Hamas (pseudo-Palestinian) is a
designated terrorist organization. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO –
Brief Summary, Soviet involvement, PLO-PA Transition & Greater Detail) is a terrorist
umbrella organization that serves essentially as a confederation of Jew-hating
Islamic terrorists. The Palestinian Authority (PA – DTN, Gatestone & American Thinker) is basically
the PLO legitimized by idiotic Oslo Accords to set the stage to give
non-existent Palestinians a Jew-Hating independent State of Palestine. (Thank God that idiocy has not materialized!)
With that brief background of a group of Arab mostly Muslim
created for the sole purpose to Destroy Israel and kill Jews, Daniel Greenfield
exposes six Dem Party Senators trying to pass legislation to insure the
Fake-Palestinian continue to receive humanitarian aid that is actually used for
Islamic terrorism.
JRH 4/24/19
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6 DEM SENATORS SELL OUT JEWISH TERROR VICTIMS TO RESTORE
CASH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Terrorists need their guns more than their victims need surgeries.
April 24, 2019
In 2002, Shmuel Waldman, an American from New Jersey,
was shot while boarding
a bus in Israel. The terrorist attack killed 2 people and left 40 injured.
Among that 40 was Shmuel whose leg was
blown apart, forcing him to undergo multiple surgical procedures,
and leaving him suffering from PTSD.
The terrorist who shot him was Said Ramadan, a “police
officer” working for the terrorists who run the Palestinian Authority. The
attack had been planned by senior Palestinian Authority officials and the Palestinian
Authority viewed Ramadan as a hero. Waldman joined other victims of
terrorism in
a lawsuit against the terrorist group, which is funded by
American taxpayers, under the
Antiterrorism Act.
Waldman v. PLO resulted in a record award of $655 million in
damages against the Palestinian Authority terror network. But the verdict was
thrown out because an American court lacked jurisdiction over the terrorist
group even though the United States provides much of the cash flow that its
terrorists rely on.
The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act was introduced and
approved to make it clear that accepting security assistance for its
"police force" would place the Palestinian Authority under judicial
jurisdiction for lawsuits such as these. The PA could stop funding terrorism or
face lawsuits from its victims.
A ruthless battle was waged against ATCA by a variety of
groups which understood that the Palestinian Authority would not stop funding
and promoting terrorism under any circumstances. These groups falsely claimed
that ATCA would undermine American and Israeli security. That was a blatant
lie.
The only thing that ATCA would undermine was the flow of tax
dollars to Islamic terrorists.
Last year, the Palestinian Authority informed the United
States that the terror group would no longer accept
any aid from the United States that would expose it to ATCA
lawsuits. The terror group’s letter suggested that it might revisit its refusal
if the law were changed. That’s just what 6 Democrat senators, led by Senator
Dianne Feinstein have set out to do, using the false claim of a humanitarian
disaster.
“President Trump’s refusal to provide humanitarian aid to
the Palestinian people is a strategic mistake,” Senator Feinstein claimed,
accusing him of "denying funding for clean water, health care and schools
in the West Bank and Gaza."
Senator Chris Coons urged that, “It is critical that we
restore lifesaving aid to the West Bank and Gaza.” Senator Jeff Merkley
insisted that, “Aid to innocent civilians should not be caught up in broader
geopolitical battles. We can and should restore aid to children and other
vulnerable populations at the same time as we stand steadfastly by Israel’s
security.”
But the real agenda revealed by their resolution shows that
it’s not about humanitarian aid, but about restoring funding to the Islamic
terrorists of the Palestinian Authority.
While Feinstein claims that Trump is preventing “clean
water” and “health care” aid, her own resolution actually begins by admitting
that, “the Palestinian Authority’s interpretation of the Anti-Terrorism
Clarification Act… led the Palestinian Authority to reject all forms of United
States assistance.”
The problem isn’t Trump. It isn’t the United States. It’s
that the Palestinian Authority is a terror group.
The Palestinian Authority, on whose behalf Senator Feinstein
is advocating, rejected the money that Dianne wants to give the terror group,
because it doesn’t want to face American terror victims in court.
Rather than telling the truth about that, Senator Feinstein
and her five accomplices start out by lying about the problem, and about what
they want to accomplish, while assuming that the media will never report the
truth. They are almost certainly right about that. But wrong about everything
else.
