Congress wants to deny aid to 'Palestinians' until incitement stops: Will Obama veto it?
The House Appropriations Committee is taking up a bill to
suspend aid to the 'Palestinian Authority' until a reliable report is issued that shows that incitement against the Jewish State is on the decline.
Channel 2 reports Saturday night that the US Congress House
Appropriations Committee is debating cutting off aid to the Palestinian
Authority (PA) unless its ongoing incitement against Israel stops or is
significantly curtailed.
Under the new law, aid to the PA will be frozen until a reliable
report is released proving that it has begun cutting down its incitement
against the Jewish state.
US lawmakers believe that the bill is expected to pass by a large
majority vote in Congress, according to the daily. Intelligence Minister
Yuval Steinitz spoke with several US Congress members earlier this week
and expressed his appreciation about the legislative initiative.
"I met this week with members of Congress and thanked them for
proposing a law designed to stop the incitement against Israel in the
Palestinian Authority," Steinitz stated Saturday. "The initiative would
curtail the aid that the US gives to the Palestinian Authority until it
stops or at least significantly reduces the level of incitement it
levies against Israel." Steinitz added that the precondition of
reliable accountability for PA incitement before aid resumes is a major
step to solving the ongoing incitement problem.
Steinitz recently turned down a joint committee with the US over the
PA's incitement against Israel, citing concerns that a committee would
be ineffective.
"There is no point in convening a committee that will be a
cover-up for continued incitement by the Palestinian Authority," he
stated.
But here's the real question: Will Obama veto any legislation on the issue? Because you can bet that President Hussein Obama and his Secretary of State John FN Kerry are going to oppose this....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, House Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, incitement index, John Kerry, Palestinian incitement, Yuval Steinitz
Clinton wants Obama to veto foreign aid bill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked President Obama to veto the
foreign aid bill voted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee if it reaches him. In particular, she mentioned provisions cutting aid to the United Nations, and
restricting aid to the 'Palestinians,' Egypt and Pakistan.
Clinton said in a letter Tuesday that she would urge President Barack Obama to veto the bill if it passes in both houses of Congress because the measure “would be debilitating to my efforts to carry out a considered foreign policy and diplomacy, and to use foreign assistance strategically to that end,” The Washington Post reported.
The bill cleared the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in an effort to cut $6.4 billion from the president’s request for $51 billion in foreign aid for 2012. While it has the potential to pass the GOP-controlled House, it’s seen as unable to get through the Democrat-led Senate.
The bill would impose “onerous restrictions” on State Department operations and foreign aid, Clinton wrote, and the “severe curtailing” of dues payments to international groups including the UN and the Organization of American States would be damaging.
The legislation’s proposal to block funding to countries that don’t meet corruption standards “has the potential to affect a staggering number of needy aid recipients,” as do proposals to restrict aid to Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and the Palestinian Authority. The bill would only allow the flow of money to those countries if the Obama administration was able to certify that no members of terror groups or their sympathizers were serving in their governments.
Brad Goehner, a spokesman for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the House committee, told the Post that the letter was “disappointing, particularly given the current debt crisis, that the Obama administration is fighting to keep sending taxpayer money to foreign organizations and governments that undermine U.S. interests.”
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here.
I guess Mrs. Clinton likes the idea of Hamas being a part of the 'Palestinian Authority' and
terrorists being on its payroll with the US footing the bill.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, House Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, unilateral declaration of statehood
PLO Washington office to be shut if they pursue unilateral statehood?
The House Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee has proposed
shutting down the PLO's Washington office in the event that it unilaterally pursues 'statehood' in the United Nations.
The bill, referred Wednesday by the foreign operations subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee to the full committee, for the first time restricts the broad presidential waiver that applied to the 1988 law that originally banned setting up a Palestine Liberation Organization office on U.S. soil.
Instead of simply saying the president may waive the ban if doing so "is important to the security interests of the United States," the bill also requires the president to certify that "the Palestinian Authority is not attempting to establish or seek recognition at the United Nations of a Palestinian state outside of an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians" and "the Palestinian Authority is moving to halt anti-Israel incitement in Palestinian Authority-controlled electronic and print media and in schools, mosques, and other institutions it controls, and is replacing these materials, including textbooks, with materials that promote tolerance, peace, and coexistence with Israel."
Presidents have routinely waived the ban since the launch of the Oslo process in 1993. What had been known for years as the "Palestine Affairs Center" was renamed the PLO mission in 1994. Last year the Obama administration allowed the mission to fly the Palestinian flag for the first time.
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Restrictions on Palestinian aid take up 10 pages of the 186-page bill, and the language has the backing of Democrats and Republicans, who otherwise are sharply divided over the Republican majority's introduction of cuts in assistance to other parts of the world and of bans on assistance to family planning clinics that provide information on abortions.
Maybe the PLO house of cards will finally fall. Unless the Israeli government stops it.
What could go wrong?
Labels: House Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, PLO, PLO mission, unilateral declaration of statehood
