It is horrendously amazing how many Western NGOs, Western
governments (via official government
agencies) and the international bureaucratic apparatuses of the United
Nations support the Islamic terrorist organizations of Hamas and the Palestine
Authority (really controlled by the PLO [HERE, HERE and HERE). Hamas and the PA are nothing more Jew-Hatred organizations
committed to the destruction of the Jewish Homeland and Jews in general. They
are murderous cowards hoodwinking Multiculturalist power-brokers to unwittingly
(or maybe even wittingly) to support the evil of murderous Jihad.
Rachel Ehrenfeld exposes this
money trail of Western Jihad supporters which sadly includes American taxpayers
due to the sympathies of Obama’s Left Wing Administration.
JRH 5/19/16
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Funding Hamastan
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
May 16th, 2016 9:18PM
Since 1987, the Gaza-based terror group has kept itself
in the international spotlight through acts of violence against the Jewish
State of Israel. It was designated as terrorist by the Unites States in 1997.
In 2006, under the guise of the “Change and Reform” party, it won the elections
for the Palestinian Authority and in 2007, after violent confrontations
with Fatah, took over the Gaza Strip. Since then, it has escalated its attacks
against Israel.
Who helps finance Hamas ongoing terrorism against the
‘Zionist entity?’
Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood branch in Gaza, was established
in December 1987, days into the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO)
first Intifada against Israel. This Sunni terrorist organization controls
the Gaza Strip and imposes sharia on its constituents. Unlike the Islamic
State (ISIS), which flaunts its radicalism – through their brutal abuse of
women and children and indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, mostly other Muslims
in Iraq and Syria, mega-attacks in Europe, and a sophisticated social media
apparatus, – Hamas manages to portray itself as a victim.
Why? Because unlike impatient ISIS, whose agenda is to
eliminate all infidels to create now the global Islamic Caliphate, Hamas, which
prioritizes the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel, has been the
recipient of direct and indirect support of some Muslims states, as well as
supposedly Western-oriented organizations such as the European Union the United
Nations, and even the United States. These are joined by international Muslim
Brotherhood-affiliated and anti-Israeli groups and the international media.
They use the guise of humanitarian aid, to assist the Hamas terrorist regime in
Gaza politically and financially.
The arrival of the Internet in the late 1990s introduced a
new, easily-accessible vehicle for Hamas to portray the people it exploits in
Gaza as victims of Israeli retaliations rather than its own twisted ideology.
The terrorist organization learned that posting photos of wounded children and
crying mothers has a considerable effect in the ‘hearts’ and minds’ battle in
gaining the support of the international community. Thus, far from safeguarding
its own citizen’s rights Hamas’ strategy has become the maximum extraction of
civilian casualties from among its constituents.
Hamas Islamist indoctrination campaigns are so
successful that not only the suppressed Muslims in
Gaza are ready to carry out attacks against Israel, but even the
brutalized Christians that remain in the Gaza Strip, are complaining not
against Hamas for banning Christmas and forcing submission to sharia, but
against “Israeli occupation.”
Last month marked the celebration of the
Annual Palestine Festival for Childhood and Education in Gaza
throughout the Hamas-run territory’s school system, most of which is operated
and funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
The events included young veiled girls and boys in military uniforms,
simulating stabbing attacks on Israelis, killing IDF soldiers and ‘heroically’
releasing Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails.
These events were sponsored by the Ramallah-based Bank of Palestine,
UK-based Interpal
Fund, and the Hamas-controlled University College of Applied
Sciences in Gaza, whose funders
include the World Bank and European Commission. While many in the free
world would find this link between international aid and a celebration of
hatred alarming, it is the norm rather than the exception in the Hamas-ruled
coastal enclave, where democratic principals [sic] are quashed and wanton
hatred of Israel propagated.
The Hamas government receives funding from an array of
sources, though lately fewer are doing so publically. Directly, it receives
contributions from the international Muslim community, international NGOs, such
as the BDS groups,
and online. A good example of indirect funding is the $50
million announced by the U.S. “to provide basic humanitarian
assistance and create jobs. The money will be distributed by the U.S Agency for
International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.” At the
same time, Sweden also announced additional $8 million to UNRWA “for all
Palestinian refugees.”
Hamas also receives aid through its own political adversary,
the Palestinian Authority (PA), itself the recipient of international aid second
only to Syria. (Palestinians are the recipients of highest per
capita assistance in the world”).
Funding comes from numerous international bodies, including The European
Commission (EC); UNRWA; the United
Nations Children’s Emergency Fund UNICEF; the
United States Aid Agency (USAID), and
the World
Bank. These and others fund the PA to re-allocate funds to
Hamas-ruled Gaza, as humanitarian aid, to create jobs, housing projects, and
also in support of “good governance,” programs that failed under the PA, and
funded Hamas since it took over in 2007. While there are efforts to stop aid
from reaching Hamas, according to last month’s Congressional Research Service
(CRS) report: “Since 2007, USAID could not “reasonably ensure” that its
money would not wind up in terrorist hands.”
Moreover, “UNRWA makes publicly available the names of all recipients of
UNRWA contracts of annual aggregate value of $100,000 or more.”
There is little doubt that Hamas is exploiting this big financial loophole
to support the construction of its expanding
tunnel-infrastructure under the border with Israel, for training and buying
weapons, and to increase the hate-propaganda it designed to guarantee the
supply of cannon-fodders for war against Israel. [***As blog editor I adjusted an
editing glitch on the part of ACDemocracy for better continuity. Unless
ACDemocracy fixes that glitch their webpage will appear to have an unfinished
sentence circa this paragraph.]
Estimates of how much money flows into Hamastan are varied.
However, as events such as the Annual Palestine Festival for Childhood and
Education, and the continuing tunnel- construction rather than rebuilding
Gaza’s shattered infrastructure shows, much of the funding that goes to Gaza
directly and through the PA, aid Hamas’s terrorist agenda against Israel,
rather than improving the lives of Gazans.
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* Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld is
Director of New York-based American Center for Democracy, and author
of “Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It”, 2011
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