USAID has halted all shipments of humanitarian aid to Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories today at the request of the Palestinian Authority. This comes as the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA) takes effect.
ATCA allows Americans to sue any recipients of US foreign aid for “acts
of war,” and was aimed at the Palestinians in particular, with many in
Congress presenting it as a pro-Israel vote. Israel did not see it that
way, however, and has been urging the Trump Administration to find a
workaround.
The problem with ATCA is that the US had already so drastically cut aid
to the Palestinians, that by the time it went into effect, there was so
little left the Palestinian Authority believed it was safer not to take
it. This includes funds meant to support security coordination with
Israel, which means that coordination is up in the air.
With security coordination one of the last venues of cooperation between
Israel and Palestine, the loss of such coordination could easily lead
the PA leadership to take more drastic moves in the international
community, figuring they don’t have much else to risk in the way of
Israeli ties in trying to get support from the UN on serious policy
matters.
The PA supports the occupation. Let’s hope with the cut off of US money that the PA will collapse and the Zionist enterprise will have to bear the full cost of the occupation on its own. Let the IDF police every Palestinian town and village and see how they like that.
They’ll love it since we’re paying for it. They can slaughter children and steal houses and anything else they like.
Really bad idea. You’re just giving isIsrael more money and authority to terrorize and slaughter Palestinians. This won’t stop, it will continue throughout the entire ME and come back here to roost.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/31/netanyahus-brand-of-tolerance-for-anti-semitism-goes-back-120-years/
It’s not like they weren’t doing that anyway. Hamas is the only legitimate voice of Palestine. The PA are collaborators and will wither away without foreign support.
Wait, no-one refuses the U.S. taxpayer’s money. Not Israel, not NATO, not anyone.
The nerve of those Palestinians; what kind of frenemies are they anyway?
This is disgusting. The five eyes countries are going to slaughter the entire ME for profit.
We need to clarify our position on terrorism: Before we were for it, now we are against it?! I’m quite intrigued by the possibility of Americans being able to sue Israel when they engage in acts of war.