Americans Must Really Love How Their Tax Dollars Are Being Used!

Obama grants Israel billions of dollars in aid

US President Barack Obama has signed the foreign aid budget law for 2010 which includes the granting of $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel.

The Israeli Ynet news website reported that the budget signed by Obama, for the first time, also grants $500 million to the Palestinian Authority.

The aid also includes $100 million to be used by US General Keith Dayton, who is in charge of training the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank.

The aid will be handed over to the Palestinians under the condition that the American taxpayers' money will only be transferred to a Palestinian government whose members accept the conditions of the international Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. The conditions include recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and accepting past agreements signed with the Tel Aviv regime.

The $3 billion aid is comprised of $2 billion in security aid and $1 billion in civilian aid.

The annual American security aid to Israel increased to $2.4 Billion after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office and gradually relinquished the civilian aid.

The aid is accompanied by special additions to the Israeli military industries for the development of technologies, particularly in the missile field.

Obama must love the process of having a country spit in his face and telling him it's raining.

He's forking over your taxpayer dollars to an Israeli government which has dissed him on the settlement issue, refuses to lift the siege of Gaza, and is, in general, stealing what land they can from Palestinians through killings,evictions, and IDF/settler-caused destruction of what crop lands exist for the Palestinians.

And that $100 million for the use of US General Keith Dayton, in charge of training the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank?

As reported on 18 December 2009 in



http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/435

"Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian reports. Human rights activists say the abuses would end promptly if US pressure was brought to bear on the Palestinian authorities. A diplomat in the region said "at the very least" US intelligence officers were aware of the torture and not doing enough to stop it."

This is a tactic much beloved by the IDF, to keep Fatah and Hamas from ever reconciling, and that is why the CIA is continuing to torture Hamas members.

Nice to know how your tax dollars are being used here, isn't it?!?



Nice to know how your tax dollars are being used here, isn't it?!?
WRH