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Sanders, Warren, other Democrat Senators call on US to give Palestinian Authority and Hamas $75 million

Mar 31, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

As the economic crisis created by the coronavirus deepens, it is astounding that these Senators think this is a good use of the taxpayers’ money. Once this money arrived in the PA and Gaza, it would be used almost exclusively to line the pockets of various officials and to pay expenses related to the ongoing jihad against Israel.

“As Americans go Broke, Sanders Demands Taxpayers Give Hamas $75 Million,” by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News, March 29, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):

A group of Democratic senators called for the U.S. State Department to reverse its policy and give funding to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting that the government reverse its policy and resume giving monetary aid to the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria and the Hamas-led government in Gaza.

“Given the spread of the coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza, the extreme vulnerability of the health system in Gaza, and the continued withholding of U.S. aid to the Palestinian people, we are concerned that the Administration is failing to take every reasonable step to help combat this public health emergency in the Palestinian Territories,” the letter read.

The Democratic politicians seek to squeeze $75 million in aid to the Hamas-led government in Gaza and the PA in Judea and Samaria under the guise of the FY 2020 Appropriations Act.

It should be noted that President Trump slashed funding to the PA in 2018 as per the Taylor Force Act, also known as the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), that cuts some aid to the Palestinians until they end stipends to terrorists and the families of slain attackers.

In 2016, the PA paid out about $303 million in stipends and other benefits to the families of so-called “martyrs”. The funds are disbursed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO/Fatah). The families of convicted Palestinians serving time in Israeli prisons receive $3,000 or higher per month, higher than the average Palestinian wage.

Any monies that go to Gaza must necessarily go through the government which is run by Hamas. Hamas, recognized by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, was elected as the ruling party in Gaza in 2006. Gaza receives billions of dollars of humanitarian aid, much of which is usurped by the Hamas government for use in terrorist infrastructures….

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Featured, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian jihad, United States Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Patrick Leahy, Sherrod Brown, Tom Carper, Tom Udall


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    Bernie and Elizabeth would make the perfect President and Vice-President (in whichever order) of Palestine … if they every hold another election there, that is.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      I wonder how much money Palestine has saved by not having a presidential election for something like 15 years. Way to cut the fat out of your budget, Palestine.

      • mortimer says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 5:45 pm

        Yes, CES, how about a fair election before the US forks out more cash?

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 7:31 pm

        Damn good point, CogitoErgoSum.

      • LB says

        Apr 1, 2020 at 7:14 am

        Yes that would be some election alright. Here are the top three candidates:
        1) A muslim terrorist
        2) A muslim terrorist
        3) A muslim terrorist
        Hamas must be shitting their pants with all that fierce competition.

        • Boromir's Horn says

          Apr 1, 2020 at 7:40 am

          A younger, more vibrant version of Bernie and Elizabeth could easily be the future for us here in America. That has me shitting my pants.

        • James Lincoln says

          Apr 1, 2020 at 8:59 am

          Boromir’s Horn says,

          “A younger, more vibrant version of Bernie and Elizabeth could easily be the future for us here in America. That has me shitting my pants.”

          Luckily, there are some younger conservative thinkers out there who are nothing like Bernie and Elizabeth.

          They could make great leaders someday.

          But they are in the minority, which is a major problem in getting them elected…

    • Westman says

      Apr 1, 2020 at 8:17 am

      Nice picture of Lenin and Trotsky v2.0

    • BJ says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 12:04 am

      Thats a damn shame

  2. Free health care says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    Why don’t they just cutout the middle man and send them lethal weapons

  3. Ajay says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    How stupid can they get. Instead why not they supply arms directly to the terrorists.

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    Right. A number of the PA and Hamas leaders haven’t built their mansions in third countries yet … such as Cyprus. They will appreciate the US paying for their offshore real estate ‘insurance policies’.

  5. Mo says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Excuse my language, as I don’t usually talk like this, but – OH, HELL, NO!!!

    • Jay says

      Apr 1, 2020 at 10:33 am

      Well said Mo! Agree 100%
      America first in this time of crisis!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏

  6. Cheryl says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    Don’t send any of my tax dollars to any TERRORIST country! Stop being dhimmi’s who are appeasers!!!!!

  7. Roland says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    I wonder who has been lobbying Congress for aid to Hamas and PA.

