Reshaping US aid to the Palestinians

[Sixties Fan]

These cuts aren’t to funds going to or through PA. They are funds going to organizations that help the Palestinian people.


Trump administration to cut $200 million from Palestinian aid

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced on Friday that it has decided to cut $200 million from the aid budget to the Palestinians that was approved by Congress earlier this year.

Most of this money was supposed to support humanitarian and economic projects in the West Bank and Gaza, and was not meant to go directly to the Palestinian Authority. The aid cut is expected to cause a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Gaza.


Catholic workers say U.S. aid cuts to Palestinians could be disastrous

JERUSALEM — The United States budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions helping Palestinians could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said Catholic aid workers in the region.

...In early September, U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would cut $200 million of aid to medical and humanitarian aid providers. He had already announced that the U.S. would withhold $350 million from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East -- amounting to more than one-quarter of the organization's annual budget.

DuBose said CRS' five-year $50-million program "Envision Gaza 2020" program, which is funded by USAID and provides food and necessity vouchers as well as short-term employment opportunities for Palestinians in Gaza, will be directly impacted by Trump's decision.

UNWRA does not help the Palestinians.
By forcing all that population to remain under a refugee banner, all they have been doing is harm them on a daily basis.

UNWRA and others like them, educate the Arabs against Israel and the Jews.
Help Hamas when possible to hide, out of fear or belief, rockets and any other weapons used against Israel as in 2014.

The Palestinian population, as refugees, is the only one in the world being used by the Arab leaders in order to be able to destroy a country, namely Israel.

The Palestinians, who also lost 78% of Palestine to the Hashemite tribe, have never been interested in getting back any part of that stolen land.
Never called it stolen Palestinian land. Not once since 1925. Not at all from 1948 to 1967.

Saying that the Palestinians are going to "suffer" because of $200 Million less from the US, and Belgium and whoever is food for rabbits. That is all.
Those who will believe anything will definitely believe that.

The Palestinian leaders have become masters at crying "FOUL" every time any money from the West does not get to them.

I do not hear them cry over any of the Muslim countries cutting or refusal to give anymore, especially when promised to them, aid of any kind.

Look at what happened after 2014, or the war before that.

All of those Arab countries can see that the Palestinian leaders are not serious about peace with Israel, that all the money they give to Gaza and the PA simple goes into the leaders pockets or gets wasted. It does NOT go to the population that needs it.

And now, for the past 10 years or so, have any of that aid go to pay Arabs for having wounded or killed Jews, or being wounded or killed in the process of wanting to kill Jews..........


Nowhere in the world, such a waste or circus is going on.

And it should not be happening in Gaza or the PA, either.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Btw, cessation of hostilities is also a universal condition to any peace talks.

So when is Israel going to cease its hostilities?

Israel is not committing any hostilities. Israel is only responding to hostilities committed against them.

Settlement building can be considered a hostile action.

Really? The presence of Jews (because we ARE only talking about Jews here) in certain places in the world is considered a hostile act?!

The presence of Jews in places they returned to after being ethnically cleansed is an act of hostility? Places like the Old City where Jews have lived for thousands of years? Places like Hebron where the patriarchs are buried?

Is the presence of Arabs on the Temple Mount, the Holiest place in Judaism also a hostile act? Why or why not?

No.

It isn’t the presence of Jews. It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

None of the Arab settlements in areas A or B, as per the Oslo Accords (remember them?) are deemed to be illegal by anyone.

In Area C, Jews and Arabs need a permit from Israel to build.
The EU seems to think that Arabs should not need a permit to build anywhere in area C and waste Millions on endless attempts to "build" and make it a fait accompli, on the ground for any future Arab State, without allowing for Israel and the PA to sit at the table to negotiate any of that.

So, if Jewish settlements (and there have not been any new ones for over a decade), actually building up the settlements already in existence , on areas allowed to them where they already exist , is considered to be hostile, why aren't the Arab and EU attempts to grab land which does not belong to them considered to be hostile towards any future Peace treaty?

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Reshaping US aid to the Palestinians
※→ Coyote, et al,

Maybe there is just another way of looking at this.

It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

(COMMENT)

Contested Areas... What does that mean. (RHETORICAL) It means that there is a dispute about the territorial control of these areas. AND there is two ways to resolve the dispute; Peaceful or Trial by Combat.

