Money for Jordan and Egypt too, where are these evil cuts coming from? On Mar 24, 2013 1:03 PM, "Jerry Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "The military tuition program was saved :)" > > Good deal. > > So was 500 million for Palestine. > > US unblocks $500M for Palestinians ( > http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4360135,00.html ) > The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the > Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress for months, a top > US official said Friday. > > The news that the funds had finally been freed up came after US President > Barack Obama met top Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a landmark visit to > Israel and the West Bank earlier this week. > > "To date, we have moved $295.7 million in fiscal year 2012 money and $200 > million in fiscal year 2013 assistance," State Department spokeswoman > Victoria Nuland told reporters. > > The Obama administration also notified Congress in late February that it > was seeking a further $200 million to fund US Agency for International > Development (USAID) programs for the Palestinians, she said. > > > > Personally, I'd much rather we spend our money on our service men than on a > never ending Middle East conflict (or the contractors profiting from it). > > I'm sure most here would disagree, but I believe if you cut off all aid to > Palestine, they would exert some pressure on their extremist leaders to > stop using them as pawns in this conflict. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362041 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