The resolution, “Expressing the sense of Congress regarding
restoring United States bilateral assistance to the West Bank and Gaza”,
specifically demands $196 million for the Economic Support Fund, $60 million
for International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement; and another million
for anti-terrorism.
But the Palestinian Authority is a terrorist coalition. Some
of its components, such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, are even officially listed
as terrorist groups by the United States. Palestinian Authority “police”
deserve the name the same way that ISIS cops did. They’re armed members of a
terrorist network with a history of participating in terrorist attacks. This
network was set up with United States aid in the Clinton era. Senator Feinstein
is vocally insisting that we continue funding terrorists.
If Feinstein, Coons and Merkley were really just concerned
about humanitarian assistance, they would not have pushed for funds for the
armed components of a terrorist network. This is not about “clean water”, it’s
about dirty cash flowing to the enforcers for a terrorist group while leaving
their victims out in the cold.
The six senators want the PA’s thugs to get paid, while
their victims are left unable to sue them.
Feinstein is joined in this charade by Senator Patrick
Leahy, Senator Chris Coons, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Senator Catherine
Cortez Masto, and Senator Jeff Merkely.
Senator Van Hollen claims that he wants to help “millions of
children” with this resolution.
“There are thousands of children and families in the West
Bank and Gaza who need the aid the United States has historically
provided," Cortez Masto appealed.
Is it thousands or millions? Since it’s not about the
children, the fake numbers don’t actually matter.
If the senators read their own resolution, they would see
that it frees terrorists from being sued for the foreign aid they receive from
American taxpayers by their American victims in United States courts.
No wonder that Feinstein, Coons, Van Hollen, Cortez Masto
and Merkely keep talking about children. Caring about children sounds a lot
better than trying to help terrorists defraud terror victims.
A number of the Dem senators invoke Trump, attacking and
blaming him, but as their own resolution concedes, it was the Palestinian
Authority that turned down ATCA aid. How is that Trump’s fault?
Why blame President Trump when your own terrorists would
rather kill Jews than take your money?
Senator Feinstein is broadcasting support for her resolution
from a variety of “humanitarian” groups. A number of these groups, such
as Churches
for Middle East Peace, are involved in BDS and other anti-Israel
activities. Islamic Relief has been
accused of supporting
Hamas. As has another NGO on the list.
Feinstein, Van Hollen, Merkley, Coons and Cortez Masto are
touting support for their “humanitarian” effort that respects “Israeli
security” from Islamic USA whose chair, Khaled Lamada, has
allegedly praised Hamas, and distributed conspiracy
theories which
claim that, the Jews are causing Egyptian Muslims to have sex, plan
to invade the Nile Valley and that the Egyptian president is a secret Jew.
Democrats are using support from BDS, anti-Israel and
anti-Semitic groups to back this resolution. And they are doing so while lying
and misleading about the resolution, its aims and its purpose.
Senator Feinstein and her allies have failed to explain what
ATCA is or what “legal liabilities” the Palestinian Authority is attempting to
evade. That’s because the plain truth is that the six Senate Democrats are
trying to defraud terror victims like Shmuel Waldman under the guise of helping
children.
But the “children” they’re helping are grown men who need
our money for their guns.
Officially, the United States doesn’t buy guns or bullets
for the terrorist police forces. But money is obviously fungible. The funds
that the United States puts into terror groups frees them to buy weapons.
It is ironic that Senator Dianne Feinstein, who has been
known for her militant opposition to Americans owning firearms, and for holding
firearms manufacturers liable for gun violence, wants to force those same
Americans to pay for guns for terrorists while exempting those same terrorists
from liability.
Palestinian “security officials” don’t just carry pistols,
but Kalashnikov rifles. Those aren’t the weapons of law enforcement, but of a
terrorist and guerrilla organization. They’re not meant to police, but to war.
Senator Feinstein hates “assault rifles” when Americans have
them, not when Islamic terrorists do.
The resolution isn’t really about humanitarian aid. It’s
about allowing terrorists to get away with murder. It’s about stealing money
from their victims. And about weakening America’s negotiating position with a
terrorist group by exempting it from accountability to the courts, to its
victims and to our government.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is
an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic
terrorism.
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