In 1948, the Arab League decided that the dispute would be resolved through Trial by Combat.

Periodically, elements of the Regional Arab Community reopens the dispute through Trial by Combat. In the latter three-quarters of a Century, the participants from the Arab Leagues fought over the dispute relative to the contested areas, have been involved on continuous basis. Just in the last four years (2014-to-Present) there has been over 340 terrorist attacks by Arab Palestinians on Israel; not including the over 4000 rocket attacks in just the eight months leading up to 2014 Invasion. Then you have three major conventional wars, and two asymmetric conflicts. Each of these stings of events were initiated by other than the Israelis.

All of this and the Arab Palestinian still believes that they that is not enough. Rather than opt to make a good faith effort, the Arab Palestinian consistently choose to go the Trail by Combat as their preferred method of conflict resolution.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

(COMMENT)

They are Jewish Only for a reason. Given the opportunity, the Arab Palestinians would launch a wave of terrorist attacks.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

(COMMENT)

I am not sure, but there is any reason to suggest that the Arab Palestinians would not fight among themselves. After all, the PLO was expelled from Jordan for events leading up to Black September. The Arab Palestinians have a record of biting the hands that feed them.

The US consistently supported the Palestinians since the Oslo Accords. This American aid has totaled ≈ $600M each year until just recently. Yet, the Arab Palestinians bad mouth America as if they are entitled to US support and monetary aid. Why? Simply because the Arab Palestinian believes that their way is the only way. It is time that they learn to stand on their own two feet and pay the consequences for their actions.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Shusha]

It isn’t the presence of Jews. It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

Its not the presence of Jews but the "building of new settlements and moving (Jewish) people into them." Please explain to me the functional difference between those two things. Because they seem to be the same to me. (And Israel has not (until recently) built any new settlements in more than 20 years.)



As an aside, two families move into an area and begin farming in the early 1930s. Both are from foreign territories. Both have a continued presence in the territory that their families have been farming for generations. One family is considered to be "settlers". The other is not. What do you think the defining trait is?

 

[Mindful]

From JVL.

The term “Settlements” usually refers to the towns and villages that Jews have established in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Gaza Strip since Israel captured the area in the Six-Day War of 1967. In many cases, the settlements are in the same area which flourishing Jewish communities have lived for thousands of years.

The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics announced in June 2018 that new settlement building in the first quarter of the year had hit a 6-year low. In the first three months of 2018, ground was broken on 250 settler housing units. That is the lowest number since the fourth quarter of 2012, when construction began on 273 housing units.


More coming, if interested.

 

[Mindful]

Also from JVL:

According to Professor Sara Hirschhorn, Americans comprise about 15 percent of the settlement population. Americans have founded a number of settlements, including Efrat and Tekoa. Originally, Americans who settled in the West Bank were liberal Jews who thought they were trailblazing pioneers like the Jews who came to Palestine in the early 20th century. Later, Americans moving to the area were predominantly Orthodox Jews. One of those immigrants, Baruch Goldstein, a doctor originally from Brooklyn who moved to Kiryat Arba, murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs on February 1994.

When Arab-Israeli peace talks began in late 1991, more than 80 percent of the West Bank contained no settlements or only sparsely populated ones. Currently, more than 60 percent of Israelis living in the West Bank live in just five settlement blocs - Ma’aleh Adumim, Modi’in Ilit, Ariel, Gush Etzion, Givat Ze’ev - which all lie within only a few miles of the 1949 armistice line (often inaccurately referred to as the 1967 border), otherwise known as the Green Line. These settlement blocs could be brought within Israel’s borders so as to retain an Arab population (from the West Bank) of less than 50,000. It is inconceivable that Israel would evacuate large cities such as Ma’ale Adumim, with a population of approximately 40,000, even after a peace agreement with the Palestinians, and even Yasser Arafat grudgingly accepted at Camp David the idea that the large settlement blocs would be part of Israel.

