Biden's Aid To Palestinians of $90 million Dollars

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

This Palestinian is getting the vaccine against COVID because  he works within Israel or its settlements in Judea-Samaria and is being vaccinated at an Israeli facility at Shaar Efraim crossing from Israel to Judea-Samaria.  March 8, 2021.  REUTERS/Ammar Awad.  

Israel had given the Palestinians safe vaccines for their people but they were rejected because they were from the Jewish state of Israel.  That's how far anti-Israel conditions go on the Palestinians side;  depriving their people vaccines from COVID.

Biden wants to restore U.S. leadership globally and build better preparedness. Protecting the United States from COVID-19 requires a global response, and the pandemic is a grave reminder that biological threats can pose catastrophic consequences to the United States and the world. The president’s plan will provide $11 billion including to support to the international health and humanitarian response; mitigate the pandemic’s devastating impact on global health, food security, and gender-based violence; support international efforts to develop and distribute medical countermeasures for COVID-19; and build the capacity required to fight COVID-19, its variants, and emerging biological threats.

    Biden with Abbas on his recent trip:  Mahmud Abbas was born November 15, 1935, and Joseph Biden was born on November 20, 1942.  

The USA is giving money to the Palestinians for COVID relief.  The rest of $90 million dollars will go to rebuilding US-Palestinian relations.  That's very broad.  Some of the money will go for sanitation, transportation, job training and grants for small businesses.                                 

                          PM Netanyahu and Abbas                        

                       PM Bennett and Abbas:  Bennett wants US to lean on Abbas to cut payments to terrorists' father.  Officials from the Prime Minister’s Office have reportedly asked the US to pressure the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to cut payments to the father of the terrorist who carried out Thursday’s attack in Tel Aviv.  Ra’ad Hazem, a Palestinian from the  (Judea Samaria), killed three people at a Tel Aviv bar before being killed in a shootout with Israeli forces. 

A banner celebrating Raad Hazem, a 28-year-old from the Jenin camp after he carried out a terror attack on a bar in central Tel Aviv, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

 His father, Fathi, is a former security prisoner who previously served as an officer in the Palestinian Authority’s security services in Jenin, and therefore already receives a stipend from the PA.  This is what Israel faces;  jailed terrorists get paid by the Palestinians for their good job of terrorizing; killing Israelis. They are encouraged to do so by their governing people like Abbas. Will they now feel like supplying even more terrorists with money to kill Israelis?  

Israel has been working on similar goals with the Palestinians.  Being that the Palestinians were being used since 1967 by Muslim neighbors as pawns to fight against Israel, it hasn't been working out though Israel tries.  The Israel-Palestinian relations continue to be rockets, mortars and missiles aimed at hitting Israel from behind the line or tunneling to come up and grab victims.  So often, any money for construction projects will go for ammunition to use against Israel and not other helpful reasons. 

           Maale Adumim, the city BDS refer to as a settlement

As for small businesses, Israel has had so much static in creating jobs for Palestinians in manufacturing  in Judea-Samaria by the BDS folks-anti-Semites in USA and Europe, that they can't continue. A good example is: SodaStream , that is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. 

That is what is happening in their Maale Adumim factory every working day.                               

 As part of Scarlett Johannsson's  efforts as an Ambassador for Oxfam, she said, "I have witnessed first-hand that progress is made when communities join together and work alongside one another and feel proud of the outcome of that work in the quality of their product and work environment, in the pay they bring home to their families and in the benefits they equally receive."  SodaStream had to close down.  "Sodastream pulls out of West Bank following campaign by Palestinian groups - company says it is "purely commercial" decision. Sodastream, the Israeli maker of fizzy drink machines, will close its West Bank factory after coming under intense pressure from pro-Palestine groups."

Another example is Norway.  Norway’s recent decision to label food products from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is not about upholding international law, but about discriminating against the Jewish state, international law expert professor Eugene Kontorovich told JNS. Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, said that Israel needed to respond more robustly to such moves.“Actions like this take place in part because European countries have come to expect a mild reaction on Israel’s part–a strong statement and then business as usual,” he said. “When it comes to discriminatory trade measures, countries can expect to get picked on if they don’t retaliate,” he added.

Well, Biden, are you helping Israel to react robustly to all this discrimination or not?  What steps Israel has taken to improve relations has been countered by others, not backed.

