Should the U.S. Stop Foreign Aid to Palestinians?
By Ambassador Yoram Ettinger The 11 year non-scrutinized annual US foreign aid to Palestinians has been counter-productive. It has not moderated the Palestinian Authority, has not averted PA anti-US hate education and incitement, has not produced a compliant PA, has not stopped homicide bombing (which have generated PA homicide-bombing family allowances) and has not caused Abu Mazen to end PA terrorism and stop harboring Hamas terrorists. Non-scrutinized US foreign aid to Palestinians has – unintentionally – nurtured the largest terrorist base in the Middle East, the Palestinian Authority. 1. 57% OF AMERICANS OPPOSE FOREIGN AID TO PALESTINIANS, according to a February 2006 Gallup poll. 2. STOPPING FOREIGN AID TO PALESTINIANS WOULD NOT HARM INNOCENT BYSTANDERS, because US foreign aid has never trickled down to the Palestinian People. It is evidenced by PA corruption, human rights violations, and by the increasing gap between the have (PA officials and their network) and the have-not (mo