 

[Mindful]

And concerning Gaza; everyone knows it, but says nothing about it:

Israel gave up all the territory it held in Gaza and evacuated some West Bank settlements without any agreement from the Palestinians, who now have complete authority over their population within Gaza. This offered the Palestinians an opportunity to prove that if Israel made territorial concessions, they would be prepared to coexist with their neighbor and to build a state of their own. Instead of trading land for peace, however, Israel exchanged territory for terror. Hamas came to power in the Palestinian Authority and instead of using the opportunity to build the infrastructure for statehood, the Gaza Strip became a scene of chaos as rival Palestinian factions vied for power. Terrorism from Gaza also continued unabated and Israeli towns have been repeatedly hit by rockets fired from the area Israel evacuated.

 

[P F Tinmore]

And concerning Gaza; everyone knows it, but says nothing about it:

Israel gave up all the territory it held in Gaza and evacuated some West Bank settlements without any agreement from the Palestinians, who now have complete authority over their population within Gaza. This offered the Palestinians an opportunity to prove that if Israel made territorial concessions, they would be prepared to coexist with their neighbor and to build a state of their own. Instead of trading land for peace, however, Israel exchanged territory for terror. Hamas came to power in the Palestinian Authority and instead of using the opportunity to build the infrastructure for statehood, the Gaza Strip became a scene of chaos as rival Palestinian factions vied for power. Terrorism from Gaza also continued unabated and Israeli towns have been repeatedly hit by rockets fired from the area Israel evacuated.

One of Israel's big lies.

 

[Mindful]

And concerning Gaza; everyone knows it, but says nothing about it:

Israel gave up all the territory it held in Gaza and evacuated some West Bank settlements without any agreement from the Palestinians, who now have complete authority over their population within Gaza. This offered the Palestinians an opportunity to prove that if Israel made territorial concessions, they would be prepared to coexist with their neighbor and to build a state of their own. Instead of trading land for peace, however, Israel exchanged territory for terror. Hamas came to power in the Palestinian Authority and instead of using the opportunity to build the infrastructure for statehood, the Gaza Strip became a scene of chaos as rival Palestinian factions vied for power. Terrorism from Gaza also continued unabated and Israeli towns have been repeatedly hit by rockets fired from the area Israel evacuated.

One of Israel's big lies.

Of course you would say that. What else could you say?

A lecturer from Sapir College near Sderot came to our Shul to give a talk about the constant rocket bombardment that area receives from Gaza, several times a day! Not only Jews attend that college, but students from around the world. And even Palestinian Arabs.

Think I'm lying?

 

[member]

The United States is by far the largest donor of financial aid to the Palestinians, with this assistance touching nearly every aspect of life in the Palestinian Authority. But US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to end this aid to the Palestinians, angered by Ramallah’s refusal to cooperate with the US’s efforts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in December.

The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Washington was paying the PA hundreds of millions of dollars a year “for nothing,” and complained that the US received “no appreciation or respect” in return.

How much aid does the US give Palestinians, and what’s it for?

How is the US jump starting negotiations? What is Trumps plan here?

Trump is pissed that the PA is angry over his Jerusalem move and refused to engage in talks because they feel the US can no longer be a good faith partner. That is what all this cutting of aid is about. Trump’s personal vendetta.

"...Trump’s personal vendetta."

this is ...pathetic.. you talk about me?

you're from another [mind] time. you're a wikipedia, mac's facebook and joe's blog and grill person where you go to grab a quick summary about important life topics. This [cutting of funds to abbass & the terrorists] should have been done ages ago.

if "obama" had done it -- i bet it wouldn't have been in your mind a "personal attack." (*SnAp*). if bush had done it, same like president trump ("personal vendetta") <~~~~~~~~~~~ i bet ~~~~~~~~~~> am i wrong ? LoL......

God Bless the President. Just love him. we know, he's rough around the edges .....we say too, calm down, don't reply to these morons........other than that - salute!

 

[P F Tinmore]

And concerning Gaza; everyone knows it, but says nothing about it:

Israel gave up all the territory it held in Gaza and evacuated some West Bank settlements without any agreement from the Palestinians, who now have complete authority over their population within Gaza. This offered the Palestinians an opportunity to prove that if Israel made territorial concessions, they would be prepared to coexist with their neighbor and to build a state of their own. Instead of trading land for peace, however, Israel exchanged territory for terror. Hamas came to power in the Palestinian Authority and instead of using the opportunity to build the infrastructure for statehood, the Gaza Strip became a scene of chaos as rival Palestinian factions vied for power. Terrorism from Gaza also continued unabated and Israeli towns have been repeatedly hit by rockets fired from the area Israel evacuated.