  8. Ali J Toure says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    Give Hamas $75 million to buy more weapons to carry out their suicide bombing. Those muddy brains democrats need to repent for God to forgive America.

  9. Huh!?! says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    I cannot believe they are that dumb. Their has got to be some political gain for them. Do not send my money over to the PA. I read in the article mention is made of assistance with the corona virus. No…Uncle Sam has corona problems of our own. I have also read comments, in other articles, about how the corona is a weapon against the Jews and the infidel. Let allah protect them then. Don’t the Bern and the Liz W have any faith?
    This is ominous.

  10. James Lincoln says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    So, according to “Breaking News Israel”:

    “In 2016, the PA paid out about $303 million in stipends and other benefits to the families of so-called “martyrs”.”

    If the Palestinian Authority can spend $303 million for terrorist “martyrs”, they obviously don’t need an extra $75 million from the United States.

    My recommendation is to not give them a single penny – the Trump administration should also slash any monies currently given to the Palestinian Authority to ZERO.

    • Wellington says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 7:21 pm

      Seconded, James. No money to the decrepit and disgusting PA. Not one damn dollar.

  11. Thomas F Mills says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    Don’t send any of my Tax. Dollars to benefit any muslims. No muslim should ever be allowed to enter the USA for ANY reason

  12. mccode says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    Both Bolshevik Bernie and Grey Beaver should donate their personal millions to the PA + Hamas if they feel so compelled to support them.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Sanders, Warren, other Democrat Senators call on US to give Palestinian Authority and Hamas $75 million
    …………….

    Good God, what madness.

    • Wellington says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      As I have noted many times, gravenimage, the Democratic Party of old is over. It’s gone. It’s no more and it ain’t coming back.

      ALL registered Democrats who have retained their sanity need to realize this and LEAVE the Democratic Party once and for all. Remaining in it because one thinks they can reform it is a route to Nowheresville, where the Democratic Party itself resides and will continue to reside. In fact, I would argue that remaining in the Democratic Party is itself harmful—very.

      • Westman says

        Apr 1, 2020 at 8:49 am

        True, Wellington. The Democrat Party plank has moved so far left that its mostly sticking out over deep water.

    • Lauren Hermann says

      Apr 1, 2020 at 8:02 am

      GI,
      That’s exactly what I’m thinking–“pure madness”.

      Excuse my naiveté: I never knew that the US government was sending ANY aid EVER to the Palestinians, until I read just now that the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), which was passed in 2018 and aid was cut. I mean, you just can’t make this stuff up.

      They have stated in no uncertain terms that they want to destroy the west, and we just act like it’s a joke that could never happen, and keep giving them money which they use to attack Israel. We are committing suicide.

      • Westman says

        Apr 1, 2020 at 8:38 am

        The US has two Democratic Presidential hopefuls who actually want to take Other People’s Money and give it to the people who danced in the streets on 9/11 and who Pay For Slay?

        It’s an April Fools joke, in extremely bad taste, and it’s obvious the jokesters are the real fools.

        As Lauren wrote, “you just can’t make this stuff up.”

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 1, 2020 at 7:44 pm

        Lauren, unfortunately the US has sent *a lot* of aid to the Palestinian Authority. This has been cut way under Trump, because of its use for Jihad terror. And we’ve never sent money to Hamas–but “Bernie” and Elizabeth Warren want to change that.

        • Lauren Hermann says

          Apr 2, 2020 at 3:29 pm

          GI,

          Thanks for the clarification.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 3, 2020 at 1:36 am

          Thank you, Lauren.

          And I meant “cut way back”.

  14. Paul says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    Communists bowing to thier Muslim overlords, Sickening

  15. Boromir's Horn says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    $75 million will get you 25 Scud C rockets, 3 masks and a pair of rubber gloves. What a deal.

  16. jca reid says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Ought to throw 50,000 Marines ashore & sort them all out, once & for all!

  17. Marty says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    How perfect. Bernie the bolshevik and liz the liar are urgining that the US send gobs of money to criminals who support and finance terror and want us dead. And people say that leftists have no sense of humor.

  18. libertyORdeath says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    “the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), that cuts some aid to the Palestinians until they end stipends to terrorists and the families of slain attackers.”

    It’s as simple as that, if they want funding and value the fight against the wuhan coronavirus over the jihad against Israel and the U.S. then they can simply abide by the terms and receive the funding these congressmen and women want. Any capitulation without oversight of the dispersal of the funds and a zero tolerance policy toward jihad murder and terrorism is unacceptable. This is our $ we’re talking about, we certainly do not OWE the “Palestinians” a single cent.

