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Report: Congress freezes aid to Palestinians
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Published: 01.10.11, 09:13
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1. He has to learn his lesson
Vardina   (10.01.11)
2. Time to put an end to give free money for nothing to PA
Anna M Sedda ,   Rome-Italy   (10.01.11)
The PA has received so much money that they could even count... Time has come to STOP feeding this "empty" regime with US and EU money..we are not in the times of "waisting" more money... Time for PA to know the money game is finish!!!!!!!!
3. Shove it!
Amir ,   Yaffa, Palestine   (10.01.11)
4. who wants badly - israel or america itself
joy   (10.01.11)
5. where is the news in that
observer ,   Egypt   (10.01.11)
6. give'm back together with $ 2 b settlement aid to taxpayers
observer ,   Egypt   (10.01.11)
7. Time to beg the Arabs for money
Eyal ,   USA Israel   (10.01.11)
Good luck with that one.
8. US Congress proves Bill Clinton is a washed up old has been.
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (10.01.11)
9. Would like to see confirmation from a U.S. source.
Devorah   (10.01.11)
10. #2
morris ,   israel   (10.01.11)
i think you need to get to facts straight israel takes more money from the US than any other country especially when it comes to military aid. so basically 600 million to the palestinians is spare change from the Israeli pocket. Israel receives approx. 15 million a day from the US thats almost 5.5 billion a year. if the US cut some of that money where would Israel be???
11. so what !!!!!
(10.01.11)
Palestine will get a new aid from Saudi Arabia and many other countries, specially when they have a political victory over the US by forcing the US to use Veto and show the whole world what type of democracy the US is up for.
12. If True, So What?
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (10.01.11)
I read the original article and question their sources. Congress was on vacation when this was supposed to have happened. And they were split by party having just tanked the US and world stock markets and destroyed the US credit rating - and they were junketing in Israel is different party groups. But so what? If it's true, it is just a little early. And either the EU or Israel will make up the deficit or Iran will volunteer as it did in 2006 with Gaza. Anybody who thinks US taxpayers will get a break should lay off the LSD. Washington does not work that way. The US House has been threatening this for some time. So has the Israeli Minister, Steinitz. With the UN veto promise, US influence with the PA was disappearing anyway. Influence with Israel was gone in January 2009. So somebody else can moderate if there is a desire to resolve the issues. Sarkozy, maybe? Or Cameron?
13. ABBAS ASK SUHA ARAFAT WIFE FOR MONEY
observer ,   everybody.   (10.01.11)
he help himself to millions of donated money
14. this means one fact
(10.01.11)
america is weak to be a supporter as .. if palastinian can not obey so cut the aid . but when israil can not obey nothing to cut // it is a weak strutegy as it is what to do only the carrot to give or not
15. Will that work?
David. ,   Raanana   (10.01.11)
This totalitarian presidents, need measures like this to "show" their people how much they are in the "good path". That "the ultimate sacrifice" is needed to fulfill their goals. What most be done is a total blockade to the Abbas and his goverment. Until they seat to table to talk , nothing less will work.
16. USA's Independency
Arda ,   İstanbul   (10.01.11)
It seems that there is a collar in USA's neck and Israel holds the chain.
17. Couldn't happen to a better person!
Madeleine ,   Rehovot Israel   (10.01.11)
Great news, let's hope Congress will decide to withhold the whole 600 billion dollars. What have they ever done with the money that's been poured into that fake institution, known as the palestinian Authority? What do they have to show for it? A better life for the average Palestinian? Nope. Forget the wonderful mall, hotel, swimming pool and all that. They need a proper health scheme, an educational system that doesn't glorify bloodshed, hatred and martyrdom, roads - the whole infrastructure of a society. Let them cry to their Arab brethren who are neither interested nor care for the Palis. And we still give them water and get their sewage in return!!
18. I am sure the new world leader Erdogan can come up with the
jonathan ,   london/ israel   (10.01.11)
money instead. Now's his chance to prove himself!