One of Israel's big lies.

Of course you would say that. What else could you say?

A lecturer from Sapir College near Sderot came to our Shul to give a talk about the constant rocket bombardment that area receives from Gaza, several times a day! Not only Jews attend that college, but students from around the world. And even Palestinian Arabs.

Think I'm lying?

Deflection. Has nothing to do with Israel's lies.

 

[Mindful]

And concerning Gaza; everyone knows it, but says nothing about it:

Israel gave up all the territory it held in Gaza and evacuated some West Bank settlements without any agreement from the Palestinians, who now have complete authority over their population within Gaza. This offered the Palestinians an opportunity to prove that if Israel made territorial concessions, they would be prepared to coexist with their neighbor and to build a state of their own. Instead of trading land for peace, however, Israel exchanged territory for terror. Hamas came to power in the Palestinian Authority and instead of using the opportunity to build the infrastructure for statehood, the Gaza Strip became a scene of chaos as rival Palestinian factions vied for power. Terrorism from Gaza also continued unabated and Israeli towns have been repeatedly hit by rockets fired from the area Israel evacuated.

One of Israel's big lies.

Of course you would say that. What else could you say?

A lecturer from Sapir College near Sderot came to our Shul to give a talk about the constant rocket bombardment that area receives from Gaza, several times a day! Not only Jews attend that college, but students from around the world. And even Palestinian Arabs.

Think I'm lying?

Deflection. Has nothing to do with Israel's lies.

Keep straining. lol.

 

[Mindful]

Who is lobbing those rockets over to Israel, Tinmore?

Father Christmas?

 

[member]

The United States is by far the largest donor of financial aid to the Palestinians, with this assistance touching nearly every aspect of life in the Palestinian Authority. But US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to end this aid to the Palestinians, angered by Ramallah’s refusal to cooperate with the US’s efforts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in December.

The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Washington was paying the PA hundreds of millions of dollars a year “for nothing,” and complained that the US received “no appreciation or respect” in return.

How much aid does the US give Palestinians, and what’s it for?

How is the US jump starting negotiations? What is Trumps plan here?

Trump is pissed that the PA is angry over his Jerusalem move and refused to engage in talks because they feel the US can no longer be a good faith partner. That is what all this cutting of aid is about. Trump’s personal vendetta.

Doesn't appear to be a vendetta. Trump is just following the same failed strategy of trying to jump start the PA back to life so Israel can HAVE a partner to negotiate with. There have been no less than 6 peace pow wows between the PA and Hamas in the past 5 or 6 years. ALL HAVE FAILED.

The "pre-conditions" are irrelevant if you don't HAVE a diplomatic delegation to negotiate with. Can you REFUTE that last statement? And "foreign aid" is also iffy if you don't have an address of a responsible govt to allocate and distribute it.

The "negotiation" here by the Trump Admin is no different in lack of brilliance from the Bush Admin PUSHING premature elections on the PA. The PA is NOT the structure that is in a POSITION to negotiate for peace on behalf of ALL Palestinians. They need to reform their governance to THEIR expectations and comfort levels. And then add a very light "federated" govt on top of that -- that will speak for the all the Palestinians.

Actually you don’t have to have a responsible government to provide aid. You can bypass the government and work directly with communities which is being hurt by the cuts.

"Actually you don’t have to have a responsible government to provide aid."

"Bypass Government" -- "Trump."

sounds wonderful -- these "not having a responsible government" places.....[TO GET THINGS DONE..].

I'm thinking....hey, [liberal coyote] that's how 3rd world lawless crapholes come about.....(not having responsible governments).

You don't like titles do you? Mr. President, President Trump....Officer Murphy.

thank GOD $$$$$$$ was cut off for the terrorists. how dare this country send millions of $$$$ to terrorists. we're sick of it.

why not make a gofundme page for them ...or ...GO cut a personal check and send it to them coyote.

God help America & "bypass Government" minds like yours - and your disrespect of ....authority.

 

[MJB12741]

The United States is by far the largest donor of financial aid to the Palestinians, with this assistance touching nearly every aspect of life in the Palestinian Authority. But US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to end this aid to the Palestinians, angered by Ramallah’s refusal to cooperate with the US’s efforts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in December.