Resource:

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/220721

Dershow show of Alan Dershowitz: Will Biden do more harm than good for Israel?-Youtube

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/general/wave-of-terror-october-2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_2022

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https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/labeling-of-judea-and-samaria-goods-is-about-discrimination-not-law-say-experts/article_eff2f91d-5724-590d-9b63-9c9f1eebb48b.html

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https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/discrimination-against-judea-and-samaria-needs-to-stop-360457

Before Mother's Day, Biden Awarded Money to Palestinians Not Received From Trump

Nadene Goldfoot                                          

How generous Biden was.  He saw trouble brewing amongst the Palestinians and decided to give them United States dollars to the tune of  $235 million in US aid. that Trump had withdrawn.   This was one of the changes in policy with the two parties.  The accusations Biden was receiving acted as a certain amount of pressure to do this, no doubt.  

But, does anyone think about the reasons why it was withdrawn by Trump other than Trump was a Republican and Obama was a Democrat?  The behavior of Palestinians were not showing favoritism in following the rules of being a responsible neighbor to Israel.  That's the reason.  They keep bombarding Israel with daily rockets, driving people into their bomb shelters, and this has been happening all long, not just at the time of Jerusalem Day. 

                                                                   

     The first cut; 80% of original Promised land cut by English holding mandate

                                                                 

  Palestinian demand got Judea-Samaria in 1949 after Israel's 47-48 war of Independence

The Palestinians want to take over 1/2 of the land Israel was first allocated from WWI, and that half, Judea and Samaria,  is  now called the West Bank. I say that a number was done on the promised Jewish Homeland to have divided it up in such a way, and it leaves me tongue-tied, but be it as it may,  Jerusalem sits in the indentation of the land, and East Jerusalem is the prize that they claim since the population is made up of Palestinian Arabs in East Jerusalem.  They want this section to be their capital.  They have not showed signs of an expected readiness level to handle such a responsibility.  They continue to harass and bomb Israel.  They rarely pay Israel the utility bill, for they do not have such plans of their own.  They spend all their money on weapons to use against Israel, instead.

"The recognition of a new State or Government is an act that only other States and Governments may grant or withhold. It generally implies readiness to assume diplomatic relations." (It's not a sign of diplomacy to bomb the "hell" out of Israel !) 

"The United Nations is neither a State nor a Government, and therefore does not possess any authority to recognize either a State or a Government. As an organization of independent States, it may admit a new State to its membership or accept the credentials of the representatives of a new Government."

Israel, knowing that no other country would put up with such neighbors without reacting, have had to deal with it alone.  It's only when the Palestinians start getting their just desserts that they step up to the plate and do something, swing towards the Palestinian side to help them, thinking that poor illiterate people would change with lots of money and power.  Yes, they do change, without guidance into meaner people than ever according to our present state of affairs.  Some theories don't work.

Two-thirds will go to the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, which has suffered a financial crisis since it lost $360m of US funding in 2018.

Mr Biden wants to "restore credible engagement" by the Palestinians in long-stalled peace talks with Israel.

Palestinian leaders accused Mr Trump of being heavily biased towards Israel.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US plans included $75m in economic and development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza, $10m for peacebuilding programmes through the US Agency for International Development (USAid), and $150m in humanitarian assistance for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa).  

This was how the $235 million would be divvied up.  I think they should call back the $10 million that was to be used for peacebuilding programs.  How much do you want to bet that it was spent on rockets already?   Then you can take that $150 million for humanitarian assistance and find homes for them in Northern Africa or else it might go for rebuilding the tunnels that Israel just bombed.  They'll need that $75 million to rebuild in Gaza places that were in good standing;  and do mean were standing, but this time with the proviso that they are to be used for people's living and not for hiding weapons.  One thing that's happened in the past, whatever gets destroyed in their gambit of attacking Israel, they find the money replaced quickly by such sympathetic places.  

Now I know where the money came from to buy all these rockets that the Palestinians were itching to use against Israel.  At least 60 days worth.  I fear they want to use them all up, too, and are shooting clusters of them at a time.  Thanks for the info BBC.  

Such a situation provokes a careful answer.  I would give an alcoholic money as a gift for his birthday.  He will turn around and buy a bottle of alcohol with it.  The answer, we all think,, is to give him food or clothes instead.  Guess what, and I've seen this happen.  They will turn around and trade the gift for money in which to buy the alcohol.  What can be done, then?  It's a great problem, but in this case, what is bought is not swallowed by the one you are trying to help.  It is used to buy ammunition to kill Jews.  This trade is lethal.  

Resource:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56665199 

https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/ropga/adms.shtml