On December 15, the State Department pledged $45 million in emergency food aid to Palestinians as part of the UNRWA West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal. Today, officials confirm the US will be withholding that food aid, “for now,” on top of other money being withheld from the UNRWA.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert insisted in Thursday’s briefing that the pledge was meant to help with “forecasting” but was never meant as a guarantee that the money would actually be delivered.
Nauert went on to insist that the fact that the US wasn’t delivering the pledged food aid now doesn’t mean they might not conceivably give it to the UNRWA at some point in the future, and subsequently this wasn’t really a “cut.”
She insisted whether the US meets its pledges or not, they remain “the most generous country on the planet,” and believe that the rest of the world should be paying a lot more of the aid funding traditionally coming from the US.
As an American citizen I don’t believe we owe anybody anything. If they’re government can’t come up with a way to take care of it’s own citizens they don’t need to be in power. I find it ironic how so many people on this site say America is so evil, while the American taxpayer foots the bill to feed and shelter, and provide medical care for so many poorer nations and has done so for years. I’ll probably never see 1 million dollars and we’re going around the world and giving our taxpayer money, millions and getting what in return? Think about all the people we’ve fed for all those years next time y’all spin the America is evil narrative.
Fine, start with Israel’s $30 billion welfare check for guns and bullets and bulldozers.. That way the Palestinians – who aren’t allowed to have “citizens”, won’t need the paltry hand outs from the US.
I hope this post is a “joke” and not the ignorant, mean rant it seems.
It’s the poster that’s the joke.
Which orifice did you excrete this from?
The shithead.
Are you talking about Palestine or Israel?
End U.S. support for Israel and Palestine could eventually take care of itself with the help of China and Russia trade.
I don’t believe you are human.
The final solution to the Palestinian question.
“[Israel is] our nuclear capable power in the middle East”
That implies that that Israel is a US ally, when in fact it is just a particularly demanding welfare client with a strong lobby for getting the US to do its bidding whether doing so is in the US’s actual interest or not.
While the foreign aid — not just to Israel but to buy off its enemies — is damaging, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is giving a foreign power substantial control of, and a de facto veto power over, US foreign policy. If the US is going to do that, it should just demand full representation in the Knesset and be done with the fiction that it’s an independent nation.
And I’m not saying we should subsidize Israel’s sock puppets, the PA, to assist in their occupation. What Trump did was, in the long term, damaging to the IDFs security apparatus. Bibis gloating is from his shear sadistic delight in inflicting pain on helpless people, but his military are left with the riots and the rocks and the rockets. And when it comes to a fight with people that can shoot back, Israel has no stomach for it. That was proved in Lebanon and proved again in Gaza.
They aren’t my Arab friends, they’re Israel’s. That’s what we pay them for.
Whatever kickback to the arms industry may get, it’s a net loss for the US taxpayer and contributes to the general instability of the region and the world resulting in even greater losses – like 9-11. That’s what your foreign aid buys.
The Irish produce stout and nothing but stout.. Frankly, I think that’s enough.
False. Israel’s relationship with America is a huge gain for both countries.
Well, you’re half right.
Israel gets a big welfare check and a veto on US foreign policy. America gets to draw down its overstock of body bags and get lectured about anti-semitism every time one of its politicians shows insufficient alacrity in kissing Benjamin Netanyahu’s ass on demand. Yeah, huge gains for both countries.
Uh…wrong again. It’s worthless.
Sláinte!
BS, boy. Another moron without a clue.