Financing Terrorism Part 3: Israel Asks US and Europe to Fund Its Enemies – Perplexed Part 1 Please guide the perplexed – Israel asks American Taxpayers, me, to finance Arab terrorists implacably hostile to US and Israel.
Confused and Upset –Please guide the perplexed. What am I to Do? What am I to Say? What am I to Think?
Israel asks American Taxpayers, me, to finance Arab terrorists implacably hostile to US and Israel.
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This makes no sense to me and is sickening enough but the situation where American Congress opposes financing Arab terrorists, because they are terrorists, murders, violent and expansionist, on the one side and, on the other side, Israel’s government, and respected analysts, support it is beyond me. How does financing the irreconcilable enemy reduce violence or bring peace. How does financing the perpetrators reduce violence and bring peace.
Is this simple pragmatism on Israel’s part; the more Palestinians are engaged in useful occupations, the less they will engage in suicide bombings and rocket attacks. Has this worked all that well? Appeasement hasn’t worked in the past and there is no reason to think it will work in the future, is there? And does any of this improve Israel’s image in the public. I think it makes us, Americans and Zionists, and the Israeli government, look foolish and feckless. But maybe I am wrong. I am not an expert.
Israel is preparing for “shooting” war AND financing the enemy that is warring against them. What sense does this make?
Israel Asks for Aid to Arab terrorists. Israel calls for continuing aid for Palestinians US lawmakers threatening to cut off funding if PA presses for statehood
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Aid to PA Supported By…Elliott Abrams? and David Makovsky of Institute for Near East Studies and Jonathan Schanzer at the Defense of Democracies, James Philips of Heritage testified in favor of continued support to Palestinian Authority, whom I think of as intractable Arab terrorists.
Mitchell Plitnick Blog September 15th, 2011 “There’s a lot here that bears close scrutiny, as the picture Makovsky paints is pretty far removed from reality. But the important point is this wide agreement, spanning the center-left to the far right, that cutting off aid to the PA is against the interests not only of the PA but of Israel and the US as well.”
See Abdallah Abdallah (not a friend) comments: “Sure, we all know how gracious isreal is.You starve people to death, or kill them outright, and ask OTHERS to help!!!”
Does this mean that when I pay my taxes, the small portion going to financing Arab terrorists in Gaza, Judea and Samaria is actually contributing to safety and security of Israel, the US and world peace?
Maybe we should all be making donations directly to the Palestinian Authority and moderate murder Mahmoud Abbas,(after all, it’s not like he is an extremist murderer. Only the intellectually unsophisticated could fail to see the difference or fail to see the wisdom in financing terrorists. Right? )
I had thought that Rep. Eric Cantor was right when he said, after 911, and that the Bush Administration’s goal was exactly this:
The task force, now under Cantor, issued a release stating that “the terrorist attacks are an act of war. Therefore, retribution must be swift, sure, and overwhelming. But retribution is not enough. In war, one must destroy the enemy’s ability to wage war … It is only through the destruction of international terrorism’s supportive infrastructure that attacks like this can be prevented and terrorists emasculated.” Quoted by Jonathan Schanzer in Middle East Quarterly Fall 2011 Early Warnings Ignored September 11 A Decade Later http://www.meforum.org/3041/early-warnings-ignored-september-11#_ftnref9