The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Washington was paying the PA hundreds of millions of dollars a year “for nothing,” and complained that the US received “no appreciation or respect” in return.

How much aid does the US give Palestinians, and what’s it for?

How is the US jump starting negotiations? What is Trumps plan here?

Trump is pissed that the PA is angry over his Jerusalem move and refused to engage in talks because they feel the US can no longer be a good faith partner. That is what all this cutting of aid is about. Trump’s personal vendetta.

Doesn't appear to be a vendetta. Trump is just following the same failed strategy of trying to jump start the PA back to life so Israel can HAVE a partner to negotiate with. There have been no less than 6 peace pow wows between the PA and Hamas in the past 5 or 6 years. ALL HAVE FAILED.

The "pre-conditions" are irrelevant if you don't HAVE a diplomatic delegation to negotiate with. Can you REFUTE that last statement? And "foreign aid" is also iffy if you don't have an address of a responsible govt to allocate and distribute it.

The "negotiation" here by the Trump Admin is no different in lack of brilliance from the Bush Admin PUSHING premature elections on the PA. The PA is NOT the structure that is in a POSITION to negotiate for peace on behalf of ALL Palestinians. They need to reform their governance to THEIR expectations and comfort levels. And then add a very light "federated" govt on top of that -- that will speak for the all the Palestinians.

Actually you don’t have to have a responsible government to provide aid. You can bypass the government and work directly with communities which is being hurt by the cuts.

"Actually you don’t have to have a responsible government to provide aid."

"Bypass Government" -- "Trump."

sounds wonderful -- these "not having a responsible government" places.....[TO GET THINGS DONE..].

I'm thinking....hey, [liberal coyote] that's how 3rd world lawless crapholes come about.....(not having responsible governments).

You don't like titles do you? Mr. President, President Trump....Officer Murphy.

thank GOD $$$$$$$ was cut off for the terrorists. how dare this country send millions of $$$$ to terrorists. we're sick of it.

why not make a gofundme page for them ...or ...GO cut a personal check and send it to them coyote.

God help America & "bypass Government" minds like yours - and your disrespect of ....authority.

Yes, sick of it indeed. Just look what our financial aid to Palestinians has done to keep this conflict going thus causing endless deaths to Palestinians by Israel's response to Palestinian terrorist attacks.

 

[Coyote]

It isn’t the presence of Jews. It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

Its not the presence of Jews but the "building of new settlements and moving (Jewish) people into them." Please explain to me the functional difference between those two things. Because they seem to be the same to me. (And Israel has not (until recently) built any new settlements in more than 20 years.)



As an aside, two families move into an area and begin farming in the early 1930s. Both are from foreign territories. Both have a continued presence in the territory that their families have been farming for generations. One family is considered to be "settlers". The other is not. What do you think the defining trait is?

Please explain to me whyonly Jewish settlements are legal.

 

[Coyote]

It isn’t the presence of Jews. It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

Its not the presence of Jews but the "building of new settlements and moving (Jewish) people into them." Please explain to me the functional difference between those two things. Because they seem to be the same to me. (And Israel has not (until recently) built any new settlements in more than 20 years.)



As an aside, two families move into an area and begin farming in the early 1930s. Both are from foreign territories. Both have a continued presence in the territory that their families have been farming for generations. One family is considered to be "settlers". The other is not. What do you think the defining trait is?

The territory wasn't contested in the 30's and Israel didn't exist. I would not consider any of them "settlers".

 

[Coyote]

These cuts aren’t to funds going to or through PA. They are funds going to organizations that help the Palestinian people.


Trump administration to cut $200 million from Palestinian aid

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced on Friday that it has decided to cut $200 million from the aid budget to the Palestinians that was approved by Congress earlier this year.

Most of this money was supposed to support humanitarian and economic projects in the West Bank and Gaza, and was not meant to go directly to the Palestinian Authority. The aid cut is expected to cause a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Gaza.


Catholic workers say U.S. aid cuts to Palestinians could be disastrous

JERUSALEM — The United States budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions helping Palestinians could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said Catholic aid workers in the region.

...In early September, U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would cut $200 million of aid to medical and humanitarian aid providers. He had already announced that the U.S. would withhold $350 million from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East -- amounting to more than one-quarter of the organization's annual budget.

