Obama lifts freeze on 192 million dollars to PLO! What say you now??
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Obama lifts freeze on $192 million aid package to Palestinian Authority
Funding
serves ‘security interests of the US,’ says president. Congress blocked
it after Abbas’s bid for UN recognition of ‘Palestine’
President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Obama stated that the aid was “important to the security interests of the United States.”
The US Congress froze a $192 million aid
package to the Palestinian Authority after its president, Mahmoud Abbas,
defied US pressure and sought to attain UN endorsement of Palestinian
statehood last September. The presidential waiver means that aid can now
be delivered.
The unilateral statehood gambit was strongly
opposed by Israel, which said Abbas was seeking to avoid negotiating the
necessary compromises and modalities of statehood with Israel. The US
indicated it would veto a resolution in the Security Council seeking
unilateral recognition of “Palestine,” but the issue has not come to a
vote, because the Palestinians were unable to obtain sufficient support
in the Security Council. They may yet seek a non-binding endorsement of
statehood in the UN General Assembly.
Section 3 of Congress’s Palestinian
Accountability Act, which applies to 2012, stipulates that “no funds
available to any United States Government department or agency … may be
obligated or expended with respect to providing funds to the Palestinian
Authority.” Obama has now signed a waiver, however, the White House
said Friday, and asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to inform
Congress accordingly.
The AFP news agency quoted White House
spokesman Tommy Vietor as saying the $192 million aid package would be
devoted to “ensuring the continued viability of the moderate PA
government under the leadership of [Palestinian Authority] President
Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.”
Vietor added that the PA had fulfilled its
major obligations, such as recognizing Israel’s right to exist,
renouncing violence and accepting the Road Map for Peace.
Earlier in April, the Middle East peacemaking “Quartet” expressed concern about the “increasing fragility” of the Palestinian Authority,
which requires $1.1 billion in financial aid. A statement on behalf of
the Quartet called on the two sides to work together to improve
Palestinian governance and expand economic opportunities for the
Palestinian people.
Top Opinion
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Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL 2012/04/29 03:17:36None of the above
+16OMG.....I cannot print what I want to say but I will try to clean it up..... this is clearly a treason charge of aiding and abetting the enemy by our "command-in-Chief". Sorry but I do believe that we are their sworn enemy as it has been mentioned on many of occasions by them and it is his responsibility to protect us.
It is SH's screwed up system that placed it below one of your comments.
I didn't ask if you were offended unless, I am the one that offended you.
When you say that you are not concerned, you are lying or you would not have entered this discussion to claim that Israel being the center of the world.
Hillary said that Hamas would have to agree to not buy weapons or commit violence the last time they gave them money.
Ask him why he sent William Ayers and his wife over there to instruct the Palestinians on insurrection and OWS tactics.. ?? huh?
By his own hands/choices .. admits where his loyalties lie ..
Now again .. I ask the question ..
why isn't this stopped? (and charges filed?)
The $192 million is pocket change in the grand scheme of things. I believe we are sending somewhere between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to the Paleos a year.
The Constitution does not allow him to do that, not that he cares. If Congress doesn't approve the expenditure, it doesn't happen. This is another impeachable offense, not that anyone cares.
major obligations, such as recognizing Israel’s right to exist,
renouncing violence and accepting the Road Map for Peace."
This would be news to the PA, who has skirted around this fact since they rejected the Oslo Accords kept in the Israeli offers.
"I will Bless them that Bless thee, and I will curse them that curse thee", looks like Bo is in for some serious crap about to decend on his muslim "head".
I wouldn't want to be standing in his shoes, ever again..........
ו שַׁאֲלוּ, שְׁלוֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָם; יִשְׁלָיוּ, אֹהֲבָיִךְ.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee.
Go ahead, it's a FREAKIN Free for All for this Bogus Fraud Commie BS POTUS and ITs Administration.
Oblunder living the high life, puppet, Destroyer, MUST GO. AND if the libbie/demos can't see this obvious chit, they must really be smoking Oblunder's hydro.
Not one iota of compunction in my fiber. ; )
Public Law 101-246, enacted in 1990, provides, “No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states.” Moreover, Public Law 103-236, enacted in 1994, prohibits “voluntary or assessed contribution to any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood.”
November 1, 2011
Defying international law and negotiated peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has unilaterally recognized the Palestinian Authority as a full member “state.”
UNESCO, a United Nations (U.N.) agency, has now become a co-conspirator in the terrorist-led Palestinian Authority’s attempt to circumvent the Middle East peace process in...
Public Law 101-246, enacted in 1990, provides, “No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states.” Moreover, Public Law 103-236, enacted in 1994, prohibits “voluntary or assessed contribution to any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood.”
November 1, 2011
Defying international law and negotiated peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has unilaterally recognized the Palestinian Authority as a full member “state.”
UNESCO, a United Nations (U.N.) agency, has now become a co-conspirator in the terrorist-led Palestinian Authority’s attempt to circumvent the Middle East peace process in order to gain unilateral recognition of statehood. This act of defiance has real consequences, both for UNESCO and for some American corporations.
UNESCO has in effect forced the U.S.’s hand to defund the 22% of the organization’s budget (roughly $80 million) that the U.S. contributes annually. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used to fund any U.N. agency that recognizes the Palestinian Authority as a state.