:18 pm

      I don’t understand why the Muslims accept charities from Kuffar. according to their Quran it is haram.

  9. Carole Kotkiewicz says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 3:29 am

    Did anyone check his personal bank account?

    • terry says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 4:25 am

      lol HAHAHA Yes, they might have, but it is probably off shore in the same bank the Bush’s, Clinton’s, Obama’s, and countless other mosquitoes use!

  10. elisheva says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 6:31 am

    I read that congress is cutting off their funds. They use the money to pay terrorist salaries.

    http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=19485

    US Senator pledges to cut all aid to PA,
    in response to PMW findings

    Itamar Marcus

    US Senator Lindsey Graham (Chairman Senate’s Foreign Operations Subcommittee), has introduced legislation to cut all funding to the Palestinian Authority, according to yesterday’s Jerusalem Post. This action follows other international outrage in response to PMW’s report The PA’s Billion Dollar Fraud, released earlier this year. PMW exposed that the PA tried to deceive international donors by making public statements that it had stopped paying salaries to terrorist prisoners, whereas in fact the PA continues to do so through the PLO.

  11. Kiel says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 7:49 am

    Just as if the Fakestinians were entitled to money at all. They got the financial support anyway, so it’s sheer taqiyya.
    Apart from this, a new policy towards the Muslims has to be implemented:
    The Muslims must see our will to use Shock & Awe overwhelming force against them. They must feel technologically and intellectually inferior to Allied powers and realize Allah will never save them.

    • ninetyninepct says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 10:05 pm

      The “shock & awe” must start at home.

  12. Mark A says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    Hopefully the incoming Trump Administration will make the Palestinian claims on $0.00 in US financial support come true in 2017.

  13. ninetyninepct says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    These pig lovers got millions from Trudeau within days of the Canadian election. He laundered it through the UN.

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