As Americans go
Broke, Sanders Demands Taxpayers Give Hamas $75 Million
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz March 29, 2020 , 1:23 pm
“I call heaven and earth to witness against
you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose
life—if you and your offspring would live.” Deuteronomy 30:19 (The Israel
Bible™)
Bernie Sanders. (Credit: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com)
A group of Democratic senators called for the U.S. State
Department to reverse its policy and give funding to the Palestinian Authority
and Hamas.
Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth
Warren (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Tom Udall
(D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a
letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting that the government reverse
its policy and resume giving monetary aid to the Palestinian Authority in Judea
and Samaria and the Hamas-led government in Gaza.
“Given the spread of the coronavirus in the West Bank and
Gaza, the extreme vulnerability of the health system in Gaza, and the continued
withholding of U.S. aid to the Palestinian people, we are concerned that the
Administration is failing to take every reasonable step to help combat this
public health emergency in the Palestinian Territories,” the letter read.
The Democratic politicians seek to squeeze $75 million in
aid to the Hamas-led government in Gaza and the PA in Judea and Samaria under
the guise of the FY 2020 Appropriations Act.
It should be noted that President Trump slashed funding
to the PA in 2018 as per the Taylor Force Act, also known as the Anti-Terrorism
Clarification Act (ATCA), that cuts some aid to the Palestinians until they end
stipends to terrorists and the families of slain attackers.
In 2016, the PA paid out about $303 million in stipends
and other benefits to the families of so-called “martyrs”. The funds are
disbursed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO/Fatah). The families
of convicted Palestinians serving time in Israeli prisons receive $3,000 or
higher per month, higher than the average Palestinian wage.
Any monies that go to Gaza must necessarily go through
the government which is run by Hamas. Hamas, recognized by the U.S. as a
terrorist organization, was elected as the ruling party in Gaza in 2006. Gaza receives
billions of dollars of humanitarian aid, much of which is usurped by the Hamas
government for use in terrorist infrastructures.
Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination to run
for president in November. His support of the move is consistent with his campaign
platform. In October, he said that part of the annual US military
assistance should be used to “leverage Israel to fundamentally change [its]
relationship to the people of Gaza,” with some of the aid being immediately
diverted.
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