19. This is where the miricle comes in
Proud Pal ,   N.Y.   (10.01.11)
Who gives a flying rats ass
20. It doesn't matter we broke
We broke ,   U.S.A.   (10.01.11)
Israel your beggin lying ass is next, America is washed up their will be mayhem in the streets of the U.S. if we continue to give you money and we broke.
21. @10 Morris
nva ,   jerusalem   (10.01.11)
It is you Morris who needs to get your facts straight. In 2011 US military aid to Israel was $3 billion, 75% of which is required for Israel to purchase American goods...products that we can make cheaper in Israel. America & Israel have joint military programs (Arrow, David's Sling eg). Military aid to other countries are without such buy back stipulations. To be honest i would rather see US aid reduced but for opposite reasons than you. We need to assert our rightful sovereignty over our own country. It would be better economically for us as well.
22. BRAVO AMERICA but.....
Moragh USA   (10.01.11)
you, meaning Hilary Clinton, is not the nicest person towards Israel. She has two-faces... one for the world and the other nasty one against Israel. It is clear that Hilary is a Jew-hater. God have mercy on her soul! I wonder how she manages to smile to her Jewish son-in-law?????
23. Why is the world pouring their
Moragh USA   (10.01.11)
money into a country called Palestine which simply does not exist. Can't the civil world see what they are doing with their billions for "Palestine" a country that simply does not exist. It's not the arabs that need their heads screwed on the right way but the Western World. Come on, get your act together. If you want to throw your money away, throw a little to me and less to the terrorists!
24. Good news....
cj ,   paris france   (10.01.11)
may they stop the full amount as soon as possible. No more money to the pals and others,like egypt,pakistan and so on. May the american people elect a true friend of israel in 2012 not another Islamo fascist like obama.
25.  The Jewish Congress can keep its dirty dollars.
Salma ,   Palestine   (10.01.11)
The Palestinians should be grateful to these fools for dispelling the illusion that the United States can play the honest broker in the region. no "peace process" any more .
26. The Pals & USA
Ken ,   SA   (10.01.11)
The Palestinians hate the USA almost as much as they hate Israel & the Jews. They regularly burn the USA flag so what do they expect?
27. @10
Sensible Guy ,   Tel Aviv   (10.01.11)
you should check your facts buddy. the military aid given America can only be spent on AMERICAN military products. so the aid money is pumped back directly into the american economy. the PA on the other hand, decide to pay salaries for known terrorirsts in jail with their aid money. also i belive the american aid money only constitues 10% of the annuel military budgey.
28. This is Great!
Leon ,   Algonquin Land   (10.01.11)
Shut down the PLO and make Israel pay for the occupation instead of Europe. Israel will be more open to the so called "Peace Talks" when they have to pay the illegal occupation since 1967.
29. One wonders as to why Mr. Mahmoud Abbas in his UN speech...
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (10.01.11)
...didn't make the simple step that could bring about a break-through in the drive for an accommodation of peaceful coexistence between Arab and Jew, between the Muslim-Arab world, local and regional, and the nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel: Announcing that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) accepts Israel's RIGHT to be - not only the FACT that it is - to exist as the independent nation-state of the Jewish people. Such a public announcement would usher a new day of reconciliation; it would consitute a breakthorugh towards peace because it would address the essence of the Arab Israeli conflict directly. Sadly, instead of doing so, the head of the PLO, Mr. Abbas, in his speech, not only negated totally the Jewish people's historic connection to its homeland, he also referred to the hated "occupaton" as that which has existed for the past 63 years, that is since Israel's proclamation, or in essence calling for Israel's demise. Of course, Mr. Abbas is true to the PLO's Charter, etched deeply in his heart and mind as well as in those of the other PLO's leaders and followers, not to mention the followers of the Islamist Hamas and IslamicJihad which are not part of the PLO, who are eager to see a UN memebr state erased off the face of earth and with it all traces of Jewish existence in the Jewish people's homeland.
30. Let Saudi Arabia or Iran provide $
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (10.01.11)
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