    • libertyORdeath says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 10:10 pm

      Why don’t these lawmakers use $ from their respective districts to fund their support for jihad? Then let them explain to their constituents why they think the “Palestinians” deserve the taxpayer $ more than they do.

  19. JoBo says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 4:18 am

    these scum hate America. Why don’t they leave?

  20. Halaku says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 6:56 am

    Like many Muslim clerics around the world, this one from Gaza thinks the Coronavirus is Allaaa’s weapon in service of Muslims. But Allaah seems to have changed his mind and quite obviously now it is the duty of the evil Kafirs to give them reparations.

    https://youtu.be/YTx1Y48WCd4

  21. Russ Wivell says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 7:32 am

    What!? are they thinking? Or are they thinking?

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 1, 2020 at 9:01 am

      It is their way of thinking, Russ.

      They refuse to use factual, evidence-based logic.

      It’s just not in their DNA…

  22. Kilauea says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 8:29 am

    Do these stupid politicians believe that any of their constituents are in favor of giving tax dollars to Palestinians? I’m tired of trying to bribe these animals into being peaceful. Let the virus take its course among them and vote out any politicians that want to give them our hard earned tax dollars.

  23. Steven Edelman says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 10:06 am

    First, what needs to be clarified is the kind of person that Bernie is. He fathered a child, Levi, out of wedlock. There is a history of his not paying child support. The man is Jewish in name only. He is a Muslim to my way of thinking. I am grateful that he will NEVER be President. He is, was, and will always be an extreme Left-Wing demagogue.

  24. joe says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 11:05 am

    Wake up America we are not gonna win on the internet

  25. Alexious Comnenus says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 11:06 am

    It is alarming to hear these Democrats Senators asking this insanity. These people have cabbage for brain. They are simply intending to destroy America by all means. My question is how a good patriot American can cast his/her vote for these enemies of our country. So far the Democratic Party path is to destroy America as Obama tried for 8 years.

  26. OLD GUY says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 11:33 am

    Get these two old useless Senators out of our government, the money they want to give P/A and Hamas will only support their leadership and terrorism. Quit bowing to the east, yea I know the Saudi’s have and spread a lot of money around and it appears that a lot of our politicians are on the Saudi money train.

  27. No Muzzies Here says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    This is no surprise. The radical wing of the Democrat party has already committed to selling out this country to Islam as thanks for all the support, the votes, and the donations.

  28. Tim Carlo says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    Give them 75 million, in pounds of bombs we drop on them…

  29. Marc says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    “Given the spread of the coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza, the extreme vulnerability of the health system in Gaza, and the continued withholding of U.S. aid to the Palestinian people, we are concerned that the Administration is failing to take every reasonable step to help combat this public health emergency in the Palestinian Territories,”

    Failing to take every reasonable step to help combat this public health emergency in the Palestinian Territories? In that case we are failing every reasonable step to help combat this public health emergency in about 100 other countries as well. What makes the Palestinians deserve our aid when we don’t have enough for our friends, or ourselves for that matter?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2020 at 1:37 am

      Good question, Marc.

  30. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    CRIMOCRATS NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WEST!

  31. Michelle Rose-Reardon says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    As far as I am concerned the Palestinian Arabs should have access to health care and testing supplies. If they are unwilling or unable to utilize or access these things with their communities, I have no doubt that Israel will help. If they refuse our help or Israel’s help, well there is little we can do. I am also wondering why the WHO is not taking care of this.

  32. grandpahalfdime says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Not only NO, but HELL NO!
    They use it to pay the families of terrorists killed while committing acts of terror.

  33. DazzleMe says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    President and Congress needs to say no no but h3ll no—they hate us, why do we owe them ANYTHING.

  34. sidney penny says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    “The Democratic politicians seek to squeeze $75 million in aid to the Hamas-led government in Gaza and the PA in Judea and Samaria under the guise of the FY 2020 Appropriations Act.”

    Can China help out as they caused the problem?

  35. Stephen says

    Apr 2, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    Who said the DNC has a problem with terrorist?

  36. AP says

    Apr 3, 2020 at 8:17 am

    Take all of Bernie’s and Liz’s money and send to Gaza today. They will be glad you did.

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