Obama pledges $400 million to Palestinians

The Los Angeles times reported on June 10th that “President Obama pledged an infusion of $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in the Palestinian territories” with a sizable portion of that money going directly to Gaza.

Obama told reporters… “it is important for us to explore new mechanisms so that we can have goods and services, and economic development, and the ability of people to start their own businesses, and to grow the economy and provide opportunity within Gaza.”
 
 This pledge resulted from a meeting between Obama and President Mahmud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas told Obama “that the situation in Gaza is ‘inherently unstable.’”

This is part of the famous and very successful Palestinian propaganda machine that appeals to the charitable nature of Americans. A deception that apparently still works.

That any situation in Gaza is "unstable," or "a humanitarian disaster," or "a crime against humanity without the most basic amenities of life," or any other euphemisms that Palestinian propaganda can come up with, the evidence shows that Gaza while somewhat and justifiably restricted is not starving and people are not dying for lack of anything.

“There is no starvation in Gaza [and] no one has died of hunger," Khalil Hamada, a senior official at Gaza's Ministry of Justice reported in the Daily Telegraph on June 5th. (very interesting article. click on the link and read it.) Therefore, the question looms larger than ever as to what exactly is the Obama administration doing.

Is Obama aware that hundreds of tons of aid flow into Gaza each month through Israel or does he just not care and is looking to level the military playing field a little more.

The Hamas terrorists along with their Iranian allies I’m sure are very happy about this development.

How many GRAD rockets can we buy with $400,000,000?

There are some elephants lurking around. Here is the elephant in this room.

 How can we be sure that the money will go for those intended areas and not toward killing Jews inside Israel? The Times article did not address this very important question. So, until we hear differently, I think it is safe to assume that there are no assurances that it will be used for building infrastructure and business inside Gaza.

In the words of Cosmo Kramer, OHHH!!! YEAAAAAAAA!!!!

Now for the other elephant in the room:

This is a complete reversal of years of U.S. policy not to fund terrorist organizations around the world. This poses a real moral problem for U.S. foreign policy. The American justice system has tried, convicted and sentenced terrorist activists soliciting for donations to aid Gaza and other Middle East terrorists.

Sami al-Arian  was convicted of collecting funds for Islamic Jihad and was a vocal proponent of Hamas terrorist activities. He has been fighting sentencing  on appeals for the last several years.

After enjoying  some political celebrity through playing on the Bush Administration’s anguished desire to show that Islam was a “religion of peace” after 9-11  Abdurahaman Alamoudi  actively campaigned for Hamas, collected funds and urged support for the terrorists on American soil.   He was convicted of illegal business transactions with the Libyan government.

How do we separate these obvious enemies to our way of life with what the Obama administration is posing?  Is it ok because this money comes from the White House and it’s not ok when Sami al-Arian does it at a rally in Florida?

 What exactly is the difference?

It looks as though the Obama administration is  beginning the end of our fight against Islamic terror, and they are doing it by selling Israel down the river.

In the words of Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana, as he so appropriately logged into the official congressional record the other day, “Mr. President, whose side are you on?”

The further Obama goes into his term the more he appears to be less a supporter of freedom in the Middle East and more a proponent of Palestinian violence against Jews to force a weaker Israel into giving into their demands.

Demands that will eventually bring about the fall of the only real democracy in the Middle East.

Apparently his words of support for the Jewish State are hollow and hold no meaning for the special relationship America has enjoyed with Israel since the Kennedy administration. We probably should have looked a little closer at his presidential campaign and taken a little more seriously his past associations with people like  Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi and others.

Well, some of us did.