Obama gives Arab Pals $147 Mil + $26.4 Mil to HAMAS in Gaza -- on the eve of Israel's Independence Day

 

Y/our taxpayer dollars at work: 

WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) --President Obama, citing the United States' national security interests, Wednesday waived restrictions on funding for the Palestinian Authority.

In a memorandum sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama cited his authority under section 7040(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2012 section 7040(a) of the Act, to provide appropriated funds to the Palestinian Authority.

The president directed Clinton to inform Congress of his action.

State Department officials last month expressed concern the department had been unable to provide full funding to the Palestinian Authority for institution-building projects as the United States seeks to rejuvenate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., had questioned the Obama administration's request for $147 million for the Palestinian Authority at a time when P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded preconditions for returning to the negotiations while also pushing a unilateral statehouse plan at the United Nations.

She also expressed concern that $26.4 million had been requested for projects in Hamas-run Gaza.

"The administration also says we need to help 'rebuild the Palestinian economy' -- this at a time when our economy is facing serious challenges and Americans are suffering," Ros-Lehtinen said.

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Obama is America's first -- and, let us pray, last -- dhimmi president. He announced his dhimmitude at al-Azhar University in Cairo when, just five months after his inauguration, he made his infamous speech to the Muslim world -- perhaps the only honest speech he has ever delivered -- in which he declared that "I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes about Islam." Since such a thing has never been the responsibility of any American president and isn't even hinted at in the Constitution, this was manifestly Obama's not-so-oblique way of declaring his dhimmitude -- his willingness to do whatever it takes to serve the good of Islam. He is much worse than an anti-Zionist; he is a voluntary, self-proclaimed, shout-it-from-the-rooftops dhimmi. He will continue to squander our tax dollars on Islamic causes until he is driven from office.