DuBose said CRS' five-year $50-million program "Envision Gaza 2020" program, which is funded by USAID and provides food and necessity vouchers as well as short-term employment opportunities for Palestinians in Gaza, will be directly impacted by Trump's decision.

UNWRA does not help the Palestinians.
By forcing all that population to remain under a refugee banner, all they have been doing is harm them on a daily basis.

UNWRA and others like them, educate the Arabs against Israel and the Jews.
Help Hamas when possible to hide, out of fear or belief, rockets and any other weapons used against Israel as in 2014.

The Palestinian population, as refugees, is the only one in the world being used by the Arab leaders in order to be able to destroy a country, namely Israel.

The Palestinians, who also lost 78% of Palestine to the Hashemite tribe, have never been interested in getting back any part of that stolen land.
Never called it stolen Palestinian land. Not once since 1925. Not at all from 1948 to 1967.

Saying that the Palestinians are going to "suffer" because of $200 Million less from the US, and Belgium and whoever is food for rabbits. That is all.
Those who will believe anything will definitely believe that.

The Palestinian leaders have become masters at crying "FOUL" every time any money from the West does not get to them.

I do not hear them cry over any of the Muslim countries cutting or refusal to give anymore, especially when promised to them, aid of any kind.

Look at what happened after 2014, or the war before that.

All of those Arab countries can see that the Palestinian leaders are not serious about peace with Israel, that all the money they give to Gaza and the PA simple goes into the leaders pockets or gets wasted. It does NOT go to the population that needs it.

And now, for the past 10 years or so, have any of that aid go to pay Arabs for having wounded or killed Jews, or being wounded or killed in the process of wanting to kill Jews..........


Nowhere in the world, such a waste or circus is going on.

And it should not be happening in Gaza or the PA, either.

I don't care what Muslim countries do. I care what WE do.

 

[Shusha]

Please explain to me whyonly Jewish settlements are legal.

False premise. Some Jewish settlements are legal, some are not. Some Arab settlements are legal, some are not. According to Israeli law.

According to the international community ALL Arab settlements are "legal" and ALL Jewish settlements are "illegal".

See the problem now?

 

[Coyote]

RE: Reshaping US aid to the Palestinians
※→ Coyote, et al,

Maybe there is just another way of looking at this.

It is the building of new settlements in contested areas and moving people into them.

(COMMENT)

Contested Areas... What does that mean. (RHETORICAL) It means that there is a dispute about the territorial control of these areas. AND there is two ways to resolve the dispute; Peaceful or Trial by Combat.

In 1948, the Arab League decided that the dispute would be resolved through Trial by Combat.

Periodically, elements of the Regional Arab Community reopens the dispute through Trial by Combat. In the latter three-quarters of a Century, the participants from the Arab Leagues fought over the dispute relative to the contested areas, have been involved on continuous basis. Just in the last four years (2014-to-Present) there has been over 340 terrorist attacks by Arab Palestinians on Israel; not including the over 4000 rocket attacks in just the eight months leading up to 2014 Invasion. Then you have three major conventional wars, and two asymmetric conflicts. Each of these stings of events were initiated by other than the Israelis.

All of this and the Arab Palestinian still believes that they that is not enough. Rather than opt to make a good faith effort, the Arab Palestinian consistently choose to go the Trail by Combat as their preferred method of conflict resolution.

And gee all these settlements seem to be Jewish only. Any Arab ones are deemed illegal.

(COMMENT)

They are Jewish Only for a reason. Given the opportunity, the Arab Palestinians would launch a wave of terrorist attacks.

So yes. Ina contested a territory it certainly can be viewed as a hostile action and not because it is Jews.

(COMMENT)

I am not sure, but there is any reason to suggest that the Arab Palestinians would not fight among themselves. After all, the PLO was expelled from Jordan for events leading up to Black September. The Arab Palestinians have a record of biting the hands that feed them.

The US consistently supported the Palestinians since the Oslo Accords. This American aid has totaled ≈ $600M each year until just recently. Yet, the Arab Palestinians bad mouth America as if they are entitled to US support and monetary aid. Why? Simply because the Arab Palestinian believes that their way is the only way. It is time that they learn to stand on their own two feet and pay the consequences for their actions.

Most Respectfully,
R

I don't think that is the only reason. Why are Arab Israeli citizens excluded from participation in settlement building?