Billions of Dollars for Palestine: Bribes for Peace.
Every Time Our Government Opens Its Mouth, It Reaches Into Your Wallet. The U.S. should get out of the middle east, and let the people there figure it out. by Bob Nightingale
(libertarian)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
According to the Associated Press, "The world rallied to the support of the embattled Palestinian government." It goes on to proclaim how the $7.4 billion dollars raised around the world will lead to peace in the middle east.
Here's the rub. $555 million of that was pledged by Secretary of State Rice. Only $400 million has been asked for by the Whitehouse. All of it is from United States citizens, who may not give a darn. That's at least a dollar from every man, woman and child to prop up a government for a state that does not even know where its borders are.
That is an awfully steep bribe on any day of week. For that much, I would swear not to kill my life-long enemy. I would swear to defeat Iranian-supported terrorists. I might take even take a boom box with rap music to a NASCAR race (hmm, maybe too dangerous for that).
If the Arab states want an independent Palestine, they can loan them their own money. But they won't. Except for Egypt, another state we bribe at a billon dollars a year, the other states support the Hamas-elected government on the Gaza strip. Those Palestinians are under siege by Egypt and Israel.
The Palestinian Authority (successor to the PLO) says that the increased costs to their government came about due to Israel's security measures. Makes sense to me. Your parents and grandparents have a habit of killing their parents and grandparents. Both sides have generational memories and mutual hate.
As long as we continue to give our State department a blank check, we will continue to get bad deals all over the world. From where I sit, again, the U.S. is funding both sides of a civil war. We will inevitably be backing the loser.
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Cut off all funds to the State department, overeseas bases, Embassies, and anything else that we give money to overeseas.
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